The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-07-29
In THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Men and Happenings.
Work on improvements which will
cost S150,000, have been begun at
the State Hispital for the Insane in
Columbia.
R. B. Belser has been elected to
the house of representatives from
Sumter county, to succeed Hon. Geo.
w. Dick, resigned.
Kim Hopkins, colored, was arrest
ed in Columbia Friday, charged with
the theft of s4O0 from w. NJ. Woods,
of that place. More than $500 of the
money was recovered by the police.
Governor Manning has written
each of the fifteen governors of the
Southern States inviting them to at
tend the session of the Southern Com
mercial congress at Charleston in De-
cember.
At the meeting OF the South Caro-
lima Sheriffs' association in Green
vile last week. it was decided to
erect a monument to the memory of
the late Sheriff Adam D. HOOD, OF
Fairfield.
| Lee Fraser has been committed to
jail in Edgefeld, charged with the
killing of Norman Mayson, near Tren-
ton. 1t is alleged the dead man
struck Fraser with an iron rod,
whereupon Fraser shot him.
Jessie R. Robinson, aged 26, work
ing as lineman at Greenville, was
killed Monday afternoon when he
came in contact with two wires car
rying 1890 volts. All efforts at re-
suscitation were unavailing.
superintendent Williams of the
State Hospital for the Insane, has
appointed Rev. ]. NJ. Pike, formerly
editor of the Way of Faith, chaplain
of the State Hospital for the Insane.
The position pays $50 per month.
Policeman Whitworth, of Richland
county, returned from Oklahoma
City, Okla, to Columbia Thursday
night, bringing with him S. S. Cook, a
former member of the Columbia fire
department, who is charged with is
suing checks when he had no money
in the bank.
Plans and specifications for the
light draft lighthouse tender Palmet-
to for use in the sixth lighthouse dis
trict, with headquarters at Charles
ton, have been completed and will
be sent to bidders this week. The
vessel when completed will be one
of the finest in the service.
C.. Zaglin, who conducts a fruit
store in Greenville, plead guilty to
storing and selling whiskey last
week. He will lose his license to do
business in that city and is the first
person to lose his license under the
ordinance which forever bars from
business in that city those who are
convicted of selling liquor.
The mayor of Mt Pleasant has re-
quested the governor to reopen the
Mt. Pleasant dispensary, which was
closed during the encampment of
militia there. The reason assigned
is that the militiamen go to Charles
ton and get their whiskey, and that
the closing of the dispensary does not
prevent them from buying intoxi-
cants.
At the injunction proceedings in
Laurens last week ]. Fraser Lyon
appeared as special counsel for the
commission. The attorney general
objected to the appearance of Mr..
Lyon. on the ground that the attor-
ney general had not been consulted
as to the employment of Mr.. Lyon.
The court sustained the objection,
and Mr.. Lyon took no further part
in the proceedings.
The State board of health in ses-
sion in Columbia last week, voted to
extend an invitation for the national
association for the study of pellagra
to meet there. 1t was indicated at
the session that the board felt as
sured this invitation would be ac-
cepted and the conference held later
in the summer. DR.. Robert Wilson,
of Charleston. chairman of the board,
and DR.. James A. Hayne. secretary,
were named as committee to pre-
pare for the meeting.
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