Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-22
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Happenings Of Interest in All Sections
of South Carolina.

Happenings Of Interest in All Sections
Of South Carolina.
c. R. Calhoun has been appointed
/! postmaster at Greenwood
Willard Township In Orangeburg.
has voted bond issue Of $4,000 for
road Improvement.
The Forty-eighth regiment Of infan-
try will remain at Camp Jackson in
definitely.
The annual meeting Of the South
Carolina Confederate Veterans is to be
held in Greenwood July % and 20.
Private John c. Carter of Columbia,
has been awarded the distinguished
service cross by the war department.
Oscar Babb, secretary to Congress
man Nichols has been appointed
supervisor of the census for the Fourth
Congressional district.
White children enrolled In the pub
lie schools Of Columbia outnumbered
negroes by 1893 during the 1S1s-1S
session.
P. K. Smith and q. W. Sanders have
been elected by the trustees Ct the
University Of South Carolina to all
vacancies on the faculty.
Harry L. Watson of Columbia, has
been appointed a member Of the state
board Of charities and corrections. Mr..
Watson Is editor Of the Greenwood
Index-Journal.
There are 1900 voters enrolled to
participate In the municipal election
in Charleston, which 10 to be held next
month. The candidates are Mayor
Tristram T. Hyde and ex-Mayor John
P. Grace and both sides are claiming
a majority.
Revenue officers working in Edge
field county destroyed a huge still at
sawmill near Edgeheld, last week,
the seizure being the first in many
months. N. G. RoneY owner Of
sawmill near which the distillery was
located is under arrest charged with
being the owner Of the plant.
Five people were killed by lightning
in Orangeburg county last week. N.
j. Thomas, q prominent farmer of the
Cope section Of Orangeburg county
was instantly killed along with three
| colored farm hands who were riding
in his wagon when a bolt struck them.
The two mules pulling the team were
| also killed. A negro working In q
| field about three miles from Orange
burg was also killed by lightning.
Sylbert Meyers, 4s, q respected
negro farmer Of Florence county was
killed with an AK by his two daughters,
Lillian and Rebecca Msysrs. aged
respectively 16 and Is, Thursday
night. The two colored girls became
angered with their father when hs
refused tc let them attend . dance
which was being held in q tobacco
barn and plotted to kill him while he
was eating his supper. After COM
hitting the crime they hid the body in
the woods. They have confessed to
the murder.
]. F. Bateman, state constable Of
Camden, was shot and fatally wound
ed Thursday afternoon while raiding
an Illicit distillery in the Beaverdam
section Of Kershaw county In COM
pany with A. G. Whitaker, chief Of
police Of Camden. The shooting was
done by Sam Barrett and Jim Sheorn
and in pistol duel which followed the
shooting Of the constable Barrett was
shot in the thigh. Barrett and his
eleven-year old son were arrested
while Sheorn made his escape.
Representative A. F. Lever Of the
seventh South Carolina district has
been nominated by President Wilson
to be commissioner Of the Federal
Farm Loan Board at q salary Of $10.-
900 year. Mr.. Lover will not resign
as congressman until his nomination
has been confirmed by the senate. Al
ready there are a NUMBER Of candi-
dates for the vacancy in the seventh
ohStihSt " DS illhQc ny LIS dpIOlul-
ment. Among the probable candidates
are ]. Hugh Cooper. Colvin g. Nom
teith, Jr., and Christie Benet Of Colum-
bia; George Bell Zimmerman of Lex
ington; E. C. Mann Of st. Matthews.
Agent Brown and George Stevens.
negroes were shot and killed and Car
roll Mobley, Henry Murray Ray and
]. Ralph Thompson, white men were
seriously wounded in tight between
negroes and whites at Denmark,
Thursday. The difficulty grew out Of
case in court in which Nobley was
witness for a negro. John Stevens
who was charged with stealing water
melons from Browns patch and Brown
Is alleged to have threatened to get"
Mobley who killed Brown after Brown
had shot two other white men besides
Mobley. Henry Murray Ray, one of
the three white men shot Is a son Of
Sheriff S. G.. Ray.
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