The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-09-14
I'm THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Puneent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.

Senator Tillman made speech at Tir-
zah, York county, last Thursday on the
dispensary, and in the course of his re.
marks he said Governor Hayward should
exercise his power and remove the State
board of control.
Because he saw his reflection in mir
ror on furniture wagon to which he was
hitched, horse in Anderson ran away
and severely injured two people. Score
another for Anderson, as the editor OF the
Daily Mail is wont to say.
The supervisor of Darlington county,
pursuant to petitions presented, has or
dered an election in that county on the
question of "dispensary' >or ''no dispen-
sary." The election is to be held on Tues
day, October 10th.
In a speech at Lancaster last Friday
Senator Tillman said he would give his
salary as senator for year just to be gov.
ernor for three months. That he would
remove the State board of control, and
clean up the dispensary generally.
Mr.. W. H. Manning, dispenser at Che
raw, whose name was coupled with the
investigating proceedings at Sumter last
week, gave his resignation last Saturday
to the county board of control of Chester
field county. He assigns i'll health as his
reason for resigning.
Senator Eugene S. Blease, of Saluda,
gave out a statement the day after ne
killed his brother.in.law, Joe Ben Cole
man, in which he stated the reason he
killed Coleman was that he found out
there we're intimate relations between
Coleman and Mrs. Blease.
Frank J. Kirkham, a young lineman of
the Southern Bell Telephone Company,
was killed in Florence last Monday after
noon by his body coming in contact with
live electric wire and falling from pole
to the ground, distance OF thirty five
feet. He died in a few minutes.
T. D. Mitchell, the white man who was
recently convicted of fraud in holding
the municipal election in the town OF
Brookland, Lexington county, and fined
$500, has been released from jail, as his
father paid the fine. Mitchell was a po-
liceman in Orangeburg some years ago.
The grounds and buildings of the old
Methodist Female college in Columbia
were sold at auction last week. Mr.. F. 81.
Hyatt bought the property, for which he
paid $4,000. The new college building
is located on the outskirts of the city and
is ready for use at the approaching fall
session.
Replying to Senator Tillman's sugges-
ton that he remove the State board of
dispensary directors, Governor Hayward
saws that he has no intention at present
of taking such action, but if the evidence
brought out by the investigating commit
tee satisfies him, he will not hesitate to
remove the entire board.
Jas. Padgett, mulatto, was arrested at
Johnston last Thursday charged with at
tempted assault upon 12.year-old white
girl, the daughter of prominent citizen
of that town. He was carried to Edge
field and placed in Jail and from there
was taken to Columbia for safe keeping.
A crowd came to Edgefeld Thursday
night to lynch the negro, but he had al
ready been moved and they quietly dis
persed.
Eugene S. Blease, Esq, shot and seri-
ously wounded his brother-in-law, Joe
Ben Coleman, on the streets of Saluda
laSI Tluay ulSuL. I1So VI OLA SuoGe WoAS
fired, and Coleman has four wounds, two
of which penetrated the body and will
likely cause death. Immediately after
the shooting Blease surrendered to the
sheriff and was put in Jail. 1t is not
known what caused the trouble. Blease
is senator from Saluda county, and is
q brother of Cole L. Blease, of Newberry.
Coleman was formerly a dispensary con-
stable.
Falling in tub of water in Greenville
last Thursday,th infant child of Mr.: and
Mrs. E. w. Cannon was drowned. A
physician was summoned, when the ter
rifed mother found. the little body in the
water, and heroic efforts were made to
induce respiration, but without results.
The physician said that the child had
been dead twenty minutes. The mother
left the child sleeping on pallet in the
front porch, and it is supposed that when
the child, which was just learning to walk.
walked, it went to the tub and leaning
over, fell in.