The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-07-22
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Gathered and Condensed by the New
berry Observer for Busy Readers

Three men "ete drowned by lGe
s.ec!iins CT :. i!sh;ug boat OF te!lSa-
cola. Fla, or Monday.
The SAFE il. the Southern railway
ticket Office aJ Macon, Ga. Wa robbed
III $500 on Sunday night.
Mrs. Eliza Stick, aged 20. Of Soank i,
| Conn. drowned herself on Monday
night in Mystic river.
An explosion in d powder mill near
Wilkasbarre, Pa. on Monday killed
three meen and seriously injury ser-
eral others.
Maude Jordine. aged l.. Of Bloom
ington. ILL.,, was arrested on Monday
on the charge of having killed her
twy-year-old sister.
\ freight train ran away on Mon
day down the steep grade near Saluda
\. c., and II cars loaded with coal
were smashed to pieces.
The New England cotton mills have
agreed that they will close down until
some time in October rather than buy
cotton at present prices.
Frank Long, a Macon, Ga, grocer,
has made this season. according to the
Atlanta Journal, upwards Of S., 600 on
40 acres OF canteloupes.
Adnah Rogers and his wife. aged IS
and ~, of East Brewston, Mass, were
run over and killed by train on Mon
day while they were driving in d
buggy.
Gov. Lanham OF Texas has issued a
proclamation offering $50. 900 to any
person who will discover and furnish a
pratical remedy for cotton boil weril
in Texas.
Mary Mcdonald. described by the
journal as "apretty young woman,
was fined s23.,5 by the recorder Of
Atlanta on Tuesday for 'cuSsing" a
young man over the phone.
Geo. b. Hiss of Charlotte. n. c.,
president OF the American Cotton
Manufacturers association, thinks
there will be 30.000,000 idle spindles
by the first Of September.
J. I. Cato, a well-known buther OF
Fort Valley, Ga. committed. suicide
on Monday by shooting himself in The
head with a pistol He left wife and
six children. No cause for the deed
is known.
Georgians are evidently fond Of
children. There was rush Of offers
in Atlanta the other day to adopt a
l3-year-old kid who declared that his
mother was in the asylum and his
father on the chaingang for COW
stealing.
Gen. Clement A. EvaDs of Georgia
says there are sufficient funds in har d
to begin the erection of the Battle
Abbey" at Richmand, Va. The FUNDS
of the Confederate Memorial associa.
tion for this object are now stated tc
be s2O4,4I0
Mrs. Minnie Cummings, on trial fol-
killing her fourth husband in April
last, vas convicted in St. Louis, No.
on Monday ans was sentenced to ter
years in the penitentiary. She is to be
tried next week for killing her third
husban, Edward Harris, in 1901.
Gen. Nelson a. Miles rode horse
back from Fort HILL l. r.. to Reno
!, Okl., a distance Of 80 miles on Tues
Gay in nine hours and ten minutes
changing horses several times along
the route. The general took the ride
to prove that though nearly 65 he i:
still hale and hearty
Mrs. Carrie Luce is suing +. w
Woodworth & Co., proprietorS Of 10
cent store in Richmond, Va, to-
$1,000 damages ter getting her les
broken in crowd while attending {
bargain sale" in their store. She con
tends chat the proprietorS should moi
have permitted such large crowd t.
come in.