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Scraps and Jarts.
? It is highly probable, says a Washington
dispatch, that the president will
appoint Representative Loud, of California,
fourth assistant postmaster
general, and that the letter carrier service
of the department will be put under
his control, all this to be intended
as a rebuke to the National Letter
Carriers' association, which brought
about the defeat of Loud in the late
election. The letter carriers had a bill
in the last congress for increase of
their salaries, and Loud was chairman
of the committee which had the bill in
charge. Their efforts were so persistent
to have the bill reported that the
president issued an order that no employes
of the government should come
to Washington to influence legislation.
The bill was not reported, and the carriers
turned on Loud in his home district,
with the result that he was left
at the post. It is presumed he will get
his revenge when he gets charge of the
carriers.
? The department of agriculture has
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appeaieu iu mc livuoc w*u**(??.%vw
agriculture to aid the department in
stamping out the foot and mouth disease
which has broken out among cattle
in New England, asking that an
emergency appropriation of *500,000 or
*1,000,000 be made. The committee is
advised that there are about 100 herds,
which in the opinion of the department,
must be slaughtered. Dr. Salmon, chief
of the bureau of animal Industry of
the department, who is investigating
the situation, has reported that the
price per head fixed for one herd
slaughtered in New Hampshire was *48,
of which the department agreed with
the state authorities to pay 70 per cent,
and this he thinks will be an average
price. The committee is also advised
that it is the opinion of the department
officials that the disease was transmitted
through hay shipped from abroad.
The t .'partment of agriculture is anx
ions to take the most vigorous measures,
arid the committee on agriculture
is disposed to give every possible
aid and will take the subject up immediately.
The killing of the diseased
cattle and the thorough disinfection of
the infected quarters is demanded.
? Arthur L. 3ishop, a traveling salesman,
represent ng a shoe manufacturing
concern ' i Lynchburg, Va., shot
and k. d Mr. Tom Wilson, in his own
home at 218 Oak street, Charlotte, N.
C., last Tuesday night. Bishop was
infatuated with a Miss Lena Schultz,
of that city, whom he met six weeks
5 1 1 tn nflll flt
ago, anu una an ~? ?
the home of her brother-in-law, Mr.
Jacob Meyer, three doors from Mr.
Wilson's, and Miss Wilson invited
Miss Schultz to spend the night with
her. While at the Meyer home, wine
was drunk by Bishop and the young
ladies, the wine being offered them by
Mr. Meyer. About 9.30 o'clock they
went to the residence of Mr. Wilson
and there continued drinking the wine
given them by Mr. Meyer, and the trio
made so much noise, Mrs. Wilson went
to the parlor door and looked in, seeing
the wine on the table and objecting
to the proceeding, returned to her
bedroom and woke her husband. Mr.
Wilson, as he walked out of the bedroom.
picked up a small walking cane
and carried it with him into the parlor.
TT7I lnnn nnlaraH Ming SohultZ to
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leave, which she proceeded to do, then
he ordered Bishop to leave also, catching
hold of the lapels of Bishop's coat.
Some words were passed and Bishop
pulled his pistol and pressed it against
Wilson's side just beneath the heart
and fired. Wilson fell to the floor, exclaiming,
"He has killed me," and did
not speak again, although he lived for
half an hour. Bishop grabbed his overcoat
and fled, leaving his hat. He has
not been apprehended, although all the
police in the neighboring towns have
been notified. Mr. Wilson was a man
well thought of by all and held the
position of overseer of the public roads
of this county.
? The coal strike commission is learning
lots about the treatment of anthracite
miners by the mine operators.
During last Tuesday's proceedings, at
Scranton, Pa., the G. B. Markle company
was under investigation. Henry
McCall told a story that affected the
commission very much. He recited
his years of service in the mines, and
told how he was finally incapacitated
from further work as the result of injuries
received while doing his work.
He became an incurable invalid. At
the end of two years, the company demanded
his house and put him out of
it. His fellow-miners chipped in and
contributed $50, and representatives of
the mine owners seized the sum for
rent. Then he carried his mother, who
was a hundred years old and blind, and
his wife, who was ill, to a miserable
shack. "Here," he said between sobs,
"my wife died." "She died?" asked
Judge Gray, who was pacing the floor
excitedly during the recital. "Yes, sir,
she died." replied the miner, "and I
buried her yesterday." "That will do,
McCall," replied Judge Gray, "and it
is enough." The man was not crossexamined.
Mrs. Kate Burns, of Jeddo,
told a story of how she and her husband
owed $13 house rent and a coal
bill due to me lUarnie vvsmfunj, mv
narration of which deeply interested
the commissioners. She was examined
by Lawyer Darrow, and in answer to
his questions she said her husband was
an engineer inside the Markle mines.
The husband was killed underground,
leaving her with four children, the eldest
of which was a boy of 8 years.
The company never offered her a penny,
but the employees gave her about
$18 to defray the funeral expenses.
After her husband had been killed she
moved from her four-room house into
one containing only two rooms, one
above the other, and for the next six
years she struggled as best she could
to get along. She took in washing,
scrubbed for the neighbors, and once
in awhile she was given work cleaning
the office of the Markle company.
When the eldest child was 14 years of
age she sent him to the mines. At the
end of the first month the lad brought
home his wage statement, showing
n.-it th?? mother owed $396 for back
rout. The boy's wages for the month
had been taken off the bill and he came
empty handed. In the course of time
her next boy was old enough to earn
a living, and he, too, was sent to the
colliery. Like the brother, the second
boy received no pay, his earnings be-1
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Ing deducted for rent. The mother, on
the witness stand, was by this tim.*
welling up, and when she added that
the money she earned for cleaning the
Markel office was never given her, bu.t
kept by the company for rent, the commissioners
looked at one another in
surprise. She said it took the three
of them thirteen years to make up the
debt.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13,1902.
The Enquirer has received many
kind congratulations on its success in
being able to present the Methodist
conference appointments last Wednesday
under such disadvantageous circumstances.
All the nice things that
have been said are duly appreciated,
and our readers may depend upon it
that we shall spare no effort to deserve
other nice things. There is nothing
more annoying to The Enquirer than
failure to furnish promptly any news
that it can reasonably be expected to
furnish.
The Augusta Chronicle points out the
way that divorces are obtained by residents
of South Carolina in the following
paragraph, which is not at all creditable
to either side of the river: "The
divorce of ten couples in Savannah
this week, in the superior court, is
thought to be an Item notable enough
for circulation in the state newspapers.
In Augusta the divorce of ten
couples would be a very trifling record.
From thirty to fifty couples in a single
day is the usual court record here,
but then Augusta is the divorce mill
for the state of South Carolina, where
no divorces are anuw*ru.
We reproduce with interest and
pleasure, the Washington special to the
Charlotte Observer announcing that
Mr. Finley has introduced a resolution
providing for the appropriation of
$100,000 for the erection of a monument
to commemorate the battle of King's
Mountain. Of course, we would not be
understood as trying to hold that the
battle of King's Mountain constituted
the whole war for American independence;
but most well informed students
of the battles and campaigns of 1776'81
agree with us in the view that had
it not been for the battle of King's
Mountain, the United States of America
would have never been an accomplished
fact. This battle utterly overturned
the British hopes of conquest
in the Carolina's, renewed the drooping
spirits of the patriots of the north and
made possible the great victory at
Yorktown. It is true, as the Observer
correspondent says, that North Carolina
had more troops present than did
any other state; but Virginia followed
hard after, as did also Tennessee and
South Carolina. All did their part well,
and there was glory enough for all, as
well as enough to warrant the appropriation
that Mr. Finley asks for. We
can hardly believe that this appropriation
will be refused in view of the
much larger appropriations that have
been made to commerate far less im
portant achievements; but probably it
will be Just as well to wlthold comment
along; this line until there have
been further developments.
President Roosevelt has been very
much worried for a week or more over
the color question in politics. The immediate
cause of his worry is the case
of the Negro Postmaster Vick, at Wilson,
N. C. Senator Pritchard, Republican,
has been working for some time
to drive the Negroes out of the Republican
party in North Carolina, or at
least to give them to understand that
they are no longer to expect recognition
in the matter of holding office.
He proposed a white candidate for
Vick's place and asked the president to
turn Vick down. Senator Simmons and
other Democrats gave Vick strong endorsements
as to character and fitness
for the position; but, of course, did
not recommend his re-appointment.
They put themselves in the position
of prefering a Neg^-o Republican to a
white Republican. Senator Pritchard
attempted to make some capital out of
the Democratic endorsement of Vick,
and as the next move the Democrats
sent the president a petition asking for
the appointment of a white man, saying
that they objected to Vick purely
on account of the color of his skin.
Then Pritchard came forward with the
charge that Vick had failed to vote
the ReDublican ticket in the recent
congressional election, and virtually
proved his charge. The president realizes
fully that the Democrats are only
playing a game with him and he is
very angry. He figures now, that if he
does not give Vick another term, the
Democrats will claim that it is simply
and purely because the candidate is a
Negro; while, on the other hand, if
Vick is re-appointed, Pritchard and the
white Republican element will hold
that the president is more considerate
of Negroes than of whites. The impression
of discrimination against Vick
because of his color is calculated to
affect Negro voters throughout the
northern states, while the other view
of the situation is calculated to seri
ously hamper the movement by which
Prltchard and others are trying to give
the party better standing among the
white people of the south. Taking the
situation as a whole, it is clear that
the president has on his hands quite a
problem.
While, of course, the public has no
means of knowing just what kind of
an understanding the government at
Washington may have with Great Britain
and Germany with regard to the
efforts of these governments to collect
certain alleged indebtedness from Venezuela,
it is not unreasonable to anticipate
that serious trouble may grow
out of the matter. Although different
ly stated this time, the quarrel between
Great Britain and Venezuela is, in all
probability, merely a new development
of the same old dispute in which President
Cleveland interferred some years
ago. Mr. Cleveland foresaw that unless
this government interferred there
might be serious trouble, and so he
promptly took such steps as he deemed
necessary to straighten out the difficulty.
It was a bold move that he
adopted?a very bold move?but judged
by the results, it was evidently the
thing to do. We are told that before
Great Britain and Germany took any
steps in their present enterprise, they
had an understanding with the government
at Washington as to just how
far they would go. This is probably
true: but in view of the fact that Pres
ident Castro, of Venezuela, and his advisers,
understand so well the policy of
this country as set forth in the Monroe
doctrine, and in further view of the
fact that they cannot consider with
equanimity any such action as that
now being taken by Great Britain and
Germany, it will not be strange if they
so manage the situation as to compel
the powers to go further than they intended.
It is easy to see how the Venezuelans
can embarrass Great Britain
and Germany in such a peculiar condition
of affairs as now exists, and it
is a question as to whether these powers
would be willing to turn back without
accomplishing their full purpose
even if the alternative should be a conflict
with the United States. We are
inclined to the opinion that it might
have been very well if the government
at Washington had followed the precedent
set by Mr. Cleveland, and requdred
an arbitration to determine
whether or not Great Britain and Germany
really have just ground of complaint
against Venezuela. As the thing
now stands, the country can only wait
and note developments.
JUST A LITTLE WAR CLOUD.
Great Britain and Germany Are
Playing With Dynamite. S,
As was naturally to be anticipated
from the preliminary news already
published, they are having lively times
in Venezuela, and the situation seems
full of possibilities of serious trouble.
The moving causes of the disturbance,
as already explained, are Great
Britain and Germany. They have
claims against Venezuela aggregating
about $20,000,000 at this time, and
growing rapidly. The claims are
based, for the most part, on the destruction
of property of British and
German citizens during various Venezuela
revolutions. Then there is a
claim for unpaid interest on a loan of
about $20,000,000, taken up mainly by
British and Germans.
The claims have been accumulating
for a number of years; but for various
reasons drastic action was deferred.
It is understood that recently Great
Britain and Germany came to an understanding
with the United States
whereby they agreed that if allowed to
proceed against Venezuela, they would,
on no account, attempt to seize any
new territory or otherwise violate the
provisions of the Monroe doctrine.
The ultimatum mentioned Wednesday,
it now develops, provided that
Venezuela must make some satisfactory
answer to the demands of Germany
and Great Britain within fortyeight
hours and pay $30,000, down to j
each government.
By way of answer to the demands.
President Castro, on Tuesday, gathered
up all the British and German citizens
he could find in Caracas, and threw
them into prison, and at the explra- '
tion of the 48-hour limit, the British '
and German fleets captured all the
Venezuelan vessels In the Immediate
vicinity of La Guayra. There was no 1
resistance on the part of the Venezuelans.
The British and Germans made
prisoners of the crews of the vessels
and scuttled the vessels themselves In
the harbor. Then landing: parties were
sent Into La Guayra and a fierce con- j
fllct ensued In the streets.
In the meantime, President Castro
called upon his countrymen to rise and
resist the invaders, and at last accounts,
Wednesday and Thursday, the
Venezuelans were turning: out In large
numbers, armed with weapons of every
description. Two thousand men and
eighteen guns were on their way from
Caracas to La Guayra, and on Thursday
morning were only an hour away.
All of the forts were being reinforced
with arms and ammunition, and President
Castro was confident that he
would be able to hold his own against
all of the foreign forces that have yet
nnnparpd on the scene.
In response to a virtual demand from,,
Mr. Bowen, the American minister at <
Caracas, President Castro, on Wednesday,
released the British and German
citizens he had taken into custody
during- Tuesday.
As to whether the United States is
going to get into the row remains for
future developments. So far as Great
Britain is concerned, it appears from
the tone of the London press, that there ,
is no intention of doing anything to (
offend this country. The German
press is talking as though the United
States has nothing to do with the matter,
and is not to be considered seriously
in connection with it. In the meantime,
the entire Atlantic fleet has been
collected In the vicinity of Porto Rico,
less than a hundred miles away. It
was sent there ostensibly for practice
purposes; but it is not improbable that
this Venezuelan trouble was in view
at thf" time the orders were issued, and
the fact that Admiral Dewey is in command,
carries with it the suggestion
that if there Is anything for the fleet
to do, its work will be done thoroughly
and well.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday '
says that during the morning, a joint
resolution was introduced authorizing
that the president propose to Great i
Britain and Germany an arbitration of
their claims, and that the United States
guarantee such award as may be made
by the arbitration court. 1
What the Knllroatln Are Doing.
The railroad commission has the statistical
part of its report about finish- .
ed and the figures make a very fair
showing. The gross earnings are about ,
$570,000 more than last year; but the
expenses were greater, and although 1
the volume of business was much larger,
the net earnings will not show up ,
proportionately greater. Nevertheless,
these earnings are encouraging. Three '
new roads were opened for business, i
The Alcalu railroad, twenty-eight miles ]
long; Carolina and Western, from ,
Feehtig. Hampton county, to Coosawhatchie
Swamp, five miles, and the
Aiken and Augusta electric line. <
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. S. Brlce, Plaintiff's Attorney?Publishes
n summons in the case of E.
W. Query, plaintiff, against R. B. and
J. A. Elms, defendants.
Opera House?Announces that the. K.
M. M. A. minstrels will give an entertainment
at the opera house on
Tuesday evening, December 16th.
Enquirer Office?Will give information
about an exchange of a Wilcox &
White organ, in first-class condition,
for a cow or other livestock.
L. M. Grist & Sons?Have something to
say in regard to stationery for physicians
and surgeons and other professional
men.
H. C. Strauss & Co.?Continue to say
interesting things about their December
clearance sale, and quote a
number of prices that will probably
interest prospective buyers.
Riddle & Carroll?Say that Zenith
flour is the best to use for your
Christmas baking. They have macaroni,
cheese, Heinz's pickles, lemon
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ciing ptruunes, mucnu a?u javo. wifee,
blue ribbon extracts, etc.
York Drug Store?Wants you to know
that It has a good stock of goods
suitable for Christmas souvenirs an<r
mentions a few of the articles to be
found there.
Yorkville Buggy Company?Notifies Its
friends that It is ready to do all
kinds of repair work, as well as firstclass
horseshoeing. They are alos
turning out nice buggies.
T. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Continues
to tell you about his great collection
of Christmas goods, and calls especial
attention to his prices.
Louis Roth?Tells you that It would be
like carrying coal to Newcastle to
tell you that he Is prepared to supply
all your wants for Christmas groceries.
He has nice mince moat at
10 cents a pound, and also has Georgia
cane and home-made syrups.
HEARD, THOUGHT AND SEEN.
*37" The Enquirer has from time to
time made mention of the older brick
buildings in the county. It is especially
interested in any information pertaining
to brick buildings outside of
incorporated towns. The reporter
learned, Wednesday, for the first time,
of another brick building that has not
previously been mentioned, arid which
is probably the oldest in the county,
^t is what is known as the "Old Gill
building," in Bullock's Creek township,
two miles east of Blairsville. This is
a three story structure of ten rooms,
now owned and occupied by Mr. T. A.
Gwinn. Our information is that it was
built by Captain James Gill, a Revolutionary
patriot, about 1810-11.
tSi' The reporter has spoken to several
of the older citizens of Yorkville
with a view to getting some information
about the old "Wheeler" carriage
factory building, destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. It appears, however, that
the building is older than the "oldest
citizen," and nobodyrseems to know by
whom it was originally erected. One
citizen remembers the building as far
back as 1835. "It was then occupied,"
he said, "bv Z. C. Hutchison, a car
rlage maker, who came to Yorkvllle ]
from Columbia. If my memory serves <
me right, the building then included 1
only the part fronting directly on the 1
street. Mr. Wheeler came to Yorkvllle
about 1835 and bought this property
about 1838 or 1839. He added the back
portion to it. I arp pretty sure that
the older part of the building was put
up previous fa 1830."
ABOiUT PEOPLE.
Mr. C. G. Parish has taken a position
with J. M. Heath & Co., as salesman.
(
j^Dr. M. W. White*reports that his
"singing hen" has laid an egg that
weighs only 9S grains.
Rev. A. N. Brunson will preach his
farewell sermon as pa3tor of Yorkvllle
station tomorrow, Sunday.
yMrs. R. L. Ferguson expects to leave
today on a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Frank Smith, in Charleston.
yMiss Daisy Glenn, of Bethel, spent
several days In Yorkvllle this week, the
guest of Mrs. Mary R. Willlford.
Mr. J. C. Elliott has bten suffering
with rheumatism for several days
past: but has been sticking close to his
office.
y"Mr. Lewis G. Ferguson has moved
his family to Yorkvllle and Is occu
pying the Ferguson cottage on West
Madison street.
Rev. J. L. Stokes, the new pastor of
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church,
expects to arrive in Yorkville with his
family on next Thursday, the 18th.
Rev. A. N. Brunson and family returned
to Yorkville Thursday morning.
Mr. Brunson expects to move his family
to his new home at Manning, sometime
next week.
Mr. C. B. Mendenhall spent last Saturday,
Sunday and Monday in bed on
account of a slight surgical operation
on his face. ?He is now able to be up c
and about. ?
^The Charlotte Observer, of Tuesday, f
mentions the fact that cards have been ^
received in Charlotte announcing^ the
marriage of Miss Augusta Moses, of t
New York City, to Mr. Rush Tracy r
Wray. Mr. Wray is a popular young t
traveling salesman who makes his 1
headquarters in Charlotte, and is a c
brother of Mr. J. Q. Wray. of York- t
ville. f
yGastonia News: At the home of the (
Bride, at South Point, December 17th, c
Miss Bessie Wilson, the pretty and
winsome daughter of W. W. Wilson I
will become the bride of Dr. Leon 1;
Campbell, of Bethel, S. C. The groom t
graduated from Louisville Medical col- a
lege last June and Is at present prac- r
ticing in Bethel. He expects soon af- F
ter his marriage to locate at Pineville
for practice. J"
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WITHIN THE TOWN. S
? The exact figures are not obtainable,
but it is certain that the local cot- 1
ton receipts from wagons during the t
past week have aggregated between
500 and 600 bales. ?
? The ladies of Trinity M. E. church ^
are arranging to give a handkerchief
bazaar in the court house next Thurs- e
clay. They will sell handkerchiefs of |
all kinds, and will also serve refresh- f\
ments. o
? At its last regular monthly meeting,
the King's Mountain Chapter, D. n
A. It., was entertained by Mrs. R. J. ti
Herndon. The time and place of the n
next meeting will be announced to the
members later. b
? The Bratton Comedy company, advertised
for Thursday, Friday and SatLirday
nights of this week, failed to put ^
in its appearance. The opera house P
l>eople have no information as to the
whereabouts of the company. v
? The offer to cut up the Wilson lot j
jn North Congress street into small 0
esidence lots, is a proposition that
>ught to Interest such Yorkvllle peojle
as may be on the lookout for delirable
spots upon which to build
iomes. These lots are splendidly sitlated
with reference to all the convenences
offered by the town, and they
ire all the more desirable because of
:heir elevation, which is but a few
!eet less than the highest points withn
the corporate limits.
? The minstrel show to be given In
;he opera house next Tuesday night by
:he K. M. M. A. cadets, in behalf of
:heir atheletic association, will no
ioubt be an enjoyable affair. The calets
would not be willing to stand for
mythlng else. And it should be well
satronized. The boys have been holdng
up the reputation of their accadeny
and incidentally the town of Yorkville,
on the football field splendidly
luring the season just closed, and the
people of the town will certainly show
:heir appreciation.
? Several of the lawyers have been
ousy this week in a reference before
W. J. Cherry, Esq., of Rock Hill, in
the case of Dr. R. A. Bratton individjally,
and as executor, against W. B.
3e Loach, Esq. The action is for an
iccounting. The plaintiff claims of the
lefendant certain monies alleged to be
lue and owing, and the plaintiff sets
jp counter-claims for professional services,
etc. The reference took up all of
Monday and was adjourned until Frliay.
J. S. Brice, Esq., represents the
plaintiff, and the 'defendant represents
nimself, assisted by F. P. McCain, Esq.
Dn the conclusion of this case, the
same referee expects to take up the
:ase of Mrs. Jane C. McKenzie vs. W.
B. deLoach, Esq. This action is also
for an accounting.
? W. T. McKnight, the well-known
colored blacksmith, of Yorkvllle, has
loHrieri tn leave here and so to Louis
[ana. He takes this step for the reason
that he finds the white blacksmithe
ire gradually forcing the Negroes oul
if the business as independent workmen.
He has no complaint to enter on
that account, considering such a development
but natural under existing
conditions. McKnight is an energetic,
hard-working Negro, who has always
enjoyed a good reputation among the
whites for sobriety, reliability and general
respectability. He will leave behind
many white friends who will rejret
to see him go; but who, at the
3ame time, will hope he will profit bj
the change.
ft The old "Wheeler carriage factory,"
in South Congress street, and one o 1
the most familiar old landmarks of the
town, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday
afternoon. The building was
vacant except for a squatter tenant,
in old Negro named Bob Gist, in one
if the rooms. He had a stove with a
flue sticking out of the side of the
house, and it is supposed that the fire
iriglnated from this. The material ol
which the building was constructed
was thoroughly dry and the tiames
spread with such rapidity as to have
the structure almost completely envel-?J
Mmo tViA oljirm wn.q snread
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)ver the town. The fire department
responded promptly with fire wagon,
fiose reels and ladders; but owing to
the headway that the fire, fanned by a
Jtrong wind that was blowing from
the southwest, had gained, but little
could be accomplished. The pumps
it the water station were at work
ivithin a very few minutes after
the sounding of the alarm, and there
tvas water In abundance. The resiliences
of Mr. H. H. Beard, Mrs. L.
3eo. Grist, and the Yorkville Yeoman
printing office were more or less
torched. The residence of Mr. Beard
sroke Into flames two or three times;
>ut because of the plentiful supply of
vater, was at no time seriously threatened.
The other buildings escaped unlurt,
unless they may have suffered a
Ittle from water. The firemen did
rood work, and the efforts of the
:olored portion of the department is
entitled to especial commendation, It
s pretty generally conceded by those
vho saw and understood the condilons,
that except for the water works
ind the fire department, a good portion
>f the town would have been destroyed.
As It was, the loss was but trifing,
the burned structure being praclcally
uninhabitable. Chief of Police
Love lost about $40 worth of hay that
le had stowed in the building. There
vas no insurance. The factory buildng
belonged to Mrs. T. S. Bratton.
WANTED TO FIGHT BULLS.
It has been necesary for outsiders to
-all upon Governor McSweeney to put
i stop to a proposed bull fighting, dog
ichtiner and cock fighting spree in
fork county.
Mr. R. F. Thomasson, of Catawba
ownship, owns a cock pit at his home
tear Lesslie station. It is an Jnstituion
of several years standing, and
las from time to time, been the scene
?f cocking mains, at which devotees of
his form of amusement would collect
rom Rock Hill, Yorkville, Charlotte,
Jreenville, Lancaster, Chester and
ther surrounding points.
Heretofore the pit has been used
trincipally for cock fights; but recenty
the management decided upon an atempt
to pull off something bigger, and
mnounced their purpose, in a flaming
ed circular addresed "to the sporting
lUblic," as follows:
On the 12th day of December, 1902,
here will be a bull fight at R. F.
Fhomasson's cock pit, situated three
.nd one-half miles east of Rock Hill,
!. C.
The fight will be between two regisstered
Jersey bulls, each of them four
ears old and weighing about one
housand pounds each.
One of the bulls is owned by R. F.
'homasson, of Rock Hill, S. C., and
he other by M. M. Tllman, of Van
Vyck, S. C.
Th* fle-ht will take place in a double
nciosure. There will be a covered
rand stand with a seating capacity of
Ive hundred persons and upward. The
ight will commence promptly at 12
'clock noon.
Admision fee one dollar.
There will also be cock fighting. Two
lalns of nine cocks each will be fought
hat afternoon and night and also the
ext day.
Arrangements are also on foot for a
og fight between two thoroughbred
ull dogs.
There will be a twenty-minute drag
ox chase in sight and hearing of the
rand stand immediately after the bull I
ght. Ten fox hounds will be in the
hase.
The sporting public are cordially lnited
to attend.
Hacks will meet all trains at Rock
iill that day for the accommodation
f all parties. |
Because of the unusual nature of the i
affair, Information of it has found its i
way through the Associated Press to i
all parts of the country, and on last i
Wednesday, Governor McSweeney re- i
ceived the following telegram from :
John P. Haines, of New York, presi- i
dent of the American Society for the <,
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: i
"It is reported that bulls owned by <
R. F. Thomasson and H. M. Tillman ,
are to be fought to a finish at Rock
Hill, Friday next at noon. There are
also to be dog and cock fights. This
is in direct violation of 2257 and 507 of
criminal statutes of South Carolina.
Please take action to prevent this violation
of law:" l
Upon receipt of this information, i
Governor McSweeney wired Mr. J. J. i
Hull, editor of the Rock Hill Herald,
asking how much truth there was in i
the report referred to. Mr. Hull replied,
giving the facts in the case,
whereupon the governor next made inquiry
of the attorney general's office as
to his authority in the matter, and in
reply received the following:
His Excellency, M. B. McSweeney,
Governor, Columbia, S. C.
Sir: Your request to be advised as to
the law in this state In reference to
preventing cock fighting, bull fighting,
etc.
Chapter 30, page 451, of the criminal
i code of the state, provides:
i "Every owner or person having the
possession, charge or custody of any
animal, who in an unnecessarily cruel
' or Inhuman manner, knowingly or
, wilfully authorizes or permits the
same to be subjected to any unneces1
sary torture, suffering, or cruelty of
> any kind, shall be punished for any
such ofTense."
, Another section provides: "Whoever
| inflicts unnecessary pain or suffering
! upon any animal, or whoever causes
the same to be done, whether such peri
son be the owner thereof, or having
charge or custody of the same, shall
for every such offense be guilty of mis1
demeanor." and be punished as proi
vided by law.
Another section provides: "Every
owner, possessor or person having the
1 charge or custody of any animal, who
i In an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman
; manner, or knowingly or wilfully authorizes
or permits the same to be subjected
to unnecessary torture, suffering
1 or cruelty of any kind, shall for every
such offense be guilty of misdemean,
or," and punished as provided by law.
The same also provides that "it shall
1 be the duty of the sheriff, deputy sheri
Iff, deputy state constables, constables
> and police officers to prosecute all violations
of the provisions of this chapter,"
and provides that one-half the
penalty collected shall Inure one-half
- to the South Carolina Society for the
, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
'r It should be noted that in this chapter
the word "animal" or "animals"
shall be construed to Include all brute
1 creatures, and the words "owner,"
r "person." and "whoever" shall be held
to include corporations as well as lndl!
vidua Is.
There Is also another provision to be
, found in section 296 of the criminal
code, making it a misdemeanor for any
' person to engage in or be present at
' cock fighting within three miles of any
chartered institution of learning of
, this state, and 1: .poses a penalty
therefor.
From these citations it necessarily
follows that ample penalty is imposed
[ for bull fighting, cock fighting, etc..
and that outside of the constitutional
oath to enforce the law, a special stat(
ute directs the peace officers of the
state to enforce the provisions above
, cited. Yours very truly,
U. X. Gunter, Jr.
Acting on the foregoing, the governor
dispatched the following telegram,
' which was received in Yorkville at
about 4 o'clock, Thursday afternoon.
Executive Chamber,
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 11, 1902.
1 John R. Looan, Sheriff,
Yorkville, S. C.:
Information has reached this department
that cock fights, bull fights, etc.,
f are to take place near Rock Hill tomorrow
at noon.
Under Chapter 30, page 451, Criminal
Code of South Carolina, you are directed
and authorized to go at once to
1 Rock Hill and prevent such proposed
violation of the law, and, If necessary,
call ou.t the military company at Rock
Hill, or command such posse as may
be necessary to prevent said fight.
Do your duty In the premises as provided
in the Criminal Code.
Wire me fully as to the situation.
M. B. McSwebney, Governor.
Immediately upon receipt of the foregoing,
Sheriff Logan replied by wire
as follows:
Sheriff's Office,
Yorkville, S. C., Dec. 11, 1902.
M. B. McSweeney, Governor,
Columbia, S. C.:
Have no Information further than Is
contained in your telegram; but will
go to Rock Hill tonight and see that 1
proposed violation of law is not con- I
summated. John R. Looan. i
Sheriff York County. ^
following up ms telegram to tne governor,
Sheriff Logan took the train for
Rock Hill Thursday night, and on yes- .
terday morning, accompanied by Con- .
stable J. F. Wingate, proceeded to the ,
residence of Mr. R. F. Thomasson, .
near Lesslle. Upon his arrival, the ^
sheriff told Mr. Thomasson that the
proposed fights must not take place,
and in reply Mr. Thomasson said that (
he would certainly carry out his pro- (
gramme as advertised. Sheriff Logan ^
then sent Mr. Wingate back to Rock
Hill after a detachment of the Cataw- j
ba Light Infantry, and the military
boys promptly obeyed the summons, j
leaving for Mr. Thomasson's premises
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
Another phone message received (
from Rock Hill at about 12.30 o'clock (
yesterday afternoon, stated that the !
rifle company?26 men under Captain j
Dunlap?had just returned from the
cockpit and that there has been no '
fight. Only about 75 spectators had "r
gathered to witness the cruel exhibition.
It is believed in Rock Hill that
Mr. Thomasson gave out all intention J
of pulling off the exhibition immedi- 1
ately on the interference of the gover- j
nor, and that his defiant answer to
Sheriff Logan was really intended as a ?
bluff for the benefit of the people who ]
mtcrHf havo anmo tn apa thp flphts. and '
who were disappointed. Sheriff Logan, 1
of course, was fully determined that *
there should be no foolishness, and all f
concerned very well understood, after 1
his appearance on the scene, that the
proposed fight was Impossible.
LOCAL L^ONIC9,
IIIk Cotton Male. '?|
A lot of about 150 balesK of cotton r
was sold at Hickory Grove last Wed- t
nesday, 90 bales by the Hickory Sup- ^
ply company, and 50 bales by Messrs. t
W. C. and Jeff D. Whitesides. The en- f
tire lot was bought by Mr. J. P. White, t
of Yorkville. He paid the Hickory j
Supply company 7.90, and the Messrs. t
Whitesides 7.93}. c
Mend \'umen at Once. t
A number of clubmakers for The e
Enquirek have, so far, been returning t
only their new names, holding back re- n
newals until a more convenient season, e
We beg to remind our friends that the c
Thursday night, he had collected only
$21,159.14. This amount was Included
in 2,921 receipts. The total book calls
for $101,401.95, and that means that -?
there is still more than $80,000,to be '
collected within the next eighteen days.
This amount is included in about 7,500
receipts. The treasurer did splendidly
in Rock Hill last week, issuing 1,200
receipts, nearly half of the total number
issued. There are quite a number
of people who are confidently calculating
on the usual extension. The ex- *
tension may be made; but if so it will
probably be made by the general assembly.
The governor has given it
out pretty emphatically that he will
not be a party to any such foolishness.
For a King'* Mountain Monument.
Washington despatch of Tuesday to
the Charlotte Observer: After consul- ..
tation with the North Carolina members,
Representative Finley, of South
Carolina, has prepared for immediate
introduction a bill appropriating $100,000
for the erection of a monument to
commemorate the battle of King's
Mountain. Under the provisions of the
bill, in the event of its passage, a monument
will be erected on the South
Carolina side of the state line under
the direction of the secretary of war.
Members from the two Carolinas have
been encouraged in taking this step
by the attitude of Chairman Cannon,
of the appropriations committee, who
has said that while he was, generally
speaking, opposed to appropriations of
this kind, he believed the expenditure
contemplated in this bill would be fit
and proper. A majority of those who
took part in the battle of King's Mountain
were North Carolinians.
Seised a Box of Ink.
Rock Hill special of Wednesday to
the Charlotte Observer: The Roddey
Mercantile company, of this city,
whose name carries to everyone in this
section all that is honorable and hightoned
in the business world, is indignant
on account of Constable J. T.
Thomasson's activity with the company's
freight. Freight Clerk Williamson
went with the wagon this morning
to the depot to bring up several
boxes of freight. The wagon had been
loaded when Thomasson, assisted by
A.. Rose, got on the wagon and de- ?
manded a certain box, concerning
which they had been joking, and which
Mr. Williamson refused to turn over to
them. They stopped the wagon, put
Mr. Williamson off of it, turned the
box out on the ground, opened It and
examined its contents. It was found
to be a box of ink and such drugs' as
the small country stores In this section
handle. The box was then taken
back to the depot, Mr. Williamson
jrlving on to the store. The constables
then had Mr. Williamson to appear
before Magistrate Beckham and
tiad him bound over to court on a
charge of resisting an officer. Both
constables testified that Williamson
cursed Thomasson and pushed him
ind tried to drive over them. Also
that the agent had told them that the
dox had been billed "shoes." This
statement was made because William- ?
son had paid the freight on some shoes,
rhe box in question was marked
'drugs, from J. M. Scott, Charlotte,
M. C.," and had been loaded on the
.vagon by the depot hands, the agent
lot knowing of it. These drugs had
>een ordered by R. W. Patton, man
iger of the firm's country store at
rtoddey's Station. N The Roddey Mer antile
company has been doing busiiess
ever since Rock Hill has been on
he map, and the reputation of the
Irm Is such as to put Its business
nethods above suspicion.
MERE-MENTION.
Although several persons were Inured,
no lives were lost as the result
?f the big fire in Atlanta last Tuesday
nornlng All of the engineers of the
southern railroad have been granted
in increase 01 \vuge? iu o ucma a. Uu?
or passenger trains, and 4J cents for
reight trains It has developed
hat quite a number of northern millonaires,
with John D. Rockefeller at
heir head, are behind a bill that reently
passed the house of representaives
for the incorporation of a general
ducational board. It is understood to
le the intention of the board to furlish
almost unlimited aid to deserving
ducational institutions throughout the
ountry and especially in the south.
A
time is now growing very short; that '
many subscriptions expire during December,
and that too big a rush of renewals
at one time might delay us in
straightening out and arranging our
1903 lists. We, therefore, request that
renewals be sent in as rapidly as possible,
and without further unnecesary
delay. By complying with this request,
clubmakers will accommodate
us materially.
The K. M. M. A. at Camden. ?
The K. M. M. A. football team played
the Camden team at the latter place
last Thursday. The Camden team had
gone in to win, and to this end had
secured three men from the South Carolina
college team. But, all the same,
the K. M. M. A. boys held their own
and neither side scored..
Another Shooting? at the Dam.
\>
Fort Mill special of December 11 to
Columbia State: Cal Carlisle, an employe
of the Catawba Power company,
was shot and instantly killed Wednesday
by one of the Negro women who
hang around the dam. She claimed
that the shooting was accidental and
the coroner's jury, not being able to
secure any evidence to the contrary,
returned a verdict accordingly.
The Destructive Cigarette.
There was a small cotton Are on the
Chester road last Monday. The cotton
belonged to Mr. James M. Starr and
was being hauled to Torkvllle from his
Bethesda plantation. Opposite the residence
of Mr. J. v/arren Moore, the
driver undertook to light a cigarette A
and the flame of the match was communicated
to the cotton. The blaze
was quick and furious; and except for.
Mr. Moore's convenient well, the entire
wagon load, consisting of four heavy
bales, would have been burned. As it " was,
the bagging was singed off and
the lint badly scorched. Mr. Starr had
the cotton picked and re-packed and it
developed that there was a shortage
of just 366 pounds." H
Tax Collections.
Treasurer Neely is not making as
much progress with the work of collecting
taxes as he would like. Up to