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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
INDIAN BUYS MAIDEN.
He Could Not Win Her and So Be
Bought Her.

a dispatch from Denver, Col, say:
unsuccessful in his suit to win the
hand of an Indian maiden who is il
the Carlisle Indian school, Charlie
Redhorse, q Ute, departed Thursday
morning on an eaStbound train, hav,
ing in his pocket letter from the
girls's parents on the New Mexican
Ute reservation telling that the girl
had been sold him for the sum of
four ponies.
The question now arises, and Red
horse has evidently overlooked it,
whether or not the girl who has en-
joyed four years in Carlisle, will be
willing to marry him, simply because
the Indian went through the primeval
custom of handing over four ponies
to the girls parents, who are in need
of stock.
There is much of Indian romance
connected with the story of Red
horse and his fair Ute maiden Of Car
Isle Both were children together on
the reservation years ago. Redhorse
loved her and she loved him, but
when she was sent to Carlisle, her
affections changed, and when Red
horse went to claim her, he was
spurned.
With the stolidness Of the Red Man
he did not give up, but returned to
Arizona, where he induced the girls
father to sell her to him for four
ponies. With the bill of sale in his
pocket he is now on his way to Car
isle to claim his property.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
LINEMAN's HORRIBLE DEATH.
Employee Of the Telephone Company
i,.lled by Live Wire.

At Charleston E. NJ. Daoust, a Bell
telephone lineman, met horrible
death Friday morning while at work
on an electric light pole, at Rutledge
avenue and Bee street, and W. R.
Kittrell, a fellow lineman, had his
hand badly burned.
Daoust eclimbed a light wire pole
at the northest corner Of Rutledge
avenue and Bee street a little after
10 o'clock Friday morning, to get at
a cable of telephone wires which
crossed a few feet above the cross
arms Of the electric light wires: He
placed his left knee against a wire on
a cross-tree, and Instantly he receiv-
ed a terrible shock.
Literally stuck in the horrible hiss
ing flame, Daoust could not extrlcate
himself. He fell forward, and grasp
ed the cable overhead and beyond
the crossarms. His body acted as a
conductor for the powerful current,
and the lead cable was charged.
Daoust's left hand, gripping the ca
bic. was burned to crisp, and his
head pierced by the fire.
When the stricken lineman's hand
came in contact with the cable, the
current was sucked up from the
electric light wire and sent along the
cable, to where W. R. Kittrell was
swinging, and Kittrell's hands were
badly shocked. He was dangling
over Rutledge avenue, above the
middle of the street, suspended from
the cable by means Of a small swing:
Kittrell managed to save himself
from falling, and to avoid a fatal
shock long enough to have a rope
thrown up to him, by which he low
cred himaelf to the ground.
Meanwhile Daoust was being con,
sumed by the cracking electric
flames. Mr.. Arthur Israel, who was
passing at the time, begged the 9th
er linemen present to cut the wires
on either side of Daoust. This was
done as soon as possible, W. 3. Fin
cklin, a room mate of the dead man
clambering up the poles and snip,
ping the death-bearing metal of
But it was too late to save Daoust,
who must have died short while
after he was first shocked.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
DIED I'M POVERTY
After Making a Fortune Out of
His inventions.
Invented the Spark Arrester Now
Used on All Locomotives in Amer
lea and Europe.

David Redfeld Proctor, 81 years
old, cousin of United States Sena-
tor Redield Proctor of Vermont. was
found dead Thursday in a cheap
lodging house at 148 South Clark
street Chicago.
He had heen in Strengthened cir
cumstances for several years, al
though he made fyrtune from the
sale Of royalties on aninvention which
he patented in the early '70's--a de-
vice which arrested and extinguished
the sparks from the tunnels of loco
motives making the kindling of pra-
rie fires by passing trains an impos-
sibility.
In the Columbian exposition he
was one Of the most picturesque fig
ures who haunted offices Of Director
General Davis and Graham with Of
fers Of marvellous plans for enhanc-
ing the beauty and magnitude Of the
great fair.
He designed the Proctor Morrison
tower which was intended to make
the Eiffel tower seems a dwarf in
comparison. For the rights to this
tower he was offered, it is said $780,
600, and a company to build it was
started under the presidency of En-
gineer Morrison the steel construc-
ton bridge builder" But the col.
lapse of steel Mackay's ''Sectatori-
um" theatre caused the business in.
terests identified with the fair to look
with disfavor upon so gigantic ar
enterprise as that proposed by In.
ventor Proctor. The local tower
which was to be 1000 feet higher
than the Eiffel tower at Paris, was
not built.
When Engineer Morrison was plan.
ming to construct at Memphis, Tenn,
the largest steel cantilever bridge in
the world he intrusted the work OF
building a miniature working. mode
of the structure to "Inventer Proc,
tor" as hewas known. The model was
to be only two inches square and was
to have 912 joints and almost as many
separate pieces. Proctor completed ii
in two months. The huge bridge was
constructed exactly after his model.
He received $4,000 for the work. The
first working" gondola launches at
the worlds fair was designed by Mr.
Proctor.
When his lifeless body was found
at the dingy room in which he had
lived and dreamt his dreams of as.
founding inventions for the last few
years, the narrow little bed was sim
ply festooned with tiny hold carved
models Of flying machines which he
had guarded and embodiments of
some discoveries that he claimed to
have made in the field Of aronautics.
Mr.. Proctor was a native Of Glou-
cester, Mass. He is survived by a
widow and two daughters, Mrs. Ar
thur Rowe and Mrs. William H. Per-
kins of Gloucester.
The managers of the lodging house
told the police that a doctor, who
had been called to view the remains,
found that death had been due to old
age.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
Shot Up Mail Boxes.

Dennie Davis and Hampton Durr
two young white men, from St
Georges were up before United States
Commissioner Lide on "Wednesday OF
last week for shooting up mail
boxes in Dorchester County. A num-
ber of witnesses appeared against the
defendants and they were bound over
to the next term of the United States
Court in Charleston.
The testimony showed that Davis
and Durr had damaged the boxes by
shooting into them. Prominent
among the witnesses were Postoffice
Inspector Gregory and United States
Marshall A. Fischer.
Messrs. W. C. Wolfe, of the Or
angeburg Bar, and NJ. S. Connor, Of
St. George, represented the accused
parties, and Assistant District Attor-
ney Lathrop appeared for the Gov
ernment.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
MOST HORRIBLE KILLING.
Father and Uncle Assaulted aud the
Father Will Die.

A most horrible tragedy happen
ed at Mt. Carmel last Saturday night
in which a young man killed his faith
er and mortally wounded his uncle.
The news Of the affair reached An
derson only Friday night.
From the information that can be
learned it seems that William Thrift,
a farmer of the Mt. Carmel section,
| his son and his brother got into a
drunken melea. They began quar-
reling, which resulted in fight.
When the light commenced, some
woman, whose name or connection
could not be learned, separated the
fighters. The father and uncle were
fighting the young man.
After the woman had separated
them, they took some more drinks
and became friends again. When
young Thrift left the house and
went out into the yard, Thrift and
his brother began abusing the wo-
man for interfering in the fight. It
is said that they were either striking
her or about to do so when young
Thrift walked back in the room:
Finding he could not quiet them and
being in drunken state himself, he
picked up a bed slat and struck his
father on the head. The blow felled
the old man and he died almost IN
stantly. The young man then turn
ed on his uncle and gave him a rap
on the head. The rap was sufficient
to knock the old man unconscious,
and from last reports it is doubtful
if he will recover.
Young Thrift, after telling his IA
ther and uncle, went up the street,
| it IS said. asking for pistol. He said
he intended to get one and go back
and kill his father and uncle. Find
ing no one who would let him have a
pistol, he returned t. the house
where the fight occurred and there
learned that his father was dead and
that his uncle was dying from the
blows he administered before he
left.
Young Thrift has been lodged in
the Abbeville Jail. Everything is
ouiet.--Anderson Daily Mail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
DASH FOR LIBERTY SPOILED
Convict Makes Unsuccessful Attempt
to Escape From Penitentiary.

The Columbia correspondent to
The News and Courier says there was
another sensational dash for liberty
on the part of white convict at the
Penitentiary early Thursday morn
ing. 1t was thwarted just in time by
reason of the fact that four escapes
recently have caused the manage
ment to be more cautious.
The prisoner this time was des-
perate white man named D. c. Muir
ply, who is serving life term for
the murder of Treasurer Cope, Of
Orangeburg County, his death SEN
tence having been commuted. Muir
ply was taken to the cook room in
side the prison walls early that marn-
ing under guard.
No sooner was he in the building
than he made a dash through the
rear door, springing at a lively clip
for the rear wall, which he evidently
intended to scale by means Of long
pole, as Harry Dean and Will Smith
had done The guard was following
him, but at some distance, and he
might have succeeded in getting over
the wall but for the fact that another
guard who had been stationed at the
work shop near the rear wall, came
around the corner of that building
and surprised him, efecting his cap
ture
Murphy and W. H. Collins, a Wes-
tern man, sent up for life for bur-
glary and compound larceny commit
ted in Florence, made sensational
escape on September 20, 1900, while
in some mysterious manner they Sc
sured file and cut their way
through the main prison door, scat-
ing the wall by means of long
hook the made from an iron pipe
and letting themselves down on the
other side by the same means.
They swan both the Columbia
Canal and the Congaree River to get
into Lexington County. Murphy was
caught five years later in South Geor-
gia, but Collins is still out. Murphy
had all the odds against him in this
attempt to escape, but he had grown
desperate in several attempts to Sc
cure pardon. Up to this time he
has been one of the best behaved
prisoners in the Penitentiary.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23

not---but I do think we should give
them the opportunity to get the ben
eft of life. -
Mr.. Bryan went on to show that
Confucianisn was far inferior tc
Christianity. Confuscius' golden
rule---"Do not unto others as you
would not have others do unto you
was negative while Christ golden
rule was positive. One followed out
makes a life that is a stagnant pool.
the other a life that's living stream.
For instance, a Chinaman will rarely
endanger his life to save drowning
man. Confucius' teaching would not
impel him to do so.
Reward evil with justice and
good with good" taught ConfuciuS.
How, now" +" asked Mr.. Bryan, can
a man with hate in his heart toward
a fellow man know what justice is?
How infinitely below Christ's For
give your enemies, etc, is this
teaching? | believe the doctrine Of
forgiveness is the great distinguish
ing characteristics of Christianity.
"a man who keeps book account
Of his good works never do enough
good to make it worth while to buy
a book to put it in.
''Confucius' ideals we're so low that
China has never risen under them.
She has stood still.
"Other religions judged by their
fruits fall infinitely below Christian
ity. Except when aided by Chris
tianity brought from without, the
pagan nations are where they were
centuries ago--China where she was
20 centuries ago. But the Christian
religion has taken our people and led
them to higher things. never real
lied until | got to Asia the influence
of our Christianity in its uplifting
power. | saw a chain of colleges for
q thousand miles---they were built
by western Christianity---and their
influence was great.
'sWe should 1er care to boast
that the sun never sets upon our DOS
sessions, but we may we'll have a |
pride IN the fact that the sun never
sets Upon American philanthropy. |
In India most Of the children in Sun
day schools are in American schools.
We are sending to India for Chris
tlanlty and education almost $780,
100000. What sends our missionar-
les abroad? The love of God and of
their fellow men. The missionary
abroad is doing a work the impor-
;ance Of which can not be estilna-
cd.
Drawing a picture of what we at
lone enjoy. Mr.. Bryan concluded:
1--WE owe no obligation to those
listant people that we can not pay
n dollars and cents. We owe it to
to hand down the blessings
We enjoy to others. It is necessary
or US to exert ourselves to the ut
1ost to spread our religion over the
arth and am sure the time is COM
eg when every knee shall bow and
very tongue confess that Christ is
ord
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
THE White PLAGUE.
The state Board of Health will
Wage War On It
BY lnStructin@ the General Public
How Best to Fight the Dread Dis
ease of Consumption.

The state board Of health has start
ed it's campaign Of education for
better sanitation, with the special
enc in view of acquainting the peo-
pie generally Of the state as to how
to care for tuberculosis cases ana
prevent the spread of this terrible
disease.
The campaign was initiated IN a
practical wav Thursday BY the send
! mo ont of a letter to each county
rnedical society in the state request
mo that as early as possible one or
more public lectures be arranged for
on On some appropriate subject, such
as the suppression Of tuberculosis,
typhoid fever, smallpox and other
infectious diseases.
Already the Sumter and Charles
ton county societies are doing excel
lent work of this nature and it it felt
that the other counties of the state
will readily fall into line.
Members of the state board are es-
pecially anxious to enlist the hearty
cooperation Of the weekly and daily
press Of the state in disseminating
the information given at these coun-
ty society lectures. The members of
the board think there will not be
much difficulty in securing this as
sistance from the press, as it is rec
ognized that the newspaper people
are as anxious to inform the people
along such important lines as the
doctors are to have them informed.
The letter to the county societies
is particularly strong one.
s'To the County Medical Society:
AT a meeting of the executive
committee of the state board of
health it was resolved to urge upon
the county societies of the state the
Importance Of uniting in an effort to
extend sanitary knowledge among
our people. That we have SO often
failed to secure the enactment OF
proper sanitary laws is largely due
to sanitary ignorance. But sanitary
| instruction is more important than
sanitary legislation, for the preiud-
ice that is always associated with ig-
norance may render a good law Of
no effect as is shown by the Difficult
ty the board is now experiencing in
endeavoring to enforce the present
compulsory vaccination law.
The extensive prevalence of tu-
berculosis and typhoid fever is in
large measure due to sanitary ignor-
ance. And again. sanitary ignorance
is often responsible for the spread OF
certain of the transmissable disease
| of childhood, as we'll as for the de.
fective development of many school
children.
In order to remove as far as prac-
ticable this great obstacle to sani-
tary progress, the state board Of
health earnestly requests each coun-
ty society to arrange more public
lectures upon appropriate subjects,
such as the suppression Of tubercu-
losis, typhoid fever, smallpox and
other infectious diseases; school hy-
giene, etc.
The example has been set already
by one or two county societies. and
it is earnestly hoped that all will join
in making an aggressive and effec-
tive crusade of education.
Respectfully,
RoBERT WILSON, JR.,
Chairman State Board Eea h,
&C. F. WILLIAMS,
Secretary.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
ENTERTAIN NEGRO BISHOP
Bishop Potter and Wife Drives With
Bishop Ferguson.

:. special dispatch to The News and
Courier, from Richmond, Va, says
Bishop and Mrs. Potter, CT New
York, who are occupying the resi-
dence at No. 600 West Franklin
street during the General Conyentlon
of the American Episcopal ChuIcn'
Friday evening entertained at lun-
chean Bishop Ferguson, Of Africa,
the only negro invited to a seat in the
House of Bishops:
The action of Bishop Potter in thus
receiving negro into his home cir.
Gle on terms of social equality and
breaking bread with him at his table
is worthy of special consideration be-
cause Of the fact that the occurrence
takes place in the heart of the South,
where racial lines are more strictly
drawn than in other sections, and in
a house where such an entertainment
could not have occurred during its
occupancy by its owners.
While the dinner in honor Of the
African Bishop was quiet, it has been
the occasion of considerable comment
Friday night among those who have
heard of it. The matter is being con-
sidered by the general public as a
slur upon the South, the hospitality
of which Bishop Potter is accepting.
George St. Sultan Stephens, color
ed. a newspaper representative, who
lives at Miller's Hotel negro hostelry,
where Bishop Ferguson is also stop
ping during the Convention, was au-
thorized Friday afternoon by Bishop
Potter to conduct Bishop Ferguson
to his carriage when the colored Bish-
op left the House of Bishops in the
State Capitol. Later Bishop Potter
and Mrs. Potter and Dr.. Hunting
ton, of New York, entered the car
riage with Bishop Ferguson and were
driven to Bishop Potter's residence,
where dinner was served.
A telephone message to the house
with a request to speak to Bishop
Ferguson elected the information
that he had finished dinner and gone
back down-to town. Bishop Ferguson
left word at his hotel that he would
not return for dinner. This is the
only occasion of Bishop Ferguson be-
ing entertained socially in Richmond.
There were no other guests present
so far as can be learned.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
NEGRO IN DANGER.
Came Near Being Lynched in an Ohio
Town.

The timely arrival of Henry Cary,
the town marshal, and half dozen
citizens, prevented the lynching OF
Will Gray, negro suspect, who was
taken from the town jail at Hatwell,
Ohio, Friday night by mob of nfty
that stormed the village lookup, and
battered down the doors to get at
their victim.
The mob had a rope about Gray's
neck, with the end of the hemp
thrown over limb ready to draw
him Up, when Marshall Cary and 9TH
er citizens appeared on the scene and
put an end to the attempt at lynch
ing.
Gray was arrested in connection
with the murder of H. B. Howard, at
Hartwell, who was found dead at his
store. Gray was arrested on suspi-
cion, having been heard to make
threats against Howard.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
FIFTY LIVES LOST.
Were Drowned When Danish Steam
cr Went Ashore.

cr Went Ashore.
Fifty lives were lost when the Dan
ish steamer Alfred oilandsen wont
ashore off St. Abbs shore, Scotland,
Thursday night.
A heavy sea was running when
the vesses struck and the efforts of
the life savers to reach her we're
futile.
Time and again the attempt to
launch the life boats were foiled by
the mountainous seas and it was
equally impossible to throw line
to the imperilled mariners. Through
out the night the doomed vessel
pounded heavily on the rocks and
was repeatedly smashed by the gi-
gantic waves.
AT dawn Friday, little of the yes
sci was left and there was no sign of
life aboard the hulk. 1t is regarded
as practically certain that all hands
have been swept overheard and eth
er drowned or smashed to death on
the rocky shore.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
WHITE PRISONERS ESCAPE.
life Time Convicts Walk Out of the
Penitentiary.

Walter Allen and jim Suddutn
white, both life term prisoners sent
up from Greenville, and both TRUSTEES
walked away from the State Penlten-
tiarv TUESDAY morning before day
light and neither OF them mas been
seen since.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23

A hundred years ago, Lieutenant
Zeublon gazed at Pixies Peak and
nrophesized that the foot of man
would never touch its summit, so
difficult was the ascent, and here
saws the Columbia State, 'the other
day, some goggle-eyed chump ran
his motor car up the old peak -
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
Nineteen Killed.

y train made up OF passenger
coaches boulnd from Scotland and the
North OF England TO Rristol. left the
rails as it was entering the station at
Shrewsbury at an early hour Tuesday
morning Nineteen persons. iuciud-
ing ten passengers We're killed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23

No farmer should hire another; :;
labor, contract or no contract, until
the expiration Of the present year.
All the farmers are in the same boat.
What hurts one hurts all and they
should not add to the burdens Of one
another ty interfering with each
others hands.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23

FOLLOWING the lead Of the Farm
ers Union and the Southern Cotton
association, the directors of the
Georgia Experiment Station have de-
cided to hold the cotton raised on
the station for a minimum price of
fifteen cents per pound. That is pa
triotic
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23

WHEN Miss Gladys Vanderbilt mar
ries her Australian Count she Will be
the Countess Szechenyi. That is a
horrid name, but it will cost the
Young lady five million dollars and
her religion, if she had any.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23

The newspapers that are deluded
with the notion that Roosevelt is
breaking up trusts will learn better
when they go up ag inst the paper
trust as we have drne in the las. few
weeks. Printing parri h: her NV
than it ever has been. That Is trust
busting" with a vengeance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
BROUGHT BIG PRICE.
Corn Sells for Two Hundred and Fiji
ty Dollars Per Ear.

ty Dollars Per Ear.
Two hundred and fifty dollars was
the worlds record price paid at Chic
ago Thursday night for single ear
of corn
The ear from 'Bone county was
knocked down to the highest bidder
in an exciting auction at the National
Corn Exposition at the Coliseum in
Chicago.
The purchaser of this ear of corn
a bushel a. that rate would have sold
at SIS, ,000-was the man who raised
it, l.. B. Clore, tall farmer from
Frasklin, Ind.
He has taken prizes amounting to
nearly $4,000, including a Texas
farm. He raised it on thirteen acres
of land. The ear was taken from one
of ten that took the sweepstakes in
their class.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-23
FATAL PRACTICAL JOKE
\ Young Girl Jumped From 4 Second
Story.

Frightened by ne" sister, wto was
wrapped in sheet, and playing
ghost. Clara Osgood leaped from a
second Story window at her home
near Redville. Ky. and was instantly
killed, her neck being broken by the
fall. The sister, Annie Osgood. is
prostrated with grief, and is being
watched for fearshe will take her life.