Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-03-02
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Nine Lives Lost.
Nine people were burned to death
in fire on Church street, Charleston,
last Friday. They were Albert and
Caswell O'Neal and seven members of
the Knickenmeyer family, including
the mother and an infant only a month
old.
Mike Jenkins Volunteers.
MI. Jenkins, native of Yorkville,
now commaudant of Hoggset Military
academy, ut Danville, KY, has written
to Governor EIlerbe as follows: "Sir-
Believing that the signs of the times
point to not distant war with Spain,
and being graduate of West Point
and a native of South Carolina,
who has had seven years experience
in the regular army on the frontier
and six years as commandant of ca.
diets in military schools, / have the
honor to offer my services in a militia
ry capacity should the need of them
arise. am son of General jenkins,
C. S. A., of South Carolina, killed in
service of his state and the south, and
feel that I have almost a hereditary
right to be among the first should
South Carolina find it necessary to
send any of her sons to the field again.
I have been a close student of the art
of war since by graduation, and am of
course we'll up in current tactics. l
feel that 1 am capable of handling
either brigade or any minor tactical
unit, and respectfully ask that this
tender of service be placed on file for
consideration in case the events now
should mature. l have
the honor to be your excellency's
most obedient servant"
The End At Hand.
Columbia Register, Monday. Attor-
ney General Barber leaves for Wash
ington this week to defend the dispen-
sary law before the United States
supreme court, in case of Vandercock
vs.. Vance. This case will be heard
on March 7th. 1t was hoped that the
case would be heard before the meet
ing of the general assembly of this
state adjourned, but the supreme court
had other matters before it, and by
common consent the hearing was set
for the date mentioned. This case is
an appeal from the decision of United
States Circuit Judge Chas. H. Simon
ton in the original case, suit for dam
ages on the part of Mr.. Vandercock,
of California, against the state through
Commissioner Vance of the dispensary.
Mr.. Barber has prepared long, care
full and exquisilive argument along
law lines and will make a strong ap-
peal for the state. He will be opposed
by Mr.. J. P. Kennedy Bryan, Of Char
lesion, who has made for himself quite
Il reputation for having won the Nc
Donald case, in which the constitution.
ality of the dispensary law was ques-
toned so far as the prevention of the
introduction of whisky for personal
use was concerned. The suit in ques-
ton aims to establish the validity Of
the dispensary law in prohibiting the
storage in the state of whisky belong
ing to non-residents Of the state to be
sold in original packages through
agents. Or in a very few words, the
decision of the United States supreme
court is asked upon the fact whether
or not the diSpenSary law violates the
interstate commerce law in the partic-
ular stated. The battle will attract
wide. spread interest, not only on ac-
count of the brilliant personality of
the attorneys on both sides, but also
because the outcome is of vital inter
est to the dispensary law which is be-
ing watched by the people of other
states, who want 10 legislate liquor in
this or some similar way.