Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-10-08
PALMETTO GLEANINlas
Current Happenings and Events
Throughout South Carolina.


Current Happenings and Events
Throughout South Carolina.
Clemson college and Auburn insti-
tute will play football in Anderson on
October 16.
The Sumter county grand jury has
recommended that new Jail be built
in that county.
William Bulkin, aged 80, shot him.
self in the left breast in Charleston
this week, with suicidal intent.
Henry Hill, colored, a laborer, was
killed in Charleston Monday. when he
was crushed by street paving ma
chine.
So far the Charleston county grand
jury has returned true bills against
Charleston blind tigers in forty-e eight
cases.
A. n. Dean, Sr., a well known citi-
zen Of Duncan, Spartanburg county,
is in a critical condition as the result
Of a fall sustained several days ago.
l. M. Glenn, editor Of the Anderson
Daily Intelligencer. was operated on
for appendicitis in an Anderson hos
pital this week.
Governor Manning has suspended
w. E. Baker, magistrate at Langley,
in Aiken county for an indefinite
period for alleged misconduct in office.
W. Mcleod Frampton killed rattle
snake near Meggetts, 8. c., Monday,
which was nearly five feet long and
had fourteen rattles.
The state board Of pardons has been
called to meet In Columbia next
Tuesday October IL. A number Of
cases will come before the board.
Ben Bishop, white man, was con-
Hcted Of slander in the Union county
court Of general sessions last week
and sentenced to six months impris-
onment.
John g. Richards and Frank w.
Shealy Of the South Carolina railroad
commission, are attending the Nation
al Association Of Railroad Commits
sioners in San Francisco, Cal.
It is likely that two battalions Of the
Second regiment 8. G. N. g., will be
in camp in Columbia during the state
fair. Two companies Of coast artil-
lery from Fort Moultrie will also be
sent to Columbia
Col. Oscar w. Babb Of Laurens, has
been named as private secretary to
Congressman-elect 8. ]. Nichols. Col.
Babb was formerly assistant adjutant
and inspector general He will move
his family to Spartanburg.
The United States war department
has written Adjutant Gen. W. w.
Moore, asking for information in re-
gard to the camp grounds being made
available for the mobilization Of the
entire national guard Of the state.
Olin Patterson, a young white man
% years Of age, is in jail at Kings
tree, Williamsburg county, charged
with the murder Of Lizzie Wilder at
the home Of her father near Kings
tree several days ago. Jealousy ap-
pears to have been the motive for the
crime.
Sister Mary Antonia o'Connell, for
seventy years an inmate Of the Con-
vent Of Mercy in Charleston, died this
week. She was 81 years old, having
entered the convent at the age Of Il.
She was well known and universally
loved in Charleston for her many acts
Of charity to the poor Of the city.
Eight negroes made their escape
from the Sumter county Jail in Sum-
ter, Saturday night, by tearing up the
floor Of their cells Three Of them
were re-captured a short time later,
while the remaining five are still at
large.
C. R. Riddle, overseer Of the olym-
pia mill weaving room in Columbia,
was convicted this week Of violating
the sixty-hour a week labor law in
mills by working r. v. Benton, filling
pand, on September 20, and paying
him for lii hours work In one day
The magistrate before whom the case
was tried, fined Riddle SIS.
The city council Of Columbia, is in
vestigating charges Of alleged mis-
conduct in office Of Mayor Lewis A.
Griffith. 1t Is alleged that the mayor
remitted fines in a number of cases
where he had no right to do so and
that he frequently visited houses Of
Ill repute in Columbia Congressman
elect s. ]. Nichols has been called as
a witness against the mayor.
James D. Nelson, Jr., a Spartan
burg boy, who several months ago en-
listed in the British navy, writes his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Nelson,
in Spartanburg, that he Is at present
stationed in Alexandria, Egypt, and
is engaged with scouting submarine
parties in the Mediterranean sea, kept
there on the lookout for German
dndersea craft.
Gen. H. H. Newton. one Of the best
known members Of the Marlboro
county bar, and former solicitor Of the
Fourth judicial circuit, died in a
Charlotte hospital Tuesday. following
an illness Of several months. He was
70 years old. Gen. Newton was brig
adler general Of the South Carolina
division. United Confederate Veterans.
He was the first man to establish a
cotton seed oil mill in Marlboro
county.
Sheriff Thomas Of Cherokee county,
received information Saturday that
parties were operating a distillery In
the northern section Of the county
but when he reached the scene the
birds had flown. The operators had
perfected an ingenious device for Civ
Ing warning in case Of a visit by Of
hcers Of the law. A plow was fasten-
ed 10 tree within 80 feet Of the
plant, piece Of iron being so fixed
that when string was pulled, the iron
would strike the plow, making a
sound like that Of a bell. The cord