The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-06-21
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

NlSillSOl COllSSc o"dtutU llO III
plomas this year: Commencement ex-
excises began Sunday and concluded
Tuesday.
Jerry Dix, negro man, and one of
his young children. were killed by
lightning near Cameron Wednesday
afternoon
Fred E. Rochester. private in Co.
E, First regiment, S. C. n. G., died
in Columbia hospital Friday of
ptomaine poisoning.
Will Gilliard, serving a two-year
sentence on the Anderson county
chain gang for forgery, made good
his escape last week.
Ninety-fve students received de-
grees from the University of South
Carolina, Columbia. at the closing
exercises last Wednesday.
Ten white women between the ages
of i and 20 are incarcerated in the
Greenville county Jail. Most of them
are charged with vagrancy.
A flag was raised over the Cowpens
battle-ground monument in Cherokee
county Thursday unnder the auspices
Of the Gaffney chapter D. A. R.
J. Martin fell out of second story
window of house in Charleston
Sunday night and received injuries
from which he died later in hos
pital.
\. c. Mann has resigned as magis-
trate of Union township which in
cludes the town of Union. He will be-
come associated with a law firm in
Greenville
The Methodist congregation of
Conway, Horny county, has recently
completed handsome parsonage
which is now occupied by the pastor,
Rev. E. l.. Mccoy.
Lester Taylor, aged II, of Fair For
est, Spartanburg county, was killed
Friday afternoon in the cake room
of the Fair Forest oil mill when a
stack of cakes fell on him.
Christian w. Muller, a Charleston
grocer, said to have been born in
Germany, committed suicide by
drowning himself in lake near
Asheville, N. C. He was SO years
old.
Capt. Robert C. Hayward, of Pei
zer has been promoted to the rank of
major Of the first regiment S. c. n.
G. He succeeds T. B. Spratt, who
was appointed lieutenant colonel
some time ago.
Lampley Whisenant, salesman for
the W. D. Arthur company, was Sc
riouly injured and Albert Reid, ne
gro driver was killed near Lockhart,
Tuesday morning when the heavy
truck in which they were riding
crashed into a 15-foot ditch.
An unknown negro attempted
assault upon young white woman
living near Easley last Tuesday af-
ternoon. The negro has not been
captured. The negro is said to have
been coal black and to have weighed
abour 175 pounds. He wore a black
suit and a black slouch hat.
Alester G.. Furman, of Greenvllle,
was reelected president of the South
Carolina Underwriters association at :
the annual meeting in Charleston
last week. L. NJ. Pinckney, of Char
lesion, was elected vice president,
and Simpson F. Cannon, of Spartan
burg. was elected secretary and treas
urer, succeeding Sam NJ. Grist, OF
Yorkville.
Paul Heymann, receiver of the K.
NJ. Rose company, an interstate liquor
concern. we'll known to many people
of this section, has filed petition in
federal court in Chattanooga. seek
ing to wind up the affairs of the r.
NJ. Rose company, Florida a corpora
ton. as bankrupt. The liabilities or
the Florida concern were placed at
s263.623. and the assets at s3o2,623,
much of which, it was said. is stock
of other bankrupt concerns.
Tie Columbia canal property under
the act of the last legislature re-
verted to the State Monday when the
canal commission appointed by the
last legislature declined another prop
position from the Robertson inter-
ests. The ninety days allowed by
the act under which an agreement
might be reached having expired
Monday. the act automatically de-
clares the title IN the State. Inc
property is valued at s3.oOO.O0O. The