The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-09-26
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Work has commenced on the rail-
road to be built from Greenwood to
Saluda.
Senator Latimer is out in an inter-
view stating that heis opposed to I'M
migration.
The prohibitionists of Aiken county
are still working for an election on
the dispensary question in that coun-
ty.
There is a movement on foot to es-
tablish a third bank in the town of
Johnston, Edgefeld county, the
stockholders to be only farmers.
The new city council of Greenville
has begun a crusade against the dis
reputable houses of that city. The
authorities propose to break them
up completely.
The friends of Hon. Chas. Carroll
Simms, of Barnwell, are urging him
to enter the race for the United
States Senate. He has not yet de-
.cided to enter the race.
1t a colored funeral in Columbia
last week the horses attached to the
hearse ran away, overturnlng the
hearse and dumping the coffin into
the street and breaking it open.
F. Cal Caughman, a well known
citizen of Columbia, fell from a tres
tie near the waterworks plant IN Co.
lumbia and sustained serious injuries.
His condition is thought to be crltl-
cal.
Rev. B. M. Grier, pastor Of the
Methodist church at Newberry, died
last Sunday. He was one Of the
prominent members of the South
Carolina conference, and was 49
years old.
Mrs. Ethel w. Blair, who was tried
and found guilty of manslaughter in
Columbia for the killing of her hus-
hand, has been granted new trial,
and was admitted to bail in the sum
of $1,000.
The grand jury of Beaufort coun-
ty last week found a true bill against
{ ii. L. Solomons, the liquor drummer
charged with violating the anti-graft
provisions of the dispensary law,
The case will likely be tried at the
January term of court.
Senator H. B. Carlisle, of Spartan
burg, in speech before the COM
mercial travellers in that city last
week, declared that ne was in favor
ofa2s cent passenger rate and would
vote for the same at the next session
of the legislature.
G. Raymond Berry, ex-superinten-
dent of education of Marion county,
was arrested last week in Tampa,
Fla. He is now in Jail at Marion.
About twenty. warrants are out
against him, charging forgery and
embezzlement. He was short IN the
school funds of the county.
@ Wash Hunter. white man, was
tried in Laurens last week for muir
der. He shot and killed young
man named Copeland over a game of
cards. Hunter has been tried four
times. The first time he was convict
ed of manslaughter, and the other
three have resulted in mistrials.
The new county movement for
Branchville is at a stand still for the
present at least. The surveyors
found that the line ran within eight
miles of St. George, and the law un-
der which new counties can be es-
tablished does not allow this. What
the outcome of the matter will be is
not known.
There was difficulty in Newberry
last week between dispensary con-
stable named T. G.. Williams and a
white man named j. G. Dominick.
Williams suspected Dominick of sell
ing liquor and they had a quarrel
about it, during which Williams call
ed Dominick liar. Dominick then
struck him with stick and Williams
shot at him, fortunately missing