Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-12
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

News and Courier: The state dispen-
sary commission met today, but trans
acted no business Of Importance. The
commission discovered that the audit
ing company that Is checking up the
books will be six weeks more at the
job and the several hundred thousand
dollars worth Of claims cannot be
PASSED upon until this report Is In. The
matter Of accepting the. Clarke Bros
purchase is still undecided. The board
approved a number Of minor claims for
current account such as constables,
pay, salaries and, the like.
- Lancaster special to Charlotte OBJ
server, April 10: This morning while
returning from Lancaster with q load
OF fertilizer Mr.. Henry Erwin, who
lives two miles east of town, was run
into and so severely hurt that he only
lived short time. The accident oc- +.
CURED on the outskirts Of town. Ply
stcians were gotten 10 the scene as
soon as possible. but could do nothing
for the unfortunate man. It seems
that Mr.. Erwin was walking in the
rear of his wagon and hearing some-
| thing coming from behind turned, and
as he did so the tongue Of the run
away wagon hit him in the forehead.
Columbia State: Comptroller Gem
| eral Jones whose one hobby is the
taxation Of all property at its true
valuation, has a mule in Abbeville re-
turned at a much higher figure than
IT appears to be worth. He returns 1t
for $35 simply because 1t is a mule
and he has not yet succeeded in giving
1t away. The faithful one is twenty
| two years Of age, and Mr.. Jones has
| offered 1t free Of all cost to every ten
ant on his farm but the tenants always
reject the offer and the mule, while
not pensioner, is reaching @ stage
| In life when work is tiresome But"
| says the comptroller general, II have
to pay taxes on him Just the same and
1t would look like lodging IL I return
ed It for less than $35."
Atlanta Georgian: After suffering
two weeks at the Pasteur Institute
with hydrophobia, little Lucy Hutchin-
son, the twenty eight months old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Hutchinson Of Rembert, 8. c., died
Tuesday afternoon. About three
weeks ago the little girl was bitten
| above the eye by family pet dog, at
the family residence in Rembert. Az
ter a week had passed her condition
became worse and the family became
alarmed and brought the little one to
| was given the child, but the Injection
had gone too far, and It was too late
to save her. The body was removed
TO the undertaking establishment Of
Barclay and Brandon and was sent to
Rembert, s. c., Wednesday morning.
The funeral services will be conducted
there.
= Spartanburg Herald, Wednesday:
The jury returned q verdict of $25 In
favor Of the plaintiff in the case Of c.
M. Smith vs.. the Southern railway,
which came up In Magistrate Kirby's
court yesterday. Smith, young white
man, mill operative at Pacoiet sued
the Southern for 500 damages for
ejecting him from a passenger train
about four miles above Spartanburg
on the 14th Of March last. According
to testimony, Smith bought q ticket
at White Stone for Asheville, paying
$2.45 for the same. The conductor
took the ticket soon after leaving
White Stone, giving no conductors
check In return. Smith rode on through
Spartanburg. When four miles be-
yond the city the conductor again call
ed on him for transportation. Smith
told the conductor he had given him
his ticket. The conductor replied that
the ticket was only to Spartanburg,
and that he would have to pay $40
more to get to Asheville. This Smith
refused to. do, as he did not have any
money. having borrowed his fare In
Pacolet from friend In order to 20
to his sick mother, who was at the
point Of death. The conductor stop
ped the train and put Smith of. He
walked to Spartanburg and took the
trolley car for Glendale. From Glen
dale he walked to White Stone. He
told the agent he had been put OF
above Spartanburg. Referring back to
| hn aal
ment that he had purchased a ticket
to Asheville. Smith then went to Mr..
Phifer and made suit against the
Southern for 500.
Columbia special Of April II to
Charlotte Observer: One of the re-
generated and purified Carey Cothran
dispensaries has gone wrong, its dis
penser, w. H. Wolfe, who presides
over the shop at the union station In
this city having skipped with short
age Of about $1,000. A warrant was
issued for him to-day by the Richland
county board. Wolf Is a Lexington
county product but he has been a
dispenser at the union station for
number Of years, the new county
board taking him over for reelection
March 16 on excellent endorsements.
Messrs. Callison and Gully, of the
state dispensary force, checked him
up and he receipted for this as his
stock on hand to the county board.
Recently the county board has been
hearing bad things about Wolfe, that
he was drinking and neglecting his
duties, and there were instances
Of his selling at higher prices than
necessary. In view Of these condi-
tions the board requested his resigna-
ton and yesterday sent Dispenser w.
D. Price down to check up prepara-
tory to installing his clerk, j. c. Nc
Elrone, as dispenser. During the
checking last night Mr.. Wolfe left,
although he was invited to remain.
He said he would go next door and
phone his wife. He came back and
said he would go home, as his wife
needed him; that he knew everything
would be all right, as the checking
was being done by his friends. That
was the last seen of Wolfe. His wife
says he did not phone to her last
night and that she had not seen him
since yesterday afternoon. In addi-
ton to his wife, he leaves three little
girls unprovided for. When Mr.. Price
made his report the board sent its
clerk, L. L. Bultman, down to check
the accounts over again. with Messrs.
Price and McElrone. Their finding
was practically the same, the shortage
being slightly increased, the final
amount being $1,5sS.25.
Governor Ansel on last Monday re-
fused to grant pardon in the rather
peculiar case of William Westmore-
land, involving the divorce laws Of
this state, and Georgia. Solicitor Tim
norman recommended the pardon,
saying he was satisfied that while
Westmoreland had been justly con-
victed under the law the prosecution
had been animated by malice and that
Westmoreland had not Intentionally
violated the law, but had done so un-
der a misapprehension. Judge Gage
refused to recommend the pardon,
saying there was no use to have courts
IL the cases Of this sort were to be
pardoned. 1t seems that Westmore-
land, a white man, was married on
January 81, 1875, to Malsy Duffy, In
Augusta, Ga. On July II. 1892, she
left him. They were then living in
South Carolina and he moved to Au-
gusta, where he claimed that he es-
tablished citizenship, and sued for di-
vorce. The suit was begun In 1895
and was granted, an absolute divorce
permitting him to remarry, after two
juries had passed on 1t, as the Geor-