Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-28
SOUTH CAROLINA>Nws.

The supreme court has sustained the
court below in the, case of Mrs. Add!e
]. Williford against the Aetna Life In
surance company.
The State Debt.
The state has found 1t necessary to
borrow 100000 to meet the interest OH
the state debt This is rather an unus-
ual occurrence and not altogether COM
plimentary to the administration.
Storm In SpartanburE.
spartanburg special of Thursday: A
terrific wind, rain and lightning storm
visited Spartanburg from to o'clock
tonight. A portion Of the right wing
and the left wing Of the Spartan Inn
tin roofing was blown off; the flood
soaked ceiling is falling, and the fur
niture is damaged. Twenty-three rooms
are badly damaged, also the dining and
ball rooms. Twenty-Five square feet OF
the north section Of the roof Of the
fourth floor of Spartan mills, No. 1, and
80 feet square on Mill No. 2, was blown
off. The spinning rooms are In these
portions and each room Is badly flooded
and damaged. The entire roofing on
Floyd's undertaking establishment was
blown off and the stock ruined. Almost
all the roof on the Southern cafe at the
Southern depot was blown off, and the
first and second stories damaged. There
was considerable loss Of property. st.
Johns A. M. E. church, new building,
was blown down. No one is reported
injured or killed from the storm.
Stnte Board of Equalization.
Columbia correspondence News and
Courier: The state board Of equalization
will meet here on the 8th Of July to get
to work on the all-important matters OF
the real estate, cotton mill, cotton seed
oil, fertilizer and canal properties OF
the state. The state board will be able
to act on the returns from the cotton
mills, fertilizer plants and the special
property placed under the control Of the
state board for assessment, but 1t WILL
unfortunately, not be able to make up
the assessment on ALL the real estate
in the state unless the abstracts come
in much more rapidly than they are do
ing and all are on file with the comp
troller general. The law contemplates
that these returns should be on file by
the 1st of July at the latest, but the
county auditors are very careless and
Indifferent about complying with the
law. Only two or three auditors have
thus far sent in their reports. The state
board will act upon the mill and other
industrials returns, and If all of the
county abstracts are not in will have to
take a recess and meet again when they
have all been received, to equalize the
state assessments on real estate.
lChnrlestOn ExpOsitiOn Deficit.
Washington special Of Wednesday to
The News and Courier: Senator Tillman
has succeeded in having an amendment
inserted in the deficiency appropriation
bill providing $16O,OOO for the relief of
the Charleston exposition, as provided
for in the Latimer bill, already intro
duced in the house. 1t is now the duty
Of the members of the South Carolina
delegation to nave the amendment kept
| In the bill wnen it reaches the house.
Unfortunately but few of the Palmetto
delegation are here now. They are too
busy looking after their political fences
to give much time to the pending meas
ure. There is some prospect of the
amendment being retained in the bill
If the matter is carefully looked after.
AT present, through the cleverness of
Senator Tillman, Charleston and Buff
falo are locked together in loving en-
brace. The entire New York delega-
ton, Republicans and Democrats, aided
by a committee of Buffalo's most In
fiuential citizens, are on the spot, work
ing like beavers to overcome the ex-
pected opposition in the house. Buffalo
asked the senate for $4,000, but the
committee reduced the amount to $780,
900. Senator Tillman has surely done
his full duty by the exposition In the
senate.