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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
WnAT HUDSON SAYS
SAYS he IS IN NO SENSE a CAND-
DATE.
Man Denies That he Has
Been Offered Position Of Commis-
sioner Of Agriculture.

A. D. Hudson Of Newberry Thurs
day made the following statement to
The State over the telephone from
his home:
MY attention has been called to
the article in The State Of this morn
ing. / have had only one conversa-
ton on the matter with Gov. Blease,
and that was during the corn exposi-
ton. The only allusion he made to
the department Of agriculture was
that the department was a farce as
now operated, and ne intended veto
ing the appropriation for 1912, un-
less he had some assurance OF its DO
ing some good for the farmers. Moth
ing was said about offering me the
position. I am in no sense candi-
date for the place.
''The suggestion that I was con-
nected with Mr.. Williams removal
is not true. When ! found that Will
liams had gone before the ways and
means committee (and, I was reliably
informed, without invitation) and
opposed the appropriation for the
corn exposition, took the matter
up with DR.. Knapp and requested
that Mr.. Williams be required to at
tend to his own affairs. I was sure
there was room for us all to work for
the betterment Of agriculture in this
State, and I have neither the desire
nor the inclination to bring about
his removal.
"The party that furnished you this
story knew the facts but deliberately
distorted them. This same party did
seek to secure Williams removal, but
rumor had it that Williams had
great deal Of influence with Gov.
BIease. Then came his usual change
Of front and ever after he has been
a. ardent supporter Of Mr.. Williams.
It does not take 6 very brilliant mind
to understand why.
am not in any sense an appll-
cant for the position Of commissioner
of agriculture or for Mr.. Williams
position. Alex D. hudson.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
White Population Of Sauih Is Aakiag the
Greatest Strides
HOW TIE RACES STAND
In Ten Southern States the Number
Of White Persons Increased q Peg
Cent, While Negroes 10 Per Cent.
Since 19OO.-Soutfl CaroIina's Per-
centages Are p and 6.

a preliminary statement of the
population of the United States &C
cording to races, nativity and per-
centase, has just been issued by the
Census Bureau.
According to it South Carolina has
l56,000 more negroes than whites,
but in this State, too. the increase IN
white population is far greater than
that of the negroes. The increase in
whites in ten years is 21 per cent,
the same as Georgia, while the in
crease in negroes is but 6 per cent.
Georgia out Of total population Of
2,609,121 has 1,431,S16 whites and
1,176,9S7 negroes. The increase in
the white population since 1900 has
been 21 per cent. and the increase
in negroes 13 per cent. There are
250,522 more white people in Geor-
gia than in 1900 and 142,174 more
negroes.
Alabama has 1,22s,S41 white and
9OS,275 negro population, an in
crease Of % per cent in whites and 9
per cent. il negroes. The total pop
ulation has decreased 1 per cent. and
white increased II per cent. in ter
years.
Florida out OF population OF
1858 has 443,646 whites and $685.
$50 negroes. The percentage Of in
crease of negroes is greater IL Flor
ida than in any other Southern state,
being SO per cent. since 1900.
North Carolina in g total Of g.
206,2S7 population has 1,500,513
whites and 697,S43 negroes, an in
crease of Is per cent. in the former
and II per cent. in the latter since
1900.
Mississippi has total population
Of 1,797,114, Of which 1s6,119 arc
whites and 1,009,4S7 are negroes.
But in that state the Increase in
white population in ten years has
been % per cent, while the increase
in negroes has been only II per cent.
Virginia has a population Of p
O61,6l2, Of which 1,3Ss,S09 are
white and 671,O96 are negroes. The
increase in negroes is but 1-2 per
cent, while the white population has
Increase 1s 1-2 per cent.
A table OF populations Of most of
the Southern states shows the divis-
ion between whites and negroes as
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03

riculturist, was called in by members
Of the committee and as an othclal OF
the federal department Of agriculture
was asked to give his opinion as 10
the results secured from the corn eN-
position and the Corn Breeders as
sociation. He gave his opinion the
exact nature Of which is not known.
Following this conference the com
mittee cut out the appropriation Tor
corn breeding work. Just before the
final adoption and when the measure
was before the finance committee OF
the senate, an appropriation of sS,-
900 was Inserted.
During the latter part OF the last
session Of the legislature 1t was
rumored that Mr.. Williams would be
removed from South Carolina, and II
was reported that Dr.. Knapp was
about to take this action on represen-
tstions made by him by Gov. Blease-
The governor, it IS said, refused to
consent to the appropriation Of Sl0,-
900 for the farm demonstration work
unless this was done. Later, howeV-
er. Mr.. Blease withdrew his ooJec-
ton and consented to the retalnment
OF Nj. Williams here. It is known
that, meantime, Ira ". Williams.
together with several friends, ex-
planned to the governor that he had
not mixed in politics and that he had
never waged a campaign against the
governor. The appropriation OF Sl0.-
900 for the demonstration work went
through and nothing more was heard
about the removal oi Williams unit!
a few days ago.
/ It is said that L. L. Baker OF Blsh-
opville, district agent OF the work
is spoken Of for the position Of State
agent.
The State agent is appointed by Dr.
Bradford Knapp on the decommenda'
tioc Of the commissioner of asricul
ture. The State agent has the ap
oofntmert OF 80 or so subordinate
workers throughout South Carolina
That is an explanation OF the inteTes
Of the governor IN an election year o
having the department operated t
: suit him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
NEGRO CHILDREN SLAIN.
Greedy White Man Paid Negro Man
to Kill Them.

When the trial Of D. c. Allen, a
negro, charged with murder in con-
nection with the death Of Herbert
and Castella Sell, two negro chill
dren, at Taft, Okla, March %, last,
rs resumed "Wednesday, Allen en-
5sred plea Of guilty and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
William Irwin, a white man, last
Thursday was convicted Of consplr-
acy In the same case, on the charge
that he promised to pay Allen S2,-
900 for placing and exploding dyna-
mite under the house in which the
children met death.
F.. Martin and John Coombs, the
latter wealthy oil operator Of Bar
Okla, are also charged with
in the case, the alleged
motive having been a desire to Sc
cure possession Of oil land owned by
the Sell children and it was valued
at about s250,00O.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
KILLED DY HUSBAND
HORRIBLE CRIME COMMITTED
NEAR GREENyILLE.
Victim Was Found in Bed With Head
Laid Open by and Axe With Her
Babe by Her Side.

In one Of the mill villages OF
Greenville the coroner is holding al
inquest into the death Of a woman
Eho was found in her bed at daybreak
Wednesday with her head split open
with an axe and her 2-year-old babe
immersed in pool Of blood by he1
side. The woman's husband is locked
in a cell at the county jail, and finger
nails bearing blood stains uncleaned
by water used in erasing other traces
Of the foul crime point at him as the
guilty man
At $50 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing Sheriff Poole received call from
Brandon mill, and in responding dis
covered one Of the most hldeous
crimes that has stained the pages OF
Greenville's criminal history in some
years. In their three-rocm apart
ment the sheriff discovered Mrs. Alice
Campbell, wife of Lafayette Camp
bell, grovelling il her bad in a pool
of blood.
Her head had been mutilated some
time during the night with some in
strument, huge cash laying open the
skull over the temple. A horrible
bruise on one check and other
wounds about the face almost blotted
out her identity. The woman was
not dead, and by her side lay her
babe, unharmed. Physicians were
called to tend the woman but after
removing sections OF her skull ma
ior portion of brain, she died Wednes-
day afternoon shortly after 4 o'clock.
Immediately the sheriff and his as
sistants went to work to apprehend
the person guilty Of the crime. Living
in the house was another family, but
none Of them had heard any distrub-
ance during tie night. The husband
pointed out the bed in which he said
he had spent the night, but it was in
another room from that in which his
wife slept.
Going on into the kitchen the Of
fcers discovered an axe leaning
against the wall and resting upon
COW chain which had been piled on
the floor. The chain itself was
bloody, but the axe had been washed
OF all but =. few stains OF crimson.
This led. the officer to believe that
Immediately after the commission of
the crime the bloody axe had been
stood upon the chain; that later it
was taken up and the blade Of it
cleansed, then stood once more upon
the chain.
The officers also found an old sack
in the kitchen, which, though freshly
washed, showed traces of blood. In
the stove they discovered scraps of
burned rags bearing traces OF blood.
Later in the day suspicion began to
point to the womau's husband and
traces OF blood on his finger nails led
the sheriff to place him under arrest
and carry him to the county jail.
The murdered woman herself has
been in the courts OF this county.
Some years ago while defending her
husband from an attack by her own
brother she secured revolver and
fred four shots into the latter's body.
For long tmie it was thought the
woman's brothers would die. The
case dragged through the courts for
some time and finally wore itself out
without any one being convicted.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
THE GIRL MAY ALSO DIE.
Two Dead From Drinking Beer That
Was Sent the Family.

At Henderson, Ky, a third mem
Der of the household may die as the
result Of the poisoning Friday night
OF the family Of Thomas Royster.
Three members OF the family and two
negro servants became suddenly Ill
after drinking beer said to have been
furnished by Philip Burr!ss, an ad-
n1irer OF Blanche Royster, who was
the only member OF the family not
poisoned. Sunday night the pnEsl-
clans in attendance upon Lorlne, the
thirtcen-year-old daughter, said her
condition was such as 70 make her re-
covery doubtful. The funerals OF
Henry Royster, an eishteen-Eear-old
son, and Ret Davis, who died few
hours after being poisoned, were hold
Sunday afternoon
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
on BAalBERG OFFICER.
Negro Who Attempted it is Shot
Twice by Policeman.

A. Bamberg on Saturday night a
negro man named William Zeigler
was arrested for being disorderly and
taken to the guard house. As the
door was opened ne made dash for
liberty and succeeded in making his
escape. About one o'clock Sunday
morning he reappeared on the streets
loaded up with booze and attempted
to take vengeance on Policeman San
dy Nevils, and in defence OF himself
Mr.. Nevis had to shoot the negro.
One ball passed through his arm and
entered his side . 1t IS not thought
he is dangerously wounded, but the
extent of the wound in his side can
not yet be definitely determined, and
i may prove serious.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
MANY DEAD FORM POISON.
.Putrid Fish: Probably Cause.-Home-
less Berlin Men Victims.

At Berlir-:thirty-six homeless men,
who soughtwith decayed smoked her
ring to add to the frugal meal OF
bread and coup served to them at the
municipal lodging house Wednesday
night, are dead. More than forty
others are sick, several of whom are
believed to be dying. s.s:.z.s--ss. -.
The cause of death has not yet
been announced, but the authorities
are confident that the putr1d fsA is
responsible! The partially complet-s
ed autopsies appear to substantiate
this viewi All those known to have
partaken{ {ofs the fish are dead or IN
such condition as to be unaolegstos
throw light on the subject.
It is believed, however, thatsones
Of the victims found the fish Ing stheS
garbage pile Of a nearby market and
divided them among his comrades.
The men became sick, early Thurs:
day morning, deaths following rapid
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
TRAIN CRASHES INTO BOULDER
Engineer Fireman and Brakeman
Killed.-Another injured.

Three men were instantly killed
and a fourth probably fatally injured
Sunday when a double-header freight
train on the Virginia and Southwes-
tern Railway ran irto boulder,
which lad fallen on the track in the
natural tunnel, forty miles west Of
Bristol, Tenn. The men killed were
Engineer W. S. Adams, Fireman Lee
Glober and Brakeman Clinton
sprottes, and the injured man is
Brakeman S. S. Carriger. The tun-
mel is being cleared Of Wreckage as
rapidly as possible.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03

This shows the white population
cf the ten Southern states named has
increased a little over "a per cent.
while their negro population has In
creased but little more than 10 per
cent.
Some peculiarities are found in
the shifting white and negro popu-
lation as shown by the report. New
Hampshire and Vermont, sister
states in most things, differ n regard
to negro population. Since 1900
New Hampshire's negro population
has decreased nearly Is per cent,
while Vermont's negro population
has increased IS per cent.
Othcr states which show marked
Increase in negro population are
North Dakota, 115 per cent; South
Dakota, rs per cent; Idaho. 100;
Wyoming, 1877; Utah, 70: Nevada,
2S2; Washington, IA; California,
So; Oklahoma, l47.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03

ed to permit the use of his name in
this connection, and the understand
ing now is that he will make fight
for an Iowa delegation pledged to
support him. The real object is, OF
course, to prevent, if possible, the
Iowa delegation being instructed 1or
Taft. A good deal Of consideration
was given to the situation in INDIANA
bv the ants. It was finally decided
to use the three names, La Toilette,
Beveridge and Roosevelt, IN an ef-
fcrt to prevent instructions in that
State for President Taft.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
live IN MISERY
DRIVEN TO CONFESS BIS CRIME
BY VISIONS OF VICTIM.
News That Another Was Held For
Crime Drove the Fugitive Murder
er to the Confessional.

Haunted by visions Of his victim,
John Henry Marty surrendered to
the yolice at Baltimore Wednesday,
declaring that he was the murderer
of William H. Mickle, an old store
keeper in 7th street: Washington, on
November II last.
Martin, who appears to be a ner-
vous wreck, said that he entered the
store, struck the man over the head
with a wrench, took the contents of
the cash drawer and fed.
He said that he went to West Vir-
ginia and did not know that the man
he assaulted was dead until he read
lit two weeks ago in. a Washington
paper. He saw also that someone
else had been arrested for the crime.
The memory Of mis- deed and the
thought that an innocent person
might suffer for it, drove lin to a
confessional where be told his story
to the priest. 1t Was on the advice
of the latter, Martin said, that he
surrendered himself.
Martin formerly lived at Cumber-
land, Nd. He has been in Baltimore
only few days, he said. Martin told
the police that his first thought after
reading Of the arrest Of another for
the murder, was that he had had a
lucky escape.
"Then," he said, "I began worry
ing. I could not rest; I could not
sleep. I have been in misery. 7
would rather be hung or have any
thing else done to ne than to be
tormented by my thoughts. The man
I killed kept a cigar store on 7th
street, Washington. went in there
asked him for money.
"He refused me and 7 struck him
over the head with a monkey wrench.
Tnen I ran away. I went to West
Virginia and came here about three
weeks ago from BerEley Springs. I
am baker by trade and am not mar
ried.
'tEver since I read that had kill
ed the man I struck have seen faces
at night when T was in bed. 7 can
see the picture of that cigar store"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
Making Themselves Solid.

The members Of the Charleston
dispensary constabulary presented
tie Governor with a gold watch chain
as s token OF their esteem. A gold
headed cane from the members OF the
Columbia constabulary was their
Christmas remembrance to the Gov
arnNr
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
ONE HUNDRED RUSSIANS DEAD.
Results Of Fighting at Tabriz.-
Cause Of Trouble.

A telegram from Tabriz says that
the total loss of the Russians, killed
and severely wounded in the recent
fighting there, is about one hundred.
Several bodies of Russian soldiers
have been found partly burned. The
director OF the Persian department OF
the Russian foreign Office, in an in
terview Tuesday, said that the Gov
ernment was convinced that the Per-
sian Government was not concerned
in the Anti-Russian outbreak at Ia
briz or elsewhere Those responsible
were principally Armenians and GRIM
inals.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
DIDN'T GET THE MONEY.
Bold Attempt at Highway Robbery.
Detective Wounded.

At Patterson two men armed with
automatic revolvers, held up Freder-
ick Wilde, manufacturer, and city
detective, who were guarding sat
chel containing $4,000. in the street
Saturday The detective John H..
Tracey, was shot in the leg IN the
struggle, but the money, which had
lust been drawn from a bank for the
Christmas pay roll of shirt factory,
was saved. The highwaymen escaped,
and up to a late hour Saturday night
no trace had been found OF them.
Tracey's injury may cripple him for
life
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
THINKS TEDDY WILL KEEP 1T.
Roosevelt President for Life, ii Elect
ed Says W'atterson.

eff Roosevelt is Put in the White
House in 1912, we will never get him
out again except feet first" This was
the statement at Atlanta Monday OF
Col. Henry Watterson, editor Of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, in COM
on the Republican situation
throughout the country. Mr.. Waiter
son expressed the belief that the long
looked for change Of parties was at
hand but ne has not declared his
choice for the Democratic nomina-
ton. Col. Watterson declared that,
in his opinion, the Republicans could
not elect either Roosevelt OF Taft and
said the election of the former Presi-
dent, abrogating the third term tra-
dition, would be step toward ab-
soiutism.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
DIED WITHOUT GIVING CLUE.
Killing and Robbing Of Tampa
Watchman Battles Police.

At Tampa Florida with both Of his
eyes battered out and his skull brok-
en- by thugs who assaulted and
robbed him, L. P. Cutting, a night
watchman at the Tampa Steam Ways
Gied in the Gordon Keller Memorial
Hospital Sunday, following treDhi-
nal operation He never regalned
consciousness to tell who his assail-
ants were and the police have no
clue. A niece Of the deceased, on
her way from Lexington, n. c., did
not arrive in time to find her relative
alive.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
Made Two and g Half Bales,

In a cotton contest at Newman. Ga.
held last week Miss Clara Haynie won
the first prize Of twenty-five dollars.
Malachi Towns won the second rrlZe
OF twelve and hall Miss Haynle
made two and a half bales Per acre,
and Mr.. Town two bales Miss Hay
ME was also winner OF the corn prize.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
Ten Women Claim Him.

Owen Callan, in jail in Saith, \.
Y. on charge OF obtaining $4,000
from Mrs. Aleda Jacobs, OF Eornell,
n Y. when he promised to marry
her, is said to have ten wives. All
are aiding the district attorney IN
building up the case against the prls-
orer
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
p,ovn to Atoms by Dynamite.

Edward Van Bever, Of Little Clear
Creek. Ky, was blown to atoms on
Christmas night while discharglng
dvaamite. Van Bever, with party
OF friends were celebrating Christ
mas. Thinking that the fuse at
tached to the stick OF dynamite had
been extinguished he walked up to
the deadly explosive to relight it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
Whipped, then to Prison.

At Winnipeg, Man, twenty four
lsshes on the bare back and twelve
years each in the penitentiary COM
prised the sentences given Wednes-
day to Luigi Giaimintto, Jose Frotino
and Nick Detteire, convicted on the
charge of robbery with intent to kill.
The crime was committed December
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-03
Total. .13,917,360 7,4S5,0s2
The following is the total popula-
ion of the States named:

Following are the percentages or
increase in white and negro popula-
ton (in the latter case decrease in
TENNESSEE of the Southern states
since 1900:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-12-21
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ushered into eternity, and so it strives
to prepare that it may meet Him at
last in heaven. 1t, too, has the assur-
ance that it's hopes will be realized
and it's desires fulfilled in the joy in
applicable that it feels each blessed
Christmas morn. What the good,
pious child of holy Church realized
within the soul on Christmas day,
should be and could be the realization
of all, if men would but come into
communion with her. 1t is in the fold
of the Church that Christ has His king
dom on earth, and it is through her
ministrations that He is preparing an
innumerable multitude of souls for
His kingdom in heaven. Let the world
pause in it's joy and think in it's heart.
Let it go back to the worlds begin
ming and acknowledge God its creator;
let it pass on in it's reflections and
see mans ingratitude to God as shown
by his disobedience to His law, and
then acknowledge the need of re-
deemer who would make just atone
ment for the fault; and then the mind
aided by the light of revelation, pur-
sues it's path and readily finds in
Christ, the Son of the Most High God,
the necessary atonement, and it will
hail Him it's God and it's King. For
this let the believing world lead the
way for the myriads of the unbeliev-
ing, and this alone they can do by
lives of virtue and rectitude. 1t is
here that Catholics must lead before
all others, for the eyes of the world
are on them. Let us, then, with
Chrit's birth, be born anew with Him.
The grace is ours; let us be faithful
to avail ourselves of it and Christ
will grow in us and we shall grow
in Him. Thus we shall be saved
and help save others. Our days will
be in peace with Him who is styled the
Prince of Peace. Our years will guide
us into the mansions of bliss, into the
presence of Christ at the right hand
of the Father in heaven.
Bishop Cotton.