Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-10-23
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Telegraph Company Is sulky.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany recently closed it's Office at Bates
burg on the ground that the municipal
license was excessive. The railroad
commission has ordered the office to be
reopened until complaint can be made
and the case heard before the COM
mission.
The Wham Murder Trial.
The trial of John G. Wham for the
murder of S. w. Ramage in July last
has been in progress in Laurens dur
ing the last week and went to the jury
yesterday afternoon. The jury was
still out at o'clock last night and 1t
was thought that there would be a mis-
trial.
Fever In Bambers and colleton.
Columbia dispatch Of October 20:
There is an appalling number OF cases
of hemorrhagic fever in sections OF
Bamberg and Colleton counties, accord
ing to letter received yesterday by
the governor from County Treasurer
John F. Folk. Mr.. Folk writes that
number of deaths have occurred In the
in the past few days from this disease
and asked the governor to appeal to
the United States authorities for an in
vestigation. The governor Immediately
Wired DR.. James Evans, the secretary
of the state board of health at Flor
ence, asking him to proceed at once to
Bamberg and get at the facts III the
case. Governor Hayward will also
write the health authorities at Wash
ington.
Geo. D. TiIlman Seriously III.
Clarks Hill dispatch Of October 20:
Colonel and Mrs. James H. Tillman
arrived here this afternoon in response
to telegram announcing the desperate
illness Of colonel T4llman's youngest
brother, Col. Geo. D. Tillman, who was
on former Governor McSweeneys stafff
and for number Of years court ste-
nographer for the third judicial cir
cult in this state. George D. Tilman,
named for his distinguished father,
had a bright and promising future be-
fore him. There Is still shadow OF
hope for his recovery, but his nfe
hangs by thread. His many friends
in South Carolina pray for a change
for the better. Eminent physicians
have been with him throughout the
day. The only other son Of the late
Hon. Geo. D. Tillman is Capt. B. j.
Tillman, Seventh United States infan-
try, who sailed with his regiment for
the Philippine Islands about ten days
ago and who, of course, knows nothing
of his brothers illness.
Not a Runabout.
Greenville special to the Columbia
State: One Of the most remarkable
instances of domesticity has come to
light by the visit Of Mrs. Mary Poole
of Locust, to relatives in this city dur
ing the present week. She Is In the
S0th year of her age, and has not been
to Greenville since she was a young
lady, eighteen years old and unmarried.
Mrs. Poole was a piece Of the late
John L. Westmoreland, and her family
connection is quite extensive. Her op-
portunities for coming to the city have
been excellent all Of her life, but she
did not care to leave home, and In
these more than sixty years since she
saw Greenville there have been many
wonderful changes. She was never on
railroad train in her life, and of
course never saw a trolley car, which
she refused to ride on at first, but
afterwards said 1t was the finest riding
she had ever known. Mrs. Poole lives
with her SON law, William Huff, and
came to the city with another son-in-
law, David ]. Lofts, to make visit to
still another son-in-law, John r. Chill
dress, and his family This is an ex-
ceptional case in many respects, and 1t
is doubtful whether another person OF
four score years can be found in the
country who has not visited the court
house in sixty years.