The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-06-07
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.
The latest news is that Mr.. c. G.
Featherstone, of Laurens, will not enter
the race for governor this year.
The white men who lynched a negro
near Honea Path last September are be-
ing tried in Abbeville this week. :
Mr.. Newton Y. Manly, Confederate
veteran, sixty-fve years old, and his
grandson were killed by lightning near
their home in Laurens county last Mon
day.
Mr.. P.H. Fike, of spartanburg, for a
number of years connected with the
spartanburg Herald, has been appointed
private secretary to Congressman Jos. T.
johnson.
B.A. Morgan, of Greenville, has decid'
ed not to enter the race for governor, and
he will retire from politics for the present
He has recently been elected president
of q new bank in Greenville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hudson were
burned to death in their house in Walhal'
Ia last Friday morning at three O'CLOCK
It not knowa how the fire originated
but it is supposed to be accidental.
Gov. Hayward says he would like to
act on the investigating committees sug'
eestion and remove Maj. Black from the
board of control, if he has the authority;
and that question he has submitted to the
attorney general.
John Williams, a white man. was
lodged in Jail at spartanburg last week
charged with attempted assault on a
negro girl, but was later released, as there
was no evidence against him. The girl
was not injured in any way.
4 Dave Chapman was shot and killed oy
Tim Jackson in Saluda county last Sun
day. Both parties are young white men,
Jackson claims self-defense, saying Chap
man was advancing on him with an open
knife. but the witnesses to the killing say
differently.
REPRESENTATIVE J. O. Patterson has sue
ceeded in having the Naval Station at
Port Royal retained as a training station
and the naval appropriation bill carries
an item of 1000 for this purpose. Mr.
Patterson has done good work IN this
and his efforts are to be commended.
The sessions of the dispensary investl'
eating committee are getting interesting
not to say sensational. Last week Mr.
W. G. Childs told the committee ne be
thanked if he'd answer certain questions
regarding jokes passed by whiskey drum
mers.
The State Press Association is to meet
at the Isle of Palms on Wednesday, June
9th. A most interesting program has
been arranged, and every newspaper man
in the State should attend the meeting
The annual address is to be delivered oy
Mr.. Ambrose E. Gonzales, of the Colum-
bia State.
Major John Ferguson, prominent
citizen of Pickens county, was killed last
Thursday by being gored by a thorough
bred Guernsey bull. BE had just finish
ed feeding his stock when the bull at
tackled him. The animal crushed his
skull and pushed his head under the barn.
He was carried into the house and died q
few minutes later. Maj. Ferguson was
about IS years old.
Governor Hayward has not removed
Mai. John Black as dispensary director,
as the attorney general has advised that
the committee furnish further sworn
nroof of the ohense, and if this is done
that q rule then issue against Mr.. Black
to show why he should not be removed.
That at the hearing under this rule the
committee and Mir. Black be present. The
governor has informed the committee OF
this opinion and referred it to them for
further action.
At the hearing of the dispensary in
vestigating committee in Columbia. Tues
day, Mr.. A. A. Bristow, q prominent
business man of Greenville, testified that
Abe Hamburger, whiskey drummer,
stated to him and Mr.. Jesse R. Smith that
he had paid $1,000 rebates in cash in
order to get an order for whiskey amount
ing to $4,000 from the dispenssry. The
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