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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
What Was Once Town Of Austin
Now Mass Of Blackened Water
Swept Ruins in Which Are
Buried Bodies Of Hap
less Victims.
WRECkAGE- STRE.WN.
REVEALS EXTENT OF TRAGEDY

i've Hundred Men Spend Day Frantically Digging in
Torn and Twisted Timbers in Search Of Those
Whose lives Were Swept Away When Great
Dam Broke-lmpossible to Tell Number Of Dead;
Some Placing Ii Low $50, Others as High
800, While the Property Loss Is $6,000.0OO.
Survivors Tell Stirring Stories Of Disaster
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02

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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Would Win By Landslide.

The Boston transcripts special cor
respondent with the Taft party re-
ports that president Taft's visit to
Denver must have convinced him
that he was n the enemies country"
No great yf wds greeted him and
there was marked lack OF enthus-
iasm though his reception was cour-
teous. The situation here as it af-
fects Taft" says the correspondent,
might we'll be summed up by say
ing that Colorado likes the president
personally, but politically 1t is for a
Progressive Republican. Roosevelt
would have no difficulty in carrying
the State. LaFollette would come
nearer doing it than Taft. while the
most astute politicians of both parties
will tell you sub rosa that Woodrow
Wilson would win it by landslide"
This same kind of talk comes from all
over the country. With Taft as the
Republican candidate and Wilson as
the Democratic candidate, the latter
would win easily at this time. Mr..
Taft and the trust barons know this,
and that is why they are getting rea-
dy to gather the biggest corruption
fund ever used in national election.
But we do not believe that even this
will save Taft. The people have
caught on.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
FIGHTING IN PORTUGAL.
Catholic Priests and Others Trying to
Re-Enthrone the King.

a cablegram from Lisbon, Portu-
gal, says Portuguese Royalists, after
their defeat at Vinhaes, where they
lost fifty men, entreched themselves
in the rough country and are await
ing the arrival of another column
under Capt. Couciere. 1t is reported
they have eight field pieces aud four
Maxim guns.
A party Of Monarchists commanded
by priest attacked an express train
carrying troops to the north near
Monsanto. They placed an obstruc-
ton on the tracks which was discov-
cred by the engineer, who stopped
his train when it was within fifty
yards of the pile of stones and rail
road ties. The troops responded and
drove oc the Royalists.
Priests are taking an active part in
the organization Of guerilla bands
and are leading them in the combat
with uplifted crucifxes. Monarchist
flags are flying over churches at Cas-
tello Branco, and Santo Thryso. The
government is finding difficulty in
handling the cavalry and infantry in
the mountainous districts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
BALLooNIsTs FATAL PLUNGE.
Parachute Fails to Work and He
Falls 700 Feet.

While engaged in balloon race
at the South Georgia Exposition at
Triton, Ca, Thursday afternoon,
Capt. John Broder fell 700 feet from
his balloon and was instantly killed.
Broder had just finished high div
ing act, and Prof. Gowdy, an aero
naut, was preparing to ascend when
Broder volunteered to take another
balloon and race. Both balloons as
eended perfectly, few yards apart,
for a distance Of 500 to 1000 feet,
when the signal for them to cut
loose was fired. Broder dropped
slightly in advance of his fellow bal
loonist but in some unknown man
ner his parachute failed to fill and
he plunged to earth like shot. De-
spite Broder's fate, which he witness
ed, Gowdy also cut loose and landed
safely nearly half mile away. Brod-
er was unmarried and has mother
and sister living at Green Lake, Wis.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

every man in the South, who can at
this moment possibly hold bale OF
cotton, even his own house, or front
yard, will do so proper price for cot
ton is as certain to be obtained as the
sun shines, for as I have said, the
world demand at this moment is for
100000 bales, and nothing stands
between an honest price, regulated
by the law of supply and demand,
but dense ignorance on the part Of
the producer coupled with the
shrewdness of the bear gambler in
Wall street and New Orleans. In its
late analysis the whole thing is moth
ing more or less than a holding prop
osition.
"And speaking of holding I wish to
say that I have just been through the
country, across the States OF Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina,
and believe. honestly, that the plain
farmer has been awakening to the
situation. All the way from Virgin
ia to Edgefeld county in this State,
passed only six farm wagons loaded
with cotton going to market. We
found some gigantic fools on public
squares willing to rob their own flesh
and blood, but this condition was
rare. All along the read from Sails
burg, n. c., via Charlotte, Lancaster,
Kershaw and Camden, while not
more than 80 per cent. of the cotton
had been picked, found farmer after
farmer stacking up his cotton in his
front yard. From 10 to 25 bales was
al average. I found also that these
men were using the piazzas of their
homes, and in score of instances one
or two rooms of their residences for
the storage of picked but as yet un-
ginned cotton. In other words, there
is every evidence that the distressed
cotton, which it is necessary to take
TO market at given time, mas already
been sold, and sold at lha. under
stimulation OF bear influence, to the
material interest of those who natur-
ally would hammer down the price of
cotton. I understand traS this is
he situation 1t this n.omen: all over
the, cotton belt, and as far IS have
been advised the determination now
to hold cotton for Eself-protection is
general all the way frcm the Allan
tic 70 Texas. lave but one word Of
advice and that is to tell every man
who can by any means whatsoever
hold a bale of cotton to do it. Even
if he runds Insurance risk it is his
inounden duty for tie protection CT
his own family to hold every bale
that he possibly can. don't think
that I have exaggerated or enlarged
upon the condition. We are face to
face with crisis in the South. 1t is
useless to wait for federal interfer-
ence. 1t is, therefore, as I said at
Montgomery, up to the individual
farmer to handle this situation to a
plain, buisness-like, manly way. If
he doesn't do it, then the bears are
the bosses and he is the slave, allot-
ted for the marketing of America S
great monopoly crop can prevent the
scheme Of robbery that those who are
conducting it are justified in practic-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
SAYS HE WILL BEAT JONES.
Repeats Statement About the States
man Without a Job.

man Without JOD.
The Daily Piedmont says Govern
or Blease, who spent the greater part
of Friday in Greenville announced
that he had accepted the resignation
of Chief Justice Jones, rendered by
that official several weeks ago and
followed the next day by the Chief
Justices announcement that he would
be N the race for Governor next
year. The public has been of the
opinion that the governor would ac-
cept the resignation, but no official
announcement to this effect has been
made until now. The resignation
takes place January 9Th. The gov
ernor, on talking of the gubernatorial
race and the proposed candidacy of
Chief Justice Jones, said he would
repeat his statement made recently
in Charleston, that "Mr. Jones would
after January 9Th be a statesman
without a job He said he was more
hopeful of his enemies than ever
and that he would beat Jones and all
other candidates run in opposition to
him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
John sumter's Wound Fatal.

John Sumter, the Fort Motto ne
gro who was chopped in his head by
his wife, has died from the effects Of
the wound. It seems that the couple
quarreled vigorously at a frolic Fri
day night, after a temporary and
spurious separation; that she follow
cd him home, deliberately seized an
axe and sent it into his face with
deadly effect. 1t is said that she
the hastily retreated and disappear
ed with another man. 1t is also said
that she has confessed unreservedly
to Sheriff Dantzler that she commit
ted the deed and there was no sign
of repentant tears or demeancr when
the news of his death was broken to
her.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
FOUR MEN WERE KILLED.
Dynamite Exploded Sixty Feet Under
the Ground by Drill.

Four men were killed and six in
jured Monday by an explosion Of dy-
Mantle sixty feet under ground in q
shaft under Central Park, where they
were working on the acqueduct for
the Catskill water system.
The dead men were all Italian
laborers. Michael Kearney, fore
men Of the gang, and John Waco, a
workman, may die. Kearney and
John w. Martin, the night superin-
tendent of the work, were arrested
on charges Of criminal negligence.
The shaft where the explosion oc-
Cured is being drilled and blasted
solid rock and is about l6
feet in diameter a drill in charge
of one of the men struck the explo-
sive and Immediately tons of rock
shot into the air, crushing the men.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
PUNCTURES A BUBBLE
CURRENT EVENTS SET RIGHT BY
NEWBERRY OBSERVER.
Showes That a Majority Of the Farms
in South Carolina are Owned by
White People.

We have seen it stated in several
newspapers that a majority of the
farms in South Carolina were owned
by negroes, and that they were still
buying land in large quantities. We
could not understand how this could
be true and intended to hunt the
matter p, but the Newberry Observer
has fore stalled US by getting the
facts much better than we could have
done. Here is what the Observer
says on the matter:
Current Events described in its
title as "a condensed newspaper,
weekly, for use in public and private
schools''-pubHshed at Springfield,
Mass, and Chicago, ILL.,, contains
some very startling information for
the boys and girls of this great coun-
try. Current Events" has been in
existence for II years and, accord
ing to it's own statement, has lar
ger circulation than any other school
paper in the world; and N al ex-
cellent school journal, though it does
blunder sometimes, as in this in
stance, when it says, in its issue of
Sept. 20:
Negroes are buying many farms
throughout the South and especially
in South Carolina. From 1900 to
1910 the farms owned by negroes in
creased by 1925. There are now
176,1S0 farms in that state. More
than half of them or 96,696, are
owned by the colored people
This big blunder is no doubt occa-
stoned by mistaking the meaning OF
farms operated" as reported in the
census.
The Observer has not seen the agri.
cultral censu for 1910 but has the
census of 1900; from which we take
the following statistics as to pei
cent of farms operated" by white:
and colored in the Sothern states Al
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Laws REGARDING the Road.

Some complaint has come regard
ing the giving of half the road in
case of an automobile coming up
behind a team The parties claim
that when they come up behind a
fellow with a team he stubbornly re-
fuses to give any of the road, no mat
ter if there is plenty of room to
turn out. Now the law recognizes
the rights of both the man with the
team and the man with auto, and
these rights should be respected.
The law says that when a man is
overtaken by a faster vehicle the
man driving the slower vehicle shall
turn out and give half of the beaten
nath
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
ANOTHER HUSBAND
TURNS UP IN MIDST OF a BLISS
FUL HONEYMOON.
Woman Deserts Her Husband at
Jacksonville and Marries Another
Man at Hendersonyille.

Finding that his bride Of only a
few days was not divorced woman
and that she had deceived him into
marrying her, young E. c. Howard,
a prescription clerk in the local drug
store at Hendersonville, n. c., was
placed in a very peculiar predica-
ment when the first husband, W. V.
Henry, of Jacksonville, arrived in
Hendersonville in search OF his wan
dering wife.
A bit of romance in attached to
the affair in spite of the evil wrought
and the young man is not so much
to blame as it looks. Several
months ago, about the first OF the
summer season Mrs. Annie L. Henry
as she called herself, went to Hen
dersonville for visit.
Young Howard, who is said to be
from a well-to-do family in the east
ern part of this state, met Mrs. Hen
ry and close friendship resulted.
Later in the summer Mrs. Henry,
admitting she was married at that
time, stated to young Howard that
she would return to Jacksonville
and seek a divorce from her hus..
band.
Last Tuesday Mrs. Henry returned
to the city and informed the youth
full lover that all was well, that she
had succeeded in getting a divorce,
and that their future happiness
would be shadowed no longer. Young
Howard proceeded to get out license
papers and summoned a local magls-
trate who before several prominent
local witnesses, performed the cere-
mony.
All went we'll until last Sunday
morning, W. V. Henry, the first hus-
band, arrived in the city and regis
tered at the same hotel in which his
wife and her new husband were
boarding. Mr.. Henry at first would
not believe that his wife had marrl'
ed another, but when shown the
papers he was convinced.
Realizing that his wife had chang
ed her love for another, Henry de-
c;ded that with the exchange of al
the valuables each had given the
other he would not push the mat
ter, but would leave his wife in the
hands of one who, though at frs
deceived, was now willing to take
I the consequences of the biunder he
had made.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard left thu
city last Monday for parts unknown
and Mr. Henry returned to Jackson
}ville.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
STANDS By HIS PARDONS.
Gov. BIease Says He Has No Apollo
gies to Make For Them.

The Spartanburg correspondent Of
The News and Courier says Gov.
Blease in speaking of the pardons
that he had granted. said that he had
nc apologies to make in that respect,
fer when he looked into it and found.
n his judgment, the party was worthy
of being pardoned he would turn
them loose. He also told of an inter-
asting case Of a little girl who wanted
him to free her brother from the Re-
formatory to help provide living for
her mother, who was an invalid. Gov.
Blease said rather than 10 have turn
I'd that girl down he would have re-
signed from the Governors chair. He
stated that he was not through par
ioning convicts yet: that there were
many others in the Penitentiary that
le intended to free.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Record Breaking Weather.

The Charleston Post says Saturday
proved the hottest October day On re-
cord in the history of the United
States weather bureau. as far as max
imum readings have gone, the mer-
curry registering 93.3 degrees, $40
q degree in excess os the maximum
reading Heretofore recorded, on the
third of the month in 1888. The in
tense heat was of short duration for
the cool wave of Saturday night put
an end to it. The fall in temperature
proved acceptable for the weather
has been unusually warm for this
season for several weeks.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
BRYAN DARES TAFT
COsIMONER CHALLENGES THE
PRESIDENT TO PUBLISH
The Names Of the Men on Whose Re
commendation He Appointed Su-
preme Court Judges.

In an editorial appearing in The
Commoner this week Mr.. Bryan chal-
lenges President Taft to make public
the written and verbal recommenda
tions on Which he appointed Justice
White to the position Of CHIEF justice
over Justice Harlan and recommen-
dations, written and verbal, on which
he appointed the justices whom he
las placed on the supreme bench.
The editorial says in part:
AT Cherryville, Kan, the presi-
dent repeated the challenge he issued
at Detroit to Mr. Bryan to produce
an example of restraint Of trade that
would not come within the scope of
the supreme court decisions in the
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust
cases.
He spoke OF the criticism as glib.
1t would be a reflection on tre presi-
dents intelligence to assume that he
expects his remarks on the trust
question to be taken seriously.
He knows that Mr.. Bryan has
only reiterated the criticisms contain
ed in his dissenting opinion Of JUS
tice Harlan and in the report of the
senate judiciary committee filed by
Senator Nelson three years ago.
Justice Harlan and Senator Nell
son pointed out that the amendment
written into the law by the supreme
court practically nullifed the crimi-
nal clause of the antitrust law. Re-
plying on the auth orities cited by Jus
tice Harlan and Senator Nelson, Mr..
Bryan has asserted and asserts again
that it will be found practically i'm
cossible to convict a trust magnate
n criminal court.
Does the president believe a
criminal conviction possible? If so,
Hhy does he hesitate to prosecute
the officials of the Standard Oil and
Tobacco companies?
Mr.. Bryan challenges Mr.. Taft to
make public the written and verbal
recommendations upon which he ap-
pointed Justice White to the position
Of chief justice over Justice Harlan
and the recommendations, writer
and verbal, on which he appointed
the justices whom he had placed or
the supreme bench. Did he know
how they stood on trust questions Of
was it purely accidental that all o.
lis appointees took the trust side o.
the question:"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Found Killed in Saloon.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kraft, propri-
etors of road house seven miles
from Detroit, were murdered in their
saloon Saturday night, and the police
are searching for Charles Fuller, a
former employe. A daughter Of the
murdered couple claims Fuller shot
at her and missed and then killed her
parents. The tragedy followed a
Quarrel between the girl and Fuller.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
FienG Will Be Lynched.

A dispatch from Coatesv;ile, Pa,
says another lynching is threatened
in that county as a result Of brutal
attack made upon student at the
Coatesville school by an unknown
negro. The populace has not been
wrought to such a fever OF excite
ment since the lynehing Of Zack
Walker on Snday, August 13. The
fend will be lynched il caught.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Manacled Prisoner Escapes.

Saturday night, while he was TAX
ing Samuel Ridl2eway, negro, want
in Williamsburg county for murder,
70 the Sumter county Jail for safe
keeping. JaiIer ". D. Owens was as
saulted by his prisoner, who managed
tC escape. Ridgeway knocked the
taller down with the manacles ne had
OF his hands.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Another Good Roads Train.

1t is announced from the Office of
the agricultural and immigration
agent at Wilmington, \. c., that the
Atlantic Coast Line will operate a
good roads train over its entire sys-
TEN, starting from Richmond, Va,
November %. The train will con-
sist of two coaches, one of which will
contain models, operated by electri-
city, of woodworking machinery.
while the other will be equipped for
lectures and steropticon views. a
private car also will be attached to
the train for the convenience of Gov
ernment road engineers and others.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

We do not say this to depreciate
the achievements of the colored race,
for many of them have done well IN
accumulatin!g property ,biyndsutry ra
accumulating property by industry
and economy. But newspaper plub-
lished for "use in public and private
schools" and having "a larger circu-
lation than any other school paper in
the world, ought to be better in
formed than to publish such facts
as those embraced in the above clip
ping.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
FLAPS OVER TO Wilson.
A Republican Newspaper Bolts Its
Party for Him.


A sacrameno, Cal, dispatch says
the Sacramento Union has ccme out
strong for Governor Wilson, Demo-
crat, of New Jersey, for President in
1912. The Union has always been
Republican and was still supposed to
be Republican at least, but it has
announced that it is iL1ele1dent and
believes the best thing for the nation
is to defeat the Republican party
1t extols President Taft, but doubts
the wisdom of re-electing him. The
country needs staple. and respon-
sible government and in the present
condition of the Republican party
this can only be obtained through
the Democrats.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18
Little Girl Killed by Auto.

At Camilla, Ca, Mary Perry, aged
seven, daughter Of T. B. Perry, OF
that city, was run down and killed
by an automobile there "Wednesday
afternoon. Will Crosby, driver OF
the car, was arrested.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

er of the lass is engaged in the lum-
Der business in Southwest Georgia,
and was away from home at the
time. The mother of the little girl
is dead, having been accidentally
shot by her husband some years ago.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-18

Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio,
is to be in Union, S. c., on Thursday,
October 10, during the Union Coun-
ty County Fair and will deliver an
address. He will have big crowd
to hear him.