The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-08
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Liz NeOIbld, AluldHU uuu OuAl Ao11'
road will be sold at public auction on
Feb /, at Columbus, GA.
A fire at West Palm Beach, Fla, de:
stroyed over half the business portion OF
the town. Loss $3.50, 900.
Thomas H. Reynolds shot and killed
George Cox at Albany. Ga, the result
Of Co1's attention to Reynolds wife.
Jim Sanders, negro, aged 25 years,
was hanged at Barnwell. S. c., for the
murder of Simon Riley last September.
Thomas Potts. charged with murder
at Poiut Pleasant, W. Va, aftor being
released on bail, fatally slas!.ed wit
ness against him.
The president has pardonoi Peter D.
Sarriss, convicted III Georgia OF rob-
bing postof:i:e and sentenced to 10
years Imprisonment.
Colonel Henry Williams died at Gads-
den. Ala, in horrible agony. but before
| losing consciousness hc charged his
wife with having poisoned him.
Twenty-e eight citizens of Greenwood,
Abbeville county, S. c.. were arrested
by the deputy sheriff of that county on
the charge Of violating the dispensary
law.
Sheriff Duval of Jones county, Miss,
was found bound and gagged in his Of
fee and the safe robbed Of $1,000. He
says number of masked men did the
job.
DR.. J. A. Rogers of Comauche, Tex,
| $lo 40 nf
Nicholson House at Nashville, Tenn
His death was due to cerebral hemor.
rhage.
A deposit of anthracite coal has been
found in Madison county, n. c., near
Hot Springs, on the line of the Southern
railway. Experts pronounce the coal Of
good quality.
The phosphate mining industry in
South Carolina. which was long one Of
the largest in the world, and which was
a great source Of wealth, appears to be
doomed.
In Montgomery county, N. c., Sam
Baldwin, negro, assaulted 14-year.
old daughter Of Calvin Wooley, white
man. Baldwin is in Jail at Troy and
lynching is feared.
Judge Kimsey has sentenced W. S.
Keener, who is confined in the jail at
Gainesville, Ca, to hang Jan. II, for
the murder Of the Moore sisters Of Ra-
bun county last summer.
Fire at Ashboro, N. O., burned Born's
hotel, the stores Of E. A. Motitt, Bay
cite and Richardson, and several other
buildings. Mofitt's loss is $4,000, and
the total is nearly $4,000.
A mob in Marion county, KY, set fire
to the house of Mrs Thomas ]. West,
and she was burned to death. William
Devers, her lover, was shot and killed
while attempting to escape.
Edward Barrett, miner at Pratt
mines near Birmingham, Ala, was shot
and almost instantly killed by his
brother-in-l law, Andrew McCan. Self
defense is the plea Of the slayer.
Four prisoners from Mobile county,
bound for the mines at Coalburg, Ala,
in charge Of special officer, made
their escape while being transferred
from the depot to the county Jail.
The jury Of inquest. summone>: 20 in
vestigate the Baltimore theater disas-
ter. examined witnesses, and after ses-
sion lasting nearly eight hours, found
that the audience alone was to blame.
Mrs. Perdue, the aged wife Of Profes.
sor Perdue, the victim Of the recent
lynching, has instituted legal proceed.
ings against the county of Montgomery,
Ga, in the sum of $4,000 for damages.
It is stated by prominent alliance
man of North Carolina that the Farm
ers' Alliance will this coming year be-
gin to manufacture it's own commercial
fertilizers. Its factory is to be at Hills
boro.
John G. Kelly Of Mount Sterling,
KY, aged 26, committed suicide by tax
ing carbolic acid. He left note stat
ing that he killed himself because his
aunt did not invite him to dinner on
Christmas day.
While tearing down the historic old
Lightwood mansion at Charleston, S.
c., part of the walls of the building
fell in and r. S. Hanahan, white, and
Palmer Hall, negro, were seriously, il
not fatally, injured.
Edwards & Broughton Of Raleigh
have bought the Biblical Recorder, the
organ of the North Carolina Baptists,
from Mrs. Mary Bailey. The Recorder
was established in 1888 and is widely
known among southern Baptists.
Eighteen carloads Of white people
have gone from Wayne, Dublin and
Pender counties, N. c., to work in the
cotton mills at Pelzer, 8. @. They were
in two special trains. None Of them
have ever worked in cotton mills.
Governor Atkinson has increased his
offer of reward for the capture of Corrie
and Solomon Zeigler, who killed sher-
if some time ago, to $500 each. They
are hiding about their home in Screyen
county, Ca, and are defying arrest.
Mr.. G. W. Shultz, the organizer and
president Of the Elwood park colony In
Ware county, Ga, writes from Co1um-
bus, o., that he will arrive with the
first excursion Of several hundred Ohio
colonists about the middle Of January.
The agricultural department of North
Carolina estimates the states cotton
crop at $50, 900 bales. corn crop 10 per
cent above the average, full wheat crop,
slight decline in the number Of hogs
and an improvement in their condition.
H. B. Plant, the Florida railway mag
nate, says that the Florida orange
groves suffered but little from the re-
cent cold wave and that there will be
good crop of oranges, notwithstanding
contrary reports throughout the coun-
try.
William Tobias Dubose, negro car
penter In the employ Of the Stone Phos-
phate company at Charleston, S. O.,
was killed in most horrible ma:-ner at
the company's works near this city By
being caught in the machinery. He
was literally torn to pieces.
The Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio
railway has bought all the effects Of the
defunct Brunswick, Western and South
ern railway, and are now surveying a