Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-13
SOUTH NEWS

The experiment or q Jtney line Is
being tried out in Columbia.
The South Atlantic baseball league
which includes clubs in Charleston
and Columbia, opened the 1915 season
yesterday.
Lewis w. Haskell of Columbia,
American consul at Nish, Servia, has
returned to the United States on a
furlough.
An attempt was made to wreck q
passenger train on he Blue Ridge
railway near James station, SATURDAY
night, by placing cross ties on the
track. Little damage was done.
The South Carolina Cotton Seed
Crushers' association has purchased
1900 0 tons Of coal which Is a year 8
supply for the oil mills Of the state.
The coal was bought from operators
in Virginia and West virginia
Major ]. L. Cocker OF H~artsvllle,
has announced a gift OF $l20,Ooo 10
Cocker college, Huntsville, for the con-
struction of a general service" build
ing and the equipment Of chemical
biological and physical laboratories.
Governor Manning on yesterday
morning, issued one pardon, one parole
and two combinations, the first
Of clemency since he has been gov
ernor. A pardon was granted to X.
S. Bowman Of Charleston, who has
served his sentence. The sentence OF
Willie Green, a little 1~4-year-old boy,
Of Marlboro county, was cut DOWN
from one year to eight months. Tne
little boy forged an order for forty
cents. A parole was granted to Saran
Rice, a white woman, OF Union, serV-
ing a term Of four months In the
county Jail for vagrancy. The parole
is conditioned on the woman spending
ninety DAYS in a rescue home in
Greenville. The sentence OF Saran
Moore Of Richland, serving q ten-year
term for arson, was reduced to w
years. All these cases received favor-
able recommendations from the board.
- Several Of the leading cotton mill
men Of the Piedmont section have
been ~subpoenaed to appear In the
court OF common pleas now sitting IN
Greenyille, as witnesses In the case OF
j. w. Keith VS.. the Monaghan MIL
for damages in the sum or $l6,OOV,
the plaintiff alleging that he has been
"blackmailed' by this mill and could
not get employment at others because
or this fact. The cause OF the alleged
blacklisting was the part which keith
is said to have taken in the l. w. w.
ITOuDle ldSl Sullkl4C4s AA
s~ubpoenaed are A. E. Smyth, w. Il.
Beattie, F. W.. Poe and LOWS w.
Parker, who was president Of the Par
ker Cotton Mills company, OF which
Monaghan is a unit, at the time OF the
strike. The testimony Of Mr.. Parker
has been taken in writing, both sides
conserving, as he desired to go to New
York for medical treatment
Former Governor Cole L. Blease Is
leading counsel ter Mrs. A. +. Parker
against L. J. Walker and the walker
furniture company Of GreenVille, IN
q suit for $4,000 damages for alleged
false arrest, humiliation, etc. Inc
complaint, which Is to be served TINS
week, according to the GreenVllle
Piedmont, alleges that Mrs. Parker
was arrested after she had had her
trunk checked ana boarded a passen-
ger train for Columbia. Jake Gosnell,
a Greenyille constable, so the al
legation goes, arrested her, had
the amount she had paid for her
ticket refunded, held back her trunk,
for which he claimed she owed the
furniture company, Il would nave
taken her to Jail except for the fact
that on the way she was able to bor-
row the Sc claimed, from a merchant
she knew. This is said to have oc-
Cured at the c. & w. G. depot on
February 3, 1915. Mrs. Parker claims
that Gosnell arrested her without
showing a warrant. She also claims
that her husband bought h trunk
and II there was a debt against 1t n
was not aware of the fact Il Is stated
that this case will be the first in which
the former governor will figure since
his resignation of the governors office
in January last.
Fred H. Dominick, assistant at
torney general, in an opinion filed on
last Friday, holds that the governor
has the right to appoint as many
constables as are necessary to enforce
the state laws. The opinion is also
given that the governor has b right
to fix the salaries Of the constables.
The opinion by the assistant attorney
general was given upon the request Of
Governor. Manning, which was made
several days ago. In my opinion
says the opinion, the governor has the
right to appoint such state constableS
as he may deem necessary for the
enforcement of the laws and fix their
salaries, the salaries Of such officers
as constables to be paid out Of the
special fund for the enforcement Of
law appropriated for the governors
office. Of course, in such counties
which are not exempted from the pro-
visions Of section $40 Of the code the
salaries Of such officers are paid out
Of the profits Of the d~ispensary coun-
ties and out Of the ordinary county
funds in the counties wherein the dis
pensary has not been established