Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-07
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE

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HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items of Interest from All Sections ot
South Carolina.
Three warehouses at st. Charles ir
Lee county, were taken into the state
=. warehouse system last week.
Col John w. Ferguson, the oldes
member Of the Laurens county bar
died Tuesday morning.
Eighteen dogs were killed by the
Greenville police Tuesday, their own.
| ers not caring to pay the annual dog
| tax license.
The Clinchfeld Fuel company Of
Spartanburg, has secured an order fol
100000 tons Of coal to be shipped to
Europe in December.
According to the report Of the chief
Of police Of Greenville, during the
month Of April, 220 arrests were made
in that city, and fines totaling s1,05.75
were collected.
During a heavy storm at Benefits
vile Sunday night, the barn Of G. w
Freeman was burned. An automobile
sixteen bales Of cotton and a quantity
of feedstuffs were destroyed.
A negro attempted to assault a
white woman in Greenville Tuesday
lmorning. The negro made his escape
and has not been captured. A lynch
ing Is probable in case he is caught
A large touring car owned by DR.
]. H. Nenzetta, was struck at cross
ing in Greenville Tuesday, by South
ern passenger train No. II. The occu-
pants Of the automobile escaped in
ljury. The car was demolished.
The Enoree Manufacturing COM
pany of Enoree, Spartanburg county
one Of the largest cotton mills in the
Piedmont section, Is to be sold at auc-
tion on June Z. No bid for less than
$350,000 will be considered. The MILL
which went into the hands Of a re-
ceiver several months ago, Is capital
lied at 100000.
The Spartanburg city council has
passed an ordinance requiring every
| washerwoman or other person or firm
| engaged In the laundry business, to
secure a certificate Of registration
from the city department Of health
The ordinance goes into effect June l.
BY a vote OF 657 to 373, the voters
Of Spartanburg on Tuesday. rejected
the ordinance proposed by the Chris
tian Workers league to require pool
and billiard rooms to remove all
blinds, partitions or other obstructions
which shut off the interior from view
In the same election, Floyd L. Lilies
was elected commissioner of public
works over ]. o. Erwin, by vote of
757 to 304.
, Fire which was caused by a spark
from a locomotive dropping son q
warehouse in Anderson. Tuesday
evening, destroyed property valued at
$4,000. Among the buildings burned
was the handsome new freight depot
Of the Piedmont & Northern railway,
valued at $4,000, and containing
freight valued at $4,000. and $4,000
, worth of cotton. The loss is about
half covered by insurance.
William Johnson, a prominent farm
er, living near Riverville, in Spartan
burg county, accidentally killed his
little ten~months-old son William
Johnson, Jr., Saturday, when a
switch with which he was chastising
another Of his children, slipped from
his hand and struck the baby in the
head, penetrating its brain. The kill
ing was purely accidental, and the
father Is prostrated as a result Of the
accident.
In a speech opening a three day
chautauqua in Leesville, Monday, Gov
ernor Manning issued a warning
against the reported secret organiza-
ton Of farmers in the lower counties
of the state and urged them to or
ganize in the "open like men," He de-
clared that he knew nothing Of such
organization save that he had heard
that 1t was forming and he recalled
the past when he said men had ridden
into office on the backs Of farmers by
means Of organizations calculated to
benefit the farmers. He urged that
the farmers cooperate openly in all
lines that might benefit them.
A child Of VIM. Palmer Of George
town, is in a serious condition as a re-
suit of being bitten by a pet otter, the
property of ]. c. Lowrimore Of George
town, Monday. 1t seems that the
children Of Mr. Palmer had persuaded
the son of Mr.. Lowrimore to take the
pet otter to a nearby pond where they
could watch it perform antics in the
water. Upon coming out Of the pond
the otter rubbed itself against the lit
tie child Of Palmer and the child
becoming frightened, struck it. The
otter then became enraged, sprang
upon the child, biting away part Of its
cheek and severely lacerating its nose
and head. The Lowrimore child was
not attacked by the beast which was
later killed by it's owner. The otter,
which was valued at several hundred
dollars, was captured near George
town more than year ago and had
never before shown any signs Of fe-
rocity. The Palmer child will likely
die Of it's injuries.
New York Evening Telegram: Jas.
Farnum, a wealthy hotel keeper Of
Charleston, s. c., has the reputation
Of being a sound sleeper, but he
awoke in q hurry early today In his
room at the Imperial Hotel. Broadway
and Thirty second street, when a man
landed with a bump on the floor Of
the room by way Of the transom Of
the door. Mr.. Farnum grappled with
him and managed to notify the hotel
management who sent Hug Barden,
the hotel detective, to investigate. Mr..
Barden found that the visitor was
Oscie Chester, a negro bellboy. who