The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-05-31
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

I'm THE PALMEIlO SlAlE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The grand lodge Knights of Pythias
will meet in Anderson next year.
The town of Reevesville, in Dorchester
county, has organized bank, as also has
Holly Hill.
Epps snowden and Arthur McFaddin,
both negroes, were hanged in KiDgstree
last Friday for the crime of murder. The
men they killed were negroes.
The Union cotton mills property was
sold at auction last week, the price paid
being $1,2Ss,4OO. The property was
bought by the reorganized company.
Candidates for State offices are rapidly
filing pledges. There will be good
crowd in the campaign party. Senator
Tillman is not likely to have opposition.
The State supreme court has refused
tho appeal of Commander johnson, the
white man convicted in Horny county OF
the murder of Rev. Mr.. Granger, and he
will be hanged.
Mr.. J. E. Norment, who is now private
secretary to Governor D. c. Hayward, has
decided not to run for Secretary of State.
Mr.. Norment is mighty fine man, and
would have been hard to beat.
Miss Marie Montgomery, daughter OF
Mr.. Victor Montgomery, died at her home
in spartanburg on Wednesday night from
an overdose of laudanum, which she had
been taking under prescription.
J. E. Tindal, former secretary OF State
who afterwards ran for governor, was
killed in Columbia last week by falling
from street car. Mr.. Tindal was from
Clarendon county and was 70 years old.
Policeman John B. White was tried in
Anderson last week for the killing OF
John Marion Ashley at Honea Path
few months ago and acquitted. The jury
was out forty minutes. Much interest
was manifested in the trial.
Governor Hayward has appointed
Messrs. L. N. Bellinger, Of Bamberg; K.
&c. Mixson, of Barnwell; and T. G. An
derson, of Ninety-Six, as surveyors to es-
tablish the division line between the
counties of Edgefeld and Aiken, dis
lance of about forty miles.
r. J. Hartman, lineman in the en-
;ploy of the Bell telephone company IN
+ Columbia, was seriously stabbed in that
city last week while at work by Charles
s SLundy, striking lineman. Hartman
was a non-union man and was filling the
place of nnion workers who had gone on
strike.
Simon Miller, who was convicted IN
Saluda with his BROTHER and Russell NC
Cormick, of killing an old negro named
Truesdale and sentenced to ten years on
the public works, escaped on Sunday
night from the changing, which was at
work in or near Chappells, and has been
recaptured.
Mrs. E.. B. Wilson, wife of well-known
farmer near Beech Island, Aiken county,
Z was shot in bed, through window, on
Tuesday morning of last week, and NOR
tally wounded. She was sleeping in the
bed with her small baby, her husband
/ and other children being in an adjoining
room. Two negroes are under arrest
charged with the crime.
There was something of a sensation in
Columbia last week when Maj. John
Black, member of the State board OF
<ispensary directors, met Mr.. j. Fraser
sLyon, member of the investigating COM
mittee, on the street and threatened to
shoot him. The committee took up the
matter and reported it to Governor Hey
ward. It is likely that Maj. Black will
be removed from Office by the governor.
The chief of police of Columbia has made
application to put both Messrs. Black
and Lyon under peace bonds.
s A Flood Of Protests.
Nov -ProtestS AGAINST