Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-12-31
PALMETTO GLEANINGs
Current Events and Happenings
Throughout South Carolina.

Current Events and Happening
i Throughout South Carolina.
/ Governor Manning Is preparing hi.
annual message to the legislature.
The first snow in two years fell IL
i Charleston last week.
i C. M. McCurry has been appointed
| auditor Of Florence county to sue
ceed H. L. Darr deceased.
Fire last week destroyed the West
minister Shuttle works, destroying
property valued at $4,000.
i Walt Morgan of Greenville, wa,
i killed near Westminster on December
! %, when he was run over by a train
/ Hurley Harvey shot and killed his
| kinsman, Henri RreClan In Hampton
! county last week, following quarrel.
John Robertson. negro. was killed
| in Columbia Friday, when he was
struck by all elevator In the Jerome
hotel.
The Charleston board Of trustees
has passed a resolution endorsing q
bond issue Of $250,000 for school
purposes.
Wallace Bird died in a Sumter hos
| pital last week Of gunshot wounds
received at the hands Of an unknown
person.
James R Stuart, an artist, a native
of South Carolina, died at his home
in Madison, Wis, last week, aged 81
years.
Fire which broke out in the Farm
ers' warehouse at Newberry on Tues
day, burned more than lis bales OF
cotton.
E. D. Ferrell, an employe Of an in
surance company in Spartanburg,
committed suicide in his home Mon
day by inhaling gas.
The governor has appointed ]. 8.
Salley Of Orangeburg, solicitor OF the
first judicial circuit to succeed p. T..
Hildebrand, deceased.
George c. Wheeler, q we'll known
citizen Of Saluda, committed suicide
Sunday night by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol.
Sam Jones, colored, charged with
killing negro in Laurens fourteen
years ago, has been captured by the
police at Offerman, Ga.
Albert Lacy, a white painter OF
Anderson, about 35 years old, COM
mitted suicide in that town Tuesday
by drinking poison.
8. G. owen, formerly Of Spartan
burg, but who for q number Of years
past has lived in Washington, D. c.,
has been sentenced to life imprison-
ment for the murder Of his wife.
Peter Hamilton, colored, charged
with criminal assault upon q white
woman at Easley several weeks ago,
has been sentenced to die by electro
cution on February 4.
Governor Manning has offered a re-
ward Of 500 for the capture Of Green
wood Rogers, negro serving q. life
sentence for arson who escaped from
the state farm in Kershaw county
several weeks ago.
The negro Graded school building at
Florence was destroyed by fire last
week. There were 1,500 children In
the building at the time of the fire
but no one was hurt. The building
was insured for $4,000.
Bub Pou, n young white man, was
killed at Ward, Saluda county, Sat
urday night and Fred Kneece, also
white, is in Jail charged with his
murder. The cause Of the killing Is
unknown.
The board Of directors Of the News
filed notice Of an increase in capital
stock from 100000 to 100000. The
directors propose to issue $4,000 OF
preferred stock.
William P. Holland, for many years
an engineer on the Atlantic Coast Line
railway, died last week from Injuries
received when he jumped from the
second story window Of Florence
sanitarium where he was undergoing
treatment
Henry C. Cuttino, a well known
real estate dealer and collector Of
Sumter, committed suicide Tuesday
morning by shooting himself In the
head with a pistol. Dependency over
financial matters Is supposed to have
been the reason for the act.
Charley Smith, q white man, was
burned to death In q fire which de-
stroyed the boarding house Of a Mrs.
McLendon at Clearwater, Aiken coun-
ty, Saturday night. Another unknown
man who had been with Smith all day
Is missing.
Fannie Blackwell, the 12-year-o old
daughter Of Andy Blackwell Of Mil
lan's store, Spartanburg county, was
drowned in Obed creek near her home
last week. The girl and her little
brother fell into the creek from foot
log. The boy barely escaped with his
life
P. D. Lincoln Of McClellanville, q
former rural policeman, was stabbed
to death at that place last week by
Thos. w. Graham, q farmer. The two
men quarreled and Lincoln shot at
Graham three times with pistol when
the latter drew his knife and stabbed
the former to the heart. Lincoln was
drinking.
Mrs. Mabel Mack, administrative OF
the estate Of the late Cecil Mack OF
Cordova, Orangeburg county, has
brought suit against the Atlantic
Coast Line railway for $4,000 on ac-
count Of the death Of Mack, who was
killed by q passenger train while in
the discharge Of his duties as a mail
carrier several months ago.
Record Of the death Of Laura Green,
a negro, believed to be the oldest resi-
dent Of Jacksonville, was placed on
file in the city health department to-
day, says a Jacksonville; Fla, dis
patch of December q. 1t gave her
age as lis. She resided in Jackson
vile 16 years, coming here from
Charleston, S. c., where she was born
December 23, 1900. She died two days
after celebrating her 115th birthday
anniversary.
Columbia State, 22nd: Changes in
the law governing the state cotton
warehouse system were discussed yes
terday at a conference between Gov.
Manning and John L. McLaurin, COM
missioner The two officials are said
to be in full agreement on the propos-
ed changes in the act. Mr.. McLaurin
said yesterday that he would not give
out his annual report until 1t had
been placed in the hands Of the legis-
lature.
George B. Perkins Of Boston, Mass,
who was convicted in Columbia, Janu-
ary l, 1915, Of manslaughter for the
killing Of F. w. R. Hindeman, busi-
ness manager Of the Jacksonville
Times Union, and sentenced to three
years in the Federal prison in Allan
ia, Ca, has been granted new trial
by the United States circuit court Of
appeals at Richmond, Va Perkins is
said to have been crazed by drink
when he killed Hindeman and at the
same time seriously wounded Captain
Ingram Of the steamer Mohaw, upon
which the shooting took place, and
another passenger.