Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-11-19
PALMETTO GLEANINes
Current Events and Happenings
Throughout South Carolina.

Current Events and Happenings
Throughout South Carolina.
Mayor 2. F. Wright was re-nomi-
mated mayor Of Newberry on Tuesday
without opposition.
The state board of pharmaceutical
examiners will meet at Greenwood on
November II, to pass upon the fitness
Of applicants for license.
Ten murder cases will be tried in
Anderson county at the approaching
term Of court Of general sessions for
Anderson county.
Charlie Manning Of Calhoun Falls
is in the Anderson hospital suffering
from wounds inflicted by his brother,
Moot Manning.
Feaster Jones who killed DR.. L. o.
McXalla at Starr, in Anderson county,
several weeks ago, is now on trial for
his life in Anderson county.
Capt Thomas Pinckney. one Of the
best known citizens of Charleston
died at his home in that city on Mon
day. He was 81 years old.
Governor Manning, accompanied
by number Of entomologists con-
nected with Clemson college, Is in
specting the boil weevil infested
territory Of the Mississippi this week.
Governor Manning in an interview
given out Monday afternoon declared
that he was opposed to the plan for
an increase in the salaries of state
officers.
John Bragg, an aged white man
and Confederate soldier was run down
by an automobile driven by e. 8.
Werts in Newberry county this week,
receiving injuries from which he died
few hours later.
A company Of coast artillery of
the South Carolina National Guard
will be organized at Greenville within
the next few days. The Federal gov
ernment will furnish about $4,000
worth Of equipment to the new COM
pany.
Governor Manning has again grant,
ed reprieve to Willie Bethune, a
negro under sentence Of death for the
killing Of G. B. Nimms, a white man
in Clarendon county in 1910. Bethune
was to have been electrocuted on last
Tuesday. He has several times been
reprieved by the governor.
Mrs. William nderton has brought
suit for separation and alimony
against her husband DR.. william Il
derton prominent citizen Of Florence
and former state senator from Flor
ence county. In her petition for separ-
alton Mrs. Ilderton alleges neglect,
cruelty and immortality on the part Of
her husband.
A smooth flim-fammer has been at
work in Greenville for the past few
days and as a result Of his operations
with the aid Of confederates, two
banks .have cashed bogus checks ag-
gregating $3.50. The crooks would call
a bank over the telephone and re-
present themselves as a depositor who
was Ill saying that they would send
a kinsman to get a check cashed. This
little game worked smoothly in two
banks, but one bank official became
suspicious and upon investigation
found that the checks were bogus and
that the real depositor had not been
Ill.
Messrs. John P. Colpoys and Charles
Bonheim, commissioners Of concilia-
ton Of the United States, are expected
to arrive in the city this afternoon,
says the Anderson Daily Mail Of Mon
day. They are coming to investi-
gate the strike at the Brogon mill and
to try to bring about an amicable set
tlement of the trouble. These gentle
men have been in Greenville making
an investigation Of the Judson mill
strike, which ended yesterday after
noon at / o'clock. Word came from
Greenville last night that they would
come to Anderson today, and up to
$50 o'clock this afternoon they had
not registered at any Of the local
hotels.
Mr.. w. c. Jaynes, the outside super
intendent at Orr Cotton Mills and,
incidentally, a splendid farmer, states
that he has cut his alfalfa six times
this year, according to the Anderson
Daily Mail. Mr.. Jaynes has two and
a half acres in alfalfa and from this
patch has harvested 20 TOMS tons
to the acre. "And the beauty Of 1t
ALL" continued Mr.. Jaynes, I'VE can
sell every pound Of this feed right
now for $22.50 per ton" We do not
know, Of course, what it has cost the
Orr Cotton Mills to grow this crop,
but from the above figures-the cor
rectness of which we will vouch for
the crop will bring them $3.50 per
acre.
A non-transferable railroad mile
age book. sold under conditions that
it would be forfeited II presented by
any other than the original purchas-
er, may not be forfeited II presented
by the purchaser himself for trans
portation of another person, says
Washington dispatch Of Monday. The
supreme court so held today In the
case of Samuel ]. Campbell, who pre-
sented to a Southern railway con-
ductor two non-transferable mileage
books for transportation for himself
and wife from Greenville, s. c., to
Greensboro, N. C. The conductor de-
clared the book presented for the
wife's transportation forfeited. Camp
bell recovered judgement Of $37
against the railroad for the con-
ductor's action. 1.-The forfeiture con-
dition does not fit this case" said
Justice Hughes. "The action Of the
South Carolina courts in giving judge
ment and holding the road to the
strict terms Of the contract do not
deny the railroad any federal right"
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