The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-01-24
I'm THE PALMETTO STATE.

In THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Aen
and Happenings.
A company has purchased wharf at
Charleston harbor and it's exclusive busi-
ness will be that Of coaling vessels.
This will, it is expected, bring many big
vessels into that port.
Tom Hamilton, Will Oliver and Joe
Byrd, white men, were convicted in the
sessions court in Anderson on Friday Of
robbing stores at Iva, and were sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary.
J. q. Latimer, of Greenville, has been
appointed chief dispensary constable, to
succeed Mr.. q. B. Hammett, of Barnwell,
who will be deputy internal revenue col.
lecttor, with headquarters at Sumter.
It is said that T. B. Fraser, of Sumter,
and Jno. s. Wilson, of Manning, now
solicitor, are the most prominent candi-
dates mentioned for Judge Purdy's place.
Mr.. Fraser is member of the house of
representatives.
A spartanburg man was arrested last
Thursday on the charge of getting sew.
eral mules under false pretenses- mort
gaging land he did not own. He sold
the mules and was preparing to skip
when arrested.
Representative n. E. Gyles, of Aiken,
has introduced bill in the legislature
fixing the fare on railroads at two and
one.haIf cents mile. The bill is being
strongly opposed by the railroads, but it
ought to pass.
There will be general regret over the
State that Judge R. O. Purdy is to retire
from the bench. He has made most ex-
cellent official, and to him is due in large
measure that a better sentiment prevails
as to law and order. For our part, we
had rather spare any of the other Judges.
President Mcleod of the senate an.
nounced as members of the dispensary
investigation committee appointed under
the Christensen resolution as Senators
Christensen and Graydon. The members
from the house are Rucker, Richards and
Cary. The committee will organize and
will under the law report to the legisla'
ture within ten days.
At meeting of the State railroad com.
missioner last week, E. P. Waring, dr.
of Charleston, was elected secretary, sue
ceeding D. P. Duncan, who has been
secretary for number of years. Mr.
Waring is to take charge March 1st. BE
has been connected with the Charleston
freight bureau, and has had considerable
experience in freight and traffic matters
Ex- senstor j. T. Hay, of Camden, died
last Wednesday night. He was found in
an unconscious condition in his Office
during the day and never rallied. BE
would have been sixty years old next
April. The burial took place at Camden.
Senator Hay was prominent lawyer OF
his home bar, and was one of the lead
ing members of the State Senate. he
declined reelection last year.
State Liquor Commissioner Tatum says
the board of dispensary directors has
bought entirely too much liquor. The
warehouses of the dispensary are full and
numbers of cars are on the side tracks
waiting to be unloaded. Senator Chris
tensen introduced resolution calling for
an investigation, which has passed both
the senate and house. The committee
is to report in short time. 1t seems
from this that the new board is pursuing
the same tactics of former boards, that is,
stocking up with liquor which is not
needed. The whole thing is rotten, and
the only coure to pursue is to killit. We
have had enough Of attempts at "purif-
cation"
Wouldn't Vote for Tillman.
COLUMBIA, Jan. 22.-Both houses