Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-22
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

The summer school for teachers
at the University of South Carolina
opened yesterday morning in Column
bia.
Governor Manning has issued a
pardon to G. ID. Bragg of Greer re-
Gently convicted on charge of forgery
and sentenced to serve one year in the
penitentiary.
An epidemic of black leg has made
it's appearance among cows in Green.
vile county. A number OF cows dleo
with the disease last week, and
hundreds of others have been vacci-
mated.
According To the Columbia Record,
former Governor Blease is TO defend
Ernest Eisenhower and probably the
other defendants charged with the
murder of Sheriff Hood of Fairfield
county. When asked about the mat
ter" says the Record, the governor
replied: AS q politician l talk all
the time; as lawyer, never
The South Carolina State Press
association will hold its annual con-
vention at Chick Springs hotel in
Greenville county, next Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday, and will leave
Wednesday afternoon for Montreal,
n. c., to meet with the North Caro-
Montreal the two associations Will go
together Oh a trip to Mount Mitchell,
the highest peak east of the Rockies.
In a recent opinion given the state
board of charities, at its request,
saws a Columbia dispatch, Thomas II.
Peoples, attorney general, held that
relatives of patients undergoing
treatment at the state hospital for the
insane could not be held legally liable
for their support, unless in the case
of a husband for his wife, or a. father
for his dependent unmarried child,
but that the board of regents of the
hospital had authority under the law
TO exclude any patient from admission
TO the hospital as a beneficiary when,
in its Judgment, the relatives of such
patient were able to pay for his or her
treatment at the hospital. The state
board of charities and corrections
asked the attorney general for an
opinion on two or three points of law
relating to the powers OF its fiscal
agent who is authorized under the act
creating the board to make investiga-
tions of the financial status of patti
ents at the hospital and their rela-
tiyes. The Investigations will be un-
dertaken to give the board of regents
information on which it can refuse to
admit patients as beneficiarieS when
they themselves or their relatives are
able to pay in whole or in part for
their treatment at the hospital.
Columbia Record, Friday: THE
failure of the grand jury to do its duty
will not have any effect on our en-
deavor to enforce the law; our efforts
will not be relaxed, but will be great
er than ever" stated Governor Man
ming this morning in an interview
discussing the failure of the Charles
ton grand jury to bring. true bills
Yesterday against alleged blind
tigers" Governor Manning To-Day
gave out the following: Il regret to
see by the newspapers that the grand
Jury i'm Charleston failed to bring in
true bills i'm the liquor cases, nOtwith-
standing the statement Of the foreman
that the action was regardless of the
law and the evidence in the cases,
but was caused by prejudice against
the dispensary law. | am glad to
note that some of the members of the
grand jury stood for upholding the
law. The failure Of the grand jury
to do its duty will not have any eff