Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-27
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

of bottled beer and two kegs of the
same fluid being dumped into one OF
the city sewers.
The safe in the postoffice at Peak,
S. c., was blown open early Friday
and some registered mail was secured.
Postoffice inspectors have secured no
clue as to the robbers.
THE Washingtonian," a freight
vessel, the first steamer to enter
Charleston by way Of the Panama
canal, docked at the Charleston wharf
yesterday afternoon. The whole
waterfront Of the city was in gala at
tire in honor Of the event.
A Spartanburg dispatch says the
Rev. A. D. Belts Of Conway, will ask
the South Carolina conference, when il
meets in Sumter, Nov. 25, to appoint
him publisher and editor Of the South
ern Christian Advocate to succeed
Rev S. A. Nettles who will sever his
connection with the publication Jan. 1.
James H. Fowler, magistrate of
Columbia, suspended by Governor
please last April for alleged mis-
conduct in Office" was re-instated by
the senate in executive session, last
Thursday night. Magistrate Fowler
was re-nominated in the August pri-
maries.
Mrs. Alice Case of Spartanburg,
has filed suit against the Southern
railway for 100000 damages, which
she alleged she sustained in the
death Of her husband, G. E. Case.
Case, who was piano tuner, was
killed by Southern train No. II, sew
eral months ago. when an automobile
in which he was riding was struck.
Three ladies Of Columbia, Mrs.
Thelma Bowman, Mrs. L. E. Harris
and Miss Miriam Smith, were on Sat-
urday sworn in as members Of the Co.
lumbia police force. Mesdames Harris
and Bowman will serve only during
the state fair; Miss Smith who Is sec
retary of associated charities in CO.
lumbia, will remain a policewoman
permanently and will be known as
officer 35.'
- South Carolina bee-keepers have
just completed gathering the 1914
crop estimates of the United States
department Of agriculture, the yield
per colony Of bees was 25 pounds. In
1913, the production per hive was
also 25 pounds. The last census
figures of the bee and honey industry
Of this state relate to 1910. That
year there were 12,52S farms in
south Carolina that kept bees and the
total number of colonies was 1922.
The house on yesterday passed to
a third reading, Senator Clifton's bill
providing for the use of only three
boxes in the general election. 1t is
not certain, Of course, that the bill
will get through. but the probability Is
that it will. The only benefit now.
however, will be to save the election
managers the trouble of Juggling out
nd taking back wagon load Of bal
lot boxes. Practically all Of the ex-
pense of the many box system h al
ready been incurred. An amenument
offered by Mr.. Stevenson, doing away
with the necessity of printing new
tickets, was adopted.
N. F. Walker, superintendent of
the school for the deaf and the blind
at Cedar Springs, has issued a circular
letter to the voters of the state in
regard to two amendments to be vot-
ed upon at the coming general cleo
ton. 1t is stated that If the two pro-
posed amendments are approved by
the people Of the state. the school for
the deaf and the blind will no longer
be claSsed with the penal and chari-
table institutions, but with the edu-
cational department Of the state. One
amendment Is necessary to take the
school from the penal and charitable
section. 1t Is declared, while the sec
ond is necessary to place the school
under the educational section.
-Judson Brooks, a 19-year-old boy
Of Greenville, was shot and mortally
wounded early Sunday morning by
Reuben Gosnell, chief Of rural police
of Greenville county. Young Brooks
was resisting arrest and had slashed
the chief with a knife. Gosnell struck
Brooks with his pistol but the blow
did not quiet him. A second blow on
Brooks head resulted in the alleged
accidental discharge of Gosnelfs pis-
tol, the 3S-calibre bullet entering
Brooks brain. Gosnell surrendered and
is now in Jail He is considered one of
the best police officers in the state
and numerous citizens have offered to
go on his bond.
- Governor Please on yesterday sent
the general assembly a message in
which he said he regarded the pro-
posed bond issue as a joke and in
which he expressed the opinion that
the time is now too short for proper
of the matter to the peo-
pie before the general election. He
advised the legislators to quit play
ing politics and get down to work for
the people. He repeated his recon-
mendation to prevent foreclosures
previous to October Is. 1915. and ad-
vised the extension of the time for the
nayment of taxes, recommended that
the incoming administration be given
power to borrow money with which
to run the government, and proposed
the reduction of the legal rate OF in
terest to six per cent.
Will Hughes, white man. serv-
ing a life Imprisonment sentence on
the Spartanburg county chaingang,
Yesterday afternoon killed Robert
Stephens, the guard in charge of the
gang in which he was prisoner, with
a pick, robbed Stephens of his two
pistols and $40 in cash compelled
fellow prisoner at the point of gun
to break the chains that bound his
legs. then exchanged clothes with an
other man and made his escape. The
murder occurred near the Arkwright
mill, on the outskirts Of Spartanburg,
and was committed in sight Of about
forty other prisoners, all Of whom
seemed to be panic stricken. Steph-
ems died a few hours after he was
struck. Hughes Is the son OF farm
er living near Reidsville. in Spartan
burg county Officers have been cent
to every section of the county, heavily
armed and expect trouble if Hughes
IS overtaken.
Anderson. October %: I'VE are
running on full time and on several
nights of the week we are running
until Q o'clock in order to fill our or
ders. We would run night and day
if we had the help needed. We
haven't got the homes to accommodate
that much help" declared Mr.. Robt.
T.. Lyon. manager of the Equinox
mill. THE owners in Boston state
that they could sell the output of the
Equinox five times over-the demand
is so great for duck" continued Mr..
Lgon. "On account of the war, the
demand for all kinds of duck is brisk.
There is a mill in LAGRANGE, Ga.
which manufactures shoe duck. That
mill is getting all the business 1t can
attend to. three years supply has
been bought up. The European
ountries are using all kinds of duck
IN manufacturing tents, leggings, uni
forms. etc. Practically all of the
output of the Equinox mills has been
to New York and Boston for
export to England. Our orders have
been English orders We shipped
some stuff TO points in Canada. which