Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

brought the following interesting infor-
nation about the Wittekind; Two hun
dred and fifty-eight skilled Flemish
weavers. with their families, left Ghent
for Bremen today from. whence they
will sail on steamer Of the North Ger
man Lloyd line direct for Charleston,
IS. c. They form the first installment
Of considerable immigration move
ment arranged under the auspices OF
the government of Belgium and the
authorities OF South Carolina.
- Aiken special of Tuesday to Column
bia State: Hon. @. L. Toole, local op-
ton candidate for the state senate to
serve the unexpired term of the late
Hon. w. E. Johnson, was today declar-
ed elected over his opponent, Mr.. j. M.
Polotty (dispensary.l The vote was
|light-1,061 to 452. Only twenty-five
boxes Of thirty-one are included in the
official count as three boxes were not
called for by the managers and three
others were not received in time to be
tabulated by the executive committee
today. The six boxes represented MI
nor precincts, however, and the result
would not have been changed mate
rally.
- Columbia State, Oct, 10: AS soon
as Governor Hayward receives from
Solicitor Hildebrand the official notice
Of the action Of the grand jury Of Dor
chester county In which Sheriff Lime
house was indicted for malfeasance In
office, he win suspend that official un-
til a trial Is held. Unofficially the
governor heard Of the Indictment
from Solicitor Hildebrand and the lat
ter will forward the indictment with
In the next few days. Lmehouse is
charged with allowing a mob to take
from him the negro named VIII Spain
who was afterwards lynched because
he was charged with attempting to en-
ter the house of citizen while the
latter was away. The lynching oc-
Cured In the day time.
= Charlotte, N. c., October 16: Sheriff
Hood of Fairfield county, 8. c., shot
and killed Fred Grimes. alias Henry
Johnson, an escaped convict OF Fair
county. near here. Sheriff Hood Is now
serving his first term as sheriff Of Fair
field county. He came here to arrest
the negro and sent a man to talk 70
Johnson. The negro became worried
and went from the field to his house.
Here the sheriff rushed upon him. The
negro reached and got his gun down
from the mantel and drew It on Sheriff
Hood. The sheriff called on him to
surrender when the negro started to
shoot, but the sheriff was too quick
for him. shooting him in the breast,
killing him instantly. Sheriff Hood
came in and surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff Myers, in the absence Of Sheriff
Horne. He has employed, counsel to
defend him. The shooting occurred at
10 o'clock this morning, about six miles
from Monroe on the Concord road.
- The town OF Seneca was visited by
a $4,000 fire shortly after IL o'clock
Tuesday night The fire originated In
the coal cellar of the Oconee Inn and
there being no facilities for fighting 1t
the flames spread rapidly. The build
ing was worth $4,000 and was insured
for $4,000. The other losses are: Pal
metto hotel. owned by r. NJ. Richard-
son and conducted by Mrs. Tooms, $780,
900 building and $4,000 furniture and
contents, with $1,000 Insurance.; Leslie
Stribling, drug store, $4,000, with $4,000
Insurance.: Hunter & Harper, dry
goods, $4,000 with $4,000 insurance:
Luther Moore groceries. $4,000 and ST.
900 insurance; dwelling owned by Mrs.
L. M. Coleman and occupied by Mrs.
Anderson as boarding house, $4,000,
with $1,000 insurance. A report went
out to the effect that the fire was star
ted by negroes in revenge for the dy-
namiting Of the negro college few
nights before: but this theory has few
supporters. There was lot OF paint,
oil and other infiammable articles In
the coal cellar There has been no eX-
citement about alleged incendiarism.
Columbia special of October Is, to
the Spartanburg Journal: 1t seems
that the state dispensary will go before
the next legislature heavily indicted by
the summer primaries, but whether a
pro- -dispensary senate will be able to
save its life in spite Of another anti
dispensary house remains to be seen.
Still II is confidently calculated among
the friends Of the dispensary that even
II the legislature does repeal the pres
ent law and pass something In the ma
ture of the Morgan local option law af-
fording the counties choice between
prohibition and county dispensary
with perhaps high license for Charles
ton, the state dispensary will remain
alive for at least two years, and possi-
bly, forever They figure that out by
saying that in case the state dispen-
sary is abolished injunction proceedings
will be Immediately begun with vigor
which will tie the matter up In the
courts for two years at least The In
junction proceedings will be based on
the contention that was made from
time to time during the state campaign,
and in fact in the last legislature, that
any law Of the general nature proposed
by the Morgan bill would be In conflict
with the constitution. So whatever else
may be said about the coming contest
ii Is certain that the anti-di -dispensary
people have no bed Of roses ahead OF
them.
Columbia State, Oct. 10: The state
of South Carolina will owe less at the
end Of this year than in mony previous
years. Under the law only $500, 900