The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-07-19

In THE PALMETTO STATE
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF vARloU!
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsens Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
DR.. Rupert Blue, of Marion, now in the
United States hospital service, will oe
sanitary officer at the jamestown Expo
sition.
In a wreck on the Central of Georgia
railway near Marshalv;lle, Ca, Monday
three men lost their lives. The wreck
was caused by foul play.
. Governor Glenn, of North Carolina, has
ordered special term Of Rowan Superior
Court, to begin July soth, for the trial OF
the FIVE negroes charged with the murder
of Isaac Lyerly, his wife and two children
Friday night.
George Shaver, G young white man, was
convicted in spartanburg last week OF
the combined charge Of marrying girl
under age and perjury. He got fiveyears
or S4O0 fine on the first charge and one
wear or 800 on the second.
A woman attempted suicide in Colum-
bia last Sunday by jumping in front OF a
street car. Her name was not learned.
She had little child in her arms at the
time. Her attempt was frustrated by the
motorman stopping the car.
!. The Anderson Traction company has
decided to extend the street car line to
the Gluck mills three miles south OF An
.derson. The line at present runs as far
as the Orr mills and will be extended from
that point southwark. The extension
will cost about $4,000.
Three baggage masters of the Southern
Railway running from Charleston to
Columbia, have been caught up with in
their stealing from baggage, which has
been going on for years, and discharged.
The men admitted their guilt, but they
will not be prosecuted.
Randolph Rory shot and killed Kate
Addison, last Saturday evening, near
Ashland, in the western part OF Darling
ton county, because she refused to allow
him to walk home with her. Both parties
are colored. Rory made good his escape
immediately after the shooting.
The publication committee of the Uni
ted Synod of the Southern Lutheran
church recommended the establishing OF a
publishing house in Columbia, and Synod
endorsed the proposition. This means
chat the Lutheran Visitor will soon be
published in home of its own.
The Bank of Mayesville, at Mayesville,
Sumter county, has bean closed by Bank
Examiner Holleyman. There is dis
crepancy Of $4,000 in the books which
cannot be, accounted for. 1t is not
thought the stockholders will lose any
thing, and the bank may resume business.
Al. 81. Willis was shot in Abbeville Sat-
urday night by Luther Scott, aged II.
Both are white. Willis was entering the
window of the room occupied by SCOTS
mother when Scott came home and saw
him. He Immediately opened fire. One
ball took effect and Willis was thought
to be seriously hurt, but later reports say
he will recover. Both work in the cotton
mill. Scott was placed in Jail.
Mary Brunson, colored, was shot and
killed Sunday afternoon by her brother
Olando Brunson, at Shannontown, a
negro settlement, two miles from Sumter.
The killing is said to have been an acci-
dent. but as a crowd of negroes were
drinking and carousing at Brunson's
house it is impossible to obtain satls'
factory account of the affair. The wo-
man was shot through the body and lived
but a few minutes. Brunson has been
arrested and committed to jail.
William Williams, colored, fell from
the TOP of one of the vertical boilers in
the boiler room at the Olympia mill in
Columbia Monday and was instantly kill
ed. He had been engaged in blowing out
the tubes of the boilers, which necessitat-
ed his getting on top of them and with a
hose and nozzle blowing out the interior
of the shells with steam. He had finish
ed his work on one of them and was STEP
ming across to another when he fell to the
concrete floor below, distance OF about
80 feet.
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