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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
Great Problem Solved.

A North Missouri editor asked:
"Who is the happier, the man who
possesses S1,000,00 or the man who
has seven daughters?" Another Mis-
souri, editor promptly solved the prob
lem in this way: The man with the
surplus girls, Of course. The man
with the money is not satisfied and
wants more, the man with the seven
daughters is satisfed-he has
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
THREE MEN LYNCHED.
Whites and Blacks Unite In a Triple
Lawless Execution.

In the presence Of a crowd Of about
1900 persons, composed of whites and
negroes. Phil Davis, Walters Carter
and Clint Thomas, all negroes, were
lynched Tuesday afternoon about l
o'clock within a short distance Of
Belcber, which is twenty miles from
Shreveport. La.
The men were executed FOR rartici-
pating in the fatal shooting OF Robert
Adeer, one Of the most popular busi-
ness men in North Louisiana.
The negroes confessed their crime.
They stated that they we're trying
new guns and when Adger appeared
On the street thought it quite natural
to turn the guns on him.
No shots were fred at the lynchlng,
the negroes all being banged to a
single limb Of a tree. Two Of the neg
roes under arrest, Sam Lee and Peter
Thomas, we're released. Lee proved
that be attempted to prevent the neg
roes from shooting and established the
fact that he was too frightened to
shoot. Phil Davis and Walter we're
captured Tuesday afternoon several
miles from the scene Of their crime.
Clint Thomas was caught later about
a mile and halt from Belcher.
The negroes were taken before
Adger and confessed their crime.
They were held in concealment until
shortly before o'clock today, when
they we're taken cut and hanged.
Davis is said to be an ex-convict
and Walter Carter was forced to fee
from Mansfield, La, about year ago,
for insulting white woman.
The negroes Of Belcher joined in the
search for the men and were appear
emily as eager to have them lynached
as the whites. One negro was pre-.
sented by the whites with purse OF
slOO for the part be took in the pur-
suit. The negroes who were lynched
were riyen an Oprortun;ty TO praV.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
There Were Others.

The Anderson Mail says this story
is being told in that city: a young
man had been vainly ringing the tele-
phone for some time. Finally when
''central" answered his ring, be asked:
=tWhat in the world is the matter?
I have been trying to catch you for
an hour
''Oh, that's nothing" replied soft
voice in the phone. Another young
man in town has been trying to catch
me for nearly two years and he hasn't
succeeded Vet."
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
Killed on the Rails.

A young man by the name OF
Lawry, in attempting to beat a ride
from Catawba to his home at Monroe,
n. c., fell from the train and a part
Of his head and skull was found on
the track and his body nearby the
next morning. This happened near
Oseola in Lancaster County, about II
o'clock at night.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
State Banks.

The secretary of the state has COM
pleted the statistics Of the capitaliza-
tion of new state banking corporations
orga aized during the year, most OF
which are in operation OF will be soon.
The total capitalization amour
81, 100000, which exceeds that OF pre-
ViouS years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
SON MEETS FATHER.

During the latter part Of the war
Judge Cloy, then a boy Of II years OF
age, was student at the Arsenal IN
Columbia. TIE Coafedelacy was in
desperate straits. 1t was almost a
case of robbing the cradle and the
grave to keep the armies supplied
with soldiers. The boys of the Arse
mel and the Citadel at Charleston were
mustered into one com pauy and sent
to camp at Spartan uburg. preparatory
to being ordered to the front. in the
com pany with Judge Cloy at the time
was Mr.. Z. w. Carwyle aud others
who are now we'll know in Augusta.
The command Of boys never reached
the firing line for Lee surrendered
while they were still in Spartarburg
and they were mustered out Of the
service and sent home.
While travelling to bis home IN
Aiken county the youthful soldier,
John r. Cloy, met a man IN cna sc OF
a drove Of stock that was being driven
through the country. TIE man and
the boy soldier struck up eCnVersa-
tion and when the young man told
his name the man began 20 question
him very closely. They wtre together
for nearly al hour and as the man
was about to depart he told the youth
full Confederate that lie was bis
father. The youth was incredulous
and the man rode on without giving
any further information. When
Young Cloy reached home be recited
the occurrence to his mother. From
the description given of the man and
the subjects on which be asked ques-
tions Mrs. Cloy was positive that the
droyer who encountered her son, was
her husband.
This occurrence was just after Lees
surrender. From that day up TO one
year ago Judge Cloy never heard of
| bis father. During the last festive
week in this city Judge Cloy met a
relative Of his father, who told him
that he took no stock in the report
and did not even brother himself to
write to the address given. he had
long since begun to believe that his
father had passed away.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
Caught at Last.

a young man who declared that he
is Frederick St1ube, wanted at
Havana, Ills, on the charge OF having
killed Alice Henninger, vas arrested
at Macon, Mo-, on Wednesday. Struoe
said he struck Miss Henninger with
a monkey wrench because she Iaughed
at Llm when be pressed her to marry
him. They were in buggy and, be
said. fell out OF the vehicle during the
struggle and on the ground he struck
her and killed her and afterwards
buried her body.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
A Sad Accident.

At Blackstone, Mass, the three
sous of Mrs. Nellie ]. Read, John,
seventeen; William, fourteen, and
George, eight years of age, were
drowned in the Blackstone Tuesday,
while attempting to cross the river on
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
RETURN OF PRoD1GAL FATHER.

Last Monday night week an old
man, bowed down with the weight OF
eighty odd years, boarded the South
ern train that left Augusta at 11:l5
o. m., and told Conductor Wooten
that be was the father Of Judge John
r. Cloy, of Graniteville, and wanted to
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09

90 there. He had only money enough
to pay his fare to that place and
asked anxiously to be directed to the
home Of his son when the train would
reach Graniteville after midnight.
The conductor told the old man that
Judge Clogs father had been dead for
over forty years and thought he was
endeavoring to deceive him. The
ancient passenger was so insistent,
however, that when the train reached
Graniteville, Conductor Wooten called
the night man at the depot and asked
him to show the old man to the home
of judge Cloy and that if the judge
was not home to take him to a board
ing house and he would see that the
nights lodging vas paid.
The Watchman escorted the traveller
to the home Of Judge Cloy and the
owner himself answered the loud
knocking at the door. When he asked
what was wanted the old man in a
broken voice made himself known.
He told his son that he was now pen
niless and without home and that he
was seeking bis roof as shelter in the
end Of his life. There was not the
time or opportunity there in the chilly
midnight air to establish the Identity
Of the man who came to bis door for
shelter and Judge Cloy invited the
visitor inside and made him comfort
able for the night. In the morning
the old man proved beyond shadow
OF doubt that he was the father,
who deserted his two children and
their mother ffty-four years ago last
March.
has. BEEN WELL-To-DO.
Jacob Cloy admits now that be left
home sooner than become a witness
against Martin Posey, but be has not
uttered one word that would indicate
what his knowledge Of the killing OF
Mrs. Posey was. During the fifty-four
years that he has been away from
South Carolina Mr.. Cloy tells tale Of
ups and downs in life. Once or twice
be has been well-to-do and has lived
in Mississippi, Indian Territory,
Texas and Canada. He gives no rea-
son why he never wrote to his wife or
children. 1t is with difficulty that
he can be questioned as be is now
quite deaf, speaks with difficulty and
bis mind is not clear as result Of bis
great age.
What change Of fortune is this?
Here comes an old, world worn man
to the home OF his son asking for Shell
ter in bis declining years when in an
full strength and yigor Of young man
hood be left that son helpless infal t
OF twenty-seven days old in the arms
of young and inexperienced mother.
The mother reared the son in such a
manner, that now after having passed
the middle mark Of life he is in the
enjoyment OF plenty of this world
goods and the respect and esteem OF
his fellow man.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
A BANKRUPT AND FoRGER.

Mr.. BrisJow finds against August
W. Macben as follows: That he cen
tered the service in 1887, bankrupt
and forger; that be had then secured
loans from friends on false representa-
tions; that, as Superintendent Of the
Free Delivery System, he introduced
straps instead Of twine for the use OF
carriers in tying up nail and collect
ed 100000 from George D. Lamb, a
man with whom he had only.a verbal
contract for suppling the straps; that
the straps cost the Government Sl4,-
00C year.
That he made a contract with John
Boyle & Co., for the furnishing Of
carriers shoulder straps and collected
a rebate from the firm for each strap
used; that he made a similar contract
with William G Crawford, of Wash
ington, whea the Boyle contract for
four years expired, and that by its
terms be entered into a conspiracy
with Crawford and George E Lorenz,
Of Toledo, Ohio, to furnish straps and
divided the money received from the
Government. BY its terms Machen
and Lorenz each received 317 per
cent.
That Machen conspired with the
Groff'S and Lorenz to defraud the
Government in the supply Of the Croft
fastener for attaching letter boxes TO
posts, and that Machen actually re-
ceived more than s25, 900 from the
scheme.
That Machen conspired with John
T. Cupper, OF Lockhaven, Pa, TO
paint letter boxes at exorbitary rates
and collected rebate for himself TOR
awarding the contract.
That be conspired with Maurice
Runkle, Of New York, and Charles F..
Smith, Of Baltimore, for the supply
Of leather cases for the carriers IN
rural free delivery routes and thereby
made liberal profit for himself,
while the two men mentioned were
allowed to defraud the Government.
Machen and the twain were indicted
for this.
GRAFT IN LETTER BOXES.
That Machen conspired with May
bury s. Ellis, Of Detroit, to make and
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
THE POSTAL FRAUDS.
Bristow's Report Condemns Tyner,
Beavers and Matche7.
WHO ROBBED THE GOVERNMENT
The Report Shows that the Ac'
cused Men Had Been Dishen-
est from the Moment
They Took Office.

The brief Of J. T.. Bristow, Fourth
Assistant ostmaster-General, who
conducted the investigation of the
United States Post Office Department
was made public last week. 1t details
the glaring frauds, conspiracieS, black
mailing and looting OF the public
treasury that for ten years had gone
on in this department Of the public
service. It is shown that in most
cases the accused men had been dis
honest from the moment they took
office.
In the case Of August ". Machen,
Superintendent Of the Free Delivery
Division, Mr.. Bristow, openly charges
that be was forger when he entered
the service. AS the arch-conSpirators
Of the department. he mentions for
mer Assistant Acknowledgement
Tyner, Chief George W. Beavers, Of
the Salaries and Allowances Division,
and August ". Mschen, in charge Of
the Free Delivery Division. Barrett,
Tyner's nephew is toned as a close
second to his uncle in plots to rob the
treasury.
The brief diScloses the finding Of
forty-four Indictments, though more
than this number have been recorded.
Or these. fourteen we're against
Machen on Various specific charges,
and eight were against George ".
Beavers, in charge Of the Division of
Salaries and Allowances. There is no
attempt on Mr.. Bristow's part to
smooth over single detail. He fellS
in most open, mauter-of- fact way
the methods by whom Post Office
Officials used their offices to put
,.,n.7 ;,+o +ba;r o,rp ,,oolyorc
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
GRAFT" IN LETTER BOXES.

GRAFT IN LETTER BOXES.
That Machen conspired with May
bury s. Ellis, Of Detroit, to make and
distribute vast number Of rural let
ter boxes, at extortlonate prices, with
intent to defraud the Government.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
TYNER AND BIS NEPHEW.

The charges against Assistant At
torney-General Tyner for the Post
Office Department indicate, in a very
practical way, that be was in partner
ship with his nephew, Barrett, who
had been bis assistant, in order to
profit by the non-prosecution of bond
investment companies, or "get-rich.
quick" concerns that were using the
mails to perpertuate their frauds.
stop orders" had been issued against
these companies, Bristow recites, by
Assistant Attorney-General Thomas,
who declared they were "a greater
nenance to society than the avowed
lotteries"
Barrett wrote an opinion declaring
all bond Investment concerns fraudu-
lent and ''inimical to the postal laws. "
but still suggesting that they egiVen
IAN opportunity" In order that the
''get-rich-quick" concerns might not
tack the opportunity. Barrett resign
eG from his Office and formed a part
nership with J. Henning Nelms, an
agent for one Of these concerns. Then
they became attorneys for nearly all
of them and thereafter the approval
Of Assistant Attorney-General Tyner
10 any plan Of the investment COM
oanies was sure, if the application was
through his nephew, Barrett.
Mr.. Bristow says that the fees OF
Nelms and Barrett for the first fifty
five days Of their copartnerShip were
So, 900. The opinion Of Barrett, prior
TO his resignation from the depart
ment, had scared the investment COM
panies, who all fed to Barrett for
protection. He obtained it through
his uncle. MI. BriStow takes up the
case of each bond investment mpany
and shows what was done.
Fraud orders were issued against the
Southern Mutual Company for using
the mails. Tyner arranged with the
law firm to allow the concern to Dc
business. Other concerns operated to
gall the public are mentioned, inc!ud-
ing the Physicians Institute, OF Chica-
go; E. J. Arnold s. Co., the turf firm,
Of St. Louis; J. J. Ryan & Co., and
others. 1t is pointed out that the
fraudulent concerns we're able to Use
the mails for six years under Tyner'S
rulings,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
Yours truly,

A. J. MATHESON,
Chairman Executive Com.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09

To the Editor Of The State:
Referring to immigration again,
perhaps for the last time along this
line, I wanted to give my views in
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09

Mr.. Bristow gives the prices charged
and the profits that accrued each
year, SO, 900 being paid out uselessly
| hr tho 5ona rt mont in four years
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-02
WOULD MAKE WAR NEEDLESS
-couvietions" Adopted by the Universal
Peace Congress-

Mystic, Conn. (SpeciaD.-The Uni
versal Peace Union at its closing session
here adopted series of resolutions or
convictions" The preamble states that
with all the encouragement for the de
Inand for peace, I'VE are still confronted
With the obligations resting upon peace
societies and all advocates of peace to
remove the causes and abolish the custom
OF war"
The resolutions set forth that the duty
of the hour is to overcome all conditions
that make war possible by teaching the
principles Of peace and arbitration in
schools and universities, by practicing
them IN everyday life, and by multiply
lng courts of arbitration. The increase
OF the army and navy, the building OF
battleships for Turkey and other foreign
Governments with all the improvements
of American genius, the "farcical and
expensive playing OF naval battles on the
coast of Maine" and the unrestricted
sale OF firearms, is viewed with alarm
Lying is declared TO be a monstrous
peace-breaker. and State and national
legislation looking to its suppression is
demanded. Race hatred and prejudice
n pronounced menace to peace.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-02
Financial.

June floods held back business from
Atchinson and that helped to swell the
traffic in July.
Secretary Shaw says there is no use
TO worry now about possible tight
money IN the late autumn.
Edwin Hawley and II. f. Hunting
ion have been elected directors OF To-
edo, ST. Louis & Western.
That same old yarn about Secretary
Shaw depositing 100000 in banks
% help move the crops is now being
circulated.
New England manufacturers declare
Il is question OF smashing the cotton
corner or closing all cotton mills.
Cotton Bull Brown says the world
hasn't seen another such cotton famine
Tor thirty-hye years. Dan Sully SAYS
It isn't true that there is a famine.
Rock Island officials say they do not
intend to buy the Mexican Central.
The street theory is that the Moorcs
have now all the roads they can swing
comfortably.
People who are familiar with the re-
cent vast Developments in the Mani
toba region say that Cana Ian Pacific
iuture IS as bright as that ,of any other
railroad on the continent
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-02
LIVES LOST IN FLOOD.
Two Men Perish While Attempting to Rescue
Others.

Council Bluffs, Iowa (SpeciaD The
Missouri River Valley, from Missouri
Valley 20 miles north to Pacific June
tion, IS miles south OF here, is almost
a lake for the entire distance, and OF
the FIVE trunk lines running east from
here, one-the Illinois Central-is able
to get train in or out of the city.
Two persons-H. II. Larue, OF
Corning, and A. r. Fash, Clinton
Uowa) horscman---lost their lives
while attempting to rescue number
OF persons from the fair grounds
which were suddenly flooded. Larue
was electrocuted while pushing a boat
Tnder an electric light Wire, and Fash
was drowned Three others are mss
ing and are thought to have lost their
lives on the flooded fair grounds.
The food was caused by a sudden
rise in the Nodaway River. which sub
merged the grounds before those hav-
ing charge OF exhibits knew of their
danger. part OF them being asleep. The
water reached depth OF Fl feet on the
grounds and washed away a number OF
buildings.
The railroads are the heaviest suf-
ierers from the food.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-02
NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Not Government Money.

Commissioner Richards, of the Cen
eral Land Office, made statement in
reply to a publication that some of
the officials of the Treasury Depart
ment are criticising the action of the
Secretary OF the Interior respecting the
deposit of the funds received from the
sale of the town sites in the Kiowa
and Comanche reservations, which was
made under Mr. Richards direction in
1901.
He says the expenses of the transac-
ton were paid from the receipts of the
respective sales and properly accounted
for to the Secretary of the Interior, and
the balance of the receipts, amounting to
S73o 2oI, deposited in the Sub Treasury
at ST. Louis. against which is to be
charged Ss,2S4 expenses incurred in the
surveying OF the town sites, leaving a
balance of S724,oI7.
The Commissioner adds:
No portion of this balance belongs to
the Government By the act under which
these town sites were sold it is to be
disposed OF under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior. in the manner
provided in the act The Secretary is the
trustee of this fund. charged with the
duty of seeing that il is expended in the
manner provided by the act The money
was deposited in the ub-Treasury at St
Louis. There was no direction in the
law that it should be so deposited. II
might have been deposited elsewhere, in
the discretion of the Secretary"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-02
POWERS IS FOUND GUILTY
Senten ced TO Be Hanged at Georgetown,
Kentucky.
THIRD TIME HE is ADJUDGED GUILTY.
Had Been Twice Before Convicted and Each
Time Received the Sentence Of Imprson.
ment for Lifs-Bro,ber Of Murdered Cover.
nor Broke Down From the Stran-Powers
Makes Eloquent Plea.

Georgetown, Ky. (SpcciaD The
third trial of cx-Secretary OF State Ca
leb Powers for ccmpicitv in the muir
der OF Gov. William Goebel in January,
1000 closed shortly before noon. when
the jury brought in a verdict OF guilty,
with the extreme penalty of hanging
for the prisoner. Powers had been in
the penitentiary for three years on life
sentence.
The verdict OF the jury. guilty and
the punishment of DEATH was report
ed into court at II.2o. Several hun
dred people crowded the courtroom
when the verdict was read. Intense ST
lence prevailed. The jury was polled
and each man declared the verdict OF
guilty to be his finding.
Powers sat apparently unmoved
while his attorneys ased for time to
make a motion for a new trial.
He had nothing to say regarding the
verdict except to express his surprise
that such a result could be reached
from the evidence presented and to an
nounce that he would take an appeal
and continue his case to the last re-
sort
Arthur Goebel, the brother OF the
victim and merchant in Cincinnati,
who has spent his time and fortune for
over three years in the prosecution OF
those accused OF being in a conspiracy
to kill his brother. broke down from
the strain upon hearing the verdict
Special Judge Robbins in the after
noon formally overrulcd a motion .ior
the granting OF new trial to Powers.
He then passed the sentence OF death
upon him. Powers made only the dec
laration:
I'm not guilty. Judger'
The Court then fixed November IS
next as the day for the execution.
The attorneys for Powers secured the
granting OF an appeal for the case to
the Kentucky Court OF Appeals. and. if
unsuccessful, they may try to get the
United States Supreme Court to take
it under consideration.
Powers was Immediately removed to
the Scott County Jail to be held there
pending the appeal OF his case to the
higher co-rts.
A telegram from Indianapolis states
that ex-Gov. w. s. Taylor said:
This verdict affects me very much.
| cannot say word
Powers has been convicted twice be-
fore, this being the third trial in which
the jury brought in verdict OF guilty
against him. On his previous trials he
escaped with sentence OF life impris-
onment. as the evidence was not con-
sidercd sufficiently strong against him
to lead the jury to infict the extreme
penalty. All three OF the trials were
held at Georgetown and in each OF
them he had the assistance OF the most
able lawyers who could be procured.
The trial just closed was made not
able by Powers addressing the jury in
his own behalf In long review OF the
case he showed himself to be 4 COM
petent ally OF his counsel, while his elo-
quence in pleading for his life astonish-
ed those who had watched him care
fully in the past trials OF the case.