Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-09
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- Lancaster May Z, The Lancaster
school district board today sold $780,
900 of five per cent school bonds for
the enlargement of the school facilities
here. The purchasers We're d. c. Hey
ward & Co, OF Columbia, and the bonds
brought par and accrued interest with
the proviso that the expenses would
not exceed one per cent. This is said
to be the highest price paid for five per
cent bonds in this state in a long
time. The trustees have employed ar
chitects and it is said that by next fall
three new buildings, high school,
and two grammar schools, viii have
been completed 1' b
- Columbia, May 6: Little S-year-
old LYDIA Wages lost her life this aft
ernoon when she rushed in front OF
Southern railway passenger locomo-
tive to prevent 4-year-old sister
from crossing ahead of the train. LYDIA
was on her way to a grocery store a
few blocks from her home and had to
cross the railroad track in going there
to. Her smaller sister was following
behind her. The older child had al
ready crossed the track, when she saw
the Southern train from Spartanburg
coming around the curve. She dashed
back ia" prevent the younger child
from getting upon the track and was
killed instantly. The younger child
was not hurt. n1t
Prof NJ. Goode Holmes, head OF
the department of engineering at the
University Of South Carolina, was shot
land killed by Ben Halle, University
marshal, last . Saturday morning.
Halle then committed suicide. The
killing occurred in the. office of the
treasurer of the university and was
said TO have been the result of bad
feeling that, had existed between the
two men, for a long time. 1t is under
stood that the two had some words
earlier in the morning Of the killing,
relative to some construction work on
the university campus, there being a
difference Of opinion as to the per-
formance of this work. Halle is also
understood to have had some words
with President w. S. Currell just after
the killing and charged Currell with
being responsible for the trouble be-
tween Professor Holmes and himself.
Just before he shot Holmes, Halle or
dered the lady bookkeeper to leave the
treasurer's office. Then he opened fire
on Holmes, killing him almost instant
ly. Holmes was not armed. There
were no eye-witnesses. w. T. Holland,
a student, heard shots in the office OF
the university treasurer at 1915 and
when he went to investigate he found
the two bodies The body of Halle was
buried in Camden, his old home, on
Sunday, the funeral being attended by
Governor Cooper and number of uni
versity officials. The body of Holmes
was buried in the cemetery of the First
Presbyterian church of Columbia yes
terday afternoon. in the presence of a
large crowd of friends and acquaint-
ances. Holmes is survived by a widow
and four children. Halle also leaves a
family. President W. S. Currell of the
university, issued a statement just af-
or the shooting in which he gave what
he considered was the cause of the
tragedy There. had long been bitter
feeling between the two men, growing
out of their conflicting duties at the
university" says the presidents state
ment. The president also states that
Halle was shooting indiscrimnately in
the university, office and pointed the
gun at the presidents head. "You are
responsible for this" Halle stated to
President Currell, according to the
presidents statement Before the
SHOOTING started Halle told the young
LADY bookkeeper in the office to leave.
He began shooting and several shots
were fired After Halle killed Prof.
Holmes he threatened to kill the pres
idcnt and later killed himself.