Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-02-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Power House Accident.

The big fly wheel at the power house
Of the -Spartanburg Railway, Gas and
Electric Power company bursted last
Wednesday and wrought destruction
through the building. Robert Sample,
Negro fireman, was killed and Laur-
ems Wilson, the night engineer, and
T. r. Pike, white, who has charge OF
the gas house, were injured. AS the
result of the accident electric lights
went out and cars were stopped.
Systemntic Robbigs.
Kings Mountain Democrat: In the
town Of Lancaster, for the past year,
the most systematic robbing of the
merchants has been going on and that
too by persons Of more or less promi-
nence. The most responsible drayman
seems to have organized forces, and
as he would haul the goods from the
depot would appropriate a portion OF
them to his own use. These goods he
| would then sell to the other mer-
chants or wherever he could get sale
for them. Several Of the merchants of
the town have also been arrested, but
these insist that they knew nothing
of the goods they were buying having
been stolen goods. 1t is one Of the
most startling revelations that has
been made in the town for long time.
DIR. Sheppard's Tea Farm.
RThe tea producers and shippers in
China and japan are watching with In
terest the experiments Of DR.. Sheppard
at Summerville, in the growing OF tea
and the development Of the CONNER
cial possibilities of the industry as
shown by the establishment Of the
gardens Of the American Tea Growing
company, near Charleston. The agri-
cultural department Of the United
States has an agent in the Orient
studying conditions in that section of
the world, and in report he has made
to Secretary Wilson he calls attention
to this matter Of the tea growing In
dustry of the United States and the in
terest taken in 1t in the East. The
Chinese and Japanese growers express
the opinion that the undertaking will
not be successful here because Of the
difficulty Of securing cheap labor; but
this problem has been practically
solved by DR.. Sheppard, as perhaps
they do not know. If they were more
familiar with the conditions that have
been developed here as to the possibil-
tiles Of tea production they would pro-
badly understand that their monopoly
Of this trade cannot longer be main
tanned in the American market.
The BranchvilIe Train Robbers.
News and Courier: 1t has now been
several weeks since the Branchville
train robbery took place and as yet the
authorities are apparently as far as
ever from a solution Of the mystery.
Rewards have been offered for the ap-
prehension Of the bandits and the
country for miles around the scene of
the hold-up has been secured In quest
of the guilty parties. But In spite or
the skillful detectives and officers of
the law generally, who have been at
work on the case, the robbers have not
been captured. The young white man
and a middle-aged Negro, who were
arrested and lodged in the county jail
here few days after the robbery oc-
Cured. on suspicion of knowing some
thing of the crime, have been released
from custody, the Federal officials
having satisfied themselves that the
prisoners were not the parties want
ed. 1t is the general opinion that the
robbery was committed by men who
live in the neighborhood Of the scene.
In that section Of the state, however,
there is one of the widest strips of
country in the United States. There
are some dark and mysterious stories
connected with the swamps in upper
Colleton and lower. Barnwell counties.
1t is said that strangers entering them
were never seen alive again, and 1t Is
probable that the bandits who held up
the Southern train will never be
brought to justice.