Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ITEMS OF INTEREST IN SOUTHCAROLINA Cullled and Condensed for Busy Readers. - RESUME OF PAST WEEK Current Events of Interest in Tills State Selected and Briefly Noted For Advertiser Renders, Columbia.?It Is very likely that tbe claims of the whiskey bouses against the county dispensaries will be at tnclied so as to hold the money (irmly until the matter can be dually thresh ed out in the supreme court. Any statement made at the present time is all problematical, for It is doubtful if any one knows tbe whiskey situation thoroughly. The claims held up as a result of the resolution of the commis sion are in the instances where the whiskey firms did business with the county dispensaries and the old state dispensary, and whose claims were wiped out against the state and over judgments found. As near as can be learned tbe sum of $80,000 was held up by the commis sion's resolution. $00,000 in tbe coun ties, which have voted out the dispen sary system and about $20,0(11? in those retaining the shops. There are a number of firms Involv ed in the hold-up process, and It is es timated that in many cases the amount of claims held up will exceed tbe over judinents. Of course, under these cir cumstances all over and above the ov er-judgments will be paid to the whis key houses, should the state win in the ??outest. Dispensaray Auditor West said to day that the firm of Meyer, Pills & Co. of Baltimore, had a claim of $9,000 against the Lnurens county dispen sary board, which had never been paid and that this amount was held up along with the others as an over-judg ment was found against this house. The dispensaray was voted out in Lau rens county several months ngo, but the affairs of the Institution have nev er been wound up. The question has been asked over and over, and there are many who wish to know where the money that has been held up, with reference to the claims against the county dispensa ries will go should action of the com mission be uphold by the courts. This money, according to attorneys, will go to the state treasury, as a part of the dispensary fund, and thence to the va rious prescribed ends, in other words taking Laurens county for an example, should the courts decide in favor of the state in the claim of the Meyer PlttS company, then the ?!l.talil now held by that county would be paid to tbe state, in place of tbe Baltimore whiskey house. The commission will meet again in a few days, and It is probable that the matter of claims will be taken up and some definite policy as to the fu ture mapped out. From Statements that have been made, It is thought that more money will soon be forthcoming to the state as restitution money from the whisl* y bouses who did business with the dis pensary board for a number of years HELD FOR COURT IN THE SUM OF $5,000 Hoy Weed, Young Man of Sulllvnil Township, Charged With Serious Offense, Admitted to Hall. Roy Wood, the young man who was sent up from Sullivan township early last week on a magistrate's warrant charging attempted criminal assault, was on Monday admitted to hail in the sum of $.r>,000. and in the afternoon he returned to his home with his lather The bond was executed Monday morn ing with Messrs .1. 10.. .1. A.. .1. M. and N. B. Wood, all of Sullivan township, as sureties. On Friday a preliminary in this case was held before Magistrate John M. Hudgens who, after taking the testi mony of young Wood's alleged Intend ed victim, bound the accused over to the next term of the Laurens court and remanded him to jail, be being without authority to grant ball in such case;; On Saturday Attorney Homer Blnck well of the' law firm of Cannon & , Blaekwell, counsel for tbe defense, ap peared before .ludge KlUgh at cham bers at Abbeville and obtained an or der for bond in the amount Indicated above.