Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-09
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1915.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS

The students of the University or
South Carolina have organized a pro-
hibition club with a membership OF
about thirty-fve.
Petitions are being circulated In
%Orangeburg for the recall OF Mayor
Robert F. Bryant and Councilmen r.
r D, Fielder and H. Won Olsen, Sr., OF
that city.
According to the monthly report OF
Insurance Commissioner F. H. Nc
Master. there were 15S fires in South
carolina during the month Of Febru-
airy, entailing a loss Of SS5,226.1o.
Governor Manning on Saturday
appointed the following members OF
the Confederate home board n. T.
Thompson, Columbia: S. E. Welsn'
Charleston; ]. Walsh Drummond'
Columbia.
-Joseph Collins of Spartanburg,
died at the Confederate Home In COL
umbia. Sunday. He was a member Oh
Company E, Second South Carolina
cavalry during the war between the
states.
Albert Tolbert, q white man, WIS
found guilty Of the murder or ms Whe
in the court Of general sessions LOT
Greenwood county, Saturday arter-
noon. 1OlDctl ShoNSN
death on December l9.
Governor Manning stated
that he would not retain a regular
legal adviser, but that he wouio ean-
ploy legal counsel whenever neces-
sary. The recent legislature gave the
governor 1000 for legal advice.
Manning has issued an
order forbidding the shipment OF hVe-
stock into this state except upon GER
tiicate showing clean bill OF healtn.
The proclamation is to guard against
the introduction Of foot and mouth
disease.
The understanding from Washing
ton Is that while the president a sig
niied his intention to appoint Joseph
r, Johnson, judge Of the western ais.
trict of South Carolina, he a not
done so, and will not do SO until a1teI
the converting Of the next session VI
congress.
-Thirty-two bales of long stapIe
cotton, the property of I. j.: OliSe
of Timmonsville, was almost destrOy-
ed by fire at a ginnery last "eekI une
for shipment and Is supposed to nave
caught fire from q spark of a passing
engine. ,
w 8 Jones Jr., was shot and
fatally wounded in Sumter, FRIDAY
night by Began c. Trippett. The shoot.
ing Is SAID to have been the result Oh
III feeling between the men for some
time. Both parties are promlnenliy
connected in Sumter. Jones died SAT
urday afternoon. His slayer is In JAN.
S. J.. Nichols Of Spartanburg, Wen
known in political circles throughoue
the state and an avowed candidate Ior
congress from the Fourth congresslon-
al district, was married in GreenVllle,
Sunday night, to Miss Eloise Margaret
Clarke of Green Bay, Wis. Mr.. Men
oils met Miss Clarke | Anew weeAs
ago, when she came to Sp~artanourg Is
a representative Of the international
Lyceum bureau.
Bart Turnstall Of Clifton is dead,
and his companion, Charles Wright, Is
critically i'll as a result or M
whisky purchased from a negro pllno
tiger, Saturday night. A remnant VI
the mint of LIQUOR which they were
drinking is being held for analysis ana
Lessee Miller and Burton Gidney, ne
eroes, are being held in the Spartan
burg county Jail, pending h verdict
of the %coroners jury.
Rev. John c. Carman, for the past
wear kSn6Edl SoPCk
worker of the South Carolina In
terdenominational sunday school as
~sociation, died in Spartanburg sat
urday night after a brief illness from
pneuminia. He IA about As years OF
age and came to South Carolina from
Denver, Colorado. He had been en-
gagged in Sunday school work in the
middle west for more than twenty
a
1t is not expected that the position
made vacant by the appointment OF
Joseph T. johnson to a district judge
ship, is to go begging. Referring 70
the situation, a Spartanburg dispatch
saws: Those who have announce
are: A. B. Morgan Of Greenville; >
]. Nichols Of Spartanburg. Nichols
was defeated by Mr.. Johnson last sum,
mer, and Robert j. CAN'T of the local
bar. Those whom gossip has put In
the race are: Col. T. c: Duncan OF
Union, Hon. l.. j. Browning or Union
Jesse w. Boyd Of S~partanburg, ano
Hon. r. A. Cooper Of Laurens. Arch
B.. Calvert will probably also be In the
running.