The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-05


the river and harbor bill has caused
some little CONSERVATION in Savannah,
as in the estimates furnished by the
secretary of war no mention was made
of the Savannah river work, either for
the contemplated work at Tybee roads
or for maintenance of the harbor work.
Pearl and Freeland Harper, aged Is
and IS years, sons of Cyrus Harper, q
prominent contractor, left Huntington,
W. Va, for Columbus, O. Forty miles
north Of Huntington, on the Norfolk
and Western railroad, Pearl fell be.
tween two cars and 20 box cars passed
over his body, mangEng it beyond re-
cognition.
Captain Joseph F. Johnston, candi-
date for the Democratic nomination for
governor Of Alabama, who some days
ago received a challenge from Mr..
Clarke to q joint discussion, has de-
clined. He is of the opinion that such
discussion will not tend to harmonic
the party or strengthen it's lines for the
August election.
Captain John Screven is inspecting
Brunswick's sewerage system at the ID.
stance of the Savannah sewerage COM
mission, who wish to adopt some Of
Brunswick's ideas, if practicable, in the
Improvements now being made in Sa.
vannah. After inspecting, he stated
that Brunswick's system excelled Sa-
vannah's in many respects.
At Manly, N. O., q freight train on
the Seaboard Air Line ran into an open
switch on line of freight cars En-
gineer Thad Peasants of Raleigh was
scalded, but not seriously. Fireman
Walter Flanagan and Train Hand Isaac
Bowen, both negroes, were instantly
killed. The engine was wrecked and
overturned and 16 freight cars smashed.
The house committee on military af-
fairs decided to recommend the creation
of national military park on the Vicks-
burg battlefield. The park contemplated
will embrace 1900 acres where the op-
posing armies were lined at the siege Of
Eicksburg The cost of the land is linn
tied to $4,000, but the entire expense Of
the park, if the project is carried out,
will be S500,000.
Terms have beer cc-eed upon by
which the Roanoke and Southern rail
way will be absorbed in the reorganiza-
ton Of the Norfolk and Western sys-
TEN. The bonds Of the Roanoke and
Southern, which are principally held in
Baltimore, were deposited with the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit company.
Negotiations for settlement are being
carried on by that company.
Colonel John E. Brown, ever since
the war a prominent attorney of the
Charlotte IN. G. bar, and at present So
licitor of the criminal court, attempted
suicide by shooting himself in the head,
He placed the revolver at the spot
where he had received guushot wound
during the war. His wound is fatal.
His mind had been unsettled recently
by Ill health and the effects Of his war
wound.
Notes From North, East, West and Abroad.
General Joseph FL Porter died in New
York city.
Mrs. Celeste E. Carleton. mother of
Will Carleton, the poet, is dead.
Russia is reported to be getting ready
to occupy Armenia and ConStantinople.
Harvey Page, his wife and two young
sons were burned to death near Mar.
shall, Mich.
Hon. Theodore Runyon, the United
States ambassador to Germany, died at
Berlin Of heart failure.
Sir Joseph Barnby, the well known
musician and principal of the Guildhall
school Of music, is dead
At Minneapolis, George Baxter, Ia
borer, pounded his wife's brains out
with hammer and then cut his own
throat.
James Edwin Campbell of Chicago,
dialect poet and story writer, is dead.
His reputation extends over the United
States
DR.. W. H. Furness, the oldest and
most prominent Unitarian divine in the
died at his home in Philadel-
phia, aged 96 years.
The Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany Of New York, filed bill in Chi
cago to foreclose mortgage for S7,TT5,-
900 on the Lake Street Elevated road.
The name of Edwin F. Uhl, assistant
secretary of state, has been mentioned
prominently in the gossip in regard to
the appointment to the ambassadorship
at Berlin.
Work has been begun on the exposi-
ton which is scheduled to open In Gua-
temala next December. President Bar
rios laid the cornerstone of the liberal
arts building.
The steamer Washtenow, from Pan
anna, brings news that when she left the
isthmus two weeks ago there was a
prospect of a strike among the employees
Of the Panama railway.
4 renewal of the massacre Of Aintab,
Amaissia and Van is feared and the
of the powers have called
the attention of the porte to the alarm
ing rumors in circulation.
Lloyd B. Montgomery, who murdered
bis parents and D. McKeecher, neigh
Dor, last December, was hanged at Al
bany, Or. He exhibited wonderful
pluck and died unfinchingly.
Five persons were killed and nearly
a score injured, some of them fatally,
BY an explosion of the large 30-inch
cylinder boiler at the works Of Holi-
iaysburg pa. Iron and Nail company.
The government of Managua has re-
the normal internal condi-
lions Of the country and the political
crisis which has been disturbing ele-
ment for some time past is now pro-
nounced to be over.
The Brazilian government refuses to
accept the boundary lines proposed by
Bolivia in the territorial issues between
The two countries. Bolivia suggests that
she question be submitted to the presi-
dent of the United States.
Plans are being arranged for the re-
funding of the floating debt of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad company,
which may result in the formation OF
new system to be known as the Baltl-
more and Ohio Northwestern.
The steamer J. W. Hawkins, with q
Ill