The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-20
souTH CAROLINA.


being over $500
SOUTH CAROLINA.
KleckIey & Robinson, colored, who are
partners in a general merchandise nrn at ~
Matthews, are under bond 10 appear az court
for disposing OF crop under lien. Ihcy are
being prosecuted by L. A. McCreerY OF 20
lJm lia, who has also closed up their D.
II is said at the controller general once
that the shortage In the Union county treas
urer's ONCE is due to clerical errors ana ms
takes The officials have no idea that lhere
is any criminal wrong. and think tnat the en-
tire matter can be satisfactorily eNplaheu.
There is a curious character living near
/ Middleton depot. in Sumter county. lie IS
| negro. named Turn Davis, and eats ratIle-
| snakes. He offered a Young man 30 cents Tor
| every rattlesnake he could catch. Davis
eats the snakes that have not bitten them
selves.
Tuesday night the store OF Croker & Mabie,
( at Beaufort. was entered and quantity OF
/ clothing stolen. The tills were broken open,
and even the underwear from the front win
! dOws were taken. This is the third or tourth
/ burglary and larceny committed on stores on
/ Bay street within few weeks.
The papers in the appeal Of the Columbia
/ liquor dealers have been prepared ana nieu
with the supreme court. 1t is very probable
that this case VIII be made the test OF the
/ constitutiOnality OF che dlspensary Jaw ds
the Columbia cases cover more fully IMAM tne
! others every phnse of the fight against the
| law.
/ Inc Two story ROtDlC uWe4luBs COIhCl u
Darlington and Irby streets, in North Flor
ence owned by Miss ). J. Stackley, and oc-
| cupied by r. S. Smith, was burned THURSDAY;
/ The building was valued at 5000, and insured
for 81 200 Mr.. Smiths loss will be quite
/ heavy, as he had no insurance and ms Iurnl-
/ ture was badly broken and damaged.
In the neighborhood Of Appleton, in Farm.
! well county there Is an organized ana OF
robbers and murderers. Since the killing OF
] Maj. Colding with sltngshot one more mJr-
der has occurred, that Of colored man ana
| tuesday night George Ems was heIu up On
| the road from Barnwell by two negroes, Dut
/ they let him of, saying to him, GU are not
| the man we wanted"
Last Monday while E. J, Craig was clean
! ing out a well lyhty- eight feet deep, on q. )
! Prices place near Aiken, the sides caYed In
! and he was imprisoned under the dirt and
| curbing. There was about twelve or htteen
| feet Of dirt on him. His cries were heard and
/ the neighbOrs came to his rescue, and he was
! dug out. more scared than hurt, after being
| buried for about three hours.
! The railroads. it is understood, have de-
| cided that no liquor will be surrendered eX-
! cept on p warrant of trial justice The
/ agents have been advised that when they sur
! render liquor to state cOnstableS without le-
| gal warrants they will have to Fay for the
/ liquor or whatever else is seized mis-, IL is
! claimed, has made the agents very 's'dttish,
! and they will not surrender liquor, and are
| using diligence to keep out Of the way Of the
! cOnstables Another question that Is worry
! ing the railroads Is: Who IS to pay the
! freight on liquor that is setZedY The rail
| roads claim that they are legally entitled to
| their freight money no matter Who gets the
| liquor, and that they are going to get 1t II
| there is any way to do So
! The rice beer question was settled at Green
! vile Wednesday. The case of Mayer, the
| Mansion House beer seller was brought be-
| fore the grand jury and after careful Consld-
GRAFTON, was ANONYMOUSLY thrown out to
| take its place with the other dtspensarY
cases, and labelled no bill" A curious re-
| port comes from the grand jury room, which
NAV or may not e true, that one or two
strong Anti1illmanites on the jury felt bound
under their oaths to report true bill in this
and other cases, but the country members Of
! the jury could not agree with them and in
! sisted on throwing the indictments out. The
! stranlest part Of the story is that the country
members took the position against the in
! dictment on account of their bitter hostility
| Of the infamous spy system
| At Bennettsviue Thursday a small building
| occupied as a restaurant by Bill Austin, col
! Ored man, with the three adjoining buildings,
was burue1 to the ground. The buildings
! were on Darlington street, above the public
! square, and we're as follows: The restaurant
| building, owned by Walter Townsend; Mr..
! Townsend's store, w. =. Breeders Office and
! warehouse, In which were a quantity OF har-
| ness and number of buggtes, and an office
| owned by Judge J. A. Hudson and occupied by
| DR.. John Jordan. Mr.. TOwnsends goods
| we're mostly saved and the most OF Mr..
| Breeder buggies and the contents of DR..
! Jordans office Mr.. Breeder lost about $500
| worth of dressed lumber. The houses were
! of wood, old and not of great value. Mr..
! Breeder had some insurance on his house
| and stock.
At Columbia Wednesday, Gov. Tflman,
while at work on the returns OF the county
dispensers and Strengthening some of the ex-
| pense accounts, thought that he had better
| advise the county authorities to look out for
| their interests in the settlements. He an
| nounced that the settlement between the
! county board of control, the dispenser. the
| auditor and the county treasurer should be
based upon the settlement made with the
/ state board of control The only expenses
that should be allowed in the settlement are
those that have already been approved by
| the state board of control. The reports indi-
cate chat in a number Of counties money has
been paid into the county treasury. The
| counties are entitled to a settlement upon the
| same tas1S as the state, and wherever the
| state has scaled down the expense account
| the counties are entitled to their pro rata
share of this money. In case the expenses
| are disapproved by the state board the money
it is said, will have to come out of the peck
cts of the county dispensers, and If they do
| not pay II recourse Will be had to their bonds
| men. With two or three exceptions the re
ports of county dispensers are now in hand
and those that are outstanding have mostly
been returned for amendment or vertical
ton.
At Spartanburg, Tuesday night a little
after clock, the fire alarm was sounded
and it was ascertained that the rear of the
New Windsor hotel was blazing from bottom
to top The fire seemed to originate in the
kitchen, and it must have ueen burning
some time before it reached the roof Be
| tween Jne Kitchen ana the ulnlngrOOm, both
on the first floor, there was spa OF about
six sect. When the reels arrived the kitchen
interior was burned out, and the tables and
furniture in the diningro we're blazing.
The rooms in both stories above were also
aire. None of the guests sleeping in that
part Of the hOuse saved their clothing
The smoke was sitting, however, when
they emerged from the rooms to the
halls. There was cold northeast
driZzle at the time with a gentle wind. The
fire department did excellent work. They
soon got three streams to playing and arrested
the progress of the fire in an hour The
house was run by ST. Julien Yates; he had no
insurance on his own furniture and other
property. He not only loses the use of the
house. but also a part OF his household &C o Is.
The hotel and most of the furniture belonged
to Ffelden Cantrell He had the building and
furniture insured for about 5000 1t is prob
able that the house and furniture can be made
as good as they were before with that amount.
The walls are apparently good.
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