Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-15
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS:

Miss Varina Brown Of Anderson,
has given the complete law library OF
her father, the late Col. Joseph Brown,
to Furman university. =,
- The Cash Cotton Mills company, Of.
,Gafney, has been cited to show cause
befc re Judge Watkins at Greenville on
March 90, why it should not be declar-
ed bankrupt. !" =!
DIR. George C.. Albright, well-known
dentist of Laure1s, committed suicide
Friday, with poison. He left a nete ex-
phining hopeless, i'll health as the: rea-
son. Z ''..,.,...-,
-Caffney, March 10: AS. an evidence
of thcrhard times which are prevailing
at this time. itfwas stated yesterday
that large numbers of farmers who
have been. carrying insurance in the
Farmers Mutual nsnrance'company Of
Cherokee county, have allowed ttheir
policies to lapse, and:as a consequence
are without any protection whatever
from Losses by fire: Many Of these pol
icies have been in force for several
years, which goes to show that the hard
times are responsible for this condition
Of affairs -. t.,p .it.. .
- The office of court crier of the
United States. district court, which was
held in Greenville for more than fifty
years by the late John Odam. ceased to
exist with the: death Of Mr.. Odam, ac-
cording to an announcement. made last
Saturday by D. c. Durham, clerk Of the
United States district court there. Mr..
Odam was required to go to the court
house for an hour every business day,
and at 10 o'clock he would go to the
window facing Main street and cry out
his "Oyez, Oyez.":" Now that Mr. Odam
is dead, court will be officially opened
each day by q, bailiff who will simply
make an entry in the record to the eff
feet that the courttis open. When trials
are actually being held one Of the reg
ular bailiffs will act as court crier.
= Florence, March ILL.,. Mrs. Mary
Bigham was arrested here tonight,
charged with attempting to convey to
her husband, e. D.. Bigham, a small
bottle containing sufficient chloroform,
according to physicians to cause death.
The arrest was made at the Atlantic
Coast Line passenger station as Mrs.
blSllbfH Was plepSiF!ll6 " Idhe we SNtdil
for Greenville. Deputy Sheriff Burch
did not read the warrant to her by re-
quest until they had reached the Jail,
MRS. Bigham being accompanied by, her
>daughters, Misses Louise and Evelyn.
The bottle! Of chlorofotfn did not reach
Behamr' it being intercepted by Jailor
J. E. Cook, working through one of the
trusted prisoners to whom Mrs. Bigham
delivered it to be. conveyed by him to
her husband. In the past. several weeks
Jailor Cook has IN the;same manner in
tercepted several notes written by Big
ham to his wife. Edmund Bigham is
in Jail here awaiting .triglon the charge
of the murder of his mother, Mrs. NJ
NJ. Bigham; his sister" Mrs. Margie A.
Black; his brother, Las: Bigham, and
JOHN and Leo McCracken, two adopt
ed children of Mrs. BlaEk, at the plan
tation home near Pamplico on January
Is. 1t was at first thought that L. S.
Bigllam had perpetrated the crime and
then killed himself. butTafter investiga-
tion Coroner Smith ordered the arrest
of the living brother, charging him with
the crime. Before her marriage to Big
ham. Mrs. Righam was Miss May James
OF GreenYille. -!::fJ ,yiiG ,:iS .sri 30