The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-08
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State New. Boiled Down for Quick Reading
punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.


There is q movement on foot in Lau-
rens for another cotton mill, to have
capital of half million dollars.
The News and Courier says that straw
berries have been on the Charleston mar
ket for several days at from 80 to 80
cents quart.
Andrew Thompson, negro, was hang'
ed at Greenville last Friday. He as
saulted Mrs. Frank James in that county
last December. he confessed the crime
and on the scaffold warned the negroes
to let liquor alone.
The State board of election canVassers
decided last week that the recent election
on the dispensary question in Laurens
county was legal. 1t is said the dispen'
sary people will now carry the case TO
the Supreme Court.
The intercollegiate oratorlcal contes'
will take place at Greenwood the nlgn'
Of the 9th of April. Newberry, Clinton
Wofford, Furman, the Citadel academy
Clemson, Erskine and South Carollna
college will take part.
The Columbia Record has installed
new perfecting press, and has been en-
larged to seven columns. The Greenvllle
News has also been enlarged to seven col
ums to the page, and will soon put in a
new press. We congratulate our contem'
poraries on their prosperity.
The contested election cases of Hon
TO Patterson and Geo. s. Legare were
heard by the committee on elections IN
& congress Tuesday. No decision has been
rendered yet, but it is safe to say that the
negro contestants have no showing. The
whole hearing was simply farce.
Chief Hammett seized 95 packages OF
Iiouor, valued at about $4,000, in the ex-
press Office at Greenville on Friday and
I 5shipped them to Columbia. They had
been accommodating in the Office for some
time and were 80 closely watched that the
consignees did not take them out.
The grand jury Of Darlington county
retnrned ano bill'' in the case of Pegrsm
8Darean, indicted for murder. He was
charged with assisting his brother, Rob
erts eth Dargan, to commit suicide, IN
thasshe bought the carbolic acid and mix
ed it with whiskey and gave it to him
This no doubt ends this sensational case
Ephriam Hall, young white man, was
shot and killed in a cafe or restaurant IN
Greenyille at 1 O'Clock last Sunday morn
q ing. There was no quarrel end it seemed
TO be something of a mystery as to who
fred the shot. The coroner's jury charged
Thomas Harrison and Peter Rowley
with the crime, and they have been
lodged in Jail in Greenville.
.s After most sensational trial, George
Hassy has been found guilty of murder
and recommended to mercy which means
3 life imprisonment. The trial was begun..in
Gaffney last Thursday, and the case went
to the Jury about seven o'clock Monday
I evening. The jury remained in the room
all night, and returned verdict OF guilty
about six o'clock Tuesday morning.
6Hasty's attorneys will appeal. 1t will be
remembered that Hasty shot and killed
Abbott Davidson and Milan Bennett,
two theatrical men, who were protecting
two lady members of their company from
insult. Hasty was tried on the charge OF
killing Bennett, and if he has to serve a
life sentence, of'course he will never be
tried for the murder of Davidson.
Buy Wood at Wood Yard.
DSn't pay cents per pound for wood:
If you buy 100 pounds of White Lead
! in kegs you get s8 pounds of White Lead
and 13 pounds of Wood: