The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-03-15
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
acknowledgements About
Men and Happenings.

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James NJ. Baker, of South Caro-
lima, was on Tuesday reelected secre-
tary of the United States senate.
Considerable damage to property
was done by cyclone which encir-
cled the southern and western sides
of Calhoun county Sunday afternoon.
D. M. Dentsdale, a white man, is
in jail at Lexington, charged with
having ordered and received two gal
Ions of liquor in the same month.
An unknown negro about 65 years
of age, was run over and killed by a
Southern railway work train on the
Southern trestle between Kingville
and Camden, Tuesday.
Bachman Langford, aged 36, a
prosperous farmer Of the Blythewood
section of Richland county, commit
ted suicide Friday, by shooting him
self in the breast with shotgun.
The store of R. S. Calhoun, at Bal
doc, Barnwell county, was recently
broken into and robbed. His safe
was opened and robbed of about 500
and a quantity of merchandise taken.
Governor Manning has paroled c.
w. Powers, of Marlboro county, who
was serving a five year sentence in
the penitentiary for killing Tom
Wright. Powers is said to be in bad
health.
A number of Lexington county far
mers have organized a peanut club.
Members of the club will plant the
Spanish variety, said to be the oest
peanut for marketing and also the
best for yields.
Governor Manning has appointed
H. E. Thompson, of Columbia; S. R.
Dendy, Of Walhalla, and S. E. Welch,
of Charleston, members of the board
of commissioners of the Confederate
infirmary in Columbia.
Governor Manning has granted a
parole to William NJ. Reardon, who
was convicted of murder in Edgefeld
county and sentenced to life impris-
onment, which sentence the governor
later comrnuted to ten years. ),
Walter A. Simmons is in a critical
condition at the Baptist hospital in
Columbia, suffering from injuries re-
ceived Tuesday at Barre, Lexington
county, when telephone pole on
which he was working broke and fell.
About $4,000 old cans were col
lected in Orangeburg last week as the
result of a cleanup campaign inaugu-
rated in that city. Boys and girls
were given free ticket to the NOV
ing picture show for every twenty
cans they collected-hence the large
pile of cans.
The round house, shops, gas-elec-
trio motor car, drill presses, laths,
tools and miscellaneous supplies of
the Blue Ridge railway at Anderson,
were destroyed by fire early Thurs
day morning. The total loss amounts
to about $4,000, with comparative
ly little insurance.
Two brothers, H. and ]. Graham,
of Charleston, are under arrest in
that city, charged with the theft OF
codeine and morphine from drug
stores. Both of the Grahams admit
ted the theft of the drugs and de-
clared that they had to have the
dope" and were without money.
w. B. Hoover plead guilty in the
federal court at Florence, Thursday
to the charge of operating an illicit
still. He plead for mercy on the
ground that he was the father OF
thirteen children, nine living, and
that he had no other means of OBJ
tanning whiskey, which the doctor
said his wife must have.
AS Congressman J. Willard Rags
dale, of the Sixth South Carolina dis
trict, was returning from the capitol
in Washington, about 1 o'clock Sun
day morning with Chairman Flood,
of the house foreign affairs commit
tee, in an automobile, their machine
was run into by a taxicab and Mr..
Flood was badly cut about the head
by flying glass. Mr.. Ragsdale was
shaken up considerably but was un-
injured.
Charlie Turner, white man, was
acquitted in the Clarendon county
court of general sessions last week
of killing his neighbor, Bud Berry.
Turner heard noise in the rear OF