Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-28
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.

Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.
John B. Marshall, mayor Of Green
vile, has announced that he will not
be a candidate for reelection.
Governor Manning on Monday sign
ed 107 high school diplomas. The
governor also signed the diplomas Of
Winthrop graduates.
A. D. Oliphant Of Columbia, has
been elected assistant secretary OF
the state board Of charities and cor
rections.
Governor Manning has re-appointed
Dr. Stephen Taber professor Of geo.
logy in the University Of South Caro-
lima, as state geologist-
Miss Linda Hunter, graduate Of
Chicora college Of Greenville, has
been appointed supervisor Of mill
schools in Spartanburg county.
A. G. Furman has been appointed
member Of the Greenville county
courthouse commission to succeed
David B. Traxler, recently appointed
postmaster.
Lockhart Moore, a negro convict on
the Edgefeld county chaingang, was
shot to death by Chas. Broadwater, a
guard, Monday morning, while at
tempting to escape.
Citizens Of Orangeburg on Tuesday
voted to issue $4,000 bonds with
which to erect a new school building
in Orangeburg. The vote was So for
the bonds and against.
Chas. Coward, son Of q section
master at McBee, was run over by
a freight train in that town Monday.
HIS legs were badly crushed and he
died Of his injuries on Tuesday.
A. C. Druelle, a car repairer Of
Charleston. attempted to commit sui
eide in his home Monday. He shot
himself in the head with a 32-calibre
revolver, but the wound Is not fatal.
Leland Moore has resigned as
chairman Of the executive committee
of the Democratic party in Charles
ton, and has been succeeded by ]. A.
Black. Both are anti Grace men.
The annual commencement Of Allen
university, an institution for negroes,
located in Columbia, and which Is
under the management Of the African
Methodist Episcopal church, was held
this week, quite number OF negroes
graduating from the institution
C. H. Glaze and D. N. Smith, Ir, OF
Orangeburg, were pretty badly hurt
Monday afternoon when an automo-
bile which they were driving, ran into
a ditch. Glaze received serious in
juries to his head and side.
Governor Manning, Adjutant Gen.
eral Moore and Senators Tillman and
Smith will go to Washington on June
4, for conference with A. L. Mills,
chief Of staff, when South Carolina
military affairs will be discussed.
The Carolina Hail Insurance COM
pany of Marion, has gone into the
hands Of a receiver. It Is alleged that
the company owes its policy holders
about $4,000. OF this amount $4,-
500 Is owed TO policy holders in
Edgefield and Aiken counties.
Clint Carter, a negro. who is being
held in the Greenvine county jail
under sentence Of death, attempted
to commit suicide in Jail Sunday night
by slashing his throat with a razor
and knife. He will recover, and Is
now in the Spartanburg county jail.
The public service commission of
the town Of Walterboro, has let con-
tracts for the installation Of q sewer
system and electric lighting plant and
the extension Of the water works sys-
tenn Of the town. The town voted
s45,O0O bonds for the purpose some
time ago.
Arrangements have been made for
operating a train from CARNEY to
Black Mountain, N. c., on July 1, for
the benefit of the members Of the
South Carolina Press association and
Master Printers association, their
wives and their friends. There the
South Carolina newspaper people will
meet with the North Carolina Press
association.
Joe Beatty, a 12-year-old negro boy,
killed Left Bigby, an eleven-year-old
negro, in Anderson county Monday
morning. According to reports, the
Beatty boy took a shotgun from the
wall and pointing 1t at Bigby ordered
him not to come toward him. The
Bagby boy apparently not under
standing the order, advanced toward
the gun. Beatty fired, killing Bigby.
Oscar Anderson, a member Of the
crew of the yacht Mokomis, now
off Charleston, was drowned in the
Cooper river Monday morning. He
had been cleaning the deck Of the
yacht and complaining to a mate that
he was hot, had stripped and plunged
into the river for swim. 1t was sup
posed that he was seized with cramp
and sunk. His body was recovered.
Two hundred and eighteen men,
women and children on last Saturday
afternoon Joined in the parade Of the
converts Of the Bob Jones evangelistic
services, which have been held in
Sumter daily since April rs. The pa
rade was the first Of its kind to be
held in the state. Evangelist Jones
claims to have converted more than
900 people since the beginning Of his
services in Sumter.
The fertilizer tag tax for the period
from July l, 1914, to May Is, 1916,
was So per cent Of the tax for the
same period last year. Figures from
the office Of H. M. Stackhouse, secre-
tary of the state board Of fertilizer
control at Clemson college, show the
tax receipts on May IS, 1914, had
reached s27O,244. This years tax is
to date, therefore SIS per cent Of that
for the same period last year and 53
per cent of the total for last year,