The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-02-19
creased prlces OF all grades from 80
cents to = per 1000.

cents to 3 per 1000.
Some Of the thousand people who
went from Pender and Sampson coun-
ties, n. c., to Pelzer, S. c., to work III
cotto,! mills, write home that they were
deceived by the promises Of agents and
are greatly dissatisfied
There are II damage suits brought by
relatives Of the miners who Were killed
IL the coal mines at Cumnock, Chatham
COUNTY. n. c. The suits aggregate
Sl20. 600 and are against tie Langdon,
Henzey Mining company.
The schooner Maggie J. Lawrence of
Philadelphia, carrying . cargo of coal
and bound to Charleston, S. c., with a
crew OF scvc:l men, stranded half mile
south OF the Pea Islalsi, Va, ifesaving
station. me crew was saved
Joe Lewis, Il negro. was lynched two
miles northeast of Pe!l City, ,AA!a., Sunday
about II O'clock Lewis attempted to
assault the Young wife OF :: Mr.. Prence,
a respectable farmer who lives about a
mile and half east OF this place
Sam Cummings, acquitted four years
ago on the charge of killing James
Perry, was fatally shot at Coal Creek,
Tenn, in general Eyht. Before dying
be said he had committed the murder
with which he had been charged
Judge Hugh L. Whitcside died at
Chattanooga. Tenn, from blood poison
ing, which attacked the system through
an amputated leg. He was the victim
Of his own carelessness, having acci-
dentally shot Lis foot off with shotgun.
Zebe McCollen, Elijah Lemmons, Den
mis- Gum and the latter's son were
drowned four miles from Stoneville, n.
G. The men, while intoxicated, made
an attempt to cross the river, which
was greatly swollen. Their bodies were
recovered.
Tom Covington was hanged at New
ton, n. c., for the murder Of James
Brown, superintendent of the Long
Island Cotton mills of Catawba county,
in September, 1894. Covington died
game. and knelt while minister prayed
for him.
Three children of William Littlejohn,
living some distance north of Admission,
Ala, while playing in the woods found
and ate lot Of toadstools and were
soon taken violently i'll. Doctors were
called, but in vain, all three being dead
within ten hours.
The boiler at the sawmill of Henry
Haywood, near Wakefield, N. O., e1-
ploded and instantly killed Haywood,
his son Ivan and Rufus Tucker. All
were white. Three employees are seri-
ously injured. The boiler was blown
great distance and the buildings were
wrecked.
The dispensary at Waynesville, N. O.,
which was created by the fusion legis-
lature. has been in operation one year.
It's net profits, after paying all expenses
and salaries, are $4,000. Waynesville
is mountain town Of 81, 500 population.
The dispensary is modelled on that at
Athens, Ga.
A sensation has been caused at Mo-
bile, Ala, by the arrest of Henry David
Hearn, leading light in the Baptist
church, who is accused of causing the
death of his wife by the administration
of nitric acid, which he had obtained
from local physical for alleged ana
lytical purposes.
Robert Laughlin, a prominent farmer
living three miles from Augusta, KY,
was assaulted by unknown assassins
who stabbed him several times. His
wife was murdered and also her 14-year
old niece and their bodies cremated by
burning the house. Laughlin escaped
in the darkness.
In the depot at Pocahontas, W. Va,
George Gray and Len Hartsook en-
gagged in a quarrel over woman.
Gray shot and killed Hartsook after
Hartsook had fired two shots at Gray
without effect. During the afray Miss
Clara Clemens was shot and seriously
injured. Gray escaped.
:: c',nrter has been secured from the
prcG:.: ir.iee in Walker county for the
larsess ..,.:t>r mill in Alabama. It is
to have X. go spindles and will be To-
Gated at Cordova The mill viii be
built by the Nashua Manufacturing
company of Nashua, N. H., and will be
called the Indian Head mill.
The Southern States Passenger asso-
citation adjourned its meeting at Tampa,
Fla, after granting special rate OF
cent mile to the United Confederate
Veterans encampment at Richmond,
and a rate of one fare for civilians and
q rate of ! cent mile for military or
ganizations to the Savannah military
fair.
". T. surles, an employe of the
Southern railway, was killed by train
at Durham, N. g., his foot having been
caught in frog. His body was taken
to Cumberland river. The Cape Fear
river was so high that only the coffin
containing the body could be gotten
over and Surle's wife could not witness
the burial
Mrs. Eliza J. Nicholson, proprietress
of the New Orleans Picayune, is dead.
She was suffering from the grippe when
her husband died week ago, and the
sad event so shattered her system that