The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-01-17
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

Major David L. Sinkler, who has
been city assessor in Charleston for
the past twenty-five years, was de-
feated last week by w. Aiken Rhett.
There is a bill before the house
to designate chickens as animals. The
object of the bill is to make the own
ers of trespassing chickens subject to
damage.
A bill to require that the salaries
of special judges be paid out of the
salaries of the judges for whom they
serve has been killed in the house by
a narrow vote.
Ex-President William H. Taft is
expected to visit Camp Jackson on
the 2Sth of this month, when he will
be asked to deliver an address to
some of the soldiers.
Nine cases of meningitis we're dis
covered last week at the naval train
ing station at Charleston and an cpl
demic of the disease is feared by the
men in charge of the situation.
In the court of general sessions for
Richland county last week Judge
Memminger, who presided, sentenc-
ed twenty men to the chain gang
and penitentiary, probably record
for a week.
John R. Tolbert, for many years
Leader of the Republican party in
South Carolina and once collector of
customs at Charleston, died at his
home at Ninety-Six, in Greenwood
county last Thursday, aged S4 years.
Mrs. Charles Ligon and little
daughter, of Cherokee Falls, in Cher
okee county, were both burned to
death at their home last week. There
was fire in the yard and the child's
clothing cought from that. The mo-
ther rushed to the rescue and both
we're so terribly burned that death
ensued.
Oscar Cook, Richland negro, was
sentenced by Judge Memminger last
week to serve ten years for stealing
chickens. The evidence showed that
the negro had stolen the chickens
from a small house that was within
statutory distance Of residence. The
law provides sentence of life i'm
prisonment; but the jury recommend
ed mercy.
The following members of the
house of representatives were absent
from the first roll call, being in the
service of their country: L. B. Har-
rison, Spartanburg; A. w. Horton,
Spartanburg; M. C.. Lumpkin, Co.
lumbia; E. P. Passaillaigue, Char
lesion; w. R. Richey, Jr., Laurens;
H. L. Smith, Jr., Georgetown, and
E. M. Whaley, Charleston.
Chris BIanding, negro from An
derson county, was recently arrested
there and carried back to Detroit,
from which place he had escaped, and
was tried on the charge of having
| murdered Belgian woman there. He
confessed to cutting her throat from
ear to ear and was sentenced to life
Imprisonment, Michigan having abol-
ished capital punishment.
The first selective draft in South
Carolina cost the government $751;
96S.76, according to announcement
of the provost marshal general. Of
this amount s2S,221 was paid to
members of exemption boards, $685.
1920 was paid employees of the
boards, $9SO.S0 was expended for
physical examinations, s1,0S3.37 for
travel, and s4,069.91 for supplies.
The State revenue for 1918 from
taxes is estimated by Carlton w.
Sawyer, comptroller general, in his
annual report at s2,716,922.76, bas-
ed on the present rate of 8 IL mills
on the present assessment of $319,-
637,972. With estimated income
from other sources than taxes OF
1850, the total estimated reve-
| nue. is s3,O67,972.76. Of taxes
amounting to s2,716,922.76 levied in
1917, only s566,615.63 was paid by
the last of the year, the comptroller
| general says.
A bill containing the following pro-
vision was introduced in the senate
! last Friday: "It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, corporation, or
company to transport or convey, to
sell or offer for sale or manufacture
essence or tincture commonly known
as Jamaica ginger within this State.