Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-26
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items of Interest From All Sections o.
South Carolina.
A hospital is to be erected In the
town of Mullins. Marion county at 9
cost of s5o,o00.
I. T. Sowell, q young white mar
about Is years of age is under arres,
in Spartanburg, charged with the
THEFT Of 31S automobile tires.
ChesterM Goodyear proposes tc
build cotton waste plant in Green.
Iville, which when completed will be
| the second largest in the world.
The IS months old child Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Uzra Altman Of Monarch Mill
Union, drank q quantity of kerosene
| oil one day last week and died from
| the effects within q few hours.
| 1t is proposed to issue bonds In
Orangeburg In the sum of $750,000
for street Improvement An election
is to be held on;the question within q
short time.
Rev. J.. N. Isom, y q we'll known
Methodist minister o. Whitmire. sus-
a stroke of paralysis last week and is
now in critical condition in hospi-
tai at Greenville.
The mercantile establishment OF D.
v. Walker, situated on, Main street In
the heart OF Winnsboro was robbed
some time during Thursday night and
goods valued at about $1,000 were
stolen.
Lieut.. Col. William e. Welsh who
was recently assigned to South Caro-
lima as inspector instructor for the
National Guard, has been transferred
to Washington to the office of the chief
| of the military bureau. His successor
in this state has not been named.
Clayton James, O negro was fined
| s25 In recorders court In Columbia,
Friday for going to sleep in an auto
mobile which was parked on the street
| In that city. The; negro was aroused
from his comfortable berth at Q o'clock
Friday morning.
In a letter to the newspapers OF the
state Congressman Sam J. Nichols Of
| ItheS Fourth Congressional districtsshas
announced that he win not be a can
didate for reelection. The represen-
tative says that he has been staying
| in congress all the while at financial
sacrifice.
Miss Sunie Mabry, 20 years old OF
Greenville, has confessed to, killing
her new born baby in her room In
Greenville lodging house last Tuesday
morning. 1.-The baby was by my Side
in the bed and all at once took the
knife and began cutting and stabbing
| II" she confessed.
Adjutant Generar w. w. Moore OF
Sdath Carolina won the adjutant gen.
erals match in rifle shooting at the
government range at Caldwell. N. j..
last Thursday. General Moores score
was Sc out of possible 100. He has
won the match each year during the
past three years.
The adjutant generals office has
ltelegraphed the war department In
washington, urging that the minimum
strength of the national guard or
ganizations be made sixty-fve instead
| of 100, the figures named in recen,
o, der, and also urging the recognition
of the temporary officers who have or
ganized the new National Guard com
panies.
E. s. Dreher, superintendent Of the
public schools of Columbia, for the
past twenty five years will sail nex'
month for Shanghai, China where he
has been elected, superintendent Of the
Shanghai American school in the orien.
tai metropolis. Mrs. Dreher will also
be a member of the corps Of teachers
| fhe school has twelve grades, four oi
which are high school years.
| Through his attorneys, Thomas M
Shaw, a prominently connected Lau-
rens county farmer who inherited
large and valuable estate from his
father, the late Col. John D. M. Shaw
has commenced a suit in the circu
court at Laurens, for the recovery OF
I1S5 acres Of land which, in a lengthy
complaint, he alleges he was deprived
| of through "cunningly devised
scheme" at the instance and benefit OF
his wife, Mrs. Bessie Davenport Shaw
from whom he has been separated
about two years. The complaint al
| lezes fraud and names a Kansas City
lawyer and a stenographer of the same
city as parties to the scheme. The
case may come up for hearing at the
fall term of court for Laurens county
Mrs. Shaw left her Laurens home
about two years ago, according 10 the
recital Of the allegations of the COM
plaint, and located in Kansas City, Mo-
where she has since resided with her
two children. The complaint alleges
that last year just before Christmas
while in Kansas City to see his child
rem, the plaintiff was served with a
summons and complaint in which Mrs
Shaw was bringing suit for divorce. He
did not answer the complaint, he says
| but he did agree to pay his wife
monthly allowance Of s125. This agree
ment was entered into at Kansas City
and while there he was induced by
Mrs. Shaw's attorney, the complaint
alleges, to sign an agreement purport-
ling to be a trust deed which 1t was
Explained would insure the payment
of the monthly allowance to Mrs. Shaw
and the children. Shaw says he trust.
ed the lawyer to prepare the papers
and he signed them. Afterward ne
discovered that he had given fee
simple deed to the stenographer who
lin turn, it Is further alleged, conveyed
the tract of 1876 acres to Mrs. Shaw
all this being done without any con.
lsideration or without his knowledge Oh
consent. Both deeds were recorded II
tho office of the clerk of court here