Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Bishop Ellison Capers is again
quite ill at his home in Columbia.
1t is stated that Major Benjamin
Sloan will insist upon the acceptance
of his resignation as president Of the
University of South Carolina and Mr..
John J. McMahan is spoken of as his
probable successor.
- Lancaster special of April Is to
Charlotte Observer: Pearl, the 10
year-old daughter of Warren r. Rob-
inson, a farmer living three miles east
of Lancaster, accidentally shot her.
self in the head this morning at her
fathers home and died this afternoon.
She was fupbling about her brothers
trunk in which was a revolver, when
the weapon suddenly discharged with
the above result.
- Columbia State, April 16: The
Winthrop college board Of trustees met
yesterday in the office Of Governor An
sci to consider the plans for the dor
mitory to be erected shortly. The
last general assembly appropriated
$4,000 for 1908 and the same amount
for 1909 which, with $4,000 given by
the Peabody educational board, Will
enable the trustees to erect a dormi-
tory for 200 additional pupils. The
board yesterday appointed a building
committee, consisting Of Mr.. w. j..
Roddey Of Rock Hill, President john
son and State Superintendent Martin.
- Charleston Post: Col. Asbury
Coward has sent in his resignation to
the board of visitors of the South Car
olina Military Academy, to take ef-
feet in September, the six months re-
uuired being given. The announce
ment that Col. Coward will resign
came today as a great surprise to his
many friends here. For eighteen
years he has been at the head Of the
academy, and has built 1t up to its
trying times Col. Coward said this
afternoon, when asked If his resigna-
ton had not been rendered to the
board, that it was fact, and that 1t
had nothing to do with the Carnegie
fund matter, Of which he had heard
no news.
/ -Spartanburg, April 13: While shoot
ing at didappers from a boat on the
pond at Pacolet mills Saturday after
noon, p. Kirby, aged Is years, was
drowned. The body was recovered
Saturday night and the inquest held
Sunday. The jury returned a verdict
of accidental drowning. Kirby, Will
liam French and a young man named
Bryant got in the boat and started up
the river on a fishing trip. Kirby car
ried shotgun and commenced to shoot
didappers. Bryant took the gun to try
his luck. Kirby, in turning the boat,
caused it 70 dip and the three men
tumbled into the stream. Kirby went
down Immediately, but Bryant and
French reached shore. The water was
drawn from the pond and Kirby'S body
was found in the mud.
A cyclone struck the territory be-
tween Glenn Springs and West
Springs. Spartanburg county Wednes-
day. A negro man was killed near West
Springs, several houses were blown
down and a number Of people Injured
about West Springs. Pauline and
Jonesville, as the result OF the
cyclone which passed through that sec
ton between the hours Of twelve
and one o'clock. The cyclone cleared
everything in its path. uprOOting giant
trees, blowing down dwellings, and out
buildings and injuring quite number
of people Its path was from west to
east but was very narrow, not being
at any point over four hundred feet
wide. After passing through the lands
of DR.. Chas. Jeffries. four miles east
of Jonesville, the cyclone took a north
eaSterly direction toward CulPS Shoals
on the PacOlet river and was seen no
more.
Lancaster special OF April 13, to
The News and Courier: Mr.. S. B.
Roberts, a prominent farmer Of the
Greek section, was severely hurt in
rather mysterious manner Saturday
night. While riding from one Of lis
plantations to another he was
thrown by his mule or knocked from
his animal. He doesn't know himself
what happened to him. The mule re-
turning home riderless caused Mr..
Roberts family to institute a search
for him. He was found at a neigh
bor's house in a dazed condition, with
an ugly cut across the back Of his
head, a cash on his forehead, left
shoulder bruised, bones broken in the
foot and seven red spots in the back,
as though he had been struck with a
knotty stick. Mr.. Roberts doesn't
know how he got to his neighbor's
house. nor how he received his inju-
ries. The only thing he distinctly re-