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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
A Tornado's Freaks.

John r. Musick Of Kirksviile, Mo-,
thus describes, in the Century, certain
madcap pranks Of tornado which
passed through tht city.
MANY strange freaks were played
by the tornado. In a ree-top was
found q woman's hais, supposed to
have been torn from her head as she
was carried through its branches, yet
no person was found near it. a human
scalp was found three miles from the
city limits, under bridge. Notes, let
ters, and papers were blown from the
city into Iowa, and found ninety miles
away. One promissory note Of S4O0
was found in a field near Grinnell,
Iowa, nearly 100 miles away, while
clothing and papers were scattered
along the entire distance.
Zone woman was decapitated by 8
tin roof, and her child was killed near
her. Some persons who were outside
the rotating current were killed or In
iured by flying timbers, which, like
bolts from the catapult Of Joye, flew
with deadly force for great distance,
while others in the very center OF the
storm escaped with little or no injury.
Perhaps the most remarkable expert
ences were those Of Miss Moorehouse,
Mrs. Webster, and her son. The three
were caught up in the storm. and were
carried beyond the Catholic church,
nearly one-fourth Of a mile, and let
down on the common so gently that
none were killed. Mrs. Webster had
some slight cuts about the head, her
son had one arm fractured, but Miss
Moorehouse was uninjured.
'I was conscious all the time was
flying through the air. said Miss
Moorehouse, and it seemed a long
time. seemed to be lifted up and
whirled round and round, going to q
great height. at one time far above the
church steeples, and seemed to be car
ried q long distance. I prayed to the
Lord to save me, for I believed he
could save me, even on the wings Of
the tornado, and he did wonderfully
preserve my life. AS I was going
through the air, being whirled about
at the sport Of the storm, saw a
horse soaring and rotating about with
me. It was a white horse, and had a
harness On. BY the way it kicked and
struggled as It was hurled ABOUT L
know it was alive. prayed to God
that the horse might not come in con-
tact with me, and it did not. was
mercifuuy landed upon the earth un-
harmed-saved by miracle
young Webster says he saw the
horse in the air while he was being
borne along by the storm. AT one
time it was directly over me. and 1
was very much afraid woui1 come
in contact with its flying heels The
horse, it is said. was caught up and
earned one mile through the air, and.
according to the accounts Of reputable
witnesses. at times was over 200 feet
high, passing over a church steeple.
Many who were not in the storm say
that they saw horses flying in the
wind. Beyond being we'll plastered
with mud. the white horse was unin-
jured by his aerial fight"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
Queen Victoria.

Qeeen Victoria was born May "a,
1919; ascended the throne OF the death
of her uncle, King William w., Jlas
20, 1887; was crowned at Westminster
abbey June % 1898, and narried Prince
Albert cf SAKE Coourg, G otba February
10, 1910. She became widow Deem
Der II, 1861. Queen Eictoria had
seven children; the first Princess Vic:
toria, born November 81, 1910, married
Prince Friendrich Wilhelm, who be-
came Friedrich | ard is the mother Of
Wilhelm l., present emperor Of Ger
many. Albert Edward, prince Of
Wales, was born November 9, lS4l;
Prince Alfred, duke Of Eiin burgh, was
born August, 6, 1914; Princess Helena
was born May 25, 1916; Princess
Louise was born March 1913; Prince
Arthur. duke Of Connaught, was born
May /, 1880, and Princess Beatrice was
born April II, 1857.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
a Fine Job.

Two park laborers sat on the curb
stone Of the Eastern Parkway in
Brooklyn eating dinner out Of their
pals, for it was the noon hour, and
discussing their surroundings in a
brogue which suggested that they had
Mt been over very long. One Of them
fell to admiring the Museum Of Arts
and Sciences, which stands back from
the Parkway.
| "It's a foine big buildin'," he said;
"an' solid enough put up to last for
iver"
"'Tis thot," agreed the ether. "But
what is it fer?'
ITO kape dead boogs an other
crachures in" said the first. Its
museum, it is"
can are them big letters cut into the
stone above the windies the name w
it?'
Il dono what thin letters wud be-,
said the first speaker He fell to spell
ing ont the words. and presently a ray
of intelligence succeeded the puzzleo
expression on his face.
"Sure, l hay It," said he. "Ihlm IS
the names ay the contractors"
otis a foine job they done. amy
way," observed the other admirilgly.
"They'd be big men in their own iine
wild slathers Of infooence' benAe. -
And Patrick made good guess rof
the names craven ia the stone were
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Per1cles, Hero
dotus, Socrates, Thcydtdes, and Demos
theNes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
8 Good Big Family.

iii. Caprop, member Of Congress
from Rhode Islands, boasts Of a con-
stituent named Levy Brissou, living IN
the town Of Foster, Providence County,
who has been the father of forty-one
children, Of whom thirty-two are noT
living. Brisson is a French Canadian
by birth aud is supposed to be in the
neighborhood Of 90years Of age, accord
ing to his own calculations. He
claims TO remember the war ct 1872,
when he was little child, but does not
know when or where he was born. He
was the eldest of eighteen children and
has spent the gr..a,er part of his life at
Foster, where he has been three times
married. He took unto himself his
first wife in 1884 and and she had ff
teen children; his second wife, to whom
he was married in 1852, had twelve,
and his third wife, whom be married in
1870, had fourteen children. Twenty
FIVE of his children are married, have
families of there own and are scattered
all over the country from Massachusetts
to Idaho. The old man docs not hear
from them regular as they are all
poor letter writers, and he has little
talent that way himself, and therefore
he does not know how many grandchll-
dren he has, but they numbered con-
siderably over hundred when he made
his last computation, He has twice
been blessed with triplets and four
times with twins.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
The Filipino Casualties.

Gen. Macarthur cables as follows
from Manila TO Secretary Root in an
swer to inquiry as to the number Of
Filipinos killed and wounded aud the
number of prisoners taken since the in
surrection began: with rcf'r IL c
to your telegram Of 22i ultimo, FIlipi-
nos killed 10,7SO; wounded, ?, l04; cai-
tured and surrendered, IL, 423; number
of prisoners in our possession, about
1000. No systematic record Of Filipi-
no casualties at these headquarters.
Foregoing, compiled from large number
reports made Immediately after engage
ments, is as close an approximation as
now possible, owing to wide distribu
ticn of troops. More accurate report
would take weeks to prepare. Num-
Der reported killed probably in excess
of accurate figures; number reported
wounded probably much less, as Filipi
nos managed to remove most wounded
from the field and comparatively few
fell into our hands. Officers Of high
rank and dangerous suspicious men
have been retained as prisoners; most
other men discharged on field as soon
as disarmed. l propose to release all
but very few prisoners at an early
date"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
BOLD. Rad Rnrglars.

Three burglars was detected trying to
rob store in New York Wednesday by
two policemen. The burglars took to
the roof. They were followed by the
policemen, who captured one Of the
burglars The other two were not visi-
Bile. After while the two were seen
trying to descend on a clothline pole
which is close to the wall Of the house.
A policeman called to the men to cone
back or he would shoot. Just tilcu the
man on the pole nearest the top lost
balance and fell, striking ue
second thief, and both dropped into
the yard in the rear of the store, The
policemen hurried down stairs, and
reached the prostrated thieves. One
was dead; the other lay on his face ser
iouslE injured internally.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
Train Twisted Loose.

A severe wind storm swept over
Kansas Thursday doing much damage
to buildings, fences, trees and growing
crops. The elevator at St. Paul,
Kansas, was destroyed. At Emporia,
Kss., the Grown Point Milling plant
and other institutions were badly
damaged by wind and lightning. At
Miami, |. T., a livery stable was wreck
ed and Thomas Skinner blown against
tree and killed. The Westbound ST..
Louis and San francisco passenger
train was wrecked two miles west of
OsTego by wind storm. The entire
train was twisted loose from the engine,
lifted from the track, and two express
cars full Of fruit were thrown about
twenty feet and dropped one side.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
POWER OF WATER
Eo1e Bored in Bluff az II by Can.
4

EoIe Bored in a Bluff as II by Can.
non Ball.
4 a little group Of solid citizens was
standing on Baronne street, New Or
leans, watching & cleaning gang at
Lworl, with the hose.
4 "That reminds me Of old days IN Cal
Iifornia," said one Of the party as the
stream veered slightly and shaved on
the corner Of a pile Of dirt u never
realized how much force could De de-
lyered by a jet Of water" he con-
tinued, until I tried hydraulic mining.
It was in 1870, up on the Sacramento
River. They had brought stream
down the Sierra Nevada Mountains IN
a big 'fume' that ended in a length OF
Iwire-wrapped hose and a si1-foot noz-
Zle with arm on the side for couple
! of men to take hold Of.
| "They played the stream on q Dig
bluff directly opposite, and it bored out
the solid, packed foundation like living
fire eating into tinder. For q dozen
feet from the nozzle the water seemed
! like hard blue bar and there was
something strange and murderous iooA-
ing in the way it drove straight out
that made by flesh creep to watch 1t.
Several laborers had been accidentally
struck by the stream and in each case
the man was killed as suddenly as II
hit by cannon ball.
81 remember on one occasion some
rival claimant came down from Shasta
and took possession Of a cabin not lar
from the END Of the flune line. Our
boss. who was big 1rishman named
Murphy, told US to play the stream on
the place, and as we were all spoiilnS
for row we lost no time in obeying.
never saw such demolition In my
life. The shanty few seven ways Tor
Sunday and one Of the fellows inside
was pitched bodily through the air and
landed in the river The distance was
so great nobody was hurt, and after
that our gang was known as Murphy s
fight artillery Mark Twain draws a
very vivid picture Of hydraulic mining
In 'Roughing It. and from personal e8-
perience I can assure you ne haSnI
embroidered the facts in the least
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
THREE JOINTS.
Removed From Mans Backbone and
He Still Lives.

Minus three joints Of his backbone,
John Kaller, Of No. so Wiiloughby
street, Brooklyn, N. 2, lies on a cot
in ST. Johns Hospital, Long Island
City, making a brave fight against
death. The missing pieces OF his spinal
column were removed on Thursday
last by five surgeons. It was an opera
ton almost unparalleled in surgery,
but it was his only chance for life.
Kaller has been a telephone linemar.
Recently ne was sent to repair wires
along the Shore Road, in Astoria.
About noon he was working at the top
Of pole near the Woolsey estate. Just
how it happened neither Kaller nor any
one else knows, but suddenly the line
man found himself in the clutches Of
an electric current. He had grasped q
live wire, his body was twisted in tor
ture and puffs Of smoke arose from his
burning hands.
The man kept his senses. Hanging
there, burning and in terrible pain, he
realized that to remain in contact with
the wire for but a few seconds more
meant death to him.
With strength born Of that knowl
edge kaller tore himself free from the
live wire on which he had fallen and
deliberately threw himself to the road
way. He fell 35 feet and struck upon
his head and back. He was taken to
st. Johns Hospital, and doctors worked
over him for eight hours before the
dangers from the electric shock were
removed. Then they performed the
operation.
In falling Kaller had broken his back.
The seventh, eighth and ninth verte-
brae were badly fractured, and splin-
spinal cord. The pressure had produced
paralysis, and would have caused death
If not removed.
DR.. John Francis Burns was in
charge Of the operation. Assisting him
We're DR.. n. A. McGronen, DR.. J. J.
Mulcahey, DR.. Thomas Cassidy and DR..
John F. Farwell. Technically, the doc
tors took out the spinous processes and
transverse sections Of the seventh,
eighth and ninth vertebrae. The oper-
alton was successful.
"I do not know Of an exactly similar
case" said DR.. Burns, last night.
Three vertebrae were badly fractured,
and had to be removed, leaving arches
to protect the spinal cord. But ka!-
ler's other injuries make his recovery
doubtful, and at my suggestion his rel
atives have telegraphed to his mother.
asking her to come to his bedside. She
lives in Illinois"
kallers condition is very grave. He
has remained conscious from the first,
and has taken a keen interest in the
remarkable operation performed upoa
him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
WEATHER AND CROPS.
What Young Crops Are Doing in South
Carolina

The following is the weekly bulletin
Of the condition CT the weather and
crops Of the State issued last week BY
Director Bauer Of the South Carolina
section of the United States weather
bureaus weather and crop service:
About normal temperature condi-
tons prevailed during the week ending
S m. Morday, June 4;h, but early in
the week the nights were too cool for
rapid growth Of the crops, with, how
ever, favorable conditions at the close
There was an eutire absence of rain
until Friday, when light showers oc-
Cured over the extreme northwestern
portions, followed on Saturday aud
Sunday by shoTery weather over the
central and eastern portions also. Rain
was badly needed over the eastern half
Of the State, while the moisture condi-
t;o;.s were quite favorable over the
western half.
Ta- weather was extremely favorable
ior the cultivation of crops during the
week, mo: ns which have been we'll
WORKED, and ior harvesting wheat and
oats now under way, except in the ex-
trene northwest counties where both
are fast ripening. Wheat is an excel
lent crop generally, while oats varies
greatly, but falls little, if at all, below
the average of former years.
Upland corn is small but healthy,
and has good stands. Bottom land
corn has made good growth, but stands
are kept badly broken by the ravages
CT worms. Essly corn is in silk and
tassel.
The cool nights retarded the growth
Of cotton, which is unscasonsbly small,
and also caused it to die on certain
soils. Stands are generally full but
very lousy in places. Cotton is gcner-
ally well worked but few fields are
still grassy. Early cotton is putting on
forms. Sea-island needs rain. The
weather conditions at the close Of the
week we're very favorable for cotton.
The condition of tobacco ranges from
good to very poor, and generally the
plants are small for the season, and In
Marion county are buttoning. Worms
are numerous and damaging. Some
fields have been laid by.
Rice, t1urk gardens, sweet potatoes,
sugar cart and sorghum are doing well,
IN, w.rc il need Of rain, which has
been quite copiously supplied. Fruit
prospects, except for apples, continue
promising The shipments Of peaches
have begun.
Many farmers have begun to plant
peas in corn fields, which is unusually
early.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
The Book Of Books.

About one hundred and fifty
years ago Voltaire predicted
that by the end Of the nineteenth
century the Bible would be for
gotten. The nineteeth century
has only a little more than seven
months left and when we con-
slider how the Bible stands now
we can understand what sort of
prophet Voltaire was. The
Atlanta Journal referred recent
ly to the contention of an emin-
ent educator that Bible reading
was declining in this country
and that an alarming ignorance
of the Bible existed among the
rising generation, even thatpart
oft which enjoys the best edu-
cational opportunities. The
New York Observer takes square
issue with this view, and says Of
the Bible: 1t has never been
remembered more lovingly nor
studied more reverently nor
guarded more carefully than it
is today; it has never been circu-
lated more widely nor has it
welded so potent an influence
as in the century about to close.
Instead of being forgotten or
out of date, it has been and it is
pre-eminently the book of the
century, The Atlanta Journal
says the position of The Observ-
er is strongly supported by the
fact that whereas at the begin
ming of this century there was
not Bible society in the world,
now there are no less than 73,
and they have distributed no
less than 200,000,000 copies of
the Bible. When we remem-
ber that other publishers in all
parts of the world have printed
manymillions of Bibles, it seems
probable that during this CEN
tury no less than 100000, 600
copies of 1.-THE book of books
have been circulated. The OBJ
server says that this enormous
increase in the circulation of
the Bible is due to the fact that
cit deals with the greatest of all
subjects-those which relate to
God and to the human soul and
to mans eternal Destiny And
INC critic, however brilliant,
can uproot a single one of its
doctrines. -
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
q Deadly Feud.

Three prominent citizens Of San
Augustan, Texas lost their lives there
on Wednesday in a shooting atFray.
They were: Felix Roberts, corrcspon-
dent of the Galveston News; Sid Rob
erts. and Sheriff Noel Roberts a few
weeks ago Sheriff George Wall was shot
to death by Curd Borders as the result
of an old feud. Wallis nephew, Noel
Roberts, was appointed sheriff. Last
Saturday week the second life was taken
in quarrel, when Eugene Wall, son
of the murdered sheriff, killed Benja-
min Brooks, a member of the oppos-
ing faction. Wednesday the contend :
ing factions met in the Court House.
All were heavily armed. The sheriff
and two of his family fell before the
deadly fire of their enemies.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
FREE BLOOD CURE.
An Off Providing Faith to Sufferers

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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
Purple Ore.

A Norwegian vessel has just brought
to Philadelphia load of purple ore
taken from the site of the ancient CITY
of Telmessus, in Asia Minor; The
boat was loaded at Maori, or Makree,
small port near the site of Ielmessus
and about 80 miles from Rhodes. The
cargo which will be used N the manu-
facture ef paint, was dug from the
great amphitbeatre of Telmessus,
Which historians say had a seating ca-
pacity of2O, 900 persons. 4 volcanic
eruption destroyed the ancient city,
and it is said that the earth in the vi
cinity was transformed into mass of
ore, for which there is now demand
from all parts Of the world.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
Severed by a Saw j.,

At Granth ans saw mill, six miles
from Fitzgerald, Ca, last Thursday,
Joe Ewing, the eldest son Of the
Hon. Daniel Ewing, met hor-
riplc death by falling upon circular
saw. He vas near the saw and in some
manner fell upon it and was cut entire
ly in TIVE before the saw could be stop
ped. He fingered but short time in
the most horrible agony.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13

Following closely upon the rumor Of
the retirement Of John Burns. OF Eng
land, from all active participation in
the great movement Of organized labor
in Great Britain IS the loss OF another
famous leader in the person Of Josena
Arch, the well-knoWn agricultural Ia
borcr and member of Parliament NJ"
Arch confirms the rumor that he VIII
retire from all active work in tho Ia
Dor field at the next general election.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13
Gainesville, Ca, Dec. s, 1895

GalnesVllIe, Va., DEC. ., IoJ9
Pitts Antiseptic lnvigoTator has
been used in my family aud | am per
fectly satisfied that it is all, and WILL
DO all, you claim for it. Yours truly,
=. 3. G. Dorsey.
?. 81 am using it now myself.
It's doing me good.-Sold BY The Muir.
ray Drug Co., Columbia, s. G., and all
druggists. #
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-06-13

A kingdom for cure.
You need not pay so much.
A twenty-five cent bottle of l.. t. & K
Will drive al ills away.
See ad. and try it-ne7er fails.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-06-12

~ THE CIRCUIT c, RI. FIRST
Circuit, OF the Hawaiian Islands.
In Probate.
In, the matter OF the Esta.e Of Edward
Dowsett, late Of Honolulu, Oahu,
deceased.
The petition and accounts OF the adj
ministrator OF the estate of said decea.s-
ed. wherein he asks that his accounts
be examined and approved, and that a
final order be made OF distribution Of
the property remaining in his hands to
the persons thereto entitled. and dis
charging him from all further response
bility as such administrator. II Is or
dered that Friday, the 10Th day of June.
a. ID. 1900, at ten o'clock a. m, at the
Court Room of the said Court at Homo
lulu, Island OF Oahu. be and the same
hereby Is appointed as the time and
place for hearing said petition and ac-
counts. and that all persons interested
may then and there appear and show
cause. II any they have. why the same
should not be granted, and may present
evidence as to who are entitled 10 the
sai3 property.
Honolulu. May 2Sth, 1900.
BY the Court:
GEORGE LUCAS. Clerk.
May 29-Jun 5-12