Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-05-28
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CHESTER-Lantern, May "a: Mr..
Geo. IT. Schorb, of Yorkville, is spend
ing few days in the city. .''''''''Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Oates attended the fu-
neral of DR.. ]. F. Lindsay in Yorkville.
.........Dr. H. E. Mcconnell, physician
of the board of health, informs us that
he has frequent applications for health
certificates, chiefly from drummers,
and he remarked that they are very
pleasant and polite about the matter,
offering to pay for them, though moth
| ing is charged. '.....''.A. G. Brice, Esq,
went to Hickory today to attend a
meeting of the G. & NV. directors.
......"..The Lantern will be sent free for
six months to the person who will spot
the author of the reports that small
pox is in Chester.
LANCASTER, Review, May 25:
Coroner Young held an inquest Sun
day over the dead body of an infant
child of Emanuel and Jane Peay, COL
ored, living in the Stevens Mill Sec
ton. The jury came to the conclu-
sion that death resulted from mistreat-
ment received by the mother at the
hands of her husband and one Ella
Lotion shortly before the birth of the
child. 1t seems that the two women
had fight in which the husband of
one of them, Jane Peay, took hand,
against his wife. He and the Lotion
woman are now in Jail. The coroner
also held another inquest Monday over
another colored infant, the child of
Louis Gamble, who lives on Heath,
Springs & Co.'S. Green place, west Of
Lancaster. The child was found dead
in its cradle. The jury decided that
it died from natural causes. ''''''''Mr.
William McManus and Miss Ellen
Armstrong, daughter of Mr.. John
Armstrong, of Chesterfield county,
were married last Sunday in the Bap-
tist church at Taxahaw. '''''''' Bishop
Capers, bishop of the diocese OF South
Carolina, will visit Lancaster on Fri
day, the 3rd of June. He will preach
in the Episcopal church that night at
8 o'clock. Ledger, May 25: 1t was
reported here Sunday that a case OF
smallpox had broken out on the facto-
ry hill. We ran the rumor down on
Monday. 1t had originated from the
fact that an operator had gotten let
ter from her sister in Columbia stating
that she was down with the smallpox.
There need be no uneasness OF small
pox here.
Gaffney Ledger, May
26: The citizens of Gafney are NOV
ing for the establishment Of graded
school. .'.... E. A. Trescott, of Blacks
burg, has a scorching card directed at
the taxpayer" who nominated n. w.
Hardin, Esq, for the senate. ''''''"M Mr..
w. w. Jenkins visited the Antioch
section recently. Mrs. Jas. B. Bell
and children returned from Yorkville
Wednesday. .'''.'''''The prohibitionlsts
are called to meet in the courthouse
on June 9Th.
GASTON Gazette, May 26: The
report that Mr.. l.. l.. jenkins was
pick pocketed in Charlotte is an Ter
roneous mistake" He says it takes
git-edge paper with a corkscrew en-
dorsement to get his money. 1t was
Mr.. Ed. Jenkins who was touched"
by the nimble- fingered rascals in Char
lotte. ut is difficult for the boys to
get far enough back from the big road
to suit Deputy-Collector Loftin. He
cut up another still Monday and upset
400 gallons of beer. 1t was a s5.gal-
lon kettle near Mr.. Jacob Pasour's,
about four miles from Dallas, and was
in quiet nook in the woods away off
from any public road. .'''''Last Mon
day Mr.. Oscar Chambers, from near
Yorkville, brought five children to
Gastonia, who were to be sent to their
father in New York by the vestibule.
When ticket-buying time arrived he
Isnnounced that he had lost the purse