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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
SHOULD lBE HANDLED.
Two Rowdies Behaved Very Badly
at Country School.

Spartanburg, Feb. 10.--A special
dispatch to local paper from Ian
drum, in the upper edge Of this
county, says that two boys visited
the Bennett School, near that place,
several days ago and frightened the
girls by their outrageous conduct,
which was extremely disgusting.
One of the bys fired a gunshot into
the crowd, several of the shot strik-
ing Miss Smith, pupil Of the school,
in the face. Fortunately the young
lady was some distance away when
the shot was fred and was not bad
ly injured. These young rowdies
should be severely handled by the
law
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
Fell Three Hundred Feet.

Grand Junction, Colo, Feb. 10
While plowing through the heavy
drifts at Baxter Pass on the Unitah
Railroad. locomotive and snowplow
in rounding sharp curve OF the
down grade plunged over 800 foot
precipice, killing Engineer J. E. Lane
and fatally injuring section hand.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
CONTROL WAREHOUSES.
Farmers Long Cherished Dream Near
Realization It Is Said.

Atlanta, Feb. 10.-President
Charles S. Parrett, of the Farmers
Union, announced today that a con-
solidation had been effected Of the
one hundred cotton warehouses built
b. the farmers organizations in
Georgia. The management of these
enterprises will be Immediately
brought under one board Of direc-
tors. President Barrett stated that
the work of organizing the farmers
warehouse in the other cotton States
was about concluded, two-thirds OF
the States already having been or
ganized.
The effect Of this combination
when it is fully tablished will be
to centralize the control Of the en-
tire cotton crop Of the country IN
the hands of the farmers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
DIED 4 HERO.
Young Man Drowned Trying to Save
Young Girl.

Springfield, Mass. Feb. 10
Albert c.. Heimsath, 26 years old, of
Cleveland. Ohio, president of the Sc
nior class of the International Y.
NJ. C. A training sc'1ool in this
city, and Miss Gertrude Hurd, is
years old. of this city. broke through
thin ice on Waterhops Pond, adjoin-
ing the school tonight, and both
were drowned. Heimsath regained
his footing Immediately after going
into the water and had an excel
lent chance to save himself. but went
back for the girl and perished.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
GOT NEW LOWER LIP.
Remarkable Skin Grating Operation
On 8 Young Boy.

On a Young Boy.
Charlottesville, Feb. IA re-
markable skin grating operation re-
Gently successfully performed at the
University of Virginia hospital, has
given to William Jones, a ten-year-
old boy of Rio, this county, an entire
new lower lip.
The boy had his lip shot away
last September by the accidental dis
charging of a gun. Yesterday he
returned to his home with a new
lip that will answer every purpose.
DR.. II. S. Watts, of the University
hospital, first transplanted a flap of
skin from the abdominal wall of the
patient to the forearm. After grow
ing to the forearm it was brought
I'D and attached to the face and,
after remaining there about two
weeks to secure blod supply, was
cut off from the arm and nodded
into position.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
JERSEY FIENDS
Roast a Man Alive on the School
Grounds
USED OIL ON VICTIM
The Unfeeling Wretches Bound and
Gagged the Unfortunate Man and
Tied Him Over Bonfire and
Roasted Him to Death, and
Charred Body Found.

Charred Body Found.
New York, Feb. 12.-Bound witt
ropes hand and foot and stretched
over fire built on the grounds Of
the Hazel avenue public school il
West Orange, an unknown man was
burned to death some time this
morning before the break Of day
The charred fragments of the body
were found on the lawn Of the school
early this morning by Samuel Sail
nardo, a laborer employed in a quar-
ry near West Orange. At the sight
Of the CHASTITY traces of the crime,
Salinardo, a superstitious Italian
ran screaming to the nearest house
and in this way had the police in
formed of what he had discovered.
The grass and a lot of brush un-
der the body-or what was left of
the body-were burned to carbon.
At one side was new two-gallon oil
can and some old newspapers.
Chief of Police Danford, of the
West Orange force, hurried to the
school house grounds with all of
his available men and made min
ute study of the affair in the hope
of getting clue.
The victim Of this most awful
of murders was a man apparently
about forty-five years of age. A
little hair was left on the head and
it showed red and long. He was
about five feet, ten inches in height
and had been strong of statue.
The only part of the clothes un-
consumed by the fire were the legs
of the trousers. They were Of blue
cloth of good texture. The shoes
were in good condition.
Near the body were the charred
pieces of rope and the most awful
Of all the CHASTITY details was imme-
diately noticed by the police-the
man had struggled from the fire and
had rolled away from it in his last
moments of agony.
There were every evidence that he
had come to consciousness toward
the end and had made one desperate
and futile effort to escape his ter
rible fate. Who the victim is the
police have no idea.
What manner of criminal would
pick out the lawn of a school house
on which to build pyre for liv-
ing man the police cannot conceive.
The spot chosen for the deed was
only about 200 feet from the school
building and about 500 feet from a
row of fine family houses.
1t is believed that the victim Of
this crime was either struck on the
head and made unconscious or was
gagged before being stretched on
the fire. Had he cried out for help
his cries would have been heard in
the nearby houses, but so far as
the police now know no one heard
an outcry.
The police said today that the
murder was done between 1870 and
$50 in the morning. During these
hours the nearest quarry works are
closed and the neighborhood is de-
serted. .
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
TWO MEN DIE
And Several Hurt by Dynamite

And Several Hurt by Dynamite
Explosion in Tunnel.
New York, Feb. 1.-TWO men
were killed and several injured to-
day in an explosion of dynamite in
the McAdoo extension of Jersey City,
running from Exchange place to
Fifth street and connecting the two
Hudson river tunnels. There were
sixty men at work in the tunnel.
The greatest secrecy was thrown
about the accident by the McAdoo
tunnel officials.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
VERDICT OF GUILTY.
Driggers Guilty of Numbering His
Sister in Clarendon.

Manning, Feb. 11.-The jury n
the case OF J. Frank Driggers, charg-
ed with the murder Of his sister.
Mrs. Mamie E'oseman, at 10 o'clock
tonight returned verdict Of guilty
with recommendation to mercy.
Driggers is the first man convicted Of
a capital crime by Clarendon jury
in the past II years. A few weeks
ago he shot and killed his sister
about money matters. They both
lived near this place.
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ATTACKED THE SHERIFF.
Was Knocked Down and Fired at
Fifteen Times.

Houston, Miss, Feb. S.-A mob Of
negroes attacked Sheriff I. NJ. Hof
at Humble today and he narrowly
escaped death. He was knocked
down and fired at fifteen times.
Hoff escaped by cutting his way
through the mob with knife. A
serious riot is feared. A large pos
Sc is forming to make wholesale
arrests. The sheriff had gone to
Humble to arrest negro charged
with murder.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
4 Eold-Un ct GreenviIle.

Greenville, Feb. 11.-Last nlght
at 7.3o o'clock while on their way
home, A. Baron and E. Kantor were
held up on the outskirts Of the city
bv two men and relieved Of sllz
in cash. The highwaymen had a
shotgun and fed into the woods
Immediately after. Sheriff Poole was
noticed and soon gave chase, but
no clue was obtained as to the lde1-
tity of the men.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
ELECTORAL VOTE COUNTED.
Taft and Sherman Declared Presi-
dent and Vice-President.

Washington, Feb. 1O.-With sim
pie but impressive ceremonies, the
counting Of the electoral vote for
President and Vice-President oc-
Cured today at a Joint session of the
Senate and House Of Representatives,
held in the chamber of the lower
body. William H. Taft, of Ohio,
and James S. Sherman, of New York,
were officially declared to be the
choice of the people for the term
beginning March 4 next. The count
consumed exactly forty minutes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
Took a Hot Bath.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 1o.-Divins
headlons into vat of scalding water
Phillip Otto, cooper ended his life
to,ieht. A widower with six chill
dren, ne became despondent over d
nanciai matters and for three days
had been bidding friends goodbye.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
Killed Himself.

Chicago. Feb. 12.-Joseph F.
Kohout, alderman from the thirty
fourth ward, shot and killed himself
today at his home, 7S7 Douglas
boulevard. He fired bullet from a
revolver into his right temple.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
Marries Telephone Girl.

Boston. Feb. 9.-Representative
John A. Keliher, of Boston, and his
bride, who was Miss Nellie NJ. Nc
Neil, telephone girl. are due in
Washington today after having been
married on Sunday at the Holy
Cross Cathedral.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
NEW TRIAL REFUSED JONES,
Sentenced to the Penitentiary for
Life by the Judge.

Union, Feb. 12.-W. T. Jones was
refused new trial after many hours
argument. He was sentenced to life
Imprisonment. Judge Memminger,
in passing sentence, told the prisoner
he had better take the term, for if
granted new trial he believed he
would be hanged. Jones is very
rich man, but his money won't save
him from deserved punishment at
the hands of the law.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
JUROR DROPS DEAD.
Mr.. J. E. Hill Expires in Yorkville
Court House.


Yorkville, Feb. 9.-Quite a SEN
sation was created in the court
house yesterday morning. Mr.. J.
C. Hill, a substantial farmer and
citizen of Bullocks Creek township,
who was a juror at this term of
court, walked into the room and in
few minutes after sitting down he
fell over into the arms of a friend
and expired before physician could
reach him. Heart failure was said
to be the cause Of his death He
lived at the Roseboro place, twelve
miles from Chester, was SO years
olI and leaves a widow and several
children, two of them grown.
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Theatres Corrupt.

New York, Feb. S.-"The stage
is worse today than it was in the
days of Paganism,' said Archbishop
Farely, in his sermon in st. Pat
rick's cathedral yesteray.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
DEAL is ON FOOT
TO SHIP OUR COTTON DIRECT
oTO EUROPE.
Gotenburg Wholesaler, With Large
Holdings in Company Operating
Savannah Line, the Prime Mover.

The Columbia Record says for
some time Commissioner E. J. Wat
son has striven TO get the cotton
from this state shipped direct to
European points, thus avoiding the
profits to middlemen.
The scheme has lately been fur
thered and to the extent that on the
18th of the month, Mr. Watson and
Mr.. 3. Harris, of Pendleton, will go
to Savannah, where they will meet
Mr.. Wilhelm Dickson, a director Of
the Swedish-American steamship
company, with headquarters at Got
henburg, Sweden.
The object OF the conference is
to look into the feasibility of open
ing Southern ports for the export
ing of cotton by regular steamship
lines.
Mr.. Dickson is prominent ex-
porter and is greatly interested in
the scheme above mentioned. On
December 1st Of last year he wrote
the following letter to Commission
er Watson relative to the matter:
Dear Sir: Being one of the direc-
tors of Captain Lundgren's steam
ship company, 'Rederi Aktiebolaget
Transatlantic, and having worked
with him hand in hand since we
started proceedings in buying two
small tramp steamers, l am natur-
ally informed of and fully initiated
in, as well as greatly interested in,
your plan Of the direct line between
Charleston and Sweden. I shall be
starting on January 18th for New
York on other business, but I shall
before that go fully through every
thing with my friend Lundgren, and
shall have great pleasure in making
an appointment with you when over
in America to discuss matters, es-
pecially so the matter I herewith
take the liberty Of putting before
you.
Gas you are well aware, there is
is a large cotton export, and also
great rosin export, and these two
different classes Of goods would nat
urally be greatly favored by the new
projected line, and merchants on
your side would naturally be anxious
of forming good direct connections
on this side. 1t is thus my purpose
by writing this letter to ask you
kindly to put me into connection
with people who would be interest
ed in shipping their goods BY the
direct line, and getting a reliable
agent over there. ] thus propose to
take up these agencies. I am pre-
pared to take up any big article
you put before me, but of course,
l am only wishing to touch the
wholesale trade and make q large
turnover. I am myself carrying on
a large export business, and am
thus open for such proposals as l
have named to you.
with regard to my personal
standing, beg to refer you to
Aktiebolaget Coteborgs Handelsbank
and Captain Lundgren, and besides,
when you were here, you were sure
to have heard about me.
Hoping to hear from you before
1 leave this country, and that you
shall be able to put before me some
proposal which l nigh take up and
arrange when I get to your side.
remain, dear sir, hoping for a
speedy and lucky development of
mutual plans,
Yours very truly,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-02-17
ESCAPE FROM JAIL.
Four Negro Prisoners Take French
Leave of Sheriff.

Walterboro, Feb. g. Monday
evening, while Sheriff Fox and fam
lily were at supper, four of the sew
en- negroes in Jail escaped. Those
who escaped were Israel Campbell,
Morris Judge, Sam Brooks and Elijah
Smith. 1t appears that the lock to
the outer door was out of order, ap-
parently having been tampered with.
and had been taken off to be fixed
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Yours very truly,

What will be the outcome Of the
conference, of course, is matter of
conjecture, but Messrs. Watson and
Harris will leave no stone unturned
in the effort to cause the conference
to bear fruit.
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" of the West" and thus John Tyler was given the nomination for Vice Pres ident though Daniel Webster might have had it in spite of Weed. When Clay heard of it he was sitting in Browns hotel in this town and terrible was his rage. Turning to a gentleman next him, who proved a clergyman, he exclaimed; By -, if there were two Henry Clays in this country one. of them would make the other President of the United States,
 Tyler became President one mouth af- ter the new administration came in. He was no ordinary man, but in history he is greatly underestimated man. He than obey, or disobey. the instructions of the Virginia legislature as to certain legislation. In the main he was a sup porter of Clay, but he vetoed a recharter of the bank and that made Clay his re- lentl/s enemy, but Henry A. Wise was his friend and Wise, after many debates, induced Tyler to make John c. Calhoun Secretary of State.
 And that Is how it came we got Texas and the Mexican war when we did. Had doubtless the annexation and the war would have been postponed for years. The annexation and the war came with Polk.
 The cabinet of President Pearce was the only one in our history that re- maned intact the entire administration,
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MAKING CABINETS-By Savoyard

remonstrated with for favoritism to for mer democrats. majority of his cab met, he simply flung one leg over the other and answered. .'Well. I'm a whig; that evens things up"
 But by and by Cameron went out of the cabinet and Lincoln appointed Edwin M. stanton to the vacancy. This man had characterized the speech of Jefferson Davis, bidding the Senate farewell, as inspired of God, and between the inaug uration of Lincoln and his own appoint uent to the war office he wrote letters to James Buchanan that were simply startling, read in the light of his sub sequent life and yet the biographer of Buchanan says that for sheer decency he suppressed many of the worstI
 Let the man who would be acquaint with the miscreant read the disputations of Jeremiah Black with Seward and Gar field.
 When General Grant became President he nominated A. T. Stewart for Secre- tary of the Treasury Never had the secrecy of the personnel of a cabinet been so well kept, but that was natural, as the work of great soldier. Somebody dug up an old statute of 17S9 when Alex ander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, prohibiting an importer from holding the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Stewart was the largest im- porter in the Union. General Grant saw the obstacle and like the soldier that
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he was, he dispatched a message to Con- gress that was not inaptly characterized as General Orders No. l." and said simply Repeal the law" just as four years before he had ordered an army corps hither or thither. Congress re- fused.
 But just 10 years later Congress pro- ceeds to make Philander C. Knox Sec retary of State. who is thousand times more ineligible to 1t than Stewart was to the treasury. Knox is disqualified by the constitution itself; Stewart was disqualified by mere act of Congress.
 Garfield's cabinet was not completed until a few minutes before 1t was sent to the Senate. It was headed by James G. Blaine, and Wayne MacVeagh was the Attorney General. It would not have sur vived a single session of Congress. Few men as able as MacVeagh have been Uncle SaIns law officers Except Jere- miah Black he is perhaps the most bril- liant man the bar of Pennsylvania has produced.
 MT Cleveland weakened his party by taking from the Senate Bayard, Lamar and Garland, and putting them in his first cabinet and Taft will be fortunate if he does not miss Knox from the Senate be- fore his administration is half over.
 Cleveland made Walter Q. Gresham Sec retary of State of his second adminfstra- tion. Practically it was a great thing to do; politically it was an imprudent thing
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' T is only history repeating itself when
 republican President of the. United 4 States appoints democrats to cabinet places. Is 1t not written in profane story; "The mistress of Strafford became the mistress of Pym?" But do not mean 1t in that possibly offensive sense. Gov ernment is not an exact science, and poli- tics Is a game of chance. Nobody is better persuaded than I that Franklin MacVeagh and Jacob M. Dickinson can accept cabinet places under William H. Taft without the slightest sacrifice of personal honor, or the least recantation of political principle. In 1896 the dem ocratic party gave indefinite furlough to every member, and enlisted the Pops as Janzaries.
 The Cabinet" is a rather indefinite term. There is no warrant for it in the constitution and little authority for it in statute law. If he should see fit the President could go through four years of chief magistracy without calling a single cabinet council. General Sherman knew this when he characterized Edwin M Stanton, then Secretary of War, as "a d-d clerk"
 It was proposed in the convention that framed the constitution to establish a cabinet every member to be chosen from the majority side of the House of Rep resentatives, and no cabinet minister to lose his seat in that body, or his riEAt to
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participate in debate. Thus a President of one party would have been required to change the entire personnel of his cabinet if the opposing party proved suc- cessful at the elections held the middle of his term.
 That would have been parliamentary government, which Is government by the people Besides that no member of the House of Representatives would ever have broken his neck trying to be Senator As it is, we have executive government The President is the whole show and in his presence Congress has no more back bone than fishing worm For seven years Theodore Roosevelt was only a more fortunate despot than Louis Ma poleon-all because of the sycophancy and poltroonery of the American Congress. As for the constitution it had been hid away, as the book of the law in the yan- ished ark of the covenant in the Baby lonish captivity. Whether 1t will come forth again time only will tel. MT. Taft begins his administration with palpable and contemptuous violation of it in the case of his Secretary of State.
 I thought I would take a glance at some cabinet situations of the past. When the minority of the delegates to the whig national convention succeeded i'll defeating the majority, nominating Vii liam Henry Harrison over Henry Clay, Thurlaw weed, who had done the thing, set about to placate the friends of liar
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and that is strange too when we reflect that William l.. Marcy was Secretary of State and Jefferson Davis Secretary of War, but they never clashed, and there was the utmost harmony between them. Marcy, a candidate for Presi- dent busted himself reforming the dip- lomatic and consular service, and Davis, who had no desire to be President, worked like a Trojan recognizing the army Both were eminently successful, especially so the Secretary of War. him. self an accomplished graduate of West Point and an approved brilliant soldier on the field of battle.
 Guthrie, than whom no abler financier was ever put in that station, was Sec retary of the Treasury, and Caleb Cush- ing, inventor of Ben Butler. was the Attorney General. He was a great jur- ist and in his time furnished more law to more administrations than any other man of our history. When Grant nomin- ated him for chief justice of the su- preme court republican Senate rejected him for his friendship for Jefferson Davis.
 Lncoln's cabinet was disappointment to many ardent members of his party. Seward, Chase, Cameron, Wells, Bates. Blair. Smith. Of these four had been democrats and three whigs and they were in no sort of political accord ex- cept the preservation of the Union and opposition to slavery. When Lincoln was