Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-03-28


The new Japanese loan OF $780,
900, 900, is to be fioated In the United
States.
soUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Petitions are being circulated In
Union county asking for an election on
the question Of abolishing the dispen-
sary.
The people of Barnwell county are
raising money for cotton assqciation
purposes by-pr4vate subsertpt tioH the
Barnwell Sentinel of a few days ago
printed a list Of subscriptions aggre-
eating about one hundred dollars
There is to be mass meeting Of
the cotton growers Of Richland county
in Columbia next Saturday. Addresses
will be made by Mr.. e. d. Smith, Mr.
F. H. Hyatt and Mr.. John L. McLaur-
In. A similar meeting Is to be heio at
Sumter next Monday.
Am expert of the bureau Of roads
Of the Federal government Is to COM
mence work In Union next week on
a piece Of road that Is intended TO
serve as an object lesson In correct
construction. The government agent
Union county authorities may be un-
able to handle.
The executors Of the estate Of the late
F. G. Stacy Of Gaffney, have brought
suit against the Fidelity Casualty COM
pany for $4,000, the amount Of policy
carried by the deceased In that COM
pany. The complaint states that the
death Of Stacy was due to an acci-
=. hax Inc otr a
In the face and the teeth Of the man
encountered the knuckles Of the de-
ceased, causing blood poison. which
was the immediate cause Of his death.
The contention Of the defense Is that
the death was not accidental, neither
sudden nor violent: that when the de-
ceased engaged in the encounter with
the fellow he assumed all personal
risk.
= Says a Columbia special of March
25: The Presbyterian synod has IN the
last two years taken great deal or
interest In the home mission work In
this state, and has employed In the
prosecution Of this wok some OF It's
most talented and most active young
ministers. At meeting Of the execu-
tive committee here yesterday 1t was
decided to broaden the scope OF the,
work by employing a young woman
worker to assist Rev. William II. Mills
| in the mission field In the Horse Creek
valley. The members Of the committee
present were: Rev. Frank II. Wardlaw,
chairman and superintendent of the
work; Rev. Robert Adams, d. D., OF
Laurens; Rev. Chalmers Fraser. d. D.,
Of lancaster; Rev. +. ID. Jones or
Aiken; Rev. D. NJ Fulton Of Darling
ton, and Messrs. John McSween OF
Timmonsville, and George H. O'Leary.
of Yorkville. Mr.. Wardlaw reported
the work to be in most encouraging
condition, many new fields having been
opened and now being occupied. The
funds are not coming in fast enough,
however, to push the work any further
than 1t has been. Rev. w. ]. Wyiy,
who graduated at the seminary here
a few years ago, has been engaged for
the field In Horny county and will 60
there at an early date. Rev. w. III,
Mills was present and gave an insight
into the work done among the mill
communities Of the Horse. Creek val
LEY section. It was decided to give
him assistance as above stated, ana
young woman Of much zeal and with
highest qualifications was called to ala
him. but her name will not be made
public pending her action in the mat
ter. She will be asked to visit the
sick, to look after the needs of the poor
and to do some teaching. The conlr
mittee Is pleased with the progress of
the work since the movement was IN
augurated.
Lancaster special Of March 25 to
News and Courier: The board OF coun-
ty commissioners met here yesterday
for the purpose of considering the
question of re-establishing the chain
gang, which was abolished q year or
so ago for lack of, convicts to keep
IN. Since that time the occasional
prisoners sentenced to labor on the
public works Of the county, who were
unable to pay the fine alternative, have
been hired out, to the Chester authors
ties. The sentencing by the court
this week Of quite a number OF con-
victed parties to the chaingang, the
the commissioners to take up the mat
ter of putting the system In opera
ton again, using the convicts now
available as q nucleus therefor. But
several difficulties confronted the
board when 1t began to look into the
subject yesterday. In the first place,
the fact that the county will have no
money this year, which can be used to
pay the expenses Of maintaining a
chaingang stared the commissioners In
the face. In estimating the amount OF
funds likely to be needed for this
years current expenses, no allowance
was made for operating a chaingang,
and no provision, therefore, was made
in the tax levy by the legislature, Tor
such considerable item Of expense,
which amounted the last year the
gang was worked in the county to
about $2,400. In the second place the
board finds that in all probability 1t
will lack something over $4,000 OF
making ends meet this year, anyway,
to say nothing about the chaingang
business. The prospective deficit Is
due to the fact that the Legislature at
its last session made an increase In the
salaries Of the county officers and
magistrates amounting altogether to
$3.50, but made no provision for the
payment Of such increase by raising
the county levy, and to the further
fact that the expenses OF the Skipper
trial will exceed by something like
81 600, its estimated cost. With these
facts before them the commissioners,
at their meeting yesterday, had about
concluded not to establish the chain
gang again, but to continue to hire
the conVicts to Chester, when, upon.
calling up the Chester supervisor over
the phone. they learned that 1t was
very doubtful whether that county
could use any more Of Lancasters con-
victs. The board, therefore, adjourned
without taking any action In the mat
ter other counties will be written to
at once, with the view Of placing the
convicts elsewhere. In the meantime
they will be put to work on one Of the
Dublic roads near town, commencing
Monday morning.
Secretary Hester's weekly cotton
statement, issued last Friday shows for
the twenty-four days Of March an In.
crease over the same period Of