Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-12

from a five weeks visit to his grand
father, DR.. j. B. Mack in Atlanta. The
latter accompanied him home.... :.
Mrs. ]. H. Beall and baby Of Lenoir.
came down Saturday to spend While
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Win.
Lindsay. Mr.. Reall accompanied
them and returned yesterday. DR..
Wylie Moore and bride of New York,
arrived Friday to spend while with
his parents, Captain and Mrs. E. p.
Moore.
LANCASTER.
News, October 10: The cotton re-
ceipts here last week were quite
heavy, Public Weigher Nisbet weigh
ing as many as 1887 bales in three
days. The receipts however, are still
about 1000 bales short of those of
last year at this time. ......A series
of meetings, preparatory to commun-
ion services next Sunday, will begin In
the Presbyterian church tonight. The
pastor, the Rev. Chalmers Fraser, will
be assisted by the Rev. DR.. Neville Of
Clinton. go. Mrs Nettie Bales. wife
of Mr.. ]. q. Bales OF the Pleasant
Valley section, died yesterday morn
ing, after lingering illness. She was
daughter of Mr.. VIM. Crane of North
Carolina, and was about twenty-five
years old She was most estimable
lady and a consistent member OF the
Methodist church. She is survived by
her husband and four children. The
burial takes place today at Pleasant
Hill Methodist church. .... DR.. T. j.
Strait is in receipt of letter from
his kinsman, the Rev. ]. L. Cooper, D.
D., of Mississippi, from which 1t ap-
pears that the crop outlook in that
state Is indeed blue. DR.. Cooper, who
has a large farming interest in Mis-
sissippi, is at present in Montreal, n.
c., and 1t is from the latter point that
he writes DR.. Strait, his information
as to crop conditions at home being
based upon letters received by him
from there. In his letter to DR.. Strait,
written last Friday, DR.. Cooper says:
"Since writing the above we have sew
eral letters from our place, and 1t ap-
pears that after ten days constant
rain 1t is still raining and the cotton
is not only sprouting in the bolls, but
the middle crop is pushing open the
half open bolls by sprouts putting out,
and they write US that all that Is left
us, If the rains stop, is the grown bolls
now on the stalks. The corn is also
blown down and Is rotting as 1t lies.
This is alarming, as 1t looks like ruin.
..... Cards are out announcing the
approaching marriage Of one Of Cam
denis popular and attractive young Ia
dies, Miss Annie Cunningham John
son, who has many friends and admir-
ers in Lancaster, where she has made
several pleasant visits. The gentle
man who has been SO fortunate as to
win Miss Johnson's heart and hand Is
Mr.. Henry Deas Boykin. The mar
riage will take place the evening Of
the 18th instant, at the home in Cam
den of the prospective brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cunningham
Johnson. -. 1t was published through
| out the country some weeks ago that
| Senator Tillman had declined to ac-
cept $500 rendered him for a lecture
| delivered by him in Columbia, Mo-, on
the ground that he considered his
speech "bum," having spoken extern
poraneously on the railroad rate ques-
ton instead Of delivering his prepared
speech on the race problem. 1t now
turns out that Ben" accepted his pay
all right-so says the Herald, Of Co.
lumbia, Mo. That lecture evidently
did not look like thirty cents" after
all, to our senior senator. ..., Mr.. w.
D. Chambers of this place. has in his
garden blackberry bush that has
been bearing berries continuously
since last June. 1t now has some ber-
ries on 1t. The plant was presented
to Mr.. Chambers about two years ago
| by Captain Samuel f. White. .... A
serious difficulty occurred at the Lam
caster Cotton mills last Monday morn
ing. 1t appears from what we can
learn that the engineer, Mr.. H. c. Set
tlemeyer, was discharged by Supern-
tendent c. B. Skipper for assaulting a
young man named Threat in the en-
gine room, the assault being reported
clan, Mr.. Frank Settlemeyer, son of
the engineer. An hour or two after
the engineer had been dismissed and
settled with. the settlement being made
Skipper and Mr.. L. G. Dobson were
standing talking in the side door Of
the company's office building, when,
hearing some one approaching
through the office, Captain Skipper
turned his head to see who 1t was and
just as he did so he recognized the
engineer, Mr.. Settlemeyer, who in
stantly stabbed Skipper with a knife,
the blade entering his left ear, making
serious wound. The blow knocked
steps. AS soon as he recovered his
equilibrium Mr.. Skipper drew his pis-
tol and fired at his assailant, who in
the meantime. it is said, had made a
lick at Mr.. Dobson, who lodged the
blow. The bullet from the pistol
struck Mr.. Settlemeyer in the hand,
and upon receiving the wound he turn
ed and went back through the office.
On reaching the piazza he undertook
to jump to the ground and in doing
so fell and broke his leg. He was re-
moved to his residence. where his in
fjuries were attended to by Drs. Elliott