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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
Work of a Mob.

Three weeks ago smallpox case de-
veloped at Bradford, Pa, the patient
bsing railroad man named William
Meyers. The victim was isolsted in bis
roomsin the Armstrong block, the board
Of health lacking pest house, and soon
recovered. La:er, FIVE new cases devel
oped, and the board Of health decided
to secure . temporary pest house. A
vacant school house in the second ward
Was secured and carpenters and plumb
ers were put to work fstiDgit up. When
it became known, the people living
nearby becsme greatly wrought up and
resolved to make ttouble. Thursday
night at $50 o'clock mob Of over 800
men and women surrounded the school
house. Their leaders clutched the
night watchman, Charles Story, and
held him firmly while the incendiaries
bsttered open door and set FIRE to the
place. All who attempted to prevent
the fire were kept back, aud in q few
minutes the entire building, 8 large
two and half story wooden structure,
was in flames. Plumbers tools and
other articles in the house were burned
and the excitement ran high, men and
women running up and down the
streets, crying against the board Of
health. As the flames rolled and
cracked, the mob hoWled its delight.
Threats were made as to Whai would be
done if police or health officers inter
ferred, but there was no interference.
No arrests have been made.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
Good for Beaufort.

A Washington dispatch says Admiral
Crownshield, who has just returned
frcm an inspection Of southern ports
With view to the establishment Of q
naval training station, has recommended
to the secretary of the navy that the
naval station st Port Royal, s. G. be
utilized for this purpose. The secretary
heartily approves Of the recommends
tion and informed Congressman Elliott
that the build ngs At Port R.yal
would be used and improved for the &C.
comodation Ct from 500 to 1000 boys,
chiefly from The south. The station,
he told Mr.. Elliott, would be made q
nost important one. The machinery
now at Port Royal dry dock will be
transferred to Charleston in accordance
with the recent act of Congress remov-
ing the dock station and new buildings
will be erected near Charleston for its
reception, it being impossible to re-
move those at Port Royal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
a Woman's Splendid Gift.

Another southern college has become
beneficiary of one of those blessed per-
sons who use their wealth to the glory
Of God and the benefit Of men. Mrs.
Josephine Lemoine NeEconb, who died
in New York Wednesday left s. 600, 900
to Tulane University. She had before
her death given at vsrious times sums
to that great institution aggregsting
$750,UO0 Mrs. Newcomb has won a
place IN the large and lengthening list
of wealthy women who have used their
money for the benefit Of the publi,, a
list ennobled by the names Of Mrs.
Stanford, GWendolen, Caldwell, Helen
Gould, Mrs. rubman, ofAugusts, Miss
Telfair, of Savannah, and hundreds Of
other women whom God has given to
our country to bless and help it. Tu-
lane university is already great school.
Mrs. Newcomb's magnificent bequest
will help to make it greater one. For
many years the university vas presided
over by that ripe scholar and splendid
gentleman, General William Preston
Johnston. He helped nightly to give
it the nigh character which has attrac-
ted to it young men from all over the
south and placed it among the leading
educational institutions Of Ann erica. 1t
is now the richest college in the south
and its usefulness and influence will
be greatly evidenced by the legacy Of
Mrs. NeWcomb.-Atlanta Journal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
A Tragedy in New York.

Benz. Forst, broker and member Of
the Consolidated exchange, New York,
committed suicide Wednesday at
the Hoffman House. After night of
meditation, spezt no one seems to know
where, he went to the hotel at 5 o'clock
this morning. and Was found dying
three hours later. Before medical aid
arrived he expired. A bell boy disco7-
cred the body. a letter addressed to
Mrs. B. Forst, 5 number of shares of
stock, some promisory notes, $67 in
cash and bottle which had contained
carbolic acid were found in the room.
Light was thrown on the suicide
when his suspension was announced at
the opening Of business on the Con-
solidated exchange today. 1t is a rule
of the exchange that if a member can
not show clean sheet at the end Of
the days transactions OF If he has any
debts outstanding to members Of the
exchange he is suspended for "a hours
with the privilege Of reinstatement as
soon as he settles the differences. It
WAS learned today that MI. Forst had
outstanding debts amounting to 500 st
the close Of business yesterday and this
is believed to haye been the cause Of
his suicide.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
FOresaW Cuba's Fate.

While Captain Raphael Semmes was
rowing the seas in the Sumter, he car
ried six prizes into Cienfuegos, only to
have them turned over to their owners
by the Governor General of Cuba. This
was naturally annoying to the enter
prising captain, and he says in his
memoirs, published in 1868: II plan
ned very pretty little quarrel between
the confederate states and Spain, in
case the former should establish their
independence. Cuba, I thought, would
make couple of very respectable states,
With her staples Of sugar and tobacco,
and with her similar system Of lsbor;
and if Spain refused to foot our bill for
the robbery Of these vessels ne would
foot it ourselves ct her expense" That
plan fell through, but Captain semmes
continues with passage the conclusion
Of which may strike some peo-
pie as curiously prophetic: 'sPoor
old SpainI' be eZclaims, Il thought
perhaps to forgive thee, for thou vast
afterRard kicked and cufed by the very
power to which thou didst truckle the
federal steamers of war making free use
of thy coast Of the Ever Faithful Is
land Of Cuba, chasing vessels on sheEe
and burning them in contempt Of thy
Jurisdiction and in spite OF thy re-
monstrsnces. And the day is not far
distant when the schoolma'am and the
carpet bag missionary will encamp on
the plantations and hold joint conven-
ticles with thy.freemen ia the interest
Of goldliness and the said schoolma'sm
and missionary" According to some Of
the Havana papers the day which Cap
tain Semmes foresaW is come, and
thirty years is mot far distant" in the
realm Of prophecy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
Information Wanted.

Gov. McS#eeney has received from
Mr.. H. de Coetlogon, the British con-
sui at Charleston, the following letter,
the requests Of which will be complied
with: Sir: I have the nonor to inform
your excellency that Ihave received in
structions from his Britannia msjes-
ty's government to furnish report
relative to the purchase Of public lands
and the holding Of lands BY aliens, in
your State, and I should feel greatly
obliged if you could give me copy
or an abstract of tae laws on the suo-
ject now in force, together with the
address OF the proper State land ohser
(if any who should be applied to for
further details, by prospective foreign
investors if the existing laws permit of
their buying public lands for mining or
other purposes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
"BLACK DEATH. "
Thousands of Cases Reported to
Marine Hospital Service
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Ii Has Lodgment in Europe, Asia
Africa, Australia and 9oush
America IL is Oepopu.
lating India.

Thousands Of cases of bubonic plague
N all parts Of the world siocs Nov.
last have been reported to the marine
hospital service. At Rio Jsneiro from
Feb. l to 20 there occurred FIVE new
cases and three deaths. At Hongkong,
China, 81, all fatal, occurred during
the week ending Feb. 13 The plague
is steadily increasing in Cape Colony
according to reports received both in
London and Paris. The official report
from Cape Colony for the week ending
Marsh 2 shows 81 new cases, two deaths
and four suspects, for the following
week so cases, 18 deaths and II sus-
poets. Several Europeans have been
attacked and a number of natives have
been found dead from the disease. The
rats are reported to be "srekking"
from, Cape Town in great numbers and
at SimonstoWn the rats are reported
to be dying ircm the plague. At Mauri-
titus during the two weeks ending
March 8.h there were in the island Is
cases Of plague and % deaths. On
March IA, two fresh plague cases are
reported to have occurred in Perth,
West Australia.
The marine hospital service surgeon
in charge at London has reported that
the rumor Of suspected plague at
Southampton, published in the Paris
papers, probably is unfounded but ex-
tra precautions are being exercised at
that port in view Of the large number
of troops returning from South Africa.
The plague at Ksrskuga, Russia, is
stated in the official report from Paris
to be on the decrease, the same report
saying that l3 deaths from cholera oc-
CURED at Singapore, Strait Settlements,
during the last week Of January.
A report published in a Berlin paper
and forwarded here says the plague at
Cape Town is nov attacking the we'll.
TODD people. The marine hospital SER
vice surgeon, Dr.. Greene Albertin, has
just reported that in the Kirgi1en re-
aervation Korauuk, Russia, 13 per.
sons have fallen victims to the plague
and in the presidency Of Bombay,
British East India, during the week
ending Feb. 8sh there occurred 1,770
plague cases and 1928 deaths, On in
crease Of 519 cases and 314 deaths over
the previous week. In Bombay city
that week, there were ], ,056 cases Of the
plague, an increase Of 300 and 1859
deaths due to the plague. Up to March
2 fifty plague cases had occurred il
Caps Town Of which IL terminated
fatally. In Argentina five plague pa
tients were in the isolation hospital at
San Nicolas on Feb. Z and plague was
suspected IN the cities Of BelleV1lle and
Marios Juares
Official notice has been received that
the government Of the Danish West
Indies had raised the quarantine
against Port Said and Smyrna and de-
olared the port Of Brisbane, free from
plague.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
THE CHRISTIAN REDEAVOR.
The Coming State Convention to be
Held in Charleston.

The following is the programme Of
the tenth anDusl meeting Of the South
Carolina State Christian Eodeavor COZ.
vension to be held in the Circular Con-
gregstioasl church in Charleston the
18th to 18th inst:
Tuesday Svening-Welcome service,
8:3O-l0. 80 p. m. by Christian Endeav-
orers of the city. VIM. Shaw, the
treasurer Of the United So,iety Of
Christian E1deavor, will be present.
Wednesdsy-Morning ses ion. $50
sunrise prayer meeting; 10 O'clock,
"Hnw may 9e increase our member
ship?' Discussion. 10 80, How may
We increase interest in cur prayer meet
lug2' Discussion. II, "How N ~ we
incr asa interest in missions? w. e
Hubbard, Charleston. Discussion led
by State president. 11:30, How NAV
We incres-e interest in the church ser
vices? Rev. Arthur Crane, Charles
ton Open disc 1ssion. ~, E7argelistic
service-Rsv. Mr.. Tjsdsr, the eminent
Swedish evangelist. 1890. adjourn.
ment. Afternoon session-3:30, Junior
rally, led BY Miss Coralie Harvey. Pa
per on junior work, Miss Charlotte
Lance World Wide Junior Eadeavor,
Mr.. VIM. SnaW, Boston, Mass. Ere
hing sessions, devotional, Rev.
Tjadsr. Address, Mr.. Wn. Shaw,
Boston. Mass. Reception.
Thursdsy-Morning session: 10, de-.
votions, Rev. Tjsder. 1890 address,.
ll:l5, appointing committees, 11:30 ad-
dress. 1915, report of secretary and
treasurer. Report of press committee.
Report Of superintendent of junior
work. Adjournment. Afternoon ses-
sion-3 80, evange!istic address, Rev.
Tjader. 4:l5, presidents address, Rev.
j. Z Kirbye 4:3O, reports from socie-
ties. Election Of officers. Adjournment.
Evening sessions, song service. Ad-
dress, Rev. j. Y. Fair, D. D., Savan-
nah, Ga. Conservation service. VIM.
Shaw.
The Southeastern Passenger associa-
ton has granted the following reduced
rates governing from tho juoctional
points named: Abbe7ille $6 35, Allen
dale S., Anderson $40 40, Augusta, Ga.
IS 20, Barnwell 81 IS, Blacksburg $40.
20, Calhoun Falls $9.65, Camden $6 35,
Carlisle 81 go, Catsvbs Junction So so,
Charlotte. N G., Sc so, Cheraw S6 IS,
Chester 81 80. Clinton S. 55, Colum
b;a SIS 85, Denmark $4.O5, Fairfax
81 Is Greenville $11. Greenwood
$S, 60, Lancaster So IS, LRurens SO O5,
Newberry ST 30, Orangeburg So 85,
Prosperity s7.l5, Rook Hill So so,
Savannah, Ca, IS 25' Spartanburs SO,
Su inter- s4.45, Yemassee b3 25, York
vile $9.05.
Tickets are restricted To continuous
passage in each direction to be sold
April Is, is and II, with final limit
April %, 1901 inclusive.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
Plant Less Cotton,

President Har7ie Jordan, Of the
Georgia Cotton Growers association,
and Of the Interstate Cotton Growers
association, said recently:
''We are now confronted by the most
difficult Of problems. 1t is, how to keep
tbs farmers from planting too much cot
ton. OF course, We can hope FIR nothing
butruin if the acresgeis very corsidera-
bly, increased. In the first place, supply
merchants are selling on credit meat at
IL 2 cents psr pound and corn at 81
per bushel; mules are higher than they
have been in years, and everything else
is up in proportion. Therefore the man
who has these things to buy cannot hope
to raise cottoa this year for less than Z
cents per pound. Il the price goes DOWN
to 6 cents next fall, the more cotton he
hiss tried to make the deeper in debt will
he be. The necessity for raising all
supplies at home was never greater than
it is right now, and if We fail to impress
this fact upon the farmers Of the south
this year, there will be gloom and dis
aster among them next fall"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
Gen. ROsser Accents.

The State says General Thomas L.
Rosser Of the Confederate army has
written to Capt. Wade &. Manning,sec-
cretary Of the reunion executive com
mittee, that he will attend the coming
State reunion in response to the invl:
tation extended him. He says be will
attend this gathering with great peas
ure. It msy be mentioned here that it
vas Gen. Rosser who recaptured at Trc-
william Station the secretary of the To-
cal committee on June II, 1868.
Bishop Thomas Frank Ctailer Of Ten
nessee has written Capt. Manning that
he regrets that he will be unable to
attend the reunion here. He is the
commandant Of camp n. B. Forrest Of
Nashville, Tenn.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
GOEBEL'S MURDER.
The Former Chief Counsel for
Taylor Tells Of Conspiracy.
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY.
According to This Republicans
Testimony Taylor Knew Of
lmpsnding Fate Of
Gov. Qoebsi.

Ex-Gov. W. o. Bradley, chief ccun-
sci for ez.Gov. W. s. Taylor in tbs
gubernatorial contest case before the
legislature last year, gave sensational
testimony Wednesday at Frankfort KY,
in the trial of Capt. Garnett ID. Ripley,
who is charged With conspiracy, with
others, to bring about the murder Of
VIM. Goebel. Mr.. Bradley detailed
conversation which, he said, he had
with Capt. Ripley while the latter vas
in charge Of his military company dur.
ing the occupancy Of the State capitol
by the Taylor troops laat spring, in
which Ripley told him Of frequent con-
ferences with Gov. Tsylar prior to the
assassination. =
The witness said Ripley told him he
was in the executive Office the day be-
fore the shooting and complained to
Tsylor Lecause he had not called out
his (Ripley's) company and asked him
when he should have the company
ready. Taylor replied: '' Ny God,
haven't you brought them yet? Goebel
will not live p hours, or cannot li7s
q hours I have forgotten which he
said" declared the witness.
Judge W. &. Yost, associate counsel
with Bradley in The contest case, sc.
cordiDg to the witness, was present,
and heard the conversation. In re-
spoase to question as to whether be
the witness, nesri Of any conspiracy to
kill Mr.. GoebeI, the witness stated that
on Jan. 25th, the day the train load Of
mouotaineers arrived, some one, he
could not no q recall VINO, tod him that
parties in the crowd were waiting in
front Of the State house to kill Goebel.
Il said" continued the witness, lit
shall be stopped. l Will go in the SEN
ate chamber and come out with Goebel
and see that he is not hurt or in.
suited"
Il looked up and saw Wharton Gold
en- and told him to get Finley, Cation
and others and send them TO me. he
ssid: 'Goebel is not going to be hurt
Cullon and Finley told me it was
fake and that there was nothing in il;
they condemned violence, as I did"
a jury was secured Wednesday to
hear the case Of Garnett Ripley, accus-
ed Of completely in the shooting of
Gov. Goebel.
Defendant entered plea Of not gull
ty. In opening the case for the prose-
cution Judge Williams declared thers
was conspiracy to kill Goebel; that
Ripley was connected with it through
out; that he left Frankfort the evening
before the assassination with informa-
ton that it was to take place the nexs
day and that he contributed to it by
going home and equipping his company
to bring it 10 Frankfort when Goabel
had been killed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
Gold Brick Swindlers.

The State says Gov. McSWeeney has
issued 8 requisition upon the governor
Of North Carolina for three gold brick
sRindlers captured ia that Stste. They
are wanted in both NeRberry and Aiken
counties, in this State, for sWindling
citizens out Of several thousand dol
lars, and have been identified By at
least one of the victims. These fellows
had slick scheme. They would take
an iron OF brass brick and have it gold
plated. They also had holes bored in
the metal, which they filed with pure
gold. They would let the victims see
them bore into the brick and then give
him the shavings Of pure gold SO that
he could havethem tested. They would
also let the victim mark the brick so he
could identify it later. Of course the
tests proved all right and the sales were
made. In one instance they worked
in one Of their gang made up as an In
dian. The whole thing was very
smooth, and Of course the victims were
dead easy" II the men are brought
back they will be tried in the county Of
NeTberry first.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
PROFESSIONAL PALLBEARERs.
They Have q Funeral Uniform and Con.
duct Themselves With Proprie1y.

Milwaukee has taken step in ad-
vance Of New York in the way Of con-
Quoting funerals. In order to provide
pallbesrers at funerals where families
cannot or will not make arrangements
for them, pallbearers' association has
been formed which will furnish at
short notice and at reasonable cost q
uniformed escort for the dead. The
uniform will consist Of a black coat
with lace rufass at the wrists and wide
white lace collar. Knee breeches, black
stockings, buckled shoes, a black hat
like those worn by the Knights Tenn.
plar. and sword complete the outfit
in pleasant weather, but when it rains
or in cold Weather heavy black mill
taEy cloak will be WON over al.
There are many people in Milwaukee
mostly Germans-who are "free
thinkers" and belong to no religious
organization. Many Of these are mem
bers Of the Turner societies, and fun
erals in their families are conducted
by the Turner'S. Others d. not belong
to sny society, and when q death oc-
ours in the family a professional funeral
orator is usually called in to conduct
the services. The funeral orators suc-
cess and the love for display when be-
loved relative is laid away doubtless
suggested the organization Of the pail
bearers association, and it is believed
that it will be financially successful.
An undertaken whose place Of bust
ness is in the crowded tenement house
district said that similar association
would probably receive good support in
New York. In the Italian district elab-
orate funerals take place daily. Pa
rents may neglect child while it is in
good health, but when the little one
dies there must be plumes on the
hearse, the coffin must be Of an ezpen-
si7e kind, and a band of music must
Erecede the funeral procession to the
church, where there is more show, and
from the church at least to the limits
Of the Italian distraict. The uniformed
pallbearsrs would probably ind patron
age in that part Of the city.
In many places in Europe there are
business concerns which furnish not
only uniformed mourners and pail
bearers, but funeral trappings for the
horses in the funeral procession. The
uniformed pallbearer is the first step in
that direc tion, and If be succeeds in
Milwaukee this new knight Of the mel
ancholy aspect many become feature
at New York funerals.-NeT York
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-04-17
A STRANGE STORY
Told by Hugh II Haviland Of
Greenvilie KY.
A AREmARKABLE CASE.
Saws He Is the Son Of Dr. Theo.
dore Keattle, Who for Thirty
Ysars Masqusradsd
as Woman.
as a Woman.

The Louisville Courier nurnal pub
lished the following reuarksble story
on last Friday:
"Hush H. Haviland of Greenville,
Ky, claims TO be one Of the heirs Ct q
fortune left by DR.. Theodore K ,attle,
another Murray HILL
"'Dr. Keatsle' Gied al Pupta Gords,
Fla, in 1896. Theo it was discovered
that the 'dcc'or' sss woman and that
for 80 years she had so mssqueraded.
The woman vas mother Those who
wers supposed to know, say that in 1853
8 little boy was placed in the Protestant
Episcopal asylum by Dr.. Keattle' then
confesscdly woman, known as Kate
Hav:laadr The boys name was Hugh
Il. Havilaad. He was later bound out
to farmer and finally to an independ
en5 position at Greenville. This is the
story of Hugh Haviland, told by him
self, in letter to Tie Courier Jour
nal.
For nearly 40 years he knew nothing
of his parents. Then came a letter
from Nez Y,rk lawyer, G. TsrIetou
Goldthwaite 14l Broadway, who wrote
that while searching for the heirs Of
'Dr. Theodore Keattle," whom death
revealed to be woman, be had found
that in 1858 she, going by the name Of
Kate Hsvilsnd had put H Ugh B Hayi
land ia the Protestant Episcopal or.
pbsn asylum ct Louisville. Hugh H.
Rsviland at Gresnville, is regarded as
that boy. That Kate Hsvilsnd was
"Dc. Keattle" was, it is said, prscsi-
cally established by witnesses in New
York and Brooklyn.
But Hugh Hsvilsnd is heir to but
half the fortune A girl who is cx
pected to divide it with him. Grace NJ
CLARK Elliott, Haviland's niece, 50
Lawyer Goldthwsits says, believes her
self sole heiress to Imhray CLARK Of
Austria, who died worth $25, 900, 900
Hugh Haviland's little sister, Kate
HaviIand's other child, according to
Lawyer Goldthwaite, was put by the
mother with foster parents. The girl
grew up, merried CLARK and went west
with him. In 1877 they went 10 San
Francisco, and there a child was born.
Within two weeks the delicate mother,
Kate Haviland's daughter, died. The
baby was placed in the hands Of Mrs.
Martha A. Griswold, superintendent Of
the Home for the Friendless, by In.
bray CLARK, who sailed almost imne-
diately for Australia.
Several years after Mrs. GrisWold
heard Of Clark's death and advertised
for some one to adopt the little orphan
girl. The Elliotts responded, ard on
August 81, 1873, were granted papers
of adoption by court in San Francisco.
In 1897 the E!liotts learned that I'm
bray Clark hal left fortune Of S25,
900, 600 to which there was no heir, and
began a fight for their foster daughters
rights. The estate is tied up in the
English courts, and though hundreds
Of claimants have come forward, none
has been able to prove claims to the
satisfaction Of the British authorities.
Grace NJ. CLARK Elliott had almost
given up hope when Lawyer Goldth-
waite's letter came telling her she was
heiress to the estate Of her grand
mother, the spurious ''Dr. Keattle," Of
Punta Gorda. Now Miss Elliott ex-
poets to prove her claims.