The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-06
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Interesting News Items Condensed
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Interesting News Items Condensed
for Busy Readers.
Miss Frances Petit, Of Galway, n.
Y, got judgement at Albany for s3,-
600 for the 1926 kisses given her in
fourteen years by the village black
smith.
L. Oliphant Dodge, owner Of fiat
building in Omaha. was granted
writ Of injunction restraining Mrs. E.
Berge, a tenant, from talking tu other
occupants Of the fats.
With a courts judgement against
her in the possession of $40, 500, Mrs.
Mamie S. Bryan, of St. Louis, by put
ting the money under her clothing,
held it against ali comers.
William H. Pugsley caused the ar
rest OF his wife at Vermont, N. Y, on
the ground Of cruelty in forcing him
to sleep in chicken coop.
Persons believing in the value of
horse meat for food gave banquet in
Berlin, at which 800 guests feasted.
The bite of a mosquito was charged
to be cause Of the death Of Carl
Stromquist Of Chicago.
c. w. Leadbeayer, the London
theoSophiSt, after a visit to the Chi
cago stockyards, declared that, instead
of smoke darkening the city, it is the
ghost life of the millions Of animals
slaughtered every year in the arat-.
toirs.
Professor G.. Stlnley Hall, of Clark
university, Boston, not only proposed
a tax upon bachelors. but declared
that -co-education was bar to matri-
mony.
A bill was introduced in the Mime
soto legislature making it unlawful
for any person to kiss another unless
be be able to produce a clean bill, Of
health.
AS consequence Of the famine
times, Stockholm legislators proposed
tax upon all persons weighing more
than l25 pounds.
Mrs. W. T. Richardson, boarding
house keeper in Detroit, was refused
coal by the clerk in coal office, and,
getting her change ready, and draw
: ing a revolver, she held him up for a
receipted bill for a tor of anthracite
at $50
Seventy German poets in Berlin en-
tered into union, refusing to accept
less than lG cents line for their
rhymes.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor killed her
husband at Monticello, N. Y, cut bis
body to pieces With a knife, burnt it
in the stove, and fed the ashes to the
chickens.
Hairpins from the heads Of women
passengers in Columbus (O) trolley
car saved a carload of belated people
a long walk in the snow after fuse
had burned out.
Henry Bliss, of Chicago, was.arrest-
ed and locked up because, in inviting
Miss Ida Lee to accompany him to the
theatre, be used a revolver to per-
suade her.
A Cowboy named Wilson discovered
two men floating on a cake Of ice
down the Republican river, in Ne
braska, and, riding close to the shore,
cast his lariat over one and then the
other Of the men, drawing them
ashore to safety.
The Berlin Nueste Nachrichten an
nounced the existence of great corn
ed beef mine in the Yellowstone Park,
the deposits have been caused by the
inguling of great droves of cattle dur
ing the triacene period, the natural
salts Of the territory contributing to
its preservation.
Don Cameron St. John, returned
soldier from the Philippines, fell heir
to 100000 from his grandmother be-
cause of his clever verses on the army
life in the south seas.
In the divorce suit Of Ruthven W.
Pike against his wife, the court re-
fused the invitation of the wife's coun
sci to allow the jury to feel Mrs. Pixies
muscles in diSproving that she ever
threw ladders and cordwood at her
better half.
Arthur Van Meter, a prominent
merchant Of Salt Lake City, suffered
from dropsy, and, after fast Of forty
days, in which be took nothing but
water, ne found himself cured.
E. G. Jones, banker Of New York,
gave dinner in honor Of Miss Ethel
Barrymore, where the plates for
twelve cost.Sl, 500.
An investigation by the health
board of Chicago showed it to have
more men and boys in proportion to
women and girls than has any other
lare city in the world.
William W. Black, head critic in
the Chicago normal school, was placed
on trial by the school powers charged
with the inability to smile.
Shenkberg & Co., at Sioux City, Ia,
sought an lnJuncClon against Snoe
store to prevent the shoe dealers from
selling 20 cent coffee at 5 cents a
pound.
Three judges OF the supreme court
Of New York decided that to eat in
the modern quick lunch restaurant
with ones hat on was quite proper.
at Oberlin college young man hav-
ing scholarship valued at S75 stole
two kisses from a pretty coed, and
was expelled from the school, placing
the value Of the Oberlin kiss at $3.50
apiece.
Six babies were born in five days at
393 La Sale street, Chicago, one girl
weighing Il pounds.
Frank Erwin, Of Chicago, in the
attempt to escape from a constable,
ran through alleys and barns until, in
the attempt to clear the open window