The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-15

IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State New, Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Mayor T. n. Gibbes was reelected
mayor of Columbia laft Tuesday, defeat
ing Col. ]. @: Marshall. The vote was
1,026 for Gibbes to s16 for Marshall.
The hotel at White Stone Springs,
Spartanburg county, was burned last
Sunday night. Most of the furniture
was saved. The loss seems to he covered
by insurance.
Superintendent Frank Evans of the
Spartanburg city schools has been ap-
pointed on the board of the jamestown
exposition, in place of J. Wright Nash,
who declined to serve.
K.A. Windham was tried at Darling
ton last week for the murder OF Charles
Amerson at Lamar in that county few
weeks ago, and acquitted. 1t is said that
much evidence was likely suppressed.
Both parties white.
Mr..W. II. Hand, superintendent of the
city schools OF Chester, has been elected
professor of the department of pedagogy
in the South Carolina University at
Columbia. He has accepted, and will
enter upon his duties at the opening of
the fall session.
A white tramp who insulted white
lady in Cherokee county last week was
caught by crowd of men and severely
whipped and told to leave the country.
The crowd wanted to lynch him, but
were prevented from doing so by the
woman's father.
T. C. Thompson, colored, was shot and
killed on the place of Dr.J. B. Steppe at
Switzer, spartanburg county, on satur-
day night between 12 and o'clock, while
he and several others were sitting round
! the fire. The weapon was shotgun and
it was fired from the outside through a
1 window.
81. g. Millar, the Chicago lawyer who
attempted to bribe the deputy sheriff OF
Richland county to release some pick
pockets whose case he was interested in,
and who himself was arrested for at
tempted bribery, has been released on a
cash bond of $1,000. He says he will re-
turn in June for trial.
One hundred and fourteen packages of
whiskey shipped to the state dispensary
by the Big Springs Distilling company of
Savannah, Ca, were seized by internal
revenue officers few days ago because
of illegal stamps. Efforts are making for
. compromise, the company claiming
that it was only mistake on their part.
Dal Spinks, an engineer on the South
ern, while leaning out of his cab window
was struck by some object and knocked
/ to the ground and killed. The accident
happened on Sunday between Latham
and Easley, 1s miles south of Greenville.
He was citizen of Greenville and was
60 years old and had been an engineer
for forty-two years.
81 J. NJ. Ashley was shot and killed in the
I town of Honea Path, Anderson county,
last Thursday afternoon by Policeman
s White. The policeman attempted to ar
rest the dead mans son because of some
troublewith negro, when j. N. Ashley
began the shooting. One of his shots hit
the policeman on a finger and splintered
his club. Policeman White returned the
fire, mortally wounding Ashley, he dying
about four hours later. The Ashleys say
the dead man was shot for no cause, but
eye-witnesses say it was clearly a case of
self defense. Ashley was a cousin OF
Joshua w. Ashley, who is member OF
the legislature.