Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-17
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

| The annual conference of the
State Epworth League convened at
Newberry yesterday.
| Colonel w. w. Moore of Barnwell,
| has announced himself as a candidate
for the office Of adjutant general.
Mrs. ]. E. Pilgrim, aged 55, be-
coming deranged as an effect or
pellagra, committed suicide by drink
| ing laudanum and jumping into the
pond at Pendleton cotton mills, An
derson, Wednesday.
Mr.. B. Harris, former president
of the State Farmers Union, has been
Iappointed an inspector under the
commercial foodstuffs act, as passed
| by the last session of the Legislature.
THE election of Representatives
Legare, Patterson and Lever, from
the first, second and seventh congress
sional districts of this state, were con-
frmed Wednesday by the house cleo
ton committee No. 3.
The Southern railway is making
arrangements to put in service a
number Of gasoline electric cars to
take care of its growing passenger
traffic between Anderson and Green
vile.
- John Miller, n white man. was
day. on a charge of assault and bat
terry with intent to kill. The verdict
was guilty without recommendation
to mercy. After giving Miller a Sc
we're lecture, Judge Gary sentenced
him to three years on the chaingang
without the alternative of fine.
Private Frank Quigley, Of the
|127th coast artillery, stationed at
Fort Fremont, st. Helena island, died at
Beaufort Tuesday, from hemorrhages
resulting from small shot wounds in
his left lung. Quigley was shot about
a month ago by one of two brothers,
negroes, named Potter. whose home
he had gone to with several compan-
ions to search for a negro who had
fired on some of the soldiers the night
before
- Chester Reporter, Thursday: So
licitor ]. X Henry said this morning
that he has not heard a word from
Attorney General Lyon in reference
to the state dispensary cases which
are due to be tried in Chester county
at the approaching term of court, and
it is his opinion that tho trial Of the
cases will be postponed until fall.
Court convenes on Monday, July 4th,
and if the dispenSary cases are not
ready for trial. there Will not be
enough business on hand to hold the
court together for more than a day
or two.
The state convention of the Rural
Letter Carriers association will be
held in Newberry, S. c., on July Sd,
4th and 5th. The indications are that
the attendance will be large and that
the meeting will be an interesting
one. Among those to come from out
side the state are w. r. Spillman, of
Washington, superintendent of the
rural mail service, and w. ID. Brown.
of Washington, editor Of the r. F.
ID. News. Mr. Thos. f. Wicker, of
Newberry, is president of the assOcia-
ton in this state, and he. as we'll as
others. is working hard to make the
convention a success.
The South Carolina Press asso-
citation, which adjourned Wednesday
at noon after a twO-days' meeting at
Glenn Springs, will hold its next an
nual meeting in Columbia in June, |
1911. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, August Kohn, of Columbia:
first vice president, William Banks, |
of Columbia: second vice president, |
J. l.. Minis, of Edgefield; secretary, |
r. l.. Freeman, of Bennettsville; |
treasurer, J. l.. Sims, of Orangeburg.