The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-11-30
lin THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragra About
Men and Happenings.

The Easley, Alice and Glenwood
cotton mills of Easley have granted
a ten per cent. increase in wages to
their employees.
John Dewberry, a. 17-year-old white
boy of Cowpens, was caught under
an automobile which he was driving
Sunday, and was killed.
Trustees of the South Carolina
Medical college at Charleston, have
decided that hereafter women may be
admitted to the institution.
The governor has appointed R. B.
Epting, of Greenwood, member of
the board of visitors of the State Hos
pital for the Insane, to succeed DR..
G. A. Neuffeur, resigned.
Wade Morgan, a negro, was shot
and killed at hot supper in Green
wood county Saturday night by CAL
lison and Ivy Harrison, negroes, who
escaped following the shooting.
Because the railway refused to re-
instate five discharged motormen, a
strike of all motormen employed on
the South Carolina line of the Pied
mont & Northern railroad has been
ordered.
Carey Jones, negro who is want
ed in Mountville, Laurens county, for
killing William Martin, a negro fif-
teen years ago, has been arrested in
Washington, where he was working
as a blacksmith.
The United States census bureau
on Friday made public figures show
ing the population of the States to
January 1917. South Carolina in
creased from 1,6O7,745 to 1,6S4,34O
on January l, next.
Seventeen pieces of property were
sold under the hammer at the Char
lesion real estate exchange Thursday
morning, bringing a total sum of
nearly 100000, this being the rec
ord for the year in that city in the
disposition of comparatively small
lots.
A party of autoists travelling near
Dillon had a narrow escape from
death Thursday when their car was
struck by an Atlantic Coast Line
freight train. All escaped from the
accident with no more injury than
severe shock. The train was pro-
ceeding slowly and the car was but
little damaged.
John Harris, negro, has been
arrested in Easley, charged with the
theft of a quantity of general mer-
chandise from Robinson & Thornton,
of Easley. He has been entering
and stealing from the store at inter-
walls since September, taking small
amount of goods each time. He con-
fessed his crime.
Enoch Adams, colored, employed
on the night shift at the Cheraw oil
mill, was smothered to death last
Thursday morning by cotton seed
falling on him. There were no wit
nesses to the accident, but the most
plausible theory is that while push
ing. seed from the funnel to the
trough he went to sleep.
A Newberry county jury recently
awarded w. J. Hentz s3,250 damages
against the Parr Shoals Power COM
pany. Mr.. Hentz sued for $4,000
damages by reason of back water
caused by the Parr Shoals dam and
alleged also that his home was. rem
dered less desirable on account of
the dam and back water.
Three persons were injured Fri
day near Greenville, when a passen-
ger coach of an outgoing train fell
from trestle and was smashed when
it struck the ground some thirty feet
below. The rear car of the train
jumped the track before reaching the
trestle. This car, however, did not
fall. The middle car was tilted and
it fell from the trestle. The engine
did not leave the rail.