Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-16


within a distance Of half mile. They
came out of a thicket on one side, anc
went in the direction of water hole
in the woods on the other. This gen
tleman is pretty we'll up on snakeolo
gy, and claims to be able to tell poi
sonous from q poisonous reptile by
its track. He says that the poisonou:
snakes are more clumsy than the non
poisonous, and that in travelling they
do not make such straight tracks.
The Cotton Market.
The government crop report, pub
lished on the 10th instant, created
quite furry in the cotton market
Futures fuctuated about so points
rising and then losing most of the gain
August futures closed Monday at 5.75
Spots in New York were worth 81
About the same price prevails here.
Death of Mrs. whitesides.
A telephone message from hickory
Grove yesterday morning, announced
the death at 8 o'clock of Mrs. Caroline
Whitesides, wife of Mr.. John B. White
sides. She was about 70 years of age
and had been i'll but few days. The
funeral will take place at Smyrna this
morning at II o'clock.
The Train Rocking Case.
A lawsuit has developed over the re-
ward that the Carolina and North.
Western railroad authorities agreed to
nav for the conviction of the Negro
who rocked the train on the outskirts
of Yorkville last fall. The suit was
brought by Mr.. A. Rose, the officer
who arrested the Negro. MIR. Rose
was a policeman at the time; but the
offence was committed and the arrest
was made without the incorporate
limits. When he first demanded the
promised reward-$25-he was put OF
with the assurance that the money
would be forthcoming as soon as the
case was settled. Upon trial Mon
day, Mr.. Parker, section master, VINO
participated in the arrest and convic
ton of the guilty Negro, put in q
claim for half the reward. The rail
road professed it's willingness to settle
as soon as the claimants could come to
an understanding. Mr.. Rose, through
his attorney, endeavored to show thai
the Parker claim was merely subter'
fuge on the part of the railroad, tc
avoid paying more than half of the
promised reward. The jury made
mistrial.
The New Diphtheria Specific.
DR.. Miles Walker cured a malignant
case of diphtheria last week by the use
of anti-toxine serum. The patient
was a little Negro girl, living on Mr.
G. R. Wallace's place, about four miles
northeast of Yorkville. When the
doctor was called in last Friday, be
found that the disease had already
made such alarming headway that be
considered the case all but desperate
He recognized at once that the only
possible hope was in anti-to1ine serum
with the use of which he had made
himself familiar some time ago II
Baltimore. There was none OF the
serum to be had in Yorkville and he
telegraphed for it at once. In the
meantime, however, the York Drug
Store got in supply that was then or
the road, and he injected it on Satur
day. The doctor had every reason tt
fear that he was too late; but wher
he visited the patient again on Sunday
morning, to his great satisfaction hi
found the peculiar deadly white coat
ing of the throat and mouth clearing
away. The child was still better Oh
Monday and there was every reason
to believe she would recover. Without
the injection of the serum DR.. Walker
is satisfied that she would have dice
Saturday night or Sunday. There are
several people living in the house will
the sick child and it is quite probable
that all of them may take the disease