The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-02-18
IN THE PALMETTO STATE

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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Rcading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
1t is said that the general assem-
bly, will adjourn Saturday of this
week.
The State Sunday-school conven-
ton is in session in Orangeburg this
week.
The Senate has passed bill pro-
viding that no bank can be organized
with less than a capital of $4,000.
Four negroes escaped from the
Walterboro Jail Monday evening Of
last week and have not been captur-
ed. The remaining three confined in
jail refused to go with those who
escaped, preferring to remain.
The opponents of the Statewide
prohibition bill in the house of rep
resentatives are fllibustering this
week in order to prevent a vote on
the measure, and it is likely that
they will succeed in preventing a
vote on the bill at this session.
Monday the State Senate killed the
bill offered by Senator Otis provid-
ing for an investigation this summer
of the various county dispensaries.
Those opposing the bill say the State
dispensary auditor is authorized to
make any necessary investigation.
The general assembly has been in
session nearly forty days, and little
of Importance has been accomplish
ed. There will be no prohibition bill
pasesd at this session, and it seems
that the lien law will stand as it
Is. Neither of these bills have ever
come to vote.
Charles Kessler, a white boy, was
seriously injured in Spartanburg
Monday night while attempting to
board a freight train. He fell be-
tween the cars and was horribly
crushed. He was taken to hospital
and one leg amputated. He may die
from his injuries.
A dredging company is at work in
Charleston to raise the remains OF
the wreck of the Housatonic, an old
wooden cruiser sunk by 'torpedoes' in
the harbor in the war between the
States. A part of the wreck was re-
moved some years ago, but now the
work is to be completed.
Two white prisoners named Ben
Schwab and Clarence Davis, who re-
Gently escaped from the Charleston
county Jail by fling the bars of their
steel cage and the window bars and
scaling a seventeen foot wall, have
been captured in Atlanta. Schwab
is held for burglary and Davis for
arson.
The supervisor of Spartanburg
county will build one or more
bridges of concrete in order to test
this material for bridge building,
and if it proves satisfactory, con-
crete will displace steel in bridge
building in that county. Concrete
bridges are said to give excellent SER
vice and Withstand freshets.
The cornerstone of the Lancaster
county monument to the Confederate
veterans was laid at Lancaster last
Monday. Can't Bamberg do as we'll
as Lancaster in this matter? Most
counties in the State have erected
monuments to the Confederate dead,
and we should not be behind in the
matter of honoring these heroes.
A white man, patient at the Roper
hospital in Charleston, escaped one
night recently by squeezing through
a window pane, and about 3 o'clock
appeared before the keeper OF the
river bridge absolutely naked. The
keeper at first thought he was up
against a sure enough ghost propo-
sition, but he had nerve enough to
Investigate and find out his mistake
and the unfortunate man was carried
back to the hospital.
Last Thursday the general assem-
bly, broke the dead lock in the matter
of electing an associate justice for
the State Supreme Court. Numerous
ballots had been taken without an
election, and for several days before
the election the number of candidates
had been reduced to three: Circuit
Judge D. E. Hydrick, of Spartan
burg; Jno. C. Sheppard, of Edgefeld,
and T. P. Cothran, of Greenville.
Finally Sheppard withdrew and Hy-
drick was elected over Cothran.
This makes a vacancy as circuit
Judge which will have to be filled by
the present general assembly.
Girl Killed by Train.
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