Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| = Union, January "a: The court OF
general sessions adjourned very alb
ruptly yesterday. There was little done
except to receive pleas Of guilty from
numerous negroes, indicted for various
offences, most Of them Of a minor char
acter. The defendants seemed to pre-
fer risking their cases in the hands OF
the judge to employing attorneys and
going before jury.
- Columbia, January "a: Governor
Ansel has offered reward Of 500 for
the apprehension Of Toney Moses, the
negro who shot and killed Policeman
w. A. Clyde in Sumter few days ago.
The city council Of Sumter has also Of
fered q reward Of the same amount.
Moses Is described as black, thick set,
thirty-five years old, five feet, six or
eight inches high, and weighs ITO
pounds.
The town Of Bennettsville was Wis
tied by disastrous fire last Friday
morning. Half Of the business section,
including what is known as the Math-
eson block and four handsome resi-
dences were burned. The loss Is some
where between $150,000 and 100000.
The residence Of ex-Judge ]. H. Hud-
son was among those destroyed. The
insurance amounted to $4,000. Ben
nettsville has no waterworks and there
was no way Of fighting the fire.
- Governor Ansel has named the fol-
lowing delegates to represent this state
at the hearing on the Appalachian for
astry bill before the house committee
IN agriculture in Washington ON jan
uary 30th: Prof. A. G. Moore OF the
University Of South Carolina; DR.. ]. A.
B. Scherer Of Newberry college; w. d.
Woods of Darlington; Jas. F. Neville Of
Walhalla; E. H. DeCamp Of CARNEY;
T. A. Ratcliff Of Anderson; DR.. II. N.
Snyder Of Wofford college; Prof, B. E.
Geer Of Furman university; Col. A. Q.
Kaufman Of Charleston.
- Investigations by the Richland cor
oner's jury into. the death Of George
w. Profit, the young draughtsman re-
Gently reported to have committed sui
eide with laudanum developed that
there was probably foul play in connec-
ton with the case. The physician who
examined the body reported bleeding
from the nose and mouth and when he
made a careful inquiry as to the cause
he found where an instrument some
thing like woman's hatpin had pene-
trated to the young mans lungs. The
position Of the wound was such that 1t
COulQ nave UG6H GA
cept with the left hand. There was
enough testimony to show that all the
facts were not developed and the jury
found that the deceased came to his
death at the hands Of a party or parties
unknown to the jury.
Columbia, January 25: Mr.. Giles L.
Wilson of Spartanburg will succeed Mr..
Lee G.. Holleman as state bank exam
ner. The appointment was made to-
day by Gov. Ansel, on the recommen-
1ation of the executive committee Of
the State Bankers association, as re-
quired by law. The committee met
today in the office of the governor and
unanimously recommended Mr.. Wilson,
those present being Messrs. D. D. Nc
Coll Of Bennettsville, chairman; w. D.
Morgan of Georgetown, C. J. Shannon,
Jr., OF Camden. John n. Beckley Of An
derson. Jas. C.. Self of Greenwood, Will
son G. Harvey of Charleston. Mr.. Will
son. as secretary Of the association, Is
himself an eX-officio member Of the
committee, but he was not present at
the meeting. The appointment takes
effect on February 1st, and for the un
expired term. which Is two years.
- Columbia special Of January 26, to
Charlotte Observer: One of the most
important and far reaching bills of the
SESSION was killed ny lHe HOuSe IOudy,
after an hours debate. This was Rep
resentative Nash's bill providing for a
state insurance deTa artment presided
over by a state insurance commission
er with authority to revoke the license
of any company doing business in the
state which in the Judgment Of the
commissioner was doing q wildcat bus
mess or was unsafe This means that
there is hardly to be any legislation at
this session against the growing evil
OF wildcat insurance, both fire and life,
The bill was intended to correct among
others the evil that prevails in practi-
cally every county in the state OF ir-
responsible and so-callet mutual COM
panies, which at present have no super.
vision. The consensus Of opinion SEEM
ed to be that the insurance business
has not yet grown to such proportions
as to justify the establishment of such
an office with such large powers. The
bill was killed by vote Of 4S to 3S,
which shows that the sentiment in fa-f
vor of such 2 measure has been greatly
strengthened since last session.