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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
MANY WANT JOBS.
One Hundred and Thirty Apply for
Two Positions.

Columbia, March 9-Commissioner
Watson has already received one
hundred and twenty applications for
the two positions of inspectors that
he is required to appoint under the
provisions Of the act recently passed.
He hopes to be able to find two men
who have had some training along
the lines expected, or who will be
willing to work along modern lines.
Mr.. Watson hopes to make these two
places serve those for whom they
are intended, and to get data and
do inspecting along proper lines, and
he does not want Men who simply
want the places for the salary in
volved. He is in no hurry about
making the appointments, and ex-
poets to get first class men, at least
as good as the moderate salary will
permit.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
TOWN hit HARD
NEARLY WIPED OUT BY TER
RIBLE CYCLONE.
The Business Section and One Hun
dred Dwellings Demolished at
Cuthbcrt, Ga.-Seven Lives Lost.

Cuthbert, Ca, March "a ter
rife cyclone struck Cuthbert tonight
at $50 o'clock. killing six negroes
and one white man. demolishing the
entire business section, razing one
hundred or more residences and in
juring many, entailing loss which
is estimated at 100000.
The town is in total darkness, ow-
ing to the damage to the electric
light system and it is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the loss Of life
with accuracy and the damage to the
business and residential sections.
The loss of life would have been
much greater had it not been for the
fact that several hundred of the citi-
zens were in attendance upon a re-
vival meeting when the storm struck
the place.
Shortly after s o'clock great
black cloud appeared in the south
west and bore down upon the little
city. Few people were on the streets
and few were in the stores. With
a great roaring accompanied by vivid
flashes of lightning the cyclone
struck the business blocks and
wrecked every building. Merchan-
disc, bricks and debris was scattered
along the streets.
II nassed on the residential sec
ton, blowing down nearly one hun
dred houses, raising chimneys, fenc-
es, barns, and doing much damage
otherwise Few people were at home
at the time when the storm struck,
All of the wires Of the Cuthbert
lighting plant are down and the city
is in complete darkness, which makes
the situation very serious and hinders
the work of rescue and attention tt
the injured.
The telephone service of the city
is crippled by falling poles and brok
I IN wires. It is impossible to learr
the damage in the outlying district
Thirty loaded box cars on the sid
ing at the depot were blown off tht
track, and completely demolished.
Cuthbert is town of about 5000
Inha bitants, situated in Randolph
county, on tn Central of Georgia rail
road, about 200 miles southwest o
Augusta, near the Alabama line.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
SURGEONS MAKE NISTAKE.
Took Out Appendix for Enlargement
Of Tonsi1S.

Harrisburg, March I3.-Rosa Co.
hen, an eight-year-old girl, is con-
valescing in the Harrisburg hospital
after having been operated on Sun
day for appendicitis by mistake.
The child and her eleven-year-old
brother were sent to the institution
suffering with enlarged tonsils. In
some unexplained manner the girl
was given an anaesthetic and her ap-
pendix was taken out. The surgeons
say that the appendix was somewhat
infameG and that they did not dis
cover their mistake until the parents
called.
The humorous feature of the case
is the assertion that the condition
of the little girls appendix showed
that she would have developed ap-
pendicitis anyway and that the oper-
alton, therefore, was fortunate mis-
take.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
ANOTHER FILM FLAM ARTIST
Works a Skin Game on the Negroes
of Prosperity.

Prosperity, March S.-A negro
claiming to be from Washington, D.
c., has been in this community for
the past ten days organizing new
"skin game" He said he had au-
thority from President Roosevelt to
organize the negroes into lodges, and
when they paid ten dollars they
could get anything they wanted, and
their membership was a guarantee
that they would get it.
He got too familiar with one Of
the sisters and she resented Il. This
led to trouble with the husband anu
the usual fight ensued, and the result
was the Rooseveltian agent was tied
hog fashion and brought to Judge
Kibler's Office The agent was charg-
ed with vagrancy and carrying con-
cealed weapons, and was sent up for
duty for the country for sixty days.
A charge for assault and battery
with attempt to kill awaits him when
he has finished the sixty days.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH.
Negro Gin Hand Given Lye in His
Coffee.

Florence, March 8.-News reach
ed the city late today Of terrible
affair, which resulted in the death of
James Allison, a negro, at Allison's
Postofice, which resulted in Allison 8
death Saturday night.
From what can be learned Allison
was employed by Messrs. A. Poston &
Son as fireman at their ginnery and
saw mill plant. After eating his
breakfast at the mill Friday morning
he was taken suddenly i'll and never
regained consciousness, death result
ing on Saturday.
DR.. Eaddy, physician in that Sec
ton was called in and pronounced
the case one Of poisoning. The mag
istrate in that township held an in
quest and it was found that the ne
gro had been poisoned by being CIV
en- dose of concentrated I've, which
it is now thought was administered
through the sugar that was used in
sweetening his coffee.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
SOME GOOD ADVICE
FROM DR.. ELLIOT ON RACIAL
INTERMARRIAGEs.
He Says That Different Races of
People Have Never Profited by
Doing So.

Montgomery, Ala, March s.
There should be no admixture of
racial stock" declared retiring Presi-
dent Eliot, Of Harvard University, to-
night in an interview. tI believe,
for example, that Irish should not
intermarry with the Am ricans of
English descent; that the Germans
should not marry the Italians; that
the Jews should not marry the
French.
Each race should maintain it's own
individuality. The experience of CIV
ilization shows that racial stocks are
never mixed with profit, and that
such unions do not bring forth the
best and strongest children. There
is no reason, however, why the races
cannot live together, side by side,
in perfect peace and amity.
In the case of the negroes and
the whites, the races should be kept
apart in every respect. The South
has wise politely. I believe that
Booker T. washington has the right
ideals, and that Dubois is injurine
the progress of his race with his
views"
President Eliot emphatically de-
MES that he ever said that there
was suffrage problem in the North
owing to the predominance Of Cath
olics.
''In the North we are affiliated
in our civic life by having masse!
Of voters who know nothing of liber
ty Take the Irish-they say them
selves that at home they had NJ
experience at self-government. Ou
problem is to show the newer arrival
that it is to their interest to hav
efficient government and not lavisl
expenditure.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
HIS MIND WAS OFF.
Boston Policeman Kills His Wife and
Himself.

Boston, March S.-Daniel C. Shil-
lane, policeman, was found dying
eariy today in his home in East
Boston from the effects of a bullet
wound, believed to have been self
inflicted. while the body of his wife
'ay in the floor beside him. Shillane
lied later at the hospital. It is
said that Shillane, who had been a
policeman % years, was deranged
from two years brooding over the
leath Of a 19-year-old daughter.
The Shillane family occupied the
-hird floor of tenement house.
Conditions indicated that the trag-
edy occurred while breakfast was
being prepared. Other families in
the house heard two quick revolver
shots from the kitchen of the Shil-
lane apartment. They forced open
The door and found Mrs. Shillane
lead and Shillane still breathing but
insensible. In his hand was his
pistol. telling the story of what had
happened.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
SUPPOSED TO BE CATAsIOUNT.
Animal Dashes into Town and Car.
ries Away Dog.

Pineville, N. c., March 13.-As
Messrs. Tate Spencer and Alvah Cull
were walking along the street last
evening, they heard the pitiful yelr
of a dog, which seemed to be in dis
tress. In a few minutes an animal,
with little dog clenched between
it's teeth dashed in front Of them.
The boys Immediately gave chase,
and a rare race they had. Over
gullies, across lots, through fields
they went, often splashing in water
over the tops of their shoes. The
wailing cries of the little dog grew
weaker and the unknown animal
kept straight on, out-distancing the
boys, who only desisted after utter
exhaustion. Lated in the night the
same animal made a disturbance on
Cay street, and another dog disap-
peared. Policeman Wagstaff has
been investigating, and the general
opinion is that the animal is cat
amount or farm-famed santer. >
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
HEAVY LOSS FROM FIRE.
Six People Are Hurt By Walls Fall.
ing on Them.

ing on Them.
Spartan burg, March 12.-Property
valued at s65,O0O was destroyed here
tonight by a fire in the very center
of the business section Of the city,
when half the Cleveland building
at east Main and South Church strets
was completely gutted and other por-
tions of it considerably damaged.
The Harry Prince clothing firm
lost stock of goods valued at s25,-
900, and R. L. Bowden, the oldest
dry goods merchant in the city, sus-
tanned a loss estimated at $4,000,
while the loss on the building will
probably exceed $4,000.
The building is owned by ]. B.
and ]. F. Cleveland and is fully
insured. Insurance so far reported
:overers only about half the value
Of the stocks burned. In the course
Of the fire five fremen and one Wof-
ford student were injured by falling
walls.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
TRAMPS RITUAL
AS RECITED By ONE OF THE
TRIBE
In Police Court, Where He Had
Been Carried to be Tried for
Loafng.
Question-Who comes here?

Question-Wh comes here?
ANSWER poor worthless can
didate for charity, who begs to have
and receive part Of the free luncn
of this town, set apart for regular
customers, as many thousand tramps
have done before me.
@. How do you expect to gain the
rights and privilegeso
A. By being man too lazy to
work. not ashamed to beg, and under
the tongue of generally bad report.
@. Where can this report be had
Of you2
A. It is in the police reports, in
ebriate asylums and at the cafes
@. From whence came YOU?
4. From a town in Texas call
ed Booze.
@. Then you are a regular tramp,
I perceive?
4. am so taken and arrested
wherever I go.
@. How do you know you are a
regular tramp?
a. BY being often arrested and
tried and never acquitted. and eX-
nect to be arrested, tried and convict
ed again.
@. 5. Where were you first prepar-
| ed 70 he tramN2
A. In small bar-room adjoining
my place of abode.
@. How were you then prepared
A. BY being kicked and cuffeo
around until divested of nearly al
my clothes. having been previousl!
deprived OF all my money and dia
mons.
@. What first induced you to be
come a tramp?
A. That I might travel all owe
the land and indulge my ravenou
appetite for beer. and sponge my liv
ing from an easily humbugged pub
lie.
@. How am I to know you to b
a tramp?
A. BY the size and laziness of m.
feet, by signs, grips. and words.
| Q. What are words?
A. Certain plausible tales tha
will best induce the lady Of the hous
to give up her cakes and pies.
n U-bo+ oro cionc2
A. Dirty face and hands, tor
and dirty clothes, with bad linn
in either leg.
@. What is grip?
A. A tight hold on anything POI
table that may be turned into read
cash.
@. Will you give me a grip?
A. No, get some other fellow.
Q. How did you first gain admis
sion to this town?
A. BY good long tramp at 10y
twelve" the time when all police
men are called from labor to re
freshments.
u. EIOW NSiS sou lSSS4'SN'
A. BY cop just on the poin
of taking a Manhattan eye-opener.
@. What did he do with yonr
A. He put me in cooler in du
form
@. What was next done with you
A. He conducted me around frol
-
told me to stand erect and face tn
public judge.
@. What did the judge say
you?
A. He told me to say my name
promise to obey the law. after whic
he ordered me to take a step to tn
left and follow the cop to the plac
, from whence I came-the jail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
Pounds Of Bones.

Savannah, March S-Just about
TO finish contract for 10000 pounds
OF bones, most of which he stated he
had obtained from negro graveyard
here, Joe Marks, coloEed. was arrest
ed yesterday by patrolman. He
had some plates from collins in his
pockets. He will not be allowed to
disinter any more bodies, but will
be tried on the lunacy charge.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
BRIDGES TO BE REPLACED
With Better Ones by the Atlantic
Coast Line.

Wilmington, N. c., March st is
announced from the executive offices
of the Atlantic Coast Line here that
from the proceeds of the recent sale
of the roads consolidated 4 per cent
bonds in New York the company has
provided, in addition to the cancel
lation of its short term, that the per
cent notes due March 1, 1910,
and all the cash necessary to retire
on June /, 1910, one million six
hundred thousand underlying 6 per
cent bonds, the funds required for
replacing five and one-quarter miles
Of wooden trestle with concrete piers
and steel girders across the Pee-Dee
river. near Florence, S. c.; over San
tee river, between Lanes and Charles
ton, S. c., and over the Savannah
river, between Hardeeville, 8. c., and
Savannah. By the negotiations for
the sale of the bonds interest charg-
es will be reduced $4,000 per an
mum.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
A MYSTERIOUS CAvERON.
Two Dogs Are Lost in It and Can't
Be Found.

Farmers of Weldon Spring, in st.
Charles county, Mo-, strove for two
days to rescue two dogs that had
been imprisoned for three weeks in
a cave. Spurred by the piteous barks
and whines of the dogs, the men dug
down until they were stopped by
solid rock. Dynamite was used with
out avail. One man risked mis- life
by crawling $50 feet at the end of
= rore into a cave, but was unable
20 rescue the dogs. The effort was
then abandoned. because the cries
of the dogs could no longer he heard.
md it was concluded that they had
nerished.
Three weeks ago Bob Tarbel and
Sam Pitmar were hunting on John
Hurton's farm. when their dogs start
ed a coon, which sought safety in q
cave. The dogs. intent on the chase.
followed it in through the narrow
entrance and disappeared from sight
and hearing. They did not return.
md it was three weeks later. that
their whines were heard near an old
sink hole 500 feet away. Digging
began but was soon stopped by solid
rock and dynamite was then used.
Fully 100 men. women and child
ren gathered and urged the workers
70 greater endeavors. but they could
DO nothing excent to try to explore
the cave. Finally Howell risked his
life in an attempt to reach and res
cue the dogs. He volunteered to
crawl into the cave with rope tis
to him. One $50 feet long was
brought and an end Of It tied around
his waist. He crawled into the cave
and went the length Of the rope
He found the passage at that depth
50 small that he could not have gone
further. even if the rope had been
longer. He could hear the dogs and
called loudly to them. but they seem
ed to have fallen !er a declivitv
and could not come to MIN.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
FOUND GUILTY
AND SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS
TERM.
The Defendant Killed His Friend
While Riding in Buggy With Him
and Young Lady.
and Young Lady.

Laurens, March 12.-Overrulilg a
motion for new trial, Judge Prince
this afternoon sentenced young Wade
Cothran Pinson to term Of two
years in the State penitentiary for
the killing of Thornwell Boyce. Coun-
sci for the defense will carry the case
to the supreme court, pending which
Pinson is released on bond Of ST.
600, signed by his father and uncle.
The appeal will be based ON alleged
errors in the rulings and charge OF
the presiding judge. Young Pinson
received his sentence without any
change of expression, he to all ap-
pearances being unaffected.
At e:55 this morning the jury,
after remaining out more than Is
hours, brought in a verdict Of guilty
Of manslaughter with recommends
ton to the mercy Of the court. Mr..
Cannon, for the defense, at once
gave notice of motion for new
trial, which was heard later in the
day.
People generally were somewhat
surprised that a verdict had been
agreed upon, since the jury had stay
ed out all night, thinking that the
outcome would be mistrial. 1t
is thought that the verdict rendered
was a compromise, some Of the jul
rors holding for an acquittal and
some for plain manslaughter. How
ever, the general opinion was that
manslaughter would be the verdict.
Judge Prince charged the jury very
clearly on the points Of law relating
to involuntary manslaughter, defn-
ing the distinction between accident
and death resulting from an act in
itself wrong, or 'malum in se." The
point that the jury had to decide
was whether or not the efTort on
the part of young Pinson, who was
trying to adjust his pistol, when the
fatal shot was fired, constituted
an unlawful act because Of gross neg
ligence, or whether or not It was
the result Of wanton disregard fol
human life.
The tragedy which eliminated in
sending Cothran Pinson to the peni-
tentiary was enacted after the mid
night hour on the public highway
four miles below the town Of Cross
Hill, in Cross Hill Township. The
young man, Pinson, and the victim
of his deadly pistol, Thornwell Boyce,
accompanied by Miss Brown, all OF
Cross Hill, was returning from ar
entertainment given at the home OF
Mrs. Eugene Leavell, who resides
just across the line In Newberry
county. The principals, Boyce anc
Pinson, worked in the same town as
salesmen, and were boon companins
Mr.: Boyce was son Of Capt. MartiE
Boyce, deceased, one Of the promi'
nent men Of the county for many
years. The defendant Is son Of MI
Enoch B. Pinson, a suDstantil citi'
zen, and connected with some Of the
leading families Of the county.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
BAKED CHILD on STOVE.
But Said She Did Not Want to Injure
the Boy.

New York. March S.-Marjorie
Miles, the housekeeper of Wm. Jonn-
son, a cabinet maker, of Williams
burg, was held without bail to await
the action of the grand jury by Mag.
istrate Higginbotham in Brooklyn 20
day, on charge Of having caused
the death of Johnson's 3-year-old
boy, Arthur, by holding him on a hot
stove The accused woman said in
court that the child was unruiy. and
she had threatened to set him on
the stove. but had not intended to
injure him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
TRAGADY IN CHESTER.
Negro Kills Wife and Fatally Wounds
Her Father.

Chester, March S.-John Steven
son, colore6, killed his wife and fat
ally wounded his father-in-law, Till
man Castor, this afternoon at his
home in the Mount Prospect Sec
tion, Eve miles southeast of Rich
burg. This afternoon Stevenson and
his wife quarTeled, and when CASTOR
endeavored to pacify them Steven
son shot with the results already
giyea.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
THE READY PISTOL.
Tragedy Enacted on the Streets Of
Vidalia, Ga.

Vidalia, Ca, March SO. G..
Moore, prominent lumberman, was
shot to death on the street today by
W. L. Darby, another we'll known
business man. The men qua-relled
over business matter. Moore
slapped the face of Darby. The latter
drew his pistol and shot Moore down.
Darby fed, but was captured later
in swamp, two miles from this
place hidden beneath pile o. logs.
He was placed in Toonbs' county
jail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
OVER THIRTY DEAD.
Property Worth One Million Dollars
Destroyed.

Brinkley, Ark, March 9.-Thirty
ore more lives were snuffed out,
sixty people were injured and prop
erty estimated to be worth one mil
lion dollars was destroyed as re-
suit Of the tornado which wrecked
this little city last night. Fourteen
whites and sixteen colored persons
are known to have been killed.
Every business house is in ruins.
and there is hardly a home that has
not at least suffered the loss of a
roof or king.
Hundreds Of people are homeless
and are wandering about seeking a
temporary abode.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
Killed and Injured.

Brinkley, Ark, March 10.-Twen-
ty-nine dead and seventy-four in
jured is Brinkley's list OF casualties
from the tornado o. Monday. Out
side of Brinkley thirteen persons
were killed and forty-six wounded,
several of whom may die.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
NINE NEGROES JAILED.
Number of Blacks Locked Up on
Charge Of Rioting.

Newberry, March 11.-Nine ne
groes, eight women and one man,
were placed in jail here today on the
charge of rioting. On Tuesday P.
B. OdeIl had warrants to arrest Kitty
Glasgow for violation Of contract and
Back Glasgow for enticing labor, and
when he went to execute the war
rants Back Glasgow refused to be ar
rested, and the women assisted in
the refusal and brought into service
shotgu1s, firing three times at the
officer.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
NEGRO Drained.

Cowpens, S. c., March S.-At
railroad camp few miles from here
one negro man Drained another with
an axe. They were drunk and quar-
relied about woman.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17

Many a man has paid lawyer
IS and $40 for poorer advice than
his wife would willingly have given
him for nothing.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
NEGRO MURDERER CAUGHT.
Man Who Slew Two With One Bullet
in Custody.

New Orleans, March S.-Jesse
Clark, a negro, who with one bullet
slew two men at Amesville, La, just
across the river from New Orleans,
two years ago, has been arrested at
Jennings, La. Clarks victims were
a white man named Richardson, who
was the object of the negroes at
tack, and negro youth who was
standing near Richardson, and into
whom the rifle bullet went after pass
ing through Richardson's body.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
Avalanche Kills Twenty-seven.

Vienna. March 9.-An avalanche
has destroyed a workman's shelter at
Sankta Johan, in the Pongau district
nf Salzburg. killing twenty-seven
persons. Fifteen bodies have been
recovered.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17
POWDER MILLS EXPLODE.
Only One Man Was Killed in the
Accident.

Wilmington, Del, March S.-One
man was killed and several others
slightly injured early today in an
explosion which destroyed two mills
in the Hagley yard of the Dupont
Powder Company, near here. The
dead man is George Whitman, aged
so years, an employe. The accident
was caused by the explosion of an
experimental barrel. The country
was shaken for miles around.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-17

Mrs. Sam KesteTson, Salem.
Unknown child at Piney Woods,
near Carlisle.
Edgar, Roy and Lena, aged II,
IL and years respectively, children
of Mrs. Isabel Mason, a: Zion.
Mrs. Mason and six othe. children
were seriously hurt. Mrs. Cruce, liv-
ing near Benton were also injured.
One of her arms was broken.
The Methodist church and school
house at Mount Carmel were demo-
ished and eight houses at Hurrl-
cane Creek were destroyed.