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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
A BooDLER's CONFESSION.
He Tells District Attorney F9lk Of 8
Vast Bribe System.

A dispatch from St. Louis No,
says it was announced that Charles q
Gutke, former member Of the house
of delegates, convicted on a charge OF
bribery and soon to be tried on an
other similar charge, Tuesday made
complete confession to Circuit Attor-
ney Joseph W. Folk, in which he
declared that Former Delegate
Charles F. Kelley had told him he
bad received $4,000 for going. to
Europe when his presence In ST. Louis
jeopardized men of prominence.
Kelley Is also resting under one con-
Viction and is soon to be tried In an
other case. Circuit Attorney Folk
attaches great Importance to the
revelations which have been made by
Gutke. When be came from the
circuit attorneys Office, Gutke hand
ed out for publication written extracts
from his confession, which the follow
is a part:
THE first bill that came up after
I had become a member Of the COM
hine in the house of delegates was the
suburban loop bill The combine
got 5000 for their votes on this
bill; on the Union avenue bill' we got
SIS, 900; on the Central traction bill
We got $4,000; on the Third street
line bill SIS, 900; on the lightning bill
we got S47, 500, on the Suburban bill
we were to get s75, ,0G0, which is now
in the safe deposit box in the Lincoln
Trust company, being placed there
with the agreement that it should be
turned oqe1 to US when the bill had
been passed.
While these are some OF the largest
bribes during my term Of Office, there
were inumerabie others ranging from
$4,000 for switching bills to a few
hundred dollars for some minor priVi-
lege. The bribe prices were fixed in
meetings Of the combine. We would
select an agent Of the combine by
ballot to negotiate for and receive the
money. This agent would distribute
the money among US. From my inti-
mate knowledge of dealings with this
combine and from information secured
on what has been going on here for
the last quarter Of century, I make
the positive statement that there is
hardly a corporation in the city Of St.
Louis Of $3.50, 900 and over that has
not either been held up for bribe
money or bought official action from
the combine in the house Of dele
gates
Other details were given by Gutke,
who mentioned the name OF a promi-
nent local politician, who, he said, had
been at the head Of nearly all the
combines in the house Of delegates
during the past 25 years. He said
the Doodle" gang in St. Louis has
already planned to capture the circuit
attorneys Office at the next election.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
Shot Himself.

A dispatch from Spartanburg says:
William NJ. Lowe, night watchman
at the Whitney mills, killed himself
Friday afternoon by shooting himself
through the heart with a 3s-calibre
pistol In an up stairs loom of his
dwelling, which is located in the mill
town. Lowe was 48 years old. His
wife and six children, the most OF
whom work in Whitney mills, survive
him. For seven or eight years be had
been engaged as drayman for the fac
tory, but gave up recently to become
night Watchnan,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
Allotted to the Militia.

Acting Secretary Oliver OF the War
department has made the annual allot-
ment of the $1,000, 600 appropriated
by congress to provide arms and equip
ments for the organized militia OF the
United States. The money is appor-
toned to southern States as follows:
Alabama s2l, 942; Arkansas SIT, s52;
florida s,973; Georgia s25, ,s32; Ken
lucky s25,s32; Louisiana sl7,s52
Mississippi sls, ,e47; North Carolina
s23, ,s37; South Carolina s17, ,e52; Ten
nessee s23, Texas s35, ,9O5; Viz
glnia $685.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
a C0WARDLY ATTACK.
An Atlanta Preacher Assaulted
While in a Barber's Chair.

|
At Albany, Ca, on last Monda.
Chief OF police r. N. Wesbrook as
saulted DR.. Len G. Broughton, o
Atlanta, with a rawhide whip. Ths
attack was made In a Broad stree
baroer shop. The encounter caused
wild excitement.
The trouble started Sunday after
noon when DR.. Broughton who ir
leading a series Of neetingsin in Albany
stated In the presence OF large con
gregation that rottenness peryadec
the city government Of Albany. He
specifically charged that Chief OF Po
lice &. N. Westbrook had been taker
from a house OF questionable resort II
state Of intoyication. He promised
to produce affidavits to sustain hi:
charges if they we're desired. Chief
Westbrook denied the charges. His
friends confidently stated that he
would personally resent what they
deemed an objectionable insult anc
their confidence proved to be wei
founded.
The ball opened Monday afternoon
when State Senator-elect Cruger West.
brook a son Of the chief, made a per
sonal attack on E. W. Jordan, who
has been taking prominent part ir
the revival meetings and who, it was
alleged had furnished DR.. Broughtor
with the information which had been
used in the sensational charges made.
Monday afternoon just before 6
o'clock, DR.. Broughton went into a
Broad street barber shop, accompanied
by several of his friends. In few
minutes be was followed by Chief
Westbrook. DR.. Broughton was in q
barber's chair. Chief Westbrook made
several inquiries as to which OF the
several gentlemen who were being
shaved was the Atlanta divine. AS
soon as he identified Dr.. Broughton
the chief produced a heavy rawhide
whip and struck him three OF four
times, but owing to the interference
OF a dozen persons the blows did not
take full effect. There were several
side fights precipitated in the excite.
ment. It Is charged by a number OF
persons who were present that Dr..
Broughton had a pistol and threat
ened to use it. He assumed the defen-
sive with 3 heavy iron cuspidore, held
tightly in one hand, the other hand
being thrust deep into one Of his coat
pockets. Chief Westbroek used some
unprintable language in denouncing
DR.. Broughton, who did not reply.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
Authar OF Dixie Dead. i.

A telephone message received Tues
day night from Mount Vernon, o.,
announced the sudden death in that
city of Dan Emmett, the old time
minstrel and famous as the composer
of "Dixie.n Emmett was about S6
years old. His last public appearance
was made four years ago when he tour
ed the states with a minstrel COM
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
They know Him.

The national bank officials Of Sa-
vannah were recently the guests at a
fish supper of President Leopold
Adler, OF the Chatham bank. After
supper a straw vote was taken on the
presidential question. Fifteen voted
for Cleveland for the nomination and
two for Parker,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
PAINToE's WONDERFUL CRAFT
With Multiple Electric Propeller, to
Cross Ocean in Three Days.

Preliminary steps were taken Tues
day for the organization Of COM
pany that will build a ship that will
cross the ocean in three days. The
meeting was held in the Office Of
Lewis Nixon, at. No. 26 Cortlandt
street, at which was present Richard
BENJAMIN Painton, inventor Of the
multiple electric propeller" The
plan tentatively agreed upon is tc
build vessel 600 feet in length at
cost OF about 81, 900, 900, with which
it is confidently asserted, the passage
time between New York and South
hampton will be cut in two. The in
ventor claims that forty knots an
hour can be made.
Mr.. Painton lives at Williamsport,
Pa, and is mechanic. 1t was while
working at bis trade that he enVolved
the idea Of the multiple electric pro-
peller. The device consists Of a series
of propellers arranged along the side
of vessel and driven at great speed
by electricity. For a torpedo boat
destroyer the size of those at present
in use in the United States navy,
twelve propellers would be necessary,
six on each side. In addition, single
or twin screws could be provided, to
be operated alone or jointly with the
side propellers.
MIR. Painton outlined to a World re.
porter what be expected would be ac-
complished through his invention.
lone hundred and fifty revolutions
a minute is the limit Of steam power,
while my electric reversible motors
can make 1, 500 revolutions minute, %
be said. The power is transmit
ted by electric wires direct to motors
built on propeller shafts. No telting
is required, and the machinery is
simplicity itself. I claim that there
is practically no Limit tc the speed OF
the screw under this system.
''The only noise on the new vessel
will be similar to that made by fly.
wheel in motion. Another advan'
tage is that the terrible heat furnaces
and steam pipes will be obviated.
"a distinct feature Of 1t is that the
screws extend from stern to stem and
thereby tend to maintain an equili-
brium that will materially diminish
the pitching and rolling Of the vessel
The long shaft being disposed Of
there will be no humping and no jal
will be felt from the horizontal mo-
tion.
1.-THE most efficient turbine engine
10 the world will be used, which
means a great saving weight OF ma
chiney and in space now occupied by
coal. Steamship propulsion now con
sumes 5000 tons of coal at cost o.
s1S, 900 a trip to Southampton
The electric ship will reduce the Goa
consumption to 1,500 tons, being
saving of $4,000 on each trip. New
York World.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
About a Cabbage Patch.

At Fayetteville, Ga, Steve Rem
free, an old man 79 years old, shot his
daugnter.in .in-law throught the head
Thursday killing her Instantly. Mr..
Renfroe and his daughter in.lew dis
agreed about a cabbage patch. Feeling
ran high for awhile against the old
man, but it is unlikely that Vio-
lence will be done him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
Nav Be So,

The Agusta Chronicle says an old
Confederate etticer, in Augusta, while
favoring the Japs, predicts that Eng.
land, France, Germany. China, and
Rocsefelt (beg pardon Uncle SAM will
have general scrimmage in the Fa1
East. In that event, Armageddor
may be near.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
BODY FOUND.

A special from Lake City says the
body OF Cairo Williams, riddled with
bullets, has been found in a bay near
Scranton. Magistrate Baldwin is now
holding an inquest. The lynchers
numbered ahOut $50.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
TEE MURDERER SEIZED.

TEE MURDERER SEIZED.
They then moved forward to the
combination coach and found Williams
in charge OF Deputies Bri5ton and
Wheeler, who made every effort to
keep them back. The door was
broken open and twenty or more guns
covered the deputies. They were
ordered to turn Williams over. They
again refused and a scuffie ensued.
Both Of the deputies were considerably
bruised and scared from the scutHe.
Finally they were told il they did not
give him up, and that quick, both or
all Of them would be shot down there
and then. The deputies soon saw
that there wss no use making any
further effort to hold their prisoner,
and released him under protest. The
crowd then grabbed Williams, who
held to the iron end Of the seat in
which be was sitting, but that soon
gave way and he was carried out OF
the train.
TRAIN ARRIVES AT FLORENCE.
% Capt. Gasoue, as soon as the crowd
rs eft the train, ordered his engineer to
no ahead, and the train came on to
y Florence. The whcle affair did not
last over three minutes, but the excite
uent was great during that time.
When the train arrived at Scranton it
was 6wo minutes late and the passen'
gers were still greatly excited. Capt.
Gasoue asked some Of the party what
they intended doing with Williams.
and they told him thatif he would hold
his train there for FIVE minntes they
would show him.
It is certain, however, that vii
liams was dead when the train reached
Florence Only few mintets later
Capt. Gasaue was terribly worried
over the trouble when he was seen to-
and shows that he did all thai
he could have dcne to stop the mob
for he was filed with shot and his
clothing and linen were badly bemear
eG.
ENGINEER Mills knew nothing O
what the trouble was until afte
reaching Florence. He only knew
that he was stopped by a red flag, ant
thought that it was on account OF let
ting of the passengers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
TIE LYNcaERs GET NOTICE

It did poB take long for the crowd
to get the information. for by the
time traipSNo. so, the local passenger
rom Charleston, was due the crowG
hao their faces blacked, and with all
Sersg8f asks and dresses collected at
the station. By this time train No.
so approached the station and the en-
tire train was searched, but Williams
was not aboard. The train was then
let 90 and procee led on to Florence.
The passengers, however, were terri
bly, frightened. As soon as train No.
so left the crowd arranged to hold up
train No. 50, which was only fifteen
minutes behind the local.
THE FAST TRAIN STOPPED.
AS it approached the station, En-
gineer Louis Mills was tagged down
by a red flag. Having Deen stopped
at Kingstree to take the prisoner
aboard and it being an unusual thing
to stop north OF Lanes the engineer
Throughout that the prisoner was to be
put Of at Scranton, and he stopped
his train at the station. No sooner
than the wheels stopped moving, the
crowd of lyncherS, some twenty-five or
more, boarded the tla;n- The out
side yestibule doors were closed, but
they broke them open. Capt. Charlie
Gasoue, who was in charge Of the
train, made every efort to shove them
back out Of the doors, but they had
= gained entrance through the dining
and other cars Of the train and
ran into the car looking for Williams.
Capt. Gaseue told them he was not
aboard, but they would not believe
gm. He then begged them to get
sc of the coaches, as the lady passen-
gers and children were being scared to
death
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-07-06
& NEGRO LYNCHED
kAt Scranton, Where BE Murdered a
8 White Man in February.
avIcTIM TAKEN FROM A TRAIN
while he Was Being Conveyed from
Kingstree to the Peniten.
tiary at Columbis for
Safe Keeping.

81 A special dispatch from Florence to
The News and Courier says Cairo
sWilliams, the negro who killed Thurs.
son o. McGee, at Scranton, in VIII
siamsburg County, on the oath Of Feb
ruary last, was taken from the fast
West Indian limited train on the At
santio Coast Line at Scranton Thurs.
Gay evening and lynched.
It will be remembered that strategy
was used. Sheriff Graham, Of Will
liansburg County, when Williams was
carried to Kingstree in February after
the shooting, how he evaded the mob
that went to KingStree that night to
lynca Williams, and how he finally
managed to get Williams to the Peni-
tentiary for safe-keeping. This was
fine work on the part Of Sheriff Gra-
han, for which be was commended.
The strategy used Thursday evening,
however, played into the hands Of the
lynchers, and they were rewarded for
their Efforts.
THE LAWS DELAY.
Williams was put on trial at the
April term of Court in Williamsburg
County, but Judge Purdy had ordered
the case continued until this term OF
the Court. Williams was carried back
to the Penitentiary and kept there
until Monday morning, when he was
taken to Kingstree for trial. The
case was called ard tried, but the jury
failed to agree and a mistrial was or
dered.
Thursday afternoon Sheriff Graham,
OF Williamsburg, deemed it advisable
to send Williams again to the Penl-
tentiary for safe-keeping, and placed
him in another prison in charge OF
Deputies Britton and Wheeler. The
plan was to send the party through to
Columbia without stopping, and for
that purpose the sheriff requested the
Coast Line officials to have train No.
80, the northDoun6 fast West Indian
limited, stop at Kingstree and take
the four aboard. This was done and
the train delayed only a moment. In
the meantime, however, the news
reached Scranton that Williams was
being sent to Columbia as rapidly as
possible, and was aboard the train
that would pass through Scranton
within q few moments thereafter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16
OF FEDERAL COURTS.

The clemency of the federal courts
everywhere is one of the things which
scoffers and pessimists might well
make themselves aware of. The laws
of the United States are strict and the
punishment drastic and sure. It fol-
lows upon an evil act like an irresist-
ible Nemesis. But every federal court
likes to think. and acts as if all the
good in a man is not crucifed, and is
willing to show an offender the better
way"
Intentions, while having a place in
law and also not having it, paradoxical
as this may seem, play an important
factor with a United States judge. Only
this week. Judge Pollock sitting in
Topeka, was particularly lenient with
two offenders. One was a woman who
had used the mail with a scheme to de-
fraud. She had committed a crime,
technically. The court had to recog-
nize that. Yet because she had small
children at her home, Judge Pollock
made the fine but SIS and let her pay
that at her own convenience. Again in
the case of a nineteen year old boy who
made pewter quarters to play and beat
a slot machine, the court gave a six
months sentence in a county Jail, the
very minimum for that grave offense
simply because the boy was not of the
criminal kind. "Penitentiaries are not
for such as you said the court.
Many of the lawyers remember we'll
and like to recount an incident of this
nature of Judge Hook. now on United
States circuit court bench. Two young
men We're indicted for counterfeiting.
One was very bright. -he other as pro-
portionately dull. The latter was used
to pass the money. Both were caught.
The jury in reviewing the opposite
character and makeup of the boys
held the bright one guilty and let the
other go. When the convicted one
came before the court for his sentence,
the judge gave him three years in the
federal prison at Leavenworth. Just as
he was being led away, the United
States marshal apprised the court of
the fact that the prisoner had given
IS of good money which he had when
arrested. to his partner to go to his
home in Nebraska.
For that act said Judge Hook,
which shows some of your true char
acter, I viii make your sentence eigh-
teen months
And as the prison-doomed boy was
led away, tears welled to his eyes, so
that he could barely humble the
words. THANK you
mot all the seeds of kindness fell on
stony ground with that prisoner" said
an old attorney softly as he went out
| OF the room
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16
MIR. MURDoCK,s OFFER.

Marsh Murdoch. editor of the Wich-
tia Eagle, and one of the committee
which promulgated the first state
printing regulations says he viii
agree to do the state printing at one
half present cost and for one-third
that it viii cost under the direction
of q state printer with a party pull.
He says:
Originally the Kansas state print
ing was done on contract, by the low
est bidder. The expense, including the
legislative journals and the supreme
court reports. was a nominal one. at
least small in com2arison to what it
is costing at present. Somebody or
combination, desiring an additional
graft, the howl was set uD that the
state printing was a disgrace. the
paper being poor the ink inferior
and the presswork horrible and the
binding shocking. So an amendment
to the constitution was passed, en-
powering the legislature to elect
state printer. The first law under
the new amendment was compiled by
a special committee of senate and
house members. who were three prac-
teal printers, viz: w. II. Smallwood,
of Doniphan county, later elected sec
rotary of state; Jacob Stottler, later
speaker of the house. since deceased,
and the writer of this editorial criti-
cism. War prices still holding, the
schedule of rates fixed for labor and
materials of all kinds by that first
law was, to say the least, quite liberal.
It was not. however, until years later
that fortunes were made regularly
biennially by each succeeding state
printer.
"And now comes the new cinch
which, if permitted or adopted, in
holding the state printer down to
fixed salary, viii provide him with a
large line of grating, tolling, COM
missions and the like, to say nothing
of the cost of the building of a state
printing house and the purchase Of
expensive printing and binding plants.
This lump sum of few hundred
thousand once provided, then will
come the running of an establish
ment, the expense of which will only
be limited by the judgment and de-
sires of the new officer. the state
printer.
Eve will give a good and sufficient
bond, in the sum of 100000 with a.
contract and guarantee to do the state
printing for just one-haIf what it is
costing now. And we will execute a
bond for a like amount to do the
printing for one-third what it viii
cost the state under the direction of
a state printer with party pull
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IF'rom the Atchison G1obe1
No grown person should ever hate
child
You're not in on some of the jokes the
men laugh at: they're on you.
man usually says of his dog: II sup
pose il is one of the best bred dogs IN
America"
An Atchison man is so mad that he
hasn't done anything for two days but
look for fight.
doubt if the word pure should be applied
to any whisky
The children viii not be in normal
health again until the last colored Easter
egg has been eaten.
We often hear people under % say that
they are old, and others over So that they
are getting old
The great advantage in love in a cottage
is that if it is small enough, there is not
room for any kim
If a woman is an elocutionist, she can't
hide 1t, but a man occasionally escapes
under the title of orator
Some way when a woman speaks Of her
husband as Papa" it sounds though
he is treated right at home
Things which are so heavy on wo-
mans conscience they cause it to sag,
don't leave an impression on a mans
We long for the experience of pulling
the first radish out of the ground, and
eating ii with the soil still clinging to il.
we have noticed. when man is found
6ead in bed. that the papers usually say:
He ate a hearty supper and retired soon
after"
A late song, with a good deal of point
While the Men Sit Around" Hurrahi
Push it along.
We don't know what is meant by
''strafning a gnat and swallowing a cam
all but prince and 10 yeasr later swal-
lows a carpenter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16

'drouthy Kansas" yet it broke all
records for destructive floods. once
practically a desert, it is now the
worlds greatest granary. far distance
ing all other states in raising wheat.
We are people OF superlatives.
So while Kansas may have sent JOS
eph Ralph Burton to the United States
senate, she should receive credit for
furnishing the country with Joseph L.
Bristow, the antithesis of Burton. It
is a singular coincidence that the two
men resided at the outset of their po-
litical careers in adjoining counties
While the people of Kansas as
whole are by no means responsible for
Burton, it is true the state must bear
a certain amount of opprobrium be
cause of his acts. but Kansas should
also be given credit for the good things
which she has given the country.