The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-06-01
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 South Carolina Goods Roads
association will meet in Spartanburg
in August.
Tom Staley, colored, was arrested
in Anderson on Tuesday on the
charge of poisoning his wife.
The Bank of Mountville, at Mount
vile, Laurens county, has been COM
missioned, with a capital of $685.
900.
J. w. H. Dukes, who has been
mayor of Orangeburg for several
terms, has announced that he will
not be a candidate for reelection.
Plans are on foot for the building
of a new dormitory for Wofford COL
lege, Spartanburg, to have rs or 80
rooms and to cost $4,000 to $780,
900.
A verdict of $500 was given Man.
ming Williams by a .Spartanburg
jury on Tuesday against the Pauline
oil mill for the loss of three fingers
while working in the mill. He sued
for $1,000.
Orangeburg is the next place in
South Carolina to get postal sav-
ings bank, the order to this effect
having been issued last week oy the
postmaster general.
G. G. Holman, a young white man,
shot and killed Mike Suash, colored,
at Ridge Spring on Tuesday. 1t is
said the negro was advancing on the
white man with a pistol when he was
shot.
The city of Orangeburg has already
paved a good portion of it's business
street with vitrifed brick, and now
it is proposed to extend the paving
to the Southern passenger station,
which will be done shortly.
The two-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. H. Peace, of Greenville, died
Friday from drinking carbolic acid,
having drank the contents of a bot
tie obtained from a bureau drawer
without the knowledge of the moth
er.
Mrs. James Snow, of Reidville,
Spartanburg county, committed sui
eide on Tuesday by taking enough
Paris green to kill three hundred
persons. She had become despond-
ent because of long suffering with
rheumatism.
Ernest Feaster was killed on Sat-
urday at Leeds, Chester county, by
Arthur Brown-both colored. Brown
cut Feaster's jugular vein with a
knife, causing him to bleed to death
in a few minutes. The cause of the
trouble was a trifle.
Fourteen prisoners were released
from the State penitentiary Monday,
all being pardoned or paroled by the
governor. Twelve of these were re-
leased on the advice of the prison
physician, and the other two were
turned loose out of the kindness of
heart possibly of the chief executive.
The fve-year-old daughter of Con-
gresham Legare was killed on Fri
day at the home of neighbor by
the falling of a large flower jar upon
her. MIR. Legare got home from
Washington just about the time the
child died, not knowing of the acci-
dent that had befallen his little
daughter.
w. T. Jones, the wealthy white
man of Union, convicted of murder
ing his wife and sentenced to a life
sentence in the penitentiary, has is
sued statement saying that he will
submit to the sentence without delay,
duu WILL UcSIu W oOl . AAo 0NASSAA>S
this week. He stated that as he was
innocent he used every means to be
relieved of the sentence, but as the
courts had decided against him and
the governor had declined to inter-
fere, he would enter upon his SEN
tence. Jones has been confined in
Jail at Union ever since his convic-
ton.
George Nichols, a white man of
Illinois, was convicted at Lexington
a short time ago, along with three
negroes, of the murder of Paul Will
liams, young white man of Colum-
bia. The killing occurred on the cir
Gus train of the Hagenbeck-Wallace
shows between Columbia and Au-
gusta. Nichols and the negroes were
with the circus as employees. His
relatives are now endeavoring to OBJ
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