The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-08

aN"! double murder there, the result Of a
drunken row over a woman of bad char
actcr. Bill Wells and Gus Osborne, al
ways known as good citizens, were
killed BY Jim Cox and Alb Williams,
two desperate mountain outlaws.
AT Horse Creek church, near Sylvia
mia, Ga, there was some disagreement
among the negroes about the presents
on Christmas tree, and as result TWO
We're killed and another is said to be dv-
19g from the effects of wound AL
bert Jackson has been arrested, charged
with shooting Dave Berricu, one of the
two men who were killed, and has been
committed to the superior court for
trial.
Mr.. j. 0. Curry, the land agent Of
the society which has just formed col
ony of 10000 old soldiers and others
from the northwest, in Wilcox and Ir-
win counties, Ga, received letter from
O representative of Chicago capitalist,
asking him to come to Chicago at once
to take charge of another movement Of
similar character, which is backed by
some Of the most prominent and wealth
lest men OF that city.
Notes From North, East, West and Abroad.
Six persons lost their lives in fire at
Columbus, o.
The Chilian senate has approved the
Chih-Boltvia treaty.
Latin-American republics are said to
5e IN secret league and ready to aid
Venezuela in war against England.
President Cleveland has signed the
proclamation admitting Utah to state
hood.
Catarino Garza, the famous Mexicas
revolutionist, has joined the Cuban pa
triots.
Justice Brewer Of the supreme court
has been rendered and has accepted
place on the Venezuelan commission.
A boilor III building at St. Louis ex-
ploded with terrific force, shattering the
building and burying several persons in
the rains.
John B. Blair, who was born in 1900,
and who was at one time famous and
wealthy, died at the Home for Incura-
bles in Chicago.
An explosion of fredamp occurred in
a colliery at Waldenburg, Prussian ST.
lesia, in which 50 persons are known to
have been killed.
A terrific boiler explosion by which
three mon were killed occurred at tho
Law colliery at Avoca, a small mining,
town in Pennsylvania.
Rev. @. o. Brown. pastor of the First
Congregational church Of San Fran.
cisco, has caused the arrest of Mrs
Mary A. Davidson on charge Of black
mail.
What promises to be the most i'm.
portant of the Canadian parliament
since 1867, when the provinces were
tonfederated, has just opened at OF.
tawa-
Startling advices have been received
from the city Of Havana to the effect
that the whole province of Havana u
up in arms against the Spanish govern.
ment.
A dispatch received from Swatow,
province of Quang- Tong, China, says
that the ringleaders of the mob which
plundered the German mission at Moilin
have been beheaded.
Fire in the plant of the Chicago
Forge and Bolt company's works did
S75, 900 damages. John Bergstrom, an
employe who was asleep in the forge
room, was critically burned.
The steamer James G. Blaine was
sunk at Hatfeld's landing, near Mason
town, Pa, in ten feet Of water. She
struck snag in leaving the landing.
All the passengers were rescued.
The national council of the Welsh
men of the United States, in session at
Utica, N Y, adopted resolutions depre-
eating the course of President Cleve
land on the Venezuelan problem.
Governor Levi P Morton of New
York has finally announced to his
friends that he will be a candidate for
president before the national Republican
convention to be held at St. Louis.
A correspondent in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, sends word that Baron Rio
Branco has been appointed chief Of the
commission to decide the boundary lin
It's of Amalpa, as they affect Brazil.
The national Armenian relief COM
mittee appeals to the people Of the Unit
ed States for immediate and generous
contributions to relieve the needs Of
850, 900 Armenians who are destitute.
Governor Morton has declined to in
terfere in the execution of the sentence
of death in the case Of Bartholomew
Shea, convicted of the murder Of Rob-
ert Ross at Troy, N. Y, in March, 1894.
A plan for the establishment of bu-
reau to be known as the commission of
foreign commerce has been framed by
Mr.. Doolittle Of Washington and is en-
braced in bill just introduced in the
house.
It is officially reported that Senor Don
Domingo Cana, Chilian minister to the
United States, will be transferred to
Argentina. Dr. Vicente Canta Curez,
a prominent lawyer, will replace Senor
Cana at Washington.
NJ. Hubert Joseph Orben, the distin
guished Belgian statesman, who at
short intervals has been cabinet minis