Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-06
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Almost q Lynchtng.

There was 1ynching excitement at
Orangeburg last Thursday night. On
Sunday afternoon, Negro named Bill
Wilson, drove into buggy containing
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.s Hydrick, and Mr..
Hydrick was so badly injured that he
afterward died. The Negro seemed to
be altogether to blame for the accident
and mob gathered at Orangeburg to
lynch him. Wilson, however, was re-
moved to the penitentiary, where he is
now neld in safety.
Constable Removed.
Columbia State, Tuesday: Governor
McSweeney yesterday removed T. E.
Hough, of Lancaster, from the con-
stabulary force. Hough is the officer
who hit a Negro boy in the head on
Saturday afternoon with a beer bottle,
because he did not answer questions
asked him. The mayor Of Columbia
yesterday heard the case and fined
Mr.. Hough SIS, which he paid. The
governor was fully informed Of the
circumstances and the removal fol-
| lowed.
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Twenty Negroes, including two wo-
men, were arrested in Georgetown last
Tuesday afternoon after the visiting
military, headed by three companies
of local cavalry and with two pieces Of
light artillery, had paraded through
the town, crossing the Negro quarter
several times. There was no trouble in
making the arrests. Three companies
of infantry left Tuesday afternoon and
the others remained until Wednesday,.
The hundreds of Negroes who swarm
ed in from the country, armed with
everything from rice hooks to rifles,
returned to their homes on Tuesday.
The greatest tumult was made by wo-
men from the rice fields, who, with
hoes and rice hooks, urged the men to
rashness and could not be frightened
or subdued. 1t has been twenty years
since the danger of serious riot has
| been so great. A Negro barber muir
dered a deputy sheriff who attempted
to collect taxes, and the fear that he
Negro would be lynched, caused the
uprising. Had it not been for the
prompt show Of force by the gover-
nor there would have no doubt been
much bloodshed.
Held At College.
Carolina Spartan: Clemson and Win
throp colleges have rejected many pu-
pills for want Of room. At Converse
they are crowded and applications are
rejected. The same conditions prevail
at Limestone, where they are planning
for more dormitories. While this Is
the condition in this state the reverse
prevails in North Carolina. There
they take such tight grip on girl as
soon as she enters the building that
legal proceedings are required to get
her away. The Jonesville, S. c., cores
pondent of The State tells this story:
"A week since Misses Eta Hames and
Lizzie Littlejohn went to Hickory, N.
g., to enter Claremont Female college.
| The president of the college, Mr.. Hat
ton, had been to Jonesville sometime
before in the interest Of his college.
| After the two young ladies above men
| toned arrived they were dissatisfied
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matriculated and refused to enter and
proposed to return to their homes. The
president demurred and refused to let
them go. They wired home the situa-
ton and their parents wired them to
return; but the president still refused
to let them go. One of them, Miss Lit
tlejohn, managed to get away and
came home. Mr.. T. L. Hames went
over to Hickory after his daughter and
her trunk or the trunk of the other
young lady, Miss Littlejohn, who had
come home. Mr.. Hames offered to pay
the expenses of the girls while they
were there, but this was refused, and