The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-04-14

-Wm. Ellis, of st. Francis, Ark,
hard drinker, who habitually beat hi
wife, shot her and her infant fatal.
with Winchester rife. He was hur
ricd to jail to avoid lynching.
"A fire in the Central Railroad
warehouses at Savannah, on Tuesday
destroy ed forty-five car loads Of corr
and damaged three hundred bales O
cotton; estimated loss $4,000.
The Mormons have just closed :
four days session at Proro, Utah, over
ten thousand people being in attend
ance. They have 10 intention Of emf
grating by wholesale from Utah.
The boiler Of the British steamship
Emchantrcss, ashore on Frying Par
Shoals off Wilmington, n. c., explod
ed last week. Three wreckers were
badly scalded-one dangerously.
The Republicans have elected the
Mayor Of Madison, Wis, for the frs1
time since 1880. Racine and Kenoshs
also elect Republicans. The entire
Republican ticket was elected at La
Crosse.
In the recent municipal election at
Fort Worth, Texas, every Alderman
chosen was Knight Of Labor and the
Mayor leans that way. Incendiary
speeches were made at a recent public
meeting.
Louis P. Schmidt, of Freeport,
Illinois, killed himself-driven to the
act, il is believed, through dismissal
from the Knights Of Labor. He was
charged with divulging the secrets of
the Order.
"A ire broke out in q lumber yard
in La Crosse, Wis, on Tuesday, and
spread in different directions; fire
engines from adjacent towns had to be
called in. The loss will reach fully
s1,5O0,000.
Representative Samuel J. Ran
dalrs admirers are talking Of him as q
successor to Mr.. Manning in the
Treasury Department.. Counting
chickens before they are hatched is an
cid habit Of the sansuine.
-Isadore Scidenbaum, . young mal,
went into the sleeping room of Annie
Rosentein, pretty girl of fifteen, in
Milwaukee, and killed her and tEeu
himself with pistol. No cause is
assigned for the terrible act.
"A strike of cotton spinsters and
weavers against Tie lowering of wages
is in. progress at Ensncde, Holland.
SO far no disorders have occurred,
although the Socialists are urging the
strikers to resort to iortible measures.
DR.. Luther c. Rose, of Palmyra,
Ohio, claims to hUve invented 4 most
excellent telephone transmitter. In q
test over SIS miles Of wire q whisper
was heard distinctly, and also the tick
ing of y watch held ten feet from the
tranSinitter.
The report Of the Rovai Commits
sion appointed to inquire into the
business depression throughout Great
Britain contains some very strong
statements about the damage 10 the
trade of that country By high tariffs in
the United States.
The Chinese Minister was grossly
insulted on his arrival in San Francisco
last Tuesday. The Collector of Gus
toms refused to let him land, without
all inspection Of his credentials. The
affair caused quite sensation, but this
has quieted down.
The month of March, with its dry
winds, has always been disastrous
one in the fire record. The waste for
this country and Canada for that month
has averaged $7,000,000. Last year
the March losses footed up S9,O00,O00,
and this year they were S10,650,0OO.
B. C. Coyle, a respected citizen OF
Dalton, Ga, was taken from his home
and whipped severely by masked men.
Two young females were whipped by
the same party. The whipped indi-
viduals are charged with reporting the
whippers for running Illicit distilleries.
Sheriff Slatch, of Cochise county,
Arizona, went to Gen. Crook with a
warrant for Geronimo and forty one
"John Does" Gen. Crook replied
chat the Indians are held as prisoners
of war under instructions from Wash
ington, and he would not give them
up.
Ono of the mail cars attached to
fast mail train No. /, which left Chica-
90 at $50 p. N. OH Thursday on the
Lake Shore Railroad, was burned at
Oak Harbor, Ohio. The car contained,
besides the mail, a casket in which
were the remains of mother and her
newborn babe.
Illinois Republicans are pluming
themselves over patronage" dissen-
sions among the Democrats in the
Eighteenth Congressional district OF
that State. Of course the suggestion
is made that these will cause Colonel
Morrison's defeat The same thing
has been said before.
Mis-. Foster, wife Of the late Sena-
tor from Connecticut, who was the
acting Vice-Prcsident and President OF
the Senate pro tenn. from 1S65-67, after
spending the winter in Washington,
has gone to Beaufort, S. c., for q visit
to the family of Lieutenant Lyman,
United States navy.
1t seems to be general impress
sion in Washington Mr. T. l.. Fortune,
editor of the Freeman, the independ-
ent organ of the colored people, would
like to have the Recordership Of Deeds
at Washington in case Mr.. Matthews
is not confirmed. Mr.. Fortunes
friends think be will get it.
will. S. Hays, the poet-author,
does not. want the Louisville Postoffice
and has telegraphed to Washington: