The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-07-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts of Interest Gathered from Warrior
Quarters.

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Newark, Ohio.
There is genuine smallpox scare in the
Eastern District of Brooklyn.
Saturday Representative Morrison made
an unfavcrablc report on the tariff bill.
Hugh W. Brooks, alin& Maxwell has
been sentenced to be hanged on the 25th of
August.
Terribly destructive storms passed through
the Kankakec, H., section Friday and Sun
day nights.
Farms were laid waste, buildings TN
rooted ard crops scattered TO the winds by
storms in Illinois, Wednesday.
The rug wcaverS who have been Oh q
strike at Philadelphia, have returned to
work under protest.
One hundred houses have been destroyed
by fire in koden, Poland, turning 300 taml-
lies out of homes
The strike at the Knights cotton mills at
Natic. r. l., extended from l15 weavers to
60 other hands Tuesday.
Alta Chicago boarding house fire Tuesday
several people were injured by jumping
from Sccolu Stol Iiluo"S.
The Sultan has declared for peace, and
has ordered that the army and naval re-
serves disband
Gallo, the man who fired revolver IN
the Boursc several months ago, has been
sentenced to twenty years penal scrvltude.
1t is again reported that Sartoris and his
family are shamefully treating Nellie. Cen.
Grants cup OF sorrow was full when he
died.
One hundred and twenty convictS, in
Dadc coal mines. Ga, have barricadcd
themselves in i building and defy the au-
lhoritieS.
Serious rioting broke out in Belfast, July
l3 between Catholics and Protestants.
Many persons were injured and sent to hos
pitalS.
The Victoria election returns indicate
that the members of the new Parliament
are. with two or three exceptions, Govern
| ment men.
The report that the Gar, the Emperor
William and Emperor Frances Joseph Will
meet during the coming autumn at korlgs-
berg or kicl has been revived.
Rumor has it that Gen. Gordon would
have been favorsbly considered for the
Cabinet, but was too near Wall street.
How about Manning and Jordan!
About - miles from Elmira, New York,
in Wvnkoop Creek section, the farmers
were exhausted Wednesday night, having
been fighting forest fires since Friday.
C2utaip Potter Van Pelt Monday ended
with his own hand a lolpgac- l'oGlpgac- pgac-career of useful,
ness and not little distinction us s.;. ss,, new
reporter for the News York Herald.
The citizens of Augusta have sent to the
Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, Treasurer, $500 for the
Parliamentary fund. Augusta sent IN Jan
llary ABOUT $500 for the same purpose.
Ex.SherifT John Renoe, of Sumter
County, Tenn, was taken from Jail at
Livingston on Tuesday by g mob and
hanged, for the attempted murder Of his
brother.in- law.
Mrs. Caroline Benedict, well-known
woman, who for many years has resided in
the little village of Nottville, in the town
of Skaneateles, n. y, died recently after a
fast extending 53 days.
One of the deputies at the Lake Shore
wards, Chicago, Tuesday shot and tried to
kill a man who remarked that his gun
looked as if it had come from apawn shop.
Trouble was narrowly avcrted.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has visited
the little village of Waterford, situated in
the Northwest corner of Racine County,
Wis, remote from railroads and entirely
isolated.
Small pox of very malignant type has
broken out at Santiago, Chill. The dis
case. which is epidemic and becoming
worse every day, proves fatal in 20 per cent
Of the persons attacked.
The LondSdale Company's cotton mill,
at Ashton. r. l., shut down Tuesday in
consequence of strike-2S spinners lock-
ing out 500 employees. Causc-lnsutilclcnt
pay and the discharge Of an oversecr for
incompctcncy.
Mrs. Mary J. O'Bricn, the wife of John
J. O'Bricn, chief of the Bureau of Elec-
tons, died of blood poisoning after pain.
full illness lasting over ten weeks, at her
home, n. y.
The grand jury have indicted Bernard
P. Verne and William Hogarty on the
charge Of keeping their BARRIERS shops open
in violation of the Sunday law, in Boston.
These will be test cases.
The reported purchase by China of l, 800
tons of German steel rails has caused many
conflicting rumors in England regarding
the intentions of the Chinese to immedi-
ately construct systems of railways.
On Saturday last puma, which has been
infcsting the reighborhood of Pilot Grove,
Texas, for several weeks, tore to pieces and
dcvoured the one year old child of farmer
living on Burns's tract,
The old sugar commission house of j. de
Rivers & co. has suspended, and Henry c.
lie Rivers. the head Of the firm, is missing.
1t is thought that his mind is unsettled and
that he wandered away, not knowing where
he was suing.
\ soldier attempted suicide in Rome
Sunday, and among his effects was found
paper declaring that he had been designated
by secret society 10 kill the King, butthat
he preferred death rather than do IS in
structcd. lie would not bctray the society.
JudSon G.. Clements is the first Congress
man from Georgia to secure q renomina-
ton. Fl ight years ago Judson Clements
defeated Dr. FELTON,, the famous 1ndepend
cnt, who had wrcS,led the Seventh District
from the Democracy.
The AGED mother of Congressman Cole
was informed of her sons death in Balti
more on Friday last The shock completely
prostratcd her. and she died Sunday after
noon. = couple of hours before the funeral