The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-10-18
In THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.

Mr.. Abial Lathrop, of Orangeburg, has
been appointed Assistant United States
District Attorney, to succeed l.. D. Mel
ton, of Columbia, who resigned.
Mrs. Dosia Dennis, of Columbia, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
the street railway company of that city.
Her husband was killed by street car
last spring.
The boiler makers of the Southern
Railway in Columbia have returned to
work, but the machinists are still out on
a strike. They want more pay and
shorter hours.
An effort is being made to secure a
pardon for Robert Jones, from Edgefeld
county who has been il the penitentiary
8 is years for killing the Pressleys, father
and two sons. He was sentenced for 70
years.
It is proposed to have a red shirt pa
rade in Columbia next week during the
State fair. Such feature would recall
the days of 1876 to many of US, and
would no doubt do much to revive memo
Sries which seemed to be needed just now.
James A. Hoyt, who has been news
editor of the Columbia State for several
years, has resigned to become Columbia
correspondent of the News and Courier.
William Banks, one of The States best
reporters, has been promoted to the posi-
tion of news editor.
The Greenville Herald has been sold to
new corporation called the Piedmont
Publishing Co. Allen Graham is presi-
dent and G. MARSHALL Moore manager and
secretary. The paper is an afternoon
daily, and it is said decided improve
mems will be made.
There was head-on collision on the
Southern Railway near Winnsboro last
Sunday night between an engine and q
fast freight train. Three men were killed
and three badly injured. Failure OF a
Telegraph operator to deliver orders is
said to be the cause of the collision.
In the city negro school at Florence
! last Monday there was considerable ex-
citement because Superintendent j. L.
Mann expelled about one half the schol-
ars because they had not paid the ma
articulation fee of $500. The enroll
ment was $50, and only 4s had paid the fee.
It is now settled that the State Senate
will be anti-dispensary. In a special
primary held in Aiken county last week
Ito nominate Senator to succeed the
! late W. e. Johnson, G. L. Toole, the local
option candidate, was elected, badly de-
feating ]. M. Polatty, the dispensary
candidate.
Erie 81. Smith, young white man,
cashier of the Life Insurance Company
Sof Virginia at their Columbia Office, dis
appeared last week and his books show
shortage of $780,. Smith is from Spar
tanburg. The loss will be paid by the
.surety company in which he was bonded,
and it is said his relatives will make the
amount good.
Commander Johnson, the white man
convicted of the murder Of Rev. 81. D.
Granger in Horny county, is to be hang
"a Er;6ov IF fhis tyeek Strong efforts
have been made to get his sentence COM
muted to life imprisonment, his relatives
even threatening Mrs. Granger, wife of
the dead man, to induce her to sign such
g petition. She has filed an affidavit
with the governor to this effect. John
son will hang, as the governor will not
interfere.