Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-08
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1e1.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS
President Wilson has been invited
to visit Aiken during the Christmas
holidays
j. Phillip Booth has been elected
president Of the Bank of Sumter to
succeed Hon. Richard l. Manning. gov
ernor elect.
An election has been ordered for
December %, on the question OF FORM
ing the new county of McDuftie, out OF
portions Of the counties Of Edgefield
Abbeville and Greenwood.
The South Carolina board Of law
examiners has announced that seven
out Of nineteen applicants who took the
recent examination, have been admit
ted to the bar.
Gen. James Walter Gray, master in
equity for Greenville county, and one
of the few survivors of the famous
Wallace House." Of 1876. died at his
home in Greenville, Saturday morning
Governor Blease will practice law
in Columbia after January 19. He mas
registered in ward No. 2 Of that city,
and yesterday notified the Columbia
city officials that he was citizen OF
Columbia"
-Chas. w. Atkinson, popular lum-
herman Of Florence, was burned 10
death in a shanty near Olanta, Florence
county, Sunday night. Sparks from
stove in his room are supposed to have
set his bed afire.
-Lanzy Esters, a young white man.
was arrested in Newberry, last Friday
night charged with the murder OF
Millie Ann Jackson, an aged negress'
in Fairfield county on November "a.
Robbery was the motive for the crime.
-Floyd Walker Of Landrum, is In
Jail at Spartanburg, charged with at
tempting to wreck the Carolina Special
by throwing a switch. The train would
have been wrecked had not an employe
seen what Walker had done and closed
the switch.
Roy Redd. an 1S-year-old white
boy living near Swansea, was instantly
killed while out hunting Saturday.
The young man attempted to walk a
log and fell, and in falling, his gun
struck the log and was discharged,
the load striking him in the face.
The Bank Of Nichols. in Marion
county, was blown open by yeggmen
about 2.30 o'clock Thursday morning.
So powerful was the explosion that
1900 81 bills were torn to shreads. The
robbers secured very little money.
Three white men have been arrested
on suspicion Of doing the job.
-Chas. w. Robertson, formerly a
state detective under Governor Blease,
was shot and instantly killed at Pen
dleton, Anderson county, yesterday
afternoon by S. H. Whitlock, chief of
police Of that place. There had been
bad blood between Robertson and
Whitlock for some time.
Since the development that magis-
trates are ineligible as registrars OF
vital statistics, by reason or the consul :
tutional provision inhibiting the hold
ing of two offices, DR.. James Hayne,
secretary of the state board OF health,
has written the clerks Of the court
throughout the state asking them to
send in complete lists Of recommends
tions for all the townships.
Governor Blease has appointed five
ministers to act as committee OF mer-
CIV for South Carolina in the national
organization at New York city. The
committeeman are: Rev. A. ]. Bowers,
Newberry: Rev. j. w. Wolling, OF
Walterboro; Rev. K. G. Finlay. Column
bia; Rev. A. T. Jamison, Greenwood,
and Rev. T. ]. Hegarty, Columbia
"A mob took William Green, a negro
from officers near Coward, Florence
county, Friday, hanged him to a tree
and riddled his body with bullets. Green
was arrested after he had been detect
ed in the act Of hiding under a house
during the owners absence, being dis
covered by the three women occupants
Of the house who were unprotected.
Governor Blease on Saturday, pa
rolled j. H. Blackwelder, the Lexington
county banker who was convicted in
September, 1913, Of the charge Of No-
lating the state banking laws. Follow
ing are the conditions Of the parole:
Parole the said j. A. Blackwelder un-
til B. j. Rhame, Jr., is prosecuted and
a verdict Of guilty or not guilty has
been rendered by a petit jury for his
(B. j. Rhame, Jr.'s) defalcation in the
sum Of $13,759.07 to the Bank OF sum
ter, S. c., of which bank the Hon.
Richard l. Manning was the president
at the time Of the defalcation.'