Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-08
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Notes and Comments About Matters
of Local Interest.

Notes and Comments About Matters
of Local Interest.
Chester Lantern, September 5: Sol
E. Varnadore, who was arrested sew
eral days ago on the charge Of burning
the barn and stables of Mr.. A. Ross
Durham on August Sth, has been re-
leased from Jail on his own recogniz-
ance. The preliminary which was to
have been held yesterday before Mag
istrate Wise did not come off and it is
probable that there will be no further
proceeding in the matter. -. .Ander-
son Green, Nose Chisholm, Della Cald-
we'll, Bud Lee and Lily White, were ar
rested Friday on the charge of running
blind tigers, the warrants being sworn
out by Mr.. ]. A. Hauck of the High
Point detective agency, who was here
for several days last week with COL
ored assistant, John Taylor. The cases
of all five will not come up until next
week, and they have been released on
bond until the trial.. .... Charged with
burning two houses owned by him for
the purpose of collecting the insurance
therefrom, S. B. Morgan, formerly of
Chester, but now of Rock HILL was ar
rested here today on a warrant sworn
out before Magistrate McLure by Dep
uty Insurance Commissioner Wharton.
The warrant had been forwarded to
Rock Hill to be served, but Mr.. Morgan
happened to be here today on business
and was arrested. The offense Is al
legged to have been committed on or
about the night of the 9th of June.
1t will be recalled that on that occa-
sion two houses belonging to S. B.
Morgan in the rear Of Saluda street
were burned and that some of the oc-
cupants of one of the houses narrowly
escaped. Only a few weeks prior to
this fire two houses in that same Sec
ton belonging to Morgan were burned.
The companies which held the insur-
ance on the houses burned last, held up
payment and an investigation follow
ed by Mr. Wharton. The outcome was
a warrant charging S. B. Morgan with
the offense. A cash bond of $500 was
put up and Morgan was released from
custody. He will have to stand trial
before the next term Of court. Mr..
Morgan protests his innocence of the
charges made against him. House
burning is a serious offense, and the
charge is a most grave one.
Gaffney Ledger, September 5: Mr.. M.
w. Twitchell Of Columbia, state geol-
ogist, arrived in the city yesterday
morning to meet the Southern's Good
Roads train and spent the day in the
city. Mr.. Twitchell stated to a Ledger
reporter yesterday afternoon that he
would accompany the train throughout
the remainder of their trip through
South Carolina. Quite bold rob-
berry took place some time Thursday
night or early Friday morning when
some miscreant or miscreants broke
into the store of w. ]. wilkins & Co.,
located on Frederick street, and stole
quite a number Of articles. The en-
trance was effected through a window
in the rear of the building. The goods
in the store gave evidence of having
been ransacked after which the thief
departed by way of the rear door. .....
Some little interest was excited in this
city Friday afternoon by the passage Of
a storage battery car on the tracks of
the Southern railway. The car is quite
a beautiful specimen of the art Of
building cars and is thorough and COM
plete. 1t gets it's power from gas
motor carried on the car. 1t has a
seating capacity of about 20 people.
>. .Messrs. E. w. Conner of Rock Hill,
D. c. Clark and John w. Miller Of
Yorkville, were in the city yesterday
for the purpose Of assisting in the or
ganization of the Rural Free Delivery
association. The local association was
formed with all of the Gaffney car
riers as members. 1t is thought prob
able that this association will be of
great benefit to local carriers. ......
A phone message was received in this
city Friday afternoon from Blacksburg
to the effect that a man had been cap
tured there with entirely too many
clothes on for this hot weather and it
was thought possibly that he was in
some way implicated in the robbery of
w. ]. wilkins & Company's store in
this city Thursday night However,
Mr.. wilkins, after going to Blacksburg
and inspecting the clothes, decided
that they were not his and the prisoner
was released.
Lancaster News, September s: The
fall term of the circuit court will con-
vene here on the End Monday in Octo-
ber, Judge Watts presiding. The Grim
inal docket Is unusually heavy. a num-
ber of homicide cases, among others,
pending. .... Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth FL
lis, wife of Mr.. A. c.. Ellis, died last
Saturday, of cancer at her home in the
mill village. The burial was at Fork
Hill church Sunday, the Rev. R. Thos.
Blackmon conducting the funeral SER
vices. ..T To the Yorkville Enquirer:
Speaking Of that Leader, let the White
Rose county look to the Red.-Charles-
ton News and Courier. Yes, look this
way and you'll see the Leader in the
person of that eminent jurist, upright
Christian man and patriotic citizen,
Chief Justice Ira B. Jones. ...... The
chaingang is at work this week repair
ing the damage done by the recent
storm to the elevated highway this side
cf Bear creek, near the double trestle
Damage to other roads will be repaired
just as soon as the present work is
completed, which was undertaken first
because the highway was in such con-
dition that another freshet would have
swept the greater part of it away. .....
Judge Ernest Moore was. at the NUM-
cipal election held here yesterday,