The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-10-26
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Winthrop college students, one
thousand strong, will be at the State
fair Friday.
2O-year-old negro girl was struck
/ by an interurban train at Honea Path
Thursday and was killed.
Wesley Wilson, aged 55, of Sum-
ter, was run over and instantly killed
by an Atlantic Coast Line train Sat-
urday.
Construction work on Columbia S
new postoffice will begin about Janu-
ary /. The building will cost about
s265,OOO.
The annual football game between
the University of South Carolina and
Clemson college is to be played in Co.
lumbia Thursday.
Alvin P. Goldsmith, of Greenville,
was acquitted in the United States
court in Richmond, Va, last week OF
the charge of white slavery.
A stranger euchered a Columbia
firm of cotton-buyers out of 500 sew
eral days ago on a fraudulent bill of
lading for cotton alleged to have been
shipped from Wedgefeld.
The president of the South Caro-
lima Press association has issued a
call for special meeting to be held
in Columbia next Friday. to discuss
the white paper situation.
John Williams, a 4-year-old negro
boy of Inman, Spartanburg county,
was killed Friday by the accidental
discharge of a gun in the hands OF
his seven-year-old brother.
The Marlboro Advocate says that
another train load of negroes, about
40, left there Monday night for the
North. The Pennsylvania railroad
furnished them with tickets.
Elliott Mcmillan, of Congaree, aged
II, disappeared from Columbia the
night Ringling's circus left there, and
has not been heard from since. His
parents believe he went off with the
circus.
Official authorization for the train
ing in military science of students in
sixteen of the country's leading uni
versities, including Clemson college,
was given |by the war department.
Tuesday.
Columbia policemen found half a
case of dynamite near the abandoned
Richland distillery in Columbia, Mon
day night. 1t is believed that a gang
of yeggmen are making Columbia
their headquarters.
Mrs. L. C. Jarnigan, of Greenvllle,
ager 79, returning from church Sun
day night, was run over and killed by
an automobile driven by persons un-
known. They did not stop to see
what injury they had done.
Ejectment papers have been served
on occupants of operatives houses in
| the Gluck and the Equitable cotton
| mills in Anderson. The occupants
had been asked to vacate, but re-
| fused. They are on strike.
Wilson Humboldt, Greenville ne
gro, risked his life in that city Mon
day, when he ran into the street and
stopped a runaway team. He was
commended for his act by Chief Cos
nell, of the Greenville rural police.
Mai. Frank w. Glenn, recently ap-
pointed property and disbursing Of
ficer for the South Carolina National
Guard, has qualified for his new
| work and furnished satisfactory bond
in the sum of $4,000 His Office is
in Columbia.
A. Y. Willis, postal clerk, was pain
fully hurt, as were several other pas
sengers and train employees, when an
Atlantic Coast Line passenger train
collided with some box cars in the
yards at Registers, near Columbia, on
Sunday night.
A man named S. A. Smith sued the
G.. & w. G. road in Greenville last
week for 81 900 damages because the
engine struck him while he was sit
ting on the end of crosstie near
Fountain Inn. The jury gave their
verdict for the road.
J. D. Smith, aged 80, of Spartan
burg, has been bound over to federal
court on the charge of violating the
Mann white slave act. Smith is
charged with taking a sixteen-year-
old girl to Asheville, N. c., for i'm
moral purposes.
jamie Terry, of West Greenville,
sued the Coco-Cola Bottling company,
ne Croonvi11e for S5 600 hecause q