Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-12-14
PALMETTO GLEANlNGS
Current Events and Happenings
Throuahout South Carolina.

The Jasper Lumber Company Of
Jasper county, has been commissioned
with a capital of 100000.
Elbert Dawkins, a Newberry county
negro drank more than a quart Of gin
on Friday, December 8. He is dead.
Dirt was broken Saturday for Spart-
anburgs new $250,O00 hotel. The
building will be seven stories tall.
DR.. John A. Brunson Of st. Mat
thews has decided to accept call to
the pastorate Of the First Baptist
church of Sumter.
Senator B. R. Tillman roposes to
introduce q bill in the United States
senate calling for the establishment
Of a government plant to make armor
plate.
The election on the question of
forming Mccormick county to be
made up from parts Of Greenwood,
Abbeville and Edgefeld counties is
being held today.
Rev. c. l.. Brown Of Japan has been
Mission board to succeed DR.. r. c.
Holland who died in Columbia recent
ly. He will be general secretary Of The
MISSIONS board.
First Lieutenant Enoch c. Carey Of
the United States army has been or
dered to the Citadel, Charleston, as
instructor Of military science and
tactics. He will relieve First Lieu
tenant Jesse CASTOR who has been
instructor at the Citadel for some time
past.
George w. Tidwell, sentenced to
seven years Imprisonment for shoot
ing r. Emmett Walker after the latter
had admitted seducing his daughter,
has abandoned his appeal to the su-
preme court and will enter upon the
service of his sentence within the next
few days.
The following have been named as
postmasters in different places in
South Carolina by the president: w.
S. Hite, Batesburg; G.. I. Hutchinson,
Summerville; w. ]. Stanley, Hamp-
ton; ]. c. Jennings, Pickens; A. p.
Stewart, Mccormick; J. P. Ouxts,
Edgefield; L. s. Blowers, Prosperity.
The two story frame dwelling Of
John Whisonant Of Blacksburg was
destroyed by fire last week. The
property was valued at about $4,000.
Mcqueen Mack, a negro boy of
Orangeburg county, is jail in Orange
burg charged with an attempted
criminal assault upon a white girl Of
the Fork section Of Orangeburg county.
Quincy Miller and John w. Shealy,
young white men Of Lexington
county are in the Lexington county
Jail charged with robbing Cleveland
Bell, a 13-year-old negro boy Of $3.50
and then setting his clothing on fire
after they had poured kerosene over
him. 1t is said that the boys presence
Of mind saved him from burning to
death, he having jumped into a pond
nearby after his clothing was ignited.
He was painfully burned as it was.
Greenwood Rogers and two other
negroes serving sentences on the state
prison farm in Kershaw county made
their escape last week after they had
overpowered a guard and taken his
Winchester rifle and pistol away from
him. Rogers was serving a sentence
of life Imprisonment for the murder
of white man in Laurens county. A
reward of $50 has been offered for
the capture Of each Of the escaped
convicts.
Jim Red, Ernest McGrier and Eu
gene Lipford, negroes, are under ar
rest charged with entering the store
OF w. T. Fulle a merchant of Brad
ley, Greenwood county, and stealing
goods therefrom. The store owner
having missed goods on several oc-
casions, set gun at the door fixed
In such a manner as to be discharged
when the door was opened. At the
80 I,a
discharged but there was no evidence
man noticing the negro, Jim Red,
limping several days later became
suspicious, and examining the negro's
leg found four shots in it. Red then
confessed that he had entered the
store and had been shot and he also
implicated the other two negroes.
The recommendation Of the execu-
i've committee that no action be taken
in the case Of the University Of South
Carolina, which admitted recently
that 1t had eight ineligible players
who participated in games this sea-
son, to which that institution was
party was adopted at the first session
of the Southern Intercollegiate Athle-
tic association here, says a New Or
leans dispatch of Friday. 1t was order
ed, however, that the university be
admonished to exercise greater dill
ence in future to safeguard it's athle-
tic standards. The committee based
it's recommendations on the fact that
this is the university's first year in
the S. I. A. A., which made it easy for
the general slackness which usually
characterizes local control to react
upon the faculty representative tc
make him less viligant than he might
otherwise have been and in view OF
the dismissal or disqualification of the
guilty players and in view Of the fact
that the university has done away
with the office Of graduate manager,
substituting therefor a student man
agership, responsible to the faculty"