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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
SENTENCED 10 HANG.
A Young White Man in Oconee
County to be Executed.


County to be Executed.
At Walhalla on Thursday Judge
Mccullough sentenced Earl Rochester
to be hanged January e5h next. A
motion for a new trial was over.
ruled.
Tne scene in the curt room was a
most solemn cne, when young man
OF fine family received his death sen
Fenced for numbering bis ne1ghbor,
whose family is equally as prominent.
Before Ssnte!ce was pronounced
Roch ser made a long statement,
narrauing the circumstances that led
up to the killing OF Mills. He said be
vas goarded into the killing by threats
and insults.
Evidence showed that Mills was not
armed when he was killed, only a
a small knife, pipe and piece o!
tobacco being found on his person.
Beneath his right arm he held a
bunch of cabbage plants wrapped IN
piece OF paper. The killing took
plade near the home of Rochester as
Mills passed going along the road from
a neighbors. Both men have wives
and small children.
On May II last R leicester shot anc
killed Walter Mills. They came o:
promlneut families and were both very
popular. Mills was una7med when hs
was shot. He was killed on bis way
aone as he was passing by Rochester
house.
The trial created iutsn interes
and it was an aWe-stricken audienc
that flied tue court room when Juog
Mccullough told Rochester to stant
up and uttered the solemn words con
demn; az him to death.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
Alleged Criminal Assnlt.

Late Friday afternoon John Jack
son, an old colored man from near
Langley, came to Aiken and charged
John Watson, another negro, with
having committed a criminal assault
upon his daughter, Laura Jackson, on
last Saturday. John Jackson further
states that Watson has never left the
neghborhood Of his alleged crime and
that the officers Of the law have mace
no attempt to arrest Watson. JACK
sen has succeeded in raising s25, which
he has deposited with Clerk OF Court
John W. Dunbar and will offer 1t as 6
reward for the arrest Of his daughters
aSSailant.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
SWEPT BY FIRE.
The Town of Johnston Has Destruc-
tive Conhegration.


tive Condagration.
a dispatch to the Augusta Chroni
Gle says but for a fortunate change in
the wind at a critical time THURSDAY
the business section Of J Johnston would
have been a smouldering heap Of
ashes. AS 1t was disastrous fire
gept a portion Of the business dis.
trict ard threatened several very
handsome residences that are in the
neighborhood.
The fire originated in the old How
ard building, which was tenanted by
7. j. Duncan and family, and swept
that portion OF Main street between
Minis avenue and Jackson street. The
ire started from defective stove
fue, and was burning its way into a
nest of splendid buildings when the
wind shifted and turned the huge
tongue Of fame diagonally acros
Main street, which is very wide, 50
wide In fact, that they could not
reach across the street and ignite the
buildings On the other side, and at
the same time saved the buildings
that were in the track of the fire.
The losses with the insurance as
near as they could be gotten are as
follows:
Old Howard building, owned by J..
W. Mobley, $1,000.
Household furniture Of T. J. Dun.
can, $500.
J. NJ. Still, merchant, suffered slight
damage.
c. a. Austin, on building, $500.
J. T. burst, on stock, $500.
V. E Edwards, on sh OK, $500, In
surance $1,000. The building was
owned by the National Bank OF Au
gusta, and the insurance could not be
learned. Its value was about 1000.
W. W. Woodward, butcher, loSs
about $40, and the building in which
be operated was owned by D. T,
Outz, which was damaged 10 the ex'
tent of about $500.
W. L. Coleman suffered loss Of
a5ous 81, 900 on building with s2O(
insurance.
Another small butcher shop was de
stroyed.
Ia some OF the buildings destroyed
the stocks Of goods were saved.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
SCHOONER BUN DOWN.
Capt. Rnbt. Walton, His Wife and
Two Seamen Drowned.

Capt. R,,bt. Walton, His Wife and
Two Seamen Drowned.
Capt. Robert Walton, his wife and
two seamen lost their lives Wednes.
day night of Barnegat Eight, when
the United States supply ship Culgoa
cut down the Norfolk lumber schoone
Wilson aud Hunting. -Four me mbers
of the crew, the mate, whose name is
Peterson, the steward and two sea
meu, were rescued by the Cuisoa and
were brought there Friday.
The accident occurred according to
the survivors about 7 o'clock in the
evening The schooner was 10 miles
west of Barnegat tacking off shore
when she was struck by the Culgoa,
which was making for New York.
Thes.eel bow of the supply ship struck
the schooner nearly amidships and cut
half way, throwing the smaller vessel
IN her beamsend. The Culgoa kept
on at full speed with the intention OF
keeping the schooner fastened to its
bow until the crew could be rescued.
The gaping hole in the side OF the
sailing vessel was 50 large, however,
that it slid Off to one side. A boat
from the Culgoa rescued four men.
No others were seen, and it Is thought
Capt. Walton went below after bis
wife when the collision occurred and
that they were both drowned, With
two seamen, who were in their hunks.
The Culgos stayed oy the cap'izsd
sooner all night and daylight Thurs
day morning lowered two more boats,
but the sailors were unacle to discover
signs Of life on the wreck. The
schooner is now believed to be drift
ing about near Barnegat. The supply
ship anchored of Tompkinsville Fri
day night and landed the sorriVors
Her bows are badly damaged.
The Wilson and Hunting left Nor
folk, Nov. Sd, for New York with &
full cargo OF piling. She was built il
1898 in Alexandria, Va. She is o:
4lS gross and 344 net tons register
l52 feet long, 35 feet beam and tl.t
feet draughU. Her regular crew is ST.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16

paign fund during the campaigns 0
1895 and 1900 and 1904, and no on
can answer the logic OF Judge Jarker'
arraignment OF the trusts contribu
tion. The trusts are run on bushes:
principle. They do not subscribe nil
lions of dollars to campaign unles!
they are paying for faVorS already
granted or purchasing ravors for f1''
ture delivery. The weakness OF Judge
Parker's position was that the charge
was made at the close OF the cam.
paign, when it vas neutralized by a
counter charge. The trusts cannot
be fought successfully by any party
that depends upon trust funds to win
the election.
NO TRUST MONEY.
The Democratic party must make
its attack upon the trusts SO vehement
that no one will suspect i5 Of getting
sectet aid from them. 1t Will be to
its advantage # it will begin TIE mex
campaign Witl an announcement thai
no trust contribution will be accept
ed, and then prove its sinc ,ity by
giving the public access to its contri
button list.
President Roosevelt has four years
in which to make good his declaration
that no obligations were II rr5d by
the acceptance OF trust funds He vii
disappoint either the contributors OF.
the voters. II be disappoints the con
t-ibntOrs, the trust question may b.
cut in the process Of settlem ,nu. If
ne disappoints the people they will
have chance to settle with his party
four years hence.
1.-The party must continue Its de.
fence Of the interests Of the wage
earners; it must protect them frum
the encroacEments OF capital; it must
insist upon remedial leg slaJion iu re-
gard to hours and arbitration and
must so Init the authority OF tbs
ct urts in cJDtt mpt cases as to ~ r.
throw what Is known as gjV-rDm q
by il juIc5ion.
Tine party must contiDu its oppc-
Sition to national banks CT i3 ua and
must insist upon diVorci1 6 the treas
ucy department fro m Wall street. Th:
party mu contir u It's fig 1t for the
popular election Of senators ard for
direcj legislation wherever the pr'n
c pie can be applied. 1t must not only
m aintain It's position on old iS> u S;
out it must adyarce to the c)osiders
tion OF new questions as they arise
Among there Mr.. Bryan mentions
the postal telf graph system, STATE
ownership Of railways, federal ju g S
elected for fixed terms and the IL, c ).
tion Of postm asters by the people Of
their respf ctive mmu ,ities:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
Who AnoHS this Man?

The Columbia Record says a tele-
phone message from Savannah Friday
afternoon stated that the body OF
man had been found IN the Ogeechee
river, and in one Of the pockets was
card bearing ttensme Il. G. Leygne,
l06 Washington street., Columbia, S.
c." Slch name .doss not appear in
the difect.ry, and 81 far as could be
a certlineG with briet Investigation,
no one knew Of such nan. The dead
man was about 80 years Cd, Eve feet
high, wore button shoes, and 1T is said
that bis clothing indicated that be
was a railroad man. Ee lad some
tickets in his pockets showing tnat
he mad played the races.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
Weeyll Moving South.

In an exhaustive report on the toll
wee7il made by Assistant State Ento-
mologist r. l. Smith to Commissioner
of Agriculture .. B. Stevens, an I'm.
portant and dangerous feature re-
garding this pest, according to Mr..
Smith, is the rapidity with which the
Weevil is moving eastward. Mr..
Smith asserts in bis report that, If
measures to fight the weeVil are long
delayed in the eastern portion OF tht
cotton belt, it will mean inestimable
loss to the cotton planters. Mr.
Smith has been in Texas in an of6ciai
capacity for some time, making a
through study OF the Mexican boil
weeVil
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
Five Burned to Death.

Ia fire at 40 East 9th street,
New York, Friday morning, which
it is said was ilcendiary, three people
were burned to death. and many
others narrowly escaped. The dead
are Fred Wober, 50; Blanche and
Lille Euplena, Is and IS; The bodies
will be taken to the police station.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
a FAMILY MUROERED.
The Awful Crime of Unknown Assas
sin in California Town.

SIN III NAIllOEuia 1O"
a dispatch from Auburn, CAL, says
it is nov known that julius Weber,
his wife. their l9-year-old daughter
Bertha, aud their son Paul, aged Il
years, were murdered Friday night by
an unknown assassin, WHO set lie to
the home in an effort to cover his
crime. Before the fire had made any
great headway, the bodies OF the mur
dered woman and her two children
were rescued from the burning house.
An examination OF the bodies show
ed that Mrs. Weber and the children
had Teen murdered before the FIRE had
been started. Mrs. Weber and her
daughter had been killed By pistol
WOUNDS. On the boys head were sew
eral deep cuts. he had also been shot.
All efforts to reach julius Weber, the
father who was not thought to be in
the burning house, were abandoned
until when a search vas made IN
the burning tinbers and bis body was
found il the bathIoym OF the dwell
ing. he, too, had been shot down be-
fore beirg left to be coasuned by the
flames. This makes the Death list as
follow
julius Weber, aged IS.
Mrs. Julius Weber, aged II.
Bertha Weber, aged 10; their
daughter.
Paul Weber, aged II, their son.
Tie body Ct Mr.. Weber was 20 bad
ly burned that it has been impossible
to a certain how often he was shot. It
has been ascertaiued beyond doubt
that the women we're killed in one
room snd their clothing set on fire,
and that they we're then dragged into
the apartment where their bodies were
discovered.
One very peculiar circumstance OF
the tragedy is that while the bodies
OF the mother and her daughter were
burned to scme extend, the apartment
in which they were lying was not on
ire when the ilemen broke in, which
slowed that they had been killed in
some other portion Of the house part,
tally burned aud then dragged into
the 70 ~ where they we're :ound.
TIE robbery thsory IS about ex-
ploded. Adolph Weber, the son,
aged 20, who is the only member OF
the family alive, talks but little, but
to the coroner and sheriff he says he
did not think the motive was either
robbery or revenge. When asked il
he had a theory he said he had, but
W. uld not give it. He cid say, re-
luciantly, that bis father Lad a Vlo-
lent temper. The boy said be hao
left home ablut s 30, came dow
town and bought a pair Of trouSers
! When be welt to the ire be dropped
uis ole trousers which were in burn
irg building. Young Web>r has
good reputation. Two % ca;iare re
volrers were found but the bullets ex
tracteu i'm the bodies were 81 call
bre.
Julius Weber was a retired b.eWe
and was & man Of considerable We iiJh
The family lived IN handsome n' m
here and Mr. Weper p0ss eSSed Ta!pa Oh
} roperry in O4klanG Cal.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16

A RAILROAD manager says the huge
death list in railway circles is due to
The craze for rapid transit" he
would have been much nearer to the
truth had be admitted that it is due
10 the craze OF huge dividends"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16
Bururui 20 slS.th.

Two negro children were burned to
aeatn Thursday Afternoon il a IRE
which destroyed a house and cotton
sin near Tarboro, n. c.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16

Total .....................3 .33i ,0Uo 2,42S, ,0OO
The following table sao%s the elec-
toral vote:
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS.
State Electoral
Vote
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16

The following table shows the ap-
pluralitieS in the various
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-16

critics. they frankly conceded their de-
feat and offered no explanation. Soon
after Mr.. Belmont's admission Judge
parker acknowlet ged the situation oy
teleeraphing President Rooss velt his
congratulations.
The perfect weather conditions
which prevailed over practically the
entire eouutry, brought out q vote
which experienced politicians pre1lcs
will be a record breaker aud in ehis
increase OF ballots the Republicans
Gained more than their share.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
a Woman sculned.

Before the horritied gaze of hun
dreds of society women and men in
evening dress, dining on the broad
yerandas Of the Park Casino, In the
mellow rays Of Japanese lanterns, and
as the orchestra Played the scalp OF
Miss Mary Dougherty, Of No. BIG
North street, Rochester, N. Y, was
torn from her head by the crank Shaft
of the big red gasolene automobile
from which she had just alighted,
about six o'clock Wednesday night.
The flow of blood, crimsoning the soil,
and her shrieks, caused dozen wo-
men to faint aud all the guests were
thrown into panic. While she was
writhing on the gravel walk her
screams, with those Of her sister and
q woman friend who We re in the auto
mobile, were echoed by the women In
the Casinos fashionable throng.
Many cabs were called for, and a
score of private equipages drove away
with their passengers, while the un-
fortunate woman, carried into the
main building OF the Casino, was be.
ing attended by DR.. Lathrop, Of the
Presbyterian Hospital.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
CraZeu by Grief.

AT Olive Springs, Miss, frantic
with grief over the death OF her hus.
band, Mrs Annie Miller McCargo
saturated her own hair and clothing
with kerosene oil Wednesday and Sc,
herself on fire in the public square
Spectators, horrilied by the aHfu
spectacle, tried to all her, but she
fought them OF desperately, thougl
she uttered no word, not even moar
to show her suiTerings. Finally thre,
men with blankets surrounded hel
and extinguished the flames. The
woman, unconscious fell to the grount
and died in an hour. Mrs. McCarg(
conducted the principal hote in th(
city, aud when her husband, Attor
ney w. III. McCargo, died several day :
ago tile shock unsettled her reason
The climax came In her feaI ful act o
Self-destruction.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
Had q ItOugh Time.

Their throats parched for eleven
days, which they spent without food
or water, exhausted, emaciated and
nearly dead, Peter Gradley and
Charles CJnley, picked up from their
dory by the schooner Hydrangea, were
brought into North Sidney, N. S.,
Wednesday, When found they were
forty miles of Miquelou. l. st in fog
while fishing near their smack, the In
drama, the men drifted for nearly two
weeks, now burned by the blisterinp
sun, now chilled by heavy mist, the
wind drove them 200 miles, and when
found they were unable to lift their
hands. Their appearance was that o.
dead men, and 1t was not until kindly
hands had worked over them for hours
that their worn and weary bodies gave
signs OF life
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
"A Fraud Uncovered.

A fraud order was issued today by
the postoilce department. against Prof.
X. E. Dutton and his School of
Science," at Lincoln, Neb. Mr.. Dut.
ton processes to have the powers of
Christ and claims to have peculiar
force simply wonderful to mankind.
In his advertising matter, that the
department. says is bringing him in a
fortune, he announced that for 30 ''he
would awaken the great soul OF the
functions OF your five special senses
and to dcvclOpe psychic faculties in
ten days and make you wonderful
hypnotist with power to travel in
spirit to any home and trace up lest
and stolen articles, find buried treas
ures and read the very life history o.
any person from the cradle to the
praVen
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
Cured LOckjaw.

DR.. Charles w. Mercer, young
physician attached to the staff OF the
City Hospital, Richmond, Va, just
succeede in curing case Of lockjaw
The patient was Charles Holman, a
one-leggcd man. While travelling I'm
Il cattle car he was injured by a nail
penetrating the stump OF his leg lie
was taken TO the hospital with his
Jaws tightly locked. DR.. Mercer
opened the wound, cleaned and caute-
rized it. lie then administered hypo-
dermically at interval light doses OF
tetanus anitoxin, which wrought Il
complete cure,
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19

AS Judge Parker spoke his closing
words the band struck up The Sta
Spangled Banner" and from the decl
of tue yacht Sapphire in the river be-
low number of bombs were fired ir
salute. These bursting in the air, re
leased parachutes from which were
suspended the national colors. Latel
there were whistle salutes from the
steamer Sycamore, John Pielcs' yacht
Sapphire and August Belmont's yacht
The Scout, which brought former
Senator David b. Hill from Hyde
Park.
After the ceremony all crowded uI
eagerly to shake the candidates hand
and to congratulate him upon hi>
speech.
The reception was continued on the
reranda until after 1 O'Clock when the
company brIke up and the visitors re-
turned To their boats and trains.
Congressman Clark, in his notica.
tion speech, In part:
Your long and conspicuous career
as a Jun ist in one OF the high st courts
/? the world the period which you
have spent in eXpoundirg c)nStitu-
lions and statuteS-cauSc your cum
trymen to believe that more exalted
position 10 which they are alb b)ut to
call you, you will clrry with you that
profound respect Tor the Institution
and the laws which with you has be.
cCme a confirmed mental habit and
upon which depends the perpctuity oil
our system Of government.
Into your hands the great historic
party OF coustitutio'. government
has Gem nit.ed it's standard with abid
ing faith I'm your courage, your integ
rity, your honor, your capacity ant
your patriotism, believing that under
your leadership we will achieve a sig.
nal victory, hoping that your admins
tration will be such fortunate, sucl
a happy epf ch in our annals us to mark
the beginning Of a long era Of Demo
cratic ascendency and that you will
so discharge the duties of your higl
Office as to rank in history with the
greatest and best-belcved OF Ameri
can presidents.
The convention, according to Dem
ocratic custom, appointed committee
OF which it did me the honor tC
make me chairman for which | an
deeply grateful to convey to you Of
tcial Information Of your selection as
the Democratic nominee for president
OF the United States"
Judge l'arker's speech In full will bs
| found i'm another column
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
BRYAN's GREAT SPEECH.
The Charlotte News Makes q Pre-
diotion About Bryan.

i NNDOsAs IA sshs
Allen White, the famous Kansas
journalist, writing for Golfers Week.
lY has this 10 say of Bryan's great
speech before the Democratic conven.
tion:
1t must be considered one Of the
memorable orations Of this prosy unor.
atOrlcal day. 1t has been said that
some words are so momentous that
they become deeds. Bryan's were such.
AS he talked, the purple shadows OF
the coming day were seen through
the windows, and before he closed the
dawn was gray about him. He stood
there surrendering his power, that
had come to his youth so suddenly.
He had carried the banner Of social
Democracy In America further than
any other man had carried it. 1t is
not free silver that Bryan stands for,
and he knew 1t, in the breaking day.
when his party told him to stand
aside. He believes that his idea
whether be defines it clearly or not
is immaterlaD is important to the
welfare OF his country. Probably he
Is wrong; but as he stood there sadly
appealing to his party for his old
cause, which he knew was a lost cause,
he seemed bidding FAREWELL long
farewell-to all the power and glory
that has been the breath of his
nostrils. He has lived cleanly, and
has acted fairly and squarely accord
ing to his lights. He is the idol of
that party, OF his branch Of his party,
which stood for his ideas. These
men live in the middle west. Thous.
ands Of them Came many hundred
miles to see him surrender, and he
quit like gentlemen with his culors
flying.
The editor OF The News is not what
might be called u Bryan Democrat
though we are all plain Democrats
now. and Is at the farthest removed
from Populism. But we desire to
make a prediction that may be con-
veniently remembered IL it comes
true, to this effect:
If Parker Is elected he will probably
be reelected for the second term.
" hdU oiio Couuuiy ueeuS lOudy Is Il
man 1.-The Parker type and he will
personally grow more popular instead
OF less as was the fate of his last
Democratic predecessor in that high
office. But Parker Is not the type of
man that is called "reformer. "
Eight years from now it is not I'm
possible that tie trust issue, involv.
ing the transportation issue, will
bave become the over r-shadowing one.
Say what one pleases about govern
ment nership OF railroad and tele-
graph lines, when the question mar
rows to this, whether they shall own
the government or the government
them, the. people will be quick kenough
to decide, and to decide right. In
brief, we Should not be surprised to
see as opposing candidates in 1912 q
chasened Roosevelt and an older
Bryan confronting each other, and
that the Democratic platform of that
day will contain such radical plank
against the trusts, and the Tyranny
and discrimination of the railroads,
as that the people will look to Bryan
TO carry out their will. AT any rate,
those who have been preaching his
funeral are little premature. Char
lOtte News.