Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-10-04


mon. His widow and the following chill
dren survive him: w. Marcus, Jno. L.,
Olin c., Jas. A., Chas. w., and Allen w.
Estridge, Mrs. w. B. McCrorey, Mrs. T.
E. Carroll and Miss Ellen Estridge.. e......
Married, at the home of Rev. r. j.
Blackmon, near Fork Hill, at noon on
Friday, September 26. 1902. Mr.. j. L.
Jordon, of Hartsville, and Miss Crete
Hilton, of the Pleasant Plain section,
daughter of the late Wesley Hilton.
After the ceremony the happy young
couple returned to the brides mothers,
and later took the train at KershaW
for the groom's home at Hartsville..
Bob Lindsay, the Negro who was shot
in the forehead near the Allen Heath
old home-place, on Sunday, September
21st, by Willis Barnhill, while they, in
company with a woman, were on their
way home to Waxhaw, N. c., from the
Steel Hill campmeeting, died Sunday
night last, just one week after the
shooting occurred. DR.. Mccain, OF
Waxhaw, conducted the post mortem
Monday and found that the ball had
entered the Negroes skull above the
eye, and had passed through his brain
and was lodged against the skull in the
back Of the head. Barnhill fled after
the shooting and has not been captured.
Sheriff Hunter is on the watch for him,
as are also the North Carolina author
tiles.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, September 90: A
rather remarkable accident happened at
the old Patterson gold mine on Mr.. Jno.
Craig's place near Pleasant Ridge at
o'clock Saturday night when Negro,
Ben Adams, fell a distance of 81 feet
down an old shaft and escaped with
only a few scratches. A crowd Of Ne
groes had gathered near the mine open
ings, Of which there are several, and
Adams was on his way to join them.
Some one warned him Of the danger,
but he did not heed, as a result Of which
he stumbled into one Of the holes which
by actual measurement, Is 81 feet deep.
After a lapse of half an hour, the man
was extricated by means of a chain,
and to the surprise Of his rescuers, was
entirely uninjured save a few small
scratches and a little stiffness caused
by the jar. The Negro, who works for
Mr.. James Anthony, is at work again,
and is seemingly no worse off for his
little plunge of 81 feet into an old mine
shaft. An accident, in which the
victim barely escaped death, happened
in front of the Avon Cotton mill Sat-
urday night. Mr.. John Bolick, an oper-
ative at the Arlington, was sitting on
the Southern track talking to several
others, who were lounging near the
track. He was intoxicated and did not
notice the approach of No. SIS, which
was running an hour late. The pilot
struck him and bruised him up consid-
erably. He was brought to the drug
store Of Messrs. Frost Terrence & Co.,
where DR.. Sloan, the Southern's sur
geon, and DR.. F. G. Wilson amputated
one finger of his right hand, which was
badly mashed and dressed his other
wounds. His little finger was split in
the middle the full length and his back
was bruised. The other members Of the
crowd escaped without injuries.
Hon. ]. K. Henry, solicitor of the Sixth
judicial circuit of South Carolina,
passed through yesterday enroute from
Chester to Gaffney to attend court.
Shortly after 1 o'clock last Friday af-
ternoon, Miss Dora, Hill, at the home
of her mother near Union, departed this
life, aged "a years, after lingering
illness of several months. She was the
only daughter of the late Joseph Hill.
She leaves a mother and three brothers,
Joseph, Richard and Robert, to mourn
their loss. The first named brother
lives in the mountains, the second with
his mother, and the third near New
Hope. The deceased was a woman Of
amiable character, the devoted compan-
ion of her mother, and faithful men,
ber Of Union Presbyterian church,
where her funeral services were con-
Quoted Saturday by her pastor, Rev.
G. A. Sparrow After an illness Of
three weeks, the last one week Of in
tense suffering, interspersed with only
occasional intervals of consciousness.
Mrs. Mary F. Nolen, wife of Agent c.
M. Nolen, passed peacefully away at
9.25 o'clock Sunday night. Before her
marriage to Mr.. Nolen, which took
place on November 16, 1880, she was
Miss Mary F. Jenkins, daughter of
Mr.. Jones Jenkins, of Gastonia. She
was born and raised at the old Jenkins
homestead, three miles west of town
where her brother, Mr.. Grier Jenkins
now lives, and would have been AZ years