Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAHOlINA NEWS.
- The State Fair association Is ar
ranging for a series Of automobile
races on the occasion of the fair.
"A white man named Edward Kelly,
shot negro named Henry Bradshaw,
on the streets of Darlington last Sat
urday. Kelly was drunk and the
shooting appears to have been done In
a spirit Of wanton maliciousness. Kel-
ly was arrested and put in Jail.
A Johnston correspondent reports
the case Of a negro named Wade Hart
ley, who died about two weeks ago
while confined on the Edgefleld chain
gang and who is believed to have been
beaten to death by the guards. 1t Is
understood that the negro represented
that he was unweii and the guards
beat him numerically in the belief
that he was shamming. The matter is
being investigated.
pensary constabulary for the quarter
ending August 81 amounted to $16.-
1917 and the total value OF the seiz-
ures made by the constables within
this time was s1,S49.67. The total
sales Of the local dispensaries during
June, July and August aggregated
s628,S66.56. This is a gain Of $685.
1885 as compared with the sales dur
ing the same quarter Of the previous
year.
Ben Bennett Of Hampton county,
who killed his wife recently and es-
capped to Georgia, from which state he
was brought back on requisition, was
convicted Of manslaughter last week
and sentenced to the chaingang for
five years. He has pqeviously been SEN
fenced to life imprisonment, and was
paroled on condition that he would
leave the state. 1t was while he was
back in. the state in violation Of his
parole that the last crime was COM
mitted. 1t is understood that after he
serves five years on the Hampton
county chaingang he can be sent back
to the penitentiary to serve his origi-
nal sentence.
As the result of a row between
Harvey Lang, a young white man, and
several negroes, at Lucknow, near
Bishopville, last Saturday night, Lang
was killed and 80 also was a negro
named Ezekiel Aral. Lang went to
the negro's house to collect fifteen
cents from his daughter. The woman
denied the account and quarrel fol-
lowed. The negro with several others
went TO the store at which Lang was
employed and renewed the trouble.
Lang having gotten a shot gun In the
meantime, fired a load of shot into
AIaps body and Aral struck him on
the head with a stick. Both were dead
within few hours afterward.
What Is known as the Southern
Railway merger case was to have
come up in Camden last week; but 1t
has been referred to a special master
who will take testimony and make
report In time for a hearing at the
next spring term Of the court Of COM
mon pleas for Kershaw county. This
is the case in which a number OF
plaintiffs are bringing suits in the hope
Of being able to collect part OF the
fines provided in the law prohibiting
railroad corporations from owning or
controlling competing lines. The
Southern railway acquired the various
lines that form the basis Of this suit
by special permission Of the general
assembly. After a number of suits had
been instituted by lawyers through
different plaintiffs the general assem-
bly, provided for a consolidation Of the
cases, with view to having the issue
determined by a single trial.
The following is frem the Greenville
Mountaineer: Mr.. ]. H. Batson, whe
lives a few miles above the city on the
Sandy Flat road, had an unusual ex-
perience with snakes on last Sunday.
He went to visit his brother j. F.
Batson, on Enoree river Sunday, and
went into the pasture with several
children, where he saw a highland
moccasin as large as a mans thigh
and about three and half feet long.
Mr.. Batson secured rock and struck
the serpent a terrific blow, cutting
deep cash in its body, and while he
was In the act of putting an end to
the wounded reptile, number OF
small snakes began to run out Of the
wound in the monster serpent's body.
They came so fast that Mr.. Batson and
the children were kept busy killing
them for some time. After the job
had been completed Mr.. Batson, who
was too busily engaged to count them
as they came forth, discovered that
forty four small snakes had been kill