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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
A SERIOUS CHARGE
KATE PiRH.AM HELD CHARGED
WITH ABDUCTION.
Says Spartanburg Woman Frequent
ly Asked Her to go Away With
Her ard Lead IN Easy Life.

Kate Parham. young grass wic-
ow. was bound over TO she higher
court at Spartanburg Monday by
a. H. Kirby on the charge
OF abducting Miss Ethel Johnson.
the ls-year-old daughter Of Nj. and
Mrs. J. w. Johnson who on Feb
ruary IS mysteriously disappeared
from her home at 430 Magnolia
street, and was not heard OF till a
week later. when she wrote hc.ae
from St. Louis. Mo. The bond was
fixed at 5000. which was made good
by L. 4. Epton. Albert E. Hill
represented the prosecution and c.
P. Sims the defendant.
The hearing OF the case Monday
in magistrates court attracted q
large crowd. The small court room
OF Magistrate Kirby could not &C
commodate half the people that
would have liked to have heard the
testimony.
Miss Johnson testified that Kate
Parham had approached her on sew
eral occasions and talked with her
about going from place to place and
having lots Of friends and lots Of
| money. She said she told her how
| easy il was 10 live an easy life. with
lawyers and doctors and professiona!
men as good friends who would ley.
er see her want for anything.
She said the Parhan woman tried
to get her to go first to Greenvi!le
but that when she refused to &C
there. fearing her father would gel
aeT before she could get of. they
agreed to go to Asheville.
She said she left for Asheville or
the morning of the 18th. and the
parham woman was to have joined
her the next morning. Hoping t
escape the Parhan woman. she lef
Ashevil!e at once for Knoxville. A
Knoxville she occurred an emigrant'.
ticke: 70 South Dakota and rode a:
far as st. Louis on this. At st
Louis she got work with good fam
ly. and there remained till her faith
e- came for her.
In her testimony. Miss Johnso!
said that Kate Parham often !riet
10 get her to meet some OF her mel
friends and to spent the afternoon
at Rock Cliff. She admitted tina: at
ter many times being persuaded |!
this way she really did begin to con
slider such life as the Parham NO
man held out before her.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
MAKES RICH REWARD.
To the Man Who Saved His Daugh
ter From Death.

ter From Death.
The saving Of the life OF May
jennings. near Alpine. Texas, has
made a millionaire Of Francis B.
Strome, formerly tramp. Strome is
about so years Of age. machinist.
for many years a resident OK small
town in Illinois. He met with re-
verses. and after the death OF his
wife took to drink.
He was beating his way westward
trying TO make California and was
hanging around Alpine. Tex trying
10 catch a train when the girl was
crossing the railroad track just as
the train approached. The child be-
came bewildered and would have
been killed had Strome not jumped
on the track and snatched her clear
Of me rails. just in time.
He disappeared. but the father Of
the girl had him located about so
miles away acd brought him back to
the ranch and kept him At the place
for several days. learning something
OF his history before telling him
what he was going to do for him.
Strome agreed to settle down and
care for his property. Last week.
Col. Sam Jennings. the cattle king.
filed a document for record trans
ferring half interest in his 10000
acre ranch and $4,000 cattle and al!
the buildings o. the Talvedere ranch
ir JEFF Davis county 70 Strome. The
property is said 70 be worth between
100000 and sl.000.000.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
TRICKS OF FAKE OPTICIANS.
Press and Legitimate Practitioners
Tsra Against Them.

This State as well as other States
that have not passed the Optometry
Law, TO protect the public are now
infested with scores OF travelling OPP
ticians, who offer to sell FIVE dollar
gold eye glasses for one dollar. These
fakirs either peddle from house to
house or open up in stores in one
city or town after another. general
" remaining in a place from one day
70 four weeks.
Big s;s2s and hand bills announc-
Ing the Bargains in eye glasses and
spectacles draw crowds. The trick
as described is to tell each customer
that his case is little peculiar or
different from the ordinary so as to
require specially ground lense. in
stead OF the FIVE dollar glasses for
one dollar. BY this deception. the
fake cptician succeeds in getting ex-
orbitaat prices often from SO to
SIS. and you get no satisfaction for
SOUE L. ~ LcU NC q Wv ~
getting too unfr:endly TO him be-
cause of the complaints Of dissa;is-
fed customers. the travelling opti-
clan closes his store over night.
takes away every thing OF value and
often leaves lot OF unpaid local
bills and goes TO the next stopping
place. where he begins all owe. again
under new name.
Twenty-st1 States OF the Union
have already passed the Cptometry
law, including North Caroline and
Florida on each side Of Us. there
fore the people Of this State is al
easy mark for travelling faki-. Il
IS to be hoped that the next me ';i.s
OF our law makers that thay will
protect the innocent puclic from So al
imposition n such law is goc !
for so many other States why would
it not be good for TN grand ~
State OF South Carolina
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
BOYS PLANNED 10 LOOT.
Moving Picture Show Caused At
tempt 1T Crime.

Five boys are under arrest In
Greenwich. Conn. charged with at
tempting 20 wreck New Haven
Railroad express train. They opened
switch bu: were seen by switchnen
who prevented ] disaster. The train
carries r special club car on which
travel z. c. Converse. the steel mag
nate: William G. Rockefeller. Of the
Standard Oil company: E. c. Bend:c,
and Z score OF other mult.-mil:ioa-
aires. The boys under arrest are
all between the ages Of 10 and 1s
years All confessed their purpose
Of looting the bodies Of the dead
and injured and that they go: their
ideas Of outlawry while attending
moving picture shows.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Let Him Make \ Crop.

At Macon. Ga. George Evans. Jr..
4 negro. who pleaded guilty in the
United States court TO the charge o.
moonshining. was allowed to return
TO his home becaus. his farm needed
his attention. Judge Speer stated
that ne did not want &c send 4 man
TO Jail when his farm needed atten-
ton. because his country and his
family needed the crops too badly.
He will be sentenced in Decem ber.. =
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
SOME AMAZING FACTS
SOUTH HAS LESS ANNALS THAN
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
There Has Bccn Opportunity to Re
cuperate, but the Opportunity Has
Not Been Improved.

Sometime ego the Macon Tele-
graph gave I,s readers official figures
showing that in Georgia there are
fewer cattle excepting mich cows.
sheep and swine in 1910 than in
ISse-5ecore the war. This was
amazing. yet true The Manufactuc-
e-s Reeord has gone further into the
question and gives US the figures IN
all the Southern States. They show
that there has been loss also in
fifty years in the other Southern
states Of Alabama. Maryland. North
and South Carolina.
In the ffty years between 1850
and 1910 the population OF the coun-
try increased from 31.5o0.ooo to
SO. 900. 600. and the population Of the
South from 100000 to 2s.ooo.-
600. In the same period. according
to official figures and allowing for
valuation in census schedules. the
raising o. livestock used 70. food has
not kept pace with the growth OF
population IN the whole country. and
in the South has actually declined in
the case Of sheep and swine.
In 1850 the South had S.5+2.1a0
| meat cattle. not including mich cows
and in 1910 she has 13.S34.o0o: In
1850 the South had 6.oS4.000: in
1850 the South had 1s.2S1.21S hogs.
and in 1910 she has l5.0Ss. 600. This
: is not creditable showing. and
proves that our farmers have pretty
/: well abandoned almost everything
else for cotton.
In the case Of sheep. the South
now has 10000 fewer than IN 1850.
| Alabama. Georgia. Louisiana. Mis-
s!ssippi, North Carolina, South Car
olina and Tennessee showing the
most marked decreases. their average
being too great to overcome the In
crease OF s1.1e5.o00 in Texas. added
to the slight increases IL Florida
Kentucky. Maryland and old Virgin
ia
Swine made even a worse showing
than sheep. The increase for tbs
whole country in the ifty-year per
iod was only at the rate OF ~ pei
cent. against an increase Of 191 Pc!
cent. in the population. but against
an increase OF 172 per cent. in the
population OF the South the number
OF swine decreased by more than 8.
100000. in the face OF an increase Of
l.SS3.o00 IN Texas. OF $4,000 II
Florida. Of los. 900 IN Louisiana anc
| Of $1,000 in Alabama. the only tou,
states Of the fourteen Southern state:
showing an increase.
OF course It Is understood that tht
meat animals Gas well as horses ane
mules) IN the South had to do ser
vice for both OF the contending arm
les. The forage. the wreck. the de
struc.ion. the conflict OF four year!
left the South practically barren o
these animals. But there has beer
time to recuperate. as other thing
have recupcrated. There has neve
been a time more propitious than th'
present for live stock raising In th,
South. Facts. conditions and tn
promise OF fat rewards call aloud 70
Il.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
May Have to Get BoyeS.

Those OF US who have no mail
boxes in front Of our residences a--
liable not 10 receive any mai! a,
home after June so. 1911. Certain
y they will no. il provision or
the Postot!ice Appropriation bill BE-
comes law The provision prohib-
its any letter carrier from delivering
any mali a, any house unless there
is 4 suitable mail box on the outSid"
10 receive IL II means that Uncle
Sam is tired OF having his uniformed
carriers wait for people 20 take their
time in answering their door bells.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
GIVES THE REASON
yHy THE METHoDISTs IS sTRIE-
ING At ROME.
Pastor of Protestant Flock at Papai
See Says Catholicism Needs Stir
ring up by Other Churches.

INK up uJ oNAbSA
A cablegram from Rome. Italy.
saws the American Methodist church
was crowded Sunday morning. the
congregation including many Amer
icaa visitors. who were attracted by
the subject of Pastor B. ". Tipple's
sermon-"Why Meshodism IS in
Rome"
1t was the American Methodist
church that Charles w. Fairbanks,
e1-yice president Of the United
States, delivered the address which
shut him of from Being received IN
audience by the pope.
The Rev. Mr.. Triple said that the
Methodist church was meeting with
great success throughout Italy. Such
an inference could be drawn from the
extraordinary action o the vatican
with regard to the proposed risi: OF
ex-vice President Fairbanks 20 the
pope and also from the bitter re-
sentiment OF the Catholic clergy. AS
Mr.. Fairbanks spoke il the American
Methodist church the pastor said It
| was fitting that from the same pull
pit the charges preferred against
| Mathodism should be considered.
With reference to the assertion
that Methocists have no right to be
In Italy" said the preacher. the
answer is that we are here under the
italian laws guaranteeing religious
| freedom. Anothe. assertion By the
Catholics is that Methodism is not
needed in Italy. But Me,hodists be-
l!eve that the need is urgent. as the
| Catholic church is always more ef-
ac!ent for good when compelled to
compete with aggressive protestan-
tism as co1spicuousiy evidenced in
America
The Catholic church suffers en-
barassmeus when it is required 10
satisfy the deals OF great liberty
loving republic contemporaneousiy
with needing the demands OF the
vatican. which is still bound by the
deals of the middle ages. This is
proved by the experience OF Arch
bishop Ireland. when he was here 4
year ago studying the Methodist
propaganda.
;rc -
ranged by the American colony. Very
| properly Archbishop Ireland was ask
ed to speak Very properly. as a
patriotic American citizen. he accept
ed the invitation. But suddenly the
good archbishop recalled his accept
ance. The vatican had forbidden
him TO speak Or attend the banquet
because toas: to President Roose-
Welt was followed by toast 70 the
king Of Italy.
ITALY needs Methodism because it
is no !oager Catholic except in name.
The issue in Italy today is not
Professionalism versus Catholicism but
faith versus atheism. Archbishop
Ireland has said that every convert
TO Methodism costs Sl.400. II that
IS true. can no, the American Meth
odists better afford to pay It than
every three Italian !a5oyers who car
~ one priest?
He urged that Archbishop ireland
specify the dishonorab!e Methodists
here and he added:
1T is playing with fire for the
Catholic church 10 open the subject
OF moral methods in Italy
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
BOLD ROBBERY SCHEME.
ImpersonatinS Health Inspector Trio
Entered Home Of Citizen.

Personal inspection" Is the latest
pretes, sprung in Memphis. Tenn.
TO fleece the unwary
Declaring themselves to DE in
spectors" from the board Of health.
three unidentified men gained en-
trance TO the home Of Max Angel
late Friday afternoon Despite his
protests. the men insisted that /. was
imperative Angel submit, to per
sonal inspection. After stripping
the man Of his clothing and the cloth
ing OF his bank roll amounting TO
$50. the trio departed. admonishins
Angel 20 remain quiet until they re-
ported 20 headquarters Finally re-
alizing that he had been dup"d. An
gel notified the police. but the in
specoo-s" were then Tar away.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Might Have Been Serious.

Miss Willie Ely. daughter OF Mr..
E. c. Ely. Of Denmark. suffered 4
painful accident late Wednesday az
friends. Though severely bruised
about the face and side and having
one finger broken. the young lady's
condition IS not serious. The horse
which she was driving became
frightened and ran. but could easily
have been controlled had not one
OF the shafts come loose The buggy
was turned over and al ;hre. OF the
occupants thrown out However, oa-
" Miss Ely was hurt
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Look Out for the Comet.

The comet may be visible to the
naked eye in this month at the speed
il is travelling. To locate 1t, take
the line formed by the two lower
stars OF the constellation Arina an!
follow il north 10 point just abov"
the planet Saturn. On that line
above and slightly west OF Saturn
the comet should be found. but not
as yet w!thou, the aid Of at leas,
four inch glasses. In few weeks
It VIII be visible TO the naked eye.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Saw Mifr Kill Self

Mrs. W. T. GIBSON. wife Of a
miller. committed suicide Wedaes-
cay afternoon 1t their home near
Greenvillc. Ga. shooting herself with
a revolver. No cause is assigned for
the deed. She was il the act OF
pulling the trigger just as her hus-
band. walking in from the mill. en-
tered the room. Several children
survive her
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
HEAVY FLOODS WEST.
Traffic is Tied Up on Haif :, lhzrn
Railroads

Flood conditions almost unpeeced-
ented have cut OF the entire North
west and tied up traffic on half e
dozen trans-cont!nental railroads.
ma VS. in the mountains have caused
ava!anches that have swept away
mountain towns and sections 81 rail-
road tracks in various places from
Nevada to British Columb:a
The exact number OF dea ms caus-
ed by avalanches in the R,ckies in
Idaho and in western Montana prob
ably will not be known unt:l the
summer sun melts the gre,- masses
OF snow and ice on the caaous into
which several mining towns were
swept
IL the Cascade mountains in Wash
ington train with 80 or so passen-
gers is reported buried under
snowslide -Four trans-continental
lines into Washington and Oregon
are blocked Only one railroad is
operating 20 Salt Lake City. Sew
erai hundred westbouad passengers
are helc in Ogden.
Through traffic on the Oregon
Short line was suspended Tuesday
but will probably be resumed al an
carly date The Denver and Rio
Grande is the only road entering
Ogden that reports through trains
in operation. Reports from the
Hooded regions in Nevada are that
water is higher than for 40 years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
A TRAIN BURIED
By An Avalanche Of Snow Several ales
From Seattle, Wash.
REPORTS ARE MEAGRE
But it Is Believed t,,a4 Twenty-tfiree
Persons Have Been Lost in the
Snow Slides on the Great Northern
Railroad by the Destrurtion OF
the Train.

the Train.
A Seattle. Wash. dispatch says re-
ports from Wellington say that %
lives are believed to have been lost
n the avalanche that overwhelmed
he Great Northern's Spokane express
Tuesday morning. Two passenger
trains. seven locomotives and Sup
erintendent O'Neiil's private car were
buried. O'Neill escaped injury.
The Great Northern Spokane
train. that has been stalled on the
summit OF the Cascade Mountains
sicce last Thursday. was buried by a
slide early Tuesday. II is believed
there mus, have been loss OF life.
A relief train has gone from Ever
EFT. but it will not be able to get
within ten miles OF the train.
The stalled train was about two
miles west OF the west portal OF the
Cascade tunnel and the track was
open 10 the tunnel. AT the Great
Northern headquarters the number
OF persons on the train is given as
thirty Two passengers. who came
! out and walked over the ten miles
which is blockaded. gave the number
OF persons on the train as more than
! sixty. OF which dfty-one were pas
| sengers. Among them were several
! women and children.
News Of the burying Of the train
came in telephone message from
Scenic Hot Springs. but connection
was lost before any particulars could
be otained.
A dispatch from St. Paul says the
! Great Northern officials have receiv-
ed word that train No. 25, which
runs between Seattle and Spokane.
Wash. was swept OF the tract and
buried by snow side at Wellington.
Wash. at $50 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
Information Is meaSre and 1t is
not known whether there are any
fatalities. Local officials don't think
that any Of the fifty-one were killed
as the train had been stalled at We'll
lington for three days. and they
were Of the opinion that the passen-
gers We're at hotels in the city.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Followed His Victim.

Chas. Bowse- OF New York. a ne
gro. was elcctrocItec in Sing Sing
prison Monday for IN" murder OF
Eugene Hutchinson. another nesta
last April Bowser showed signs cf
breaking down IN thu death cell. Sut
walked 10 the electric chair ~ir7
steady step. He was murn:u-iay :
prayer as the current was turned Oh.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Singular Accident.

Early Saturday night. while sit
ting al the supper table. John Tur-
ncr. highly respected f1-nr'r -
Jones county. Ga. accidentally drop
ped his piS.oi from his oocIel ~i,h
the result taat his wife was shot
and instantly killed. He haG TO &c
restrained from killing h;1rel:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
To Study Farming.

Missouri teachers. through their
reading circle. will study farming in
stead Of pedagogy. Agriculture has
baen made one OF the requirements
for teachers certificates and more
stress will be placed upon the sub
ject in the public schools and in
higher educational institutions Of the
STATE
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Here il is Again. .

Il is now said that the ianocen:
little postage stamp can easily be
made the breeding place Of al! kinds
OF deadly microbes IL they are not
very carefully handled. so the pest
Office department has issued the fol-
lowing instructions "Postmasters AT,
directed TO instruct poStofice en-
p'oTes who Sell postage stamps TO
hand them 20 the purchaser in such
a manner that the gummed surface
VIII not come in contac, with the
base OF the stamp window
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
THEY RAN Him DOWN
ORGANIZER OF a TRUST COM
pANY is CAUGHT.
Through the Operators OF His Gem
Germ He Swindlcd Many People
and Churches.

Quite 4 number of people IN dil-
teren; sections OF the State VIII be
Interested in the news OF the
arrest in Oklahoma of ". J. Ncacll!
organizer and for some time pctsl-
dent and manager cf the Metyopol!-
tan Loan and Trust company OF
Greenwood. An indictment; aSai-s st
Nichols was handed out by District
Attorney Ernest Cochran some ti!ce
ago and true oil! was found ky a
Federal grand jury. so the arrest Of
Nichols is the next step in The
proceedings which as stated above
will be followed with much interest.
not only in Greenwood. but especial
;y by the Baptist congregation OF
Ha-tsril,e. the Pendleton street Bap-
list church OF Greenville and others.
The two churches lost pretty good
round sum seach. though the Earts-
vile congregation by timely action.
which however precipitated the fall
Of the concern. managed to set some
Of its money back
Nichols went TO Greenwood In
the spring o: 1907. or perhaps early
in the beginning Of the year. He
organized the Metropolitan Loan and
Trust company proposing &c lend
morev at low rate OF interest. Eve
and six per cent One par: OF the
scheme was that the proposed bor-
rover shoGld pay monthly install
ments before securing the money.
I! md later when a certain per cen.
had been paid IN. then the borrow
| er could secure the amount wanted
as iona. To one who wanted mon
ey right now. this was not attractive
and = many cases il was proposed 70
the concern and accepted that the
money should be paid in a lump sum
and the money secured at once.
The Hartsv!l!n Baptist church a;
that time was engaged in building a
new church and the Pendleton stree;
Baptist church was building an e1.
tension. Both sought the benefits
Of the low rates OF interest. and paid
down the required bonus" or what
ever Il should be called. The Earts-
vile people did not get their money
when ti.ay had :, right to expect it,
as il IS alleged. and as they sen;
.he Nichols concern a check =
'o- about $1,000. member @:
heir building committee. Mr.. J. J
Lawton. came here posthaste to 10.
vestiSate. Nichols had the day be.
fore left town leaving his Offices and
effects in the hands OF clerk and
stenograpaer. Upon the advice o.
his attorneys. Messrs. Grier & Park
Lawton had attachment issued ci
the funds OF the concern in a loce
bank and got a good part OF /;
back.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
Killed by Forty Foot Fall.

R. VI. Shannon. a lineman in the
employ Of the Southern Bell Tele-
phone company az Charlotte. y. c..
fel! from the top Of a forty-foot pole
sustaining injuries from
which be died later No one saw taa
nor knew OF it until he was
found on the sidewalk n a pool ot
blood
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-09
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Jealous Man Kills Young Woman
and Thea Himself.

At Kansas City Mrs. Grace Gayou,
aged le. was shot and killed in J
store at 30l9 East Eighteenth street
by Louis Hilson. who than killed
himself, after he had assaulted and
severely beaten Jack Doyle. a rival
for Mrs. Gayou's affections. The
woman was ecpo!yed in the store.
which had been closed for the night.
but IN which she was entertaining
Doyle. The slayer gained an en-
trace by breaking window. Hill
son dubbed Doyle with revolver.
shot the girl and then rushed to the
sidewalk and killed himself.