Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-07
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Cotton Fire at Pacolet.


was destroyed by fire during Tuesday
and Wednesday,.
Does Not Consider 1t Seriously.
The New York Journal, on Thurs
day, telegraphed Governor McSweeny
as follows "Will you kindly wire The
Journal today at its expense your
opinion of Dewey's announcement and
effect it will have on Democratic con.
vention." The governors answer was
Don't think Dewey's candidacy
amounts to anything serious. Bryan
will undoubtedly receive the unani-
nous support of all southern states"
Now on Its Feet.
Says Charleston dispatch of We'd
nesday: In largely attended meet
ing of business men tonight the South
Carolina Interstate and West Indian
exposition for 1901 was actually put
on its feet by the appointment of an
executive committee with Captain +.
w. Wagner, chairman. The prelim-
mary finance committee made an en-
couraging representation and the ex'
position project is an assured fact.
Classed With Horse Thieves.
Says a Columbia dispatch of April 3 {:
"Bicycle thieves received a severe
blow in the court of general sessions
here today, Wheels have been stolen
with great frequency in this city.
When captured heretofore the thieves
have been taken before magistrate
and have escaped with thirty days on
the chaingang; but newspaper man,
who caught a thief, had him sent to the
higher court. The man pleaded guilty
and Judge Benet announced that he
classed bicycle and horse stealing in
the same category because both could
be ridden, and sentenced the criminal
10 five years. Imprisonment at hard
labor"
Tillman and the Governorship.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier has been inter
viewing Senator Tillman on state poll
tics. The interview includes the fol-
lowing: Referring to the state cam
paign, Senator Tillman says there is
going to be lively contest over the
governorship. Governor McSweeny
will, of course, be the leading candi.
date. There are already three rival
candidates in the field, and before the
campaign closes there are apt to be
several other aspirants for gubernato'
rial honors. The senator naturally
had his preference, but he discreetly
avoids committing himself to any one
in a casual discussion Of the subject.
At the proper time he will declare his
choice in unmistakable terms, and his
former record justifes the prediction
that the senator will stick to his man
through thick and thin. The cam
paign is to be fought out again with
the dispensary law as the paramount
issue. Tillman's faith in the existing
law has not wavered and he main
tains that the law, if fairly and honest
ly administered, will be beneficial to
the state.
Says a Greenwood dispatch of Wed.
nesday: "James w. Tolbert, who was
expelled from Greenwood county, af.
ter narrowly escaping severe handling,
and whose brother is contesting the
seat of Congressman Latimer in the
third district, narrowly escape falling
into the hands of a mob last night.
Mrs. Tolbert is postmaster at McCor-
mick, Greenwood county, few miles
from Phoenix, and her husband arriv-
ed there yesterday. Last spring Tol'
bert made overtures to the people Of
Greenwood, and on certain promises
made to newspaper man as to abstain
ing from politics, he was permitted to
quietly return to that town. Subse-
quently he pushed his contest in Wash
ington and denied the conciliatory
statement attributed to him. He was
thereupon again warned not to return
to Greenwood. At midnight u band OF
masked men went to the house Tolbert
was in. A Democrat, prominent in the
town, hearing of the contemplated &C.
ton, and being opposed to violence,
sent warning a few minutes before
the house was surrounded, and Tolbert
escaped from the back door. Tolbert
fled to the depot and got on a train,
but fearing mob at Troy, stopped at
the next station, and is supposed to
have spent the night in the woods.
This morning he appeared at the house
of w. w. Sturkay and appealed for
protection"
Novel Legal Situation.
Anderson Mail: That was novel
and interesting legal situation that an
Edgefield jury found itself in last Tues.
day in the trial of the case of the Bank
of johnson against ]. B. Owdom and
Mrs. Sallie G. Owdom. The case was
given to the jury late one evening
and the jurors were instructed that
they could bring in sealed verdict.
When the court convened the next
morning the jury was asked if it had
agreed on verdict, when the foreman
reluctantly stated they had ; but asked
the court if he could make statement.
When informed that he could he stat
ed that while he had signed the verdict
it was not his verdict, and after con-
siderlng the matter he could not con-
scientiously say that it was his verdict.
The lawyers were on their feet in
moment and there was much excite
ment and poll of the jury was order
ed with the result that the foreman
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