The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-01-21
Palmetto Points.


Saturday night of last week as Mr..
John NJ. Willeford, who lives in the
Mt Holly section Of York county, was
passing through new road in the
blackjacks about three miles south OF
Rock Hill on the way homeward, met a
large. hurley negro man. Entertaining
no fear whatever of an assault, he
guided his horse slightly to one side TO
allow the negro to pass, but the fellow,
instead of attempting to pass, reached
for the bride of Mr. Willeford's horse.
demanding at the same time that ne
should surrender his money. Mr.. Will
leford answered that he had no money
and at the same time dealt the would
be robbed three hard blows in the face
with a riding bride he was carrying.
This either stunned or blined the negro
and Mr. Willeford. being unarmed and
seeing his opportunity, put whip to his
horse and escaped. The negro was un-
known.
Sunday morning about 4:30 O'Clock
the Wilton mill, church and school
house in Greers was discovered to be
on fire and before help or water could
be secured the whole building was
burned. 1t is a great loss to the mill.
The building cost over $1,000. and had
only been erected about four years. Ihe
company had only recently purchased a
beautiful new piano for the school and
this besides an organ and several hum
dred dollars worth Of books and over
81 900 worth Of property belonging to
the Odd Fellows was totally destroyed.
II is thought that the fire started IN
the auditorium, as the night previous
the Odd Fellows had an oyster supper
in the hall and it is supposed that fire
was left in the stove. The insurance
will partly cover the loss.
The State has now on hand enough
money to run the government until
next November, or until taxes come IN.
$467, ,143.74, and II the State was run
strictly on a cash basis this would be
all that could be appropriated, but
such will not be the case. The total
claims against the State. including
notes and other matters Of this kind.
amount to s516,77995, and the cash
balance amounts to $2O6, ,9S3.0S. There
Is outstanding. however. includins the
$4,000 secured by Senator Illimah'
which the General Assembly may place
10 the general fund. s776 6.937.61. This
makes a total Of 1888, ,920.69. and with
the s516.776.95 subtracted from this
there will be balance Of $467 ,l4S.74.
While o. R. Horton and c. S. Ma
&,,dn
were in attendance upon their respec-
tive classes Monday morning some uh-
known party entered their room al the
dormitory and walked off with practi-
.cally everything the young men pos
sessed in the way OF wearing apparei:
The thief or thieves removed seyeral
suits of clothes. underwear, shirts, COL
lars ard other garments from the
Young mems trunks, also removed the
contents of the bureau drawers besides
two overcoats. The loss OF the young
men amounted to something like $I0.
Jesse Brown and Joe Humburt. col.
,ored. were landed in the county jan
in Greenville Tuesday by Sherln Gll-
reath on suspicion Of being Implicated
in the shooting OF Park Sexton Whlcn
occurred near Grove Station in Green
vile county. Saturday night. The as
sault on Sexton, by which he recelVea
a severe and probably fatal wound IL
the side. was reported to Sherln I'LL
reath Monday afternoon late.
There are several cases of interest
in the United States Court in Colum-
bia this week There is one s~ainst
Lawrence Copeland. the postmaster OF
Bethune, who Is charged with en-
bezzling the funds Of his office to the
amount Of several hundred dollars.
Copeland Is now in the Richland jail
and IL Is understood that he will plead
guilty in order to secure the mercy OF
the court.
The governor has completed his re-
port as to pardon granted in 1903. OF
offenses grave enough to put the con-
victs in the penitentiary only hfteen
were granted, which Is quite faiilng
of from previous records. For chain
gang oifenses the pardons and commu-
Vations were about the same.
The grand lodge Of Masons has
adopted resolution that no man shall
be eligible to membership who is en-
gagged in the manufacture of intoxi-
cants. or who is in the wholesale or re-
tail liquor business, but there is this
proviso, this resolution is to be refer
red to the subordinate lodges and does
not become a law Of the grand lodge
until the majority OF the subordinate
lodges vote for it.
Riverside Mills Burned.