The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-05
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An Episone of the South.

An Episome of the South.
Near Manning, Clarendon county, S.
O., Henry Tindal mortally wounded his
brother -in-law, Judson Chewing.
The trials of three white men and
one negro for incendiarism at Kingston,
N. c., have ended in the acquittal of all
the defendants.
A man by the name of Tom Keaton,
from Dothen, Ala, shot and killed Bill
Lingo at the little town of Morgan,
Calhoun county, Ga.
Captain Y. E. McBee has been ap-
pointed general superintendent Of the
Seaboard Air Line railroad, with head.
quarters at Portsmouth.
The light draught war vessel Helena
and the Plant line merchant steamer
La Grande Duchess were launched
from the Newport News shipyard.
Rev. T. B. Hargrove, pastor of the
| Methodist church at Coldwater, Miss,
dropped dead in the pulpit Sunday.
Heart disease was the supposed cause.
Colonel Augustus F.. McCurdy, the
| oldest and best known sporting man in
Alabama, perhaps in the south, was
found dead in his bed at Montgomery.
Katie Nicols, aged 10, shot and killed
a 49-pound wildcat in Rowan county,
N. @. She found it in her fathers chick
en- house, closed the door, got his gun
| and shot the beast dead.
Eleven hundred dollars has been raised
for the relief of the widows and children
of the men killed by the Cumnock, n. c.,
mine explosion, and it is now announced
that no more funds are needed.
The executive committee of the W. G.
T. u, at their meeting in Lexington,
KY, drafted protest against the use
of whisky or any Intoxicating liquor in
the christening of the new warship
Kentucky.
Some of the Farmers Alliancemen
are expressing earnest disapproval of
the purchase by that order Of buildings
and land at Hillsboro, N O., ard say the
rank and file had no voice in the selec-
ton Of site.
Congressman Settle, who introduced
the bill to establish an army post at
Raleigh, N. c., says the prospects for it's
passage are excellent; that if the post is
located anywhere in North Carolina it
will surely be Raleigh.
A white man is in Jail at Carthage,
n O.. charged with fastening the safety
valve Of a boiler which exploded near
Sanford last week and killed two men
It is said that the evidence against the
prisoner is overwhelming.
At New Orleans, while barrel of
tar was being lowered into the hole of
the steamship European, it slipped from
its fastenings and fell upon Joseph Sey-
mour, screwman, breaking his neck
and killing him instantly.
Governor Carr has offered 500 re-
ward for the unknown persons who last
October shot Harrison I. Barrett, a
United States commissioner, in Polk
county. The shooting was done from
ambush near Tryon, n. @.
S.. L. Rogers, postmaster at Mountain
boro, Ala, was arrested by Inspector
Rosson on a charge of forging the sig
nature Of the late postmaster to draft
which he had cashed at Alfalfa His
trial will be held at Alfalfa Feb. 10.
In family quarrel at Kyle, W. Va,
Mrs. Lizzie Savage was shot and in
stantly killed by Thomas Burns, her
stepson. After the shooting Eurns went
to the barn and fred a bullet through
his left breast causing instant death.
A prominent Matanzas lawyer writes
to friends at Tampa, Fla, that most of
the important Cuban families are leav-
ing the island for Mexico, South and
North America. The United railway
at Havana has discharged 2S0 employees.
The historic Liberty bell, which stood
on the veranda Of the Pennsylvania
state building during the Cotton States
and International exposition. and which
was one Of the chief sights Of the &air,
started on its homeward journey Thurs
day.
Mr.. Caesar Cone, president of the
Cone Export and Commission company,
says that the selling Offices of the COM
pany are to be removed from New York
to Greensboro, n. g. Mr.. Cone is now
erecting two large cotton mills In the
latter city.
A battery of six boilers in the saw.
mill of the Southern Pine company
of Georgia at Offerman, O station II
miles east of Blackshear, Ca, blew up,
and as result five negroes, mill hands,
are now dead and two others are ex-
pected to die.
A charge of dynamite exploded pre-
maturely on slope No. 2 at the Henry
Ellen coal mi4es, at Birmingham, Ala,
and Evan Morgan of Ohio and George
Beard of Alabama We're instantly killed.
The accident occurred 1000 feet under
the ground.
At Atlanta, Ca, Adolphus Duncan, a
negro, convicted Of rape, and Alex Carr,
white, convicted Of the murder of Cap
tain H. O. King, were both brought be-
fore Judge Lumpkin and sentenced to
be hanged, the former on March 13 and
the latter on March ~.
At Swansea, Blount county, Ala,
Frank Jones, superintendent Of the
Swansea Coal conpany's mines, quar-
relied with his wi%e, Of whom he was
insanely jealous, and procuring his shot
gun, fired load Of buckshot into her
breast, inficting injuries believed to be
fatal.
Joe lowers and john J,;lmonds, two
of the defendants III the case involving
the whitecapping and murder of the ne
gro Williams, in Elmore county, Ala,
last spring, were convicted and SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
John Morgan, the third defendant, was
adjudged not guilty.
AtBirmingham, Ala, Eugene Mosely,
a young man who wears wooden leg,
had quarrel with his sweetheart, Mary
James, the result Of being Jealous of