The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-09-27
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
- Some white children in Florence were
badly poisoned last week by eating jim
son weed, but their lives were saved by
the use of the stomach pump and anti
dotes.
Past Assistant Surgeon Baylis q.
Earle, of the United States Navy, son
of the late Senator Jos. a. Earle, has
taken charge of the quarantine station at
Charleston.
A special term of court has been order
ed in Marlboro county to try the negro
who criminally assaulted Mrs. Lucy Ann
Patterson last week. Judge j. 81. Hud-
son, of Bennettsville, will preside.
The case against Gus Cartee, the young
white man of Spartanburg, has been set
tied out of court. Cartee was charged
with attempting to get too familiar with
Mrs. J. W. Johnson, with whom he
boarded.
An effort is on foot to establish dis
pensary at Bowman, Orangeburg county,
but petition is being circulated against
it and it seems that the efforts of the good
people of that town to prevent the estab-
lishment of a rum shop there will be sue
cessful.
G. Wash Hunter, a young white mau,
was convicted of manslaughter in Lau-
rens last week, but he was given new
trial on account of some irregularities in
connection with the jury. he is to be
tried again this week. He killed a young
companion named Copeland, a cripple, in
quarrel while gambling.
The city of Charleston and Governor
ID. G. Hayward for the State of South
Carolina, have extended invitations to
the governors of Georgia and North
Carolina to come to Charleston for the
presentation of silver service each to
the battleships North Carolina and
Georgia. It Sc ems that no port in either
State has deep enough water to accom-.
modate these large fighting machines.
One day last week, R. G. Brockinton, a
young clerk in the State bank at Colum-
bia was sent to the express Office with two
packages of money to send off. One con-
tanned $500 in silver and the other 81, 900
| in bills. He shipped the silver and disap-
peared with the $4,000. His whereabouts
are unknown. It is said that he was a
good young man and not dissipated in
any way. His widowed mother lives In
Winnsboro.
In the town Of Fort Motto, Orangeburg
county, last week, negro man drew a
pistol on two young white ladies as they
were walking on back street and at
tempted to shoot them. The pistol re.
fused to fire, however, and the young
women ran, with the negro after them.
He pursued them only short distance,
and ran off into corn field. He was
soon captured and identified by the young
ladies. A meeting of citizens was called,
and, after discussing the matter, they de.
cided to let the law take its course. The
negro was sent to Orangeburg and put In
jail.
R. &c. Brockington, the young bank
clerk who skipped out from Columbia
with over $4,000 belonging to the bank
by whom he was employed, was arrested
last Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla. All
but 800 of the money was turned over by
him to the officer who arrested him. he
has been brought back home, but will not
be tried, as the bank officers want to give
him chance to start life anew. He is
now at his home in Winnsboro. The
young fellow was very penitent when
arrested and readily gave up the money
and offered to come back without a
requisition.
In Marlboro county last week Mrs. Lu-
cy Ann Patterson, wife of DR.. R. j. Pat
terson, was criminally assaulted by neg.
10. She was alone with her two children
in the house at night when she heard some
one breaking in. She ran out the back
door and started to neighbor's house,
but the negro ran after her and caught
her about $50 yards from the house, where
he choked her and committed the assault.
The woman's brothers went to his house,
but he escaped by taking plank out OF
the floor. The next day he was caught
| in small swamp in the community by
the sheriff and posse, and put in Jail at
Bennettsville. There will be no lynching
and a special term of court will be called
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