The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Happenings All Over the World
Briefly Told.

Happenings All Over the World
Briefly Told.
Through the South.
A patent has been issued to John
Walter of Winter Haven, Fla, for
Srausplanter.
Mr.. G. Calhoun was run over and IN
stantly killed by train about hve miles
north OF Fort Pierce, Fla.
n. T. Stanaland has been appointed
postmaster at Ivan, Wakulla county,
TIA. vice ". R. Strickland, resigned.
c. R. Hassell, the arch conspirator in
the Beaufort graveyard insurance cases,
has been convicted at Trenton. n. =.
Near Randolph, Ala, an unknown
white man was run over and killed by
freight train on the Southern railway.
Special reports to The Manufacturers
Record show all increased southwark
movement of population from the west
and southwest.
John Bryant, a young man about 20
years of age. was accidentally killed by
his sweetheart, Miss Belle James, at
Fort Valley, Ga
At the Democratic convention at
Shreveport, La, Governor Murphy ).
Foster was renonlinated for governor
without opposition.
The Bradfeld Car Coupler company
aas been Incorporated at Chattanooga,
Tenn, by H Clay Evans, George W.
Barfeld and others.
The town of Titusville, in Brevard
! county, Fla, was nearly wiped out by
The total loss is estimated at $780,
6e partially insured
Jim Nichols. negro, was hanged at
Fayetteville, WA, for the murder OF
Henry Carr at-Eagle, VIVA. His neck
was broken by the drop.
Captain Harry Jackson died at his
home in Atlanta of appendicitis, never
having recovered from the effects of an
operation for that disease.
The Piedmont spool and bobbin fac.
tory, located at Athens, Ga, has started
operations. It was recently destroyed
Ly fire, but has been rebuilt.
Two negroes named Mills and Cook
ouarrelled at Louisburg, n. c., about 80
cents while gambling Cook seized the
money and Mills shot him dead.
Burglars blew open the safe in Peter
man Brothers grain house at Franklin,
Tenn, and the explosion knocked down
q coal oil stove, which fred the building.
Governor Carr has ordered special
term of Beaufort superior court to begin
Jan. for the trial of the four young
white men who assassinated J. 3. Bon
ncr at Aurora
J. ". Tufts Of Boston, who is build
ing the town of Pinehurst, in Moore
county, Oh 5000 acres of land for Win
ter homes, has also purchased Jackson
Springs, in that county.
By al explosion of powder and dyna-
mite four men were killed at Big Greek
GAP, mile and a half north Of Lafo-
lctte, Campbell county, Tenn. -Four
ether men are missing.
At Valdosta, Ga, in the case Of E. W.
Barnwel against the Savannah, Florida
and Western railroad for the killing Of
Mrs. Barnwen, a verdict was rendered
for 81 900 for the plaintiff.
Mrs. R. A. Duncan of Bedford county,
Tenn, an inmate of the retreat for in
s:,:e ct Nashville, committed suicide by
hanging herself with a piece OF bed
sheeting attached to an iron grating.
Fire at Murphy, n c., destroyed the
courthouse, which was erected few
wears ago at a cost of sS5,000. The
county records were all saved. The to-
tai loss will reach $4,000, with not
cent Of insurance.
a serious cutting affray occurred
about four miles from Ellaviue, Ga, in
which J. o. Wilkinson was dangerously
cut across the neck and head and stabbed
in the back by Mr. Newton Glover, once
representative from Schley.
jim Burrell, Oconee's most notorious
moonshiner, was arrested near Walhal-
Ia. S. c., by United States marshals.
He has defed the law and officers for
the last 20 years. He is 81 years old
and the father Of 30 children.
Chief Justice D. L. Snodgrass of the
Tennessee supreme court fred two shots
at John R. BeaSley, a prominent. lawyer
of Chattanooga, Tenn, one Of which
took effect in the arm. Mr.. Beasley is
seriously hurt, but not fatally.
Lee Bell, a negro, waylaid and nearly
murdered Section Master Christopher
of the Southern railway, three miles
from Brunswick, Ga. The purpose for
the assault was robbery and revenge for
a discharge. Bell has been captured.
David Gray, the IS-year-old boy who
was shot through the bowels at
Dublin, Ga, by Louis Tillery, the
young sport, is dead. The murder,
which was unprovoked, occurred near
the house where Gray's mother lived.
The leasing of the Paducah, Tennes-
see and Alabama by its recent pur-
chasers to the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis road, which has just gone
into effect, means the formation Of an
other through line from St. Louis to
Nashville, Tenn.
A Mr.. Thompson, who went to At
lanta from the island Of Ceylon few
months ago, lost his life, and two other
persons were seriously injured il a fire
which destroyed the 2-stQry building,
located near the Mexican village, on the
exposition grounds.
At Fitzpatrick, Ala, all alteration
occurred between DR.. S. Baldwin and
Wade Edison, both prominent citizens
of the county, and Baldwin shot his an
tasonist dead. The killing was done in
self defense. Baldwin is prominently
connected in Montgomery.
Sheriff Black CT Colleton county, S.
c., has reported to Solicitor Bellinger
that he cannot find the four white men
who lynched the two negroes recently
BY beating them to death. The sheriff
saws that he believes that the White
men are hiding out in the swamps.
The will Of the late Dr.. Battey has
been placed on record and disposes Of
his larce property. his wife and children