The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-11-27
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Joseph Summers was arrested in
Columbia Wednesday for trying to
pass a forged check for s45 on the
Bank of Columbia.
A ten-year-old negro boy while
playing in a room filled with seed
cotton, near Lamar Tuesday, was
caught by cave-in and smothered
to death.
Thirteen freight cars of through
train, running 25 miles an hour,
jumped the track on the Coast Line
near Kingstree on Tuesday and were
completely wrecked.
The statement that Chas. H. Hen
ry, late of Spartanburg, now Of At
lanta, intends to start an evening
paper in Greenville is denied by his
relatives in Spartanburg.
A number Of game wardens have
recently been appointed by the gov
ernor, for various counties of the
State. Let us hope the game and
fish laws will be enforced.
York county officers captured 60
gallon still between Hickory Grove
and Smyrna on Thursday and de-
stroyed 400 gallons of mash The
operators of the still made their es-
cape.
Frank Dukes is in jail in Barnwell
charged with the murder of Nose
Priester, both colored, Saturday
night. Priester was shot in the back
with a shotgun and his skull was
crushed with a club.
Josh and Jesse Jones, colored,
brothers, got into fight in Mari
boro county Saturday night over
money matters, when Jesse struck
Josh in the eye with a scantling,
from which he died on Tuesday.
The dead body of Duncan M. Car
michael, a young man of prominence,
was found by the track of the Coast
Line road near Florence Thursday
morning to have been
killed by a train Tuesday night. A
bottle of whiskey was found near the
body.
Consent verdicts to the amount OF
S32,225 were taken at Chester court
on Thursday against the Lancaster &
Chester railroad in damage suits
growing out of the wreck at Hoop
ers creek July Goth last. A large
number of other suits are still on the
docket.
J. L. Finch, an electric lineman,
was painfully injured at Clinton Mon
day. He was standing on a raised
ladder about twenty feet from the
ground and touched live wire. He
was knocked to the ground and con-
siderably bruised, his right hip be-
ing fractured.
Four mules, horse, farm imple-
ments, forage, grain, etc., were burn
ed in a fire that destroyed the barn
of w. H. McDade near Sandy
Springs, Friday in Anderson county.
The total loss is about $4,000, with
$500 insurance. 1t is not known
how the fire originated.
Miss Mary Mood attempted suicide
in Spartanburg Sunday night. She
inflicted an ugly wound on her left
wrist with pair of scissors and lost
considerable blood, but she will re-
cover. She lived at her home alone
and had recently been i'll, and lone
illness and dependency caused the
act no doubt.
D. J. Griffith, superintendent of
the penitentiary said Saturday tnat
the chair factory would very probab-
ly begin operation this week. The
factory will be located In the build
ing formerly occupied by the hosiery
mill. The building will be placed in
sanitary condition under the direc-
ton of DR.. J. A. Hayne, State health
officer. Superintendent Griffith said
Saturday that A. D. Martin who is
to act as selling agent for the chair
factory, would arrive in Columbia
this week from Frankfort, KY.
Over 100 convicts will be put to work
in the mill.