Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-03-29
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FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II Of More
| or Less Local Interest.
YORK.
Rock Hill Herald, March rs: Ed
Carter, a colored man. was arrested In
this city Monday evening by Police
man jenkins through the good manage.
ment of Mr.. Hope Smith, to whom he
offered to sell a Columbia chainless bi-
cycle for s6. 1t developed that Garter
was one Of the four Negroes who broke
Jail in Chester Sunday night and that
Carter had stolen the bicycle from Mr.
L. D. Childs, in Chester. Chester's
chief of police came to Rock Hill Mon
day night and escorted Carter to his
old quarters in the Chester jail. He
recovered the bicycle and returned i,
to it's owner. Sunday night Chief OF
Police Partlow flushed two Negroes
who was stealing ride on the north
bound Southern train and he feels sure
they were prisoners from Chester Jail
They ran, when he fired four times as
they fed but they burned the wind
outrunning the train, going in the d.
rection Of Charlotte. Mr.. VIII Big.
gers, who has leased the John Ratteree
farm, says that he has recently beer
very much surprised on account Of the
| hn frnnzas
had killed everything he has
very good half stand Of wheat.
Paul Pratt, colored, wanted in Casio
MIA, N. c., for selling whisky and
gambling, was arrested Monday at the
Catawba Power Co.'S dam by Consta'
BILE Wingate. Policeman J. w. Carroll
came over from Gastonia Monday
night and carried the prisoner back
with him yesterday. ..Mr. and Mrs
John A. Neely and children went up tc
Yorkville Saturday afternoon and spent
until Monday with Mr.. Neelys parents
go. Mr.. Walter Biggers, superinten.
dent of the farm Of the Messrs. Whit.
ner, four miles north Of the city, shot
Jim Carothers, a colored laborer, last
Saturday, the wound being through the
right arm and not serious. Carothers
left his plow and went into another
part Of the field and engaged in conver.
sation with some other laborers, wher
Mr.. Biggers reproved him for his con-
duct, when Carothers picked up two
rocks and advanced on Mr.. Biggers
whereupon the latter pulled his pisto
and fired three times before Carother:
would desist from the attack. He how.
ever dropped the rocks and left the
field coming to Rock Hill to have the
wound in his arm attended to by 6
surgeon. Mr.. Biggers feels justified ir
his action and cannot be blamed for 1t
| LANCASTER.
Ledger, March 26: The grip is pre-
valent over the county-in fact, ovel
the entire state. It will greatly in
crease from now until next August
Every white man who attended court
here last week got it. Negroes are moi
subject to it. The consolation Is thai
it will hurt nobody. The truth is
everybody Is pleased to have it. The
grip we allude to Is the candidate's
grip. The artesian we'll at Ker'
shaw was begun Monday by Mr.. An
drews, the contractor. A petition i:
being circulated there asking for ar
election on the matter of the town is'
suing bonds to the amount Of $4,000
for the erection Of waterworks. The
election will doubtless be ordered anc
the bonds voted. Kershaw Is full o.
progressive. public-spirited men.......
Mrs. Samuel Barron, Of York county
is visiting her uncle, Mr.. j. E. Taylor
this week. She is over to attend the
Mobley-Taylor nuptials which come:
off at the home Of Mr.. S. D. Taylor al
Craigsville tonight. The trial o.
Capers Cauthen and Ed Ballard
charged with housebreaking and larce'
ny, resulted in a mistrial. Richard
Thompson pleaded guilty Of larceny
and was sentenced to IL months on tht
gang. John Lee and Peter Dye were
tried for larceny. The former was ac
Quilted and the case Of the latter wa:
withdrawn form the jury and transfer
red to the contingent docket on terms
gang. John Lee and Peter Dye were
and Philip Cauthen was continued ant
placed on the contingent docket OF
terms, the terms being that the partie:
would leave the state. This ended tht
criminal business. The court Of com
mon pleas was opened Monday morn
ing. In the case Of Joseph Clark VS.
J. P. Hunter and others, non sui
was granted. In the case Of Jno. Craw
ford VS.. D. A. Funderburk a verdic
was rendered for the defendant.....
Mr.. Chap Estridge, an aged and res
pected citizen Of this county, after I'm
gering for a year or more from a stroke
Of paralysis, died at the home of hi:
son, Mr.. VIM. Estridge, near Crook
about o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Estridge was about II years of age
and up to a few years ago was an ac'
tive, energetic hard-working man,,
The death of Miss Annie Good, o.
York county, which occurred of lock
jaw, last Friday night, at the home Of
her cousin, Mrs. J. A. Hilton, at Ker'
shaw, whom she was visiting, was in
deed very sad. She was about IS year:
Of age, amiable, attractive and very
popular with her friends. She mad ac'
cepted position at Rock Hill and hat
gone to Kershaw to Spend week Of
so with her relatives before reporting
for duty at Rock Hill, which she was