Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-21

We Will Send The Enquirer
From this date until January 1st,
1908, for S1.22.
Returned Letters.
Sheriff Brown is getting up quite a
collection Of returned letters. They
were sent to delinquent taxpayers and
came back marked "uncalled for"
Sudden Death.
Miss Katie Poag an aged maiden
lady, who has been making her home
with Mrs. Mary Campbell Of Bethel
township, died quite suddenly last
Saturday night She had not been
complaining previously. She was
about seventy-five years Of age.
Mrs. Mills Denies It.
Mrs. Mills, wife Of w. H. Mills, de-
nies that there was any truth In the
affidavit Of hers that was submitted
to Judge Hydrick in habeas corpus
proceedings. She says that at the
time she signed the affidavit she was
| Just recovering from pneumonia, and
that she really did not understand its
contents. She now claims that the
averments of the affidavit are false.
Sharon Shooting Sorape.
Sunday afternoon during the prog
ress of big meeting" at a Sharon
negro church, Bud Dye and Ed Patter-
son, both negroes, became involved In
personal difficulty, on the streets OF
| Sharon, some distance from the
church. Dye pulled pistol and fired
shot at Patterson. Dyes aim was
poor and Patterson knocked him down,
and securing Dyes pistol fired shot
at him, which inflicted a slight wound
in his side. Patterson escaped arrest.
w. o. Gattis Runs Away.
w. o. Gattis, who formerly conduct
ed a bucket shop in this place Is
| fugitive from Charlotte on the charge
Of having forged bills Of lading on
cotton that he did not have to the
amount Of $4,000. His scheme was to
make out a bill Of lading for cotton
that he did not have and send 1t with
draft attached to a mill from which he
had an order. He covered up one
forgery with another until he had OBJ
tanned about $4,000. When caught up
with he ran.
Identity of James Overstreet.
A correspondent Of the Columbia
State furnishes information as to the
| identity Of Congressman James over
street, whose gravestone was recently
uncovered In the CHINA Grove Sectlon
of Cherokee and who was supposed to
have been a resident Of York district.
The explanation is that Mr.. Overstreet
was a citizen of Barnwell county, and
died from sudden congestion while on
his way home from Washington in a
stage coach. Because Of the hot
weather and the slow means of travel
in those days 1t was not practicable to
take his body home and the inter-
ment took place by the roadside.
After the Migrants.
Rock Hill Herald: The labor situa-
tion promises to be improved shortly.
When the officers finish their canvass
Of the city and the vagrants take the
bitter dose Mayor Roddey intends ad-
ministering them, we will then see a
great many more at work. great
many have already begun work. There
are lots of idlers around yet who had
better get a job or be ready to take
the dose. If they cannot find employ
ment let them send an advertisement
to the Herald office stating what kind
of work they prefer and we will run
same free of charge. We Will also
promise to withhold all names.
Winthrop Commencement.
The following Is the programme OF
the commencement exercises OF Win
throp college, which take place June