Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-20
PALMETTO HAPPENINGS
Current Happenings and Events
Throuohout South Carolina.

week and nave not been captured.
E. Jones was on Tuesday elected
mayor Of the town Of Batesburg, de-
feating ]. D. Galloway 1877 to "A.
Mint Livingstone, a negro woman
died at her home in Floyd township,
Newberry county last Friday, aged
100 years.
| Bud Crooks, a negro. stabbed Eliza
beth Brown a negress, to death in
Walhalla last week, Jealousy caused
the murder.
Sam Benjamin, a negro mute, was
run over and killed by a train at St
Charles, Sumter county, Sunday
morning.
The association of the South Caro-
lima clerks Of court convened for a
two day session at Chick Springs this
week.
The Peace Printing company Of
Greenville, has been awarded a con-
tract to print 100000 calendars for the
Southern railway company.
The business section Of the little
town of Estill, in Hampton county
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The
damage Is estimated at $4,000.
Contractors who have the job Of
double-tracking the Southern rail-
way between Greenville and Spartan
burg have begun their work.
Policeman E. NJ. Lancaster Of the
Columbia police force, has been sus-
pended for thirty days on the charge
Of conduct unbecoming an officer.
James B. Halfacre has been ap-
pointed auditor Of Newberry county
to succeed Eugene s. Werts who was
recently dismissed from Office by Gov
ernor Manning.
There is considerable agitation to
form new county out Of a portion OF
Greenville and Anderson counties.
Should such a county be formed,
WILLIAMSON would very likely be the
county seat.
Fat Ward, Greenville county
negro with a long criminal record Is
in the Spartanburg jail for safe keep
ing, having been spirited away from
a mob at Greer who were bent on
lynching him.
The Greenville highway commission
has begun active work on the roads
Of that county. 1t will be remembered
that some time ago Greenville county
voted nearly s1,0OO,O00 bonds for road
purposes.
Hon. John l. McLaurin, state ware
house commissioner, is conducting q
campaign in the Piedmont section In
the interest of the state warehouse
system. Commissioner McLaurin has
made several speeches this week.
Two negro women and a negro baby
were seriously hurt near Spearman
in Newberry county last Friday, when
a buggy in which they were riding
was struck by a Southern passenger
train. The mule they were driving was
instantly killed.
me governor has granted a re-
prieve from September 3 to Septem-
per 20 to Nelson Brice. Tom Griffin,
John Crosby and Meek Griffin who
have been sentenced to death for the
murder of an aged man in Chester
county several years ago.
Father Samuel Mcpherson, rector
Of the Roman Catholic church at Hyde
Park, New York, died suddenly Mon
day afternoon on a Seaboard Airline
railway train as the train was passing
through the town Of Estill in the
county of Hampton.
At the request Of Gov. Chas. w.
Gates Of Vermont chairman Of the
executive committee, Commissioner
Watson, as president Of the South
Carolina Road Builders association,
has appointed the following delegates
from this state to the Pan-American
Road congress to be held in Oakland,
Cal, September 1917 next: Reid
Whiteford, Charleston; F. H. Hyatt,
Columbia; LaCoste Evans, Cheraw;
w. H. Whenton, Union; D. A. Spivey,
Conway; VIM. Coleman, Whitmire;
John T. Stevens, Kershaw; F. Horton
Coliock, Columbia; Arch B. Calvert,
Spartanburg; w. G. Shrine, Green
Vile; w. D. Morgan, Georgetown; ].
d. Mcbride, Florence; D. M. Crosson,
lexington; w. C. Farber, Batesburg;
w. M. Otis, Columbia; Geo. l. Bawer,
Columbia; H. L. Watson, Greenwood;
F. H. Shirley, Westminster.
spartanburg Herald, Tuesday: Hurl-
ed over a ten-foot embankment and
into a nest of infuriated bumblebees,
Lawrence Sellers and his father,
Mike" Sellers of the Golightly
section, narrowly escaped serious in
jury on the Glenn Springs road about
seven miles out Of Spartanburg Sum
day afternoon. The horse driven by
the Messrs. Sellers had become fright
ened at the groanings Of an old gray
mule, which somebody had left to
die in the road. The horse immediat-
ely began backing and in few
seconds the buggy had turned over the
side of the steep embankment and in
to the gully beneath. Both men were
cut and bruised considerably and the
father suffered painful sprains in his
back. The horse was also badly in
jured. In falling into the gully, the
men fell right into a nest Of bumble-
bees, it is stated, and the insects be-
gan to take revenge Immediately. Both
men were stung plentifully before
they were able to extricate themselves
from the wreck Of the buggy.
President Wilson will take definite
steps soon to better the cotton stu
alton in the south, Representative
Lever of South Carolina, chairman Of
the agricultural committee in the last
house. was assured according to a
Washington dispatch Of Tuesday. The
first step in the presidents plan is to
take up the cotton question in the
note to Great Britain, to be sent soon,