The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-15

Governor Gambler has decided to ap-
point John y. Lindsay pension COM
missioner of Georgia.
A lime trust com prising all the i'm.
portant kilns in the south has been
formed at Montgomery, Ala, with S2,.
600. COO capital.
Fire at Washington resulted in the
death of J. T. Francis, an ernploye of
the government printing Office, while
several others had narrow escapes.
The transport St. Paul has reached
San francisco after a rough passage Of
81 days from Nagasaki. She had but II
passengers, including several discharged
soldiers.
4 dispatch from The Hague says Dr..
Leydes, the diplomatic agent for the
Transvaal has received friendly init
nation that his visit to Holland during
the war must cease.
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A general arbitration treaty between
Paraguay aud Argentina has been
signed.
Lord Pa1ncefote, British ambassador
to the United States, has returned from
England.
Over l25 delegates, representing Is
American Sundayschool union at Chi
cago.
\ woman averted fire panic among
the Daughters of the Confederacy as
sembled at Richmond to unyeil the
monument to Winnie Davis.
Chicago women have inaugurated a
movement to substantially recognize
the services of Generals Fitzhugh Lee
and Joseph Wheeler in the recent Span.
ish war.
Anegro resident Of Atlantic City, N.
J.. will endeavor through the courts to
compel the board of education to per-
nit his boys attendance at school with
white children.
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Sherman Copeland was hanged at Or
lando, Fla, for the murder Of his sweet.
heart.
Illinois miners threaten to quit work
because their coal is being sent into dis
tricts where strikes are IN progress.
Judge Feagin of the Birmingham in
ferior criminal court has decided that
the Alabama law against pool selling
on horse races is unconstitutional.
Blue Moore, a negro living in Newton
county, Miss, went of and locked his
three children In his cabin. The build
ing caught fire during his absence and
burned them to death.
Former students Of the late Professor
B. F. Moore, who conducted in Atlanta
q busiuess college that bore his name,
are raising fund for the purpose Of
erecting shaft in his honor.
It is announced that commencing
Dec. 10 the Southern railway will oper.
ate through train service over its new
line via Columbia, Perry, Blackville and
Allendale, S. G., to Savannah, Ga.
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CAPTAIN Slocum, designated to watch
the operations in Africa for America,
has sailed.
The United Daughters Of the Confed.
eracy will undertake the erection at
Richmond Of splendid monument to
Jefferson Davis.
The French cabinet has approved a
bill making common law ofenses Of
soldiers triable by civil courts instead
of courtmartial.
After 25 years of bankruptcy, Amer.
ica's first colony, Liberia, is now re.
habilitated, the interest Of her public
debt having just been paid.
Despondent over the death Of his wife,
Captain Kruckman of the German ship
Comet committed suicide on the voyage
from Hamburg to Pensacola, Fla
Five enlisted men Of the Atlanta bat
talon. Fifth regiment, which visited
New York on the occasion OF the Dewey
celebration, have been dishonorably dis
missed for looting stores in North Caro-
ina while enroute home.