The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-05-28
in THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down For Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.
The county of Horny has just
completed a handsome new court
house and Jail, costing more than
$4,000.
A s50,v00 mining company has
heen formed in Greenville to de-
yelop large properties in Ruther-
fordton County, N. c., where gold
deposits have been found.
Senator Tillman sailed for Europe
last week. He was accompanied oy
MIS-. Tillman and DIR. J. w. Babcock.
He will be away for several months,
and will take no, part in politics this
year.
Sumter Methodists have let the
contract for q handsome new brick
church to cost something like $25,-
10000. Jno. J. Cain, of Columbia,
is the contractor, and work will begin
at once.
The date of the meeting of the
South Carolina State Press Assocl-
alton at Gaffney has been changed
because It ,conflicted with college
3c0mmencements The meeting 1s
to be held June 29th to July End.
r. Lee Brunson, a prominent
young white man Of Florence, has
been missing since Sunday week
ago. He was last seen In the union
station in Columbia, and mad toio
his family he was going to Cnar-
lesion.
Tim Malloy, a negro, was hanged
In Rennettsyille last Friday for the
murder of his wife. He said he
deseryed to die and had made his
neace with God. The execution was
Souiet and orderly, and few persons
witnessed it..
peaches from the Ridge section
of the State between Columbia ana
; Augusta are beginning TO move
North in carload shipments. Inc
CROP is about ten days earlier TINS
wear. and the prospects are tnat II
will be heavy.
s. Dr M. s. Gressett died at his home
in Rranchyille last week. He was
hurled last Wednesday afternoon at
the OFT cemetery with Masonic non
nrs He was one of the Oldest clti-
sens of Branchville, and had been
Dracticing medicine there for 1orty
years.
The following candidates have fled
their pledges with State Chairman
! willie Jones: Cole L. Blease, OF
sNewberry, for governor; Jas. =:
Rvrnes. OF Aiken, for solicitor OF
tie ~ second circuit; and Jas. A. sum
! 5mrraett. of Columbia, for railroad
comm issioner.
u. A. Porter, a white carpenter,
residing near Glendale, was run over
and instantly killed by an electric
car on Pine street in Spartanourg
I late last Thursday. night. Ihe man
vas intoxicated and was lying IN
s4npor across the track. He leaves
sa wife and several children.
The Hotel Jerome in Columbia is
~ he enlarged to double the pres;
ent capacity. Work Will start at
once. This hotel Is the gathering
place of the politicians In Soutn
Carolina, and there Is getting to be
so many of them the hotel needs
more room for their accommodation. n.
81 Gov. Ansel has refused to COM
mute the sentence Of Bose COOK, OF
Hampton county, who was sentenced
IN FEBRUARY, 1896, to ten years In
] the penitentiary for manslaughter.
The petition was presented by Capt.
as. williams, of Brunson, and COM
mutation from the penitentlary TO
the county chain gang was asked lot.
The State Supreme Court last Mon
day, on motion Of Assistant Attorney
General DeBrum, filed an order dl-
recting the, dispensary winding up
commission to turn over to the Attor-
ney General the sum of $4,000 set
aside by the legislature from the
state dispensary funds for the pur-
nose of prosecuting the criminal
eases against certain persons In con-
nection with the affairs of the late
State dispensary.
w. S. Brown, an insurance agent
OF Lancaster, was found uncon-
scious In his room at Wright's Ho-
tel In Columbia last Friday morn
ing about seven o'clock. BY hard
work physicians succeeded in re-
storing him. He had very little to
say about it, and soon afterwards
left the hotel. Some think he at
tempted to commit suicide by In
haling gas, the gas being turned on
in his room, while others think ne
turned on the gas by mistake.
The hold-up men have again be-
gun operations in the city Of Coium,
bia. Several persons have been held
M on the streets at night in that city
recently at the point OF pistol ano
robbed. Some arrests have been
made, but there is no definite cyl
dence against any Of the suspects
1t will be remembered that there
were q number of robberies in that
city last year, and they stopped when
a, butcher killed a young white mar
who held him up, but was himseii
killed.