Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-12
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.

Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.
Hiram T. Tusten, a prominent citi-
zen Of Abbeville, died this week, aged
81 years.
Col. William Banks of Columbia,
has succeeded James H. Moore as ed
itor Of the Columbia Record.
A special term of court for Green
wood opened on Monday. Ten pris-
oners plead guilty the first day.
The Methodist parsonage at Car
Isle. was destroyed by fire Sunday
night. Practically nothing was saved.
D. F. Ray, policeman Of Camp
abello s. c., was arrested in Asheville.
N. c., charged with promoting a cock
fight in that town.
Col. A. B. Williams former editor
Of the Greenville News has assumed
editorial management Of the Richmond
Evening Journal.
Annual inspection Of the South
Carolina national guard was begun at
Edgefield Monday, by Adjutant Gen
eral w. w. Moore.
Coggershalrs ginnery and several
outhouses at Darlington, were destroy
ed by fire Monday night. The loss is
estimated at about $4,000.
The town Of Winnsboro proposes to
let contracts for the building Of a
waterworks and sewerage system at
an early date.
Thirty-one Of the eighty-seven per-
sons who stood a teachers examina-
ton for Greenville county, January
25, failed to pass.
The house Of representatives has
passed to a third reading the Grandon
bill, intended to prevent the operation
of trains with more than fifty cars.
John Taylor, a negro, formerly en-
ployed as porter in the office Of the
state treasurer has been arrested and
placed in the penitentiary, charged
with criminal assault.
A bill has been passed to a third
reading in the house which would
prohibit the working Of convicts more
than ten hours day. The bill passed
unanimously.
Governor Manning has appointed ].
s. Caldwell as major inspector-gen-
eral Of the South Carolina national
guard. He succeeds Col. Oscar w.
Babb, resigned.
Bakers in Sumter have agreed that
they will not raise the price Of bread
to six cents per loaf in accordance
with the order Of the Master Bakers
association Of the southern states.
Mr.. and Mrs. 8. B. Hyde, newly
married couple, returned to their
home in Charleston Sunday evening,
only to find that robbers had carried
off their wedding presents valued at
several hundred dollars.
According to a statement issued by
M. H. Mobley, state dispensary audi
tor, this week, dispensaries In fifteen
South Carolina counties sold $780,
1856 worth Of whisky during jan
uary.
Nicholas w. McIver, formerly United
States consul general and Judge OF
the United States circuit court at
Yokohoma, died Tuesday, at st. Luke's
hospital in Tokyo, Japan. The de-
ceased was born in Cheraw, 8. c. In
1850.
Trustees of Chicora college, Green
Vile and the College for Women, Co.
lumbia, met in Columbia this week for
the purpose Of discussing the advisa-
bility Of consolidating the two institu-
tions. In case of such consolidation,
the new institution will be located in
Columbia.
The Merchants and Farmers club
of Spartanburg, one Of the strongest
social organizations in that city, has
closed its doors and will go out Of
business. The organization has not
been self lf-supporting since the Spartan
burg city council refused to let the
club sell whisky and beer to all
comers.
Leroy Blackmon was accidentally
shot by the discharge Of a shotgun
near Liberty Hill, Kershaw county,
Tuesday. The young man was at
tempting to alight from a buggy when
his gun caught in the buggy wheels,
discharging the load in his arm and
shoulder. He is in a critical condi-
tion.
Mr.. Rivers Of Chesterfield, has in
troduced a bill in the general assembly
which provides that sacks Of ferti-
lizer offered for sale shall bear tags
which will tell specifically Of what
the guano is made and specify more
clearly the percentage Of its chemical
contents The bill has passed to q
third reading without opposition.
c. M. Justice agent for the Armour
Fertilizer Co., at. Spartanburg, has
been arrested on a warrant sworn out
by C. C. Butt of Atlanta, auditor OF
the company, charging breach OF
trust in handling the funds Of the
company. The amount involved Is.
said to be in the neighborhood Of $5,-
500. Justice has been released on
bond.
William Carter, a negro, died from
lock jaw in the Greenville county jail
last Monday. The negro was the VIC
tim Of a trap, he having attempted to
burglarize a store several days ago.
Two guns had been fixed so that II
anyone went behind the counters and
ran into a string inside, they would
set off shotgun; one
gun would explode regardless of which
way the burglar went after getting
behind the counter.
End Is Not Yet.-Horace Greely,
writing many years before the civil
war, told Of general accosting one OF
his soldiers after a victorious battle.
The soldier was standing by his gun