Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-13
Seraps and faets.

of thirty men last Monday night. The
men were in the custody Of Deputy
Sheriff Evans, Of Jackson county. en-
route to Jail when the mob overlook
them. A series of incendiary ware
house fires, causing losses in charcoal,
feedstuffs and other supplies, incensed
the people of the vicinity. The four
negroes confessed their guilt when the
mob took them from the deputy and
all four were hanged to limbs Of trees
by the side of the road where their
bodies were found this morning. The
immediate cause of the lynching was
the burning of the warehouse of Sam
Byrd last Friday night, when it Is
said an attempt was made to waylay
and rob Byrd, who conducted store
near Van Cleave. Among the other
warehouses burned in the vicinity are
those of w. H. Westfall, about month
ago and the Dantseler Lumber COM
pany recently. The lynching was con-
Quoted in an orderly manner.
THE postmaster general Is Of the
opinion that it is prejudicial to the
welfare of a boy to employ him as
special delivery messenger in the pos
tai service and has issued an order to
the effect that whenever vacancy
occurs in the force of special-delivery
messengers the position shall not be
filled and that substitute letter car
riers and clerks shall be employed to
effect special delivery. He says these
messenger boys are called upon fire.
quently to visit low resorts and are
often compelled to travel long dis
tances late at night in lonely outlying
sections Of the great cities, failing to
make deliveries at times through fear
or WEAKNESS. The object of the or
der is to bring about the gradual dis
continuance of the services of these
juvenile messengers. Special-delivery
messengers have been employed since
1885 and at present there are 2,5O5
engaged at S19 postoffices, with ages
as follows: eighty-seven, 1S years;
167, IA years; 31S, 10 years; 654, 16,
years; 499, II, years, and $50, Is years
or over. At S44 offices substitute
clerks and carriers do the work.
-Amate, La, March IL: The
strained political situation in Louisiana
Democratic circles was last night re-
sponsible for the killing of Democratic
State Senator-elect Kemp. He was
shot and killed by c. F. Hyde, young
political business leader of this Sec
ton. Yesterday the men quarreled
about the recent Democratic primary
for lieutenant governor, in which j. J.
Bailey and Paul Lambremont, COM
peted with the result that Bailey, the
defeated candidate, filed protest
charging the Democratic state central
committee with fraud. Hyde in dis
cussing this controversy is alleged to
have called Kemp a liar Friends OF
both thought the incident trivial and
it had apparently been forgotten until
last night, when Senator Kemp, with
a drawn revolver, walked into Hyde's
place Of business, accompanied by a
friend. Hyde was unarmed. Kemp,
still keeping his revolver in sight de-
manded an apology, which was retus-
ed. Kemp is then alleged 10 have
slapped Hyde's face. The senator's!
friends at this point interferred and
separated the two men, who thereupon
agreed to meet and fight it out with
revolvers. Senator Kemp thereupon
left and Hyde went into his house
nearby and secured his revolver. When
he came out he shouted to Kemp TO
wait for him which the senator did.
They approached each other and Hyde
opened fire, two shots fatally wound
ing the senator, who died. Hyde was
not injured and witnesses claim that
Kemp did not shoot.
San Diego, Cal, March IL: When
the American battleship fleet under
command Of Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans steamed today into Magdalena
bay, passing through the rocky gate
way marked by Sail Rock on the north
and Redono Point on the south, and
dropped anchors behind the high pen
insula promontory which stretches a
protecting arm down from the main
land and makes Man'o'War cove, the
most sheltered harbor of the lower Pa
cific coast, the history making naval
cruise of more than $1,000 miles, begun
at Hampton Roads less than three
months ago. practically came TO an
end. Magdalena bay is the present
naval base of the Pacific for American
target work and battle practice drills
.i,rl,t Of 11.X-
through government lease the vessels.
If not the men of the fleet, may feel
that they are again in home waters.
There remains to be made the trip from
Magdalena bay to San Francisco, the
destination originally announced and
matter of some LOO miles, but it will
not be begun until after target practice
is concluded and fleet drills are done.
This last stage of the journey will be
tour of holiday making, with stops at
San Diego, Los Angeles. Santa Barbara
and Santa Cruz, where reception COM
mittees are planning all manner of en-
tertainments for officers and men. The
sailors will find themselves heroes, ev-
cry one. in the eyes of their western
admirers and are promised series OF
fetes which include features ranging
from gala balls under the patronage
of exclusive social sets, to prize fights
refereed by Champion James J. JEFF
fries.
New York, March II: Mrs. Will
liam CoLly Thaw was served here late
today with papers in which she is
made a cOdefendant with her son,
Harry X Thaw, in the action institu-
ted by the latters Wife, Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, to annul their marriage. As
Harry Thaw is an inmate of an insane
asylum he is in the eyes of the law
legally dead and the next of kin be-
comes technically the actual dcfen-
dant in the case. An attempt was al
so made this evening to serve Harry
Thaw at Matteawan by messenger.
who was admitted to the asylum.