Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-14
aAisttllaneous &eadin9.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That II OF More
or Less Local Interest.

YORK.
Rock Hill Herald, June II: Mrs.
Mary E. Good, who has a number of
friends in Rock Hill, was married to
Mr.. w. L. Thomson, Of Spartanburg,
last Tuesday. The marriage took place
in Waltham, Mass, where she has been
for the past several weeks. Mr.. w. c.
Hodges and Miss Elizabeth Deas were
married Sunday at the Manchester
mill, by Rev. T. A. Dabney. The cere-
mony was performed at the home of the
brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Deas left
in the afternoon for Fort Mill, where
they will reside in the future. Mr.. John
Self, Of Darlington county, and Miss
Emma Smith, of Sumter county, were
married Monday at the Methodist par
sonage by Rev. j. S. Beasley. The
train from Charlotte yes
terday morning also brought in a love
sick couple, Mr.. Elijah Williams and
Miss Mary Gray. who at once repaired
to the parsonage where the two were
made twain by Rev. Mr.. Beasley......
While Messrs. Lloyd Phillips and Geo.
Jenkins were in a carriage last Sunday
morning about o'clock, accompanying
Mrs. R. P. Boyd to the home OF Mr..
Vale, where his infant son was lying
dead, they were surprised when near
Highview, on Elm avenue, by the ap-
proach of two men. who made an effort
to secure the bride of the horse they
were driving, but both the gentlemen
being unarmed, Mr.. Jenkins, who was
driving, used the whip on the horse and
thus the party escaped. 1t was very
dark at the time; but both men were
recognized as being black. There Is no
clue whatever. The affair was very
bold one. The storm Of last Satur-
day was very heavy in the Mt. Holly
and Harmony neighborhoods. The
rain, however, extended from the Be-
tnesda section to Cureton's ferry AMI
Landsford. The wind at Mt. Holly and
in the Harmony communities almost
amounted to a cyclone. That great
monarch of the forest that stood IN
front of the home Of Mr.. j. A. West
brook and within 80 or 40 feet of his
house, was torn from its roots and
splintered, and it Is peculiar that the
house was not injured at all. The tree
was believed to be hundreds of years
old and was all Of five feet in diameter.
The wind was also destructive of past
ure fences and orchards in that vicin-
ity, as we'll as further along the storm
pathway. No other damage than this
was done, except on the farm of w. II.
Williams a cotton house was blown
down. In the Leslie neighborhood
hail did considerable damage, Messrs.
Presley Leslie and ]. w. Belts and
others being sufferers from its destruc-
tiveness After a residence Of near
ly so years in this county, Mr.. Michael
Duffy, postmaster at Smiths, departed
this life Sunday night. He was a ma
tive Of Ireland, but came to this coun-
try when quite young man, with a
colony of friends, nearly all of whom
have gone the way Of all the world.
The old man was good citizen, hon
esty being a predominating trait in his
character. -. Our sister town OF Fort
Mill experienced quite sensation yes
terday morning when it was learned
that safeblowers had been visitors to
the town the night before. The burg
lars had entered the front door Of the
postoffice and with nitro-glycerine had
blown the door off the safe. The bur-
glary occurred about o'clock yester-
day morning and the explosion was
heard by many persons in the town;
but they did not know where the noise
came from. No postoffice funds were
kept in the safe; but Eugene Massey,
the postmaster's son, had $21 deposited
there. This amount the burglars secur-
ed, but they failed to obtain anything
else. There were stamps to the value
Of several dollars in the safe; but they
were left unmolested. The safe door
was completely wrecked, some Of the
pieces being blown through the wall.
The nitro-glycerine was poured into the
cracks in the door, soap being used to
fill the cracks and hold the explosive
in place. The work was evidently that
of professionals. There Is no clue
whatever. The government, however,
will send detectives and there may yet
be developments.
CHESTER.
Lantern, June 10: Sheriff Lyon, of
Abbeville, was in town Saturday look
ing for ]. j. Stone, who has been
known in this county two or three
years as a piano tuner. He has been
indulging in sundry capers that come
under the head of fraud and general
rascality. He has been keeping a stock
of musical instruments in Abbeville.
1t seems that he raised all the money
he could there by checks on Chester
banks, where he had no funds, and car
ried off everything he could. The
money fraudulently obtained there pro-
badly amounted to 500. He also Sc
cured all he could in Chester, giving
check on Abbeville banks, and we un-
derstand that he enriched himself as
much as possible about his late home,
at Bascomville. where he left his wife
and child. He is known to have rail-
road pass to Richmond, but his where
a ahoutS is NOT known While Dlay-
ing on the trestle on the Seaboard Air
Line railway, at the back of Mr.. John
r. Alexander's, on last Wednesday
evening, Johnnie Hogge, the 13-year-