The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-03-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered from sarlou
Quarters.

tirement.
The German Emperor's symptoms are
more favorable.
The report of the burning Of Suakim is
confirmed.
A fire at Marion c. Il. last night de
stroyed nearly $4,000 worth OF property.
The treaty with China has been signed
and sent to the President for TRANSMISSION
to Congress.
The great storm at the North is over,
but railroad travel and telegraphic commu'
nication are still much impeded.
John Healy, who attempted to commit
suicide in Savannah last Saturday, WILL re-
cover.
The steamer City of Exeter has sunk in
Bristol Channel. Only one seaman was
saved.
At Columbus, O., the main building and
works of the Buckeye Buggy Company
were burned last night.
Thousands of people from all parts OF
Germany have viewed the remains OF the
late Emperor as they lay in State at Berlin.
Thirty-six persons have been convicted
in Charleston of carrying on business with,
out a license. The question will be carried
to the Supreme Court.
A cable from London says the report
comes from Egypt that the Soudanese nave
captured Saukim, killed the Governor,
massacred the garrison and burnt the town.
Henry Bergh, the philanthropist, and
! founder of the New York Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to animals, is dead.
The Reading road south of that city has
| been blockaded since Sunday night. Fit
teen trains are now snowbound between
there and Bridgeport.
1t is reported from Deckerton, n. j.,
| that the Catholic church was blown down
| Monday by a terrific gale. 1t is COM
plete loss.
Two hundred pounds of powder ex-
| ploded in the Empire mine, near Grass
| Valley, yesterday, killing Daniel TerreloX
and fatally injuring two others.
At Danville, Va, yesterday, jury was
obtained in the Taylor murder case. les
timonv for the State was closed and that
for the defense begun.
The French Transatlantic Steamship
Company has furnished its large fleet with
complete apparatus for dropping oil on
the waves" during bad weather.
The Philadelphia Record says: Gone
little underground telephone wire gave to
Philadelphia yesterday the only communl.
cation that it had with the outside world. "
The Rev. Eugene Peck, pastor of the East.
ern Presbyterian Church OF Washington,
was struck by a locomotive while walking
on the railroad track on the outskirts OF
that city yesterday and instantly killed.
The coroner's jury at Camden have con-
cluded that the recent collision on the
Three C's road was attributable to negll-
gence, but whose they cannot determine.
There was a disastrous fire at Milwaukee
Yesterday morning. Two fremen were
| killed and three mortally hurt by falling
wall. Loss $425, ,000-insurance $3.50, 600
The Democratic State Executive Com.
mittee of Tennessee has called State Con-
vention, to elect delegates to the National
Convention and nominate electors and a
candidate for Governor, to be held on May
8 in Nashville.
Frederick Schumacher, German, 19
years old, of Eureka, CAL, committed sui.
eide Tuesday, on hearing of the death of
Emperor William He tied chalk-llne
around his throat and rolled out of bed.
He had often expressed the wish to die at
the same time as the Emperor.
The largest audience that ever assembled
in Wilmington gathered at the opera house
to participate in the memorial services IN
lonor Of the late Emperor William of Ger
many Speeches were made BY the Ger
man consul and by several prominent citi-
Zens
One of the secretaries of the German
embassy to Russia, Prince Hohenlobe, who
! attempted suicide at ST. Petersburg recent
Il, in his room at the Hotel de France, by
shooting himself through the head while
in bed, is al present under the care OF Pro-
fessor Reyer and is improving rapidly.
The employees Of Mcclure 6 Co., coke
operators at Pittsburg, have struck on ac-
count of the refusal of the firm to grant
the demand of the men for division Of
work. The strike affects nearly 1000 men
and has resulted in shutting down 1856
ovens.
John L. Sullivan, the Boston bruiser,
has gone to drinking again. His confne-
nent in French prison was too great a
strain upon his delicate sensibilitieS. He
says that he will not go 10 the prize ring
any more, but will hereafter confne him
self to exhibitions in boxing.
At Pittsburg, Penn, Brace Bros, laun-
dry proprietors, have sued for $4,000
damages the president of the trades assem-
bly,, an ex-district master workman of the
Knights of Labor, and the proprietor of
the Commoner, and fifteen others, mem
bers of boycott committee which attempt
| ed to ruin their business.
The Boston Globe has just given the
world an unexampled instance of newspa-
per enterprise For forty-eight hours dur
ing the great storm it was impossible to get
| any way of communication between Boston
aud New York. The Globe was deter
mined to get news from New York, so it
ordered dispatches sent by cable via Lon
| don to Boston.
The nation, it seems, is now about ready
to settle the junketing bills incurred in 1924
as the result of the congressional invitation
| to Lafayette to visit this country. 1t is a
littl: late, but with more than hundred
million surplus it is about as good time to
square up all round as we shall have.
The high price of coal has led to the sub
stitution of wood for fuel in many country
districts near the seacoast. The general
use of coal has been followed by an in
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