The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-06-11
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Fire in the ginnery of the South
Atlantic Cotton Oil Co. at Darlington
last Monday night did damage OF Ss'
600 or $4,000.
Business must be good with Uncle
Sam. A number of the post masters
in this State have recently been gwen
increases of salary.
Roy Bradford, a young man OF Fort
Mill, committed suicide last Sunday
afternoon by shooting. He was
twenty years old. No cause is as
signed for the act.
]. L. Crosswell committed suicide
i'm his room at the Commercial hotei
in Florence last Thursday night by
taking carbolic acid. He leaves a
wife and two small children. NO
cause has been assigned for the act.
There was a $4,000 fire in Abbe-
vile Friday morning, beginning IN a
pressing, club which was located In
an annex to the Glen Ethel Hotel. A
number of stores were burned, as
well as the hotel, and the office OF
the Abbeville Medium was damaged
by water.
Senator D. T. McKeithan, OF Dar-
linpton. was recently injured at Flor
enee by one of the lamps on his auto
mobile exploding while he was light
ing ii. His eyes were badly injured,
but he is getting along nicely, and II
is now thought the sight OF both
eyes will be restored.
Evidently the voters of the State
do not favor the county court sys-
tenn. Some time ago an election was
held in Aiken county on the question
of establishing a county court, and
1T was defeated Last week Sumter
county held an election on the ques-
ton, and a large majority of the
votes cast we're against the PROPOSE
tion.
IS w. Shurlock, mate on the light
shin at Beaufort, committed suiclde
Monday night shortly after midnight
by cutting his throat with the bladf
4ef safety razor. His body WAS
found in hisstate room next morning.
The deed was the result OF despon-
dency brought on by heavy drinking:
The dead man had a wife, son and
daughter in Charleston, and his body
was buried there.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Stewart
Gregg. at Clausen, Florence county,
was stung to death by swarm OF
bees. The horse was passing a hive
and q bee stung him. He kicked
and over went the hive, Instantly
the whole swarm fell upon him
and covered him; as though wrapped
with blanket. The horse suffered
agonies for while and finally died
from the poison.
While playing with several other
children on the streets of Orangeburg
last Sunday morning, throwing rocks
and batting them about with sticks,
one of the batted rocks struck the
two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hazard E. Reeves in the eye, COM
pieteig destroying the sight. The
little fellow was carried to Charleston
Sunday afternoon and the injured
optic removed. 1t is thought that
3 the sight of the other Is uninjured. !.
Wade Sellers, the. notorious blind
tiger keeper of Columbia, was tried
in that city this week for the muir
der of Constable Farmer. The kill
I ing occurred several months ago
when Farmer went to search Sellers
house. When the constable broke
! ia the door Sellers shot him with a
sKrag-Jorgensen rife. The jury
could not agree, and mistrial was
ordered. Mr.. NJ. L. Rowell, of this
| place, testified in the case as a wit
ness for the defence.
The Pickens county. grand jury
has found true bill against Miss
Oline B. Newton, the young lady
school teacher charged with cruelty
whipping one of her pupils. The
case has already caused a sensation
4 in the town of Pickens and the peo-
ple of the county are awaiting the
final outcome with much interest, as
the young lady in question, stands
very high in the estimation of the
best classes of people both in Pick
ems and throughout the county.
Insurance Commissioner McMas-
ter has given out a statement con-
cerning the workings of the two
mutual fire insurance companies in
Spartanburg, and he has also served
them with notice to show cause on
July 9Th why their licenses should
not be revoked. 1t seems that Stan.
yarne Wilson and A. M. Alexander
presidents OF the companies, were
taking all the funds in salaries and
the losses were not paid. These com
panies have several policy holders
in this county whose fire losses have
not been paid.
At a meeting of the board of itrus'
tees of the South Carolina University
in Columbia last Thursday, DR.. H
N. Snyder, now president of Wofford
College at Spartanburg, was elected
president DR.. Snyder has not &C
cepted yet, and he wired the trustees
that he could not give them an an