Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-13
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CLEVELAND-Shelby Aurora, May
10: Writ Hardin the 16-year old son
of Mr.. Douglass Hardin, an industri'
Gus and we'll known farmer, living
about two miles south of Shelby, had
a terrific battle with rabid dog,
about o'clock Friday morning. From
the best information obtaiDable, the
dog passed through Shelby Thursday
night biting and swapping at every
dog with which it came in contact.
Several dogs here were bitten. Early
Friday morning the same dog, it is
supposed, passed by Mr.. Hardins
house and attacked his dog. His son,
Writ hearing the commotion ran out
in the yard. By this time the strug
Cling dogs had crossed over the road
to Mr.. Walter Hardin's and the at
tackled dog ran into the house and
the door was closed just as young
Hardin arrived. Immediately the
rabid brute sprang at his throat. He
threw up his left arm to ward off the
attack, and the dogs cleaning teeth
were fastened in the uplifted arm.
In a moment they were rolling over
and over in mortal combat, the boy
making desperate effort to release his
arm and also choke of the infuriated
brute. The encounter WIS short,
thrilling and terrific. The young man,
with desperate courage and frenzied
strength, slowly but surely choked his
antagonist in a vice-like grip, and by
the time his father had arrived on the
scene, the dog was limp and lifeless,
the brave young lud having literally
choked him to death. His arm and
hand was terribly and shockingly lace
rated and a gruesome and sickening
sight. AS quickly as possible the anx'
ious father brought his heroic boy to
Shelby, where DR.. Evans McBrayer
dressed the wounds. Mr.. Hardin left
Friday with his son, for Charlotte, to
have the mad stone of DR.. O'Donohue
applied. Excitement was intense,
Thurday night, and many efforts were
made to kill the dog here in Shelby,
but without avail. The many friends
of the young man deeply sympathlze
with him in his misfortune, and the oc-
currence is greatly deplored. We
trust most sincerely that he may re-
cover entirely from his injuries. 1t is
comforting to learn from prominent
physician that only about one in Is
are inoculated from the bites of rabid
dogs.
CHESTER-The Lantern, May 9:
Mr.. A. M. Wylie's school at Bethany,
York county, will close this week and
he will return home. '''''''''Saturday
night, when near Knox station, return
ling from the picnic at Catawba Falls,
the horse driven by Miss Dell Hood
and Mr.. Ed Ray, of Charlotte, backed,
and the whole outfit crashed into a
gully ten feet deep. 1t was dark and
raining, the ditch was flooded with
water and Miss Dell thought she was
in the Atlantic ocean. Strange to say,
neither the horse nor the occupants OF
the buggy were injured, though the
vehicle was wrecked. They waded
through a wheat field TO Mr.. Knox's,
got buggy and came on home. '''''''''
Captain VIM. McAliley had another
stroke of paralysis few days ago and
was found some distance from the
house. He rallied somewhat so that
he could walk about; but his mind
was badly affected and he has been
inclined to wander off. He seems to
be daily growing weaker. '''''''. MIR.
Eugene Mills, son of Mr.. R. B. Mills,
of Blackstock, left yesterday morning
for Fort Bragg, California. His broth
er, Samuel Y, who went there four
years ago, is employed in the lumber
business and is doing we'll. His uncle,
DR.. Samuel H. McLurkin, has been in
California perhaps IL years. We are
sorry to learn that his health is broken
down. He is now in hospital at
Wheatland. MIR. w. NJ. Kennedy,
Jr., of Yorkville, spent last night in the
city, on his way to Clinton to attend
the marriage of Mr.. Howard Caldwell
and Miss T. Craig.
GASTON-Gastonia Gazette, May
II: Who said the blackberries were
all killed? They are in bloom here
abouts and our observation is that we
never before saw the like of blossoms.
Unless something happens to them