Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-24
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

of trustees of Furman university
reached the conclusion that it would
be better to leave the question of elec-
ting a president for Furman university
open until the next State Baptist con-
vention, to be held in Rock Hill in
December next. In the meantime
Professor Judson has been asked to
discharge the duties of president. 1t
is understood that ballot was taken
for president; but that action was re-
scinded after further discussion.
Hasseltine to Be Released.
Columbia State, Thursday: Ernest
B. Hasseltine, the young Lancaster
bank official, who overdrew his ac-
count several thousand dollars and
fled when he lost the money in cotton
speculation and could not make it
good, being afterwards prosecuted,
convicted and sentenced to the state
penitentiary for 81 months, has had
his sentence committed. Governor
Ellerbe yesterday reduced the term Of
Imprisonment to IL months. This
means that the young man will be re-
leased in October next. Strong petit
tions were presented to the governor.
After the Mormons.
Information from lower Fairfield
county, is that if the intense feeling
against Mormons is not allayed pretty
soon, there will be bloody work. Fol-
lowing the successive burning of the
frame and brush Mormon churches,
the dwelling of w. w. Collins, an
earnest adherent of Mormonism, was
visited last Tuesday night by party
of men who opened fire on the build
ing. Collins's large family was within
range of the bullets, which penetrated
and wounded one of his daughters in
the arm. Seventeen shots penetrated
the house. A warning was left that if
legal process was begun against any
suspects, Collins would suffer.
Evans and Thomas Scrap.
Bad blood existing between w. d.
Evans, chairman, and H. R. Thomas,
member of the railroad commission,
eliminated Wednesday in personal
encounter, in which fists and paper
weights figured, says a Columbia spe-
cial. Thomas was opposing higher
rates on certain articles and Evans
remarked that Thomas was no gentle
man, whereupon Thomas applied a
vile epithet to the chairman, in which
several blankety blanks figured. Ev-
ans hurled a glass paper weight at
Thomas, who lodged, and bloodied
the others face with his fists. They
were separated by Commissioner Will
born and Clerk Duncan. Whether the
matter will be carried further is con-
lecture.
What General Barber Thinks.
Columbia Register, Friday: Last
night Attorney General Barber was
seen in reference to the latest restrain
ing order issued by Judge Simonton,
and when asked what he thought
about the matter, General Barber said
that the order was not such an unus-
ual one, for Simonton. had issued
similar restraining orders in previous
cases. He said he had fortified the
position of the state in regard to the
contention of what an original package
is, and that he could not understand
how the court, in the face of such
strong authorities as those he would
cite, can consistently decide against
the state. When the attorney general
was told that it was the avowed pur-
pose of his opponents to test the ques-
ton as TO a citizens right to have
shipped to him a barrel of whisky and
then bottle the stuff after its arrival
in the state, he laughed and seemed to
think such a test case would be ex-
tremely ludicrous. General Barber
says he is perfectly willing for all the
present cases to be heard on July 81,
the date intimated in Judge Simon
toms telegram to Mr.. Nelson.
Wilson Is Growing Rational.
Stanyarne Wilson, who, while in the
state senate, did as much as any other
one man to fight the bill through, is
quoted in the Atlanta Constitution of
Thursday as having expressed himself
in regard to the dispensary as follows
"The two latest decisions by Judge
Simonton have given a death blow to
the dispensary. 1t will be entirely
powerless to cope with liquor establish
ments which pay no license ard which
have practically unlimited power Of
sale. They will, beyond question, un-
dersell the dispensary, which can only
operate at very heavy expense, as
shown by it's history. The state board
of control should exhaust the stock on
hand by the next meeting of the gen.
eral assembly and reduce expenses so
as to entail as little loss as possible
when the system is discontinued. The
next legislature will have to either
enact total prohibition or high IL
cense system, with the restrictions
prescribed in the constitution. If the
latter is adopted the state will realize
more revenue than it has recently
done under the enfeebled and beset
condition of the dispensary. The dis
cords and divisions which have existed
amongst the people because of its ad-
ministration and enforcement will dis
appear, and perhaps satisfactory and
acceptable solution of the liquor ques-