Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

announced aS prODaDle canuludte
for governor.
When asked the other day as to
whether he had any reply to Senator
Tillmans recent fling at him, Chas.
Carroll Sims merely replied: II am
sitting steady in the boat"
The annual conference Of the
South Carolina d. A. r. Is to be held
In Columbia this week beginning to-
night. This afternoon there will be
unveiled O monument to the partisan
generals, Pickens, Sumter and Mari
on.
the penitentiary for the murder OF his
wife In Union county, says q Columbia
dispatch to the Spartanburg Herald,
has been transferred to the Union
county chaingang on request Of the
county commissioners.
= Columbia, November s: Mem
bers Of the railroad commission are
very much divided over the mileage
book situation. The appeal to the
interstate commerce commission was
made by John g. Richards, Jr.,
chairman Of the commission. Com
rnissioners Hampton and Cunningham
were of the, opinion that It was with
out their Jurisdiction. The matter will
very probably be settled by the next
general assembly.
= Columbia, November 8: It is
said In Columbia that bill will very
probably be introduced at the next
session Of the general assembly to
abolish the state income tax law as q
result Of the national income tax
law. Comptroller General Jones has
repeatedly pointed out in his annual
reports that the law Is not being en-
forced because Of inadequate means.
The tax has amounted to only about
$4,000 during the past several years.
= Columbia, November 10: Govern
or Blease today turned down the re-
QUESTION OF Governor Trammel Of
Florida for the return to that state Of
A. L. Suskins, white, arrested in Ches-
ter on q warrant from Florida charg-
ing breach OF trust. After a hearing
on the requisition, Governor Blease
turned It down after certain parties
at Chester had signed q bond to make
good any Judgments which may be
obtained In Florida against Suslxins,
It being understood that civil suits viii
be instituted against him there.
= Dcnald's. November 8: The Ware
Shoals automobile burglary has at
last been solved. and the machine re-
Il
| town OF Ware Shoals In badly dam
aged condition. Suspicion fell on
Charlton Underwood, who is said to
have confessed and implicated two
other boys, Knight and Dean, for
whom warrants have been issued. Ali
the accused are young men scarcely
out OF their teens, and all are from
Ware Shoals. They are accused OF
committing burglary at Mccormack,
while In possession Of Medlock's car.
Spartanburg, November 8: Charles
Vance. the negro whom II. B. Turner
shot at the Fair grounds Thursday.
died at the Spartanburg hospital last
night, Turner IS at liberty on q $1,000
bond. He was admitted to bail Friday
by Magistrate Robt. J. CAN'T, to whom
| was presented the certificate OF q ply
sician that Vance was In no imminent
danger of death. Turner did not In
tend to shoot the negro. It Is said he
aimed at white boy named Solesbee,
with whom he had been quarrelling.
The bullet missed Solesbee and passed
through the liver Of Vance, who was
standing some distance away, and had
| nothing to do with the quarrel.
Columbia special Of November 8. to
Charlotte Observer: Charles Carroll
Simms of Barnwell, candidate for gov
ernor, who Is here attending United
| States court, says he has no reply to
make to Senator Tillman's attack upon
him In the recent statement which Mr..
Tillman gave out calling on John L.
McLaurin to take the field against
Governor Blease. II am sitting steadily
In the boat" said Mr.. Simms when
asked for an expression on political
matters. Senator Tillman said with
! reference to Mr.. Simms: Mr.. Simms
out-heroded Herod In his Bleaseism.
proclaiming 1t Is higher than Tfllman-
ism. He Is no doubt as sincere in his
Bleaseism now as he was In his Has
kellism in $780," Upon the Tillman
statement Mr.. Simms IL standing pat"
His friends say that he does not feel like
condescending to discuss trivial mat
| ters while making campaign for an
office like that of governor. They also
| feel that the political sentiment repre-
sented by what Is termed Bleaseism Is
crystallizing around Mr.. Simms and
that Mr.. Simms is one Of the strongest
candidates in the field. At this time
Mr.. Simms himself does not care to
make any public statement.
Hon. George r. Rembert died at his
late residence in Columbia, last Sum
day night shortly efter 10 o'clock, af-
ter a long period Of bad health and
critical illness Of several weeks. Mr..
Rembert was native of Sumter coun-
ty, having been born at Remberts on
April 81, 1876. He was educated at
Wofford Fitting school, Wofford col
!ege, and West Point, having spent two
years at the last named institution.
After leaving West Point, he went into
railroad work. serving as baggage mas.
clerk. Next he secured admission to
the bar, later became captain Of the
Richland volunteers and went to the
Spanish war. He was elected to the
house Of representatives in 1910 and
again In 1912 and was the floor leader
Of the Blease forces up to the time OF
his death. He had announced his can
didacy for the governorship and had
strong following in that connection;
but 1t had been evident for some time
that his health would hardly permit
him to make the race. He Is survived
by widow and five children. He also
leaves one sister and two brothers.
= Gaffney, November 8: A head-on
collision Of two freight trains which
occurred at Thickety this morning
has disorganlzed traffic on the South
ern railroad today. The wreck oc-
CuTGQ dUOul OuC-uoi4 iiAAO o0NNA -
Thickety station and one train was
completely demolished, while the
other suffered little. According to
local employees Of the Southern, the
accident was due to the engineer OF
southbound train No. II failing to
read his orders. The result Of the
wreck is a carload Of cattle killed.
two carloads Of cotton burned, and
an engine and train being reduced
to kindling wood. The two trains are
supposed to meet every morning at
Cowpens, and this morning the en-
gineer on No. u probably thought
that this would again be the case.
Therefore, when the orders were
handed in to him by the operator at
Thickety, 1t is supposed that he con-
jectured they concerned a later train
and did not wait to read them. The
firemen and engineers on both trains
jumped and escaped without serious
injury. The wreck at once caught
fire and several cars loaded with cotton
were burned. Morning trains both
south and northbound over the main
line Of the Southern were detoured
via Columbia, but tonight the sched-
ules are again running smoothly.