The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-08-28
SOUTH. CAROLINA NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Condensed and Par
agraphed for Quick Reading.

aSraphed 1or Quich hStsAS
The citizens of Bamberg county
viii vote on -.dispensary' or or no
dlspensary" next Tuesday.
The Hibernian Society of Charles
ton Las decided to comply with the
terms of the Carey-Ccthran, act, hay
ing adopted the individual locker
s.sstem.
Alonzo White was cut and seriously
wounded by Engene johnson in
Greenvile Monday night.
meeting of all the labor unions
il South Carolina will be held in Co
aumhia on SEPTEMBER Sd for the pur-
pose Of organizing State federation.
Caoers Rembert, Who escaped from
the penitentiary after attacking
guard With a hoe, striking him in the
head, has been captured in Lee
county by Sheriff Muldrow.
Frank Richardson was shot and
killed by Thomas Washington in Col
s Teton county. Both are colored.
Frank Kluttz, who is wanted in
Richland county on the charge OF
murder. has been arrested in Florida.
The p. ]. Berkhams Company Of
Augusta has been awarded the con-
tract for seautifying the State house
grounds.
4 serious shooting a. ay among
negroes occurred at Mallory, S. c.
One negro lost a leg as the result and
Others we're badly wounded.
TIE store and Offices of Norman H
Bitch, the Cabbage King" Meg
gets, in colleton county were burned,
sntailng loss of about $1,000.
The buildings of the State colored
college at orangeburg are being re-
painted and improved.
The merchants and business men OF
Drangeburg are talking about holding
carnival this fall.
=. w. scriven, of Columbia, has
been appointed revenue agent for
North and South Carolina.
The citizens of Gafney viii erect
new school building at a cost OF
sI1.5oo.
Allen Emnerson, murderer, who
escaped from the Anderson county
-5aiI is still at large.
The city council of Chester has re-
fused to grant a perpetual franchise
to the Public Service Corporation Of
South Carolina.
The town council of Bowman has
decided to establish an acetylene gas
plant for lighting the streets of the
town
Two mules owned by John Boyd,
colored, were killed by a Southern
railway train at Gafney.
Bennett Mcclough, colored, of Alb
beville, shot his wife and his mother
in-law, ,inficting a wound in the
right hand of each woman. Bennett
made his escape.
The messenger boys in the Offices
of the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies IN Columbia
have struck.
e. K. Pepper white. who is wanted
IN Greenville on the charge of kill
ing a colored, man was arrested in
Pickens county.
Alice Brabham anG Henry McLarey,
two Aiken county neguoes, became
anYoKed in quarrel over a water
melon, which resulted in Alice kill
ing McLarey by staebing him in one
of his thighs. He bled to death. The
woman surrendered.
Gov. Ansel has been named as
member Of the committee Of the Thos
Jefferson Memorial Association, a
national organization which proposes
to raise 100000 to erect memorial
to the Virginia statesman.
Leon Patrick, a former money lend
er Of Charleston. assaulted F. Q. En-
erson of the Charleston Evening Post
because of articles appearing in that
paper againso the money loaning bus
aness. Patrick has been arrested and
viu be tried on the charge of assault
and battery.
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