Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-30

law partner of Mr.. ]. IT. Barron for
a number Of years.
The reports of the New York
Life, Equitable and Mutual Life. tine
big three" as to their operations
during the year are interesting.
Total business I'm force, December 81,
1904, $4O.691,423; for December 81,
1905, $42,646,1S3. Total premiums
paid in South Carolina for the year
1905. $1,266, ,956S3. Total losses paid
In South Carolina for the year 1905,
$996,27417. Total new business dur
ing the year 1905. $60S,599. The to-
tai for business ceased or cancelled,
during the year 1905, $4,123,S22.
Columbia State, Wednesday: All
whisky houses having their supplies
held up and who were. notineo
by the new state dispensary board
that the last purchase made Dy
the old board had been condemn
ed, will have an opportunity to pre-
sent their claims to the new board on
April II. The old state board VIII
also be heard on that date and give
reasons why the purchases were
made. A resolution to this erect
was adopted by the state board yes
terday after a conference with Mr..
Il.
was here as an attorney for the hew
board to look into the legality of the
purchases, having accepted the "iFer
of the board made a few days aeo.
Columbia Record, Wednesday:
The jamestown exposition board Gre
ated by the last legislature, met yes
terday afternoon In the governor
office and organized by electing w.
e. Gonzales chairman, Il. Marion
Rucker. yice-president, and August
Kohn, secretary and treasurer. Plans
were submitted for the state building
but the board deferred the question
of putting up a building to the next
meeting, which will be held at the
call of the chairman. A committee
of three, with the chairman as ex-
officio chairman, was authorized 10
go on to Norfolk and make person
al survey. and this state Will De
Thoroughly canvassed for exhibits.
MANY men from various parts or the
state have been writing the governor
urging that the appointment OF MISS
Kate Lilly Blue as lady commas
sioner. but the board did not touch
on this subject yesterday. prooapiy
considering it dangerous one
There Is no board Of lady commis-
SlOnerS pTONlueu loi III '"S ~
Columbia Record: Are some
South Carolina colored Odd Fellows
lodges breeders of arson and other
forms of revenge against the whites
i'm the rural districts? That they are
Is the theory and belief of Special
officer H. w. Holloway, who mas
what he considers is reliable infor-
nation that some score of alleged IN
In fsy
different parts of the state under the
comptroller : generals direction, are
directly tracable to plots worked out
I'm these lodges and executed by MEM
bers against white men 1t Is desired
to strike a blow in the dark. Mr..
Holloway has been informed that one
of the so called principles OF the or
der as ii has degenerated in the hands
of these ignorant negroes In To cor
rect wrongs" perpetrated against ne
groes by white men who are 100
strong to be struck I'm the open. And
cases he has investigated In Abbeville,
Orangeburg and Laurens counties
have confirmed his suspicious and the
information lodge members have I'M
parted to him. On the night or the
18th, or rather on the morning or
the 18th, Sunday, In Laurens county
near Clinton, in what Is known as the
Huntington section, where the ne
groes outnumber the whites perhaps
twenty to one, the big barns OF Mr..
w. ]. Adair and the dwelling of Mr..
s. A. Philson were burned at the
same time, with the neighborhood
Odd Fellows lodge i'm session up to
four o'clock Sunday morning. Ordi-
narily a fire of this kind In the coun-
try attracts several hundred negroes,
but that night the negroes did not
stop at the fire in going to and from
the lodge meeting, and only two or
three servants working on the places
could be obtained to help save the
household goods and effects from the
barns The theory Is that the blacks
want to get rid of the whites of that
The result was that
practically nothing was saved at eth
er place. The lodge at this place
meets almost daily. remaining inl
session all night frequently. In Abb
beville county. near the Greenwood
line. where the Tolberts, with their
Republican politics, have been caus-
ing trouble between the negroes and
the whites for forty years, there have
been q dozen mysterious fires In a
year, four of them within ten days of
each other. There are four or five
active lodges i'm that county Most OF
the fires were preceded by threaten
ing letters advising the property own
ers to leave. The scene of the incen-
diarism i'm Orangeburg county Is near
Creston, q, small station on the Coast
Line road, about ten miles from the
town of Orangeburg. where the trou-
BILE dates from the killing Of a negro
by a Mr. Edwards about eighteen
months ago. The negroes had been
a certain white man to tes-
tify against Edwards, but his evil |
dence was the other way. The night |
the jury returned a verdict OF mot ,
guilty" Edwards lost HRS barns and
the witness lost his saw mill and
ninety bales of cotton, only thirty |
bales of which had been insured. |
There was suspicious fire I'm Saluda
recently. about ten miles from
Leesville. but investigation tends to |
show that this was due to n family |
feud, the fire being, likely by rela-
tive. officer Holloways father a few
days ago convicted a negro woman of
arson i'm Fairfield county, the woman
being recommended to mercy and |
getting a life term instead of a death |
sentence. This was case of revenge
against a white man, but is not trace
able to any plot.
Columbia special OF March 90 to
the News and Courier: Another Illus
tratiOn of the great difficulty I'm the
way of establishing a high order Of
white servants in the south on ac-
count of the presence of the negro,
and the social lines that are drawn
against him and those who work with
him in the capacity of servants. is
furnished i'm the withdrawal from
Columbia of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Nc
Donald. who were brought here from
through the immigration
the man working as a
rOachman for Mr.. E. w. Robertson
and the woman as a housekeeper at
Mr.. Robertson's home. The people
we're married last night by the Rev.
Dr. G.. A. Blackburn, at the home of
4 Scotch friend, only a few close
friends being present. and left at
1nce for Louisville to make that their |