Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-09-25

unable to say. We understand that
the oil mills generally, which have re-
Gently been purchased by the corpora
ton are to be run as heretofore. Mr..
w. E. Thompson, the president Of the
Union Oil MILL has been engaged as
manager by the new company. The
stockholders Of the Union Oil mill re-
ceived par for their stock. .....On last
Friday night a Negro by the name of
Charley Bobo, created considerable ex-
element in town. 1t seems that some
Of the Negroes of Union have become
addicted to the habit of snuffing CO.
caine up the nostrils. This man Bobo,
It seems, had been indulging in the prac-
tice, and had then taken a drink of
whisky. The cocaine and the whisky
made a maniac of him. He imagined
that he was hotly pursued by officers,
and he acted like wild man. He first
showed up in the piazza of Mr.. M. w.
Bobo's about 9 or 10 o'clock, where he
rushed around knocking over chairs,
tables, ETC., causing considerable COM
motion and jabbering in a frightened
maniacal way. From there he rushed
across the yard, jumped the fence into
Mr.. Allen Nicholson's yard, where he
was brought to bay by a large mastiff.
He cried out for protection, and asked
Mr.. Miller for pistol; but before any
sense could be gotten from him he made
a break for the opposite fence, jumped
it and tore along through Mr.. Mich
olson's pea patch like cyclone. Mr..
Nicholson in the meantime telephoned
for the police. The Negro jumped an
other fence and ran to Mr.. V. Friends
piazza calling for protection. Mr..
Friend told him to wait a minute, but
before he could get out the Negro had
ran across more fences, knocking down
everything in his path and ran into Mr..
A. w. Green's yard and to the house
calling and demanding admittance.
Mr.. Green was away from home. Mrs.
Green and lady friend with her was
very much frightened. The Negro still
demanded that he be let in. Mrs. Green
asked If he was white or black. He. re-
piled he was black. Mrs. Green told
him if he did not leave there she would
put a bullet in him. He still insisted,
and Mrs. Green fired her pistol out of
the window in his direction and though
she could not see him, the ball reached
the mark and pierced his neck dan
gerously near the juglar vein, and rang
ing down, lodged somewhere In his
breast. He made another dash, and
was finally caught by Mr.. Crosby and
Mr.. Briggs near Mr.. Crosby's house
and held until Policemen Israel Aus
tell and Evans arrived, who arrested
him and put him in Jail. His case was
tried Monday. The charge was drunk
and disorderly to which charge he plead
guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine
of SO or 20 days on the chaingang. The
Negro, while pretty badly wounded, the
wound is not necessarily fatal.
LANCASTER.
Ledger September 81: Rev. Chalmers
Fraser and r. E. Wylie, ESQ.,, will leave
Monday morning for Bowling Green,
York county. to attend the fall meeting
of Bethel presbytery.. ....Rev. j. S.
Blackmon has returned from visit to
his sons in Texas. Of course he enjoy
ed his trip; but there's no place like
Lancaster with him. One of his sons,
Mr.. Lewis L. Blackmon, returned home
with him. Mr.. Haskell Sistare, who
went out to Texas about year ago, al
so returned home with Mr.. Blackmon.
:. Rev. w. E. McIlwaln. Of Pensacola,
Fla, is here for few days canvassing
for the twentieth century fund which is
being raised to be distributed among
the Presbyterian colleges and semina-
ries. ......A pretty bad wreck occurred
near Catawba Junction on Wednesday
on the G., C. & N. railroad. The track
spread, causing the engine to be derail-
ed and ten loaded freight cars Of the
northbound through freight train to be
dumped down the side Of the embank-
ment this side of the junction. Ed
Ballard, colored, was convicted in Mag
istrate Caskey's court on Wednesday,
for cruelty to animals-the offense be-
ing the beating Of a COW which Mr.
Blackmon had sent by him to his home.
Five dollars or 80 days on the gang was
the sentence imposed. The sentence
was made light as it was Eds first Of
fense. Policeman Pardue was the pros
ecutor. Now that the ice is broken in
the matter of prosecutions for this Of
fense, some people had better learn to
control their tempers VIXEN handling
contrary animals.