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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08
ElectrOcuted.

ALTOONA, Pa, April 1.-While at
work in the lathe shop cfthe Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company this morn
ing, William Jones, 40 years of age,
was accidentally electrocuted. at the
time Jones was standing on an iron
girder which supports the shafting,
engaged in oiling the machinery.
The spout of his oil can came in con-
tact with a bare electric arc wire and
a current of 8, 900 volts passed through
his body, killing him instantly.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08
Ridge Spring, S. c.,
Act of All Insane Woman.

NORFOLK, Va, April 1.-An insane
woman on her way to Norfolk from
Columbus, Ohio, by the name of Bene-
dict. attempted to jump, with two
children in her arms from Norfolk
aud Western train, near Petersburg
tonight. Heroic action on the part of
the brakeman prevented a tragedy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08

Crisp Points Out the Real Reason for the
Decentralization of Silver aud How Its
Restoration Would Improve Business.
Smith Upholds the Goldbug Standard.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08

Board of Registration Judges of Oualifica-
tion of Applicants-~h" May and May
Not Resis.er---Right of Appeal-- Books
Made Public Records.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08

Il
Chairman State Democratic Executive
Committee
D. H. ToMPKINs Secretary.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08
Mr.. SMITH IN REPLY.

When Mr. Smith was introduced the
reception was equally as enthusiastic
as that rendered to Mr.. Crisp. After
thanking the people for their invitation
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08

for the Benefit Of Democrat
ic Eoters-Cut it Out and Paste it Up for
Been Held Under It.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-03
IKE WORLD OF Arr.

A monument to the late Bishop Wy
man (colored} will be erected in Balti-
more.
Twenty-one sculptors competed for
the statue of Sarah Sit.tlons to be erect
ed in London. The model chosen is
by q Frenchman. Chevalier.
The Sleeping Cavalier" by Meis-
sonier. which belonged to the late Mrs.
Paran Stevens has been sold, for S3.5o0
. sum much below its supposed valu-
A monument Of Bertholdi. the central
figure In which is Helvetia, has been
ret up at Basel, to commemorate tho
hospitality shown to the people OF
strasburg by Switzerland ut the time OF
the siege.
No other painter has home of such
artistic luxuriousness as Alma-raIleEla
Perhaps its most remarkable feature is
the wall, which is paneled with tall
slim pictures. each of them by differ
ent painter. Leighton, Boughton. SaT'
gent, Calderon and full score of the
artists friends have contributed to this
remarkable establishment.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-03
A SINGULAR PHENOMENON.
Queer Sounds Issuing from Underground
on the Shores of the Red Sea.

Queer Sounds Issuing from Underground
on the Shores of the Red Sea.
A singular phenomenon occurs on
the borders of the Red sea at place
called Nakous, where the intermittent
underground sounds have been heard
for an unknown number of centuries.
It is situated at about half miles dis
lance from the shore, whence a long
reach of sand ascends rapidly to
height of almost three hundred feet.
This reach is eighty feet wide and re-
sembles an amphitheater, being rallied
in by low rocks. The sounds coming
up from the ground at this place occur
at intervals of about an hour. They
at first resemble a low murmur, but
before long there is heard a loud
knocking, somewhat like the strokes
of a bell, and which, at the end of five
minutes, become so strong as to agitate
the sand. The explanation of this
curious phenomenon given by the
Arabs is that there is convent under
the ground, and these are the sounds
of the bell which the monks ring for
prayers. So they call it Nakous,
which means a bell. The Arabs affirm
that the noise SO frightens their camels
when they hear it as to render them
furious. Scientists attribute the sounds
to suppressed volcanic action-prob-
ably to the bubbling of gas or vapors
underground.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-03
WANT TO BE FIRST.
That Is tho Way With tho Average In
vidual In . Crowd.

That Is tho Way With the Average Indi-
vidual In q Crowd.
Some twenty thousand people assem-
bled to fight for the doubtful honor Of
being the first to cross the new Tower
bridge on the morning on which it was
opened to the public. wonder, saysa
London Sketch writer, who was the en-
thusiastic citizen who came in first,
and whether any photographer was
present to give his personality to pos
terity.
remember what rush there was
when Holborn viaduct was thrown
open, and have in my possession a
photo of the first omnibus that was
driven over it. The coachman was one
Thomas Grayson, who was presented
by his passengers with-a gold-mounted
whip in honor of the event, the date of
which was November 8, 1869, and the
bus was City Atlas, the noble ami
mails which drew it on this suspicious
occasion being white and bay. Mr.
Grayson, I remember, made good
thing by selling the photographs of
himself and his vehicle. He was a
CHEEKY. jolly-loolking driver, and, for
aught know, may still exercise his
honorable calling, but it is many year
since sat beside him and enjoyed his
cheerful conversation.
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bN HAlvlLIN GARLAND.

beard. He had long and we1l-kept
rifle in his hands.
Ibid you fire, too?" asked Holland.
ST didn't dast t. fire when he was
lookin' in the winder an when he got
down couldn't see i'm till you opened
the door. But we got i'm"
Miller appeared with the lantern
and they all went out to the spot
where the bear was last seen, but he
was gone. There was blood on the
ground, but not enough to trail him by.
"He's hit, but he's safe enough. If
had Zip, we'd tree him in fifteen min
utes, but we might just as well give
him up-without dog" said the old
man after a pause.
'An right" said Holland "We was
just eating supper. Come in an take a
snack"
Don't care if I do" laughed the
hunter.
II didn't know v was here till t'day,"
he said as he sat down at the table.
"Jest made a camp m'self up here a
couple O. miles and saw y'r smoke t'day;
thought I'd come down and make y a
neighborly call" He laughed again
till his mouth gaped wide and his little
twinkling eyes disappeared.
''Glad you did. Jack, slap in couple
O. dabs' O. that pancake mortar-this
fellow seems to appreciate my cook
in"
by the way" put in Miller, as he
set couple of huge cakes sizzling,
whats your name when you're at
home? Mine is Miller"
mines Tom Welsh, otherwise Most
nee Tom"
i've heard of you," said Holland.
GAS was sayin', thinks I'll jest drop
in on 'em. So built fire an 1 says
to Zip: Now Zip, OF boy, you better
hug that fire purity close r the wolves
IL pinch y an come down."
''Glad " did," said Miller. I'm feel
ing kind O. lonesome these days"
"Lonesome!'' the old fellow laughed
"W'y, young man tramp from here tc
Lake Superior an never see a human
bein' from one months end to another
and l don't know what lonesome
means. o, of course, when it's handy
like to drop in this way an have @
little confab-but that amt gittin
lonesome
80, it amt. eh?" said Miller, ironical
ly. well that's the way feel when
get lonesome. How's that f'r a mouth
ful?" he said, as he slid a huge cake in
to the strangers plate.
"'Bout my size," cackled the old fe1
low, and he cut it into quarters an6
rolled it up like a quilt. In fact he
kept Miller turning cakes till he CRIED
out: Look here, you must be hollel
clean to your boot heels"
Supper being over, they drew round
the fire and lighted their pipes, ant
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the old hunter told stories Of the woods.
He knew the woods as the Indians
do. He could map the whole land in
the ashes of the hearth and he general
lied shrewdly about the wild life.
"A good many yarns about bears an
wolves an painters and links pan-
theirs and lynxes) is all bosh. Bears an
links are mostly jest as glad t. git out
O your way as you are to git out their
way. They don't turn on a man unless
their young uns are with 'em, or you
corner 'em, or when they're mighty
hungry. Most any critter IL fight in a
trap, but in free space it's nacherl fl
EN- t run off the minute they see a
man. Same way with painters in day
light, or night either. They jest puck
a-chee when they see yeh."
Ever had tussle with emp"
80 yes, but I've never had 'em turn
on me except when I began the fuss.
Then they'll fight f'r dear life jest like
man will"
"How about wolves?" asked Miller,
with significant look at Holland, who
had wolf stories to spare.
The old mans face grew grim and he
drew several whiffs from his pipe be-
fore he answered.:
Evolves are different; they're vicious,
no two ways about that. They mean
fight"
Especially when lot Of 'em git to
gether."
The old man went on:
wolves amt cowardly, as some
folks say. They've got sense and
Judgment They know how to size up
the other fellow so'st not t. tackle q
crowd they can't whip. They're all.
walk into any traps, but they'll eat a
Teller up quicker'n Gghtnin' when the
chance is good. They don't walk into
q trap and they don't bluster-they
mean biz"
He sat with his pipe in his mouth, his
hands over his knees and his eyes fixed
on the fire. His voice began to take on
a reminiscent tone.
The sound of the wind in the pines
outside stirred through the silence
| with q somber note, and Holland
stirred up the fire in the vast fireplace
till it reared louder than the wind.
The hunter resumed after knocking
the ashes out of his pipe and putting Il
away.
Eve been chawed by bears, anC
clawed by wildcats and catamounts;
I've had buck deer trampin' me into
the ground; but I never had q VOLTS
tooth into me yet. When do, Tn
gone. They don't make no mistakes.
When they take hold it's after talin'
all the chances and calc'latin' t win.
Now, bear II git blind crazy with a
bullet. an go in where he Is sure to get
used up; 20 II q painter + . wildcat;
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-03
LAST USE OF ARMOR.
It Was in 1909 and Was Picturesq
and Diabolical Scenes

In January, 1899, at the town of
Aquilla, in the Abruzzo, then held by
a garrison of four hundred French
troops, the peasants broke into the
town, and, though they were driven
out by the French, they continued to
give serious trouble. They even drove
the French into the fort and made
ready to lombard them with heavy
ward position.
Boulert, the officer of artillery, ran
sacking his brains for the means of
sending out men to spike the guns on the
glacis, under the fire of the insurgents
from the neighboring houses, suddenly
remembered that he had seen in his
magazine some suits of plate armor,
and he proposed to try whether, pro-
tected by them, men could not sally
out and work in security under the
musketry fire. He got together twelve
complete suits. and dressed out twelve
gunners and grenadiers, thus selecting
big men, be it remarked. At a certain
hour the garrison lined the covered
way, and from thence and from the
fort opened steady fire of musketry
duu VI CAA4Cly vi CAC 1lhCS VI tuc LII
surgents-
Then out marched the twelve knights
of the eighteenth century, much in
David's state of mind when he COM
planned he had not proved his armor.
The men carried handspikes, hammers
and spikes. Moving, naturally, slowly
and awkwardly in their heavy steel
mail, still they succeeded in complet-
ing their work under hail Of bullets
from the insurgents. The scene is de-
scribed, as we can we'll believe, to have
been most remarkable, and to have had
something picturesque and also diabol-
ical about it.
AS the mailed figures moved in 81
lence among the guns, their hand
spikes looking like maces, their silence
and the slowness of their actions
seemed unnatural. under the steady
hail of bullets. The insurgents We're
believed to have thought hell itself had
sent forth these extraordinary antago-
nists, ghosts of a past age; while the
French on the ramparts. true to their
nature, the first moment of anxiety
over, burst into roars of laughter
Phipp'S "MarShalS of Napoleon"
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MEN OF AMERICA

Neal Dow 10 81 ars.old and h ~.
orous health.
Edison burned 1000 unanswered II.
ters which had accumulated during tAo
illness of his stenographer recently. :,
Gov. Morton was born in Maine, and
the house in which he first saw light
is still standing in Winthrop. Il was
built IN 1900.
The Vanderbilt families in New York
pay their florists si.oco per month a.
Christmas and Easter. Cornelius Van
derbilt often spends as much as SGOo for
floral decorations in his home
Chief Justice Fuller and Justice
Gray. of the United States supreme
court, ore great friends, and it is odd
to see the diminutive chief Justice tax
ing his daily constitutionalin company
with the gigantic Gray.
John Il. Steele, OF Nebraska better
known as Goal Oil Johnny" is visiting
friends in the oil regions of Pennsyl-
vania, where he ga.aed his peculiar
fame many years ago through his prod
igal expenditure of money.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-03
OLD MOSINEE TOM.

copyright. 1894. by Bachelor, johnson &
Bacheller.l
In the late fifties the Wisconsin val
ley above Portage was wilderness.
The lumbermen who trailed their way
up the river passed through tamarack
.swamps SO thick deer could scarcely
penetrate them, and over dry ridges
clothed with splendid pine without
,underbrush, clean as a park and of in
estimable value.
f. Old Mosinee mountain rose out of the
widesgreen reach of the valley, dark
with his robe of pines. All about was
forest land untouched by the az, al
most untraversed by the pioneers rest
less foot.
But year by year the loggers pushed
northward, seeking points where the
pine trees could be felled into the river,
or where sideways could be constructed
to make hauling unnecessary. The
whole river had been ransacked and
every favorable river point stripped of
its timber before the movement back
into the forest began. From short
ihauls and heavy timber the movement
was toward long hauls and smaller
timber. Each year the attack widened
as well as heightened its battle line
against the pines.
Two young boys from La Crosse coun-
ty in 1859 pushed up the river to Gin
ny Bull falls" and being attracted by
old Mosinee mountain planted their
camp at its foot and set about prepare
lions for winter. They were be-
yond any other camp SO far as they
knew, and when they blazed out a
trail in September they had before
them great deal of stern labor.
They had hay to cut in the marshes,
wood to clear out and shanties to build.
They were sturdy young fellows, OF
that indomitable sort raised up in
America to do such work in face of
everything.
Holland was bridegroom of only
three months duration, and his wife
was expected to be the cook for the
camp when the SHOWS came and work
of logging actually begun. He was a
tall, young fellow, with a broad, fat,
but powerful, chest, very erect and
active.
Miller, his companion, was a short
man, inclined to be fat when food and
sleep were plenty. He was forever
grumbling, and yet was a great joker.
He assumed great airs at times, and
told how well he lived at home. This
he did when it would embarrass the
cook. He was, in fact, a comedian.
The work was hard, the fare mo-
notonous, and his patience really gave
out during a severe sickness which
come upon him during October. He
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came to be about again, but he
grumbled about Hollands cooking
more and more.
II don't want to say anything against
your coolsin', Hank. It's good, what
there is oft, but I'd like to have the
boys turn up with Mrs. Holland and
some grub"
You don't want to see her any
worse than do, old man."
''Of course not"
"You ought to stand it If can," Hol-
land concluded.
Miller turned his slap-jack over twice
before he cut it and began eating.
Seems to me these things git leath-
erer n leatherer every day. may be
mistaken"
He worked his jaws meditatively on
the problem.
"AlI in'y'r eye; they're right up to
high-water mark. You're q little off
y'r feed, 1 guess-Lampers down or
something"
In secret Holland was little bit
worried about his partner. He
changed the subject. ST heard a rifle
to-day, Jack! Off to the north"
doc. Adams, 1 guess" ~
"No; the Doc. wouldn't be up here
so soon as that. It's some other
party"
Miller took little interest in this, but
worked away stubbornly on his slap
jacks. Suddenly his jaws stiffened
and his eyes distended.
'sHank, look therei"
Holland turned to the window, and
saw the huge furry head, alert ears and
pointed muzzle of q bear, wistfully
looking in.
'sThe rifle," he whispered.
Miller raised his hand to feel for the
rifle ON the wall behind him. but the
bear vanished so silently and swiftly
It was hard to think there had been q
bear there at all.
As Miller leaped for the rifle Holland
flung the door open, and q broad patti
of light streamed out toward the fer
est, and in the midst Of It was q huge
rounded shadow, shambling swiftly
away.
'Quiclk! There he goes, fre!"
Miller pulled up and fred at the
vanishing shadow. And, like the echo
of the shot, came another report from
the edge of the clearing and cry
from man beyond the circle Of light.
"'Y CORY, we've got Inn. Bring q
Z lantern"
Miller dashed In for the lantern
while Holland waited for the voice ia
embody itself.
ST wish had oil Zip here, we'd have
that teller shores aigs," continued the
voice. now getting near the house.
As the light from the shanty shone
ON him the stranger appeared mid
dle-aged man, veu tall, with . ragged
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down to Ginny to git some ammyni-
ton
''Well, good luck"
Good luck" he answered; but his
face was sorrowful to see.
They never saw him again. They
heard of him in Ginny. He bought a
new outfit and struck off into the for
est alone.
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KANSAS STATE NEWS.


In the district court at Emporia
Judge Randolph recently rendered a
decision in line with that lately made
by the supreme court in mortgage re-
demption cases The court held that a
deed could not be given after fore
closure and sale by the sheriff and in.
stead ordered simple certificate OF
purchase. 1t was stated that the de-
cision would save to citizens of Lyon.
Chase and Coffey counties alone over
$500. 600. as it means that in a majority
of the cases which have been fore
closed and embraced under this act the
debtor may pay into court the price at
which the land was bid in, together
with the interest, costs and taxes, and
get the land clear.
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s'No. guess mot IF I find my rife
I'll be all right-if only"
He was in softer mood now and he
couldn't speak of his dog.
Holland went with him to help him
find his rife. This he did without long
search.
''Well, now. come in any time Our
latch string is always out Come back
to dinner, anyway"
'Thankee-I guess I'll have to go
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MARROW gulf and long promontories,
each Terminated by rocky plateau
the fingers.
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Fight with u Madman.

John Lipgay, a prominent farmer
living near Goddard, Sedgwick county,
went violently insane the other day
and drove his family from home. He
then barricaded his house and stood a
siege of five days, shooting at every
one who came in sight, nearly killing
two persons. He was finally captured
by the strategy of his daughter. He
was ravenously hungry and she ap-
peared with food. The crazy man per-
mitted her to approach when he saw
the food. When he put his Winchester
down to eat the girl grabbed it, and
then the sheriff's posse rushed in from
the orchard and overpowered him.
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DELINQUENT Counties.


The state auditors records show that
a number of counties are delinquent in
the payment of state taxes. Up to the
end of 1894 the sum total of this delin-
quency was S23s. 3S4.O OF. For the year
1895 a number of counties will become
delinquent by reason of the error of
the county clerks in extending the tax
roll upon the assessment, as returned
by the local assessors, instead of upon
the assessment as fixed by the state
board of equalization.
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Brief Liberty.

The couvicts in the peniteutiary
were given good dinner and per-
mitted the liberty to converse and en-
joy holiday on Christmas day. There
was an entertainment in the chapel
and for the first time in the history of
the institution the women were al
lowed to take part Thirteen of them
formed a choir and rendered fine music.
Holiday pardons were granted to John
Douglass, who had served ten of a 20
years sentence, and William Johnson.
a burglar, whose term was nearly out.
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The Encouragement has filed in
Scott county the first of a series of suits
he will bring to force certain counties
and school districts to pay the interest
on bonds which are, owned by the per-
manent school fund and which have
been defaulted by their issuers. The
suit is for Sc, 800, which is the interest
due on $40, 200 in Scott county fund
ing bonds bought by the school fund
in 1892. The county will resist pay
ment on the ground that the commits
sioners had no legal right to issue the
bonds without a vote by the people.
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Kansans Favored.

Kansas is represented on the house
committees as announced by Speaker
Reed, as follows: Col Blue is on the
appropriations committee; Broderick,
judiciary and militia; Calderhead, bank
ing and currency and railroads and
canals; Kirkpatrick and Baker, invalid
pensions; Curtis, expenditures in in
terror department, Indian affairs and
public lands; Long, accounts and post
offices; Miller, expenditures in the
treasury department
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-18
GRASSHOPPERS IN INDIANA.
Farmers Around South Bend Alarmed
at the Work of the Pest.

SOUTH BEND, IND, June 14.-Grass-
hoppers are doing immense damage in
portions of this county. Alex. Smith,
of Center Township, has so acres of
wheat, from which every blade has
been eaten, but the heads remain, an
other eighteen acres being eaten up
entire, as well as fifteen acres of
potatoes and a large field of oats.
NILES, MICH, June 14.-Reports
from peppermint growers in all parts
of Southwestern Michigan say that
grasshoppers are doing great injury to
the crop. In some localities the in
sects have eaten the entire foliage of
large fields, the old planters tracts
suffering the most. In Allegan county
fields have sustained much
damage. The yield of the oil will be
considerably less than last year.
WATERLOO, Iowa, June 14.-One
hundred farmers of Maxfield township,
Bremen county, have organized to
fight the army worm advances. Five
plows drawn by five horses pillow fur
rows ten inches deep around the fields,
Harrows and p%ulverizers are run over
it and the worms are gatheredin wag-
on boxes and cremented in straw
saturated with kerosene.