Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-15
miscellaneous 8eaains.
IN COUNTIES ADJOINING.
News and Comment Clipped From
Neighboring Exchanges.
LANCASTER.

News, February 13: Supervisor Per-
ry has arranged with the supervisor
of Chester county to hire all con-
victs of Lancaster county at S6 pei
month each. Lancaster to pay all
travelling expenses of guards and
] convicts. There is but little i'm
provement in the condition OF Mr.
Ernest Funderburk, who has been
under treatment in a hospital in Bal
timore the past few weeks. The ply
sicians pronounce his ailment tuber-
culosis of the spine. Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. B. Ellis Of this place were
called to Flat Creek last Thursday
| on account of the death Of the lat
! ters sister, Mrs. Queen Deas, wife OF
Mr.. Geo. w. Deas. Mrs. Deas died
that morning after a weeks illness
| of pneumonia. She was 80 years OF
age, and leaves her husband and
three children surviving her. She
was a consistent member of Flat
Creek Baptist church. Her remains
were inferred at Pleasant Plain
church on Friday. .... Mrs Zelphy
Estridge, widow of the late +. Z.
Estridge, died last Friday, after a
protracted illness of dropsy. at her
home near Waxhaw, aged about gu
years. Her remains were inferred
Saturday at old Waxhaw Baptist
church, after funeral services con-
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. McKinstry. 80.
While saving shingles with rip
saw recently, Mr.. Lewis \. Montgom-
cry had the misfortune to lose the
thumb of his right hand. II was so
badly lacerated by the saw that 1t
had to be amputated, which was
done by DR.. Sapp. The clothing
] of Annie Bertha, the little 3-year-old
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. j. f. Rut-
ledge, caught afire while standing at
the fireplace Saturday afternoon, ana,
but for the quick appearance on the
scene and presence of mind OF her
mother, who smothered the flames
by wrapping the little one in her own
dress, a wooden garment, little Annie
Bertha would have been fatally
burned. AS 1t was her injuries are
only slight, her hands, and the side
Of her face and neck being badly blis-
tered :. Luke Gavin, col, who lives
near the Southern railroad crossing
on Catawba street, had a good horse
killed by the freight train which
passed here about $50 o'clock Sat-
urday night. 1t was frightened by
the passenger train passing and
broke out Of the yard, getting on the
railroad track just before the freight
came rumbling along.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, February 13: The
friends in Gastonia of Miss Julia
Marino were somewhat surprised
when It became known Saturday that
she was married On Friday In Sa-
vannah, Ga, 70 Mr. Paul Rhoher.
Miss Marinos horne was in Savan-
nah but for the past two years or
more she has been employed as a
milliner in the Jro. F. Love, Inc,
stores. ASout three weeks ago she
went to Savannah, presumably on
visit, and it was expected that she
would return and resume her position
here. The marriage, 1t is said. was
the consummation of an old love az
fair, Miss Marino meeting her lover
in Savannah after an absence of two
years. Chief of Police l. y. Alex
ander was taken to the Presbyterian
hospital at Charlotte Saturday for
stomach trouble. He has been
quite i'll for several days but 1t is
hoped that the hospital treatment
will prove beneficial. Mr. {. b.
Armstrong yesterday received a tele-
gram from Mr.. A. A. Young stating
that Lark Ratchford and John Craig,
two Gastonia boys who recently ran
away from their homes in the New
Hope neighborhood, were working on
the South & Western railroad near
Spruce Pine. The fathers of the two
boys, Mr.. Bob Ratchford and Mr..
Thomas Craig, left at once for Spruce
Pine to bring the boys home. About
three weeks ago these boys, yet in
their teens, were seized with desire
to see something of the world and
took French leave of the prosaic
farm life to do a little exploring on
their own hook. They left Gastonia,
it is stated, in company with Camp
bell Bradley, an older boy who was
leaving home with the knowledge of
his parents Since then their parents
have been making efforts to locate
them "A message from Stanley
this afternoon conveyed the intelli-
gence of the sudden death there or
Mr. James Cannon, which occurred
few minutes after one o'clock this
afternoon at the home of his son-in-
law, Mr.. ]. c. CASTOR, with whom he
lived. Mr.. Cannon was about 65
years of age and is survived by three
sons and three daughters. The funer-
al will be held at Stanley tomorrow
Police officers are on the look
out for Roland Tate, white boy
about sixteen years old, who, it is al
legged, yesterday entered the store OF
r. Dobson at the Avon and rifed the
cash drawer Of about SIS. Tate, it is
said, entered the store from the rear
while Mr.. Dobson was uptown on bus
mess and while Mrs. Dobson was in
their residence adjoining. He had
been seen hanging around the store
number of times and there is little
doubt that he is the culprit Tate
bears an unsavory reputation. having
been in similar trouble before. 1t is
believed that he walked to Lowell
and there boarded an eaStbound train.
His parents. it is understood. reside
at Bessemer City. AT her home on
the old Dallas road, two miles north
of town, Mrs. William Summey died
at $40 o'clock yesterday afternoon
from pneumonia, after an illness of
only a few days. aged fifty-four years.
The funeral and burial were held this
| afternoon at Long Creek BAPTIST