Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-22
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or Less Local Interest.
CHESTER.
Lantern, March 10: Yesterday there
was trouble among the Wilkes broth
ers, of Baton Rouge, over the old dis
pute about a plantation road and wire
fences. Charley was shot twice, one
ball entering his back below the left
shoulder blade Ringing upward, and
the other making a slight wound on
the inner side Of the left knee. DR..
J. M. Brice, who answered a hasty
summons, was not able to locate the
ball in the shoulder, but he did not
think it entered the cavity, at least
not the lungs. It was too soon to tell
much about the probable effect Of the
wound. Eli Wilkes, his son Luther
and Walter Love were committed to
Jail by Magistrate A. D. Darby. They
say that Charley shot first. We be-
lieve he admits shooting once, but says
it was after they shot at him. They
had had some trouble earlier in the
day, when they shot at Quit Wilkes,
| it is said. 1t will be remembered that
Eli was tried and acquitted last year
on the charge of burning Quits barn.
Mrs. Fannie Stringfellow David
son died Wednesday about l o'clock.
She has been i'll for more than two
months, and extremely so the past
week or two. but was thought to be a
little better and was taking some
nourishment when her head dropped
to the side and her spirit took It's
flight without a tremor. She was about
twenty three years of age and was a
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Crockett
Stringfellow of Hawthorn, Fla. but
for the last five years has been spend
ing the most of her time with her un-
Gle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. String
fellow of this city. where she died. On
the 10th of last October she and Mr..
J. L. Davidson were married, and In
Just twenty short weeks, dressed In
her bridal robe, she was buried in a
gray velvet coffin in Evergreen cem-
etery. The funeral exercises were in
the Presbyterian church at $50 yester-
day afternoon, conducted by DIR. c. r.
Hyde, in the presence Of a large con-
gregation of sorrowing and sympa-
thetic friends. The pail bearers were
Messrs. A. L. CASTOR, ]. G. Robinson,
]. w. Fletcher, J. B. Westbrook, H. S.
Heyman and E. H. Hardin. The
funeral procession was one of the
longest we have ever seen and the flo
raj tribute was profuse and beautiful.
..... Fire started in a tenement at
the Eureka mills Tuesday about one
o'clock, and ten of the houses were
burned before it could be checked
The houses were close together, the
wind was blowing briskly, the mill vii
lage is outside of the city limits and
hose had to be taken from town to
reach the burning buildings. The wa
ter supply seemed ample and the pump
threw two good streams. No house
caught fire after Fire Chief H. S.
Heyman arrived on the ground with
his hose. The fire started in Mr..
Geo. Gossetts house, which had been
left for a short time with the door
open, and the wind blew the fire from
the hearth over the room. About five
families lost everything, and many
others lost part of their household
goods. The Gossetts, two or three
families of them, were among those
who saved nothing, and they lost
everything they had saved last year
in the Pacolet flood. The houses burn
ed cost probably an average of $3.50
to s400 apiece when built, but would
cost more now. We have not learned
the amount of insurance, as it was not
in the local agencies. 80. Mr.. John c.
Douglass of the Wise neighborhood,
died last Wednesday, the 18th, after
sickness of about one week with pneu-
monia. Funeral and burial were at
woodward church Thursday. He was
about thirty years old, and leaves
wife and two children. He was man
of robust constitution, but his health
has not been good for year or two.
800. Mrs. Jane Coleman. wife of Mr..
w. E. Coleman Of Armenia, died
Tuesday. the 14th, of dropsy, having
been sick about four months. Burial
was at Uriel on Wednesday. She was
about sixty years old. Mrs. E. w.
Tenant of Cornwell, died Wednesday,
of paralysis, aged II years. The re-
mains were buried at Blackstock. -.
Mrs. William Caldwell of Lewis. died
this morning, aged seventy-seven
years. The remains will be buried at
Uriel tomorrow at IL o'clock. She
leaves two children. Mrs. Hamilton
McCandless and Miss Mamie Caldwell.
CHEROKEE.
Gaffney Ledger, March 1S: Jim Till
man once more stalks forth into the
political arena, this time as candi-
date for the seat of Representative
Croft, recently deceased. of the Second
congressional district. Is it n joke the
criminal candidate would perpetrate
upon the people? At first blush we
would laugh at the idea, but when we
think that it was the citizenship of
the Second district that acquitted him
OF murder we become alarmed for the
safety of the commonwealth. My
God! What terrible disgrace 1t
would be to this poor old long suffer-
ing state should such a calamity as
the election of Jim Tillman to con-
gress befall her! The jury to
which the case Of Phillips VS.. the Long