The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-19

mcnt; Taylor Webb of Hardin county,
sentenced to IS years for an unnatural
| crime, and Denton Duncan, another ne
gro, OF Marshal county, sentenced eight
years ago for life for murder. The lat
ter sentence had been commuted by
Governor Buchanan to Is years.
Notes From North, East, West and Abroad.
Tie insurrection against japanese
rule in the island Of Formosa is spread
ing.
| Dispatches received from Cuba say
/ that l07 insurgents were killed during
the recent fighting there.
Negotiations are still in progress look
ing to the conclusion Of a commercial
treaty between China and Japan.
AT a free for all fight at Sugar Lake,
Mo, one man was killed and several
others more or less seriously injured.
Peter L. Atkins and Maud Kelly,
lovers, drove into the Waikiki river at
Middletown, n. Y, and were drowned
There has been heavy reduction in
freight rates from China to New York,
amounting to a cut from Sl3 to S6 per
ton.
William Waldorf Astor dismissed
the editor Of the London Pail Mall Ca
zette because of his anti-American SEN
timents.
The senate has passed bill giving
the city Of Charleston, S. O., the use Of
the old postofice building for municipal
purposes.
Charles II. Lovess of Boston, a dis
charged policeman, shot his wife twice
because she refused to give him money
with which to buy rum.
One man was killed, one fatally in
jured and five others were slightly hurt
by the explosion Of 110-hossepower
boiler at Pawtucket, R. I.
Bartholomew Shea died in the elec-
trical chair at Dannemora, n. Y, pay
ing the penalty for the murder Of Rob-
ert Ross at Troy in March, 1894.
Secretary Herbert has sent to the
house an estimate Of the appropriation
Of $4,000 for the establishment of
coaling shed at Key West naval station.
Grant Atterbury was lynched at Sui
livan, Ills. He died declaring that he
was innocent Of the crime Of outragi1g
his sister-in-law, Mrs. Roxy Atterbrry.
William H. Grain, representative
from the Eleventh district Of Texas and
member of that body since the Forty
ninth congress, died at his home In
Washington. r.
Father Jakimowitz, deposed Polish
priest, narrowly escaped lynching at
Mount Carmel, Pa, by a mob Of his
former Pensioners who claimed he had
defrauded them
Dreadful stories come from Yoko-
hama Of the treatment of japanese by
F'ormosa rebels, some correspondents 60
ing SO far as to state that the Chinese
practice cannibalism-
A protocol has been signed by the
Italian minister and the Brazilian for
eign minister whereby the two countries
agree to submit their dispute 20 the
president of the United States.
An organization of ex-slaves has been
effected at Topeka, Kan, by 50 negro
men for the purpose of making de-
mand on congress for pensions. 1t Is
the purpose to make it of national scope.
The Mexican government is deport-
ing American tramps under a clause Of
the constitution allowing the executive
to send away pernicious foreigners.
Tramps from the states have become a
nuisance.
Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callard and
Mabel Winters, aged IS. ventured on
the thin ice over pond at Middletown,
n. Y. The ice broke and both were
drowned. The bodies have not yet been
recovered.
Owing to the rapidity with which
the work of constructing naval vessels
is being pushed, no less than eight ships
Will be added to naval lists, and be
ready for commission before the first Of
next July.
Cyrus E. Carter, retired sergeant Of
the United States army, was found
dead in q room at the Palmer House,
Chicago Death was caused by asphyxi-
alton, but it is not thought that he COM
nitted suicide.
Professor Fox of McGill univeriity,
at Montreal, mas succeeded by the new
Photographic process in finding bullet
embedded in the leg of a man who had
been discharged from the hospital with
the wound closed over the ball.
Henry II. Fazon, a Boston reformer.
sent $500 30 the Women's Christian
Temperance union with advice not to
waste time trying to convert heathens,
but to be active in politics and untiring
in their efforts to convert distillers.
The third annual meeting of the Ma
tional Game Bird and Fish Protective
association was held at Chicago and
matters relating to the passage of better
laws for the protection of game In va
rious parts Of the country were dis
cussed.