The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-07-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Facts of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.
Prohibition carried Spalding Coun-
ty, Ca, by Is majority.
A negro preacher in West Virginia
is organizing his race to 60 to Llbe-
ria, where they will not belynched:
The Liberals have so far been bad
ly beaten at the elections held IN En-
gland. The Conservatives lead by a
large majority.
Abe Small, alias Will Thompson,
was arrested in Baltimore last week
for the murder of two policemen IN
Savannah last August.
4. n. Towne, second vice president
and general manager of the Southern
Pacific Company died last week at
San Francisco.
An American named Zermatt Par.
kett has accomplished the ascent OF
the Matterhorn, over 14,1OO feet
above the level of the sea.
In the Circuit Court of Indiana,
the Democrats have had set aside the
appointment act passed by the Repub-
lican Legislature last winter.
There is great excitement in Sofia
over the attempted assassination OF
ex-Prime Minister Stambuiotf, and
the police are openly accused of being
| accessories to the assassination.
Night watchman Brewer on the
Cape Fear and Yakin Valley Rail
| road yard at Greensboro, n. c., was
run over by a yard engine last Weds
nesday night and cut in two. He was
seventy-fye years old.
Coal Operator T. D. Stein, of the
Phoenix Mines, Idlewood, Pa, ha
been indicted by the secretary of the
miners organization for using fraud
ulent scales in weighing coal. He
has, it is alleged, swindled them out
of hundreds of tons.
The Governor of Wyoming has
received letter from citizens resid-
ing in the vicinity of the Indian trou-
BILE, imploring him to send troops to
the scene. Indians are gathering
there in force and the whites fear an
uprising.
The first bale of the 1895 cotton crop
was sold at auction in New York on
Wednesday, It was from Duval Coun-
ty, Texas, and was bought by J. G:
Graham & Co. Its grade was full
middling; price paid, 145 cents.
President Spencer, OF the Southern,
says that there is absolutely no truth
in the reported purchase of the Sea
board Air Line by the Southern Rail.
way, and Vice-President st. John. OF
the Seaboard Air Line, as emphatl-
cally denied it.
The family of G. G. Newton. en-
route from Marion, Ind, to Arkan-
sas, have been poisoned by eating
toadstools, which they supposed were
mushrooms. Two girls, aged 13 and
II, and a boy aged Is, have died.
At a meeting of the supreme exec
utive board of the A. P. A, at Chi
cago last week resolutions were adopt
eG to the effect that the association IS
not making war on the Roman Cath
olic religion, but on its political fea-
lures.
Arrangements are being made for
a convention in Petersburg, Pa, for
the study of the Bible prophecies in
regard to the second coming of Christ
A prominent minister who is com
mitted to the doctrine that will be
under consideration, said: eve are
not classed as cranks, but hold doc
trine which is gaining rapidly. It is
asserted by one of the leading minis
tiers of the Presbyterian Church that
there are at present five ministers
committed to this Interpretation of the
prophecies where there was one ten
years ago"
Valkyrie Ill, the challenger for
the Americas cup sailed for New York
on Monday.
Mcfarland, of North Carolina, a
horse trainer, was instantly killed by
lightning at Cape Charles, Va, last
week.
An American lady, Miss Balthy
has obtained the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at the Goetingen Univcr-
sity at Berlin.
Dock Hoskins, a negro, shot and
killed Chief of Police Thomas J. OS-
borne, of Norton, Va, Wednesday
night while the officer was attempting
to quieta disturbance alta negro dance.
The jury in the case of Mary Aber-
nathy, one of the women on trial at
Lunenburg Court House, Va, for
the murder of Mrs. Pollard, rendered
verdict of murder in the first de-
gree.
As result of big fire in Cincin
natl Thursday the square bounded by
Walnut, Water, Vine and Front
streets is in ashes. Two firemen were
killed and sixteen injured. The loss
will reach $500, 900.
Harry Bowden, Pennsylvania
operator, was killed by tramps at
Bucyrus, Pa, last week, and his body
placed upon the tracks, where it was
struck by an engine and decapitated.
The crime was committed for the pur-
pose of robbing the man.
Two colored men were killed on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near
Williamsburg, Va, on Monday night.
and another fatally injured, by
their heads coming in contact with an
overhanging bridge. They were
standing on top of freight car.
Mate Wilson, from Boston, was
killed Tuesday at Philadelphia by be-
ing struck by negro lunch peddler:
He was teasing the colored man, and
finally threwa cobblestone in his bask-
ct of cakes. The negro turned quickly
and struck Wilson back of the ear
with his fist. Wilson dropped like q
log and died almost Immediately.
a Santa Fe freight train bound
from Denver to Colorado Springs fell
through a bridge on Wednesday near
Monument, COL, killing three per-
sons, fatally injuring three. and Sc
riously injuring fifteen others. There
| were twenty-three cars n the train
loaded with stone and lumber. The
train passed nearly over the bridge
when the timbers gave way and the