Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-03
PALMETTO GLEANlNGS
Current Happenings and Events
Throughout South Carolina.

Current Happenings and Events
Throughout South Carolina.
J. F. Strain has been appointed a
magistrate for Cherokee county, to
succeed ]. R.. Hughes, resigned.
Governor Manning and former Gov
ernor Bleass have returned from Bos-
ton, Mass, where they attended the
| conference of governors.
The fertilizer plant of the North
Augusta Fertilizer and Warehouse
| company, was burned to the ground
Monday night, entailing a loss Of about
5000.
The home Of Postmaster Poulnot Of
Charleston was discovered this week
to have been robbed of several hun
| dred dollars worth of clothing and
v%aluables.
Edward Stribbling, a we'll known
| citizen Of Seneca, attempted to COM
NIT suicide Tuesday by shooting him.
self through the head. He will very
probably die.
Col. Alvin H. Dean Of G%reenville,
has announced hat he will be a AN
didate for congress from the Fourth
| congressional district to succeed Sam
J.. Nichols when Nichols term ex-
pires in 1917.
Robert Rawl, a young white man,
who lives at the Saxe-Gotha mill viii
lage in Lexington county, has been
lodged in Jail on the charge Of at
tempted criminal assault upon a young
lady. Rawl Is a married mar with
four children. He denied the charge
of assault.
United States Senator Benjamin r.
Tillman spent several days in Brook
Ign, N. Y, the past week, visiting the
navy yard. Senator Tillman Is chair
man Of the committee on naval affairs.
While in New York he visited a num-
Der Of submarine vessels, going down
under the water in them.
Albert Thompson, a native Of Spar
tanburg, who has been under arrest
at Hendersonville, N. c., for several
weeks charged with the shooting Of
Ed Wells, a well known sporting man
Of Atlanta, has been released on a
bond Of $4,000. The trial Of Thomp-
son is expected to be quite sensational.
The bank Of Aynor, in Horny DUN
ty, which began business only about
two weeks ago, was broken into and
robbed by unknown persons Sunday
night. Only about SIS was secured.
since the cashier of the institution had
taken the precaution to move about
81, 900 of the banks funds into anoth-
er safe in the town.
Gov. Manning this week issued a re-
QUESTION on Gov. Stuart Of Virginia,
fer the return to this state Of Char
ley Thomas, alias Jim Wade, alias
Black Kid, who is under arrest at Pc
tersburg in that state. The prisoner
escaped from the Greenwood county
changing and will be brought back
there to serve out his sentence. The
request for the requisition was made
by Solicitor Robert A. Cooper.
Herbert A. Moses, secretary to Gov
ernor Manning since his Inauguration,
has resigned. o. K. LaRoque Of Ma
rion, has been appointed his successor.
Secretary Moses stated that he re-
| ciCnn1 hnnoa,ca ~ moe nnnaccar- fnr
him to return to his home in Sumter.
The secretary is we'll known
throughout the state. Fol several
years he has been engaged in the hail
insurance business. For a number Of
years he has been chief of the famous
Marion fire department.
Abram Hardy, a negro about 40
years Of age, was shot and killed by
Deputy Sheriff Dorroh, and J.. H.
Chappell and j. A. Kinard, assistant
deputies. in Newberry this week. The
negro had refused to pay his street
tax and had refused to serve the re-
quired time in working the streets in
lieu thereof. When his arrest was at
tempted he drew a stick and struck
the officers. 1t was then that he was
shot and killed.
The five counties in the United
States leading in value of all crops
produced in 1909, as returned by the
thirteenth United States census, are
Los Angeles county, Cal, with a value
of $14, 720,SS4; Lancaster county, Pa,
s13,059,5SS; Mclean county, ILL.,, s12,-
S11.506: Whitman county. Wash, $12,-
$4,000: and Livingston county, Ill.,,
~S11.377,297. In the same year the
leading county in South Carolina was
Orangeburg, with crops valued at ST.
457,227.
T. U. Vaughan, former superintend-
ent Of the Odd Fellows Home in
Greenville, who was convicted some
months ago for a crime committed
against girl inmates Of the institution,
and who is under sentence Of death.
was taken to Greenville this week to
be re-Sentenced, his appeal to the
United States courts having failed.
There being some question as to the
sanity Of the man, Judge Prince order
ed that he be taken back to the state
penitentiary until the next term of the
Greenville court Of general sessions.
when a jury shall pass upon his sanity.
Colonel Robert NJ. Thompson of
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