Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-12-24
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

= Union, December 81: The Union
county delegation has recommended
and the governor has commissioned DR..
j. g. Going, F. B. Culp and w. J. Halle,
as the county dispensary board. The
board has organized with DR.. Going as
chairman and F. B. Culp as secretary.
Bids have been advertised for on II
qaors, and the dispensary will be open
ed some time In January. It is under.
stood that the county wiz do consider
able bottling from bulk, and that there
will be two retail dispensaries in the
city, but no others in the county. sss
Columbia special of December 22 to
the News and Courier: II is too full OF
holes to be discussed" was the state
ment made by ]. e. Swearingen, state
superintendent Of education, when ask
ed for an expression as H. the compul-
sorry education bill that Denator Hall
will introduce at the next session OF
the general assembly. In 1910 Mr..
Swearingen submitted proposed bill
to the house and senate but II never
came to vote. The bill provided for
local option compulsory education law.
Each county in the state vas given the
right to vote on the question. It is very
probable that compulsory education
viii consume some time In both houses
this year. The governor iias made the
positive statement that he WIN veto
any compulsory bill passed by the leg
islature. 4 y
= Gaffney special of December %
to the Columbia State: e. A. Sparks,
one Of the superintendents at the
Limestone mill. was shot and seriously
though not fatally wounded by Will
Green this afternoon, The shooting
took place about 8 o'clock and oc-
CURED In Sparks room OF the mill.
The injured man was attending to his
duties when Green. II is alleged. en-.
tered in an intoxicated condition.
Sparks attempted to demonstrate with
him, and to persuade him to leave the
mill, whereupon, 1t Is alleged, Green
drew his pistol and fired three times
Two Of the bullets went wild but one
took effect In Sparks head. The
sheriff was summoned and Green was
arrested. Attending physicians state
tonight that Sparks will recover.
- Columbia State: In statement
issued yesterday by e. ]. Watson,
Of agriculture, COM
merce and industries, attention is
called to the indications Of prosperity
afforded by the closer attention paid
to road Improvement by the farmers
Of the state. Commissioner Watson
calls attention to the fact that the
most prosperous Of the agricultural
counties of the state show the larg-
est increase In proportion in the pur-
chase OF automobiles for the present
year. He has been engaged for some
time past in taking q census of the
Of automobiles registered In
the state. According to the figures OF
the department, the number of auto
so far registered are 6,768,
and Of this number 2,341 were regis
tered during 1912. Gresnville coun-
ty leads with total registration Of
557 with Charleston 656,
News and Courier, December %:
John FEEDER was brutally beaten and
shot to death at Norway, In Orange
burg county, last night. John Fielder
was negro. He had been confined to
the town guard house on minor Of
money under false
difficulty, however,
had been Strengthened out early in the
night. The guard house was broken
open the negro taken out. beat about
the head with pistol butts, then shot,
his body being left by the roadside a
short distance from the town. Reports
that but a few composed-not
the usual infuriated mob--but the lit
tie lynching party, that did the nights
work. A big black dog was found
guarding the body of the slain man
the negro-not his dog; in fact, the
owner Of the dog has NOT yet been iden-
titled. The account from Denmark ap-
pears to indicate that the matter of
the negro's financial difficulties had
nothing to do with the lynching; that
this was all settled; but that some
time previously, John Fielder had had
some words with a white man. II also
indicates that the dead negro's sons
had some warning of the impending
trouble. From the reports obtained
from all sources, 1t appears that some
man or men had grievance. Of Just
what magnitude is not known. against
John Fielder, and that he or they took
advantage Of the occasion of his incar-
ceration, drove into the little town Of
Norway, secured his or their victim,
then proceeded with the usual mob
with the probable addition
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