Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-15

cyclist, of Washington, to ride in the
races under the auspices Of the Rock Hill
Athletic association on May Is. This
means that there will be a flock Of other
professionals at the meet.
To the Chaingang For Thirty Days.
State Detective Newbold, OH Wednes-
day, swore out warrant against Camp
hell Huffman, the young Negro who was
recently arrested a,y the police on the
charge of stealing sum Of money from
Mrs. NJ. J. Ingold. The warrant charged
petit larceny. Huffman pleaded guilty
and was sentenced by Magistrate Sandifer
to tho chaingang for the term of thirty
days.
Died Suddenly.
Mr.. Philip w. Lindsay, of the Bethes-
da neighborhood, died suddenly at his
home on Thursday morning at about 7.3O
o'clock. ae had just arisen from his bed
TO which he had retired the night before
in about his usual health, and sat down
in a chair. A few minutes afterward he
expired. The funeral took place at Be-
thesda yesterday morning at II o'clock.
The deceased was about 10 years of age.
Charged With Murder.
Gaffney Ledger: Wilson and John
Montgomery, colored, were arrested here
Saturday charged with killing Giles
Thompson, also colored, last fall. After
an investigation by Magistrate Sarratt,
Wilson was discharged, and John was
committed to Jail to await trial for muir
der at our first term of court. j. B. Bell,
ESQ.,, has been retained for the defense Of
the accused.
How 1t Stands.
On the proposed Yorkville road sub
scriptions, there has been raised by DIR. r.
A. Bratton, the sum of 81 300. Owing to
a very slight change in the original con-
ditions, it will be necessary for the men,
bers of the committee to revisit the SUBJ
scribers of the amounts included in the
above SUM, and get them to agree to the
change referred to. Those who failed to
subscribe in accordance with their notions
of the importance of the undertaking at
the first opportunity, will thus be ena-
bled to increase their respective amounts.
Stand to the Scratch.
Citizens of Yorkville: DR.. Il. A. Brat
ton, Messrs. j. H. Riddle, w. R. Carroll
and John NJ. Hope are looking for you.
Their business is of as much interest to
you as it is to them. None of them are
looking for private gain. They are all
working for the public good, and they
want your financial assistance, without
ht,ty min
They do not ssk you to 20 one cent be-
yond your ability; but they want you to
do all you can right on the spur OF the
moment, and if you will 60 to them rath-
or than wait for them to 20 to you, they
will appreciate you all the more.
Preparing For the Next Crop.
Gastonia Gazette, Thursday: Mr.. G. l..
Riddle, of Zeno, had big force of wagons
here Monday and Tuesday 10 haul home
a carload of new cotton ginning machin-
ery. He had seven wagons the first day
and four the next. ut seems the wrong
time of year forputting in cotton gin,"
we ventured to remark to our genial but
enterprising York county neighbor.
"Yes," he replied, "before the cotton is
hardly planted; but I had chance to
close good trade and did so. Besides, 1
wanted to have everything ready to run
full capacity when the season opens"
Mr.. Riddle came near being burned out
last fall, and decided to put in the safest
improved system he could get. Hence
he is adding two new gins, making three
in all, of the Northington-Muhger Pratt
Co. system. The machinery was built in
Birmingham. After this system takes
the seed cotton from the wagon, it does
not need to be handled again until the
bales are ready for the ties to go on. So
many wagons laden with new machinery
attracted no little attention on our streets,
many persons taking the machinery to be
a Touring mill outfit.