The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-11-15
i'm THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

Men and Happenings.
MIR. William E. Gonzales, of Colum-
bia, United States minister to Cuba,
is now in the United States on a va
cation.
Negro freight handlers of the At
lantic Coast Line at Charleston, went
on strike Monday. That night they
were organized into a union.
Three private soldiers were con-
victed by a jury in the sessions court
of Greenville on Tuesday of the theft
of a Ford automobile from a Green
Vile man.
The construction of the new post
office building at Columbia was be-
gun last week. The building, which
will cost $236, 1000. is to be completed
some time next summer.
There are % white girls in the jail
at Greenville, on charges of vagran-
cy. This would indicate that the
vice conditions there are improving;
but it is said that such is not the
case.
Detachments OF English and
French army officers are to be sent to
Camp Jackson, Columbia, on Decem-
Der 1st for the purpose of giving in
structions to the soldiers on modern
conditions of warfare.
Of the $50 negroes who have been
given army commissions following a
term of training at the training
school for negroes at Fort Des
Moines, Iowa, there are sixteen cred
tied to South Carolina.
More than 10000 New York Ma
tional Guardsmen, stationed at Camp
Wadsworth, Spartanburg, participate
ed in the New York State and NUM-
cipal elections of Tuesday, by voting
| at the camp On MOnudy.
Private John H. Blackman, COM
pany 1, 18th infantry, whose home
is in Society Hill, was killed Tuesday
night by being struck by a train at
Greenville. He was on guard duty
at the railway crossing.
James Parker and his wife, both
white people, were placed in the jail
at Camden Thursday morning charg-
ed with killing Mrs. Rachel Carter, a
white woman about, sixty-five years
of age, who resided on the farm OF
w. H. Tiller, in the West Wateree
section of the county.
There will be a State convention
of the Red Cross in Columbia on No
vember 20 and 21. Prominent speak
ers from this and other States are
expected. Delegates to the number
of 800 to 500 from the various Red
Cross chapters of the State will be
present.
Perrie Richardson, of Barnwell
was badly injured near that place
last week when his automobile was
struck by a Southern passenger train
on a grade crossing. The automobile
was destroyed. Mr.. Richardson is
now in a hospital in Columbia fol
! treatment.
A touring car occupied by six peo
pie was hit by a passenger train Of
the Columbia, Newberry and Lau
rens Railroad Thursday morning Al
a crossing just North of 1rmo anc
was practically demolished. All the
occupants, four women and two chill
dren. were injured, two of them
seriously.
Lawrence league, aged Is years
one of the youngest soldiers in the
military service of the country, il
seeking to secure his discharge from
one of the North Carolina companies
stationed at Camp Sewer, Greenville
He is using the habeas corpus pro
ceedings on the ground that he wa:
not IS years of age when he enlisted
and did not have the consent of hi
parents.