Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-30
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina

Items of Interest From All Sections Of
South Carolina.
A charter has been issued to the
Peoples bank Of Brunson, which is
capitalized at $4,000.
The eighth annual convention Of
the Graduate Nurses association Of
South Carolina was held in Greeville
this week.
Patrolman r. E. Bankhead Of the
Columbia police force, has been sus-
pended for thirty days on the charge
Of drinking while on duty.
3, According to a compilation Of the
state board Of health, there were III
cases Of pneumonia in the state dur
ing the month Of March.
Eastman Smith and Press Sisk,
white men, were arrested in Green
wood county last week charged with
the theft Of two horses, the property
of a Saluda county man.
Col. VIM. H Franks, Confederate
veteran who served in the United
States cavalry prior to the war be-
tween the sections, died at his home In
Laurens Monday night, aged SO years
E. ]. Watson, commissioner Of i'm
migration Of South Carolina, was re-
elected president Of the National
Drainage congress at a meeting held
in Chicago, last week.
e. A. Perry was on Tuesday elected
judge Of probate of Saluda county, to
fill out the unexpired term Of the late
w. 8. Crouch. There were six candi-
dates in the race for the office.
Governor Manning has appointed
former Governor Ansel Of Greenville,
as special judge for the Richland
county court Of common pleas, begin
ming May 8.
A messenger Of the Greenville cot
ton mills lost bunch Of checks val
ued at 500 on the streets Of Green
vile Tuesday morning. The money
was later recovered from a negro
barber.
| In an alteration between the two
in Laurens county last week, Frank
Clark and Thomas Henderson, both
well known, were wounded, Hender-
son being SHOT in the foot and Clark
in the thigh. The cause Of the diff
Guilty is unknown.
r. E. Konich, physician Of Cleve-
land, Ohio was seen to fall on
corner in Spartanburg Tuesday night.
He was picked up few minutes later
unconscious and Is still In that con-
dition. Physicians are perplexed as
to his condition.
John w. Richardson, who has been
holding the Office Of chief of police
Of Columbia on probation since Oc-
tober /, was elected chief Of police by
the council on Thursday. The position,
which pays a. salary Of $1,000, is held
for life
Miss Elloree Durham of Fant's
Grove, committed suicide last week
by shooting herself with a shotgun.
She had heard that words Of dis
agreeable nature had been spoken
against her character and is thought
to have concluded that it was too
much for her to bear.
Tom Hayward and his wife, Emma
Hayward are in the Spartanburg
county JAIL pending an investigation
of the cause Of a fire which destroy
ed the stores Of ]. R. Moore and Mrs.
Mary E Stoddard at Duncan Sat-
urday. Property valued at $4,000
was destroyed by the fire.
Lieut.. ]. w. Hayward, u. s. NJ. who
is inspector-instructor Of the South
Carolina naval militia, will be detach-
ed from the Charleston navy yard
May /. He has been named as chief
engineer Of the battleship Alabama.
A new inspector will be named for
the naval militia
Governor Manning on Tuesday COM
muted the sentence Of Will Goggans,
negro Of Newberry county, from
electrocution to life Imprisonment.
The sentence Of James MCGOWAN,
who was to have been electrocuted
tomorrow, was also commuted to life
Imprisonment.
Judge M. L. Smith in the court Of
general sessions for Spartanburg
county this week, refused to estreat
bonds signed in a hundred or more
appeal cases and directed that action
be brought by the city to recover these
bonds. There are several thousand
dollars involved in a hundred or
several years old.
Inaugurating what Is believed to be
one Of the coming big businesses Of
Charleston, the first oats ever ship
ped from the Pacific coast to Charles
ton by an all-water route, arrived in
Charleston Monday on the steamship
Montanan, Capt. Wright, Of the Ameri-
cam Hawaiian line. The oats follow
ed close on the heels Of the first ship
ment by the same route Of Pacific
coast flour, which arrived in Charles
ton last month on the Iowan, Of the
same line The Montanan on Monday
came into the harbor and docked at the
Columbus street terminals where all
the big steamships Of the American
Hawaiian line dock upon their Wis
its to Charleston. The work Of dis
charging her cargo, which contains
besides the oats a variety Of Pacific
coast products, was started immedi-
ately.
Following a baseball game at Due
West Tuesday afternoon, the Furman
University baseball team Of Green
vile got into a free-for-all fight at
Donalds, to which place they had
gone to take a train back to Green
vile. 1t seems that Mayor Tribble of
Donalds, umpired the game between
Furman and Erskine and there was
much kicking on his decisions. Ac-
cording to the Furman boys, as Guy
Nelson, short-stop Of the Furman
team. was walking down a street in
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