The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-05
A. G. Baker, chief justice Of the su-
,reme court Of Arizona and presiding

Seneer train. on the coast DIVISION,
ran into washout 20 miles south Of
San Francisco, derailing the locomotive
and four cars. Engineer John Keyer
was killed and several passengers in
jured, but none seriously.
Hugh Dempsey, the e1-district mas
ter workman of the Knights Of Labor.
sentenced to the Pennsylvania peniten-
tiary three years ago for completely in
the poisoning of nonuniou me-, at the
Homestead steel works after tic great
strike of 1892, has been pardonel.
Twenty-one young men, all members
Of the sophomore class, have been ex-
pelied from Ottawa university (Kan.
for having deied the faculty ty giving
9 banquet to the feminine members OF
the class at a restaurant after l0:30 p.
N. Declarations Of regret saved the
girls.
Charles Sheppard, 10 years old, and
Edward, II years old, were drowned
while crossing the ice at Chester, Pa.
Their little dog made frantic efforts to
assist them, and when their bodies were
placed Oh the bank the dog stretched it.
self between them and growlcd at all
who went near.
Two men were drowned in an oil
tank at Knoxville, O. Charles Ednis-
ton, aged %, was on the tank skimming
something out of the oil when he was
overcome BY the fumes from the oil and
fell in. James Neckley, al oil well
digger, tried to rescue Edmiston and
both were drowned.
At Colville, Wash. Judge Arthur
sentenced Adolph Niese and his wife to
20 years in the penitentiary for beating
their l0-year old son to death. Shortly
af::5r the prisoners were taken from the
courtroom and placed in their cells,
both cut their throats with razor.
Niese is dead and his wife is in criti-
cal condition.
William Carl Johann Schweder. a
resident Of Cook county, Ills, is asserted
to be victim Of fragrant violation Of
the rights of American citizenship by
the German empire. He is doing mill
tary duty in the Prussian army, into
which he was drafted last summer, and
all efforts thus far to secure his release
have been futile.
The government has fled in the su-
prene court of the United States papers
In the two sugar bounty cases Of A. II.
Gray and the Realty company versus
the United States, the first Involving q
claim for about $1,000 and the second
for about 5000, appealed from the
United States court for the eastern
Louisiana district.
! A double murder was committed at
Hoonah, Alaska, on account Of the fail
ure Of the Ich-Ka-Ish, q medicine man
of the Hoonah tribe, to cure young
Indian. The medicine man blamed a
young Indian, who Immediately shot
the doctor. Then the doctors cousin
shot the slayer of the doctor. A few
blankets squared the deal.
Judge Stephen Peery, late of San
Diego, Cal, committed suicide at Phoe-
nix, A. T., by shooting himself through
the heart. Judge Peery was native
of Virginia and removed to Trenton,
Mo-, some time before the war. He re
moved to California three years ago and
had only been a resident of Phoenix
three months. III health is supposed to
be the cause.
At a meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the St. Louis Terminal asso-
citation, it was decided to provide addi-
tional trackage for the use of special
and sleeping cars carrying passengers
to the national Republican convention
in st. Louis in June. In addition to
trackage now possessed by the associa-
ton, room for the care Of 200 cars will
be provided in its yard.
In the supreme court of the United
States. motions to advance were made
in J. NJ. Scott, ct al. versus James Don-
aid, four cases from the circuit court fer
| South Carolina. The issue is the va
lidity of the dispensary law Of South
Carolina in prohibiting citizens of that
state from importing from other states
and foreign countries spirited and in
to1icating liquors for personal use and
consumption.
Mr.. Gladstone has written another
letter on the Armenian question in
which, after referring to the murder
Gus wickedness of the sultan, his abso
lutte victory over the powers and their
unparalleled disgrace and defeat he
says: II cannot wholly abandon the
hope that out Of this darkness light will
arise, but the matter rests with the AL
mighty, to whom surely all should ad-
dress fervent prayers in behalf Of his
suffering creatures" /"
Edward McFarlane, a well known
mining engineer of Colorado, and the
founder Of the town Of Telluride. has
returned from the gold regions Of
Northern South America, occupying
two years. Mr.. NcFarlane proposes to
organize colony, proceed to Caracas,
the capital Of Venezuela, apply for con-
cessions from the government and lead
the party to the gold fields in the dis
puted territory, which, he says, are the
richest in the world.
President Cleveland sent to the house
all of the correspondence in the posses
sion Of the state departm snt regarding
the Alabama negroes who were colo
nized in Coahuila, Mexico, and repeated
his former recommendation that an ap-
preparation be made for their return to
| The United States. The state Of Ala
ba,na and railroad companies, it will be
remembered. brought several hundred
Of the negroes back last summer, and
! the remainder of them are said to be
extremely anxious to come.
To Erect Large Cotton Mill.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Feb. 4.-Repre-