Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-23
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| - columbia SJate, wednesday,. Tne
many friends Of State Treasurer r.
H. Jennings will be glad to learn that
| he hopes to be home IN short time
completely recovered. The operation
/ performed on the 3rd ult., was entire
ly successful, so he writes, and he Is
now in charge Of Drs. Randolph
| Winslow and sBagley at Johns Hop
kins in Baltimore. Mr.. Jennings says
he feels very much at home at the
Hopkins as DR.. Winslow, in addition
to being from, North Carolina, mar
ried Miss Leiper, a first cousin OF
Mrs. James O. Davis Of Winnsboro.
Capt. Jennings son is also at the
Hopkins studying medicine.
Charleston special Of February 20
to Columbia State: Adjt. Gen. Frost
spected the corps Of cadets Of the
South Carolina Military academy and
were much pleased with the excel
lent condition Of the institution. A
visit was paid to the adjoining police
station, which the city proposes to
sell at much less than one-third OF
the cost Of the building for an extern
sion Of the barracks, and the officers
expressed much satisfaction with the
condition Of the premises. Both ON
GERS declared that the station would
| iIldhC luCc4 OLlSCAS Hoo1 SCA % eAAo PANf~
otherwise useful and advantageous to
| the institution.
III. G. Miller, a Chicago man, is in
Jail in Columbia on the charge Of hav-
/ ing attempted to bribe Deputy Sheriff
Cathcart. Miller is either an attorney
for, or a pal Of three men who have
been in jail in Columbia on the charge
Of pocket picking. The trial Of the
men commenced Tuesday, and Miller
seeing that they would be convicted,
that is two Of them against whom true
bills had been found, tried to bribe
Mr.. Cathcart. Mr.. Cathcart accepted
| 5000 with the understanding on the
part of Miller that he would get the
two men down on the ground" After
the money had been paid Cathcart re-
ported the matter to the sheriff who
reported to Judge Hydrick. Miller
was promptly arrested and he will be
tried without delay. The two pick
pockets have seen sentenced to ten
years each in the penitentiary. The
third who was with them was released
on a bond Of $500, failed to turn up
at court and there is no probability
that he will hereafter put In his ap-
pearance. The names Of the convicted
and sentenced men are Schultz and
Beckwith. They, with a man named
Bogot were arrested in Columbia dur
ing fair week and the evidence against
them was indisputable.
| - Greenville News: Five hundred or
more regular troops OF the United
| States army bound for the Philippines
passed through Greenville yesterday on
| two special trains, running as sections
three and four Of train No. 81, the
Washington and Southwestern Yes
tibule Limited. They reached Green
Vile at S.45 and 8 o'clock last night
and were rushed ahead as soon as en-
gines could be changed upon their long
railroad trip from Jersey City concen-
trating depot to San Francisco. The
trains consisted, each, Of one baggage
car for the personal effects OF the Of
fcers, four sleeping cars or the tourist
| type for the enlisted men, and one
standard Pullman sleeper for the oftt-
GERS and their families. The men were
stalwart, sun Drowned fellows, veteran
campaigners, and seemed little fatigued
by the long run. They had the care
less. dare devil, bored expression char
acteristic Of the true trooper, and had
| little to say. While some people are
disposed to become alarmed over the
present military movement to the ORR
ent seeing in. 1t evidence Of the
strengthening Of the Philippine gar
risons in expectation Of war with
China, others are disposed to cred
| II the explanation current among
military men; that these soldiers are
being sent Westward In due course,
simply for the purpose Of relieving
commands which have been on Philip
pine duty for year or more and need