Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-25
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.

| SoutH SdToilnd.
| L. M. McRee has resigned the pres
idency Of the Vardy Yarn mills Of
Greenville.
| Portions Of Florence county were
visited by severe hail storm Mon
day.
w. P. McMeekin of Columbia, has
been appointed dentist for the state
hospital for the insane to succeed L.
l.. Toole.
The Peoples Savings Bank Of Glen
dale and Clifton, Spartanburg county,
has been commissioned with capital
stock Of $1,000.
| Governor Manning has granted n
ninety-day reprieve to Willie Bethune,
a Clarendon county negro under SEN
tence of death.
William X. Blake, one Of the best
known citizens of Greenwood, died at
his home in that city last week. aged
i83 years.
| Y. p. Mcqueen was elected mayor
of the town Of Loris on Tuesday, de-
feating M. M. Stanley by majority OF
fifteen votes.
There was no term Of the court of
general sessions for Darlington this
week, because there were no cases to
be tried
The police department and city Of
fcers Of Spartanburg, have moved in
to the new city hall, recently COM
pleted in that city.
Clarendon county has purchased u
movable prisoners stockade, such as
has been in use in York county for
several years.
w. s. Mccarthy, one Of the best
known engineers Of the Southern rail-
way in this state, died at his home in
Columbia Monday. aged SO years.
Governor Manning has appointed
Isaac c. Hough, sheriff Of Hershaw
county, to succeed w. w. Huckabee,
who was indefinitely suspended sever
al weeks ago.
Citizens Of Rockton, Fairfield coun-
ty have subscribed nearly 500 toward
a fund for a memorial to the late
Sheriff A. d. Hood Of Fairfield coun-
ty.
Henry RCatwright, a young mill OPP
erative of Columbia, is in the state
penitentiary charged with criminally
assaulting en- S-year-old white girl
last Saturday.
Mrs. e. B. Kelly was shot and seri-
ously wounded by bullet from a 22-
calibre rifle in the hands Of her young
son in Columbia Monday. The young
ster didn't know the gun was loaded.
The semi-annual meeting Of the
South Carolina Sheriffs' association
will be held in Greenville, July 20.
The chiefs of police of the state will
be invited to meet with the sheriffs.
The Duncan drug store and the
Clancy grocery store at the Duncan
mill in Greenville, were robbed Tues
day and goods valued at about 800
were taken. Two negro boys have
been arrested, charged with the crime.
Several hundred delegates from Vir-
ginia, Georgia, North and South Caro-
lima are attending the annual conven-
tion of the Southern Retail Furniture
Dealers association, which Is being
held in Columbia this week.
Major Johnson Hagood. native OF
South Carolina, who Is now on duty In
the Philippine Islands, has been or
dered to Fort Washington, Septem-
ber Is. to take command Of the coast
Licenses of the Potomac.
At the annual meeting Of the South
Carolina Bankers association at the
Isle Of Palms last week, ]. w. Simp-
son Of Spartanburg, was elected pres
ident of the organization, and Ira B
Dunlap of Rock Hill, vice president.
Miss Elsie Hill, a daughter Of Con-
gresham Ebenezer Hill Of Connecti-
cut, and herself a teacher in a Wash
ington school, has been making Il
lumber of addresses in this state the
past few days in the interests Of wo-
man suffrage.
George l. Lyons, a white man. was
convicted of perjury in the court OF
general sessions for Charleston, Mon.
day. and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment. 1t was charged that he
registered on the enrolment books for
Ward In the city Of Charleston, and
falsely swore thereto.
The city council Of Beaufort, at a
recent meeting strongly condemned
the shooting of young James Carber-
ry, son Of Prof ]. L. Carberry, for
merly of Rock Hill, by a policeman in
that city last New Years eve, and
agreed to pay all expenses incurred in
connection with the treatment of the
young mans wounds.
Lewis w. Parker and o. K. Mauldin
Of Greenville, have filed a petition in
the name Of ]. w. Little, Greenville
county citizen, asking that an injunc-
De 6TdHltu against Tie ITeeINlnt
county highway commission to pre-
vent the issuance Of $950,OOO in bonds
for road Improvement Special Judge
Ansel has ordered the highway COM
mission to appear before him tOmor-
row to show cause why such injunc-
ton should not be granted.
#. u. Vaughn, formerly superin-
tendent of the odd Fellows orphan
age at Greenville, who was convicted
more than two years ago and sentenc-
ed 10 death for assault. has lost his
appeal to the supreme court Of the
United States and must pay for his
crime with his life. Vaughn has not
spoken n word in two years and many
people connected with the peniten-
tiary are of the opinion that he is in
sane.
Pee Dee Advocate: ]. E. Quick, one
of the largest colored farmers in this
section, who lives four miles south of
Osborne, planted 800 acres in cotton
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