Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-28
LOCAL LACONICS.

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Hickory Grove. Bishop Duncan is
present.
Rock Hill Supply Company,
1.-The secretary of state, on Tuesday,
granted a charter to the Rock Hill
Supply company of Rock Hill, capi-
talized at $4,000. The officers are
T. o. Flowers, president J. S. White,
vice president, and J. w. O'Neal, Sec
retary and treasurer.
bsncated Next Tuesday.
The monument erected at Fort Mill
by Capt. S. E. White, John M. Spratt
and others, to the Catawba Indians, is
to be dedicated on next Tuesday.
Until January LIST, 1901.
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Was Not Lynched.
Fort Mill Times: William Kell,
the young negro man who murdered
Annie Ardrey, a 16-year-old colored
girl, in Providence IN. C.) township on
the afternoon of July 8, was tried in
the criminal court in Charlotte last
Friday and was found guilty of man
slaughter. He was sentenced to serve
a term of five years at hard labor in
the state penitentiary at Raleigh. Err
nest Potts, the owner of the pistol
which Kell used in shooting the girl,
jerking it from the pocket of the for
mer at the time of the tragedy, was
fined for carrying concealed weapons.
Heavy Hailstorm. ~
"A number of people in the Clark's
Fork section sustained serious damage
from heavy hailstorm last Monday
afternoon. The storm came up at
about o'clock, suddenly and rapidly,
and the hail fell over an area about
one mile long by a half mile wide,
playing havoc with the cotton and
corn. Mr.. R. w. Whitesides had
about 80 acres of corn and cotton more
or less seriously damaged. Mr.. Irwin
Neeland was damaged apparently to
the extent of three-fourths of two
horse crop. Mr.. ]. W. Quinn was al
most as badly hurt, and Mr.. John
Scoggins also suffered severely. The
hailstones were larger than partridge
egg, and for ten or fifteen minutes after
the storm could have been raked up
by the half bushel.
Approved In Cherokee.
Gaffney Ledger, July "a: A cor.
respondent of The YoRKvILLE En-
oUIRER sends that paper one dollar
with the request that it be applied to
removing the remains of Colonel James
Williams from the banks of Broad
river to the battle-ground of Kings
Mountain, where he received his death
wound in the memorable battle there
one hundred and twenty years ago.
This is a worthy move prompted by q
patriotic heart, and we hope that it
will meet with ready response from
others moved by kindred emotions.
It is fit and becoming that the ashes
of the old hero should rest where he
fell, and that the spot should be mark
ed and kept in perpetual care as a
shrine at which the living may renew
their patriotism and have their hearts
swell with gratitude to the men who
wrested this country from British op-
preston and handed it down in its
beauty to this generation.
Time VS.. Distance.
Speaking of the railroad service now
enjoyed by the people of this section,
as compared with that of a few years
back, a well-known railroad man at
Blacksburg, few days ago, backed up
his argument as follows: "When every
thing works right, distance cuts no fig
ure. A gentleman mailed his eye
glasses by U. S. mail here, on the 10th
instant, addressed to an optical COM
pany in Cincinnati, O., and the glasses
were repaired and returned, arriving
at Blacksburg, S. c., on the morning of
the 23rd of the same month at 8.02.
The outward scheduled train, carrying
this mail, passed Blacksburg on the
10Th at 11.25 p. NJ, and the glasses, on
their return, arrived at Blacksburg on
the 23rd at 500 a. M, making the
total time consumed in transit and re-
pairing, 80 hours and 81 minutes, and
went and returned via Chattanooga,
Tenn, the long line mileage, the round
trip being exactly 1910 miles. Who
wants better time than this, or any
better service than is given by the U. S.
mail or the railroads? Nine times out
of ten, you can check your baggage at
any railroad station in this state to
San Francisco CAL or any auy other