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

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Notes From North, East, West and Abroad
The terms of Office Of SO presidential
postmasters will expire in January. Ii
the list there are few large Offices.
The American line steamship Berlil
ran down and sunk the British shil
Willowbank off the English coast.
There is talk in Madrid of an alliance
Of Spain with Great Britain in the
event Of war with the United States.
Miss Ruby Bennett. a Bridgepor
heiress, ran away with Frank Katety,
painter who was frescoing her house.
E. P. Hutchinson, doubtless the mos
widely known veteran of the Chicago
grain pit, is seriously, if not critically
Ill.
Mrs. Barbara Katzer. mother Of Arch
bishop Katzer, died in Milwaukee from
the effects Of old age. She was 81 years
old.
By an explosion Of gas at Shoenberg.
er's rolling mill. on Fourteenth street.
Pittsburg, eight men were burned, one
Of them fatally.
President Cleveland's determination
that the United States shall enforce the
Monroe doctrine meets with general ap,
proval in Mexico.
John A. Slattery, well known law.
yer of Cincinnati, fell down an elevator
Shaft and subsequently died of his inju.
ries at the hospital.
Four persons were sufocated by a fire
at the home Of Andrew Johnson at 81
Barham street, in the southeastern sec.
ton of Philadelphia.
Secretary Herbert announced from
the cabinet meeting that the twin siste,
Of the battleship Kearsarge had beer
named the Kentucky.
Secretary Herbert has formally award
ed to the Newport News company o1
Virginia. the contract for the building
Of two new battleships.
Aegigius Junger. D. D., bishop oi
Nisqually, comprising the state Of Wash
ington and part of Oregon. died at Van
couver, Wash, Of diabetes.
James Henry, convicted Of stealing
silver from the United States mint. has
been sentenced to eight years in n Ne
vada penitentsary and fine of $1,000.
San Francisco importers, alarmed
over tariff changes, are withdrawing
their goods from bond as rapidly as pos
sible There is in bond, at present
goods valued at 81, 900, 900.
The Manitoba legislature has been
dissolved and an appeal to the country
will be made on the school issue. Poll
Ing will take place on Jan. Is, and the
new house meets Jan. as.
Circulars have been issued by Com
missioner of Labor Wright to labor lead
ers in the United States asking for sug-
gestions for topics for brief original in
quiries by the department.
The two hundred and seventy fifth
anniversary Of the landing Of the pill
grim fathers was observed at Plymouth,
Mass., Dec. 81. Senator George F. Hoar
Of Worcester was the orator Of the day.
Heavy rain .as caused great alarm
along the Usage and Moreau river val.
leys in Missouri. a great amount OF
stock has been drowned, and lives are re-
ported to be lost along the Usage val
ley.
Portland, Or, and Fall River, Mass,
have been raised to the frstclaSs Of free
delivery postofices This affects raise
Of from two to three grades Of letter.
carriers and consequent increase OF
salaries.
Burlington passenger train %, bound
from Lincoln, Neb.. to Grand Island.
colided with freight train which was
standing on q switch near curve.
Two persons were killed and five others
injured.
Porter Bros. & Co., of San Francisco,
the heaviest dealers in dried fruits on
the coast, have announced their inablli-
ty to meet their payments, and have
asked their creditors for an extension
Of time