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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
BANQUET TO BELMONT
SENATOR TILLMAN AMONG THE
INVITED GUESTS.
Belmont Honored Because OF His IN
terest and Work for the Publicity

Law.
The Washington correspondent OF
The News and Courier says Senator
Tillman has accepted an invitation
from Congressman William Sulzer,
Governor-elect of New York. TO be
present at dinner, which will be
given tomorrow evening at the New
Willard Hotel there, by committee
Of which Mr.. Sulzer IS chairman, to
Mr.. Perry Belmont, In recognition OF
Nj. Belmont's successful efforts In
arousing sentiment for the enactment
Of laws requiring publicity of cam
pain contributions and regulating the
same.
Mr. Belmont was the organizer Of
the Contribution Publicity Law AS
ISOLATION, to whose efforts are largely
due the statutes when now exist re-
stricting campaign contributions and
requiring their publication. Mr.. Sui
ger was also identified with the Asso-
citation.
Senator Tillman was a pioneer in
the matter in that he offered in the
Senate and secured the adoption Of
the first law prohibiting corporations
from making contributions in Fed
erai campaigns. The Tillman statute.
which was approved January rs.
1907, is as follows:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives Of the
United States OF America in Congress
assem- bled, that it shall be unlawful
for any national bank or any corpor-
alton organized by authority Of any
laws of Congress, to make a money
contribution in connection with any
election to any political Office. 1t
shall also he unlawful for any cor
poration whatever to make any elec-
ton at which Presidential and Vice
Presidential electors or Representa-
tive in Congress is to be voted for
or any election by any State Leg1s-
lature Of a United States Senator.
Every corporation which shall make
any contribution in violation OF the
foregoing provisions shall be subject
to a fine not exceeding $1,000, and
every officer or director Of any cor
poration who shall consent to any
contribution By the corporation IN
violation of the foregoing provisions
shall upon conviction be punished by
a fire Of not exceeding $1,000 and
not less than $3.50, or by imprison-
ment for a term Of not more tnan
one year, or both such fine and i'm
prfsonment in the discretion Of the
Court"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
DROWN as THE ICE BREAKS.
Three Skaters Dead and Several 9th
ers Very Sick.

Three persons were drowned and
several other members Of a family
skating party had narrow escapes
Monday when they broke through the
ice on Hearth lake in North Lacka-
wanna county. The dead are: Mrs.
Adelbert Reynolds. so years old: her
son, whose name couId not be learn
ed and Ross Reynolds, 10 years, a
nephew. Ross Reynolds, skating on
thin ice. plunged into the water. Mrs.
Reynolds endeayored to pull him out
and she too fell in. The other mem
bers of the party attempted to rescue
the woman and her nephew and all
fell into the icy water. Mr.. Rey-
nolds managed to free himself and
saved all but three Of the party, but
his strength was exhausted before
he could complete the task. The
bodies OF those drowned were recoV-
cred. The survivors are in critical
condition from exposure and shock.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Hangs Himself With Necktie.

At LAGRANGE. Texas, after hearing
the trials Of fellow prisoners We'd
nesday, William Klemp, awaiting
hearing on charge OF burglary,
hanged himself with a necktie in his
cell Wednesday night. The !ailer
found Klemp suspended from the
bars Of his cell when he made his
round OF the county prison Thurs
day morning.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Lost His Life In q Fire.

At New York, Louis Levy, a jewish
rs bbi, lost his life early Tuesday IN a
fire which swept away an apartment
house In upper Fifth avenue. Seven
persons we're injured. It vas at arst
renorted that two lives lad been lost
but search OF the premises failed to
disclose any body except that Of Raa-
bi Levy.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Fiend Assailed Woman.

A posse Of police and citizens is
searching the surrounding country
for the assailant Of Miss Louella
Marshall, 35 years old, who was at
tackled Wednesday night on the out
skirts Of Trenton, N. J. Miss Mar
shall was discoverel lying uncon-
scious IN a Held where she had been
dragged. Her skull was fractured and
her condition is serious. She gained
consciousness for q few minutes. but
only long enough TO say her as
saiIant was q negro.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
KILLED BY FAILING LIMB.
Resident Of the Dutch Fork Hit on
the Head by branch.

Adam Benedict Maver, one Of the
most highly esteemed and best known
c tIzens q: the Dutch F3'k section Of
Lexington county was instantly kill
ed Saturday afternoon while cutting
down a tree near his home. 1t seems
that a limb from the tree fell, strik-
ing him on the top Of the head and
causing instant death. Mr. Mayer
was about rs years OF age, having
been born on September Is, 1895.
He was a Confederate veteran. serv-
ing throughout the War Between the
Sections in Company H. Third South
Carolina Volunteers, and was wound
ed twice in the conflict. He suffered
a broken arm at the battle Of Sharps-
burg, and lost leg in the battle Of
the Wilderness. No braTer soldier ev-
er carried a musket than Adam B.
Mayer, according to his comrades.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Death Under Engine Wheels

At Seattle, Wash, c. a. Johnson,
an engineer. after failing to effect
2 reconciliation with his wife. Tues
day picked up his six-year-old son
and ran in front Of passenger train.
but the father was tossed aside with a
broken leg and scalp wounds.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Single Bullet Stays Two.

The bullet ttat mortally wounded
Milton Elk, a pool-room keeper Of
Marvel, Ark, plowed through his
body and struck Charles Norman,
causing the 1atter's instant death.
Robet Davidson is under arrest, ac-
cused Of the murders.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
SPEAKS FIRST TO A BOY CURED
AS SEE WAS
Who WENT TO visit Her
Eight Year Old Little Girl, Dumb
From Her Birth, Says "Fine,'
When Asked by q One Time Mute
Cured by Some Surgeon How She
Felt.

The New York World says the sur
geon's knife has again given the pow
er Of speech to a child who has been
dumb since birth. It Is the second
operation Of it's kind in a fortnight
by DR.. William Chapman at the
Swedish Hospital, Brooklyn.
The first was performed on seven
year-old Clarence Dewitt Of No. 4i9
St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn, the sto'
ry Of whose release from lifelong
silence was told in The World. It
was this account OF the operation
that led directly to the second opera
ton, which was performed last Sat-
urday on Pearl Thomson. eight years
Of age, of No. sos East One Hundred
and sixty-t1fth street.
She Is the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs,
William Thomson. Despite her at
Fiction her mind was alert. Her vain
efforts to speak were pit.able. She
understood all that was said to her
and at times when she tried to reply
and could not she would cry nyster-
ically. Specialists we're consulted,
but they held out no hope. Then the
parents read in The World OF the
successful operation on the Dewitt
boy.
Mrs. Thomson Immediately wen.
to see Mr.. Chapman, who told her to
bring Pearl to him. After an exam
ination the surgeon said he thought
he could correct the trouble. The OPP
Grafton was performed on Nov. 80. It
consisted, DR.. Chapman explained, OF
removing a piece Of bone the size OF
a dime pressing on what is known as
the speech center, which is on the
left side Of the head where the tenn
poral bone joins the great wing OF
the spherncld bone.
Young Clarence Dewitt heard OF
the operation and went to the hos
pital Wednesday morning. No at
tempt had been made to see II the
power to talk had been given to the
girl; in fact it was decided best to
wait several days. But nothing OF
this was explained to the poy who
was taken to the bedside OF the little
patient. She was gazing at the wall
when he entered. Her mother was
sitting beside her. stroking PEARLS
hand. Before any one could caution
him the boy asked:
How do you feel?"
At the words the girl turned her
head, looked at her visitor and said
quite naturally:
Fine"
The mother sprang from her chair,
amazed and overjoyed.
'sThat is the first word she has eV-
er spoken" exclaimed Mrs. Thomson.
From that on Pearl began to talk,
beginning, Of course, with the COM
monest words. She was - anxious
to use her new found powers she
threatened to become chatterbo1
until the nurses told her she must
say very little il she wanted to get
we'll. This warning was all the girl
needed. The nurses said the Dewitt
boy had the same fault.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Eour Sailors Drown.

Four sailors we're drowned and
three were saved when the three
masted schooner Ethyl B. Summer
was driven ashore In a storm early
Wednesday near the breakwater at
waterside. N, 3. All the meu were
residents of that province.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
A Very Large Turtle.

The largest turtle ever brought to
New York from the tropics is tc be
made into soup for the coming ban
Quet Of the American Bankers AS
sociation. The turtle which arrived
on the liner Tivives is 10 feet long
and weighs a quarter Of q ton.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
lightning Strikes Mourners

Lightning struck down seventeen
nourners while they we're standing
at a sraveside In Germiston, in Rho
desia, South Africa, Tuesday. One
OF them was killed and Ave others
wore 10 severely injured that their
lives are deSpaired OF.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Drinks Poison and Dies.

At Kansas City, Mo-, Bruce NJ.
Priddy, secretary OF the real estate
board Of Kansas City. wealthy and a
prominent clubman, committed sui
eide at his home early Tuesday by
drinking poison. He was Is years of
age and unmarried.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
CONVICT GETS MORTAL WOUND
One OF the Ladson Gang Fights Bat
tie With Posse

The News and Courier says deter
ming to keep his word that he would
not be taken alive, George Washing
ton allies Isaac Hamilton, one Of the
seven negro convicts who escaped
from the Blue House road camp Sun
DAY night, November "a, and who
have been terrorizing the country
side around Ravenels ever since, was
mortally wounded early Tuesday
at Johns Island, while fight
ing a posse Of rural policeman, who
have been hunting the outlaws for
over a week. The wounded man died
as a result OF his injury short time
afterwards, while being taken to a
railroad station.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
FOUR GREAT EVENTS.
That Have Occurred During the Year
That Is Passing.

The Christian Herald says -four
events will distinguish 1912 as one
OF the epochal years. viz: the trans
formation Of China from a monar-
chy to a republic; the upheaval IN
Mexico, reorganizing the social and
political condition Of that country;
the emancipation Of Portugal from
the incubus of Romanism, and the
European downfall Of the ''unspeak-
able Turk" stung we'll night to
death by the Balkan states, which he
has held in contempt and oppressed
for centuries. Last and not least ls
the political revolution here at home,
which changes the political map OF
our union and introduces new poll
cies demanded by the needs OF the
times.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
CROWD GREATLY PLEASED.
When Verdict Of Guilty Was Render
ed in q Court.

At Mobile, Ala, land applause
greeted the jury verdict Of FIRST de-
gree murder" in the trial Of William
J. Brown, for the murder Of Alfred
Percy. Mrs. Alfred Percy. wife OF
the victim, clapped her hands with
delight. 81 wouldn't take a thou
sand dollars for that verdict" she ex-
claimed few minutes later. The wife
Of the accused man simply nodded.
Brown killed Percy as the latter
stepped from street Ear in Oakdale.
Ala, July 6 last. Brown sat unmof-
ed when the verdict VAS returned.
'It's all right" he said, 'Tll win my
appeal" Sentence will be pronounce
ed within two weeks unless a stay
of execution IS asked. The penalty
is death BY hanging.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-12-11
Rows Sentenced for Murder.

Harry Berger, aged II and Ed
ward Meyer, aged 10, OF JanesTllle'
Wis, we're sentenced to Is years IN
the penitertiary at hard labor, for the
killing Of Matilda Berksterman.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
SPORT.

Battling Nelson and ORourke
fought ten rounds to a draw in
Springfield, Mo-, before the Spring
field Athletic Club. The popular de.
cision favored O'Rourke.
Fred Stokesbury, who pitched for
the Cheyenne Indians last season, has
been signed for 1912 by the Great
Fills team of the Union League, win
ners of the Utah-Montana-Idaho cham
pionship last season.
Des Moines will be back on the base
ball map this year and in the Western
League. After two years, in which
little interest has been taken in the
national game, Des Moines fans prom
Use to wake up and make this a ban
ner year.
Charlie Pierson, the fighting news
boy, knocked out Rube Smith in the
fifteenth round of a 15-round bout in
Dallas, Tex, in one of the most fu-
rious fights ever witnessed In he
Lone Star state. He Is matched to
fight with Joe German January 2srd.
Bassano. Canada, is making a bid
for the worlds championship fight
between Jack Johnson and Jim
Flynn of Pueblo.
Reports of the contest between
Bombardier Wells, the British heavy.
weight champion, who is to come to
America soon, and Fred Storbeck, ,ha
South African whom Wells defeated
in eleven rounds, do not show Wells
in any more favorable light than he
was six months ago when he was 10.
ing groomed for match with Ja..k
Johnson.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
WASHINGTON.

A caucus of the House. Democrats
on the iron and steel tariff schedule is
likely in the very near future.
Huntington Wilson. assistant secre-
tahy of state, is to succeed Robert
Bacon as ambassador to France.
Opposition from assayers and their
friends is believed to have effectually
put quietus, for the present at least,
on the proposition to incorporate into
the bureau OF mines a provision for
the establishment of ore testing and
mine. experiment stations in various
Western states.
With the return from a tour Of the
Panama canal zone of the House com.
mittee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce came the death knell OF
free tolls through the big ditch-for
coastwise or foreign-going American
ships. The House committee ia
against it. almost to a man.
Under the arrangement made last
year for rotation in the office of chair
man of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Charles A. Prouty has been
named to succeed Judson C. Clements
Prouty was next in point of seniority
of service on the commission. He is
a native of Vermont and has been on
the commission since 1896.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
New interurban Line.

Grand ion-Construction of an
interurban line across the Grand
river to the Redlands and thence
seven miles to the National Monu-
ment park. the greatest scenic attrac7
tion on the western slope. is said to
be assured. The right of-way is be-
ing decided to a right-of-way commit
tee, the route has been declared
feasible By engineers and as soon as
all right-of-way is decided it will be
offered to the Grand Junction & Grand
River Valley Railway Company. If
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
Cattle RustIIng Must stop.

Grand Junction.-The failure to Sc
cure a conviction In either of two
cattle rustling cases tried early last
fall. in which the Mesa County Stock
mems Association employed skilled
detectives, and the increasing loss to
cattlemen from thieves has caused the
executive board Of the organization
to take steps toward protection which
are as drastic as those in vogue in
western Colorado before there were
courts. On each range cowboy who
Is known to be dead shot will be
placed. He will have the safety OF
the herds in his hand and will patrol
his territory as a policeman does his
beat He will be paid by the stock
men, but will have commission
from the sheriff. He is under orders
from his employers to shoot on sight
any cattle thief whom he catches sepa-
rating cattle from the herds. and the
stockmen have received assurances
from the district attorney that efforts
to prevent rustling will not be inter
fered with.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
GEN ERAL.

With 240.000,0O0 gallons of purified
water In the reservoirs the st. Louis
water crisis has passed.
The plant of the Knabe Brothers
Piano Company In Norwood. Ohio,
was burned with loss of 100000.
Robert Bacon. ambassador of the
United States at Paris. has confirmed
the report of his resignation.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster. In court
in Oregon. Ill, formally pleaded gull
ty to the charge of numbering his
wife. Bessie Kent Webster.
Wisconsin's income tax law, en-
acted by the last Legislature, was
held to be constitutional in a deci-
sion of the State Supreme Court.
Five children of Irwin Carlile, were
burned to death and Mr.. Carlile was
seriously burned in a fire which de-
stroyed their home at Brainerd. MINI.
The Calumet & Hecla Copper Min
ing Company of Boston, have advanced
its price for the metal to Is cents In
Europe and lax cents in the domes-
tic market.
John Grier Hibben. Ph.D., professor
of logic and philosophy OF Princeton
university has been elected the fourth
president of the institution by the
unanimous vote of the board Of trus-
tees.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
States Finances.

Denver.-State Treasurer Roady
Kenehan has struck balance in the
states in&ncial affairs. Kenehan
finds that the receipts for the year
have been S1.064.34 plus s64,679.-
90. The latter figure represents a
surplus transferred from the biennial
period 1909-lO. The total receipts for
the year have been, including the
transferred surplus. s1.345,744.24. I'm
der first class appropriations war
rants have been paid amounting to
$797, ,553.6S; under second class ap-
propriations. $4O6.934.65, and under
third class, s31.973.5S. Fourth and
fifth class appropriations have not
been paid at all, and there is no
money to pay them with. Kenehan is
holding $1,699.35 for the Railroad
Commission and $4,000 for interest
on old bonds. He has also paid S19,-
1925 interest on revenue warrants,
$25,163 interest on insurrection bonds.
$53.94 interest on delinquent tax
fund and $206.79 premium on county
assessors bonds. The total is the
same as the total of receipts: s1,345.-
744.24.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
Minor Mention.


Three feet of snow has fallen al
Steamboat Springs.
A recent fire In Greeley did damage
to the extent OF $4,000.
W. S. Sewer Of Eaton is one OF the
heirs to an estate valued at $S,000.000
H. Madenick was found guilty OF
bootlegging at Loveland and fined 5000
and costs.
Range stock in eastern Colorado are
dying of thirst on account of water
freezing.
victor's new auto fire truck has
been given tryout and found salts
factory.
DR.. L. s. Cornell, . prominent physi-
clan of Berthoud, died recently OF
penumonia.
The Buena Vista dancing pavilion
was burned with a loss OF $500, with
no insurance.
Rev. Clarence e. Campbell of Chi
cago has been called to the Presby-
terian church at Greeley.
Great preparations are being made
for the Farmers Institute to be held
at Loveland January 26th.
Mangled beyond recognition, an un-
identified man was killed in the Un-
ion Pacific yards in Denver.
Paul Pauline, saloonkeeper at VIII
liamsburg, was shot and killed by a
negro named VIII Thomas.
Owing to the unusually cold wealth
er, work in the Gross oil fields, near
Hayden. has been suspended.
w. H. Caywood, of Meeker, the wide
ly known wolf and bear hunter, who
was recently operated on, is recover
ing.
A strong protest has been sent from
Boulder county to President Taft
against making Estes park national
park.
The twenty-eighth annual session of
the Boulder County Teachers Associa-
ton will convene in Boulder January
9th.
The $4,000 Methodist church at
Trinidad was recently dedicated.
Bishop Quayle of Oklahoma City pre-
siding.
Reports say there are $500 head
of cattle starving to death in the
snowbound region near Craig. Moffat
county.
AS result OF the recent severe
cold weather, gray. or lobo. wolves
are unusually active in the vicinity of
Meeker.
The Exchange National Bank of
Colorado Springs has purchased $685.
900 worth of school bonds at a pre-
MUM of $3.50.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-19
WESTERN.

That the ravages of spinal meningi-
tbs in Texas have been checked Is the
statement of the State Board OF
Health.
Mrs. Rachael Sparln, seventy-six
and blind. of Baxter, Kan. burned to
death In her cottage when coal fell
from her clay pipe and set her dress
afire.
Three are known to be dead and
ten more or less seriously injured in
Missouri Pacific wreck, which oc-
Cured at bridge a mile west OF
Norton Lyndon, Kans.
Women of Greeley. Colo. who are
members of the Graphic Club, at a
meeting of the organization recently
laid plans for womens club rooms,
Y. w. c. A.. more lights and new
water system.
Hope for the lives of thousands Of
starving cattle on the Texas ranges
was held out by a sudden rise In tenn
perature to 40 degrees above zero.
This is the first thaw in the Texas
Panhandle for three weeks. N
Twenty-seven carloads of American
farm machinery are being loaded on
steamships at Seattle for shipment to
Siberia. Shipping men scoff at the
rumor that Russia contemplates ex-
clusion of American farm machinery
in retaliation for the abrogation of
the treaty between the two countries.
The war department has announced
that joint militia and regular army
maneuvers will be held this year on
the Grow Creek military reserve near
Fort Russell. Wyo., at time to be
set later, which will be attended by
regular troops and militia from Wyo-
ming, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana
and Utah. The maneuver grounds ag-
gregate 10000 acres of well watered
and timbered country and are re-
garded by the War Department as the
best at the disposal of the army for
summer camp and maneuyers. Up
ward Of 10000 troops will participate.
treasury. Chief Harry NJ. Moffatt of
the United States Secret Service Of
flee. has seized at the First National
bank of Oakland. Cal, valuable
painting entitled Barrels of Money.
The seizure was made for the reason
that the painting represented $4,000
900 in United States currency. piled
up In barrels. 1t is against the fed
eral regulations to paint. photograph
or make or exhibit any represents
tion of the currency or coins of the
United States. The painting is from
the brush of Y. Dubreuil. noted
French artist.