The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-15

of both sides.
Notes From North, East, West and Abroad.
A fire at Chicago did damage to the
amount of 100000.
Herr Reclaim, the well known pub
Usher, of Leipsic, is dead.
Hon. Matt w. Ransom, United States
minister to Mexico, is in Washington on
leave.
Ten thousand people attended the
formal opening of the Leadville (Colo.)
ice palace.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit announces
that Thomas B. Reed is his choice for
president.
Joseph W. Fritze, Philadelphia elec-
trician, shot himself through the heart
with an army revolver.
Two severe earthquakes, causing the
loss of LOO lives, have occurred in the
Khalhal district of Persia
Fire caused the loss Of two lives, the
injury of one and the destruction Of
two houses with their contents at
Wheaton, Ills.
Major James Clarence Post Of the
United States army died at the house of
his father-in-law, John T. Aultz, in
New York city.
Eight masked men dynamited the
safe Of the Farmers bank at Verona,
Mo, and escaped with $4,000 in cash,
all it contained.
Spalding, Jennings & Co., steel man
ufacturers at Jersey City, n. j., have
assigned to Charles L. Hairland for the
benefit of creditors.
The Fayette, o., bank was entered by
burglars and $4,000 in money and
$4,000 in bonds taken. There IS no clue
to the perpetrators.
Associate Justice Peckham, the latest
acquisition to the supreme bench, has
taken his seat as a member OF the high
est court of the land.
A decree has been gazetted prohibit
ing the export from France or the
French colonies Of warlike munitions
intended for the island of Cuba.
The general pension bill for the year
ending June 80, 1897, as reported to the
house by Mr.. Blue Of Kansas carries an
appropriation Of s141, ,525. $50, being s58,-
$50 below the estimate, and $50, 7oo less
than the appropriation for the present
current fiscal year.
E. B. Wight, Washington correspond
ent of the Chicago Inter Ocean, anu for
many years a prominent newspaper
man, has just died Of heart failure.
Mrs. Alva S. Vanderbilt. the divorced
wife of William < Vanderbilt, vas
married to Oliver Hazard Perry Bel
mont in New York city, by Mayor
Strong.
Secretary Lamont has practically de-
cided to locate the Paeet Sound army
post, which is authorized by the last
congress, at Magnolia Bluffs, near 80
attic, Wash.
In accordance with Ethe joint resoiu-
ten Of congress, Secretary Herbert I'M.
mediatelv upon his -eturn from New
York, accepted the ram katahd1n IN be-
half of the government.
Advices received from Port Au Prince
state that there is an Increased feeling
of uneasiness throughout the Hayt1ana
republic, and that the government OF
President Hfppolyte is breaking.
A New York paper Says: The mar
riage of Oliver Il. P. Belmont and Mrs;
Alva Vanderbilt will b celebrated az
the residence of the latter on Jan 2o.
On Jan. 50 they viii scil for Europe.
Amovenent is On foot among NUM-
Der of prominent Americans and Bntons
in London to bring abort the formation
of permanent court Of arbitration 20
settle all disputes between the two ma
tions, as proposed by Justice Harlan Id
1898.
The employees Of W. J. Rainey, the
coke operator, met at New Haven, Pa,
and adopted resolutions demanding an
advance in wages equal to that recently
given by tho Frick Coal company, ana
threatening to strike if their demands
are refused.
At Ransomviue, N. Y, Robert Clap
saddle, an aged farmer, was brutally
murdered by his prohigate son-in-law,
George H. Smith, and three hours later
a posse meted out swift justice to the
assassin, riddling his body with score
of bullets.
The campaign of the government au'
thorities to suppress the p oaching oper'
ations against the remaining buifalos
in the Yellowstone National park IS re.
ported on by Acting Superintendent
Anderson ip communication to Sec
retary Smith.
The boundary dispute between Nlca-
ragua and Costa Rica,:is assuming more
serious phase. Costa Rica is daily De-
coming more urgent in her demands
She now claims lands to which, it Is
said, she has never had q shadow OF