The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-05-17
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

The Spartanburg Canning and Pre-
serving company has been chartered
with a capital of $3,100.
John White, a negro fireman, was
accidentally killed in the Atlantic
Coast Line yards at Florence early
Thursday morning.
Four negro convicts on the Flor
ence county chaingang, made their
escape last Friday night and have not
been recaptured.
The Moore Flour Mill company, of
Greenville. has been commissioned
with a capital of $4,000. Self-ris-
ing -four is to be manufactured.
Douglass Pruitt, colored, was chok-
ed to death by David Lee, also color
ed, following a quarrel in Union, Sun
day morning. Lee is under arrest.
Yeggmen entered three stores in
GEORGETOWN Wednesday night and
made their getaway with a large
amount of merchandise and small
amount of cash.
An epidemic of hydrophobia has
been prevalent among dogs in Ben
nettsville. for several days past. and
a number of fine animals have been
l.,
Persons ordering whiskeyln South
Carolina, under the quart-a-month
law, must state the brand. according
to a ruling by Assistant Attorney
General Claude \. Sapp.
Elliott Springs, of Lancaster, has
been commissioned first lieutenant
in the United States aviation corps.
For several years past he has been
student al Princeton university.
Gen. B. H. league, of Aiken, COM
mander of the South Carolina diVl-
sion United Confederate Veterans,
has announced that the Confederate
reunion for 1918 will be held at
Abbeville.
w. ]. Deese, a young white man.
and three negroes, were arrested at
Wedgefeld, last Saturday on susplc''
ion. Deese carried divining rod
and compass. He said he was search
ing for buried gold.
A number of COWS belonging to
residents of Columbia and surburos
have been stolen during the past sew
eral weeks and police believe that
there is an organized band of cattle
thieves working in the community.
Governor Manning has been ad-
| vised that the French commission
touring the United States will not
come South and hence will not visit
South Carolina. The British COM
mission has not yet determined
whether or not it will come this way
Elliot Robinson, negro. was ar
rested in Aiken last week on the
charge of enticing labor from the
State. He is in Jail in default OF a
$4,000 bond. 1t is estimated that
500 negroes have left Aiken for
| Northern cities within the past few
weeks
]. A. kalb, of Augusta, Ga. has
been awarded a contract for the gen.
| eral Improvement of the east wing
Of the main dormitory of the State
Institute for the Deaf. Dumb and
Blind. at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg
county. The cost of the repairing
will be $1,000.
The State board of regents OF the
State asylum acting under an opinion
of the attorney general have authorlz-
ed the asylum management to accept
an insane German who has been IN
the Richland county jail for some
time and an insane Austrian VINO is
in the hands of the Chester county
authorities.
Extra clerks have been appointed
to assist in the work OF registering all
automobiles in the State by the State
highway commission. Up to last
Thursday about 1000 cars had been
registered. The work must be COM
pleted before July /. 1t is estimated
that there are more than 10000 cars
in the State.