The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-07-05
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.

State News 6oIieo DoWn tof SoiSA NSee"'S
punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Greenwood county will no doubt elect
an anti-dispensary legislative delegation.
The president has appointed James
Tolbert, republican, postmaster at Abbe-
vile in place of Robert S. Link, democrat.
The anti-dispensary people of Laurens
county are preparing to put legislative
ticket in the field. All the candidates
announced so far in that county favor the
dispensary.
Ex-senator NJ. G. Butler has just re-
ceived fee of $4,000 as one Of the at
torneys for the Cherokee Indians in the
Judgment for S5,OOO,00o before the United
States court of claims.
At the meeting Of the State Dental AS
sociation at the Isle of Palms last week,
DR.. J. H. E. Milhous, of Blackville, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
The association will meet in Anderson
next year.
A mass meeting of the anti.dispensary
people of Laurens county was held in the
opera house at that place last Monday to
consider the question Of putting a leglsla'
tive ticket in the field. A committee was
Sannoipte6 TO select ticket.
Ed Rainey, a negro, was tried last
week in Gafney and sentenced to be
hanged. He was charged with assaulting
two negro girls, one thirteen and one
fourteen years old. One OF the girls died
from the injuries received from the negro.
Ben Lanford and Tom Williams,
negroes, were tried at Aiken last week
for the murder of Mrs. E. S. Wilson at
Beech Island some months ago and &C
Quilted. The evidence against them was
circumstantisl, relating largely to tr CHS
found near the house.
The appointment Of James Tolbert to
be postmaster at Abbeville has been can
Scelled, and Robert Link, the incumbent,
will hold on unless the president makes
recess appointment. The South Caro-
lima representatives in congress were
very much worked up over the matter.
On Tuesday morning Mayor Young OF
! Union fined negro woman 500 in each
of two cases or 80 days for selling liquor.
a few days before he fined a negro man
$l0o or 80 days in each of three cases tor
!, 8 similar offense. This kind OF conduct
is liable to cast damper on the business.
ss Madison Cook and Mrs. Leonora Byars;
white,were tried in Gaffney last week for
murder, the crime being that of killing
the woman's husband, Cook was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The
woman was acquitted. The two were In
innate and killed Byars in order to get
him out of their way.
s. C. 8. Jones has been awarded $500
damages against the Bank OF Fountain
Inn because the bank turned down his
check when he had ample money on de-
post in the bank to pay the check. The
banks defense was that it held up pay
ment until the party holding the check
could be identified. An appeal will be
taken.
Two disreputable white women OF COL
umbia were drowned while in bathing in
a creek near that city last Thursday.
/. Several women of the same character
were in the party, all drinking, and two
others were saved with difficulty. 1t is
said one of the dead women came from
Johnston and that her father is now
practicing physician in Augusta and very
i'll.
9 A rather unusual pension case, says a
Washing ton special, has just been an
nounced through Representative Finley.
Mr.. Finley has received notice that
Joseph S. Kelley, of Patrick, Chesterfield
Comfy. Mexican war veteran, will re-
ceiye pension Ct $12 a month beginning
January s, 1898. There will be something
over 81 900 coming to Mr.. Kelly for back
pension.