Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-13

ed that night. He says that they are
Just having the finest kind of time
and the best Of luck. They had caught
seven foxes since they had been there.
Two were caught while he was there,
and they were fine races.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, August 9: Mrs. Sallie Cauth-
en-, wife of Mr.. George Cauthen. near
Pleasant Hill, was bitten by a pilot
snake last Wednesday afternoon and
is in a precarious condition. She OBJ
served a king snake at the door steps
and attempted to kill it when it ran
under the steps. She stopped down TO
strike at it with stick when she was
bitten twice on the ankle by the plate
snake which she failed to observe and
which was near the pillar of the house
at the steps,. During a thunder
storm Wednesday afternoon, In the up
per section of the county, lightning ran
into the residence of Mr.. ]. M. Slagle
over the phone wire, severely shocking
his daughter, Miss Beulah Slagle, and
his grandchildren, Mamie Lee and Carl
Delaney. The phone was In the hall
way and Miss Beulah and the children
were on a bed in the room, the door
leading into the hallway being open.
Miss Beuleh was badly shocked and
was speechless and unconscious for
half an hour or more. One Of the chill
dren was severely shocked. The phone
was demolished, but no damage was
done to the residence. The same af-
ternoon lightning ran in over the
phone wire at the residence Of Mr.. j.
M. Nivens, in the same vicinity, badly
shocking his wife, one Of his children,
and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Susan Orr.
49, Another of Lancaster county's
oldest and most highly respected cit
liens and a veteran Of two wars has
passed away. Mr.. John M. Cauthen
died at his home at Heath Springs, on
Thursday morning, after an illness of
some weeks. He was born in the vi
cinity where he died January II, 1922,
and was in his S1st year. He lived In
Georgia in his young manhood and en-
listed in the volunteer troops from that
state and served in the Mexican war
At the close Of the war he came back
to Lancaster county and married Miss
Matilda Bruce, a daughter of the late
James Bruce. He engaged in farming
all his life and was always successful
in the business. We never heard Of his
having to buy corn or meat but he usu-
ally had these products for sale. He
served in the Confederate army ami
made a good soldier in the civil war
as he had in the Mexican. He was a
member Of the Baptist church and an
honest, good citizen. His widow and
nine children survive him. The living
children are: Arista, w. B., Jas. M.
and M. Y. Cauthen, of this county, and
D. A. Cauthen, of Mississippi, Mrs. w
L. Croxton, Of Kershaw, Mrs. w. T
Slower, Mrs. J. T. Slower and Mrs. O.
w. Clark, of Heath Springs.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, August 6: The
Carolina and North broad
gauge track gradually gets nearer
Captain C. M. Nolen informed the re-
porter yesterday than an unoficiaf re-
port, which, however, Is given credence
here says that the broad gauge switch,
es will be put in and trains run from
Lenoir to Newton Sunday. The track
is in readiness with the exception OF
the switches, and Sunday will be taken
advantage of to place these. Captain
Nolen also informs us that the rails fol
the track between Gastonia and Glover
are being scattered along down the
line. The completion Of the track from
Lenoir to Chester is an event looked
forward to with great interest.
The people along the new macadan
road just completed beyond Dallas
gave the road hands an elegant dinner
last Tuesday. The convicts have done
unually good work. have been we'll be-
haved, and thus made so good record
that the people along the road felt like
celebrating in this way the completion
of the work in that section. Mr.. Ed
dleman, the superintendent, says that
he never saw anything more apprecia-
ted by the prisoners than this act OF
kindness from the neighbors in giving
them big dinner, and in behalf of the
prisoners he wishes to make this pub
lie expression of grateful thanks to
their kind benefactors. ...... "Wednesday
night, about o'clock, Fayette McCor-
kle, a Negro convict, died at the stock
ade, of pneumonia, after an illness OF
12 days. McCorkle, who was about 81
years old, was sent up for stealing and
had served only three weeks Of a six
months sentence. He was buried In
the county graveyard yesterday. .......
The county board of pensions has re-
Gently recommended forty-seven new
applicants. Of these thirty-four were
Confederate soldiers and thirteen were
widows. Mr.. Cornwell sent in the ap-
plications early this week.
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