The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-29
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

TN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Silvey Chappell, an old negro woman,
was burned to death in Columbia last
Thursday. She was alone in her house
and had fit and fell in the fire.
Capt. Charles Inglesby, for thirty.hve
years secretary of the grand lodge OF
Masons of this State, died in Columbia
last Monday. He was 6S years OF age.
The fertilizer tag tax receipts will beat
all records in 1906. To date the receipts
for the year 1905 total s1ss, 1854, against
sss,711 up to the same date last year
Last year the tax amounted to $751;
4S9.53.
Mr.. Marshall Moore, formerly editor OF
the Barnwell Sentinel, has made several
changes in the newspaper business re-
Gently. His latest move is to The Even
ing Herald, OF Greenville, where he De-
comes editor.
Edward Beckham, a young white man.
was killed at Chester last THURSDAY
morning while coupling cars for the Lam
caster and Chester railroad. He was
caught between the bumpers and his
body crushed.
Governor Hayward has appointed
Leroy F. Youmans as attorney general to
fill the unexpired term of q. x. Gunter'
Mr.. Youmans has been assistant attorney
general for some time, and has had full
charge of the Office during Mr.. Gunter's
illness.
q. <. Gunter, Jr., attorney general OF
the State, died at his fathers home IN
Batesburg last Sunday after protracted
illness. He was thirty-fve years old, and
had held several positions of honor ana
trust. The burial took place Monday IN
Batesburg.
The executive committee OF the South
Carolina Press Association is to meet In
lNewberry April 18th for the purpose OF
deciding on place for the annual meet
ing, the time of meeting, and arrange q
program. It is likely that the meeting
will be held at some point in Virginia.
Some of the whiskey houses to whom
the State dispensary owes money and
whose claims have been held up by the
dispensary investigating committee pend
ing an investigation, have been trying to
get Columbia banks to discount the
claims. All the banks refused however.
5 The State board of dispensary directors
win employ J. E. Mcdonald, Esq, OF
sWinnsboro, to look into the legality OF
purchases of whiskey made by the old
board. The dispensary is overstocked
on certain kinds of whiskey, and the
board will refuse to pay for it II such
action is legal.
Clements, the young white man in
Florence who recently shot and killed a
young man named Baker, was tried last
week and convicted of manslaughter. He
was sentenced to serve four years in the
penitentiary. Clements claimed that
Baker had been talking about his sister
and when he went to him about it, Baker
knocked him down and shot at him. He
returned the fire, killing Baker.
Eugene Hogan, Jr., young white man,
shot D. G. Zeigler, an architect, in Sum-
ter last Thursday afternoon on account
of debt which Zeigler owed him. Hogan
fred five times and two bullets lodged in
Zeigler's body, causing serious wounds.
The shooting occurred on a stairway
leading from Zeigler's Office TO the street,
the attack being made from the rear.
Hogan declines to make statement.
Ex-Chairman "Hub' Evans, of the
State board of dispensary directors, from
Newberry, has confirmed the report to a
number Of friends that he has decided
not to run for governor, as he announced
last winter he would do, but will run for
State senator from Newberry, to succeed
Senator Cole L. Blease, who will run for
governor himself. Messrs. Blease and
Evans have reconciled their personal and
political differences and each will sup
port the other this summer, it is said.
Recently negro shot and seriously
wounded a white man in Lee county,
shooting him while he sat in his house at
night. The negro was arrested and
placed in Jail at Bishopville, and last
week in some way he procured bar of
iron with which he attacked the sheriff.
However, the sheriff was the better man
and took away the bar and beat the negro
severely. The news of the attack on the