The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-01-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.
TTo BE CONTINUED

At Ope!ousas, La, the ground is covered
an inch deep with ice.
&c. Walthall has been reelected United
States Senator from Mississippi.
The Ohio Republicans are organizing
Sherman League.
At Brownsville, Texas, the mercury has
fallen to IS degrees, the coolest since 1850.
The old business part Of Thomson, Ga,
was burned yesterday. Loss S5o,oO
A new Home Rule paper, the London
| Euening Star, made its appearance yester-
day. The issue was 142, 900 copies.
The trial of the Pickens lynchers has
been postponed till the summer term OF
Court.
A young negro boy four years old was
run over on the Georgia Central railroad
yesterday and his body cut in halves.
The Turkish Minister of War has been
enioined to hasten the completion OF the
defenses of Adrianople..
Governor Semple has signed the bill
giving the ballot to the women of Washing
ton Territory.
A meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati
has enthusiastically endorsed John Sher-
man for President.
Malone has obtained control of the Re-
publican League of rginia-Riddlebe
being left out.
Eight suicides occurred in Vienna yester
| day, among them Captain Deschauer, OF
the Austrian navy, and Paymaster Fuchs,
of the army.
At Birmingham, Ala, yesterday, Fl. Fl.
| Scarbough, detective, was dangerously
shot by Tom Ellis, editor of the Hornet, in
| a saloon row.
Milton Young's stallion Pizarre, by Ad-
venturer, dam Nilener by Rataplan, valued
at SIS, 900. died Wednesday night at Lex
ington, Ky, of pneumonia.
A fire at Fort Mackinway, Wyoming
Territory, destroyed $500, 900 worth of pro-
visions, and the garrison has been put on
| half rations.
The Ashland steel works, about twenty
miles north Of Baltimore, have stopped
work, the Reading strike causing a scarcity
of coal.
Fire at St. Puul, Mimi, yesterday de-
stroyed two buildings occupied by a large
wholesale grocer. Loss $4,000 Insured.
Fire in Montreal yesterday morning de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property. 1t
was so cold that the fire ladders froZe to
the walls.
The schooner Myra Pratt, Sherman mas
| ter, of Mobile, was wrecked on Tamplco
bar on Sunday, and two lives were lost
| Part of the cargo of crossties was saved.
The Iowa Legislature, voting separately
Yesterday, reelected Senator Wilson as MS
own successor. The joint convention Will
ratify this action.
The Delaware rolling mill at Phillips
burg, N. j., shut down on Monday, owing
| to the scarcity of coal and dulness in the
| iron trade. Three hundred hands are thus
thrown out of employment.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, on Sunday
morning. the thermometer stood 5O degrees
below zero, and yesterday morning it
ranged from 55 to 62 degrees below.
The Charleston cotton mill was offered
| for sale yesterday, but as nobody would
bid S35, 900 over the debts of the concern,
| the property was withdrawn.
The long strike Of shoemakers in Roches-
| ter, n. Y, which has continued since No
! vember /, has collapsed, the men returning
! to work on the manufacturers terms
Both branches of the Legislature of
Washington Territory have re-enacted the
woman's suffrage law, but have exempted
women from jury duty.
The annual afternoon performance for
the benefit of the Roman Catholic Orphan
| Asylum, at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York, netted $4,000. Every box
sold at $1S. Four thousand people were
| refused admission.
Reports from different sections of Texas
note the cessation of the blizzard, but the
temperature continues very low for that
latitude. The weather has been unprece-
dented, both in respect to low thermometer
and snow and sleet.
Reports of loss of life in last weeks
storm in the West continue to come IN.
One list now numbers 153, and another
159. 1t would seem probable that the final
summary, if such can ever be made, Will
show quite 200 names. ...-1S qssasH Hs5 Il:
Miss C G.dielma Bostic, distant couslI
of SENATOR Butler, was married last night
at st. Johns Church, Washington, to En-
sig Wilkerson, of the vavy. A brllllan'
rec option took place aftcrWard at the house
of the brides sister, Mrs. Charles Sydney
W Wnitman.
John Murray, of New York, 1a5 pounds
| md Ed. DAILY, of Providence, 1l5 pounds.
ought in New Jersey yesterday with bare
znuckles for $500. At the end of nine
pretty lively rounds, Daily was knocked
enseless by right handler under the ear
Murray was declared winner
At Rntler, Pa. Wednesday mornino
John Mathio. Frenchman, and Belgian
named Alix, foreman at the Standard Plate
Glass Works, were almost instantly killed
| while placing sheet of glass in position on
the grind table. The wheel turned sud-
denly and they fell on it and were ground
to death.
A shocking fatal accident occurred at
Amick Brothers saw mill, in Lexington.
Charles Quails, young white man. was
moving a slab, which come in contact with
the circular saw and was thrown against
his BODY with terrible force, knocking him
down, breaking his neck and killing him
almost instantly. Quails was from Penn
sElYania, and was about nineteen years OF
age.
A collision between two snow plough
engines took place Monday near Hoskings,
Neb., in which an engineer was instantly
killed and several other men injured. The
engineer was working his snow plough in a
cut and got stalled. He thereupon backed
his engine and started down grade at a