The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-07
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

State News Boiled Down For Quick
Readlng-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Governor Ansel has appointed two
whiskey constables for Greenville
county.
The dispensaries in Charleston,
Columbia, and Sumter have opened
arp for business.
John T. Meehan, lately of the
Carolina Citizen, has accepted a
position with the Columbia State.
Ed. Rainey, a negro, was SEN
fenced to be hanged in Gaffney on
April 18th. He was found guilty of
criminal assault.
tits stated that A. F. Lever, con-
gressman from the seventh district,
may enter the race for United States
Senator next year.
Robert Keller, the young white
man of Orangeburg county who acci-
dentally shot himself while out hunt
ing, died of his wounds.
J. RutIedge McGhee, recently of
the Greenwood Index, has accepted
the position of advertising manager
of the Greenville News.
The president has nominated W.
II. Redish to be postmaster at
Branchyille. MIR. Redish has held
The position for a number of years.
Charleston is to have an immi-
grant station. The bill providing
for the appropriation for its estab.
ishment has passed both houses Of
congress.
Congressman Lever has at last
succeeded in getting a free delivery
OF mail for the city of Orangeburg.
The service is to commence the first
of June.
The town of Bennettsville is soon
to hold an election on the question of
issuing bonds in the sum Of $40, 900
for waterworks, sewerage, and
street improvements.
Mr.. A. Gordon Jones, who has
been superintendent of the Charles
ion division of the Southern Railway
for some time, has been promoted to
the position of purchasing agent.
with headquarters in Washington.
The Richland county board of con-
troll has decided to enforce the new
liquor law strictly. Request books
must be used, and dispensers must
not become identified with politics in
any way under penalty of dismissal.
Governor Ansel has appointed A.
e. Gonzales, w. A. Courtenay, and
Edward H. Ehrlich, all of Columbia,
as the commission to improve the
State house grounds, for which $15,-
600 was appropriated by the legis-
lature.
George Hasty, the young white man
of Gaffney who killed the two theat-
rical men, Bennett and Dawson, was
carried to Columbia last week to be-
gin his life sentence in the State PEN
itentiary. He hopes to get pardoned.
He is only twenty-three years old.
w. j. Oliver, the contractor, has
had his bid for constructing the Pan
anna canal turned down by the gov
ernment. There seems to be some
thing crooked about it, and Senator
Tllman has introduced resolution
calling on the president for the pa
pers and full information in the case.
Tom Harris, a white man, who
was found guilty of murder at Gaff-
ney last week and sentenced to be
hanged. He was charged with the
killing of Mrs. Hortense Morgan, an
aged white woman, in November
last. The killing was thought to
have been for the purpose of rob-
berry.
Governor Ansel last week appoint
ed w. B. West as dispensary auditor
under the provisions Of the new
liquor law. Mr.. West is at present
superintendent Of the Gafney graded
schools. He is said to be a through
" able and trustworthy man. Mr..
West taught the school at Blackville
some years ago.
Hilton Usher, a white man of
Marlboro county, was hit in the head
with a hatchet by a negro and dan
gerously wounded. The difficulty
occurred at the negro's house, and
both were drunk at the time. This
is the natural result of a white man
putting himself on terms of social
equality with a negro and drinking
with him. i-..
Daniel Zimmerman, who pleaded
guilty to forgery while bond clerk
IN the State treasurer's office, was
sentenced to serve three years in the
penitentiary. His alleged confeder-
ate, Thos. j. Gibson, was too i'll to
appear in court and a sealed sentence
was left for him. Notice of appeal
to the State Supreme Court was
Given in tho casa of Zimmerman.