Noted Figures and International Dispatches Span News
A slice of early 20th century dispatches covers John Wesley Crockett a Arkansas official and Davy Crockett descendant, political shifts in Russia, a major New York lease at Broadway and Wall Street, cattle packing scandals hitting Texas ranchers, a Charleston court suit against Germania Brewing, a bold shooting by Miss Pearle Jones in Selma, cotton acreage estimates from Washington, Pan American conference plans for Secretary Root, global wealth estimates, and Bryan’s brief endorsement in Berlin with reflections on democracy versus socialism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wesley Crockett
Arkansas
State Railroad Commission
Davy Crockett
Alamo
Lorenzo E. Anderson
Trust Company
Texas
West
Charleston Post
United States District Court
United States
Germania Brewing Company
Post Exchange
Charlotte
N. C
Pearle Jones
Selma
Miss Jones
Bud Anderson
Anderson
Washington
Hays
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Bureau of Statistics
Wilson
Root
Rio Janiero
Charleston
Miss Root
Petropolis
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
Montivideo
Cape
Panama
Isthmus
San Francisco
City
Bryan boom fuels political tension and resignations
The Yorkville Enquirer reports resignations of Stenographer Deal to Chairman Hay and Senator-elect Boykin’s successor as Blease exits the Saluda seat. It notes suspicions about Lanahan representation and calls for truth from Parker. FE. D. Smith urges cotton holders to halt futures and build warehouses to force fair prices.
Political and graft concerns color Lanahan case and 1900s party shifts
The piece argues Lanahan engaged in bribery with dispensary officials and hints at larger pullbacks. It contends two sides exist in bribery, questions Lanahan’s claims, and notes directors may expose him. It also discusses 1900s Democratic and Republican tides, predicting Bryan’s rise and Roosevelt’s decline amid a looming national change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanahan
Mr. Lanahan
South Carolina Reforms Shaped by Fraser Lyon and Neils Christensen
The article praises Fraser Lyon and Neils Christensen for their conduct amid a dispensary inquiry, noting a Republican split aiding Democratic chances. It commends their courage, warns of dangers they faced, and predicts both may rise to high office, matching the state’s most respected leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Wade Hampton
Messrs
Fraser Lyon
Neils Christensen
Columbia
J. Lee Chandler
Chandler
A. J. Royal
Royal
Georgia
Maryland appoints White to fill Gorman seat
Governor Warfield names Wm Pinckney White to succeed the late Arthur P Gorman in the Maryland Senate. A chaotic national scene follows with lynching in Ocala Florida and a Trout Louisiana mill fire causing heavy losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warfield
Maryland
Wm. Pinckney White
Arthur P. Gorman
Washington
Jim Davis
Ocala
Fla
Russel
Anuea
Trout Lumber Company
Trout
Supreme Court
Lee Palajomes
Samar
Blackburn
Kentucky
Gorman
Nooga
Joseph K. Aikens
Monongahela
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cassatt
Nelson A. Miles
Chicago
New Orleans
Dwight Coburn
Joseph R
Hale
Agricultural Department
Roosevelt
Wim I Vilas
Cleveland
Bryan
Local affairs notices and promotions in York county area
Notices announce sales for partition in Mary D. Hope suit and candidate announcements for York county offices. Advertisers promote goods from Yorkville Hardware to J. Q. Wray cashing out spring stock, plus local farming notes, religious leadership praise, and remarks on temperance era shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Tate
C. C. C. Pla
Mary D. Hope
Pfff
Ethel D
Wm. A. Hope
Déetts
L. R. Williams
York County
H. A. D. Neely
Sam M. Grist
Yorkville Hardware Co
D. J. Brimm
Rock Hill
Catawba Military Academy
W. M. Kennedy
York Drug Store
G. H. O'Leary
M. W. White
J. Q. Wray
L. M. Grist
Horse Shoe Robinson
Geo. T. Schorb
Thomson Company
J. C. Comer
York Township
J. C. Wilborn
Yorkville
Foushee Cash Store
Death of Rev Dr W L Pressly president of Erskine Seminary
Rev Dr W L Pressly, president of Erskine Theological Seminary, died at his Due West home Friday night after a period of paralysis. Born May 3, 1837 in Due West, he was Erskine College alumnus and longtime pastor, professor of Hebrew, and seminary leader. He leaves nine children, including Effie wife of Rev Paul L Grier, with three sons physicians and three sons in the ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Pressly
Erskine Theological Seminary
Due West
Pressly
Associate Reformed Church
Erskine College
Francis Elizabeth Wideman
United Congregations of Generostee and Concord
Anderson County
James Boyce
Associate Reformed Denomination
Effie
Paul L. Grier
RE. W. Pressly
Clover
Henry Pressly
Birmingham
Ala
J. H. Pressly
Statesville
N. C
Joseph L. Pressly
Mt. Zion
Paul A. Pressly
Lancaster
Neely mill production near capacity and depot promise update
Neely mill near full production capacity with first class quality. Southern depot promised for Yorkville remains large and prominent. Juvenile baseball shows Rock Hill and Yorkville split, 12 to 6 in favor of Rock Hill. Ernest Land held for trial after alleged break in at Butler Erwis home on Yorkville outskirts. Yorkville Graded School trustees meet next Thursday at noon to discuss a three mill levy. Clover defeats Yorkville 10 to 5 at Clover grounds. Clover bars to visit Yorkville next Friday. Mr. T. P. Moore, president of Neely mill, is mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Railroad Commission
Yorkville
Rock Hill
Ernest Land
House of
Butler Erwis
Triad
T. P. Moore
Neely
Yorkville to Manor Grounds for Mill Base Ball Use
Yorkville gains baseball grounds on mill property with condition to keep them in proper order. The arrangement promises a busier summer season for Yorkville baseball. A Spencer barn on King's Mountain street burned before dawn, loss around $500 with $325 insured. two horses scorched and pigs killed. Cause unclear but thought accidental. Chief J L Sanders resigns to take better Yorkville Banking and Mercantile position. council undecided. Sanders credited with strong prohibition enforcement and town service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville
C. FE. Spencer
King’s Mountain Street
J. L. Sanders
Yorkville Banking and Mercantile Company
Sanders
Yorkville Social Notes Reach Wide Circle Remnants
A long list of local visits and homecomings fills Yorkville society notes. Students and faculty including Robert Jenkins from Erskine College and Johns Hopkins visitor James Kennedy are mentioned along with travelers from Columbia and Gastonia visiting relatives.
Local Laconics and Town News Briefs
Death and crime items from York county and nearby towns. Charles W. Clawson dies in Denver. Jupiter Wilson sought in Gastonia for unlawful weapon possession and liquor offenses. Rev W P Hemphill, native of York county, dies in Griffin Georgia. murder near Lowryville as Lee fatally shoots Lucius Joes and flees. Chief Sanders alerted by Chester sheriff to watch for Lee age about 20 to 22, 6 feet, scar over right eye, last seen near Guthriesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quinn
Gastonia
Jupiter Wilson
Gua Lee
Lucius Joes
Lowryville
Lee
Sanders
Yorkville
Chester
Bratton Place
Guthriesville
Police shoot suspect in Fort Mill office
John Nillng, an eighteen year old negro and cocaine user, was shot by Fort Mill Chief Dawson Potts in the Southern Express office about midnight Thursday. Nillng fled through a window, received two flesh wounds, was arrested next morning, and jailed awaiting the next court term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Mill
News and Courier
John Nillng
Dawson Potts
Southern Express Company
Marriage Surprise in Rock Hill and Academy Update
Miss Eva Gee married Jas L Donald of Spartanburg at her father's home in Rock Hill. Catawba Military Academy will reopen next fall with a full staff under Rev Dr D J Brimm. A joint city council and Commercial club committee plans a preliminary sewerage survey and costs. The Aragon cotton mill stock meeting is called for Tuesday afternoon with Alex Long named president. Red Men pow wow and ice cream feast set for Thursday with Grand Chief Hair expected.
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Catawba Military Academy
Yorkville Enquirer
Rock Hill
Eva
Gee
Beach
Jas. L. Donald
Spartanburg
D. J. Brimm
Rock Hi
Brimm
South Carolina
W. L. Lingle
D. D
First Presbyterian
Salisbury
N. C
City Council
Commercial Club
Aragon
Alex Long
Long
Blackburn Wilson
Oakland
Wilson
Cuba
Red Men
Hair of Newberry
R. Maynard Marshall
Episcopal Church
Lancaster
John Wood
Greenville
John T. Roddey
Winchester
Mary Johnson
Lena Stultz
Bess Williford
Due West Female College
Miriam Kinard
Columbia
Lottie McFadden
Gaillard
Eutawville
Annie Lyle Sandifer
Ellerbe Charges Wilson Aide Miscount In Cotton Crop
Washington dispatch reports Rep Ellerbe of South Carolina charging Secretary Wilson with manipulating the cotton crop estimate. He insists the Oklahoma and Indian Territory figures double the real totals and vows to press the inquiry through the agriculture committee. Southern lawmakers balk at the department’s tabulation and demand accountability at the top of the agricultural department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellerbe
Agricultural Department
Richard Cheatham
Harvie Jordan
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
House
Washington
South Carolina
Department of Agricultural Department
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
North Carolina
South
Committee On Agriculture
Department
Congress
Columbia
News and Courier
E. D. Smith
Smith
South Carolina Association
Mclver Williamson
J. EB. Wannamaker
Peagues
E. L. Archer
Southern Cotton Association
Cotton Association
European View of American Scandals Hurts U S Image
A London dispatch reports European anger over Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Chicago beef scandals. It says American reform is seen as inadequate, with calls for strict prosecutions and real morality to restore faith abroad. Newberry and Columbia updates cover dispensary investigations, politics, and a deserter preacher case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Chicago
London
News and Courier
Upton Sinclair
Jungle
Daily Dispatches
Atlantic
America
United States
The
Spectator
England
France
Germany
Tillman Calls for Lanahan Probe in Senate Testimony
Washington special reports Senator Tillman denounces the committee for forcing Parker to testify while failing to name an official Lanahan employed in South Carolina. He accuses Lanahan of bribery and corruption and urges Parker to reveal the man behind Lanahan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newberry
Cole L. Blease
C. C. Davis
Dispensary
Evans
Blease
F. W. Higgins
Mr. Evans
Davis
John M. Taylor
H. H. Evans
John W. Earhardt
Raysor-Manning
South Carolina
Morgan
House of Representatives
Tillman
Lewis W. Parker
Parker
Lanahan
Washington
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British Income Tax Committee
Mallet
Commissioners of Inland Revenue
New York World
Prussia
United Kingdom
Italy
Berlin
William J. Bryan
Yorkville, D. C
Tere
Deal
Hay
Mr. Deal
Evepne Blease
Saluda County
Joe Ben Coleman
Lucinda
Mr. Blease
Senator Blease
Dispensary Investigating Committee
Senate
Lyon
Christensen
Spivey
Boykin
FE. D. Smith
South Carolina Southern Cotton Association
Tredenbad
Local Affairs
Dr Stevenson
Stevenson
King’s Mountain Battleground
Warlick
Thompson
Robert Jenkins
Sam L. Miller, Jr
George and
Carl Hart
W. C. Ewart
Tavora Mill
Bessie Anderson
Mamie
Bessie Devinney
Sallie Craig
High Point
George Cartwright
Joe Hart
South Cariina College
Luther Blair
Blairsville
Frank Hart
G. W. S. Hart
W. S. Loughridge
Jas. B. Kennedy
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
M. J. Abernethy
Hickory
F. Wolfe
Cleveland Avenue
John Plaxco
S. R. Moore
Sam Moore
Washington, D
Claude Moore
J. S. Brice
E. W. Long
Bowen House
J. P. White
S. Rhea Preston, Jr
Smith-Premier Typewriter Company
Rachel Boyce
King’s Creek
Faulkner-Thomson
J. D. Davis
George Miller
Gregory
Greensboro
Enquirer
Colorado
Thomas W. Clawson
Charles W. Clawson
Denver
Col
W. P. Hemphill
Griffin
Amanda J. Smart
Charlotte Chronicle
Ss. S. McNinch
Catawba River
McNinch
Rock Hill and Vicinity
Uncle Sam
Meat Packers
South Carolina News
Dispensary Board of Directors
State Dispensary
W. A. Clark
Carolina National Bank
S. J. Lanahan
William Lanahan & Co
Heyward
Boards of Directors
Board of Control
Heywird
General Assembly
M. Manheim
Marion
Wilmington
Manheim
Consignee
Brawley
A. M. Deal
Klingenberg
Earle
Mr. Klingenberg
Mr. Lyon
Matthews Fortner
Furman
Becknell
United States Navy
Fortner
Navy
Eva James
Gainesville
Gainesvile
Pleasant Grove
Pickens County
McGee Mill
Monaghan
J. J. McSwain
Mr. Fortner
McSwain
Furman University
Naval Department
Matthew Fortner
Norfolk
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