The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-08-19
IN THE PALMETTO STATE

SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The negro with whose death Pope
Havird, of Saluda county, was charg-
ed has been found alive in Aiken
county.
Isaiah Saunders, colored, living at
Brogden, Sumter county, shot and
killed his wife on Friday with a
shotgun.
Grover Henderson, young white
man, has been lodged in jail at Gaff-
ney, charged with attempted criminal
assault upon young married woman.
DR.. L. C. Stephens died at his
home in Greenville on Thursday aged
II. He had lived in that city since
1900, having moved there from
Blackville.
Mr.. E. F. Hammond has retired as
editor of the Colleton News, and Is
succeeded by Mr.. Jno. E. Moore, who
has been connected with the paper for
some time as business manager.
The residence of J. H. Albrecht, in
Orangeburg, was burned on Sunday
morning about three o'clock. The
family were away, and the house had
been robbed and then set on fire.
"A young white man named J. l..
Waldrop was arrested in Spartanburg
on Friday on a warrant from Chester
charging him with burglarizing the
store of ]. w. Nix the night of June
2Sth.
Several members of negro family
in Columbia were found on Thursday
to have smallpox. They were sent
to the pesthouse and steps were
taken to prevent the disease from
spreading.
The Kings Mountain monument
will be unveiled October 7th.
Among the speakers of the day will
be Governor Patterson, Of Tennessee,
and Congressman Samuel w. Mccall,
of Boston.
Prof. Alva Willis, a Charleston
teacher, committed suicide at Fair
field, ILL.,, on Saturday by jumping
into well, after strapping his hands
securely together. Bad health is
given as the cause.
A young man about thirty, giving
his name as W. B. Nichols, who had
been loafing about Pelzer, Spartan
burg county, was tried for vagrancy
on Friday by magistrate and sent
to the chaingang for 80 days.
The contract for the Abbeville high
school building, which is to have
eight class rooms, has been let to
Mr.. Jordan, of Greenville, for s14,-
800. This does not include the
heating and ventilating system.
F. B. Gibson, persistent blind
tiger, was fined $40 on Monday
for selling liquor, $40 again
on Tuesday morning and $40 again
On Thursday morning Of which
be paid to the city of Columbia.
A telegram from Washington gives
the pleasing intelligence that DR..
VIM. P. Jacobs, of Clinton, who was
so badly hurt by being run over by
carriage, is out of danger and will
soon be well enough to return home.
R. A. Purser, agent of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company at Ches-
ter, was arrested on Friday on the
charge of seducing the young daugh-
ter of Charlotte man under prom
se of marriage. He denies the charge
and gave bond for $3.50 to appear for
trial.
Three alleged blind tigers-two
white and one black-were jailed in
Laurens on Thursday on the charge
If selling liquor. The white men,
W. H. Lanhan and E. A. Parker, have
been running a barber shop at the
Laurens mills, and the. negro, Star
ing Owens, is drayman.
Henry Wyatt, car inspector at Spar
.anburg Junction for the Southern
Railway, was badly crushed by
freight train last week and so much
injured that he died at the hospital
1ext day. He was twenty-seven years
I'D and came from Anderson, where
MS body was sent for burial.
The officials of the Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio railroad state that
hey will be hauling coal over their
inc into Spartanburg by the first of
October, and a passenger service will
De commenced by November 1st. They
are now considering the matter of
:rackage arrangements with the
Southern or Coast Line to Charles
,on, and it is stated that this will be
only temporary, as they will build
heir own line to Charleston at some
ater period.
The State Supreme Court last
heard the case where par
les in Charleston sought an injunc-
lion against holding the dispensary
election, the petitioners being repre-
sented by Holman and Grace, two
Charleston lawyers. The State was
by H. A. M. Smith and