The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-25
North. East, West and Foreign News.

North, East, West and Foreign News.
The Merchants Elevator company Of
St. Louis has made an assignment.
a conspiracy against the life of the
car Of Russia has been unearthed at
Moscow.
Philadelphia motornen and conduct
ors struck and street railway traffic is
at a standstil.
The American Federation of Labor,
in session at New York, elected Samu-
el Gompers as president.
An official denial is made of the re-
port that Captain General Martinez
Campos has resigned his command in
Cuba.
The presses in all the large job print
ing establishments Of Cleveland, o., are
Idle Oh account Of the press feeders
strike.
Peter Flynn, a 9-year-old boy, broke
through the ice while skating on Long
lake at Middleton, n. Y, and was
drowned.
President Freedman has decided to
take the New York baseball team to
Jacksonville. Fla, to train for next sea-
sons play.
Theodore Lamber was hanged in the
Camden, n. j., Jail for the murder of
William G.. Kairer, a wealthy Camden
banker, on Dec. 4, 1898.
The Grangers' Bank of California,
one Of the oldest banks in San Francis
co, is about to go into voluntary iquida-
ton, and has closed its doors.
President Mayer of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad has resigned and his re-
signation has been accepted, but he will
retain the Office until his successor shall
be elected.
It is reported on good authority that
the Prince OF Wales made an enormous
lot of m oney when the South African
mining market was at its height few
months ago.
\ dispatch from Rome, Italy, an
nounces tie death of Cardinal Paul
Me,chors. He was a German by birth,
was born iu 1918 and was created a
cardinal in 1885.
Charles B. Atwood, one of Americas
foremost architects and designers. and
until quite recently a member OF the
we'll known firm Of D. H. Burnha.n &
Co., died at Chicago.
Frank E. Vaughan of Tacoma, Wash,
has been appointed assistant journal
clerk Of the house to succeed q. w.
Pratt of South Carolina. The position
pays $1,000 per annunl.
a locomotive with a train attached
ran away near Mount Carmel, Pa, and
was badly wrecked -Four men were
fatally injured and nine others were
badly hurt and scalded
The manifesto Of the Cuban revolu.
tiona,y party to the people Of the Unit.
ed States has been made public. 1t is o
long document, prepared by EnnQue
Jose Varona, ex-deputy in the Spanish
Cortes and reviews the history OF rcvo-
luticnary agitation III Cuba and pres
ent conditions on the island.
Ex-consul general to Ottawa, Thomas
w. Holclfkiss, died at his home IN
Northport, L. l., of heart disease. He
was 10 years old and leaves widow,
three sons and a daugh-er
Five men were killei and SIX injured
by the explosion of a S,camp:pa on the
American line steamship ST. 1naul. %eI!e
the vessel lay at her dock az the foot OF
Fulton street. New York.
At Zmesville, O., Andrew W. Kim
blc'S plant for the manufacture OF car
riagc gears burned to the ground as
the result of a fire of unknown origin.
The loss is $4,000 with $4,000 insur-
ance.
The Erie railway, the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio and the Chica-
go and Erie railroads are to be united
under one managcrship as ono great
trunk line between Chicago and New
York.
Henry D. Ward, a ineal descendant
of General .Artemus Ward. died at
AIiddletowu. Conn He was graduate
of I;llc. class of ~, and of Harvard
law school. Was IL years old and un-
married.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson died at Get
tysDurg Pa. from al overdose Of nuX
vOlnica. which he took b. mistake. he
was an ex-member Of congress and clerk
of the house Of representatives Nurlns
seven congresses.
The jury i'll the trial Of Lloyd Mont
gomery. the 1S-year- r-old boy, for the
murder Of his father and mother and
Daniel McKcecher, near Brownsville,
Or, has returned verdict OF guilty Of
murder III the first degree.
The Paris correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette telegraphs that he is in a