The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-13

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Sarah A. Baker, the Oldest American
actress, is dead near PHILADELPHIA She
was born in 1918.
The city school board of Chattanooga
has rejected Lees history on the ground
that ir was partial to the south.
St. Joseph's Orphan asylum at Hart
well, suburb OF Cincinnati. was de-
stroyed by fire. No lives were lost.
While digging a well on Lookout
Mountain G. NJ. Jarnagan and others
discovered gold quartz IN large quantl-
ties.
The mayor of Macon has wired Ad-
iutant General Corbin offering to receive
troops from cities reported infected with
yellow fever.
Great Britain and the United States
have practically agreed upon tempo
rary line defining the boundary betweer
Alaska and Canada
The attorney general Of South Caro-
lima has served notice on ex-Peniten-
tiary Superintendent Meals bondsmen
that they will have to pay up his short
age or suit will be entered.
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Mckinley will present to Dewey the
sword voted him by congress.
The new battleship Kearsarge made
record of III knots on her trial trip.
Adyices received from New York
state that the Southern railway has
bought the Knoxville and Bristol road
American apples are in such great
demand in Germany this year chat ship
ments have commenced one month ear
Her than usual.
A factory has been started at Titus
vile, Fla, for the manufacture of re-
Gently patented tents 70 protect orange
trees in winter.
Judge Baldwin of the Connecticut
supre1sa court declared in en- address
that it was wrong for doctors IL cases Of
mortal disease to seek TO prolong life.
The farmers of Troup county, Ga,
have passed resolutions declaring they
will hold their cotton until the price
reaches cents and calling on planters
throughout the south to join IN the
movement.
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The Garden City hotel at Garden
City, L. l., owned by the a 7. Stewart
estate, has been burned.
Admiral Dewey expressed the hope
that the dry season IN the Philippines
would see the insurrection quelled.
The Alabama Steel and Wire COM
pany's plant, now in course Of construc-
ton at Ensley, will be in operation by
Got. is.
The Southeastern Passenger associa-
tion has issued circular giving rate
Of one fare for the round trip during
the state fair in Atlanta.
The German ambassador at Washing
ton gave a dinner to Mr.. Chambers,
chief Justice of Samoa, and the fact is
taken to indicate better state Of feel
ing.
Two hundred coal miners at the Sale
creek mines. near Chattanooga, have
gone on a strike because the COMPANY
was furnishing coal to the Dayton Goal
and Iron company, whose miners are on
a strike for higher wages.
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Admiral Henry F. Picking, command.
ant Of the Boston navyyard, is dead.
Andrew Carnegie. it is said, will be
the next Liberal candidate for parlia.
ment from Sutherlandshire.
The lowest price on record for "fu.
ture" coffee was reached in New York
when October deliveries sold at 4.4O
cents.
a small body OF troops from San Sal
yador have crossed the frontier Of Mica
ragua and attacked she garrison located
near the Pacific coast.
New Jersey won the Hilton challenge
trophy on the rife range at Sea Girt,
defeating the Georgia team, which cap.
tu1ed the prize last year.
Mayor S. L. Davis and his six coun
cilmen Of Hobson City, Ala, Calhoun
county's new exclusively negro town,
have been inducted into Office.
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