Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-13
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

ern Textile association VIII De nelQ at
Greenville on Saturday, July 1st. A
large attendance Is expected.
Senator and Mrs. B. r. Tillman
have sent out invitations to the mar
riage Of their daughter, Sophia Oliver
to Mr.. Henry Wise Hughes. The GER
emony Is to occur at Trenton, June
%. at 9 o'clock p. m.
1t has been announced by F. H.
McMaster, insurance commissioner,
that during 1910 the life insurance
companies doing business in South
Carolina paid to the department $685.
167.04 in additional license fees. This
additional tax Is charged the life in
surance companies on basis OF the
premiums collected and same Is dis
tributed throughout the counties Of
the state, wherein the premiums were
collected.
A fight will be commenced in
every state in the United States to Sc
cure a reduction Of express rates,
plans for the war against express rates
will be discussed at the annual meet
ing of the attorneys general which Is
to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, on
June 81. This announcement was
made Saturday by Attorney General
Lyon, who has prepared statistics for
South Carolina. Mr.. Lyon left Column
bia for the west yesterday.
The Carolina Glass company,
through their attorney, VIM. II. Lyles,
yesterday secured q rule before the su-
preme court requiring the new dispen-
sary commission to show cause on Fri
day, June 16, why they should not be
compelled to pay the company about
$4,000 now in their hands. This
money Is a part of the funds withheld
from the company by the old commits
sion for alleged overcharges for bottles
sold to the dispensary: An effort has
been made to recover the amount, but
the present commission refuses to re-
open the matter on the grounds that
their predecessors refused to consider
such a petition and it has been finally
disposed Of from the point Of jurisdic-
ton Of the commission.
- The decision to bring about cur
tailment Of output by the closing Of
every mill in South Carolina for two
weeks in July and August Of this year
was the feature Of Fridays session Of
the South Carolina Cotton Manufac-
turers' association held at Asheville,
n. c. The reports read showed that
at least 25 per cent Of the spindles in
been for some time. Addresses were
made by D. r. Coker Of Hartsville, Ira
w. Williams Of Columbia, and e. j.
Watson, commissioner Of agriculture
for South Carolina, all of whom out
lined the steps taken for the improve
ment of the staple Of cotton and
demonstrated the work done by the
United States government along this
line. The association expressed its
sympathy with the work and voted a
contribution to further It,
- Spartanburg, June IL: The per-
sistent rumors of the last few months
that the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
was to lease or acquire control Of the
Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railway,
was practically confirmed with the
amendment that the Seaboard Air Line
Is also interested In the deal, upon the
arrival in Spartanburg over the Clinch-
field road Sunday night Of a party in
Guiding Edwin Hawley, Frank A. Van
derlip, President George w. Stevens,
Vice President Decatur Axtell. Frank
Trumbull, chairman Of the board, and
other directors of the Chesapeake &
Ohio, and S. d. Warfield, formerly one
of the receivers Of the Seaboard Air
Line. They were accompanied by NJ
j. Caples, vice president and general
manager, and L. H. Phetteplate, gen.
eral superintendent Of the Clinchfield.
One of the local entertaining COM
mittees mentioned to Mr.. Hawley that
1t had been rumored that the Ches-
peake & Ohio was going to take over
the Clinchfield That's what we're
down here for" said Mr. Hawley.
-Newberry special of Sunday to the
Columbia State: 1t Is learned here
today that there will be no indictment
handed out by the solicitor against
Thomas B. Fielder In the court of gen.
eral sessions which opens here tomor-
row. The dispensary winding-up
commission, on whose resolution the
warrant was sworn out by their Sec
retary, B. Frank Kelly, have decided
to await the result of the Georgia gov
ernor's decision Of the requisition for
Fielder before asking the grand jury
for an Indictment against him. The
argument in the requisition will be
held in Atlanta, June 20. Sheriff Bu-
ford went to Columbia this afternoon
to get Sam Boozer, colored, who Is In
the penitentiary, and to bring him here
by tomorrOw's early morning train for
trial for the murder Of James S. Gill
liam, while at Old Town on March 3.
Boozer surrendered at Greenwood few
udNS tie hllllIlS, anu was Sdli
to the penitentiary for safe keeping by
the governors orders. There seems to
be a pretty plain case against the ne
gro.
- Lexington, June II: ]. B. Jeter,
who is said to have been the first man
to have received executive clemency
from Governor Blease, was yesterday
placed behind the bars of the LeXing-
ton jail by Sheriff P. H. Corley, with
the charge Of larceny resting against
him. it being alleged that he stole a
lot of jewelry from his sister, Mrs. Eva
Hodge, and some articles from his
a aged mother both of whom are resi-
dents of Swansea, this county. He
was later released, his sister and moth
er agreeing not to push the case, pro-
vided Jeter would sign an agreement
never to appear again at his mothers