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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
MADE A CLOSE CALL
HAD A VERY NARROW ESCAPE
FROM HORRIBLE DEATH.
4 Show Woman Falls Thousand
Feet Before Large Crowd, But
Escapes Death.

At Asheville, N. c., Floretta For.
enz, triple parachute performer as
sociated with visiting show, had
narrow escape from death Thurs
day afternoon when, after accident
ally cutting the wrong parachute
rope, she fell at a rapid rate from a
height of nearly 1000 feet.
Had not her parachute caught in
the street car and electric light wires
in the heart of the city, she would
have undoubtedly peen killed. In the
last half of the. descent Miss Lorenz
was virtually hanging to one cord
Of the first parachute.
The young woman was carried in
to store in fainting condition, but
she was otherwise uninjured. She
later stated that she carried three
parachutes with her and, on reaching
up to release the balloon wherein she
ascended, accidentally cut the ropes
Of the secand and third parachute,
which, however, did not open.
The unusual weight of the two un-
opened paraehutes, added to her own,
caused her to descend at a rapid rate
and the hundreds Of people who
gathered in the centre Of the city
saw that the young woman was in
danger Of alighting on the roof Of
the postof6ce.
A sudden gust Of wind, however,
carried her over the network Of troll
ley and Illuminating wires which
cross and re-cross Patton avenue,
and there were loud rries from the
anxious hundred when the swinging
ropes and then the parachute itself
caught in the wires and were firmly
held, allowing the thoroughly fright
ened woman to descend safely.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
They Want WILSON
SENATORS AND CONGREssMEN
SAYS BE IS THE NAN.
Wilson is Strong With Bryan, Al
though He Once Bolted the Tick
ct With Bryan On It.

The correspondent of the Spartan
burg Herald says the correspondent
in Washington of one Of the leading
papers Of the south claims to have
made a poll Of the Democrats in Con-
gress for his paper on presidential
preferences, with special references
to Woodrow Wilson.
His findings are summed up as fol-
lows:
That Woodrow Wilson has the sup
port Of about four in every five mem
bers he has interviewed.
That he is especially strong in the
south.
That while Northern people regard
him as northern or eastern man
and in general have little knowledge
Of his southern origin and relation
ships, the southern people ali look
upon him as a southern man and are
greatly attached to- him OF this ac-
count.
That in the south generally Will
son is regarded as even more Of a
southerner than Champ Clark. Mis-
souri, is regarded as a border or wes-
tern state. Wilson gets the full
advantage Of being Virginian. That
Champ Clark's boom has decidedly
receded In the month since Congress
met and the Wilson movement has
correspondently gained.
That since the graft revelations In
the Ohio legislature the Harmon SEN
timent has Waned even faster than
before.
Commenting on the result Of the
poll a Washington newspaper Wed
nesday say, General confirmation Of
this view is unavoidable wherever one
mingles among public men in.Wash-
ington. Republicans generally think
Wilson will be nominated by the
Democrats, but many Of them can
didly talk Bryan, hoping that Bryan
may yet be named and believing that
Bryan would be the best man for the
Republicans.
stMr. Wilson's western trip is being
followed with the utmost interest,
because it Is expected to develop more
definite signs Of the sentiment Of
that section, which has always most
sturdily stood by Bryan. Thus far
representatives has indicated that
Wilson looks good to the old-time
Bryan followers.
Moreover, Mr.. Bryan himself is
reported very we'll pleased with the
person and the performance Of the
Jersey governor albeit Wilson has not
a record of regularity in support of
Bryan.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
JONES GOES TO PRISON
Rich Farmer of Union County Loses
Last Appeal.

W. T. Jones, the wealthy Union
county planter, must spend the re-
mainder of his days in the state peni-
tertiary for killing his wife, unless
executive clemency is extended.
The supreme court gave a decision
Wednesday ,dismissing the appeal for
a new trial on the grounds Of after
discovered evidence, and Jones will
be taken to the state penitentiary
within ten days to begin serving his
sentence. The opinion in the case is
by Robert Aldrich, acting associate
justice. The supreme court several
months ago affirmed the decision.
The governor several days ago re-
fused a pardon.
w. T. Jones was tried at the Feb
ruary term of court in Union county
in 1908 upon an Indictment charging
him with the murder of his wife, Ma
rion E. Jones, by administering to
her or causing to be administered
strychnine poison. He was convicted
of murder with recommendation to
mercy and was sentenced to tbs
state penitentiary for life.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
LABOR LEADERS UPHELD.
The Supreme Court Decides Case in
Their Favor.


Setting aside the sentences OF i'm
prisonment imposed by the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia for
alleged disobedience to boycott in
junction, the Suprme Court Of the
United States Wednesday held that
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, president, vice pres
ident and secretary, respectively, of
the American Federation Of Laboc,
had been enormously sentenced 70
jail on charge Of contempt of local
court. e.
The Court unanimously held that
the only sentences that could be i'm
posed upon the labor leaders were
ii,.es. Ii So holding, The Supreme
Court of the United States found
that the Court Of Appeals Of the
District Of Columbia and the Su-
preme Court of the District erred in
treating the contempt proceedings as
a criminal case and not civil one.
The effect of holding the proceedings
civil one was to make jail sentenee:
impossible. Hence the Judicial SEN
tences had to be set aside.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
BRYAN GIVES BIS VIEWS.
Trust Question More of an Issue No"
Than for Years.

William Jennings Bryan, while at
Toronto, Ont, on a lecture tour, said
Wednesday regarding the Standard
Oil decision: This decision is likely
to make the trust question more OF
an issue than it has been in recent
wears. While on the face of it the
decision seems victory for the gov
ernment, it virtually amends the anti
trust law by constituting it to prohibit,
not all restraints of trade. but only
such restraint a. the courts, after
each lengthy litigation, nay decide
to be unreasonable" 1t will be not
iced that Bryan's Tiews coincide
closely with the opinion rendered by
Justice Harlon.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
REV. GEORGE W. WALKER DEAD.
President of Paine College for Twen.
ty-eight Years.

Rev. Geo. w. Walker, D. D., presi-
dent of the Paine College for Ne
groes, and a widely known Methodist
minister, died at Augusta, Ga, We'd
nesday, aged sixty years. He was a
native of Marion, S. c., and gradu-
ate of Wofford College.
In 1883 when the Methodist Epis-
copal Church Of the South decided
to have a school in which to train
negro teachers and preachers, DR..
Walker volunteered to undertake the
work and he was made president OF
Paine College, which position ne has
held ever since.
The negro men at the school will
be active pallbearers and the white
Methodist ministers of the city will
be honorary pallbearers at the funer-
al. Bishop Warren A. Gambler has
wired that he will attend the funeral.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
STREETS STREWN WITH DEAD.
Sanguinary Battle Fought at Cuaut-
la, Near Cuernavaca.

A sanguinary battle was fought
Friday at Cuautla, Mexico, between
the federal garrison under Col. Nun
guia and a force of rebels command
ed by Col. Zapata. Fugitives state
that the streets Of Cuautla are
strewn with dead and wounded.
A commission left Friday night for
Cuautla carrying the news Of the
armistice, which it is hoped will put
an end to the fighting Gen. Fugr-
oa is leading 5000 rebel troops from
Igualaga presumably en- route for
Cuernavaca.
Cuernavaca is the capital Of the
State of Morelos and is forty miles
south Of Mexico City. Cauatla is
town of about 5000 in Morelas.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
DUE TO BRIBERY
LoRMER'S ELECTION DECLARED
TO BE CORRUPT.
Judges Ruling in Case Charged as
Cnwarranted Interference With
Perogatives of LEGISLATURE.


The report of the Helm senatorial
committee, appointed to investigate
circumstances surrounding the cleo
ton Of William Lorimer to the Unit
ed States senate was returned to the
senate at Springfield, ILL.,, Wednes
day. The most vital points are:
A criticism Of Judge Petit of Chi
cago, for his ruling in the habea:
corpus case involving Tilden, Cum
Minis and Benedict, and this expires
sion:
Your committee has reached the
conclusion that the election Of VIII
liam Lorimer before the last genera
assembly would not have occurred
had it not been for bribery and COT
ruption.'
The report says the committee
went over ali the testimony in the
Lee O'Neill Brown, Pemberton
Clarke and Broderick trials and also
sets forth the summonins of H. +
Kohlsaat. publisher Of the Chicago
Record-Herald, and Mr. Kohisaat's
disclosure Of the fact that it was
Clarence R. Funk, secretary OF the
international Harvester Company
who had told him OF conversation,
which he (Funk) had with Edwin
Hines, in which he IS alleged to have
informed Funk that he had succeed
d in electing Mr.. Lorimer to the
United States senate at a cost to him
and other unnamed persons Of about
100000.
Regarding the habeas corpus de-
cision of Judge Petit in the cases OF
Tilden, Cummings and Benedict, the
committee says:
''Such action was an unlawful IN
terfereDce on the part Of a member
of the judiciary with the legislative
branch of the government.
Inability to make . ssrching in
vestigation when all documents aileg-
ed to have been in the hands of Til
den. Cummings and Benedict could
not be located is noted.
The committee also touches on the
so-called Jackpot" episode, but de-
clares that so long as no person pub
licly connected with that matter. is
any longer member Of the senate,
no recommendation is made.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
SICK CONVICTS TO BE FREE.
These Prisoners Are Great Burden
to the State

Following ersonal inspection OF
the penitentiary Friday morning, in
company with Chairman Sanders, Of
the board Of directors, Gov. Blease
announced it as his intention to set
free all prisoners disable by chronic
i'll health.
This will remove from the big pris-
on many con1icts. some serving life
sentences. The Governor. will, N
each case, require certificate from,
the prison physician as to the fact
of disability. He said such convicts
were burden to the State.
The Governor also said he would
not call a special session Ct the
directors. but at their meeting on
June 7, would urge them to cancel
the hosiery mill contract. If this
can not be done legally, other efforts
may be made to have the mill con-
demned by the health authorities on
sanitary grounds.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
BRIDE AT EIGHTY~FOUR.
Mrs. Nancy Minis and Preston Bet.
tisou Married.

A marriage Of unusual interest
from several standpoints occurred
several miles from Barnwell at the
home of Ball Mitchell Sunday, the
14th inst, when Mrs. Nancy Minis
was married to Preston Bettison,
Magistrate NJ. C. Kitchings Of Willis
ton performing the ceremony. The
bride has reached her Saith milestone
of life's journey, while II years have
passed over the head of the groom.
This is Mrs. Bettison's fourth matrl-
nominal venture and the second for
the groom. The courtship is said to
have been very short, consisting OF
only one call from MT. Bettison. The
happy couple will make their future
home in Rosemary township, this
county. Fifty people witnessed the
ceremony.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Diaz Announces willingness to Resign as
President Of Mexico.
BEFORE FIRST OF JUNE
De La Bara, Minister OF Foreign AT.
fairs VIII Take Charge With Mad.
ero Acting as Chief Adviser
Treaty of Peace Expected to Fol.
low Surrender Of DiaZ.
low Surrender of DiaZ.

Advices from Mexico City is to thu
effect that President Diaz and Vice
President Corral will resign before
June l. Francisco de la Barra, min
lister of foreign relations, will be
come provisional president ad in
terim.
Francisco I. Madero, the reolu'
tionary leader, will be called to the
city of Mexico to act as de la Rarra's
chief adviser and as the greatest
guarantee possible that every pledge
made by the goernment will be car.
ried cut.
As viewed by the public it will be
virtually joint presidency, pending
the calling of new presidential elec
ton.
The cabinet will be reorganized
The minister Of war will be named
by de Ia Barra. The foreign odce will
be in charge of a sub-secretary nam.
ed by de Ia Barra. Other cabine:
members Will be chosen by de Ia Bar
ra and Madero acting Jointly.
A new election viii be called with.
In six months. Political amnesty
will be recommended to the chamber
Of deputies.
These are the conditions upon
which President Diaz will compro-
mise. Virtually they are admitted
in high quarters to be a complete
surrender to the reVolutionists.
The resignation Of Diaz and the
"joint' regency Of de la Barra and
Madero are said to constitute guar
antee so complete that the original
insurrecto demand for IA governors
no longer needs to be considered.
The cabinet was in almost con-
tinual session for two days and de-
spite the severe illness of President
iDiaz. The presidents entire face is
infected from an liberated tooth. He
speaks with the greatest difficulty,
but while he is in severe pain his
condition is not regarded as calling
for alarm at this time, despite his
advanced age.
The governments conditions were
telegraphed to Judge Carabajal on
Wednesday afternoon with instruc-
tions to submit them to Gen. Madero.
If they are accepted, which is re-
garded as certain, an armistice COW
coering the entire republic Of Mexico
will be signed. Inasmuch as the gov
ernment believes it has made every
concession that the revolutionists
have requested, it is firmly believed
that a treaty of peace will follow.
Without abating one lot of their
admiration for the man who has
made modern Mexico, the public re-
ceied the announcement of his in
tended resignation with profound sat-
isfaction. Since the battle of Juarez
they have realized that the presi-
dents renunciation Of his high Office
alone could bring about peace. Bus
mess throughout the republic has
suffered severely and the people gen.
orally were eager for an honorable
peace.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Auto Kills Negro.

While speeding to the hospital ir
New Orleans with James LAWN, g
painter who had fallen from a lad
der. an automobile ambulance late
Wednesday ran over and killed Hen
ry Sims, a negro boy. The negro
was skating and darted toward the
sidewalk in front of the ambulance.
He was placed in the ambulance be-
side the painter but died in the hos
0ita1
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
White Man to Hang.

After being out one hour, the jury
in the case of James Jefferson, charg-
ed with the murder of Policeman
Marion Marchant in April last
Thursday afternoon returned ver-
dict of guilty, and Jefferson WITS SEN
fenced to be hanged on June 23.
Jefferson IS a member Of prominent
family of Columbus, Ga, and the
trial has caused intense interest.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Salutes an Old Warship.

With the ships band playing the
national air and the blue jackets
v:th rifles at present" the United
States battleship Idaho Thursday sa-
luted the resting place Of the old
wooden United States war sloop Mis-
sissippi, Of Admiral Farragut's fleet,
riddled and sunk by the Confederate
land batteries at Port Hudson on the
Mississippi river during the civil
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Want Case Responded.

Declaring that VIM. Lorimer's S
election to the United States Senate
was broueht about by bribery and
corruption, and that the gravity OF
the situation involving the integrity
and good name Of Illinois and the
welfare of the country demands fur
ther investigating. the Illinois senate,
by vote of 81 to 19, adopted res
olution asking that the United States
Senate reopen the Lorimer investi-
cation
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
A Very Old Horse.

E. S. Richardson, of Tyler, n. H.,
drives a horse that is known to be at
least SO years old. 1t is the last
horse that DR.. Gage, of Briar Hill
and Concord, owned, and it was given
to Mr.. Richardson by the doctors
daughter, Mrs. Morrill,, 16 years
ago. The horse is in fine condition
for its age.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Bold Masked Robbers.

At Los Angeles, Lack Doyle's
saloon, famous as training camp
for prize fighters was held up We'd
nesday night by two masked robbers.
The robbers stood seven men, includ-
ing a constable, against wall, rob-
bed and then locked their victims in
the rear yard which is surrounded by
q fence. The bandits escaped.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
RAyAGES OF INSECTS.
Georgia Cotton Growers Think They
Are q Menace.

Fearing that their cotton crops
may be seriously damaged, if not
entirely ruined, by the COW pea cur
culio, which has recently made its ap-
pe.rance OF cotton stalks in certain
portions Of Georgia, ". H. Ward and
others of Ohoopee, Toombs county,
Georgia. has forwarded to Congress
man Edwards of that state. at Wash
ington, jar OF the parasites, which
have been turned over to DR.. L. o..
Howard, eatomologist Of the depart
ment of agriculture, for examination.
These bugs have never before been
known to eat cotton stalks. alWaTs
confning their destruction to the
pea vine. It is believed that, unless
something is done quickly, cotton
growers will suffer greatly when the
parasites spread from section to Sec
ton.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Gets Five Years.

David o. Jackson, the local negro
mail carrier, OF Mobile, who, when
caught with marked money stolen
from mail packages. tried to commit
suicide several weeks ago, was SEN
fenced in the United States district
court to FIVE years sevitude in the
Atlanta Penitentiary.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Died at the Reunion.

Two additional deaths among the
veterans attending the Confederate
reunion at Little Rock, Ark, occur
red Wednesday night. w. NJ. Rivers
of West Point, Ca, after having been
taken i'll at the union passenger sta.
ton, died in a fe whoGrs. W. L.
Galloway, Of Paris, Tenn, fell from
the second floor of the Peabody
school building and died in a few
moments,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
BE Died 8 Hero.

After saving eleven lives In gas
explosion and fire in a building OPP
posite the Detroit, Mich, central po-
lice station, Police Lieutenant Henry
Walpole staggered to the street early
Thursday morning and fell dead, suf-
focated by smoke.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
D;spsnsary Commission 0:ders Him to
Come and Give Evidence.
MAY DECLINE TO COME
He May Take the Position That He
VIII Respond to the Demand I'm
less the ProberS Are Named By the
Legislature as First Suggested by
tho Gnvornnr
the Governor.

T 9 Fielder of Atlanta has been
ordered by the new dispensary con,
mission to appear in Columbia On
May 29 and tell what he knows o:
the affairs Of the old State dispen-
sary.
He has been ordered "to furnish
all information in his possession IN
regard to any matter or matters con-
nected with the said State dispensary
against any officer of said institution
or of this State, and particularly the
governor Of this State.
No announcement has been made
by Mr.. Fielder as to whether he Will
come to Columbia and give the IN
formation desired. 1t may be that
he will refuse tostestify at this time
on the ground that the new dispen-
sary commission has no right to
make the investigation requested by
the governor Of the State.
In the event that he refuses to ap-
pear before the present dispensary
commission, i is likely that Mr.. Fel-
der will withhold his information un-
til an investigating committee is
named by the general assembly. The
resolution passed by the new dispen-
sary commission is as follows:
'.Be it resolved, That this commis-
sion meet on the 29th Gay Of May, A.
D. 1911, and that Thomas B. Fielder
of the firm of Anderson, Fielder
Rountree & Wilson be required to ap-
pear before said commission on that
date and furnish them with all in
formation in his possession or in the
possession Of his firm in connection
with all matters and affairs of any
and all claims due or owing to or by
the State of South Carolina from and
to any and all person or persons, IN
obedience to the contract made with
the late member of this commission
in writing blythe said Anderson, Eel
der, Rountree & Wilson.
Resolved, second that the said
Thomas B. Fielder at the same time
be required to furnish all inforna-
ton in his possession in regard to
any matter or matters connected
with the said State dispensary
against any offender Of said institu-
ton or of this State, and particular
II the governor Of this State, the
Hon. Cole L. Blease, in accordance
with his communications heretofore
made, either in person or through
the press of this State, and that he
also furnish any information that he
has in his possession, showing any
connection or any dealing in person
or as agent for others that tn: said
Hon. Cole L. Blease may have had
with the State dispe,rsary directors
or any other persons or persons COZ
nectet with said institution.
Resolved, third. That copy &.
these resolutions be transmitted by
registered letter through the United
States mail to the said And erson,
Fielder, RountTee & Wilson, and
copy individually to Thomas 3. Eel
der of said firm"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Histories Denounced.

In scathing terms the historical
committee Of the United Confederate
Veterans, in session at Little Rock.
Ark, denounced certain histories
covering the period Of the Civil war,
characterizing as unfair and unfor-
innate" the manner in which the
couth's attitude in the war of 1851
is set out. Tn y urge boycott OF
all such texts.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Want Case Reopened.

Attorney General Lyon was Thurs
day requested by the new dispensary
commission to proceed with the case
against the Richland Distilling COM
pany for the recovery Of the judg-
ment of approximately 100000
found a year ago by the old dispen-
sayy commission.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24

as Newt Gresham saw when he first
launched this great undertaking.
We are working toward the ideal
of making the Farmers Union the
transforming influence in American
farm life. 10 that end we ask the
co-operation of the wealthiest and the
most poverty stricken farmer.
CHAS. S. BARRETT.
Union City, Ca, May Is, 1911.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-05-24
Goes For the Judge.

The resolution censuring Circuit
Judge Adelor Petit, of Chicago, who
arbitrarily freed Edward Tilden, Geo.
Benedict and William C. Cummings
from appearing before the Lorimer
investigating committee in answer to
a subpoena. was passed by the Illinois
state senate.