Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Cherokee county to fill al county Of
fees, except senator and representa-
tives in the legislature. just as soon
as the election is officially declared
and those chosen qualify, the new
county will be reality. Until the
next general election the present sena-
tor and representatives will speak
for Cherokee in the legislature.
A snide Detective.
The Columbia Register tells of the
pardon, by Governor Ellerbe, of Ne
gro named William Johnson who has
served more than year of Is years
sentence for train wrecking. The Ne
gro was convicted OH evidence furnish
ed by detective" Holland for $400
reward. At that time the detective"
was not very well known, and it was
thought to be all right. 1t has since
developed, to the satisfaction of the
solicitor, that the alleged evidence was
manufactured by Holland and that is
why the solicitor requested the COVER
nor to grant Johnson pardon.
Holland is the man who furnished the
evidence with which to convict Muir
ply of the murder of Treasurer Copes,
of Orangeblrg.
Crazy For Whisky.
A man named Tom Williams, from
Athens, Ga, broke into the dispensary
at Greenville last Sunday morning be-
tween 10 and II o'clock, drank q
quart of whisky and then went and
gave himself up to the police with a
frank confession of his crime. He
said that he was literally crazy for d
drink of whisky, and saw no other
way to get it than to break into the
dispensary. After he had gotten in
and filed himself up, he began to re-
alize the enormity of his ofense and
confessed in tears. He was commit
ted to Jail on the charge of house
breaking in the daytime. Williams is
about so years old and is said to be a
man of good family, but has been
drinking hard for some years past.
Dispensary Profits.
Columbia State: Beginning with
the first of next month, the state board
of control hopes to pay into the state
treasury from $4,000 to $4,000
monthly. This is to 60 to the general
fund for government expenses. 1t was
not so long ago that the dispensary|
paid in installments of $4,000 the
100000, leaving still to pay $92, 900
to the general fund before any of the
dispensary profits would 60 to the
school fund. This, then, is but be-
ginning of the payment of the amount
still due. At the rate of $4,000 al
month little over six months will be
required to cancel the obligation to
the state treasury. The profits then,
it may be said, will begin to 60 to the
school fund in October. In other
words, in the fourth year and the
second month since the establishment
of the dispensary the state will have
received $4,000 or $4,000 per an
mum.
No More Greek Letter Societies.
Columbia dispatch, 9th instant:
Among the specimens of freak legisla-
ton passed by the South Carolina
general assembly, was one known as
the "anti- Greek Letter Society law"
1t is the outgrowth of bitter social
feeling at the state university here.
The law forbids the existence of such
societies in colleges which receive state
aid. This kills powerful fraternity
in the South Carolina college, which
has handsome hall on the campus.
1t was urged that these societies en-
courage class and caste feeling; that a
student who was not a member was
not considered in good social standing,
and that the first thing Columbia
young women did upon having COL
lege man presented, was to inquire in
which fraternity he had membership,
and then they governed their smiles
accordingly. The fight was led by old
students, who seem to have suffered.
The fraternity men made hard strug-
gle, but the farmers were too many for
them.
The Case of Murphy.
Governor Ellerbe is very much wor-
ried over the case of Daniel Murphy, |
the nan who is under sentence of
death for the murder of Treasurer
Copes, of Orangeburg. Murphy's
friends have been very active in the
case of late. AS is generally known,
the evidence in the case was worked
up by Detective Holland, of Columbia,
for a reward. One of the principal
witnesses was woman of bad charac-
ter named Barr. The Barr woman
was found down in Georgia recently
and she admitted that her testimony
was false throughout; that she had
been induced by Detective Holland
to lie, and that he had paid her.
She said she did not know anything to
connect Murphy with the murder. The
woman was brought before the gov
ernor a day or two ago and told the
story over again. In addition to this,
Murphy's attorneys have presented the
governor with still other evidence.
The governor is in 80 much doubt,
especially in view of other recent de-
velopments in regard to Holland, that
if he should pardon Murphy, there
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