The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-01-22

been finished and Arlington bound over
in a large sun. 1t was the most sensa-
tional trial that was ever held IN Ala
bama, Collins being greatly beloved and
the murder a most horrible one. Inc
killing occurred in few miles OF the
Polk county, Ga, line.
At Savannah, Thomas Y. Ponder was
convicted of the murder of Frank kee-
nan, June last, and Oh recommenda'
ton to the mercy Of the court was SEN
fenced to spend his life in the penlten'
tiary Keener reproached Ponder 1or
testifying against him before commit
tee of council, by which he was dis
charged from the city fire department,
and it is claimed that Keenan, attempted
to strike him with his fist, when Pom
der pulled G pistol from his breast and
shot keenan, down.
Notes From North, East, West and Abroad
The government bond syndicate has
dissolved.
King Prempeh Of Ashanti has accept
ed the terms of the British.
The cashier, John A. Knight, has
robbed the Fifth Avenue bank Of Co
lumbus, O., Of $4,000.
The French chamber Of deputies re-
assembled and NJ. Henri BrisSon was
reelected president.
NJ FloQuet, who was at one time
president of the French council Of min
listers, and also minister of the interior,
is dead.
Mrs. Martha E. Holden, well known
to many newspaper readers as "Am-
ber," died at St. Luke's hospital, IN
Chicago, of cancer.
At Marsville, Kan, in a fit Of des-
pondency Mrs. Joseph Hilderbrand ad-
ministered poison to her eight children
and then hanged herself.
The steamship Gisgar Of Barcelona has
been sunk in collision with the Ger
man ship Nereus, near Dover, England,
and 19 Of her crew were drowned.
The Deutsche bank has obtained the
contract to issue q Chinese loan of loO,-
OOO, 900 taels, with interest ct 3 per cent,
to cost s91a, and to be issued at 95.
According to the official figures Just
made public, French imports for 1895
decreased 172,000,000 francs, and ex-
ports increased 80, 900 fraucs, COM
pared with 1894.
The population of Oregon, according
to the census just completed by the
county assessors, is 364, 1852, an increase
of about 13 per cent over the govern
rnant census of 1890.
Mrs. Pierpont Isham, 81 years old,
widow of the late Judge PierponS lsham
of the supreme court Of Vermont, died
at the home Of her son-in-law, Major
Sarten Prentice, in Chicago.
James M. Hopkins, an old time iron
founder and politician, who was the last
man living who figured conspicuously
in the famous Christiara riots, died at
his home at Cowingo, Pa, aged S. years.
The Queen of Corea is certainly dead.
There is no truth IN the story that she
escaped from her murderers at Seoul.
Two Corean dummies have Just been
executed for participation in the muir
der.
The Ashanti war is ended. Sir Fran
els Scott, in command of the British ex-
peditionary force, has occupied Coomas-
sic. the capital, without opposition.
King Prempeh accepts all the British
demands.
The Gloucester fishing schooner For
tuna was sunk in q collision with the
Boston Fruit company's fruit steamer
Barnstable off Highland light and nine
Of the Fortuna's crew were drowned;
- saved.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company
mas issued a new tariff sheet announc-
ing an advance of 70 per cent on the
freight rate from San Francisco to New
York. The rate affects all important
commodities.
Ghe president has sent speclcl mes
sage to the house urging the necessity
FOR immediate legislation to extend the
limit Of time within which suits can be
brought by the government to annul
grants Of public lands.
I'll reply to an autograph letter from
Emperor William in regard to South
AFRICAN matters, the czar of Russla
olodges Germany Krssia's aid, and that
Of the states friendly to Russia, namely,
France and the United States.
The special committee, having ID
charge the arrangement for the horse
less carriage race IN France, have de-
cided that the race should take place IN
June NEXT, the course selected beng
from Paris to Marsailles and return.
An imperial decrse has been issued
announcing that the coronation OF the
car will take place at Moscow in May
next, ard ordering chat the municipal
and other representative bodies or the
Russian empire be invited to attend.
The merits Of the controversy between
the Bannock Indians and the state OF
Wyoming as to the right Of the Indians
to kill game, in contrayention OF the
Wyoming state law, will soon be passed
upon by the United States supreme
court.
Mirhran z. Serailian, native OF Ar
menia, now student of tho dlvlnlsy
school o. the University Of Chicago,
has received news that his father mad
been murdered, his house and his IAN.
lily scattered in the Turkish massacre OF
Nov. 80, at kaisarea.
The bill providing for the repeal OF
that section of the revised statutes re-
quiring the United States district Judge
for the southern district Of Florida 20
reside at Key West has been introduced
in the house again by Mr.. Cooper. 1t
failed of passage i'll either house last
year.
A light engine ran into crowd OF
car cleaners who were walking the track
ON the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad at One Hundred and
Forty-second street, New York, killing
two women and injuring two other