Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-03
association adjourned to meet in Rich
burg on the 5th of September.

DuTS OH the DlH ol Stpltlllpei'
Gastonia Gazette, May 81: The be-
ginning of a new tax and license year,
which starts June 1st will, it is under
stood, bring two near-beer saloons to
Gastonia. One will be located east of
the town proper. in the Loray mill Sec
ton, and will be operated, it is stated
by Mr.. ]. NJ. Parker. The other, we
are informed. will be located in a
building on Main street, now vacated,
which is being put in readiness for it.
The town license is $1,000 and the state
and county license is $50. A cOnsign-
ment of the near" article reached
Gastonia today. 49,. John Blackwood,
the young man suspected of having
made an attempt to assault Miss Car
rie Bell on her fathers farm near Bes-
semer City last Thursday afternoon
day afternoon and night, was arrested
at Waco, about twelve miles from Bes-
semer City Friday afternoon by Po-
liceman John Hoard. The latter phon-
ed to Bessemer City and an officer
started at once for Waco to bring the
young man back but before he arrived
Blackwood had escaped from his cap
tor. From the best information OBJ
tainable it seems that Hoard took
Blackwood to his house to keep him
till the Bessemer officer arrived. Leav-
ing his prisoner on the porch Hoard
stepped into the hall to get his coat
and when he returned moment later
his prize was hotfooting it down the
road. 1t is understood, also, that
Blackwood acknowledged to Hoard that
he was the man wanted. So far young
Blackwood has succeeded in evading
his pursuers, though it is believed
that he is still somewhere in that
section of the county and that his ar
rest is just a matter of time. -. Bare
footed, her black hair streaming loose
ly down her back, Hulda Burgess, an
attractive looking girl of perhaps lS
years, sat in a surrey in front of the
city hall yesterday afternoon and gave
utterance to the widest rawlings of
maniac. She had been brought from
her home at the Loray mill and was
taken, as quickly rs Magistrate w.
Meek Adams could write commit
ment, to the county Jail, where she is
incarcerated pending application for
her entrance into the state insane asy-
lum at Morganton. She wore plain
white dress and when not talking loud
ly and wildly was engaged in MUNICH
ing on a lunch of bananas, cakes, etc,
which had been provided for her. This
is another case traceable directly to
the influence Of the unknown tongue
tribe which continues it's operations in
this immediate section unmolested. 1t
is hence all the moro case for su-
preme pity as her present plight might
have been prevented had this aggre-
tation of fakirs been sent away from
Gastonia some time ago. This is only
one of quite a number of cases which
have come to light in Gastonia within
the past year in which lives have been
blighted in one way or another by the
baneful influence of these near-reli-
gious montebanks. The girl who was
taken to Dallas Jail yesterday after
noon is the one who, on the night or
May 18th, as chronicled in the Gazette
of May goth, gathered large number
of people at her home on the supposi-
ton that she was to be married that
night to a certain young man in the
community. He failed to show up and
on investigation it was found that ne
knew nothing whatever of the matter
and her only explanation was contain
ed in the declaration that the Lord told
me we were to he married tonight" 1t
was found then that she was laboring
under a mental cloud and since that
time she has grown steadily worse un-
til it was found necessary to place her
in confinement. 1t is asserted posi-
lively by those in a position to know
that she was an attendant at the SER
vices of the unknown tongue" people
and her insanity is directly traceable
to the influences eXerted upon her by
these people. At present the unknown
tongue" people are holding services in
the neighborhod of the Clara and
Dunn mills.