Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-08
Wednesday, July 8, 1903,

kindly gave their consent for it at the
first request; but the postoff1ce de-
partment held back until the matter
eral Shallenberger, who, as soon as
he was acquainted with the facts, is
sued the necessary orders. Hereaf-
ter, letters mailed at Yorkville before
$50 p. m, for Sharon, Hickory Grove.
Smyrna, Kings Creek, or any Of the
rural free delivery routes leading out
from these offices will reach their .des-
tination next day. = ~
Turbulence at tho Dam.
Rock Hill. Journal, Tuesdays, There
was general row and fight In q Ne
gro boarding house at the dam Satur-
day in which two Negro women, one
Of them the proprietress, Of the house,
were seriously cut about the face and
hands with broken. plates, tumbfers
and other tableware The artery and
leaders Of the forearm of one Of the
women were severed and had 1t not
been for the presence of some who
knew how to stop the flow sof blood,
she would have bled to death. before a
physician could arrive. 1t seems. that
number Of boarders came in for din
ner at noon. The most Of them were
celebrating the. Glorious Fourth in
the usual way, and became very angry
when they found that dinner was not
ready and proceeded in very uncere-
monious manner to break up house,
keeping. Cups, plates, saucers and ev-
erything in sight was flung promiscu-
ously over the room with the result
stated above. Scrap No. took place
Sunday over game Of cards that
some Negroes were playing "just for
fun" A one-arm Negro pulled his
gun and fired 1t at another Negro, the
ball passing through his shoulder. We
were unable to find out the names Of
either one of them The Negro who
did the shooting escaped and at this
writing is still at large ~
Tho Foskett Homicide.
Sheriff Logan went up to. the Fer
guson gold mine a. few days ago to in
vestigate the killing Of Foskett by Nc
Lester, He had no particular Interest
In the matter; but he was anxious to-
see whether the story brought out at
the inquest was strictly true. He found
that the sympathy Of the people In the
vicinity Of the mine was with McLes-
ter; but story as told by different
people with whom the sheriff talked
does not fully bear out the story Of
McLester. For instance McLester rep
resented that he was sitting In the
sand house sewing belt when Foskett
approached him suddenly with a drawn
stick, and in a menacing attitude, He
gave the impression, that he knew,
nothing Of the presence Of Foskett un-.
til then, Sheriff Logan found a WITT
ness who said that he was in. the sand
house few minutes before, and that
McLester and Foskett were both there.
Foskett had no stick or other weapon,
and nothing was said or done to indi-
cate approaching trouble. Presently
McLester went to another part of the
mill to look after machinery that was
about to choke and the witness went
off down the main shaft, leaving
Foskett in the house. About the time
witness got to the bottom of the shaft
he heard shots, and on coming up he
learned Of the tragedy. This witness
also scouts the idea that q. certain pine
stick brought to Yorkville by the cor
oner and represented by McLester to
have been the identical stick with
which Foskett was about to strike
him was ever In Foskett's hands. AS
a matter Of fact nobody saw the stick
until the coroner was about to leave af-
ter the investigation and when McLes-
ter pointed 1t out as the stick that Fos-
kett Is alleged to have had in his hands,
it was still covered with sand. The
theory is that If the stick had been
picked up by Foskett or anybody else
previously, the sand would have been
shaken off. The people about the
mine were inclined to tell the whole,
truth just as they saw 1t, and did not
seem disposed to try to conceal any
thing. It developed also that a little
while before the killing, Mrs. Foskett
had came up to the mill and stated
that Foskett had announced his inten-
ton to kill McLester and afterward
to kill her. The young man who gave
the sheriff most Of the foregoing infor-
nation said that Mrs. :Foskett had:
some time before advised him that
Foskett had threatened his life; but
he had not taken the matter seriously
as he knew very well that Foskett had
no cause for ill-feeling in so far as he
was concerned. -: