Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-12
TUESDAY, AUGUST IL, 1913.

day. While the young woman was
/ driving along the road the negro
caught her by the arm and undertook
| to drag her from her buggy. She
screamed and her brothers who were
behind, came to her rescue. The ne
gro ran away; but was afterWard
caught. The young woman could not
| identity him positively. but 1t is said
that he confessed his identity to the
sheriff. The young woman drove to
| the residence of Solicitor r. A. Coop
er, who aided in the search for the
negro. Upon the capture Of Puckett
he was committed to Jail and during
i the afternoon some two thousand peo-
ple gathered. Solicitor Cooper and
| others tried to persuade them to let
, the law take it's course; but fifty men
went to the Jail, battered down the
doors, took the negro out and hanged
| him to beams of the Carolina railway
trestle. The negro denied his guilt
several times. After he was hanged
the body was riddled with bullets.
Columbia special of August II to
the Charlotte Observer: The state OF
South Carolina will have to borrow
$500. 600 to meet the running expenses
Of the government until the tax mon
ey begins to come in. and State Treas
urer Carter addressed a letter to Gov
ernor Blease this morning in regard
to the matter. The governor replied
that he thought the state officials
ought to run their own offices. advanc-
ing the money, If they could, until the
taxes came in, when they could be re-
imbursed and thus save the taxpayers
interest He said he was willing to A.
nance the governors office and asked
what the others thought of the sug-
gestion. The state for the past few
years has been borrowing $4,000
each year at three and one-half per
cent, but Governor Blease said this
morning that only $250,000 would be
needed this year. and yet the best in
terest offer he had been able to secure
was five per cent. The state runs
from $300, 600 to 100000 behind each
year in current expenses and a sug-
eestion has been made that an extra
mill be levied to make up this deficit
and put the state on cash basis, but
the legislature has not seen fit to act
on the matter.
Columbia special of August 8 to
the Spartanburg Herald: Thos. II.
Peoples, attorney general, today made
reply to A. w. Jones, comptroller gem.
eral, relative to the refusal Of the lat
ter to honor an item in an expense
account for $50 for smoker to the
attorneys general Of the United States.
The comptroller general holds that the
amount was an unnecessary expense.
The attorney generals letter follows:
'I am in receipt of your letter OF Au-'
gust 5, in reply to mine OF July 70, In
regard to my claim for expenses in at
tending association of attorneys gen.
eral of the United States which met at
IL - ha
1913. 1 do not wish and will not al
low myself or my Office to be drawn
into any letter writing or newspaper
controversy with you about this mat
ter. In regard to your suggestion as
to what procedure should be taken by
me, I will say that I am familiar with
the law and procedure, and neitGer
the attorney general nor his Office de-
sires or wishes any intimations or sCg-
gestions as to the conduct Of himself
or his department from one who oc-
cupies merely clerical position In the
state government, and who, under the
laws Of this state, is required to, and
should act by and upon the advice OF
the legal department Of the state, OF
which the attorney general Is the Of
fetal head"
- Columbia Record: Hon. F. H. Hy-
Laurin of Bennettsville and two news
paper writer's had an interesting ex-
perience Thursday in Chester and
Union counties in connection with an
unsuccessful search for political
picnic that was held at Wilksburg in
Chester county at which Messrs. Hy-
att and McLaurin were to make ad-
dresses. Both these men have been
mentioned as probabilities in the next
state campaign. Senator McLaurtn
had been invited to deliver an address
and he was prepared to tell the peo-
pie OF the several counties who would
gather there all about his state ware
house plan for the marketing OF cot
ton. He was under the impression,
from correspondence that he had had
with the committee in charge of the
picnic, that the speaking was to be at
Leeds in Chester county. Leaving
Hendersonville, N. c., Wednesday af-
ternoon he went to Carlisle in Union
county. and spent the night there. At
this point he was joined by Mr.. Hyatt,
who had gone up from Columbia that
afternoon. Early Thursday morning
the party, including two newspaper
men, left Carlisle in a carriage for the
scene of the picnic. The roads were
pretty rough and when the three and
a
eight, the party got little tired and
the sun that baked down on the car
riage seemed hotter and hotter. About
IL o'clock Leeds was reached, but
there was nothing around that looked
like a picnic. Inquiry was made or
the natives, who said the only picnic
in the section was being held at Wilks-
burg, which was ten miles away. A
vote was taken and it was the uaan-
imous decision that the trip be discon-
tinued as the picnic could not be
reached until sometime in the after
noon, and probably never, considering
the condition of the horses-a light
team. A letter to the chairman OF
the picnic committee informed him or
the fate Of the party. But for the
philosophy of Mr.. Hyatt and his usual
patience the party might have been
little peeved at making such trip in
such weather and ending it without
getting to the destination.