Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

-CfeOTBe Nasty, Tie Iduhcy hoA
derer was sent to the penitentiary last
Friday.
= Cotton has been rolling in to mar
ket at quite a lively rate during the
past few days.
- Congress street should be macad-
amized. It can easily be done II the
authorities will only use the means.
THE American Tea Growing COM
pany, has 10000 acres planted in tea
shrubs near Rantowles, Colleton coun-
ty.
Ed Rainey, colored, has been SEN
fenced to die on the gallows at Gan-
ney on April 18th. next. 1t Is prooa.
BILE that his sentence will be commuted
to life Imprisonment.
Daniel Zimmerman who, a few days
ago, pleaded guilty to forgery In con-
nection with the theft Of bonds from
the office Of the state treasurer was on
Saturday sentenced to term Of four
years in the penitentiary. Thomas j.
Gibson, who was convicted Of receiv-
ing stolen bonds was too Ill to ap-
pear in court and a sealed sentence
was left in his case.
The attorney general has received
a request for information concerning
the law forbidding the sale Of cocaine
passed at the last session OF the gem
eral assembly. According to Mr.. Lyons
view, the act forbids the sale Of any
drug In which cocaine Is contained to
O. noticeable degree, the idea OF the
legislature clearly being to put stop
to the alarming growth Of the cocaine
habit. There are q large number OF
drugs thus affected, although OF course
1t was not intended to forbid q sale
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full medicinal purposes.
- Charlotte Observer: In the recent
ly passed river and harbor bill con-
gress was good to South Carolina, and
Capt. Howell, of the United States
engineer corps, expressed himself yes
terday as feeling very much gratihed
over the outcome and said that he
thought the appropriation was quite
liberal. OF course, the $75,29O laid
aside for the inland waterway between
Charleston and McClellanyille will not
complete the channel, but 1t will meet
the contract and enable them to make
an estimate as to. the future cost.
Following are the amounts appropr1-
ated for the rivers and channels OF
South Carolina: Winyah Bay, $4,000;
inland waterway between Charleston
and McClellanville, $75,290; Charleston
Waccamaw and Little Pee-Dee rivers,
$4,000; Lynch's river and Clarke's
Creek, removing logs and snags, $20,-
900; Great Pee-Dee river, $4,000: San
tee, Wateree and Congaree rivers, ana
Estherville- Minim Creek canal, $l5O,-
900. Total, $355,790.
-Gaffney special to Columbia State:
II will be remembered that Tom Har-
ris, the condemned murderer, In his
confession, stated that he secured from
Mrs. Morgan at the time that he killed
her about 500 in gold; also that he
had $40 of his own money. This state
ment was doubted by number Of
people inasmuch as the gold coin was
not found when he was searched. This
morning Harris asked Sheriff Thomas
for his clothes. The sheriff carried the
grip containing his clothes UP to him,
AMI when the sheriff opened the grip,
he said to Harris: 1--WE will see II
there Is any money in your Clothes
Harris replied: "If the money has not
been removed or taken from the coat
in the grip, it should be there" The
sheriff examined the coat and found
SIS in bills in the right coat pocket
and 800 in gold in tobacco sack, al
so $2.75. 1t is believed now that Har-
ris really had the $40 Of his own mon
ey, which he claimed to have had be-
fore the killing, as he reiterated this
statement this morning and 1t Is hard
to conceive how q man, standing al
most in the shadow Of the gallows,
could persist in deliberate lie.
Anderson Intelligencer: Tradition
credits the negro with having re-
markably thick and strong skull, but
the fact was demonstrated In Ander-
son Tuesday night, when Fannie Will
liams was struck over the head with
sledge hammer of substantial size
and weight, the hickory handle OF
which broke in two. The negro's head
was, Of course, badly bruised, but 1t is
stated by physicians that had an or
binary white man received the blow
his head would have been crushed like
an egg shell, and he would have died
a horrible and instant death. Fannie
was struck by another negro, John
Williams by name. The two had an
alteration over woman and John
delivered the decisive lick when he
swung the big sledge hammer against
Fannie's head. To the surprise Of both
the handle snapped, as Fannie very
suddenly sat down, somewhat dazed.
Though her head is considerably swell
ed as a result Of the blow, she was
able to appear before the mayor We'd
nesday morning. At the trial another
negro was also arraigned, charged with
doing some loud "cussing" at the same
scrap. The mayor charged the bunch
$25.
- Spartanburg Herald Saturday: By
the order Of Chief Justice Pope, John
Shelton, the negro who was 70 hang
yesterday for killing his father-in-law,