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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-10-18
4 Certain Cure for Croup-USed For
Ten Years without a Failure.

Mr. W. {. BOtt, Il Star City. Ind.
hardware merchant, is enthusiastic
in his praise of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. His children have all been
subject to Group and he has used this
remedy for the past ten years, and
though they much feared the Group.
his wife and he always felt safe upon
retiring when a bottle of Chamber
iain's Cough Remedy was in the
house, His Oldest child was subject
to severe attacks of Group. but this
remedy never failed to effect a speedy
cure, He has recommended it to
friends and neighbOrs and all who
have used il say that it is unequaled
Tor Group and whoOping cough. For.
sale by all druggists.
On account of Houston Texas Car
nival at Houston. Texas. Nov. I to 8
inclusive, round trip tickets will be
sold for $50, on sale Nov. > to 8 in
elusive, good until Nov. 10.
Oh account of the same Carnival
tickets will be sold Lafayette to Hous-
son on Nov. , and Nov. s. at rate of
1875, tickets sold on 9Th will be good
for return on the 9Th. 9th. or eth.
Tickets sold on the Sth will be good
returning on the Sth. 9th. or 10th.
Parties purchasing tickets on the 9TH,
or Sth will have to leave Lafayette on
rain ) at 60 on dates mentioned.
On account of st Martin Parish
Fair at BreauX Bridge October % to
y, round trip tickets will be sold for
$40, tickets on sale Oct. - to 81.
final return limit Oct. IS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
PETERS TO BE HANGED.
York County Man to Pay Death Pen.
atty for Murder.

A dispatch from Richmond, Va, to
the Roanoke Times has the following
to say about George A. Peters, ma
tive of York County, who has been
sentenced to death in Carroll County
Virginia.
George A. Peters of Carroll coun-
ty, is to hang for the murder of Rev.
Joseph Easter, a Drunkard preacher,
who was killed in the county several
months ago. This conclusion was
reached. by Governor Swanson the
other morning after going over the
application for commutation.
THE Governor says he has not
found q solitary thing upon which he
could base any interference with the
the sentence of the jury which tried
the prisoner. The papers nave been
in the hands of the Governor for
some time and he has examined into
the merits of the case with unusual
care.
Peters according to the records in
the case, went to the home of the
minister one night in May, after the
minister had retired, called him to
the door and shot him down in cold
blood in the presence OF the
mans wife and children. There was
absolutely no provacation for the
crime, and the attempt of the defence
to show that Peters was drunk at the
time fell fat, the contrary being prov
en-. Peters will be hanged on Sept
emher 20.'
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
CAUSED 4 PANIC.
A Lion Attacked a Lady at Pitts
burg Resort.


Torn. bruised and suffering from
sock. Mrs. Anna o. tucken, sixty
FIVE years old, of Pittsburg, Pa, lies
at her home tonight in precarlous
condition, as the result of an attack
bv a lion at Luna park, a summer re-
sort. Thursday.
The park was crowded With women
and children, when. without warning
the lion appeared from behind one OF
the buildings and with roar. sprars
upon Mrs. Hucken. The woman
screamed. and soon screams OF tho
hundreds stampeding for the exit
were added to Mrs. Hucken's cries.
W. A. Downing. chief of the parf
police, emptied the chambers OF nj:
revolver into the beast. Others secur
ed rifles from the shooting gallerle:
and from the concessionaries. anc
soon score were pumping lead a
the lion, which stood over the pros
rrate woman, gnashing his teeth an(
iashing his tail.
Finally the beast turned ana rush
ed towards the show known as tn'
Mystic River. and here he sue
cumbed, turning over on his pack
and with a few kicks he died. HI
skin was completely riddled VIII
small calibre bullets.
Mrs. Hucken was bourne 10 LII
park emergency hospital, where ne
injuries were dressed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
BELIEVED HER a MAACH
Because He Had Bad Luck Nearly
Killed His Wife.

Amelia Cyniano, believed by her
husband and neighbors to be witch,
is in dying condition at Adrian nos
pital, the result of punishment inflct-
ed by her husband, John. The hus-
band, in common with the neighbors,
believed his wife was endowed with
power to work evil, and Saturday ne
beat and kicked her almost to death
because his pay envelope c not con-
tain as much money as he believed II
should. The State constabulary IS
searching for Cyriano.
The Cyrianos live at Waflston. "a.
mining town. Recently a series Oh
.misfortunes befell the neighborhooo
Garden truck did not come up to tne
standard and cattle and poultry dleo
rhe people complained that Mrs
Cvriano was the cause of their mis-
:ortune.
SATURDAY. was pay day in the mines
cvriano had bad luck and his ton
aage fell off, thus reducing his pay
He went home determined to drive
,ut the devil he believed possessed
ais wife. Cyriano knocked his wlle
iown with mis- fists then kicked hel
,ntil she became unconscious. She
,egged for mercy, but her pleadlns'
lid not save her.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
TARGET FOR BULLETS.
Revenue officers Shot at BY Moon
sinners in Georgia.

C. D. Williams and E. D. hinton
attached to the once OF Revenue
Agent R. V. Sans, of the Atlantlc
division, have just returned from
North Georgia, after an exciting eA-
perience. They refuse to give the
location, but they went up IN the
mountain part of the state to destroy
= still which had been located.
In this mission they succeeded put
as they were returning, they were
ambushed, supposedly by party OF
moonshiners, who fired upon them as
they drove along -..e road. The morse
of one of the revenue men was struck
five times, being shot from under
him. In the darkness the TWO men
managed to get away without being
struck.
The matter, it is understood, will
be taken up with the department OF
iustice. with a view to ascerta!nlng
who the guilty parties were and
bringing them to trial.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
MANNING, S, c.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER l. 1907
KILLED LITTLE BOY.
Because a Pretended Prophet
Said He Was an Anarchist.
Man. Who Claimed Supernatural
Power, Persuades Parents Of Lad
that He is an Anarchist.

A terrible story comes from Mos
COW, Russia. In the village of Sy
soeva, Mogiloff government, ther
lived a peasant called Michael Kol
cherosky, who called himself
prophet, and always gave out tha
he was not of this world
On July 80 Michael told his fel
low-villagers he had had revelation
from heaven to the effect that al
earthly misfortunes proceeded from
Antichrist and that i, was necessar!
to kill Antichrist, who had become
incarnate in the person Of two-year
old boy the son OF peasant called
Grobotchevsky.
The parents of the child were per
suaded to concent to Inc sacrifice, ane
the mother having pointed out the
exact spot wnere the child had beer
born, the prophet laid the victim
there and began to press him tc
death with his feet. In quarter OF
an hour the child was dead, but to
make sure the prophet" gave him 20
blows on the head with an iron ham.
mer.
The body was then cut in two
halves by the prophet who alter
ward again divided each part in two,
praying fervently all the time, the
villagers looked on reverently. At
last Klotchevsky put the fragments
of the body in sack, tied the sack
to the tail of horse, mounted the
horse himself and rode through the
village, followed by the inhabitants,
who bore lighted candles, it being
now night. The child was then bur
led, while the mukhiks sang songs OF
praise.
At daylight the prophet went
home to sleep, after inviting the peas
ants to come at s o'clock in the even
ing in order to see him ascend to-
heaven from the roof OF his hut. Sut
s O'Clock found him asleep in bed,
and after waiting patiently for long
time the villagers resolved to wake
him. Klotchevsky was in ore OF
his lucid intervals, however, and at
ter hearing what had happened The
night before he attempted to explain
the ascension to heaven could not
take place just then because the per-
mission of the nearest priest She: III
have been obtained before Antichrist
was nrt To DEATH
Finally the peasants began to beat
the prophet" who would probably
have beer killed had not some OF the
local police inspectors happened to
be passing within earshot. me
prophet is described as a man OF 23
lies in the village--thirty-tWo men
were then arrested and will be tr!'1
Among the accused is man lv2
years of age, who took an active pa.
in the murder of the child. The
prophet described as man o. z'
years of age, but looking much older,
with an intelligent face, long flowing
hair and restless eyes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
COURAGE AND BRAVERY.
OF Men on Dynamite Laden Ships
Prevent Disaster.

With enough dynamite, powder
and old explosives in her hoid 70
blow up tae Rock Of Gibraltar, nre-
whipped and famed by gales OF hurrl-
can forces. the steamship Eureka
Captain Golightly on her voyage from
San Francisco to Seattle, Wash, pd.
for the heroic fight of the crew would
have been blown up and every soul
on board lost.
The Eureka left San Francisco on
August Is with cargo OF 9oo IONS,
including 25O tons of powder, wv
tons of gasoline, large quantity OF
oil and ffty-six carboys OF nitric
acid. When off Mendicino Head
about 2 o'clock on the morning OF the
9th. the gale was blowing fifty miles
an hour and the ship rolling
heavily. A carboy of acid, which
was lashed on the upper deck, broke
loose from its moorings and smash
ed.
The fluid came in contact with
wood and instantly ignited it. Like
fash the ropes binding the carooys
were eaten away by the flames and
entire cargo of acid was aside and
adame on deck.
Hands were summoned, the NE
and death fight began. Man after
man fell upon the slippery deck ana
although at times nearly overcome
would when revived, rise and nsnt
the flames like demons.
Their clothing took fire and Maee
William Reed had his legs badly
burned. They kept their struggle
mn until the flames were extngulsned:
Capt. Golightly asserts that no vessel
was ever in greater perii and 1nae
only the courage and bravery OF MS
men prevented an awful disaster.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
Fifteen KILLED
Two Trolley Cars Collide on a
Illinois Road.
Confusion of Orders Received by Tel
epl'one Reported to be Responsible
for Awful Disaster.

/ Fifteen persons were killed and
about fifty injured Friday in head
on collision between an inter-urban
express train, consisting of a motor
car and trailer and a traction car
on the Mattoon and Charleston Elec-
trio Line at sharp curve, one mile
west Of charleston, III. A confusion
of orders received over the telephone
is saiG to have been the cause of the
accident.
The cars approached each other at
high sh-ed and the impact was so
terrific that the motor car and the
trailer were telescoped by the trac-
ton car. Few passengers had time
to escape by jumping. Most OF the
passengers were going to the Coles
County Fair at Charleston.
Mattoon sent special cars to 'he
wreck and the dead and injured were
brought to the morgue and the hos
pital. Several of the injured may
die. The dead:
Nell Fugate, Gays, III.
Thomas Weakley, Mattoon, III.
William Nelson, North Okawa, III.
Charles Nelson, young son Of Will
liam.
Howard Cole, boy, Cooks Mills, III.
Harold Cole, boy, brother of How
ard Cole.
Zack Van Deventer, Mattoon.
Edward Reynolds, Paris, III.
Bert Smith, Matroon.
w. <. Price, Mattoon.
Douglass Logan, Humboldt, III.
Edna Walbalm, Cooks Mills.
Three unidentified bidies.
Doctors and others hurried from
Charleston to the disaster, dragged
dead and injured from the broken
mass of timbers and seats, and gave
first aid to the MANNED. The dead
were laid alongside the track. The
victims could not be taken to Char
lesion because the track was blocked
in that. direction and the relief car
from Mattoon was awaited.
The line on which the disaster hap
pened is twelve miles long, running
between Mattoon and Charleston, Hill
nois. and has but a single track. Tel
epnones are placed every two miles
for orders to be transmitted to the
cars passing over the road.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
PREDICTS AMERICAS DOOM
But Was a Little Off OH the Date
of End.

This country will be entirely de-
stroyed on account of its wickedness
on the last day of this month, - said
Samuel Nillhite, Baptist preacher
from Arkansas, who arrived from
Europe at New York recently.
Willhite was accompanied by his
wife. who is about thirty-fve years
old, and two children, the elder nine
years and the younger six months.
The preacher said that he and his
family were compelled to flee from
Arkansas because he prophesied that
America would be destroyed.
''On July 22,' said Willhite, i
had vision in which I was told that
in forty days We should all be ami
hilated for our wickedness.
Il packed up my belongings, and
with my wife and children we mas
tened for New York and sailed loi
England on August 8.
eve arrived in London elsnt %!
later, and I set to work preacnlhs -
the street. I was arrested t"iee @A0
was finally ordered deported.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
SUICIDE IN DINING ROOM.
Hotel Proprietor Shoots Wife and
Child and Kills Himself.

At Ocean Grove, n j., in the pre-
senSe of number of boarders in the
New Jersey house, hotel of which
he was the proprietor, Robert S.
Gravatt, ~ shot and perhaps mortal
ly wounded his wife, Irene, seriously
wounded his nine-year-old daughter,
Mollie, and then killed himself. Dom
estic trouble is said to have been the
cause Of the tragedy.
The couple quarelled in the hotel
dining room during the dinner hour.
Grayatt pulled revolver firing at his
wife. She fell, with bullet IN her
leg, and the child rushed between
her parents to shield her mother and
was shot in the thigh. When the
child fell Grayatt fired two other
bullets into his wife's PROSTATE form,
and then sent the remaining bullet
into his own brain.
Cravatt was well-to-do. BESIDES
being proprietor of the hotel where
the tragedy occurred he owned a
store in Asbury Park.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
BACK TO STATE COURT.
Judge Prichard Remands Railway
Suit to South Carolina.

At Asheville, \. c., Judge }. $
Prichard, in the United States Court
rendered a decision Thursday IN the
case of Charles ]. Morrow VS. Char
lotte Air Line Railway Company, re-
manding the case back to the South
Carolina State Court.
Morrow sued the railway for Sl0,'
600 on account of personal damages
sustained by him, the suit being en-
tered in the State Court of South Car
olina. The railway company petl-
toned that the case be moved to the
United States Circuit Court on the
ground of diversity of citizenship
The railway company alleging that II
was a citizen of North Carolina, while
the plaintiff was citizen of South
Carolina.
Judge Prichard after hearing
the argument remanded the case bacs
TO the South Carolina State Court
from whence it was removed on the
ground that the railway company "a'
domestic corporation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
vyyRTY HURT AT ASHEVILLE.
Passenger Train Collides With an
Engine.

At Asheville, \. c., passenger tTalh
No. II. on the Southern Railway,
co]ljded with an engine OF the west
honnd main line at Il O'Clock Tnurs-
dav morning. damaging both engines
and the combination car. Thirty per
sons we're injured, none fatally. Inc
more severely injured are: -.
r. T. Strubble, Fredlcktown' onto, @
F. II. Jennings, Pittsburg, "a ~ W. ,.
+ c. Bronton. Americas. Ga Miss
" \. Collins. Hattiesburs. NiSs.
Elias Field, (colored) AsneV'lle' y.
G. Mrs J. 3. Smith, Atlanta; Carrle
lIcIver. Charlotte. \. c; R. L.
shank. Greenville, S. c.; j. }. !, .lus
Americus. Ca; Elevyn Dicks. jun
carton. S. c.: J. R. Davis. sallsou!N,
\. c.: ". N. Shears, Atlanta: MisS
Nice Holdenburg, New Orleans ). p
E,oslev. sylvia, \ c.; John Sample
\inetv-Six. s. c.: Mrs Elizaoetn
Chamliss. Tuskagee, Ala; Mrs. w. L
B;chardsor, Conway, S. c.; Hazel T.
Eckert, Asheville, n. c. Miss U. D.
rckert. Asheville. \. G.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
WILL FIGHT LOCAL OPTION
Leading Brewers Of the Country to
Combat Movement.

United action by leading brewers
of the United States against the
spread of local option was begun at d
secret meeting at Cincinnati Onio'
Thursday. 1t is proposed to ADOPT q
definite plan to stop the spread Oh
local option, especially in the sou.h.
This was the prime object OF .ne
meeting. There was no 1ornai s co.. -
issned and no publicity OF the 1ac'
that there was to be meeting. Aep
rasentatiyes of breweries of Cnlcaeo.
Milwaukee. st. Louis and Cincinnati
were present.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
TURKISH OUTRAGES.
Many Persian Villagers Slain and
Much Property Wrecked.

Advices from Teheran, Persia says
Gen. Samson Dowle and other Per
sian officers, according to reports,
have been killed by the invading
Turks, after having been taken prls-
onerS.
Many inoffensive Persian villagers,
including women and children, have
been slaughtered. Women have been
carried of, church has been defiled
and much grain and other property
taken IT destroyed.
Turkish regular troops with artll-
lery were within four miles OF Uru-
miah on August Is. There were no
signs of the withdrawal of the Turks
from Persian territory.
Another report says the TURKS
have occupied Merivan IN PERSIAN
Kurdestan east of Sulemania.
In a telegram asking for help, the
clergy and inhabitants Of Merlvan
add that if the Persian government
is powerless the people must beg
Russia.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
PRICES FIXED.
Action on Cotton Prices Taken by
County Presidents.
The Price is Fixed for This State at
Thirteen Cents-Cse of Cotton
Baggins Urged.

! South Carolina will instruct Presi.
dent E. D. Smith of the Southern Cot
ton association to vote for price OF
at least 13 cents per pound for cot
ton sold this year. This was decided
upon at Columbia Friday at meet
ing of the presidents of the county
associations Of cotton growers, there
being about 40 delegates present
| from 2l counties.
All of the delegates agreed that
this should be the minimum price
for cotton SO far as South Carolina
is concerned and from reports receiv-
ed on conditions of the crop the far
mers are now passing through the
critical period. The cotton crop is
late and there is little chance for an
increase in the estimate, which is
one million bales for South Carolina,
but chance for decrease, with un-
favorable weather conditions. This
State, however, is in better condition
than any cotton growing State and
therefore is in position to dictate
the price.
Mr.. Smith thought that the entire
crop would amount to about 12,600,-
900 bales, or million bales less than
last year and the South Carolina Off
cials of the association are willing
for 13 cents as line below which no
bale will be sold and should condi-
tions be still further unfavorable tAe
price should be even higher. The
matter of price for cotton throughout
tue South will be arranged at the
meeting of the executive committee
of the Southern Cotton association,
to be held at Jackson, Miss, on ~ep-
tember 5.
The association also adopted an
important resolution agreeing to push
the use of low grade cotton for the
manufacture of deavy duck for bag
ging in place Of the jute and bur-
manufacture of heavy duck for bag
could not only be used for cotton but
for grain and fertilizers. At present
the use of burlap and jute causes
American cotton to arrive in Euro
pean ports badly damaged and burst
ing through the bales whi.e the cot
ton from Egypt and India is well
packed and brings higher prices.
President Smith will bring this up
at the cotton meeting at Jackson and
will endeavor to pass the South Caro-
ina idea as it is Of vast Importance
to the exporters.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-04
a STRANGE STORY.
Young Lady Left by Herself Short
Time Disappears.
Later Her Body Is Found Floating
in Nearby Lake by Some

a strange story comes from Dover
\. J. Five minutes after her arrira
at Nolan's Point, Lake Hopatcong
Saturday night in company with he
cousin, Charles Mcguire, of Dover
Miss Agnes Mcguire, public schoo
teacher, of Brooklyn disappeared ant
no trace of her was found -:ntil hel
body was discovered in nearby lake
Wednesday. Their destination was
cottage known as Camp Looy, where
Charles Mcguire who is clerk in the
Dover poStofice, had been spending
his vacation.
Whether the case is one Of foul
play or accidental drowning is yet tc
be determined.
Miss Mcguire, who was daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John ---.guire, of
No. 26 Second place, Brooklyn, came
up on Thursday with her father and
mother, intending to spend some time
at the home of her uncle, Bernard
Mcguire, at Marysville. Her father
returned to Brooklyn that evening.
Mrs. Mcguire remaining with her
daughter who is recuperating from a
I.long illness.
Saturday evening Miss Maguire's
cousin proposed a drive to Camp
Looy, his purpose being to get some
personal belongings. Miss Mcguire
consented and they started at 7:30
O'Clock, when the heavy storm Of
that night began they were near the
cottage but could not get up to the
place on account of steep declivity.
Tying his horse to tree young Ma
guire Dade his cousin stay in the
buggy while he went liter his suit
case, promising to be gone only a
few minutes.
He was back in less than ten minu-
tes and to his great CONSERVATION
found the buggy unoccupied. In
great alarm, for it was dark as pitch.
he shouted his cousins name and
when there was no answer he ran
back to the cottage, thinking that,
becoming frightened at the storm.
she had started for the house and
OGSSSU I'LL UuuOllCC0 LII lAS ocAN
ness.
When he found she was not in the
cottage he and several men began
securing the woods in the vicinity.
The alarm spread quickly to neigh
boring camps and cottages, and soon
scores were engaged III the search.
While some of the searchers contlnu-
ed the hunt in Overwhelming circles
on shore, several took to boats. Sam
uel Hopkins, of Boonton, plunged in
TO the lake and dived in search OF
the young woman's body, for it was
feared, that, becoming bewildered.
Miss Mcguire had walked into he
water and drowned. All night the
search was kept up without result.
By morning hundreds had heard OF
the affair and took up the search. At
Hurdtown, few miles from Nolan S
Point, there are abandoned mines
and it is quite possible for any one
wandering about in the darkness to
fall down some unprotected SHAFT, OF
which there are a number.
y