Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-20
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE

| HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items of Interest From All Sections Of
| South Carolina.
| Several houses occupied by negroes
in Chester, were destroyed by fire Fri
day.
The Baptist conference which be-
gan in Greenville last Sunday, came
to close Friday evening.
The Wesley Bible Class Federation
Of the Methodist church Is being held
in Spartanburg this week.
| State Senator ]. J. Evans Of Marl-
! boro county, is i'll with appendicitis
and will have to undergo an opera
ton.
Miss Dorothy Napier, Richland
county demonstration agent, proposes
to establish a canning class at the
state hospital for the insane.
Governor Manning has appointed ].
H. Lewis supervisor Of Marlboro
county, to succeed NJ. E. Coward, re-
! signed.
Johnnie Owens, 17-year-old boy of
Anderson, lost his life while swimming
in Rocky river near that city Friday
afternoon.
The South Carolina Farmers Union
has received notice Of the opening OF
a Farmers Union produce market in
Jacksonville. Fla.
Henry Turner, colored, Is dead Of
wounds he received when he attempt
ed to rob the store Of A. G.. Sack at
Pinewood. in Clarendon county, last
week.
Mrs. C. H. Tavell Of Charleston, fell
dead in O picture show in that city
Thursday evening. A short time ago
her husband was accidentally elec-
trocuted.
Solomon Wright, a negro boy, shot
and killed Jack Sumter, a colored
youth, near Orangeburg Thursday,
with shotgun. He didn't know his
gun was loaded.
Allan Johnson, negro, who Is
charged with stabbing Haskell Martin,
a young white boy to death in Union
last week, is being held in the state
penitentiary for safe-keeping.
A two-year- child Of Ernest Winn
Of Edgefeld county, was crushed to
daotb uvadpoodoy r,ban hola ~ ,of-
ton upon which 1t had been playing,
toppled over upon it.
The Hardware Association of the
Carolinas, which was in session at the
Isle of Palms, Charleston, last week,
selected Chattanooga, Tenn, as the
place Of next meeting.
The insurance department Of the
state sinking fund commission has is
sued a policy to Clemson college for
the insurance of the college property in
the sum Of $S30, 0,106.47, for three years
at premium Of S12.s41.s6.
Charlton DuRant was on Wednesday
elected senator from Clarendon coun-
I
He defeated John R. Dingle and ]. w.
Wideman by an overwhelming ma
jority.
DR.. Annie Austin Of Cross Hfii,
Laurens county, has been selected as
woman physician and Dr. E. L. Horg-
er Of Orangeburg, has been elected
OF OF ha ofo 70
the insane.
The Chicago Association Of Com
merce has suggested the erection Of
monument to the memory Of the late
Col David DuBose Gaillard Of South
Carolina, on account Of the work he
did in connection with the building of
the Panama canal.
Mrs. D. N. Brown, proprietress Of q
boarding house in Spartanburg, was
fined IS in the Spartanburg police
court last week for disorderly conduct.
The lady's chickens encroached upon
the premises of her neighbors and
when they complained she roundly
cursed them.
The recorder Of the city Of CO.
lumbia has addressed a letter to the
city attorney asking whether or lot
it would be legal to hold recorders
court in that city on Sunday morn
ings, thus disposing Of prisoners who
are arrested the day before and pre-
venting their Imprisonment from Sat-
urday night until Monday morning.
A will containing bequests amount
ing to $15,000,000, the same being the
last will and testament Of Maria De-
Witt Jesup Of New York, has been
probated in the probate court Of
Charleston county. This is believed
to be the largest will ever probated in
the state, and was made necessary
because the deceased owned s5O,OO0
worth Of stock in the Central railroad
Of South Carolina
Wednesday morning, the family OF
r. F.. Haynsworth Of Sumter was at
tracted by the loud and continued
blowing OF their automobile horn and
upon investigation ii was found that
the automobile was on fire and the
blowing Of the horn was caused by
the fire. The blaze was extinguished
after the automobile had been dam
aged and the building partly burned.
The automobile had not been used
since the night before AM il is sup
circuit Anyway it was this short
circuit or fire which caused the horn
to give the alarm before the fire had
spread to do further damage.