The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-27
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

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Reading Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The Citadel cadets are now in camp
at the Jamestown Exposition, and
they will take part in the exercises
of South Carolina day.
There is movement on foot by
Georgetown capitalists to establish a
fertilizer factory five miles from the
city on the Sampit river.
The dispensaryites are preparing to
contest the recent election held in
Kershaw county where a majority of
the votes were against the dispensary.
Another steamer is to arrive in
Charlestonearly in September loaded
with immigrants from Europe. It is
hoped to make the steamship line a
permanent one.
DR.. J. M. Richardson was shot
while driving along the street in An
derson on Saturday by a man named
e. C. Mcconnell, who is thought to
be out his right mind. The wounds
are not serious.
Some of the anti -dispensary people
IN Aiken county are not pleased at
the refusal of the supervisor to order
an election on the dispensary ques-
ton. That official is being strongly
criticised in the newspapers of the
county.
The Branchville Journal the latest
entry in the newspaper field, was is
sued for the first time last week. 1t
is a five column eight page sheet, all
home print, and neatly gotten up.
The issue is a very creditable one.
Mr.. C. A. Graves is editor and man.
ager.
Jim Gardner and Joe Hoy, the
young white men arrested in Colum-
bia under suspicion of completely in
the murder Of R. T. Weseott, have
been released on bond of $500 each.
The evidence against them must be
very weak, as they were allowed to go
on their own bonds.
Bishop Ellison Capers is seriously i'll
at his summer home at Cedar Noun
tain, N. c., and it is feared he cannot
recover. He had a stroke of paraly-
sis, and the disease is affecting all
parts of his body. This announce
ment will bring sorrow all over South
Carolina. for the Bishop is loved
wherever he is known.
r. C. Emanuel, a young white man,
was run over by a train at Latta last
Monday morning and instantly killed.
He had just gotten off the train and
was walking up the track. The train
meved backward to go into the
switch, and when he was called to
get out Of the way, by mistake he
jumped in the center Of the track
and the train struck him.
Two little negro boys attemped to
wreck a passenger train near Union
last Friday by placing cross tie on
the track. They admitted the deed,
and were soundly thrashed by their
father. The railroad did not want to
prosecute on account of their age.
The boys said they put the tie on the
track to see the train run over 1t. The
engineer saw the obstruction and
stopped the train in time.
George w. Mabus, a young white
man of Batesburg, was waylaid and
assassinated near that town last Sat-
nrday morning. He was shot with
buckshot, and while he lived for
awhile afterwards, he never regained
consciousness. The coroner's jury
returned verdict that Lee Fallaw
and Clifford Fallaw did the killing.
Some time ago Mabus and Lee Fal-
law had fight and both were serious
ly cut.
The Fallaws, who are charged with
the murder of young Mabus near
Batesburg last Saturday, have been
arrested and are in Jail at Lexington.
At first it was thought the young
men had made their escape, but this
proved to be incorrect. The commun-
ity in which the killing occurred is
much wrought up over the affair, and
it is thought the young men kept out
of the way, fearful that harm would
be done them by the enraged citi-
zenS.
B The case against Editor A. B. Jor-
dan, charged with criminal libel, has
been settled outofcourtwhich slavery
happy. conclusion of the case. 1t grew
out of an article published in his pa
per, the Dillon Herald, in reference
I to the connection of some prominent
citizens of Marion county with fraud
ulent tax receipts. He retracted his
utterances and that stopped the case,
although it had been transferred to
Chesterfield and the trial was pro-
ceeding. Jordan did the right thing
in apologizing and the other gentle
men did right to accept his disclaimer.
Governor Ansel has dealt death
blow to the hopes of the promoters