Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Due West Is trying to raise
$4,000 with which to construct
branch line Of railroad to connect
with the Southern at Donald's.
THE Heath Springs safe blowers.
Fisher and O'Day, who were some
time ago arrested at Wadesboro. n.
c., were, on last Saturday, turned
over to Solicitor Henry and Sheriff
Hunter and taken through the coun-
try to Lancaster. The North Caro-
lima charges against the men were
purely technical, while the South
Carolina charges were Of more Sc
rious nature-housebrea and
grand larceny.
Dan Hawkins, a mill operative.
was beaten almost to death at CAL
houn last week, and two men,
Vaughn and Henderson. are in jail
in Columbia, charged with the beat
ing. Hawkins's skull was badly
Vile and the sheriff is hoping his
condition will improve sufficiently to
enable him to give some information
about the crime. 1t is not definitely
known whether the assault was
committed in Pickens or Greenville
county.
- William Pace, white, aged SO
years; was killed by a freight train
on the Spartanburg and Asheville
division of the Southern at 1nman
last Friday morning. Pace sat down
on the trestle and was struck by a
passing freight and knocked down
hill. The train, 1t is said, was run
ming at a moderate speed but Pace
made no effort to move as the train
approached. There are those who
believe the man was asleep on the
track. The engineer did not see Mr..
Pace i'm time to stop his train.
There were two killings near Honea
Path, .Abbeville county last Sunday,
one in self-defense and the other muir
der. During the morning a negro
named Allen Pendleton ran into the
buggy of Oscar Mcdonald and Jim
Moore Mcdonald and Moore after
ward waylaid the road for Pendleton
and after thrashing him, undertook TO
drag him out of his buggy. In the
scufis. Pendleton stabbed Moore and
killed him. Pendleton was locked up,
and a crowd Of men gathered and shot
him to death. 1t was brutal murder.
Chester special of Saturday to the
News and Courier: Mrs. T. G. Pat
rick, of White Oak. Fairfield county,
died here last night at the home of
her brother. Solicitor ]. X. Henry.
She had been in declining health
for a year Mrs. Patrick was a most
estimable and useful woman. and was
a power for good in the community
in which she lived. Her husband.
several children and two brothers and
a sister survive her. She was buried
at White Oak today. the funeral SER
vices being conducted by the Rev
]. A. White and DR.. j. >. MoHatt'
During fair week especially. CO.
lumbia has long been a Mecca for
professional gamblers from all parts
of the country. There are gamblers
in the city all the while: but for
several weeks previous TO the talr
they flock TO Columbia in droves.
The city police commission neid a
meeting on the subject few nights
ago and decided to put a stop to
the custom. The police were in
structed to round up all the gamblers
and notify them that II they were
still in town on September 20 they
would be arrested and required 10
give evidence of the manner in which
they earn an honest living.
Union special Of September Is to
the News and Courier: Since Asso-
ciate Justice Gary refused to suspend
Judge Townsend's order closing the
dispensaries in this county, interest,"
in the contest has subsided. Ihere
is little apprehension felt that tne
supreme court will hold the brlce
law unconstitutional A large num-
her of Jugs are coming in by express.
but the absence Of drunkenness on
the streets Is very noticeable. the
police are active in suppressing Illicit
dealings in whisky. and everyone Is
anxious to give prohibition falr'
impartial trial Some whisky Will De
sold, but not nearly so much as under
the old law.