Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-08
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Lancaster special of October 8, to
News and Courier; Three little white
boys in this county are making unu-
sually good records In the cotton fields.
Henry Blackman, l3 years old, son OF
Mr.. ]. w. Blackman Of Rich Hill, pick
ed 406 pounds Of cotton day before
yesterday. Henry's little brother. 8
day. A lad Weighing only 66 pounds,
son of Mr.. c. L. McManus Of Antioch,
picked 300 pounds Of cotton one day
last week.
Sumter special Of October 4, to the
Columbia State: The question OF ex-
cessive express charges by the South
ern Express company In raising the
rates from so cents to $l.10 per hum
dred on fresh meats from Augusta to
Sumter will be fought through to
finish by the Sumter Chamber OF Com
merce. Secretary e. !, Reardon has
requested Senator Tillman and Con-
gresham Lever to ask the interstate
commerce commission at Washington
to investigate the matter and to see
why this company is allowed to make
exorbitant charges. The South Car
olina railroad commission already has
the matter In hand through complaints
made from Sumter.
Courier: Another decision Of much in
terest to a large number Of commu-
mites, mostly rural, insuring In mutual
fire insurance companies, many OF
which require the property holder
sustaining a loss to wait many months
for an assessment to be made before
the claim Is paid, was handed down by
the supreme court today. The law re-
quires no report on the part OF these
sort of companies to the comptroller
general, who has several times sound
ed a warning to the legislature along
this line. The case on which the court
has passed Is that Of Batson & walsh,
a Greenville firm, against the South
Carolina Mutual Insurance company,
the appeal being from the decision OF
the circuit court revising the magis-
trate, who decided that the firm could
not recover except by proceeding in
equity to compel an assessment. The
circuit court reversed this land rem
dered judgment against the defendant
for the amount claimed"
- Columbia special Of October 4, to
the News and Courier: The state board
OF assessors met yesterday to hear pc
titions from those corporations against
whom penalties had been charged for
failure to comply with the act OF 1904.
Inc was lllc 6ICdlCi
part of the day and the result Of the
meeting was not announced until this
morning. The total penalties under
the law amounted to $423,600, or $18,-
900 on each Of the companies falling
to comply. The board remitted penal
ties to the amount Of $422,2SS.14, leay-
ing penalties imposed amounting to
only $1,311S6. Some Of the compa-
nies convinced the board that there
was no intention on their part to evade
the law and that their failure to COM
ply was due to mischance or oversight
and other companies which had not
compiled were represented as winding
up their business, and under this
showing the board decided not to insist
on the full penalties prescribed by the
act, which Is very drastic In this res
pect. The act gives the board the
power to remit such penalties as 1t
sees fit.
- Easley special Of October 5, to
Greenville News: DR.. K. V. Millard,
who came here about ten days ago,
posing as a Baptist preacher, has been
run out Of town. A letter was receiV-
ed yesterday from Dorchester county
authorities telling Of his record. 1t
seems that he deserted his wife and
family out west a few years ago and
came to Dorchester county where he
again married. He was put In jail
there, but was released and had not
been heard Of since. He came to Eas-