Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Mercantile Trust.


The merchants of Anderson city
have formed a Mercantile Protective
association. The object of the organl.
zation is to protect its members from
the class of people. who do not pay
their accounts. The members propose
to make it hard for "dead-beats" to
get credit.
Broke on Like Piece of Wood.
Monroe Enquirer: VIM. Catoe, o1
Lancaster county, S. c., went to Ker.
shaw on Monday of last week and
started for his home near Taxahaw
about nightfall but he became so be-
numbed by the cold that he lay down
by the roadside, where he was found
on Tuesday morning, in an uncon'
scious condition. On attempting ia
take off one of the unfortunate mans
shoes, a foot broke of at the instep as
if it had been a piece of wood. Both
feet and one arm had to be amputated
1t seems unreasonable that a man
could live lying on the snow for 10
hours with the temperature 10 degrees
below zero.
Larry on the warpath.
Spartanburg special of Sunday 10
the Columbia State: Larry CAN'T has
on his war paint. Since he began the
publication of The Evening Star he
has been rather lamb like; but he has
broken loose now in redoubled fury.
For several evenings he has been after
Representative D. E. Hydrick in a
mild way; but bis three-column edi'
torial and one column poem in yester'
days issue goes for Hydrick and incl
deutally for Congressman Wilson, with
gloves off. He charges that Hydrick
had the county government law as to
Spartanburg county changed so as to
allow Hydrick and Wilson to manipu-
late county affairs. To prove this he
enumerates many things, which, he
SAYS, will be shown by the records in
the supervisors Office. He says he is
on the warpath and promises d chap
ter every day for days to come. He
devoted one issue of this week to what
he unwillingly called "kicking the
dead corpse of Senator Archer" Lar
ry is evidently out for some sort of en-
tertainment, and those not directly in
terested will watch the fun he raises
among the animals with his sharp
stick.
WayIaid and Shot.
Charleston dispatch of Sunday TO
the Columbia State: Thomas Pinck-
ney, Jr., a prominent young lawyer OF
this city, was shot three times and pro-
badly fatally wounded on Pitt street
early this morning. Mr.. Pinckney
had been out calling and was return
ing home when the shooting occurred.
To friend named Arthur Barnwell,
who had been calling at the same
house, and who was the first person to
reach him after the shooting, he said
that two Negroes came up to him on
the street, demanded that he hold up
his hands, and shot him when be re-
fused to do 80. Mr.. Pinckney is in a
very critical condition and cannot be
seen personally. The police are at
work on the case and believe that all
of the facts regarding the affair have
not yet come out. They have arrested
eight Negroes on suspicion. Mr.. Pinck-
ney is a son of c. c. Pinckney of this
city, and a member of the well-known
South Carolina family of that name.
He is a graduate of the University of
Virginia, and is prominent in the most
exclusive social circles of the city. He
is popular throughout the city, and the
tragedy is deeply deplored. He re-
ceived three wounds; one in the groin
and two in the back. His ante-mor-
tenn statement has been taken, but this
is, of course, not available for publica-
ton now. Tonight he is reported to
be in most critical condition.