Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-24
LOCAL .LACONlCS.


makes a good judge.
LOCAL .LAcoNIcs.
Tax Collections.
Up to and including last Saturday
the tax collections amounted to $780,
171.23. The book calls for $123,S79.4S.
This leaves still to be collected the sum
of $93,708.25, out Of 1900 receipts at
the beginning 3,473 have been issued.
Allison Creek High Water.
The water in Allison creek arose to
within eight inches of the bridge on
the Armstrong Ford road last Monday
morning. The rise was because OF the
heavy rain that set In shortly after
o'clock Sunday night. The creek was
unusually high.
At Wright's Ferry.
1t is commonly reported that there is
to be quite lively time at Wrights
Ferry tomorrow. The foot race may
not be as interesting as the public has
been led to believe, but 1t Is said that
there will be other attractions, hardly
less exciting.
News From the Chaingans.
Fort Mill Times: The county chain
gang received four new prisoners dur
ing the past week. Three Of these
were negroes sent up from the circuit
court at Yorkville and the other, a
foreigner from Grattan sent up for fif-
teen days by Mayor Hall for drunk and
disorderly conduct on the streets. The
gang now has about twenty-five con-
victs "in line" and Is engaged In work.
ing the Doby's bridge road, south OF
Fort Mill.
Death Of Mrs. Mary L. Carroll.
Mrs. Mary L. Carroll died at her
home in the Beth-Shiloh neighbcrhood
on December II. The deceased was
/ widow of the late Hamilton Car
r, 1, and had she lived until January q,
next, she would have been 83 years of
age. She leaves four living children,
twenty-eight grandchildren, and thirty
great The interment
took place at Beth-Shiloh last We'd
nesday, the funeral services being con-
Quoted by Rev. w. A. Hafner.
Shooting at Pineville.
Charlottes Observer, Monday: w. D.
Phillips, white man Of Pineville, was
shot in the hand yesterday afternoon
at that place by Chief Of Police Crump
Of Pineville. The man, 1t is alleged,
and engaged in a "crap" game with a
crowd which was raided by the officer.
Phillips came to Charlotte last evening
on No. "a to obtain medical attention.
This was given him, but he will be held
by the officers and sent back to Pine
Vile to answer the charge. No details
attending the shooting were given.
Cotton Mills Close Down.
The cotton mills Of Yorkville and
Clover and so far as information Is
obtainable those Of the balance Of the
county, ci"sed down yesterday for the
week. The custom heretofore has been
to close DOWN only for day or two;
but because of the condition Of the
yarn market the mills generally are
taking advantage Of the opportunity
for curtailment. The people at the To-
cal mills have been in the habit OF OBJ
serving Christmas in some kind OF
general entertainment; but inquiry
fails to develop anything Of the kind
on foot at the present time.
Turkeys Plentiful and Cheap.
Along. back month ago at Thanks
giving day turkeys seemed to be scarce
orally demanded fifteen cents. They
thought that was a fair price and may
be it was. But lots Of people who had
been accustomed to Thanksgiving tur-
keys, thought they could afford to do
without rather than pay fifteen cents,
and this they did. Last week turkeys
sold freely at 12h cents and this market
took five or six hundred at that price;
but it seems that the supply was great
er than the demand at 12a cents. Quite
a number of fine turkeys were sold
last Saturday at 10 cents pound, and
that has since been the prevailing
price.
Shooting at Catawba.
Mr.. Septimus Massey a well-known
citizen of the Catawba Junction neigh
borhood, was shot and seriously
wounded last Friday night by DR.. Hill
Of the same vicinity. 1t has not been
practicable to get reliable and accurate
information as to the occurrence; put
from such information as has been OBJ
tanned 1t appears that the two men
uuarreled in Fariss store at Catawba-
There had been bad blood between
them previously. It seems that DR..
Hill left the store first. Mr. Massey
went out afterward and the shooting
followed within a very few moments.
Mr.. Massey was shot in the right arm
and the right cheek. Both wounds were
quite serious; but it was not thought
that either would be fatal. Thinking
perhaps that he had killed Mr. Massey,
DR.. Hill came to Yorkville and surren-
dered to Sheriff Brown: but when II
developed that the wounds would prob
ably not prove fatal, Magistrate I. Z;
Beckham ordered his release on bond
Of Sen0 Tho hOn6 furnished
promptly.
Killed by an Engine.
Mr.. ]. N. Smith, an aged white man.
who was quite deaf and somewhat
lame, was killed by locomotive on the
Southern railroad just without the
northern corporate limits Of Rock Hill
last Saturday afternoon at about
o'clock. Mr.. Smith was walking on the
track in the direction Of the river, and
was near the Manchester cotton mill.
The locomotive, to which there was
only a tender attached, was going In
the same direction and at speed OF
about twenty-five miles an hour. En-
gineer Weir in charge of the locomo-
tive testified at the coroner's Inquest
that when he saw the man ahead, he
blew three blasts of his whistle, shut
off steam and applied the air brakes;
but was unable to stop before the man
was hit Mr.. Smith was knocked from
the track and died within about five
minutes afterward. Other witnesses
testified to the same effect except that
they could not say about the shutting
off of steam and application Of the air
brakes. The engine went from 40 to
100 yards after the man was struck.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
to the effect that the killing was acci-
dental.