The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-11

their seats OF the ground that the state
has not the republican form Of govern
ment guaranteed by the constitution.
Senator David B. Hills lecture tour
III the northwest has proved failure
and 1t has come to ~ a3rupt end. when
the senator closed his business arrange
mentS and returned to New York. the
reason assigned being that he had con-
tracted 4 severe cold while at Duluth,
Mimi
One Of the largest and Most rcpreseil-
tativc conventions ever held in the ter
ritory in favor of statehood, has just ad-
journed at Oklahoma City after adopt
ing resolution urging the congress. Of
the United States TO pass an act pro-
viding for the admission of Oklahoma
as q state
While four, coal cars We're standing
on g steep grade in the; Ontario and
Wcstcr, yard at NIid2letown, n, Y,
Their brakes We're released by mischiev
Gus boys. The cars went crashing into
car on which Brakeman William H.
kiehenmeister was standing, killing
him instantly.
4 massmeeting of prominent busi-
ness men of St. Louis was held for the
purpose of making arrangements TO So
cure one or both of the two national
conventions for ST Louis next year.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars were rals-
ed for that purpose, and $4,000 more
will be Subscribed.
The portions Of President Cleve-
lands message on the Cuban question
evoked lively comment at the head:
quarters Of the revolutionary junta in
New York city. Delegate Estrada Pal
ma objected to the presidents describ-
ing American sympathy with the Gu
bans as sentimental.
At San Francisco Judge Murphy de-
MED the motion for new. trial IN the
case Of Theodore Durant, convicted of
the murder of Blanche Lamont, and
ordered that he be turned over to the
warden of San Quentin prison, to be
kept until the day has been fixed for
passing sentence upon him.
W. L. Sachleben. sent to Asia Minor
to search for the body Of Frank Lcnz,
the Pittsburg hicyclist murdered by
Kurds. wrote to his father at Alton,
Ills. from Er,zeroum four days after the
massacre there. He says in his letter,
Just received. that the sultan's soldiers
and crowd of kurds killed about 500
Armenians in two hours.
\ 7-story building IL Chicago. on
West Jackson street, has been condemn
ed, a..jl William Sooy Smith, one Of the
leading civil engineers of the west, says
that many of the sky scrapers will. un-
less their foundations are strengthened.
eventually become wrecks Oh account OF
the soft soil underlying them.
At Philadelphia, Herman ", Mudg-
ett, alias H. II. Holmes, who was con-
victed of murder in the first degree for
having caused the death Of Benjamin
+. Pietzel. was in the court of oyer and
ter,niner refused a new trial and SEN
fenced to be hanged. The date Of exc
cution Will be fixed By the governor of
Pennsylvania.
Harry J. Mooney, a shoemaker, who
started from Brockton, Mass, to make
a pair of shoes for the governors of the
different states, returned home on ac-
count of illness. He had reached as
far south as Atlanta and during the
trip had made shoes for governors of
ten states. He will resume his trip as
soon as his health will permit.
At Chicago, James Lewis attempted
to defend his. sister from the abuse of
her husband, Andrew Gazzalow, and as
a result was shot and killed. Lewis
met Gazzalow and demonstrated with
him for the cruel treatment CT his wife.
Gazzalow, in fit Of anger at being up
braided, drew his revolver and shot and
killed Lewis. The murderer was I'M
mediately arrested.
Referring to President Cleveland's
message to congress, the London Globe
SAYS: There is nothing surprising in
the fact that the Monroe doctrine bulks
rather largely in the message, nor in the
hostile, tone adopted toward England.
Isn't'the presidential election drawing
nigh? Pulling the lions tail may lock
to the old world curious way Of trying
to catch fish; but it has BEEN found to
answer in the-turgid waters of A,ner-
can politics.
Another radical step in the prosecu
tion of lottery schemes by the postoffice
department was taken by the issuance
of a general order to all postmasters
forbidding the use of the mails to the
Loteria Mexicana de La Benehcicncia
Pubica of Mexico 1t has been operat-
ing for about year, claiming to be run.
for the public benefit of San Louis Po-
tosi state, and to have a deposit Of
100000 in Kansas City as a guarantee
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