The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-10-19
IN THE PALhETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

ter county, quarreled with his wife
Sunday afternoon and later killed her
with table leg.
T. Frank Sellers, a lineman, was
badly burned when he touched live
wire on pole on which he was work.
ing near Cheraw.
Eighty persons were tried before
the city recorder of Columbia OH va
rious charges Monday morning. More
than s4OO in fines were collected.
J. Frank Stewart, an employee of
the Southern Cotton Oil company in
Chester, is in a Chester hospital suf-
fering with a badly lacerated hand.
Congressman A. F. Lever, of the
Seventh South Carolina district, is in
the West speaking in the interest of
the candidacy of President Wilson
for reelection.
In a third primary held in Abbe-
vile county Tuesday, DR.. G. A. Neuf-
feur was elected to the house of rep
resentatives, defeating Sam Adams
by thirty-eight votes.
The recorder of Spartanburg on
Friday fined Jasper Sanders SIS for
strapping a few weeks old calf over
the handle bars of his bicycle while
enroute to a slaughter pen with the
animal.
The town of Orangeburg proposes
to organize a cooperative creamery,
farmers and business men of the
town and community having pledged
themselves to purchase $4,000 stock
in the enterprise.
Walter Jackson, colored, is in the
State penitentiary for safe keeping
following his arrest on the charge OF
attempting criminal assault upon a
prominent white woman of Orange
burg, Saturday night.
Boyce R. Wolff, son of J. H. Wolff,
a we'll known citizen of Laurens coun-
ty, was shot and killed in Missi$sip-
pi, last week. The particulars are
not known. Mr.. Wolff was gradu-
ate of Clemson college.
A bridge across Middle Tiger river
near Duncan, Spartanburg county,
fell Thursday while. a wagon team
and nine linemen of the Postal Tele-
graph company were crossing. No
one was seriously injured.
The Charleston county grand jury
has brought in a true bill against the
Southern Express company and p. P
Berry, charging delivery of contra
band liquor and handling of contra
band liquor in the night time.
Ed Johnson, a lineman in the en-
ploy of the Southern Bell Telephone
company at Aiken, was killed Tues
day afternoon when a pole on which
he was working broke near the
ground and fell, crushing him to
death.
J. D. Tilyou, young man, mem
Der of a we'll known Florence family
is under arrest in Columbia charged
with passing counterfeit money. 1t
is alleged that he passed two coun'
terfeit specie dollars on Columbia
storekeepers.
Sam Underwood, aged 1S, of Salu'
da, was instantly killed "Wednesday
afternoon when he was run over by
Southern train No. 38 at a grade
crossing. The two mules which ne
was driving to a wagon load of sand
were also killed.
Miss Anne Rosette Shelton, of Mo-
bile. Ala., kindergarten teacher in the
Wesley House school in Spartanburg
died Thursday afternoon as a result
of burns received September 29
when she overturned an alcohol lamp
She was "a years of age.
Patrick Quinn, for a number Of
years a policeman of Charleston, died
Sunday. He was defendant in one
of the cases growing out of the kill
ing of Sidney Cohen, newspaper re-
porter, during the riots following the
municipal election in Charleston in
the spring.
w. R. Reid, E. NJ. Martin, Lee
Hamilton and w. R. Keith were in
iured Thursday when their automo
bile turned turtle a few miles NORTH
of Greenwood. Fred Summers, the
fifth member of the car was uninjur
ed and managed to lift the machine
off the others. The party were or
their way from Chappels to Anderson
Governor Manning has revoked the
commissions of w. F. Meyers, of Co
lumbia, H. H. Mobley, Columbia