The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-01-18
GENERAL NEyEs NOTES.
Items CT interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Late DEVELOPMENTS bring az carly settle
nent of the Reading Railroad difficulties
entirely within the range OF probability
At Cork, Ireland, yesterday, Dr., Philip
Gross, formerly surgeon in the 35d Tesi-
meat, was hanged for the murder OF his
wife by' poisoning.
I've lost ny grip" sadly sighed pen,
nicss commercial traveller when the hotel
proprietor seized his valise for non p y
mcnt Of board.
1he convention for securing cheap rail
road cScursicn rates to the South Tor per
sons prospecting with 1 Vicw to settle Is II
session in Chattanooga.
The New York jury, in the case ot Miss
Campbell against Coffee Merchant Ar
buckle, for breach of promise of marriage
returned verdict foc plaintiff in the sum
of $4,000.
4 Shanghai dispatch says that 4 fanall-
cal outbreak has occurred in the province
OF Tuk:cn. Twenty Christian churches
have been burned and the converts massa-
cred
Eight armed men stopped the Mexican
Central passenger train. on Tuesday even
ing 800 miles south Of Il Paso. Texas,
aad robbed the express car. Nobody was
lur'.
An Iowa prize-fghter had q rib bros en-
IN 4 bout recently, AID tainted; Adam
lost rib, and We are not told that nc
tainted. Perhaps he didt know what
troublc the loss portened
Sickcl, HELEN & Co. Of Baltimore, nc
tons aud white goods, have made an as
siunment for the the benefit OF their crcc-
itors to William J. Dixon. The bond OF
the trustees is 100000.
at Chattanooga yesterday, during a
quarrel between Lew Owens and j. d.
Barnes. the former was shot three times Dy
Barnes. who was cut by Owens. INC
wounds Of Owens are mortal.
\ local passenger train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad was derailed by snow
drifts near Grey Cliff, Montana, Oh Tues
day evening. Tie engineer and fireman
were killed: no one else was injured.
An epidemic Of crysipelas has b:okcn
ont among the Indians at Poplar River,
Montana. Abou' twenty have died. The
cause IS close confinement and bad vcntlIa
ton.
4 dispatch from Gainesville, Ga, say
that solid vein Of black lead ore, more
than 200 feet wide, has been discovered
near there. and that it is Tie largest de-
Dosit found cast of the Rocky Mountains.
An express train running from Boston
for Portland was wrecked on the Haver'
hill bridge. over the Mcr-imac River, yes
ierdav afternoon. Seven persons were
killed and ffty-two woundcd-fourtcen OF
them very seriously.
One Of the Reading strikers, ct Norris
town, on Monday night. attacked an en-;
ciuecr upon his locomotive and knocked
him down with Il coupling pin, and it took
three men to drive the rioter from the en-
sinc and arrest him &c is now locked up
awaiting trial.
Governor Larrabce Of Ohio, in his bien'
MIA! message to tho Legislature, says that
the enforcement OF the prohibtory law
has been 50 efficient in reducing crime that
ne rrcommcnds the consolidation OF judi
cial districts so as to reduce the number OF
judges from forty-four to forty.
Senator Edmu2dS, from the judiciary
Committee, has made al adverse report on
the nomination Of L. G. c. Lamar to be
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court,
and Senator Pugh, on behalf of the minor,
ily of the same committee, submitted Ia,
roraD!c report The reports were placed
on the calendar.
4 dispatch from San Francisco says that
an accident occurred on the Southern Pa
c:fic Railroad. near Sumner, in Kern coun-
ty, about midnight of Tuesday, which re-
suited in the burning of several passengers
and serious injury otherwise to many
others. A rear car full of sleeping emi,
grants brooke loose and ran down steer
grade, and over an cightyfoot embank.
nltnt, and in moment was a mass Ci
flames