The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

At meeting OF the StdLe DOdFu VI
canvassers, held in Columbia last Fri
day, the protest from Aiken county
as to the recent dispensary election
was thrown out, and the dispensaries
in that county are now open.
Columbia is making efforts to in
duce the Carolina, Clinchfield and
Ohio Railroad to come to that city.
A meeting of the citizens was held
last Thursday for the purpose of TAX
ing some definite action to this end.
A committee will go to New York at
once and present Columbia's claims
to the officials of the road.
Mr.. Andrew, S. Byrd, who is con-
stable for Magistrate Dukes at
Branchville, was tried at Orangeburg
last week on the charge Of murder.
Mr.. Byrd killed notorious negro
desperate named Rowe in Branch
Vile few months ago. At the con-
clusion of the testimony the judge
ordered the jury to return a verdict
of not guilty.
he Holly Hill dispensary was
broken into and robbed last Wednes-
day night. The dispenser estimates
that between $400 and $500 worth
of whiskey was stolen. No clue has
been found to the robbers. Holly
Hill recently voted out the dispen-
sary by a vote of 103 to Z. The
thieves evidently concluded that it
would be we'll for them to lay in a
supply.
On the recommendation of Chief
Justice Jones, Governor Ansel has ap-
pointed Mr.. Ernest Moore, of the
Lancaster bar, to serve the remainder
of the year on the sixth circuit in
place of Judge Prince, of Anderson,
who is still so broken in health that
he feels that he will be unable to go
on the bench this year. The sixth
circuit is composed of the counties of
York, Chester, Lancaster and Fair
field.
The Camden Water, Light, and Ice
Company, a private corporation, has
surrendered it's light franchise to the
city and has notified the mayor and
members of council of Camden that
they will shut down their electric
light plant on the 18th of this month.
No reason is assigned for their ac-
tion in their letter of notification to
the mayor, so we do not know what
the trouble is. The plant is owned
by a Northerner.
Sheriff.. H. Corley, of Lexington,
captured L. A. Stuckman, a negro, in
Savannah last week. The negro is
wanted in that county on the charge
of murder, committed February 16,
1899, more than ten years ago.
Stuckman shot and killed Nancy De-
Wis, a negro woman, at hot supper
at saw mill near Lexington. He
made his escape Immediately after
the killing, and although he has been
hunted for ten years, it was only last
week that the sheriff succeeded in
capturing him.
The board of trustees of Columbia
College held a meeting in Columbia
last Friday and decided to accept the
offer to lease the Colonia, Colum-
bias tourist hotel, for the use of the
college this fall and until the college
can be rebuilt. This building was
the old college, which has been en-
larged and improved and turned into
a modern hotel for tourists. They
also decided to rebuild the college,
and plans for the building are al.
ready being prepared and the work of
raising funds going on.
Magistrate J. T. Easterling and his
constab BILE, J. D. Dunaway, were tried
in the Richland court last week on
the charge of malfeasance in office.
The two officers were tried on the
charge of conspiring to extort money
from a negro man, who was charged
with sending an obscene letter to a
negro girl, in that they asked the
negro for s28 as settlement and that
they compromised with the prosecut-
ing witness, the mother of the girl,
giving her only Sc of the amount
and appropriating the remaining
$22. They were acquitted.
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