Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-20
Friday, July 20, 1906
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
Damage by Lishtnins-A Lightning
Story-C. M. A. to Incorporate
Death of Mrs. Brown-PersonaIs.

story-c. M. A. to Incorporate
Death of Mrs. Brown-Personals.
correspondence vi tie iorkylIis Enquirer.
Rock HILL, July 19.-The ram anu
thunder storm which visited this sec
tion Tuesday afternoon did not do any
damage in this immediate community.
The lightning pIayed some OF its queer
pranks elsewhere, however. Mr. T.. ~.
BuI ton, who iives eight miles south-
west OF Rock Hill, lost three nne mules
at a stroke. The bolt entered the TOP
of his barn, struck one mule dead, leap
ed across the eight foot passage way
killed the TWO mules IL separate stalls
On that side made its exit through the
wall into the shed, tore to pieces a sin
gletree of a wagon in the shed, struck
the ground thirty or forty feet dis-
lant and glanced to a wire fence some
distance further on, losing itself there
lon.
There was a horse, Mr.. Burton's sole
remaining one, stabbed on the side
where the first mule was killed, with
only a partition between them, but the
horse was not harmed. The loss would
amount to not less than $500, and there
Is great sympathy for Mr.. Burton.
speaking OF the lightning's queer
prankS, met man the other DAY
who carried an umbrella from which
he had carefully cut off the metal fer
rule on the end Of the staff. He called
my attention to it and told me that
the reason he did 1t was because he had
once sat upon a jury of inquest over
the body OF a negro, the circumstance
of which indicated that lightning had
struck the tip OF the umbrella he was
carrying, had run down the metal staff,
entered his hand and killed him. The
body was found just after severe
thunder storm, his umbrella was lying
open in front Of him, there was
round hole burned at the top where the
rod entered, the negro's hand was
scorched and the wheels OF his watch
were infused. 1t was almost certain
that the bolt had struck the end OF
the steel rod of his umbrella. And so
my friend cuts off the ferrule.
The Catawba Military academy,
which for several years, ever since its
establishment here, has been conducted
as a private enterprise, has been
merged into a stock company and Its
usefulness will thereby be increased to
considerable extent. On the 23rd Of
| this month a charter Will be applied
for by the following gentlemen: Messrs.
Ira B. Dunlap, J. E. Roddey, A. II.
Greene, DR.. T. A. Crawford, j. q. An
derson, John r. Barron, Alex Long, W.
| G. Whitner and ]. s. White. Rev. d.
]. Brimm, d. D., who has all along been
the head of the school, will continue
in that capacity and will have associat-
ed with him a corps of competent as
sistants.
Mrs. Henry Massey Of this city has
re ceived news of the death Of her sis
ter in-law, Mrs. William Brown which
occurred at their home I'm Texas. Mr..
Brown, who Is the son Of the late Frank
III. Brown Of this county, moved from
here to Texas six or eight years ago.
Mr. Cecil Reid, who several years ago
graduated at Clemson and Is now In
| the north as an engineer, Is at home
recuperating for short while.
Mr.. Robert c. Moore, who at the re-
cent closing graduated from the Cita-
del, has secured a position with a
power company in Fredericksburg Va,
and left this week for that city
Mr.. Crawford Moore, has recently
gone to Charlotte, where he will take
a position with an insurance agency.
Messrs. Robert Poag and Marion
Kimball, who are taking the engineers
course at Clemson, are working during
their vacation with the Southern Pow
ar company at Charlotte.
Mr.. Theodore Moore, who travels
North Carolina for a St. Louis shoe
house will spend the rest OF the sum-
mer at his mothers, on Black street.
before returning to his territory. He
and Mr.. H. L. Diehl expect to open a
shoe store here about the 1st of Au-
gust.
DR.. Thos. A. Crawford, whose illness
was noted in the last issue, Is much
better. AS soon as strong enough he
expects to take q months rest from his
busy life and go to Glenn Springs and
then to the mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson Kim
ball, Mr. and Mrs. John N. ldcljhyee
and family, left today for Hiddenite,
N. c., where they will quaff the All
Healing Springs water for awhile.
Mrs. Thos. L. johnson and Miss
Madge, came home from Greensboro,
Johnston will return Friday bringing
with her a little cousin, Miss Adelaide
Van Noppen.
Mrs. 7. Baker Haynesworth of Flor
ence and Mrs. w. c. Davis of Manning,
are visiting their sister, Mrs. Watson
B. Dunlap at st. Johns M, e. church
parsonage.
Miss Emma Bell will leave Monday
for Cleveland Springs.
Mr.. Hayward Moore has just return-
ed from trip to the Isle Of Palms,
Mr.. Sidney Adams now of Walhalla,
Is visiting his parents near here.
Mrs. Will r. Simpson and children
and Miss DuBose Jones of Columbia,
left Thursday for visit to friends in
Greenville,
Mrs. Leroy Rodgers of Wilmington
Is visiting her father, Mr.. w. II. Stew
art, in Oakland.
Mrs. Aston of Yorkville, Is at Mrs.
Hugh Buists.
Miss jamie Massey has returned from
visit to ner sister, Mrs. Julian Starr
in Lancaster county.
| Mrs. Wicker and her daughters,
Misses Belle and Irving, left Monday
for Montreal, N. c.
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