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Evening star., 1907-11-05
Quick Action Urged.

ST am in favor of Immediately putting
into force the policy of dedicating the land
on the south S de of the avenue to the
purposes of park and for the construc-
ton of public bui dings. They will be
needed from time to time. so that the pur-
chase should be undertaken at once. 1t
will all be needed. and all of 1t should be
secured as soon as possible. 1 hope Con-
gress will agree to this plan during the
coming winter
Evening star., 1907-11-05

Bar silver. steady, d l-1ed. per ounce.
Money. 5aiai per cent.
Inc rate Of discount in the open market for
short bills is 8 .a6l5 per cent
The rate of discount in the open market for
three month bills is 81 a6la per cent.
Evening star., 1907-11-05
Grieg the Conductor.

From the Century.
AS conductor of orchestra Grieg was
Evening star., 1907-11-05

BERLIN. November 5.-Exchanse on
London. 20 marks 55lz pfennigs for
checks. Discount rates-Short bills, 6k per
cent; three months bills, 5H per cent
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Negro is Hanged.

SPARTANBURG, May 3.-After es-
Gaping the gallows for more than one
year for the murder of Alf Briggs,
his father-in-law, John Shelton col
ored, was hanged in Jail at noon to-
day, the execution being carried out
without hitch or accident.
After the death warrant was read
the doomed man walked to the trap
door as coolly as though he was go
ing to work. AS he passed by the
cells he waved his hands to the pris-
oners and said goodbye boys"
When the execution room was
reached Shelton stepped on the trap
door with a steady step, and, while
his hands and feet were being bound
there was not the quiver of a muscle.
He was asked if he had anything to
say and he replied he had not.
Prayer was then offered by min
lister and at noon the trap was sprung.
The drop of several feet broke the
neck of Shelton. The execution was
witnessed only by officers and news
paper men.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
A C0WardIy Outrage.

Some scoundrels placed a coffin on
the front piazza of Rev. E. M: Light
foot in Orangeburg one night last
week. On the lid was a piece OF
paper on which was written: "This
will be your box on June 10, 1907.
So goodbye to E. M. Lightfoot. P.
S. Peace to his ashes. Anon"
No motive for such a deed can be
assigned, and the town is greatly
worked up over the occurrence. The
coffin was cheap one and was stolen
from a negro undertaking establish
ment. A mass meeting of citizens
was held and the outrage denounced,
while large rewards have been offer
ed by the citizens and city council.
The meeting passed resolutions en-
dorsing Mr. Lightfoot. The minister
is a Northern man but has been
pastor of the Baptist church in
Orangeburg for number of years.
He is an able preacher, and is very
popular. Strong efforts will be made
to apprehend the guilty parties.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
The Temperance rlovement.

Nine counties in South Carolina
voting on the liquor question and
seven or ten probably added to the
prohibition column seems to indicate
that not even the ''candy-cathar-
uc'' law is going to be a stay to
the. prohibition wave that has been
rolling over the country recently.
When Tennessee and Kentucky
become practically dry states, and
Georgia, as the Augusta Chronicle
tells US, sends in the usual report
:. county went dry and on the
other side the Old North state is
rapidly driving the liquor manufac-
turers as we'll as retailers out of her
borders, and congress will probably
pass at its next session a bill that
will put the Jug train out of business
it seems to US that the millennium
of the cold water army is coming,
and we really tremble to know which
one of our vices it will declare war
on next.-Florence Times.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Want Duncan ReinStated.

UNION, May 2.-Petitions are be-
ing circulated in Union among the
mill people and all classes Of citizens,
addressed to the directors of the
Union-Buffalo Cotton Mills Com
pany, asking that Thomas c. Dun;
can be reinstated as president OF
these two mills. The directors met
Saturday and a committee has been
appointed to present the petitions,
which have been signed by about
thirty-fve hundred people.
This unusual proceeding is exclt-
ing considerable interest and the
outcome is awaited with good deal
of curiosity. 1t is said that the
operatives of the Union and Buffalo
mills will go on a general strike if
the petitions are turned down by the
directors.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Retail Grocer Arrested

COLUMBIA, May 1.-R. R. Sealey.
proprietor of a retail grocery store,
was arrester by Detective j. NJ. Har-
rison, of the Seaboard Road, to-day,
charged with the theft of $500 worth
of tobacco, sugar and rice, which
were located in an outhouse of his
relative, Thomas Howell, farmer,
living near Jacob Station, sixteen
miles north of Columbia on the Sea-
board Road. Other arrests are ex-
pected. It is believed there has been
a conspiracy on the part of several
men to rob cars in the yards here
or at stations near here. Some
of the goods recovered were also
consigned to points on the South
ern. The tobacco was due to points
in Georgia and Florida, the rice to
points in North Carolina, and the
sugar was due at Winnsboro. The
charge against Mr.. Sealey is grand
larceny. He has been released on
a bond of $500. He has borne q good
reputation and his arrest is q surprise.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Honor Roll.

Honor roll Of Olar graded school
for 9th month.
Tenth grade. Floyd Chitty, Frank
Starr.
Ninth grade.-Etty Kearse, Eve
lyn Brabham, Lucille Rizer, Belle
Cooke, James Chitty, Emma Bes-
singer.
Eighth grade. Nora Barker,
Charley Chitty, Anna McC cCormack.
Seventh grade. Ellis Barker, Lena
Kearse.
Sixth grade. .-Purdy Aver, Agnes
,Kearse.\
Fifth grade. -Zelma Rizer, Eloise
Cave, Archie Barker, Bertha Reid.
Fourth grade.-Dewitt Chitty,
Horace Ray.
Third grade.-Edna Morris, Efie
McC Cormack, Pearle Barker.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09

A number of military men in a
Washington hotel were giving an &C
count of an incident of the civil war.
A quiet man who stood by at last
said:
Gentlemen, l happened to be
there, and might be able to refresh
your memory as to what took place
in reference to the event just mar
rated"
The hotel keeper said to him:
Sir. what might have been your
rank?''
Il was a private"
Next day the quiet man, as he
was about to depart, asked for his
bill.
''Not a cent, sir; not a cent" an
swered the proprietor. "You are the
very first private l ever met. "-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
LIQUOR Election In Newberry.

NEwBERRY, May 4.-The question
of dispensary or no dispensary for
Newberry county will be decided
again at the polls at an early date.
petitions containing the requisite
number of names to assure the.
ordering of an election having been
handed in to County Supervisor J;
Monroe Wicker, who is empowered
to order the election.
The dispensary was voted out OF
Newberry county about two years
ago, and since that time the county
has been dry" with the exception,
of the illicit sale of liquor by "blind
tigers" The question was supposed
to have been decided at that time
for four years, but upon the passage
of the Carey-Cothran law at the last
session of the legislature, Senator
Cole L. Blease of Newberry inserted
an amendment calling for another
election on the question again this
year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
THE warm MURDER CASE.
ADDISON JOHNSON AND FRANK
NIMMONS PUT IN JAIL HERE.
Nimmons Adjudged Insane and Car
ried to Asylum In Columbia.
No Preliminary.

The interest awakened by the ar
rest of Addison Johnson, charged
with the murder of Mr.. M. B. Warn,
has not died out by any means.
When johnson was brought in from
Columbia Tuesday night by Police
man Hand there was a large crowd
at the depot, and the same interest
was shown when Magistrate Wright
arrived Wednesday night with Frank
Nimmons, from Jacksonville, Fla.
Nimmons is undoubtedly crazy.
He raves and talks most Of the time,
and opiates had to be given him at
night in order to make him sleep, as
he kept up so much noise that the
family of the sheriff could not sleep.
It seems plain that some knowledge
of the Warn murder has unbalanced
his mind, for he talks Of this most
of the time. He is said to have re-
marked that he struck Mr.. Warn but
did not kill him, but that he
robbed him. Little or nothing
can be gotten from his talk, as it is
disconnected and rambling, just as
is the case of any demented person.
He has been examined by physi-
clans and declared insane, and was
carried to the asylum at Columbia
Tuesday nigh t, where it is hoped
his condition will improve so that he
can be used as a witness in the case.
It is the general opinion that there
is something in the case.
Addison johnson is still in Jail. He
protests his innocence, and says he
knows nothing Of the murder. He
has employed an attorney, and will
not discuss the matter with anybody.
The trial cannot take place before
the July term of court.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.

EHRHARDT, May 6.-Heavy rains
fell last week in this section; in
some portions very heavy hail. In
hard places and around stumps the
hail was nearly six inches deep when
it stopped falling. The center was
between here and Olar. Several of
the farmers had corn and cotton up
and ploughed; today they are plant
ing over as a result of the hail
storm.
While chopping on trees last week
one of the chaingang cut another on
the wrist with an axe. They were
too near together is the cause Of the
accident. Was not a serious cut
however and will not be long before
the injured convict can go to work
again.
We hear talk as if several of the
folks will take in the Schutzen this
and next week. Charleston prom
ises to give visitors a good time
while in the city.
Preparations have commenced to
fill baskets for Mt. Pleasant Sunday
school picnic:
Quite crowd went to the chain
gang camp Sunday afternoon. Rev.
is. Mingo gave notice that he was
going to preach for them; have not
heard whether he did or not.
Rev. P. E. Monroe told his con-
gregation, Sunday for them not to
stay at home on account of their
children, as they did not worry him
much. Said he would rather have
his sermons punctuated with the
cries of the children rather than
have the parents stay away from the
church on account Of them. l think
the Rev. forgot to tell them how
ever to leave their dogs at home.
There was a large crowd in town
Saturday afternoon. Soft drinks
were in good demand with some,
while others took on booze.
It is rumored that an unknown
person last night tried to enter Mrs.
Geo. Hughes's bed room though q
window. Suppose the noise aroused
her and she took the gun and fired
at the retreating party twice, with
what effect is unknown. A party
came for the chain gang hound and
if the dog can locate the party it
will fare rough with him. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Woman's Opportunity.

Meeting a negro, certain south
ern gentleman asked him how ne
was getting on. The negro assumed
a troubled look and replied:
ooh, SO far's physicality goes I'm
all right, but sure do have ma trou-
bles wifi ma wife"
"Well Sam, l am sorry to hear
that. What seems to be the matter?'
''She thinks money grows on trees,
| reckon. All de time she keeps pes
term me for pinch o change. If it
amt a dollah it's half or a quarter
she wants
What on earth does she do with
the money!"
81 dunno. Amt nevah give her
none yet" philadelphia Ledger.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
MARION WANTS DIsPENsARIES.
Petitions Filed Asking for an Election
to Decide the Matter.

MARION, April 3O.-Petitions to
which the names of one thousand
and sixty voters were attached were
filed with the clerk of Court to-day
asking for an election on the ques-
ton Of establishing a county dispen-
sary. The dispensary was voted
out Of Marion county over a year
ago, owing it is said, to the alleged
corruption in the State dispensary
system, but Marion being on the
North Carolina line, the county has
been flooded with blind tiger whis-
key for some time, and the people
are tired of it. There will doubtless
be little opposition to the dispensary
system in case an election is ordered.
News and Courier.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Another Killing in Columbia.

COLUMBIA, May 5.-There was an
other murder in the Waverley neigh
borhood this morning, but the affair
differed from the recent homicides
in and around this city, being case
of the "unwritten law" among ne
groes. 1t seems that about midnight
John Jacobs, a negro carpenter, re-
turned to his home in Waverley and
found it locked against him, but
entering through a window, he dis
covered his wife, Bessie Jacobs,
asleep in the same bed with Will
johnson, a negro. John Jacobs pro-
ceeded to kill both the man and wo-
man, as he thought, hitting them in
the head with hammer as they
slept. His blows ended the life. Of
his wife, but not that Of johnson,
who is now at Taylor Lane Hospital,
under treatment.
Jacobs went to the home Of his
employer, the colored contractor, A.
S. johnson, and with johnson went
to the police station and surrendered,
and is now in Jail. He was under
the impression that he he had killed
both man and woman, but when the
officers reached the scene the negro
man, Will Johnson, was alive and
was taken to the hospital as soon as
possible. The sheriff, police and
coroner went to the scene soon after
the news reached the city.
Coroner Walker empannelled a
jury this morning and visited the
scene, the inquest being postponed
until Wednesday evening at Fergu-
sons undertaking establishment.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
C0lstOn News.

CoLsToN, May THE rain and
hail storm that prevailed in this
section last Friday afternoon is said
to be the worst in several years:
Crops are in bad condition, and
a great deal of cotton. and corn
will have to be planted again, as it
is washed away. The hail did not do
a great deal Of damage, as the crops
were very small. Travelling was
almost impossible, as most of the
bridges were washed away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Padgett, OF
Ehrhardt, were the guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. All on Sunday last.
Mr.. Duncan Beard, Jr., of Sa-
vannah, is spending few days with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs: G. w.
Beard.
Miss Pauline Clayton, who has
been spending several days with her
sister, Mrs. Wilmott Sandifer, near
Bamberg, has returned home. ,
Mr.. G. w. Beard, Jr., visited
Bamberg last Friday.
Messrs. Jacob HERS and Robert
Padgett, Of Ehrhardt, were visitors
here Sunday. =
Mrs. B. D. Bishop and Miss Letitia
Bishop spent Sunday last at the home
of Mr.. Thomas Clayton.
Mr.. J. J. Mcmillan, who is guard
on the county chain gang, was here
Sunday afternoon.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Don't Want Dispensary.

Newberry wants dispensary.-
Headline in Spartanburg Herald.
No; Newberry doesn't want any
thing of the kind. She demonstrated
that less than two years ago; and the
people here are not so tickle as to
change their mind that quick, with
out good reason--and they have no
good reason. Prohibition has work
ed well-better than it's friends could
have hoped for.
All mistake about Newberry
wanting a dispensary. Only a minori-
ty want it-they wanted it before
Newberry Observer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Entertainment at Graded School.

The friends and patrons of the
Bamberg graded school are asked to
Join US in an entertainment and ice
cream festival at the school building
this Friday evening at $50 O'Clock.
Cream and cake will be served by
young ladies at popular prices. The
proceeds will be used to supplement
the contributions of the friends who
have already kindly contributed to
the purchase of the graded school
piano. Remember the date: Friday
evening, May 10.
H. C. SHERIDAN, Principal.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Pointed Paragraphs.

Some queer birds roost in family
trees.
You can't get the best of some
men-they haven't any.
Life is no joke to the chap who is
forced to live by his wits.
Success has made a fool of many
an otherwise sensible man.
In the bright lexicon of youth
there is no such thing as ignorance.
After man gets about so drunk,
he thinks other people thinks he
isn't.
When a man has no religion of his
own he is apt to hide behind his
wife's
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
Colston Cuttings.

CoLsToN, May 5.-The heaviest
rain and hail storm passed over this
community yesterday afternoon that
has ever been known by the writer.
All cotton lands are under water.
The branch which runs through the
writer's farm, which he has known
all his life and he is now over fifty
years old, could not be forded on
horse back after the rain and hail
had stopped. The writer had a
hand blowing on the opposite side OF
the branch from his house and be
had to ride three-quarters of a mile
up the branch to the next ford be-
fore he could cross to bring the horse
home. =.
Mr.. J. H. Kearse's children started
from school and were caught by the
rain at the writer's house. Mr..
Kearse started to meet them, drove
in the branch and could not ford it,
and by the aid of Joe Bryant, a
colored man who lives on the writ
er's place, had to take his horse out,
back his buggy, and return home
without his children. This ford has
never been known to swim horse
before. .,
There was colored man living on
Mr.. J. B. YARNS place near a little
drain who had his dog tied to his
house. When he returned home ne
found his dog drowned and floated
or washed away as far as the chain
would let him 60.
The writer measured a bail-bucket
which had no water in it until when
the rain and hail started. 1t had
seven and one-half inches of water
in it. Capt. H. z. Mcmillan measur;;
ed a box in his yard and it measured
eleven inches in water.
Mr.. T. D. Beard had some hands
planting cotton in some bottom land
on his place. They left the planter
standing on the cotton bed and the
next morning all you could see OF
the planter was few inches of the
handle sticking out above the water.
All cotton that was up is beat SO
badly by the hail until l fear the
most of it will have to be planted
over. The oldest citizens say that it
was the heaviest rain and hail storm
that has ever passed over this com
munity. The writer does not know
when we can plow on our highest
lands.
The oat crop is very poor and the
outlook is for not more than a half
crop, if we get that. The farmer:
have done little else but plant and
plant over since the middle Of March,
The prospect for crop is the
poorest the writer has ever seen. 1t
looks very discouraging, but we
have the grit to try, try again. We
farmers will not give up. We will
keep planting as long as we can get
seed until it is too late for anything
to mature. Cotton seed is getting
scarce. u.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
New Advertisements.

Win tn rop College Scholarship
and Entrance Exanination.
Peoples Bank -Signin 6 Your
Name.
Caughman Bros.-For Sale.
R. w. Hutson, Clerk-Bankruptcy
Notice.
Theodore Kohn-Sweet Girl Grad
uates.
w. A. Klauber-A Great Money
Saving Sale.
County Dispensary Board-List of
Purchases.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09

Two negro women got into a fight
on the street near Mr.. F. M. Sim
mons's residence last Saturday night
and Jane Brown cut Rosa Stokes on
the breast and head with a knife,
making painful but not serious
wounds. Mayor Hair gave the
Brown woman $500 or thirty days,
and Rosa Stokes was dismissed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-05-09
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

Men ana Happenings.
The State reunion of Confederate
veterans is being held in Columbia
this week.
The CITY of Laurens will soon let
the contract for a new graded school
building to cost $30,000. Plans of
architects for the building have been
accepted.
Preston Lowrey, a young white
man, was killed by his brother in
Saluda county last Sunday night.
No motive was shown for the killing.
The slayer was drunk when the
crime was committed, and now,
realizing what he has done, he begs
that he also be killed.
A negro attempted to assault the
l2-year-old daughter of Mr.. John
Sawyer near Mullins last Monday
morning while she was taking cow
to the pasture: The negro ran after
her and her screams brought her
father to the rescue, when the negro
ran. A posse was quickly formed
and it is said the negro was killed
while trying to escape.
In last weeks issue of the Fairfax
Enterprise the announcement is made
that the paper will be discontinued
because of lack Of financial sup.
port. The paper was founded
several years ago by Mrs. Virginia
Durant Young, and since her death
last year has been continued by her
husband, DIR. w. J. Young, with
Mrs. Sake D. Meehan as editor.
R. T. Wescott, white, was shot and
killed in Waverly, a suburb Of Co.
lumbia last Thursday morning Just
before dawn while on his way to his
work. He ran butcher shop and
went down before daylight to get out
his orders. His son followed a few
minutes later and found his dead
body. Robbery is supposed to have
been the motive for the murder A
young white man named Gardner
has been arrested, but there is no
direct evidence against him.