Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-15

- GreenVllie, teDruary H. rHe
broke out tonigh. in the Conyer build
ing, completely cutting 1t. The
Cover Supply company, the Postal
Telegraph company Waddill & Son
and several other business houses
we're burned out. The fire Is sup
posed to have started In the cellar of
the Cover Supply company. The loss
is estimated at $4,000 to $4,000.
partly insured.
- The general assembly will proba-
bly, adjourn tomorrow night; but It
will not be until after the Carey Goth
ran bill has become law. Opponents
of the bill had threatened to fillibus-
ter it to death; but they were check
mated by a declaration from the gov
ernor to the effect that II the bill failed
to pass at this session he would at
once call an extra session. When the
bill went over to the house 1t was
loaded with senate amendments.
There was no time to give the amend
ments consideration and the bill was
referred to conference committee.
It was known that the committee could
not agree and the next step was a
committee on free conference. This
| committee was composed of Repre-
sentative Carey, Cothran and Rich
ards, and Senator'S Raysor, OTIS and
Hardin.
= Columbia, February IA: An at
tempt was made in the house today to
kill Representative Boyds bill to ex-
empt the rural districts from the oper-
alton Of the compulsory vaccination
law. Mr.. Boyd impressed the house
by reciting an incident in Laurens
county where he said an unprincipled
doctor went to g. woman with five
year old child and vaccinated both In
the face Of her fearful protests "And
that child Is under the sod today" ex-
claimed. Mr.. Boyd. IF you want to
bring on violence in Laurens refuse
To pass this bill and the responsible
ty Will be on you." The doctors made
two hostile motions against the bill,
protesting that the means to protect
| the towns from negroes in the suburbs
was the compulsory vaccination law.
but they were voted down 46 to 80 and
81 to 26.
: Spartanburg Journal: It Is report
ed that z. M. Andrews OF Greensboro,
N. c., who has conducted chain Of
/ furniture stores In Greensboro Char
lotte, Spartanburg and in towns In
Tennessee, has failed, petition in vol
untary bankruptcy. The store Of Mr..
Andrews In Spartanburg. known as the
Piedmont Furniture Co.. is closed as
are also the stories in Columbia and
| Greensboro. A special to the Char
lotte Observer from Greensboro with
reference to the reported failure Of Mr..
Andrews says: While 1t is currently
rumored here that e. M. Andrews will
shortly file a voluntary petition In
bankruptcy and the statement has been
published in the local papers. so far as
the proceedings have not been COM
menced I'm court. Mr.. Andrews for
merly conducted a big furniture store.
but more recently has sold only musl-
cal instruments. The Andrews firm
has been conducting chain OF furni-
ture stores In North and South Caro-
lima and eastern Tennessee and the
doors OF at least one OF them has been
closed. Mr.. Andrews formerly lived in
Charlotte.
| = Columbia special Of February Is,
to News ard Courier: The supreme
court today rendered decision sus-
tanning the lower court In the case
against George Hasty. It win be re-
membered that this case excited con-
siderable interest for various reasons.
One Of them was the fact that the peo-
pie killed were members Of a theatrical
company. Another was that 1t was the
first important trial In which Judge
withers Memminger appeared and in
which he took q decisive stand. and
again because Of the hard d-fought legal
battle with George Johnstone and his
associates on the one side and Solic-
itor Sease and State Senator ]. c.
Otis, the other associates. on the 9TH
er side. 1t will be remembered that
Hasty was tried for the killing Of MI
Ian Benet, and he was accused Of the
killing of both Milan Benet, who was
musical director, and Davidson, who
was another member Of the Nothing
| But Money" company. The killing oc-
CURED in the city Of Gaffney just be-
| fore Christmas, in 1905. One OF the
| rxQ hla fQQfnraQ nf the
the testimony Of Miss Verne Sheridan.
| who was connected with the comp any,
and on whose account the difficulty In
part occurred. In Miss Sheridan's tes-
| timony she stated that Benet came to
her and told her that he had locked
her windows, stating that Miss Bishop,
who was another member Of the COM
pany, had been annoyed and that he
did not want the sans thing to occur
to Miss Sheridan. Larer In the night
Miss Sheridan said that she heard
knocks on her door and refusing to
open the door, she heard some one say:
Come. open the door. Do not be SO
mean. Why don't you let me in?"
Miss Sheridan said that she paid no
attention to this, but was getting
frightened and that after the person
tried to force the door that he tried
to get in through the transom and just
ty, struck match, she called Benet,
who promptly appeared, and he went
into the room and persuaded the girl
to go to bed, but Benet remained in
the room, working on his music until
he got tired, and laid down on the foot
Jf the bed until morning. The next
morning Hasty was upbraided for hav-
ing given this offence to the women Of
the company. and as a result Of this
interview the shooting occurred. In
which both Benet and Davidson were
killed by Hasty. The appeal to the
supreme court was based on a variety
II grounds, largely on the admission OF
certain testimony by Judge Memmin
ger, as we'll as In his refusal to admit
certain testimony that the defence
wanted to produce. An effort was
made to quash the indictment. The
case excited a great deal of local in
terest. All of the official record Of the
trial as submitted to the supremG I urt
indicates that during the accounting Of
the testimony Of Miss Sheridan that
the audience in the court room had to
be reprimanded for applauding her.
Under the affirmation of the lower