Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-12-24
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CHESTER-The Lantern, Decem-
ber 90: President Mckinley and
party passed through Chester last
night on special train, returning to
Washington. .........Let us get to plan
ming for some systematic road-making
in Chester county. Let us have some
macadamized country roads. '.'.'.Miss
Ella Davidson, of Yorkville, spent
Monday night here. Saturday night
little after 2 o'clock, Mrs. M. V. Pat
terson heard some person knock one
of her hogs on the head. She raised
window and fred four shots with a
pistol, then called some of her neigh
bors and the police by telephone but
the thieves took the hog with them.
They were afterward trailed to the
railroad, where it is thought they had
put their booty on a dump, which is
known to have been out that night.
Several months ago thieves were fol-
lowed to the railroad track and could
be trailed no further. .........M Mrs. R. w.
Carson, who has been visiting in the
city and county few days, will return
to her home, near Gastonia, tomorrow.
Mrs. Rebecca Mills and Mrs. Mar
tha Randell left this morning to visit
Mrs. Norris Alexander, in Fayetteville,
N. C......'".F Freight trains No. 60 and
81 on the Carolina and North Western
railway will be annulled on December
"a, 26 and 81, 1898; also January 2,
1899. ......Miss Kate CASTOR and Miss
Mary CASTOR left last Saturday morn
ing for Montgomery, Ala, to attend
the Redd- Castor marriage on Decem-
ber 81, 1898. 1T has been generally
reported that Attorney General Barber
will locate permanently in New York
about January l. We learn from
General Barber himself that while he
will have business that will require
him to spend a good deal of time in
that city for two or three months, he
has not determined to locate there.
LANCASTER-The Ledger, Decem-
Der 21: While walking the trestle of
the l.. & G. railroad across Bear creek,
about 9 o'clock last Sunday night, Mr..
VIM. J. Belk accidentally fell off one
side TO the ground below, distance of
about 20 feet, and was seriously in
iured. He was alone at the time, and
no one knew anything of the accident
until he was discovered lying where he
fell early the next morning by some
one passing. ......-.M Married, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. J. M. Yoder, at Van
Wyck, on Thursday evening, Decem-
ber Is, 1898, by Rev. ]. Barr Harris,
Mr.. w. J. Crenshaw and Mrs. Blanche
McGuirt. ...""Contractor Langley will
finish DR.. Galloway's new residence,
at the corner of Cemetery and Meeting
streets, and turn the keys over to the
doctor this week. ..........Mrs. Simpson,
wife of Mr.. Simeon Simpson and
daughter of Mr.. D. F. Helms, died on
Sunday last, 18th instant, after pro-
tracted illness. She was about %
years of age and leaves her husband
and two children surviving her. '''''''''
Married, by Magistrate w. H. Burns,
at this place, on Sunday, 18th instant,
Mr.. Thomas Sinclair and Miss Minnie
Aldrich. ..'.'.'..Miss Daisy Starnes, the
eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. D.
Starnes, of the Walkup neighborhood,
aged about 1S years, died on Friday
last, of pneumonia. MIR. and Mrs.
Judson H. Carnes have the sympathy
of the community in the death of their
little baby, Caroline, aged about one
year, which occurred early Monday
morning.