Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-09

few miles north of town Wednesday
morning. AS is a custom with most
unfortunates of his class, he was, of
course, walking on the track. He was
walking facing the approaching train
but seems to have had his eyes at his
feet and did not see it in time. The
train was not moving rapidly, and his
body was not badly mangled, but he
was probably so instantly killed as not
to know what had happened. No one
seems to attach any blame to Engineer
Earnhardt.
Wrecked by the Wind.
Mr.. R. N. Plaxco, who was in town
yesterday, gave The ENQUIRER in
formation of serious disaster that
occurred at Bethany on Thursday af-
ternoon at about 8 o'clock. Mr.. Pres
ton Goforth's gin house was wrecked
by wind storm which came along in
the nature of small cyclone. Two
men, Mr.. James Whitener and Mr..
Williams, were more or less seriously
hurt, and mule and horse were kill
ed. The gin house was new build.
ing, not quite complete, and contained
quite lot of valuable machinery, in
Guiding a Munger ginning outfit. This
was damaged; but to what extent Mr..
Plaxco was not informed. Mr.. White
ner was pretty badly hurt. The in
juries of Mr.. Williams are not thought
to be quite so serious.
Fort MIL Escape Still at Large.
Sumter Watchman and Southern:
Our correspond ent from Pisgah, in to-
days paper, states that Dickson, the
Clarendon horse thief and murderer,
was seen near there last. Tuesday night
and Wednesday, and that he was &C
companied by another Negro. A son
of Mr.. T. M. Bradley, near whose
place Dickson spent the day last We'd
nesday, is in the city today, and says
that the buggy and black stallion we're
stopped at a spring in the edge of the
swamp not far from his fathers place.
The horse was hitched some distance
from the buggy, and the men, white
man and Negro, were, when seen,
about quarter Of mile away. They
spent Wednesday there, and he did
not know when they left or in what
direction they went. The people who
saw them suspicioned that something
was wrong but did not hear the news
of Dickson's deeds at Manning until
next day.
Caught Tripping.
Mr. w. S. Gordon, of Fodder, writes
THE ENQUIRER a note expressing high
appreciation of Rev. J. G. Johnes's
"beautiful prose poems, so eloquently
descriptive of the sublime scenery of
Western North Carolina" and calls at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Johnes
tripped little in crediting to Words.
worth, Robert Southy's poem on "The
Cataract of Lodore." There are prin-
ters in this Office who are willing to
assert that no man except Mr.. Johnes
himself can take the manuscript and
testify as to whether he wrote "Southy"
or "Wordsworth." The proof reader,
however, admits that in his opinion,
Mr.. Gordon has made his point, and
the matter is referred to Mr.. Johnes.
At the same time We beg to acknowl-
edge at least half partnership in the
error, and to admit that with no great
Injustice the whole of it might be
charged to our account.
Wants the Liquor Back.
To the state board of control last
Tuesday, Wade II. Bailey, living at
Fort Mill, set forth in a letter that
sometime ago he went to Charlotte and
there bought a suit of clothes, a pair
of suspenders and half gallon of
whisky and 13 bottles of beer. He
claimed that he wanted the liquor for
his invalid wife. When he got to Fort
Mill, being a one-armed man, White
Baker took off the valise, in which
were his goods and liquor, and Consta-
BILE James T. Thomasson and another
constable took the valise and contents
and say they will not return it to him,
as he was violating the law. He
claims to be poor man and not able
to lose the articles and wants them re-
turned. The letter was referred to
Clerk Harris for information as to the
cause of the seizure of Bailey's goods.
Robbed by Highwaymen.
Rock Hill Herald, Wednesday,: A
bold piece of highway robbery is re-
ported from near Harmony. Mr..
Frank Killian, who is 80 years old,
was held up and robbed by two Ne
groes Sunday. He was walking from
l.