The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-09-13
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

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INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
punssnt Paragraphs About Ne"
and Happenings.
The plant of the Sumter Lumber Com
pany at Sumter was destroyed by fire last
Sunday afternoon, starting in the plan
ing mill. The loss may reach 100000.
W.. Bryan is coming to Columbia and
will speak there next Wednesday, the
18th. Preparations are being made by
the citizens for his reception and enter
tainment.
Pres johnson, negro, shot and mort
ally wounded his wife at Holly Hill last
Saturday. He is mean negro, and is
wanted in Charleston for murder. He
made his escape.
Chief Justice Pope has refused the ap-
plication for special term of court at
Barnwell, saying: "The legislature re-
fused to make an appropriation for spe-
cial courts, and think must pay atten-
ton to legislative action"
Manson Hamilton, the Ridgewood club
waiter who shot at the Clinton excur-
sionists on trolley car in Columbia re-
Gently, was convicted in the Richland
court on Friday and was sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary.
A negro named Bob johnson, eighteen
years old, was shot and killed in Laurens
county last Saturday by negro nineteen
wears old named Vandolph Leak. The
killing occurred at a negro barbecue
about three miles from Clinton.
i'm. Way, white man, was tried in
Orangeburg last week for the murder OF
J.D. Palmer. The jury found him guilty
Of m.nslaughter. Way shot Palmer in
difficulty which resulted from Ways OBJ
iections to Palmer visiting his daughter.
An appeal will likely be taken.
R.H. Covar was tried in Orangeburg
last week for the murder Of Jas. I. Parks
and acquitted. The jury remained in the
room most Of the night before agreeing
on q verdict. The plea was self defense,
and from the testimony it seemed to have
: been sustained.
M. E. Pepper, white, Of Belton, Tag
man for the Southern Railway, was kill
. ed by train at Spartanburg last week.
He was adjusting the air brakes on some
freight cars when the train started and
he was thrown underneath the wheels.
The train only moved few feet, but
both legs were cut of and he died shortly
afterwards.
Chester Moody, white machinist, OF
Columbia, attempted to kill his wife last
Sunday afternoon, bat she caught the pis.
tol and the bullet v ent through her arm.
Moody escaped. The couple had been
separated for some time and he had been
irving to get custody Of the children. He
followedthe woman home from the church
and shot her.
&c. Courtney, a candidate for the leg
islature in Aiken county, came out in a
card last week saying he had been ap-
preached by certain supporters of the
dispensary who offered cash bribe to
get him to withdraw from the second
race. Mr.. Courtney was locat option
candidate, and his withdrawal would
have meant the election of the dispen-
sary men.
WV Prather, a white contractor of
Augusta, was arrested in Barnwell last
Saturday, charged with attempted assault
upon Mrs. Roundtree near Dunbarton in
that county. The lady says Prather made
improper proposals and when she refused
he grabbed her and tried to carry her in.
to one of the rooms of the house, the af-
fair taking place at her home while her
husband was at work IN the field. She
screamed and called for help and Prather
desisted. Prather denies the charge and
says he stopped at the well for drink OF
water and talked to Mrs. Roundtree for a
few minutes. He was carried to Colum.
bia for safe keeping. Public opinion is
divided sssto the facts in the case.
Cayenne Pepper for Scientists.
A friend of mine, says T. P. O'Connor,
told me the other day that a patient who
had a Christian Science doctor thrust
upon him thus addressed the miracle
monger:
II understand, madam, that you do not
believe in the reality OF pain? 1t is, you
consider, pure matter OF the imsgina'
tion~
Certainly"
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