Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-18
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.

itonS OF inteFest FROM All SeCtiohe OF
South Carolina.
The school district which includes
the town Of Winnsboro, has adopted
the compulsory education law.
A bank Is to be established at Ian
drum, Spartanburg county, within
the next few weeks. The institution
will be capitalized at $4,000.
The city Of Anderson has contracted
for 100000 yards Of paving to be laid
in that city between now and De-
cember 1.
I R. B. Belser has announced his can
didacy for the legislature from Sum-
ter county, to succeed DR.. Geo. w.
Dick, resigned. Mr.. Belser formerly
served two terms in the legislature.
Prof. A. E. Spencer, for more than
twenty years instructor Of Greek in
the Presbyterian college, Clinton, was
last week awarded the degree Of doc
tor Of laws by Centeral University,
Kentucky.
The machine shops Old. w. Alder
man G. Sons company and the Alcolu
Railroad company, situated at Alcolu,
were destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The loss will total several thousand
dollars with no insurance.
The first shipment Of cotton from
Charleston for a foreign port since
April %, left that port this week,
when the Spanish steamer Angel B.
Perez sailed for Huelva, Spain, with
a cargo Of 5000 bales.
Robbers entered the store Of Julian
Sharpe. at Edmund, Lexington county,
Monday night, stealing goodly sum
Of money and dry goods. The United
States postofflce was located in the
store.
According to reports received by
the state department Of education,
seventy-one school districts in twenty
six counties have adopted the COM
pulsory education law which will be
In force next year.
Something like 600 delegates attend
ed the annual convention Of the
Southeastern Aerie, fraternal order of
Eagles, which met in Columbia this
week. Aeries from-North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama were present.
The keel Of the tug Wando. which
Is to be- built at the Charleston navy
yard, was laid this week. The con-
tract price is about s125,000. Repairs
to the cruiser Olympia, totaling about
100000, will also be made at Charles
ton.
Because the patrons Of Evergreen
school district in Florence county at
an election last Friday, defeated a
proposition to issue bonds sufficient
to build q new school house, the trus-
tees Of the school have presented their
designations to the county superin-
tendent of education.
Sam Stephens, a Hall county, Ga,
negro, was removed from Jail Monday
night and hanged to a tree by a mob
of more than 100 persons. The negro
had criminally assaulted the daugh-
ter Of a prominent white farmer. The
negro made his escape after the
crime, but was arrested in Madison,
8. c., Sunday night.
Chicora college, located in Green
Vile, will be moved to Columbia, and
will be known at Chicora college for
Women. Harmony presbytery at its
meeting in Sumter Tuesday, cast the
deciding vote, 1t being the sixth pres
bytery in the state to vote for the
change. Only one Of the eight pres
byteries in the state, Enoree, voted to
let the college remain in Greenville.
Meyer Caplan, a merchant Of New
berry, Is at a Baltimore hospital,
learning under the direction Of a train
ed nurse to eat virtually without a
stomach. He went to Baltimore two
weeks ago to be treated for tumor Of
the stomach and surgeons removed all
but about two inches Of this organ.
This small flap attaching to the
aesophagus was Joined to the duoden-
mum, a part Of the small intestine. The
man is now able to take into his sys-
tenn food that Is easily digested. This
he must take standing, a spoonful at
q time, so that each meal takes about
two hours. The surgeons think he
has many years Of usefulness ahead
Of him
A coroners inquest over the body
Of the late Sheriff A. d. Hood, who
was shot on the court house steps at
Winnsboro, Monday morning, as he
was conveying Jules Smith, an al
legged negro rapist to the court room
for trial, was held in Winnsboro Tues
day, the testimony Of number OF
witnesses to the tragedy being taken.
The coroner's inquest was later ad-
journed until July IL, in order that
the testimony Of several deputies,
participants in the tragedy and who
are now in hospitals, might be secur-
ed Clyde Isenhower, alleged leader
Of the mob, who killed Sheriff Hood
and the negro prisoner, died In
hospital in Chester at 1880 o'clock
Tuesday night. Ernest Isenhower,
Jesse Morrison and Jim Rawls are now
In the Fairfield county Jail, charged
with participation in the shooting,
and it is expected that a number OF
other persons will be arrested. charg-
ed with completely in the affair." The
Isenhowers, who are the principals In
the affair, are said to be one Of the
most prominent families in Fairfield
county, living about seven miles from
Winnsboro. Clyde Isenhower, who Is
said to have mortally wounded Sheriff
Hood as we'll as killed the negro and
who, in turn, was mortally wounded
by the sheriff, was farmer. One OF
his brothers is a Baptist preacher In
Fairfield county, another Is school
teacher, a third is a rural policeman,
and a fourth Is a policeman in the
town of Winnsboro. 1t is said that
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