The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-07-04
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
I. The county of Orangeburg has
fourteen cotton weighers..
The ladies of Barnwell have organ
lied a civic league, with Mrs. w. G.
Simms as president.
Darlington, Gaffney, and other
towns in the State will have big fourth
, Of July celebrations.
The county treasurer Of Spartan
burg has resigned to accept posi-
ton as cashier of a bank in that city.
Charleston is leading the base ball
teams of the South Atlantic League.
We hope she will stay at the top and
: win the pennant.
The case of Mills, who was found
guilty in Gaffney of the murder of
Frank Deal, has been appealed to
the State Supreme Court.
James Malloy, negro, was tried
IN Bennettsville last week for the
murder of his wife. He was found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
j. w. Quattlebaum, of Batesburg,
was arrested in Spartanburg last
Friday. He is charged with misap-
propriating funds of a Philadelphia
insurance company.
Abbeville and Lee counties are
soon to erect new court houses. At
Abbeville the contract has been let
and the work of clearing away the
old buildings has begun.
The city of Spartanburg has as
sumed control of the waterworks
] plant, the municipality recently hav-
ing purchased the plant from a priv
ate company. Bonds will be issued to
pay the purchase price.
Babe" Huntsinger was struck on
,-fhe head with a brick by D. K. Cum
ningham in Spartanburg last Satur-
day. Huntsinger was drunk and at
tackled Cunningham with knife.
The wounded mann bled at the ears
and was seriously hurt. Both are
white farmers.
Pearl Forester, the ten-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Forester, died at the Orr mill vii
lage in Anderson last Wednesday
from lockjaw. She stepped on nail,
which resulted in the disease attack
ing her. She suffered terribly, and
I her death was a horrible one.
George Linstedt, a young white
man of Orangeburg, had his right
leg crushed by a switch engine in the
Atlantic Coast Line yards in Florence
last Friday night. He had been work
ing for the road few weeks as
switchman. His leg had to be ampu-
tated between the ankle and knee.
w. H. Mills was tried at Gaffney
last week for the killing of G. Frank
Deal, and was found guilty of muir
derwit a recommendation to mercy,
which means life Imprisonment. The
case will be appealed to the Supreme
Court. Mills claimed that he killed
Deal because of his intimacy with
his wife, and that Deal had also at
! tackled him with a knife. The killing
occurred at one of the cotton mills in
Gafney.
Rev. William Aiken Kelly, the
Methodist minister who disappeared
mysteriously while in charge of the
church at North Augusta a few
years ago, died in Charleston last
week. The interment was at Mag
nolia cemetery in that city. Mr..
Kelley wandered away while in
charge of a church in Sumter, but
returned in a few months and was
doing good work until his health
broke down at North Augusta. He
was finally located, and relatives in
Charleston cared for him until his
death.