Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-07-16

will be seriously affected. We are also
informed that the current of electricity
passed through Mr.. Hough's meat
house and fairly cooked the entire LOT
of meat hanging up therein. A por'
ton of the wall of his well was also
knocked in by the bolt and the water
is so affected that it cannot be used.
CHESTER-The Lantern, July II
Mr.. James Craig, the efficient express
messenger on the C. & NV. Ry., spent
Sunday with his father, at Blackstock.
.........Those who attended the picnic
at Cornw last Friday report a good
meeting. There was a large crowd
and plenty of dinner. Speeches were
made by Revs. Buckholz and Moffatt.
.........Mrs. w. S. Smith leaves today
for Granite Falls, where she will spend
some time visiting her parents. '''''''''
Mr.. S. A. Hood has just shown to us
small alligator which was sent him
by Ira Simonton, of Micanopy, Fla.
\ It is about 1S inches long and strikes
us as being a very we'll behaved alliga-
tor. Mr.. Hood has given it to MIR.
John Brown, who is getting up con-
siderable geological collection. The
only additional fact we can learn about
it's history is that the name of Victor
Blue has been given it. 1.-THE board
of church extension of the A. R. P.
church met in Chester yesterday. The
principal item of business was to ar
range for the completion of the Louis
Vile, (Ky.). .).church. ..........Sheriff J. E..
Cornwell, with number of sportsmen
from Yorkville and Edgmoor, left yes
terday for ten days. hunt in Kershaw
county. miss Callie Craig, of Ten
nessee, passed through the city yester-
day, on her way to the country to Wis.
it Miss Jane Caldwell. .''..''.'.There will
be prohibition picnic at Mt. Zion
church, Wednesday, July 20. Every
body is invited to 60 and take dinner.
.........The old saying that lightning
never strikes twice in the same spot
has at last proved false. On last Sat-
urday evening lightning struck the
corner of Wylie & Co.'S. store. About
Is years ago lightning struck the same
spot. No damage was done, however,
with the exception of knocking few
bricks off the parapet.
GASTON- N-Gastonia Gazette, July
IA: A Cat old enough to be on the re-
tired list is still getting around lively
enough at Mr.. Jno. w. CANDLES. He
was a kitten when Seymour and Blair
were the Democratic presidential can
didates and Grant and Colfax were the
Republican, and was given the name
of Seymour. That was away back
yonder in '6S, which makes the cat 80
years old. '''". Lieutenant w. E. Shipp,
Tenth cavalry, U. S. A., who was killed
at Santiago de Cuba, Saturday, July 2,
was North Carolinian much beloved
by his people and his comrades. He
belonged to the Lincolnton family by
that name, and his wife, daughter of
Hon. Fab. II. Busbee, of Raleigh, was
at Lincolnton with her two little chill
dren at the time of his death. No
particulars of the sad event have yet
reached them. Lieutenant Shipp was
schoolmate of Mr.. L. L. Jenkins, of
our town, who speaks of him in high
est terms. ...".At the residence of Mr..
Sheriff., near the old mill, Mr.. E. w.
Putnam and Miss Blanche Anders were
united in marriage, Rev. NJ. MEG.
Shields officiating. This couple was a
rather youthful one, the bride espe-
cially being youthful in appearance.
They have the best wishes of all their
friends. ...'..The officers of the Caste
MIA company are intensely indignant
at the action of the physicians of the
city hospital in forcing the return of
Private Bryan to the camp hospital
after Bryan had been placed in the
city hospital, and the officers had ar
ranged to pay for his care. They will
ask an investigation of what they say
was outrageous treatment. .'''''''''The
reports that typhoid fever is danger
ously prevalent in Gastonia are erro-
neous and sensational. The town has
always been and is now remarkably
free from fever of local origin. This
is so much so that cases from other
communities have in seasons past been
brought here for treatment. Nearly,
if not all, the fever here now is i'm
ported, and we have not heard of a
single case known to be of local origin.
1t so happens that there are now in
Gastonia a number of cases which re-
suited from infection through drinking
water at one of the boarding houses at
Davidson college. Messrs. Edgar and
Robert Love and Misses Mamie Love
and Mabel Smith were infected at
Davidson commencement. Mr.. Ber-
nard Smith was at the same boarding
house, but drank no water and has
escaped infection. One young man
died at Davidson from fever contracted
at the same place. Mr.. S. A. Robin
son had mild case. Professor John
L. Douglass is severely i'll at Black
stock. His and about a dozen other
cases in South Carolina are said to be
traceable to the same source of infec.
ton. We hear that Professor Smith,
of Davidson, sent jug of the water