The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-03-17

Mr.. A. n. Wood. was issued May g.,
1909. Nothing in the act creating the
commission indicated what should be
their terms of Office.
Work Practically Done.
Practically all the work of the COM
mission had been done. 1t has COL
lected in various ways over SEH,t0Y
and this has been turned into the
Sta.c treasury. The eh'"f Claims out
standing in behalf Of the State ere
thos1 :.lnst tho RI &C. :-+:.linS
company, S5OO,0O0, and against the
Carolina Glass company, $4,000, both
of these being Co.umbia concerns.
These claims are before the courts,
the actions having been brought in the
name of the State. so that they may
be carried on by the attorney general
as planned, whether a dispensary
commission exists or not. Accounts
due the glass company by county dis
pensaries, amounting to about $4,000,
have been impounded and If the courts
so rule these will be confscated and
applied upon the $4,000 which the
company is alleged to owe the State.
There is small prospect of recovering
any considerable amount of the $780,
900 charged up against the Richland
Distilling company. The concerns
real property in Columbia has been
seized and placed in the hands of d
receiver, MI. A. M. Lumpkin, Of the
Columbia bar, and Mr.. A. D. McFad-
den, master-in-equity for Richland
county, has been ordered to take testi-
mony as to the law and the facts in
volved. If the State shall succeed in
it's attempt to confscata this property,
100000 or $4,000 may be realized oD
it. No other property belonging to
the company can be found in this
State. The stockholdel>, principally
the Messrs. Block, of Macon, are be-
yond the jurisdiction of the Souti
Carolina courts.
To review the situation in general
terms, it may be said that the wind
ing-up commission has turned over to
the State treasurer all the money COL
lected from whiskey houses. with the
exception of the amounts tied up in
the litigation of the Carolina Glass
company: the work of the commission
has for some r'onths been practically
completed, all the claims having been
reduced to judgment, or put in suit.
and it was the purpose OF the COM
mission to wind up it's work by the
first of the present year, but circum-
stances arose which made it expedi-
ent that the work should be continued
for a while.
Personnel of Commission.
DR.. William Jacob Murray, chair
man of the commission, was born at
St. George and is a graduate in medi-
cine from Vanderbilt university. He
has made a signal success of the Muir
ray Drug company of Columbia, one
of the largest wholesale concerns OF
the kind in the South Atlantic States,
of which he is president and treasurer.
DR.. Murray is a director of the Ma
tional Loan and Exchange bank and
is connected with a number Of other
important Columbia enterprises.
Mr.. John McSween, of Timmcns-
Vile, merchant, planter: and banker,
came at 21 to South Carolina from
Aryleshire, Scotland. He is presi-
dent of the John McSween company,
wholesale and retail. merchants, doing
one of the largest businesses of the
kind in the State, and is president
also of the Bank of Timmonsville. He
is a prominent Presbyterian laym2p,
especially interested IN the education
al work of that denomination.
Mr.. Adolphus Mott Wood, of Gall
ney, native of Spartanburg, is a
Confederate veteran. After several
years as teacher and merchant in his
home county and in Alabama, ne set
tied in 1875 at Gaffney as merchant,
entering in 1887 the private banking
business. He was one OF the organ"
izers of the Gaffney Manufacturing
company, of which he was for years
president. He is vice president of the
Cowpens Manufacturing company. He
was for several terms mayor Of Gaff-
ney.
Mr.. Avery aPtton. broker OF
Greenville, with considerable means,
first came into prominence as an in
vestigator of official misconduct When
hg led the inquiry into the scandals
,r;e;oo eornn wears a9O in connection