Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-05-12
TUESDAY, MAY Is, 1913.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The United States senate has con-
firmed the nomination Of Victor Blue
to be chief of the bureau Of navigation
of the navy department with the rank
of rear admiral. ---
Harry Coleman, who Is charged
with having deliberately murdered hts
father in January last, was put on
trial for his life in Union yesterday,
Judge Prince presiding.
= Says a Charleston special to the
Columbia State: Congressman Whal-
| ey, Saturday, informed the States cor
respondent that he had decided not to
reply to the statement Of Mayor Grace
issued a few days ago, regarding po-
litical conditions in the First district,
and especially concerning the election
Of few weeks ago. Mr.. Whaley
said he had received many letters and
telegrafns from friends IN South Car
olina urging him to take no, notice OF
the matter at this time. Mr.. Whaley
has decided to act on their advice.
Accordingly, there will be nothing
Forthcoming from, him in reply to the
Charleston mayor now.
Allendale special of May 10, to
News and Courier: The members Of
the man-hunting posse who left Allen
dale Wednesday morning In response
to call from Screyen county, Ga, re-
turned today, more or less exhausted,
after two days Of fruitless effort to
capture the negro desperate, Henry
Austin. The trail was abandoned for
the want Of fresh pack Of dogs. one
of the Barnwell dogs having been dis
abled from an attack by the negro
pursued, the other from fatigue. The
greater portion of Wednesday was
spent in an exciting and fatiguing race
on a trail thought to be Austin's, but
proving, after q twelve-mile race, to
be that Of another negro. A few min
utes after the capture of this negro a
message came that the negro had been
seen In q swamp near Newington,
few miles distant. Fastening to this
i pOiuls lu0 uOSb tOOh Wy eho S0a oDSes
4 o'clock d. m. and kept 1t until about
midnight, when the negro attacked the
dogs, disabling one of them. The licks
from the stick and the cries Of the
dog were distinctly heard by the posse
on the edge Of the swamp. The, posse
during the greater portion Of the chase
was apparently on the heels Of the fu-
gftiye, who several times seemed TO
come to q hault, indicated by the dogs
baying, but on account Of the dark
ness and the denseness OF the swamp,
It was impossible to effect his capture.
- Columbia State, May IL: Making
the third safe robbery In four days.
the postoffice at Kingviile was enter
ed about four o'clock yesterday morn
| ing and the safe robbed Of between
received here yesterday. AL OF these
robberies have followed the escape
Of Portland Ned. Late Thursday
morning the safe in the postoffice at
Barr, Lexington county. was cracked;
and Friday night three Aastores at
Cayce were reported to have been
entered. About O'clock yesterday
morning d. ]. Boyd, postmaster at
Kingville, was aroused from his sleep
by q noise In his store and postoffice
adjoining the room In which he lives.
It was still dark. With his pistol. he
went into the store, and as he did
so, he saw two men disappear from
the building into the early morning
shadows Mr.. Boyd did not fire. Max
ing an Investigation he found that
the safe had been opened. by what
means could not be ascertained, and
robbed OF, between SIS and 800. The
conductor on train No 16, Columbia
to Charleston, on the Southern rail-
way, passing through Kingville at
4.05 In the morning was reported last
night to have seen man dart be-
tween two Of his cars when No. 16
stopped at Kingville yesterday morn
ing little behind schedule. AS the
conductor went toward the man he
ran, and was joined by a second man.
both OF whom, disappeared. ]: d.
Dunnaway. rural policeman for the
Hover part OF Richland county, was
notified Of the robbery; but 80 far as
could be ascertained no arrests were
made. The telephone exchanges at
Kingsville and Eastover We're closed
last night.
- John K. Aull, the Columbia corre-
spondent of the Anderson Sunday Ey-
ening American, writes that paper
/ that Assistant Attorney General Dom
4 mick has fled a brief with the SUI
preme court In which he contends on
the part Of the state Of South Carolina
that under the Webb law recently en-
acted by congress, as applied to the H.
quor laws Of this state, no shipment OF
i whisky into this state Is legei except
1t be to dispensary. But for the
protection of the inter state commerce
clause" says the assistant attorney
general, there Is only one method Of
lawfully obtaining, receiving and pos
sessing liquors in the state OF South
Carolina, and that Is by purchase from
"a county dispensary for a lawful pur-
pose All other liquors are deemed and
expressly declared to be contraband
and may be seized without warrant"
The brief contends there Is ample au-
thority as to the right Of the state to
pass and enforce such a law. Now
that this protection" (the protection OF
the interstate commerce clause), the
brief concludes, has been withdrawn
by the Webb act, the state laws apply
equally to shipments from without the
Il state as well as to shipments within
the state" The brief points out that
It Is now unlawful to ship liquor from
one point in the state to another point
in the state, and that shipments from
without the state, even for personal
use, are now only permitted under the
prOteCIl0n Oh lu6 lnter-Sldlt COHlIltrCc
clause, which protection Is now with
drawn, the assistant attorney general
contends, by the Webb law. The brief
is filed on. behalf Of the state Of South
Carolina in the case Of w. w. Atkinson
plaintiff, against Southern Express
company, which win test the effect Of
the recently enacted Webb law. Should
the contention Of the assistant attor-
ney general, on behalf of the state, be
sustained, 1t will mean that even bona
fide personal use" shipments will be
illegal, and the only way to get whisky
in this state will be to buy from a
|
Bloody Fighting In Mexieo.-More
than 500 dead, says Noogales, Artz.,
dispatch Of yesterday, are lying on the
battlefield above Guaymas. The SOL
diers fell during the three days Of des-
perate fighting last week. Col. Juan
Cabral, who arrived today at Hermo-
zillo from the front, reported that he
had estimated the killed to exceed 800.
A trainload of oil and firewood was
| r,Ished aoi,fh with which to cremate