Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-01-08
#iseellaneous Ksading.
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
News and Comment That Is OF more
or Less Local Interest.
CHESTER.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. B. Stroud. .ReV.
J. S. Moffatt, D. D., announced to MS
congregation last Sabbath that he had
declined the work to which he was
elected by synod and which the SYNOD
insisted upon his holding under con-
sideration until Jan. 1st. His congre-
cation was entirely unprepared for any
other decision. The Knights OF
Pythias had their annual banquet III
the dining room Of Hotel Chester Wed-
nesday night. Mr.. H. Oehler provided
the supper and they say 1t was just as
good as could be. Gov. Hayward did
not get here, but the speeches are re-
ported as unusually good. .... After a
months visit to relatives In this anu
York county, Mr.. Lindsay Davis mas
returned to his home in Florida, ac-
companied by Mrs. S. J. Ferguson ana
two daughters, who will spend some
time there.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, January 6:Mr. VIII McMur-
raw, formerly of this county, son OF MI
] Millen McMurray, died last Thurs
day at his home in Miami, Fla, a1ter
a short illness Of typhoid fever. He
was about twenty-five years OF age,
and was an energetic and promising
Young man. His remains arrived here
Saturday and were taken to Tirzah for
interment. His sister, who went 10
e..
Mis mi in answer to telegram INFORM
in, the family Of his critical illness,
re urned home with the remains. .....
A house on Mr. Jarret Bowers place,
Occupied by Mr.. Began Hunter, was
burned last Sunday afternoon. 1t IS
supposed to have caught fire from the
stove flue. MIR. and Mrs. Hunter were
over at Mr.. Hunters fathers and had
not been gone from home long when
the fire occurred. They lost every
thing they had by the fire. Their
neighbors and friends have contribut-
ed literally to their relief for which
they feel very grateful. ..On Sunday
last, at the home of the officiating min
lister, Rev. J. H. Boldridge, Miss Mag
gle Culp, daughter of Mr.. w. b. CUP
of this place, and Mr.. Willie Sowell of
the Bell Town section. were united IN
the holy bonds Of matrimony. A host
OF friends will wish them long, hap
DIV and prosperous life. Married,
at the residence Of the brides uncle,
Mr.. ]. F. Latham, at Riverside, Dec. 80,
by Rev. w. C. Ewart, Mr.. Chas. Sis
tare and Miss Maggie Millen, daughter
of Mrs. Hettie Millen. :. Married, Dec.
oath, by Rev. w. G. Ewart, Mr.. Chas.
Cochrane of Mecklenburg county, N.
c., and Miss Edith Draffin, daughter OF
the late N. T. Draffin of Riverside. 49,.
Married on Wednesday night, Dec. ~,
by Rev. Mr.. Chandler, Mr.. Jack Cauth-
en- and Miss Sallie Croxton, daughter
of Mr.. Butler Croxton, all Of this coun-
ty. Married, Dec. 80, Mr.. VIM.
Bowers and Miss Lydia Cauthen OF
Pleasant Hill township. From the
Times Herald, published at Palatka,
Fla, we clip the following interview
with Sheriff Hunter relative to the es-
cape of Walter McManus: Sheriff Jno.
P. Hunter of Lancaster S. c., was here
Wednesday Of last week and took back
with him one Walter McManus, white
charged with murder. Sheriff Hunter
said that he knew nothing whatever
about the cause Of the murder which
McManus committed in his county,
that all he knows about 1t Is that on
the 10th of August last, Walter NC
Manus was charged by the coroner's
jury with shooting and killing one
John Leach, colored, and after which
said McManus evaded arrest until the
2Sth Of October last, when he came to
the officer and surrendered. Sheriff
Hunter stated that he treated McMa-
nus in the same manner as had always
been his custom with people charged
with crime who would voluntarily sur
render to him, that is with more kind
ness, allowing them privileges in not
keeping them so closely confined as he
did those he was obliged to run down
and catch afield. He said that McMa-
nus was taken sick while in jail and
that he, the sheriff, had the county
physician called in at once and gave
the prisoner every needful attention,
permitting him to stay down stairs in
the Jail and to eat at the jailer's ta-
BILE. But Notwithstanding all OF this
McManus, for some reason of cause
best known to himself and perhaps
others, on the night Of November 18th,
1903, while the jailer and family were
asleep, noiselessly raised the window
Of his bedroom and made good his es-
cape. This escape and recapture, a
Times Herald representative was in
formed, had cost him upward of $3.50.
He also affirmed that he had not spared
a dollar nor left stone unturned in
having McManus recaptured. He de-
clared that he would not could he
have avoided it, worked and been wor-
ried as has been the case, for a great
deal more than it had cost him. Also
that he could i'll afford to pay the large
reward and consequent expense of
taking McManus back to Lancaster and
not be reimbursed; but under the cir
cumstances he would have it to do, as
he would not ask his county to share
one penny of the cost. He took the
whole responsibility Of treating the
prisoner with consideration upon him.
self and did not mean that the coun-
ty or any one else should thereby suf-
fer. So, instead of Lancaster county
losing anything by McManus' escape
from the Jail it will save something