davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-30
a COLD WINTER.
November, December, January and
February Were Below the Normal.

The Columbia Record says accord
ing to Section Director j., W. Bauer
the winter owed US 200 degrees, it be-
ing that many below the usual mark
for the winter months. Shortly after
I o'clock Sunday the sun crossed the
equator and put an Official end to
winter, according to the astronomers.
In common parhnce winter did not
end until midnight last night: At all
events, the winter has been the cold
est that has ever been experienced by
Columbia since the establishment Of
ne weather bureau here.
The winter has been remarkable,
not so much for exceptionally low
temperatures on only a few scattered
days, but for continuous cold, broken
only by warm spells now and then, Of
only few days duration. The months
Of November, December, January and
February have all been below the nor
NAL.
There have been several low temper
atures recorded, and in November all
records for weather in that particular
month were broken. February was
marked by light snowfall, and in
both January and February there
were different days in which sleet fell
and icles hung from the trees and
houses.
Up to March the deficiency was 2+s
degrees, but this month was a little
better and about 40 Of these have been
knocked off, The normal for the
months Of December, January and
February complied from the records OF
the bureau since it's ablishment in
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-30
Total in IS States and
Territories 401

IS1 I'D % S~'-'O
The report of the comptroller gen.
eral shows that last year the railroads
returned for taxation 3,005 miles Of
track in this State, and that the total
value of all railroad property in the
State was s29, ,467,716.-The State.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-30
The following table shows track laid

IN Cannada S39.ZZ m1leS OF ne"
road were built last year or - lines.
and incomplete returns from Mexico
show 341.43 miles Of track laid on J.
lines
The Railway Age gives the follow
ing as the summary in each OF several
States last year:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-30

duced to ashes and salt sown upon the
ruins. Gen. Sherman in his Memoirs
(page 226). says he answered HalIeck
&C fo111wc-
Iron County register., 1904-09-22
st. Louis Day at the Fair.

On September 18th, the last rays
of the setting sun sent arrows of
light over great city, quivering
with excitement and suppressed
energy, anxiously awaiting the
dawn OF the coming day, which all
the inhabitants fondly hoped to
make the greatest of the Fair. Ev-
erything was in readiness, night
had but to come and soothe the
throng for the coming morrow.
The sun seemed to have hurried in
his circuit and peeped up from the
eastern horizon easlier than was
his usual arrival; yet not too soon
for many anxious ones. The gates
were to be swung open two hours
earlier than usual, making the
hour six o'clock, and this was none
too soon, for on September 18th,
every man, woman and child was
expected at the Fair. They came
early too, for before six O'clock,
great lines of people were in watt
ing for the swinging Of the gates
to allow them entrance. Before
the SUMS rays had scarcely crossed
the Mississippi in safety, the streets
were alive with people, hurrying
with lunch boxes and baskets, in
tent on having days picnic. a
steady stream poured its human
freightage into the crumbs all day
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

THE Post-Dispatch, abating fol
the moment its abuse of Bryan
and Democracy, ventures to say:
1t is admitted that American
steel rails are sold in Canada at
$3.50 a ton. American railroads
must pay S2S for rails. We levy
a duty of So ton, to preserve the
home market from the pauper-
made rails of foreign countries.
II Could anything better illus
trate the crazy character of the
tariff than these admitted facts?
How long will the American peo-
pie tolerate this prolific mother OF
trusts?
Just as long as they tolerate the
Money Trust, as long as they
tolerate the News Trust whereby
the P.-D. and other favored journ-
ais prosper and bar competition.
The people will tolerate the trusts
just so long as they are led by the
nose by the trust-founders. The
Steel Trust is not the mother of
trusts; the Gold Trust is both
mother and father to them. While
its progeny are circumscribed by
time and circumstance, its strang-
ling clutch is upon the whole world,
and it will endure and thrive so
long as there are grasping credi-
tors with helpless debtors to further
oppress and despoil; SO long as
it's sheep headed victims are its
supporters. And the life of the
Steel Trust is dependent upon the
same cupidity on the one hand and
stupidity on the other.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

SAYS the heavenly CD: "The
100000 voters of Missouri two
months hence must choose be-
tween Republican control of the
State and a continued, though more
chaotic, reign of the old machine. "
Well, "chaotic" is good word
from the Republican point of view,
but yet | can't help thinking the
CD. meant to say ''idiotic. "
That's the way the average Mis-
souri, Republican pie-hunter looks
at any government economically
conducted. With him in control
the taxes for State purposes would
soon approximate if not exceed an
altitude conforming to the dignity
of the fifth commonwealth in the
Union. But your old ''mossback'
doesn't know dignity when he
meets it on the highway, and
fear the G.-D.'s labor is in vain.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

THE amenities as they are some
times practiced among my Repub-
lican neighbors:
The beneficiary of a political
theft will set a very sorry example
of civic honesty, and don't you
forget it.-Courier.
The above is good, coming, as il
does, from N. A. Motley, editor Of
the Bloomfield Courier. Brother
Motley accepted the Endorsement
from thieving convention in this
county less than two years ago.
Ben adams.
would not have accepted the
Endorsement referred to had the
convention failed to boot Adams
out as a delegate, and seat an
honest Republican nigger in his
place.-Courier.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

long, and until late in the evening.
About ten in the morning came the
three thousand children who were
to sing. They gathered at the pa
villion where the Lindell cars used
to turn, and there awaited the
proper time for them to enter the
parade. 1t was a beautiful sight
to see three thousand children
waving flags and banners, march,
ing proudly and keeping step with
the music. Once inside the gates
it was more interesting to watch
the people than to visit exhibits.
The big parade was the center of
attraction when it was found just
where it could be best seen, but
unless an official program had been
secured, it was hard to find it's line
of march, for crowds surged ev-
erywhere, and it could not be de-
termined whether the parade was
passing, or if it were merely the
new arrivals hurrying to find their
friends or reach some spot of spec
ial interest. A great section of
the crowd in going toward the Mis-
souri, building passed through the
Manufactures palace, and many in
passing were attracted by the an
nouncement shouted in sonorous
tones, "Here's where you get your
souvenirs! Beautiful souvenirs
given away! This way! This
way!" The little booth would
hold about a dozen people, and
the small entrance was packed as
long as we had patience to watch,
and long after our bump curiosity
had been duly pacifed. Such
pushing and squeezing-you would
have thought an $4,000 diamond
was to be given away to the first
one who found the place, or a
grand piano was to be handed
forth to the one first making his safe
passage through the little inclos-
ure. And the souvenir-a tiny
whistle, which had to be tried be-
fore it was accepted, and if it would
not blow, was promptly refused,
and another one secured. The
crowd blew until their faces ached,
and then hurried on to the parade.
One of the best places to see a
parade is from the Missouri Build
ing, it's great spreading piazzas af-
ford an elevation and comfortable
space impossible to be had at any
other point. Doubtless many of
the friends of the Fair from Iron
county enjoyed the scene from this
place, for quite good representa-
ton from the county were on the
grounds.
We are surprised to find that
there are people who are disap-
pointed at not finding wonderful
exhibits in he State buildings.
They forget that they are merely
models of either the State House,
or some model of a mansion made
famous in history. And more sur
prising is it that large boys and
girls wonder and ask if the fishes
and crabs are real live things, or
only something put there for show.
| don't believe a country boy
would ask if the fishes are alive.
He has spent too much time with
the rod for anything of that kind.
1t must be some little city chap
who has missed many of the real
pleasures of childhood, and fishes
to him are toys. EsCALITE.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

THE President felicitates him.
self upon that Panama deal, feel
ing no doubt secure in the knowl-
edge that "the business interests
are with him in the despoiling OF
a sister Republic Of one Of it's
members. Nothing is more GER
tain than that, if the United States
government had kept its hands off,
Panama would to-day have been
still one of the Columbian States.
Should Massachusetts, or South
Carolina again become weary oi
this Union, they can point Great
Britain to a mighty pertinent pre-
cedent.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

AT the meeting of the Congress
sional Committee in Bismarck,
September 10th, H. G. Bell of
Washington county was deposed
as chairman of the committee, and
R. A. Frazer of Jefferson county
elected in his place. The selec-
ton of Mr.. Frazer, it is said, furn-
ishes proof that the machine is
busted, and in future there will be
no more assessments of $500 on
candidates who desire to make the
race for Congress in this district.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

THE Republican papers that
were going to support Mr.. Folk,
and the Republican voters who
were going to vote for him, have
just about all disappeared off the
face Of the earth. The average
Missouri Republican is sly, devil
ish sly, but his tricks are so old
that none but a fool Democrat is
ever deceived by them. When
election day comes the Missouri
Republicans will vote their ticket
straight, MI. Walbridge and all
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

The Folk bunch at present in
charge of the Democratic State
Central Committee had better get
some "machine brains" at head
quarters in st. Louis. If they
don't, and that pretty soon, there
is no telling what the result will
be IN November.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

The Republicans are very busy
these days carrying the state of
Missouri. For quarter of a CEN
tury or more the Republicans have
had way of carrying Missouri on
every day of the year save election
day. 1t will be the same thing this
wear
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

Mrs. Fred. Kindell, Sr., now has
her complete line of samples of
Tailor Made Garments for fall and
winter; also shirt waist suits in all
the latest fabrics. She desires all
the ladies of the Valley to call and
inspect them, whether they intend
to purchase or not.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

A WHITE girl and negro boy
waved the flag together at the
Roosevelt convention in Chicago.
That was, doubtless, a pleasing
picutre to those who believe in
such things. But it's notin accord
with the American idea.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22
Exposition Ticket Rates.

Round trip season tickets on
sale April 10Th to Nov. 18th 1904
with final return limit Dec. 18th
1904, $40.
Round trip tickets good for Is
days on sale April to Nov. Both
1904 limited not later than Dec. 9TH
1904, $50.
Tickets on sale every day in the
week through September, good for
seven days from the date of sale,
S2.75.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

Does Mr.. Rhodes really think
that he has chance to beat Ed.
Robb in the race for Congress in
this district this fall, or is he
merely whistling as he strolls
through the graveyard? Mr..
Rhodes will be wiser when the
votes are counted in November.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22
For Representatives:
JOHN G. HORN.

OUR Republican friends are
again in the throes of "redeeming
Missouri" but it's all for naught.
That sort Of redemption would
'scost more than it would come to-"
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

just as they have always done,
and just as we said they would do,
last winter and spring, when they
were shouting so loudly for Mr..
Folk.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

Do you know why Mullin &
Brown sell SO cheap? They buy
for cash, sell for cash and the cash
buyer does not have to pay for the
bad credit account.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

$50 pairs of shoes for men, wo-
men, misses, boys, children, in
fants, at 15c a pair at Mullin &
Browns,
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

A good organ for sale, cheap.
Apply to w. G. Bopp, Arcadia,
Mo.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22

Perkins Ping Pong pictures, six
for 10c, of school children.
Iron County register., 1904-09-22
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

JOOLI II w IOI1TNt OI u IOuIo'
For Lieutenant Governor:
THOMAS L. RUBEY, of Macon County.
For Secretary of State:
SAM. B. COOK, Of Audraih County.
For Auditor;
ALBERT o. ALLEN, of New Madrid Co.
For Treasurer
JAMES COWGILL, Of Jackson County.
For Attorney General:
ELLIOTT w. MAJORS, of Pike County
For Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner
H. r. OGLESBY, of Johnson County.
For Judge of St. Louis Court of Appeals:
VALE REYBURN, of St. Louis.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
eoRMAN VILE NOT ACCEPT.

Has Frankly Informed Friends He Cans
 not Take Democratic Craftsmanship.
 Washington. July 22.-senator Cor man was in the city to-day and had his attention called to a statement. purporting to have been made by a member of the democratic national committee to the effect that there is still a possibility that he might consent to accept the chairmanship.
 MT. German stated he had frankly informed all who had made such sug- gestion that it would be impossible for him to undertake the labors incident to that position and that he now desired to add that no conditions will arise which would induce him to change that determination. He will, however, he said, be very glad to render all the ser- vice in his power to those who may be selected to take charge of the campaign, which he fully believes will be crowned with success.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
WooD ALCOHOL KILLED HIM.
Soldier at Fort Terry Could Get NOth-
 ing Else to Drink.

New London. July 22.-The body of Private Hack Wright. d soldier in the Forty-third company. United States coast artillery at Fort Terry, Plum Is- land, N. r.. was brought to this city to-day by Undertaken Thomas F. For an. Wright died at Fort Terry after drinking wood alcohol. He was reeoy- ering from intoxication which he in- duIged in here and could find nothing to drink but wood alcohol. He procured this from the barber shop and drank it. He died within an hour.
 Wright is believed to have enlisted under fictitious name. His comrades say his real name was George Knowles os Bridgeport. He had written letters to g sister in Bridgeport, and said he had sister, Mrs. o. S. Bailey of Pater- son, N. J. Wright was core maker be- fore enlisting. but had been a barber at Fort Terry.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
FATHER FINDS SONS BoDY.
Mystic Young Man Said He Would sui-
 eide and Kept His word.

Mystic, Conn. July 22.-The body of Clarence 0. Eldredge was found late this afternoon about 1000 feet from the summer home of his father, Charles Q. Eldredge, the father making the dis covery. The finding of the body was the result of search that had been conducted for two days on the belief that the young man had committed sui eide. It was found opposite the place known as Porter's rock and large hole in the young mans left side and a nearby revolver revealed the cause of his death. It is said that the young man committed suicide as the result of love effair.
 The disappearance of Eldredge caused a sensation in this section where he was well known, as several letters address ed to different members of the family, indicating that he would commit sui eide. had been found. In letter to his father he wrote If you were to etn- ploy 5000 detectives or spend thousands of dollars you would never be able to discover the cause of my death" and in this same letter he requested that his body be buried in the sea. Eldredge was last seen alive shortly before mid night Saturday last, and diligent search had been conducted for him dur ing the past few days. He was former 1 1y employed in New London drug store and was twenty-tw years old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
.lsURE rHIYGp MEN CAUGHT
Gang of Gamblers Arrested while
 aFIeeeIngn Detective.

New York, July 22.-Nearly all the members of Larry Summerfelds band of "sure-thing gamblers were ar- rested to-day while trying to get s2.2O0 from detective sergeant who repre- scented himself as anxious to make a winning by receiving inside information of the winners at the Brighton track before the news reached the poolrooms. Eleven prisoners were captured in a room said by the police to have been hired for the purpose of fleecing the detective. It was filled up with a dog en telephones and telegraph instru- ment, which were torn out and taken to police headquarters. Summerfield met the detective in his office on Broadway. where he conducted distributing bu- reau" of winning horses, and sent him to the room where the arrests were made. Summerfield escaped. but the police expect to get him in a few days. He is out on s25,Oo bail now.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
MAY AVERT TEXTILE STRIKE
STATE BOARD OF CANCELLATION
 ACTS PROMPTLY.

g q Conferences Held With the Mill owners
 and Operatives-Both Sides State
 Their Case-whole Question Gone
 over JointIy-Demands of Workers
 to be Considered by the Employers
 This Morning.
 Fall River, Mass, July 22.-Through the good offices and prompt action of the state board of conciliation and ar bitration there seems tonight to be a ray of hope for an arnicable settlement of the controversy between the cotton mill manufacturers and their employees. who on Wednesday night voted to go. on strike next Monday morning rather than submit to d 129s per cent. reduc- tion in wages. Such a strike would in volve more than thirty thousand oper-. atives.
 The state board, headed by President Rowland, arrived here early to-day. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the secretaries of the five unions and representatives of the manufacturers met in conference with the arbitration board At the out set it was plain that both parties to the controversy were equally deter mined as to the merits of their respec- tive cases The representatives of the operatives told what they wanted Ebriefiy-tte abandonment of the pros posed wage reduction The mill off, cials, on the other hand, stated eoncise- ly why the reduction was necessary from financial point of view. The arbitration board then conferred separately with each committee. and later the three bodies met in joint con- ference again and threshed out the whole matter. This last meeting con tinued well into the evening. At it's conclusion President Howland, of the arbitration board, said that the de- mands of the textile workers would be considered by all the manufacturers at a meeting to be held at 80 o'clock to- morrow morning He refused to dis cuss the proceedings of the conference | in detail, but tonight the representa- tives of the union men were in more cheerful frame of mind.
 Notwithstanding this feeling, the tex tile council will meet tomorrow night and continue the preparations for a strike. This action, 1t is stated. is talk en to protect the textile workers in case of possible hitch in the present nego- | tiations.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
WANT DAMAGES LIMITEp.
owners of the General sIocum Bring
 Action in Admiralty.

E
 New York, July 22.-An action in ad- miralty was commenced in the United States district court to-day by the Knickerbocker Steamboat company, which asks the court to limit it's liabil- ity for the losses, damages and injuries claimed by a score or more plaintiffs in actions brought against the company as a result of the General Slocum dis aster The contingent liabilities of ves- sel owners in such cases is limited by the United States revised statutes to the value of the vessel after the wreck, provided she was in a seaworthy condi- tion when she started on the voyage. The company claims that the value of the Slocum astar the disaster did not exceed $5,000 and that they should not be liable beyond that amount. The va rious claimants against the company, however, contend that the General Slo- cum was in anything but a seaworthy condition at the time she put out on her il-fated trip. Suits have already been filed against the Knickerbocker compa- ny as owners for damages aggregating more than $2S0,0OV, .
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
THE POLICE HEARING
 CONTINUED LAST NIGHT
MR. SAYERS DENIES ALI THE
 STATEMENTS

Made by City Attorney Webb-ThOmas
 H. NewboId on the stand Most of the
 session--TeIIa All About the Trouble
 at the Twelfth ward Caucus---Letter
 Read from William A. Warner in Cor
 roboration of MT. NewboId's state-
 ment--AIr. NewboId Thinks Police
 Department Is Being Used as q PoIIt-
 icaI Machine Hearing Continued
 Until Next Monday iorning.
 At o'clock last evening the police Investigating committee resumed their hearing in city hall, with good at tendance present. The first witness called was John F. Savers. Witness had lived in New Haven for nineteen years. MT. Savers was represented by Attorney David Fitzgerald, who read the following statement for his client:
 New Haven, Conn, July 16, 1904. Lynde Harrison, George B. Martin and
 Henry Wade Rogers, Commission Ap-
 pointed by the Mayor:
 Gentlemen My attention has been called to a statement by Howard c Webb city attorney of this city, made at the hearing held by your commission lon Thursday last, in which he makes use of the following:
 It has come to me that for his activ- ity against q saloonkeeper named Say lers in the Fourth ward Patrolman EStowell was transferred from the How ard avenue precinct to the Dixwell ave- nue precinct. Then later Mr Ullman went to him and said that he could go back to Howard avenue precinct if he would work for MT. Ullman, who said: You know we had to do something to iyou to appease the wrath of MT. Savers. He handled our money on election day. MT. Webb, being requested to repeat what Commissioner Ullman said to EStowell, made the following. statement; Yes, believe he is democrat and a member of the democratic state central committee Mom this district. Mir Webb was asked this question: You said he handled the republican money?' A. Yes, sir. His political affiliations don't interfere with his handling the republi- can money"
 In regard to the above I wish to say Ithat, as far as the transfer of Officer lStowell is concerned, I know nothing lwhatever about 1t, and I want it dis ltinctly understood that I never made lcomplaint against him, nor was in any manner or form the cause of his trans fer.
 ! The remainder of the statements as to my receiving republican money is an absolute and unqualified falsehood on the part of MT. Webb, and urgently request your committee for an oppor- ltunity to be heard in regard to the above; and I would further ask and en-
 (Continued on Third Page.)