Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-06
Miseellanepus 8eading.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.

FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Il of More
or Less Local Interest.
GASTON.
Gastonia News. July 2: Rev. w. G.
Neville, of Yorkville, is in town today
on his way to Clemson college, where
his sister, Miss Nettie Neville, will be
married July 10th, to Col. Augustus
ShanlSlin commandant at Clemson. -.
The police are out in a new, light weight
regulation blue police suits just made
by a fashionable tailor. They wear
helmets now and they are fine LOOKING
set Of men, and the good work they dc
entities them to their reputation or De-
ing brave and fearless policemen. A
Gastonia policeman can now be desig-
mated at long range. His suit of pc.
culiar blue, his big brass buttons, and
his helmet crown distinguish him
from the private citizen. John Quinn
a Negro who has been working for John
Jackson, shot at a Negro who works
on Ed Prices place, near Glover, three
times Thursday night. One ball took ef-
feet in the Negroes leg above the knee
Quinn made his escape. The colored
people were preaching in church and q
crowd was raising sand outside. 49,.
This morning when Will Smith, clerk
at Rankin Bros. store. between the
Avon and Modena mills, went to the
store to open up, ne found the front
door and a window had been opened
and the store entered. Albert Rankin
one of the proprietors, was summoned
No money Is left in the safe at night
and the safe is left unlocked. The safe
door had been opened and the lock on
the inner door knocked off, and the
inner door opened. The papers and
books had been rif1ed; but not taken
away. Two or three dozen brownies
were taken from the cash drawer-al
the money the burglars could find
Pants were toppled over from the coun-
ter and Mr.. Rankin thinks 1t probable
that pair or two might have been ia.
ken. Shufford's hounds were taken tc
the store, but the ground had been toe
much trampled by crowd that had as
sembled, for them to do anything
There is no clue as to who the burglars
are.
| II LANCASTER.
Ledger, buly 8: The past week Colonel
Leroy Springs lost four fine mules on
his Erwin plantation. He valued the
mules lost at $175 per head, and had re-
fused $3.50 for two of them. He has
four others that are very sick now.
Friday he telegraphed for the state
| veterinary surgeon, who arrived on
Sunday. He went out to the Erwin
place and made a close inspection OF
the stables and the lot in which
the mules are kept and made the best
diagnosis of the cases he could-dis-
secting and making thorough exam
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brain of a mule that had just died. He
found the stomach, bowels, ETC., in per-
fectly healthy condition and pronounc-
| ed the trouble do be spinal meningitis.
| He thought the trouble due largely to
the poor ventilation Of the stable, oats
overhead in a heated condition and a
large quantity of manure in the stalls,
which also produced heat. He left a
prescription and Is expected to return
today to note the effects of his prescrip-
ton. ..... Last Saturday night, shortly
after 9 o'clock. the residence OF Mr.. M
E. Jordon, in West End, was struck by
| lightning. The bolt probably entered
the stove fiue to the cook room. The
scattered over the cooking stove and
several tables in the room. It split
open the brick pillar under the corner
of the house and this was about the
only real damage done. None of the
family were hurt, though Mrs. Jordon,
who was in an adjoining room. was
slightly shocked. The Lancaster
county soldier boys-John G. Wilson,
! Osce o. Ferguson, John F. Culp. Allen
Warwick. M. r. Griffin and P. S. Da-
vis-who have peen doing good service
teers in the Philippine islands the past
two years, reached home yesterday,
having been mustered out Of service In
] San Francisco, CAL, on the 9th ultimo
The boys seemed glad to be on old Car
olina soil once more and their relatives
and friends were certainly delighted to
welcome them home. They are all look
| ing we'll, but Osce said that was be-
cause Uncle Sam had been feeding and
resting them up at San Francisco for
several weeks before sending them
home. They say there were about "a
boys from this part Of the state in the
service and that old Lancaster was
the largest represented of any other
county. OF all who enlisted from Lam
caster, only one will never return, Mr..
w. w. Harris, an account Of whose sad
death and burial in the Philippines
was written back by one Of his COM
rades and published in The Ledger at
| the time.
CHESTER.
Lantern, July 2: Lieutenant W. P.
Crawford has returned from the Phil
| ippines. He talks most Interestingly OF
that country. He was stationed almost
under the equator, and of course the
weather was hot all the year, though
he says he did not suffer with heat as
much as he does here. There Is always
a good sea breeze. Chickens, sheep,
goats, cattle, fruits and other products
furnish good food. He gives rather
good report of the Filipinos, and says
the Spanish, who pretend to be friend
| ly, and the priests really give more
| trouble than all others. His regiment
He says the FiIpinos, though brave, do
not know how to fight, and he adds that
he is mighty glad of it. Lieut.. Craw-
ford had a crowd around him all day
yesterday, and they were greatly in
| terested in his conversation. .Pursu-
| ant to the requirements of law, the
court of general sessions convened at
| the court house yesterday morning at
10 o'clock. Judge Geo. w. Gage was on
the bench, and Solicitor Henry and
Stenographer McCaw at their respect
| i've posts. The names of the grand jul
rors were called, and every member of
Tie pdiel dNS"eieu W iio h1hiS' W
of the petit jurors, S. S. Dickey and j.
D. Collins, were absent, and another, H.
| J. Millen, was excused from further at
| tendance The following persons were
Iappointed conStableS: S. A. Murphy, II.
H. MUIR, J. A. Lipsey, ]. T. Coin and
Jim Fudge. Archie Love was selected
| to draw the jurors. The sheriff's re-
port showed the following prisoners In
Jail; James TaIford, confined December
31st, and charged with murder: Rich
ard Williams, confined April 22d and
charged with rape; Jim Price, confined
May 18th and charged with grand lar
ceny; Parish Gilmore, confined June
9th, and charged with gambling; and