Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-04
HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE
Items Of Interest from All Sections Of
South Carolina.

II6mS OF lntCT0oI TTOfU All SOCtiSto W
South Carolina.
The Ladd Clothing company Of Co
lumbia, suffered a fire loss Of about
$4,000 Monday night.
Rev. R. M. Plaxico has recently ac-
cepted the pastorate Of the A. r. P.
, church at Abbeville.
Six prominent white men Of Spar
tanburg were arrested by the police
Tuesday on the charge Of gambling.
Thieves broke into the Atlantic
Coast Line depot at Mullins Marion
county, last week, and secured eight
gallons Of whisky.
Rev. A. o. Allison has resigned the
pastorate Of the Northside Baptist
church Of Spartanburg, and accept
ed a pastorate at Index KY.
E. B. Crane, a graduate Of the class
Of 1914 Of Furman University Green
Vile, has announced his candidacy
for clerk Of court Of Greenville.
The Wood Concentrator company
Of Chester, has been chartered with
a capital Of 100000. The company
will do general machinery business.
Greenville county authorities on
Monday, poured out eleven gallons OF
whisky and LOO bottles Of beer, the
accumulation Of seizures Of several
months by the police Of the county.
Adj. Gen. Moore has issued orders
distributing the field hospital Of mill
tia now located in Columbia and the
regimental infirmary now located In
Jonesville.
The Jitney Motor company Of
Charleston, has been commissioned
with capital Of $4,000. The COM
pany will do jtney business In that
city.
Organization Of the campaign to
be conducted during the summer for
the purpose Of carrying the state for
prohibition on September 1, was dis
cussed at a meeting Of prohibition
leaders in Columbia Tuesday.
According to statement issued
Tuesday by the comptroller Of the cur
rency, there was $231,727 Aldrich-
vreeland currency outstanding in
South Carolina at the close Of busi-
ness on May 21.
Will Ellison, colored, who Is charg-
ed with the murder Of his wife, tried
to commit suicide in the Newberry
Jail Saturday, by drinking a quantity
of disinfectant. He will probably
die.
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
Osborne, at Washington, has appoint
ed F. M. Riley Of Charleston, as cot
ton futures agent. The position was
created by the Smith-Lever cotton
futures law.
Governor Manning on Monday,
granted q reprieve to Tommy Grtce
a Florence county negro, who was to
have been electrocuted June l, to
August 4. This is the second reprieve
granted the negro.
The United States supreme court on
Tuesday, annulled, so far as 1t applies
to interstate commerce, the South
Carolina statute penalizing railroad
companies $50 for failure to pay with
in forty days, claims for loss OF ship
ments,
| Governor Manning has commuted
the sentence Of Grover Beeks, recent
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violation of the dispensary law from
a fine of 500 or three months on the
chaingang to fine Of $66.66 or one
month on the chaingang.
Thirty young women received their
diplomas from the Columbia college
for Women, in Columbia, Tuesday
morning. Prof w. H. Hand, state
high school inspector, delivered the
principal address at the commence
ment exercises.
A Spartanburg dispatch Of Tuesday
says: The Office Of the city health
department has been the scene OF
great activity during the past "a
hours. More than thousand washer
women Of the city, in accordance
with the provision Of the new city
ordinance requiring all persons en-
gagged in the laundering Of clothes to
register with the health department,
have applied for certificates and re-
ceived them in most cases. The regis
tration certificate Is given free OF
charge, but penalty for not register
ing is imposed. The chief virtue OF
the ordinance is that 1t gives the
health department a record Of all
such persons in the city and will en-
able closer inspection as to the sani-
tary conditions under which the
washing Of the city Is done.
Mrs. Sarah w. DePortes, Miss
Ulysse Desportes Of Winnsboro, and
Mrs. Gussie D. Miller OF Trenton, are
named as defendants in separate ac-
tions which have been brought in the
United States court at Greenville by
r. H. Rountree & Co., cotton brokers
of New York. The plaintiffs are suing
the defendants for more than $4,000,
alleging that the defendants failed to
reimburse them after cotton had
been bought for the defendants and
a luctuation in the market caused the
brokers to sell at a loss to themselves.
The brokers allege that they have
bought futures for the ladies many
times and that they had been sue
cessful several times; but that now
since reserves have come they are
unwilling to reimburse the brokers.
A leather table cover containing the
autographed signature Of President
Wilson and the governors Of the diff
ferent states reached Gov. Manning's
office Tuesday morning, for his sigma
ture and the seal Of the state Of
South Carolina. The matter came by
parcel post from Gov. Craig Of North
Carolina, and will be dispatched by
Gov. Manning after attaching his