Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-03
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1908.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Moffatt at Due West at o'clock TO-
night. She is survived by seven chill
drrn. as follows: Rev. X. l.. Grier.
Greelcyville: Mrs. r. X. Moffatt, Ches-
ter: William Grier. Spartanburg; MRS.
j. II. Linton, Washington, ID. c.; X. r..
Glier. wellington: Miss Agnes Grier
and Mrs. j. S. Moffatt, wife Of the pres
ident of the college. Mrs. Grier had
been i'll with pneumonia for about ten
days. She was 65 years old.
Lancaster special Of Monday to the
Charlotte Observer: Saturday night
the passenger train on the Lancaster
and Chester railway. which is due at
Lancaster at S.35 p. H., was fired upon
twice with a shotgun. The train had
just passed Grace station and was
about five miles from Lancaster one
Of the shots hit the first-class passen-
ger coach just below a window, at
which a lady was sitting, with no dam
age except to the coach. The second
shot struck the secOnd-clasS car In
sidewise or glancing direction, most or
the load going above the window. Fred
Latham, a colOred porter on the train,
who was sitting by an open window,
with one hand lying on the window Sill,
was hit on the hand by one of the
shots. There is no clue as to the guilty
committing of such an offense.
- Ned and Brack Toland, negro
brothers aged II and 10, were the
murderers of Mrs. Paul w. Ellison in
Lexington county, just across the
river from Columbia last week. The
negroes were arrested next day after
the discovery of the murder and they
have confessed. Brack told about
the murder first. He said that they
learned that there was nobody home
but the old lady and she appeared
quite suspicious of them. He caught
her while his brother knocked her on
the head with an axe. They put her
body in the clothes basket and search
ed the house for what they could
steal. They carried off gun and
several other articles; but found no
money. The two negroes would have
been lynched; but they were gotten
into the penitentiary for safe keeping.
A special term of the Lexington court
| is to be called to try the two negroes
as soon as possible.
- Chester special to Charlotte Obser-
yer: County politics is beginning to
warm up. The candidates have not yet
reached the announcing stage, but
number is being spoken of in connec-
tion with one office and another, and 1t
is probable that there will be no end Of
starters when the race proper begins.
Most interest centres around the office
| Of clerk Of court. For this office the
avOwed candidates are as follows: Mr.
| ]. B. Westbrook the encumbent, who
| is filling out the uneXpired term Of Mr..
]. c. McFadden. who resigned several
months ago to recuperate his health:
Mr. ]. E. Cornwell, ex-sheriff, and a
very strong man politically, and Mr.. S.
| I %, .hn hnn ha1
office, but is known all over the county
as a capable and well informed man.
There may be others in the race, and
probably will be. as the office of clerk
Of court is decidedly the best in the
county.
| - Columbia, March :" The supreme
court today on petition Of Attorney
General Lyon issued an order against
the dispensary winding-up commission
requiring it to show cause in the su-
preme court room Wednesday why 1t
should not be mandamused to pay
over to the state treasurer $4,000
| from the 100000 funds which Judge
Pritchard held up by injunction last
week in order to carry. out the terms
of the act approved February Gath
appropriating $4,000 out Of this fund
for the use of the attorney general In
continuing the prosecutions against
alleged dispensary grafters. Thus 1t
is sought to secure an order from the
supreme court requiring the commits
sion to do what Judge Pritchard said
| in his order last week should not be
done, thereby clearly defining the
clash between the Federal and state
courts. The South Carolina supreme
court will not be regularly In session
until next month, but an extra term
INC hNy
Chief Justice Pope last week. The
order calling the special term does
not say anything about any specific
business to be attended to. Some
Greenville attorneys interested in a
certain bond case affecting the city
of Greenville were notified Of the ex-
ira meeting, leading to the conclusion
that the extra term was called pri-
marily to hear that case. 1t is known,
however, that a few days prior to the
order of Judge Pritchard, Attorney
w. F. Stevenson, representing the
winding up commission, took a trip
up the country to confer with men,
bers of the supreme court with a view
of instituting such proceedings. The
dispensary winding-up commission
announced DEGREES in a number of
cases at meeting held this afternoon.
The trial Of the case Of Fleischmann
& Co., who pushed the commission
into Federal court proceedings at
Asheville, has not yet been finally de-
termined, but overcharges have been
established sufficient to about entire
ly wipe out their claim Of $4,000
against the state. The $4,000 claim
of McSmyrl, the Camden distiller,
was reduced by $4,000. The claim Of
Garrett & Co., formerly Of North Car
olina, who instituted the first injunc-
ton case against the commission in
which they succeeded in having ST.
400 set aside for their claim, was wip-
ed out by overcharges the commission
claims to have established. In the
Fleischmann case evidence was i'd
duced to show overcharges at the rate
Of S. a case in great quantities. The
evidence went to show that the over
charges were used to bribe dispensary
officials.
- Spartanburg, March 2: Bishop
William Wallace Duncan, Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, for
half a century a leader in the church
Of his choice and for twenty-five years
bishop, died at his home on North
Church street in this city this morn
ing at 9.55 o'clock. Death came quietly
and peacefully after long illness. III
the death Of Bishop Duncan one of
the most prominent figures has been
removed from the religious life of the
south. He had been Unidentified with
the Methodist church for more than
half a century and for more than a
score of years he had been bishop in
the church, having been elected in
1886. His popularity was not only
local and state wide, but extended
throughout the entire south and west.
He was man of scholarly attain
ments, a deep thinker and a forceful
and eloquent speaker and a magnifi-
cent presiding officer. He was a great
man and his power lay not only in
being bishop, but because of his high
Christian character, his humbleness and
the zeal and energy with which he la
bored for the cause Of the church.
Bishop Duncan was born at Randolph
Macon, Va, December 3Oth, 1889, being
the third son Of Prof. David Duncan.
He received his early education at
Randolph Macon, which was COM
pleted Wofford college, where he
graduated in 1853. After being con-
Verted he studied for the minis
and npOn bainp admitted