The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-07-29
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
C. w. McCravy, auditor of Laurens
county, has resigned. The reason
given is business cares of private
nature.
A party of Orangeburg people left
that city last week in motor boat.
1t is their intention to go down the
Edisto river to Charleston.
The automobile route from Atlanta
to New York has been decided on.
In this State it is to go through An
derson, Greenville, Spartanburg, and
Gaffney on to Charlotte.
J. Chester Kennedy is being tried
again in Barnwell this week for COM
plicity in the murder Of w. Perry
Ussery. 1t is charged that Kennedy
hired two men to kill man named
Holland and they killed Ussery by
mistake. Kennedy was tried last
week and the jury failed to agree.
George Myers, a State constable,
was accidentally shot at II Society
street, in Charleston, Sunday morn
ing. He dropped his pistol to the
floor, and it was discharged, the bull
let entering his stomach. Myers was
carried to the Roper hospital. It Is
feared the wound will prove fatal.
Six negroes have been arrested and
lodged in jail at Bishopville, charged
with being implicated in the muir
der of a negro woman, who was
found dead in her house with her
skull crushed. The whole affair Is
shrouded in mystery, but the hus-
band of the woman was one of the
negroes arrested:
A special from Lexington says
crops in that county are burning up
for the want of rain. Cotton is suf-
fering most and the crop will be
great deal shorter than last year.
Everything has been put in excellent
condition, and with rain in the next
day or two there might be consid-
erable come-out in the younger crops.
The cotton mill known as the
Reedy River Manufacturing Co., sit
uated about seven miles from Green
vile, on the Reedy river, was sold
at public auction last Friday. 1t
was bought by w. E. Beattie, of
Greenville, and associates, the price
paid being $149,400. The property
is said to be worth 100000. The
concern will be reorganized.
It is stated that the cocaine habit
is prevailing to an alarming extent
among the negroes in Lexington
county, and that many farm hands
are being made utterly worthless
through it's use. The negroes carry
it around with them in their pockets,
one negro being found with $12
worth of the drug on him. Dealers
are making good thing out OF the
sale.
Deputy Sheriff H. H. Lockhart, of
Cherokee, arrested a negro named
Alonzo Lockhart, who is charged
with enticing laborers to leave the
State in violation of the statute COW
ering such cases, and took him before
Magistrate Camp, who committed
him to Jail for trial one day this week
in default of bond. Lockhart has re-
tanned counsel to represent him, and
claims that he is not guilty Of the
offense charged against him.
The Southern Power Company is
about ready to begin work on its big
plant at Getty's Shoals, twelve miles
above Camden, twenty-four miles be-
low Great Falls, and twenty-one
miles below the Rocky Creek works.
The dam will be 10 feet in height
and will back water to the Rocky
creek dam, making continuous lake
of twenty-one miles in length. The
Getty's Shoals plant is expected to
furnish 100000 power when COM
pleted.
Harry Ellis, black negro boy, of
about seventeen or eighteen years OF
age, was brought to Greenville Sat-
urday night between twelve and one
O'Clock by Deputy Maddox, of GROVE
near Piedmont, about ten
miles from the city. Ellis is charged
with an attempt to ravish a young
white girl of good family in that
There was some talk
of lynching the negro after the deed
was committed, but the officers man
aged to get him to Greenville before
the mob could get up courage to per-
form the deed.
Attorney General Lyon has render
ed an opinion that dispensaries may
not open up for business Immediately
after the election, in case the voters
decide in favor of the sale of whis-
key. He states that the dispensaries
be kept closed until the result
is finally determined, and this can
not be done until the State board of
canvassers meets and declares the re-
suit. We presume in case of a con-
test, the dispensaries would remain
closed until the contest was settled,
and in case there was an appeal to
the courts this would take several
months.
TEN CENTS REWARD.
What a Rich Banker Gave Lad for