Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-16
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Gastonia Gazette, May IL: A train
load of "oyster shuckers" passed
through Gastonia Friday morning,
bound for Baltimore. Mr. Nose Maui
ney says they were Australians They
had been at work in Scranton, Miss,
shucking oysters that sell for from
so to rs cents barrel, the kind used
mainly for canning. The Baltimore
oysters bring from $1.25 to s1.76
per barrel. There were about ESQ
shuckers on the home ward bound
special. An interesting letter was
received a day or 80 ago by Mr.. r.
w, Carson from Miss Macie Steven
son, one Of the teachers in the A. K.
P. girls school in Tampico, Mexico.
She inclosed a photograph Of typical
Mexican kitchen, with descriptions,
and wrote Interestingly of life and
VIC TX in Mexico. Miss Stevenson Is a
sister Of Rev. r. M. Stevenson ana
has been in Mexico for number OF
years. When the Flyer, or the
through mail, which passes Gastonia
about 6 o'clock in the evening, is out
of reach Of town ordinances 1t Is said
that it Is sight to see it skim along
the rails. It seems to move with the
lightness of a feather and the swift
ness Of a thunderbolt. Mr.. R. B. Bab-
ington met this train a few evenings
ago between Bessemer and Gastonia,
and he says that the chips. stubble and
pine bark in the whirl Of it were fall
ing all around him for fifteen minutes
after the train passed. In the wreck
of the Clyde steamship Saginaw, OF
the Virginia coast last Tuesday morn
ing, the Modena Cotton Mills Of this
city, lost fifteen bales Of cotton yarns,
valued at $40 per bale or $1,O50 for
the lot. The yarn was enroute to
Philadelphia. The Modena will sus-
tain no loss. The Saginaw, 1t will be
remembered, collided with the Old Do
minion Steamship company's liner,
Hamilton, and was sunk, resulting In
the loss of twenty lives and a large
cargo Of freight. Between and 3
o'clock Sunday morning a small
freight wreck occurred at the crossing
of the Southern tracks near the Old
Mill, slightly damaging two c. & NJ
w. cars. Through c. & NV. freight
No. 70, under Engineer J. w. Lynn
and Conductor w. w. Isaacs, was
crossing the Southern tracks. when 1t
was struck by the eastbound through
freight No. "a, under Engineer A. D.
Smith and Conductor ]. r. Chapman.
The accident was due to the failure OF
the air brakes on No. "a to work. The
engine struck between the caboose
and freight car, derailing one end OF
the caboose, and slightly damaging It.
A wrecking train was brought out
from Charlotte and the track was soon
cleared.
LANCASTER.
Ledaer, May 13: Died, at this place,
Monday night, May II, 1908, Mary En-
mons, infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. T.. Beatty, aged five months. The
internient took place at the Presbyte-
rian cemetery yesterday afternoon.
Miss Cora Thomas, daughter of Mr.. F.
M. Thomas, the young lady who had
one Of her thighs broken by being
knocked down and run over by a
horse and buggy at the corner Of Main
and Church streets. some weeks ago,
had the misfortune to meet with an
other accident last Friday afternoon
which will occasion her intense suffer-
ing again. She was going to a neigh
boris when her crutch turned on q
small rock in the yard causing her to
fall with her whole weight on her
thigh fracturing the bone again, it
not having knitted strongly together
since the last accident. &C. L. Boone,
white man, Of the Elgin section,
aged Sc years, formerly Of North Car
olina, was committed to jail at this
place Monday, charged with the un-
mentionable crime. The warrant was
sworn out by Boone's wife, and his ID
year-old daughter Is the alleged vic
tim. She reported to some Of the
neighbors Monday morning that dur
ing Sunday night her father by intim-
idation and force had compelled her
to yield to him. The parties to whom
she related her story were highly in
censed at the thought Of such an out
rageous crime in their community, but,
law abiding people that they are, they
at once phoned Sheriff Hunter about
the matter, and in % minutes the sher-
iff was on the grounds and had the ac-
cused in his custody and under the
protection Of law. The sheriff made
the trip Ga distance Of four miles) in
1S minutes, 1t having taken 10 min
utes to have his horse unhitched from
a plow at his home, brought to the
Jail and saddled. An emergency call
Of physician could not have been an
swered more promptly. Before start
ing to Jail Boone asked the sheriff to
permit little daughter Of his to read
aloud to him the 5th chapter Of John.
After the reading Of the chapter he
asked a gentleman present If he would
lead in prayer, which he did most
earnestly and devoutly. From his
knees Boone was brought to prison,
where he will remain until the court
shall pass upon his guilt or innocence
Of the horrible crime with which he is
charged. Boone asserts his innocence
and says the charge is trumped. up to
get rid Of him at home and to afford
an excuse to his family to abandon
the crop as they cannot continue it in
his absence.