Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-11-07
LOCAL LAcoNIcs.
oeath Of Miss Emma Norman.

Deatn OF MISS Emma NORMAN
Miss Emma Norman, eldest daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hose Norman. died
at the home of her parents Sunday af-
ternoon, after a lingering illness Of
eczema. Miss Norman was about
twenty years of age and was a member
of the Yorkville Presbyterian church.
The funeral and interment took place
at Beth-Shiloh yesterday afternoon,
the services being conducted by Rev.
E. e. Gillespie.
Suit For $25 200.
Proceedings have been commenced
in the court Of common pleas for York
county In the case Of Chas d. Nelson
vs. the Columbia Electric Railway and
the Southern Railway. The plaintiff
was injured In a collision between an
ele ctric car and railroad train In CO.
lumbia on the 18th Of June last, and
wants damages in the sum Of $4,000.
Mr.. C. p, Sanders, representing the
Southern railroad has petitioned for
the removal of the case to the United
States court.
Work Of the chainsans.
The chaingang is still at work In
Bethel township and with the assist
ance of the people Of the immediate
neighborhood, is making some very de-
cided improvements on the Glover ana
Wright's Ferry and Chester and Arm
strongs Ford roads. The people are
hauling gravel from the rocky knob
rear Mr.. I. II. Campbelrs, and It is of
such a character as to make almost as
good a road as crushed rock. The ma
cadam work on the Glover and
Wright's Ferry road extends from near
Mr.. r. L. CampbelPs to within short
distance of Barnett's mountain, nearly
a mile and half, and in the case Of
the other road 1t extends about half a
mile from the point where 1t intersects
with the Glover and Wright's Ferry
road.
Attempted Assault in Fort Mill.
Fort Mill special Of Monday to the
Columbia State: The Gold Hill section
Of this township Is the scene Of wild
excitement tonight as the result of an
assault on the fifteen-year-old daugh-
ter Of a white farmer in that neigh
borhood named Mckinney by a negro
man who is suspected Of being one
Caleb White. The attempt was made
Saturday afternoon. The girl lives on
the farm at her fathers home and late
Saturday afternoon her mother sent
her to the pasture, some few hundred
yards from the house, to drive the
cows up to the barnyard. The girl
did not return within a reasonable
length of time and the mother becom-
ing apprehensive at the delay, set out
in search Of her daughter, calling her
every few steps after entering the pas
ture. 1t seems that the girl did not
readily locate the cows and was going
through a clump Of bushes in search
Of them when she was confronted by
an unknown negro man who leveled a
shotgun at her, saying that IL she
made an outcry or attempted to run
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ed to keep her covered with the gun
until the approaching darkness came
to aid him in his heinous purpose.
Fortunately few minutes after
the negro had captured" the girl the
cries Of her mother were heard by
the negro and as the mother neared
the place where he and the girl were,
the negro, fearing detection, ran and
left the girl to return home with her
mother without having harmed her in
a physical way. The news Of the as
sault did not become generally known
in the neighborhood until Sunday
morning when q posse was formed to
search for the negro. Suspicion point
ed to a negro farm hand named Ca
leb White, and, innocent or guilty, up
on learning that the posse was look
ing for him he decided to light out"
and every effort to locate him has thus
far proved futile. To one who Is ac-
quainted with the determination Of
some Of the men who compose the
posse 1t Is an easy guess that II the ne
gro Is captured and identified by the
girl he will be lynched.