The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-31
BAMBERG S. c.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 81,

IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Leading business men of the city
Of Union are organizing company
to build a 100000 cotton mill at that
place.
The Methodists of Sumter have
adopted plans for a new church to
cost about $3.50 Work will begin
about the first of January.
F. w. Smart, machine agent OF
Allencale, died at Ellenton on Tues
day from drinking a quart Of blind
tiger liquors He is survived by a
wife and two children.
Five new rural free delivery
routes are to be established in
Orangeburg county the first Of jan
uary. These will give that county
Al rural free delivery routes.
DR.. w. L. Linder, of Union, who
recently shot and killed Lucy Lipsey,
a negro woman, on the streets of
that city, was admitted to bail last
Thursday in the sum Of $1,000.
luke Chisolm, a negro, was tried
at st. George last week, for the
murder of Mr.. Robert Graham at
Summerville some months ago. He
was found guilty and sentenced to
be hanged on the 29th of November.
The State board of canvassers has
decided that the dispensary election
in Chesterfield county was legal, and
the dispensaries in that county will
have to close, although it is likely
the case will go to the Supreme
Court. 10.
Judge Gage has sentenced Geo.
Kenny, colored, to be hanged IN
Charlestontthe 9th of December for
the murder of Chaingang Guard
Stello a year ago. He appealed from
his first sentenced passed by Judge
Purdy, but the Supreme Court has
dismissed the appeal.
C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens, is
out in an interview in which he says
that he favors a State prohibition
law which will allow any county to
vote in whiskey, under strict regu:
lations. MIR. Featherstone, 1t will
be remembered, made the race for
governor some years ago on prohl-
bition platform.
The expected sensation of the re-
port Of the grand jury relative to
the escape Of the murderer Allen
Emerson from the Anderson Jail did
not materialize. That august body
simply saids using quite a number OF
words to say it, that Emerson had
been permitted too much liberty
about the Jail.
Jim Yates, white man of Ander-
son, about fifty years old, has gone
crazy on the subject of religion, hav-
ing been a constant attendant at a
revival meeting, and was trying to
butt his brains out against a post
when arrested. He managed to bite
one of the officers so severely that q
physician was called to dress the
wounds.
Walter Allen, the young white
convict from Greenville county, who
recently escaped from the peniten.
tiary, has voluntarily returned. He
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
for killing a man who insulted his
wife, but was trusty when he es.
capped. He went home to see his
sick wife, who is said to be dying OF
consumption. 1t is probable that eff.
forts will be made to have him par
doned.
Burglars have been busy in the
city of Orangeburg recently. Sew.
eral stores near the Southern passen.
ger depot were entered about two
weeks ago, and last Friday night
burglars broke into the Coast Line
depot and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to open the safe in the office
The combination and both hinges
were broken off and the safe was
otherwise damaged. No arrests
bave been made. ..
Representative J. Wright Nash. Of
Spartanburg, in an interview states
that he will offer a prohibition bill II
the next legislature and expects it tt
pass. He says he has letters from E
number of representatives pledgine
their support for the bill: Mr.
Wright offered a prohibition bill II
the last legislature, but voted against
it when it, came up and supported
the county dispensary bill. The
State dispensary advocates wanted