Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-11-16
PALMETTO eLEANINGs
Current Events and Happenings
Throughout South Carolina.

Current Events and Happenings
Throughout South Carolina.
The city council of Columbia, will
hereafter grant no license to beggars.
1t Is estimated that the expense Of
keeping several companies Of militia
in readiness during the recent trouble
in Charleston which followed the mu-
nicipal election. will be about $3.50.
Doc Freely, colored, has been arrest
ed in Anderson county, charged with
numbering E. M. Dodd, an aged grocer
of that county on February 20. 1915.
The Anderson authorities have been in
search of Freely since the crime was
committed.
Rev. G. G. Mayes Of Greenville, for
merly superintendent Of home mission
work Of the Presbyterian synod Of
South Carolina, has accepted the pas
torate of Zion Presbyterian church Of
Winnsboro. He succeeds Rev. ]. M.
Holiday, D. D., who Is now pastor Of
a Presbyterian church at Waterford,
Virginia.
Philip Trapp, charged with the
murder Of Hattie Smith, wife Of Jules
Smith, slain in the Winnsboro trage-
dy several months ago. was found gull
ty Of murder with recommendation to
mercy in the court Of general sessions
at Camden last week and was sentenc-
ed to spend the remainder Of his life
in prison.
The United States government has
taken a hand in the Anderson and
Greenville cotton mill situation, says
a Washington dispatch of Thursday.
Secretary Wilson Of the department
Of labor. has appointed J. B. Colpoys
and Chas. Bendheim to be conciliators.
1t has been understood for some time
that Federal agents were to go to
the mills for this purpose, but the fact
did not become known until today.
They will begin an investigation at
Greenville and Anderson Immediately.
1t is said that there are less than
500 tons Of potash in the United States
today, this being commodity that has
previously been imported from Ger
many. Forty-five tons Of the amount
in the country is stored in Greenville,
and is the property Of Avery Patton, a
fertilizer dealer Of that city. Mr.. Pat
ton bought this potash about a year
ago, paying $50 ton for it, and last
week he was offered $3.50 ton for it,
giving him a profit on the 45 tons Of
something like $4,000. This price was
turned down by Mr.. Patton, who says
he is holding for much higher price.
There are a number of good South
Carolina postoffices, according to a
statement issued in Washington on
Thursday, where the incumbents have
not been appointed since March 4,
1913, and it is indicated that the plum
tree may soon be shaken. These offices
are as follows: Bamberg. Bishop
vile, Branchville, Camden, Central,
Chester, Columbia. Darlington, Den
mark, Dillon, Due West, Edgefield,
Fort Mill, Greer, Honea Path, John
ston, Kershaw, Lamar, Mccormick.
Orangeburg, Prosperity, Ridgeway,
Rock Hill, Simpsonville and Summer
ton.
T. U. Vaughn, who was sentenced
to be electrocuted for criminal assault
alleged to have been committed while
he was superintendent Of the Odd Fell
lows Orphan home, near Greenville,
will be tried for his sanity before a
Greenville county jury in January. The
sanity trial Of Vaughn was set for last
Thursday, but the court Of general
sessions for Greenville adjourned on
Thursday without taking up the
Vaughn case and he will face a jury
next January. Vaughn is confined in
the state penitentiary, where he has
been constantly ever since his con-
viction in 1918. He fought his case
through the state courts and up
through the United States supreme
court, but all confirmed the sentence
Of electrocution. When he was taken
back to Greenville some weeks ago to
be resentenced to death the Judge, en-
the showing made, ordered that the
question Of Vaughn's sanity should be
referred to jury and no further steps
tx tic will ha fob i,tru
returns verdict as to whether he Is
sane or insane. Vaughn has been ap-
parently insane for some months, and
1t Is said that he sits in the state pen
itentiary without saying a word TO
any one and with a vacant look on his
face He is said to be nearly a physi-
cal wreck, and many strong men in
cline to the belief that he has become
insane since his conviction. Others
think he is simply feigning insanity
in the hope Of escaping the electric
chair and being sent to the state hos
pital for the insane. That Vaughn is
sane was held by a noted alienist Of
Maryland. who examined him while
in Columbia last spring.
The annual report Of Prof. w. II.
Hand, state high school inspector
which has been compiled, shows the
following items Of growth among state
high schools during the past year:
Between 1906 and 1915. the total num-
Der Of high schools has increased from
95 to 1T and the number Of teachers
giving full time to the high school has
increased from 100 to 466. The num-
Der giving part time to the high school
has increased from IS to 12O. The to-
tai number Of teachers has increased
from 235 to $50. In 1909 there were
251 men teachers and 1873 women
teachers. In 1915 there were 255 men
and 331 women teachers. In the same
year there were 355 high school teach
ers with a college education. In 1909,
there were "a high school teachers
with only high school education.
In 1915 there were q such teachers.
In 1906, there were 1872 high school
pupils enrolled: in 1915, there were 1O.-
4S1. In 1907 there were 696 pupils in
the third year Of the high school, in
1915, there were 1880. In 1914, the