Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-05-16
Tuesday, May l6, 1905.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Press Association will be held at the
White Stone Lithia hotel on July IL
to IA.
Augusta, May IA: The Hon. B. r.
Ttllman, United States senator from
South Carolina, who went to Atlanta
about two weeks ago, to be treated for
nervous trouble, passed through Au-
gusta today, on his way back to his
home at Trenton, much improved, and
TO all appearances cured. He will re-
main at his home for the next few
weeks In order to recruit his strength.
Columbia special Of May IL to
Charlotte Chronicle: The jury in the
Eutawville lynching case acquitted
the defendants after sixteen minutes
elaboration. The case went to the
jury at $50 o'clock. The defendants
Andrew Martin, Sherard A. Edens and
John H. Palmer While there was
scarcely q change of conviction of
murder. the defendants got good
scare, spent much money In their de-
fense and 1t Is thought the effect will
be wholesome.
= The body Of negro named Essec
Murrell was found by some fishermen
in the Enoree river between Spartan
burg and Laurens counties last Thurs
day. 1t had been weighted down with
stones Murrell had been a laborer on
an adjoining plantation and had dis
appeared several days before. 1t was
known that he had quarreled with
some other negroes, and they were
suspected of knowledge Of his where
'abouts. The find in the river was
Is now being thoroughly investigated.
Hon. w. ]. Talbert was one Of the
speakers at the Edgefield County In
ter-Denominational Sunday School
convention in the Baptist church at
Edgefie,d last Saturday. He de-
voted himself to an emphatic de-
nunciation Of the dispensary, charac-
terizing 1t as one of the greatest evils
that has ever been fastened upon a
free and liberty loving people. He said
that upon this question there was no
half way ground for church members
to occupy and predicted that the days
Of the dispensary were numbered. Col.
Talbert declared himself an out and
out prohibitionist and said 1t was the
duty Of all processing Christians to
make war upon whisky in any and
every form and these lessons should
be taught in the Sunday school.
The News and Courier has made
an interesting compilation OF the
names and yocations Of our state SEN
ators and members Of the lower house
of representatives which shows the
senate to be made UP Of "a lawyers,
farmers, 2 physicians, l merchant, 2
merchants and farmers, 1 manufactur-
er, stock dealer, editor. The house
is composed Of 45 lawyers, AZ farmers,
merchants, merchants and farmers,
merchant and planter, ] physician,
farmer and real estate agent, far
mers and lawyer and editor, ! farmer
and stockdesler, Q insurance agents,
! teacher, I minister and railroad
agent, / newspaper reporter, l Jour-
nalist, editors, lawyer and editor,
banker, / paymaster, / dentist, l den-
tist and farmer, 6 physicians, COM
piler OF Confederate rolls.
Writing from Tyler, Texas, Presi-
dent Smith, Of the South Carolina
Cotton association, says Of the out
look for a Texas crop: 1T rains and
no cotton planted in Texas yet. The
farmers have stopped selling their
spot cotton here, being convinced at
last that Texas can't make a crop
no matter what the others do. From
Galveston, on the south Of this place,
wherever have been, farmers, bank
ers and merchants unhesitatingly tell
me that II Is the worst prospect they
ever saw, for Texas, to make cotton
crop. No one can predict what the
Texas crop will be this year. With
all the favorable conditions Of last
season, the state made 100000 bales
less than her largest crop. She has
no chance with present conditions OF
making within 100000 Of last years
crop. Even where cotton was planted,
the rains have so washed and packed
the land that re-planting Is necessary.
Altogether. the prospect for Texas is
as bad as II can be. The boil weevil
may prove a blessing to the state.
This is a hay, grain and cattle coun- I
try par excellence"
Columbia Record: Comptroller
General Jones has finally completed
statements showing the amount Of in
surance business done in the state for
1904, as compared with 1908. The bus
iness shows an enormous increase.
The fire insurance figures were given
q few days ago, but the total OF fire,
life and accident and the total for life
alone Is given as follows: Total risks
written for 1904, accident, life and fire,
were $135,534.S $50 as compared with 1908
which were $116,7S5,503. The increase
in 1904 amounted to $1S.749,S77. The to-
tai premiums received for 1904 were
$4,237,242. For 1903 they were $3,702,-
55S, the increase being $534,6S4. The
total losses paid for 1904 were $1,74S,-
710, and for 1903 were $l,536,S97, an
increase for 1904 Of $211,S13. The loss
es incurred show an increase OF $lS,-
461.73 for 1904. The life statements
show that the policies in force De-
cember 81, 1903, were $65,633,415, and
for 1904 were $50, 6,529,S56, an increase
of $20,S96,421 for 1904. Premiums were
received in 1903 amounting to s2,SS4,-
722 against $2,656,657 in 1904, showing
an increase Of $321,935.
A digest Of the new pension roll
given out by the comptroller general
last Wednesday, shows an increase In
nf nanoinnc lpSS
deaths in 1904 of SIT and IS off for
other causes, making the net increase
for the new year 247. There is an in
crease In every class except b, which
shows a decrease Of 10. The great
increase has been among the widows.
On the 1904 roll there were 1852 men
as against 4,911 for this year, an in
crease Of 49. Last year the widows
numbered 1852, as against $3.50 now,
an Increase Of 1913. The total dis
tributed among pensioners Is $l96,5S3,
the balance of 100000 going for eX-
pense. The comptroller generals Of
fee Is at a loss to account for the
striking increase in the number OF
widows by comparison with the males.
there being no change in the law to
warrant this. The only change from
last year is that instead of the money
of a pensioner, dying between the
time the check reaches the clerk and
the time the county board made up
the list. being divided among the 9TH
er pensioners, it now reverts to the
state.
- Columbia correspondence News
and Courier: You can hear people on
all sides saying that the dispensary
is gone unless the management Is
changed" The management is no
worse than II has been all along.
There is the same situation that there
has been all along. Sub dispensers
and others run things just as they
want, from the very beginning OF the
purchase-the supposed signing Of the
request book. on up the line the law
Is generally utterly disregarded. and
1t is on that account that the law Is
being knocked in the head. Then the
state board is following what other
boards Of control have done all along
as to privileges. beer dispensaries. etc,
and II Is on this account that the
plain folks have utterly given up the
hope of seeing the dispensary law en-
forced as they think 1t ought TO be.
The state board follows In the rut OF
its predecessors and no doubt thinks