The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-26

The iourney2Acn ta;lors OF Elaccn are
on a strike because several merchant
taiiors have made reduction Of p per
PEI cent in the scale Of wages which
have been III effect since 1892.
E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk Of the
United Sta;eS district court, was shot
nn,; killed by his son, Robert Campbell,
Et Nashville. Young Campbell has been
regarded IS mentally unsouud for some
time.
The annual report of the North Car
DINA state .lditor will show that the
decrease IN the total assessed value Of
al propert:- is 100000. This de.
crease is much smaller than was at first
expected
The house OF representatives has
practically kiiled civil service reform
in Marylan" by passing the Bruce bill
witA d clause attached referring the
whole matter to 4 vote of the people at
the election in November.
In compliance with request from
South Carolina, Governor Car will urge
the North Carolina Legislature to appro-
PIRATE $500 toward paying for statue
of George Peabody. to be placed IN
Statuary hail at Washington.
A westbound passenger train on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad ran into
q buggy containing Richard Steele and
his broI1iEcss,- Joil~ Steele, near Tabb's
station, X. The vehicle was demol,.
ished and both men instantly killed.
\ mosul freight engine on the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis rail
way blew up at Bridgeport, Ala, kill.
| In; Engineer john Wallzup and Fire
ma!l William Irvine, and perhaps IA
tally scalding Brakeman Simon P.
RiGgles.
S. P. Whites barn, one and one-half
miles from Pulaski, Tenn, was destroyed
by FIRE. = large amount of corn and
hay was burned, also 50 graded Jersey
COWS and two inc bulls. His mill and
two outhouses also burned The fire is
said to have been incendiary.
A,nclie Rlves Chanlcr and Prince Pi-
ere TroubetZkoi, Russian nobleman,
were married at Charlottesville, Va,
The bride was divorced last year from
John Armstrong Chanler Of New York.
to whom she was married in 1888 white
at the height Of her literary fame.
Bob Williams, a negro, who had been
employed as car coupler on the Yves.
tern railway, at Montgomery, Ala, shot
and killed Police Officer John Z. Suggs,
who was attempting to arrest him for
wife beating. He was arrested, but
was taken from the officers and lynched.
At cotton mill in Worthwhile, N. O.,
Oscar Welsh, aged %, white, attempted
to put a band on a pully wheel and was
caught. His arm was torn out, and the
wheel, revolving 250 times a minute,
beat him to pieces He was mangled
and killed IN the presence of his wife.
= sensation has been created at Beau
fort. \. c., by the arrest of DR.. L W.
Perkins on a charge of perjury in con-
graveyard insurance cases at that place.
Perkins was the examining physician,
and was witness for the prosecution
IN the trial.
Garry Holly, farm laborer, shot and
killed james Combs and badly wounded
Nick Combs, on Old Buck creek, in
Breathitt ccunty, Ky. The two Combs
were lying in wait by the roadside at
the time ready to kill Holly when he
passed along, and duel ensued with
the above result.
Dick Childress, the noted desperate,
was shot and killed By Policeman
Dick Erwin, at Gurley, Ala. While in
drunken condition, he was brapdish-
ing his pistol, frightening the people:
The officer was called. Childress started
to shoot Erwin, but the policeman was
too quick for him.
DR.. George Far2ier, a prominent ply.
sician Of Keenansville, n. O., went to
Columbia, S. c., to take special treat
ment. bein. in bad condition physi-
callv from .>rerwork. He seemed to be
| III a h5pefl: frame Of mind, but he
! ended his cy;Stiace soon after arriving
BY seai:.iin- :: bullet through his heart.
The boar! Of five insanity experts,
appointed b. Governor Atkinson to in
ouire into t4a mental condition of Alex
Carr, the &C ldemned murderer, have de-
clared the convicted man to be insane.
A petition has been fled, in view Of
this decision, asking the governor to
commute his sentence to life lmprlson-
ment.
a fire broke out il a tailor shop at
West Palm Beach, Fla, and destroyed
nearly the entire business portion Of the
town. The total loss is placed at Sl2,.
900 and Insurance at $1,000. Nineteen
places of ht.siuess Were burned and one
residence. About two months ago the
place was swept By a fi-c almost as dis
astrouS.
\ 2-year-old child OF William VIII
liams, in Rhodes county, n. c., was
eaten by Z hog. The mother OF the
child gave it some food and left the
premises. The child was left in the
yard. The hog ate the child'S food and
then killed the child and had almost en-
tirely consumed il when the mother
returned
Ex-senator E. H. Hammond of Or
lando, Fla, and Colonel T. J. Apple
yard Of Sanford, Fla, have been IL con-
suitation with S. 4. Everett Of the Ev-
erett Electric railway syndicate OF
Cleveland. O. As a result, g. company
will be formed in Cleveland within a
month, having for its object the con-
struction Of electric street railways in
Havana as soon as the war is over and
the ultimate extension Of the system
tb1.e11 rL ont tho island
ComDtrollar Eckels made an argu-
ment before the senate committee on
national banks against a resolution III