Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-12-21
#iseellaneous Reaains.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II OF More
or Less Local Interest.


YORK.
Rock Hill Herald, December Is: Mrs.
Minnie Ratterree went up to Yorkville
last Saturday for few days stay......
Yesterday, on complaint Of one Herbert
Wheeler, a colored laborer at the Ca
tawba Power company's dam, Ed
Reid, colored, was arrested by Police
man Jenkins. Wheeler charges that
Reid assaulted him on the public
highway the night before, striking him
a blow on the face and two on the head
and robbing him of $13.40. When Reid
was arrested he had $3.50 on his per-
son; but he claimed that he and Wheel
er and others had been gambling and
that he had won something more than
IS from Wheeler-that they had fallen
out later, and that Wheeler had come
to town and had him arrested, alleging
robbery. The robbery, 1t Is claimed,
was committed near the dam. 1t is a
little peculiar that Wheeler's head
should not show the effects Of either OF
the blows which he says were inflicted
by Reid. Reid was accorded prelim-
mary hearing yesterday before Magis-
trate Beckham and was held for trial
in the circuit court. Bail was fixed at
$500, and he says he can find bondsmen.
Arthur Foster, colored, who stole
an overcoat from Mr. Glib Greene some
time since, was taken to Yorkville last
Friday by Constable Wingate to serve
sentence of 80 days on the chain
gang. Carrie Rosborough, colored
woman living on west Black street, Is
under quarantine in her home, being
suspected victim Of smallpox. Recently
Vasta Hope, a colored friend, visited
the McConnellsville section, and upon
her return she stopped at the house oc-
cupied by Carrie Rosborough, and in
this way it is supposed the disease was
communicated to the woman. DR.. Ba-
cot, who Is now in Bethesda township,
has been requested to come to Rock
Hill and ascertain the character OF the
disease, as there is likewise a suspicion
that it may be chickenpock. Several
other colored persons in the same
neighborhood are broken out with
suspicious eruption. They are requir-
ed to stay on their premises and their
cases will be carefully watched......
Last Saturday night, at the home OF
the bride, at the Manchester Mill, MIR.
w. S. Nicholson, the downtown grocer,
was married to Mrs. Alice Duncan, wild
ow of the late I. G. Duncan, Of the Og-
den neighborhood. The ceremony was
performed in the presence Of number
of relatives and friends by Rev. j. B..
Beasley. Another bloody affair Is
reported from the Catawba Power COM
pany's camp on the Catawba river.
The trouble appears to have grown out
of a game of cards at which number
Of Negroes were players; but the battle
occurred after the game was over.
Whisky was used freely, and 1t appears
that Elias Herndon, who was at first
armed with a pistol. was crazed with
drunkenness and interfered with every
man who passed. Hanse Brown, who
secured a shotgun and did lot OF
shooting, says the first shot he fired
was accidental; but that he fired sever
al other times to hit but not to kill.
AS a result of the battle, Elias Brown
is seriously shot in the right eye and 1t
will have to be taken out. Claude Reid
has a wound above the right ear and
a shot in the nose Edna Robertson has
several shot in the back Of the neck
Adolphus Herndon is also shot In the
neck. Mary Pride and Christine Moore
each have a shot in the face. These
wounds, it is claimed, were inflicted by
Hanse Brown when he accidentally
fired his gun; but it is probable that
Elias Herndon's gun is responsible for
several Of the wounds, as he was bar
1icaded in his shack and was shooting
at everything in sight While the bat
tie was raging, Mr.. W. H. Wylie called
Mr.. S. P. Davis and the two Messrs.
Roberts to his help, secured guns and
went into the camp and took Elias
Herndon, Hanse Brown and Jim Pride
under arrest while they stood with their
guns in their hands. They were dis
armed and brought to town that night
and placed in the guard house. Hern-
don received immediate medical atten-
ton. Mr.. Wylie is determined to break
up the rowdyism in the camp and Will
hereafter use every effort in that direc-
ton. When he came to town Sunday
night he brought with him Negro
from Charlotte who had been loafing
around the camp for several days, pre-
sumably selling whisky, and against
him charges of vagrancy will be pre-
ferred.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, December IS: Mr.. c. V. Car
ter, who has been connected with the
Rock Hill Herald for sometime past,
has resigned his position and is at home
spending the Christmas holidays. He
will return to Rock Hill the first of jan
uary where he has accepted a position
as local reporter for The Journal......
The driving wheel in the spinning room
at the cotton mill, broke early yester-
day morning, and work has been sus-
pended until a new wheel can arrive.
which will probably be tomorrow. The
wheel is about seven feet in diameter
and the piece which broke out of the
rim was about IS inches long. 1t knock
ed a window entirely out the side of
the building and lodged on the roof of
the engine room. A similar accident
happened to the mill just three years
ago,