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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
"Please Send Us Daddy"

Governor, please send US daddy
wrote the two little tots Of David A.
Kinard, of Bamberg, to Governor
Blease Monday morning in a letter
accompanying their photographs
One was a little girl two years old
and little boy four years of age.
Daddy" was in the penitentiary
for ten years for killing another mill
operative, William Marvin in BAN
berg last spring. The governor ac-
ceded to the request of the children,
and sent daddy" back home with a
parole in his pocket.
This would have been all right if
Governor Blease could send the dad
dy of the little children of William
Marvin, who was killed by Kinard,
back, but he can't do that, and they
will have to suffer on and shift for
themselves. Why should not the
man who took their daddy from them
be punished?
Why should he be turned loose to
go and kill the daddy Of some other
little children possibly because his
little children wanted their daddy
back? Kinard ought to have thought
Of how he would be missed by his
little tots when he was about to de-
prive the little tots of Marvin of their
daddy by sending him into eternity
from whence he can not be called
back.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
FARMER ROUTS BANDIT.
Drives Automobile Over Man Who
Tried to Hold Him Uu.

The State Chester correspondent
says w. B. Ferguson, a well known
planter Of that county, while motor
ing home in his touring car near
Great Falls Wednesday, was ap-
preached by two highwaymen. He
slowed his car down a little, but the
men ordered him to stop. At first he
refused. To stop a fusillade OF whis-
key and ginger ale bottles that were
flying at him from the two men, he
was forced to stop. AS he did so one
OF the highwaymen walked in front
of the car and pointed a revolver In
his face and told him that il he dared
to run his car another foot he would
kill him.
Apparently the highwayman be-
lieved that he had Mr.. Ferguson now
under control. After slight lull in
the mans speech, with ligntning-like
quickness Mr.. Ferguson threw on all
the speed his high powered car could
command and in a second the nigh
wayman had been hurled to the
ground and run over by the car. His
confederate escaped to the woods
nearby.
Realizing that the highwayman
was hurt, Mr.. Ferguson ran his cal
back to him, where he was found tc
be in a serious condition. A physi.
clan was summoned and it was found
that three Of his ribs were broken
and that he had received severe
bruises. He Is still seriously i'll. His
name has not yet been ascertained
If he RECEIVERS he will be carried tc
Jail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Better Remedy for Malaria

Some sixteen years ago an army
doctor on duty in Cuba found out
that a pesky mosquito, biting from
man to man, carried malaria as well
as yellow fever that, as you put the
anopheles insect out Of business, you
likewise reduced the liability to
ssfush and shakes. What he didn't
learn was what made the mischief in
the skeeter's bite. Dr.. Wade Brown,
a University Of North Carolina pro-
fessor, has just uncovered that.
It's a coIored poison called hem1-
tin. The little bug which the doctors
call the malaria germ, concocts that
pigment somewhere in its minute sys-
TEN and once it gets into the blood
of human being it quickly spreads
throughout the body, producing the
straw malarial tinge.
DR.. Brown has also discovered a
way to make this colored poison. He
and numerous other researchers are
now at work on mice and guinea pigs
inoculating them with hematin, pre-
lfminary to seeing whether they cant
find dope that will take the place
OF quinine as a specific for malaria.
Luckily the anopheles skeeter isn't
very common, and if you're careful to
drain your swamps or keep them well
coated with kerosene, the malarial
germ won't have much Of a show.
But it would be fine to be able to
take a swig from a little bottle con-
tanning something not quite so bitter
as ouinine and bid the hematin distri-
butor to do its worst.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
NEGRO KILLS HIS WIFE
MANHUNT is BEGUN.
Georgetown Negro Shoots His Spouse
When She Eefuses to Leave
GEORGETOWN With Him.

Monday afternoon a negro laborer
at the mills Of the Atlantic Coast
Lumber Corporation at Georgetown,
by the name Of Robert Richardson,
drew his money at the pay office,
stating he intended to leave for Al
colu, his former home. Turning to
his wife, native of Georgetown, he
called upon her to pack up and go
with him on the next train. Upon
her refusing to accompany him away
from Georgetown, he drew pistol
and shot her twice at close range,
one bullet taking effect in the back
and the other entering the ear and
passing entirely through the head,
causing instant death. Thereupon
Richardson took fight for the woods,
with several negro men in pursuit.
Twice the pursuers we're fired at by
Richardson, but bravely continued
the chase until the woods were
reached, when the fugitive disappear
ed in the dense undergrowth.
Word was at once sent to County
Supervisor G. D. Anderson, who had
gone to Sampit Bridge, where the
chain gang is at work, to send the
county blood hound, which arrived
shortly thereafter in an automobile.
The dog was put on the trail by Dep
uty Sheriff Prevatt. The negro was
tracked through the swamps and
marshes for considerable distance,
until he came to the creek, when all
signs Of him disappeared.
The negro population was much
moved by the occurrence, and mob
gathered at the scene Of the tragedy,
women and men calling for ven
geance against the perpetrator. Ev-
cry effort is being made to capture
Richardson.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
LOOKS LIKE MURDER
BODY OF COLLETCN MAN FOUND
WITH HOLE IN HEAD.
Discovered in Swamp by Searchers
After Failure to Return Home
Man in Jail on Suspicion.

What may prove to be a sensa-
tional and horrible murder was
brought to light late Sunday after
noon, when the body Of Aquila
Blocker, a young man OF twenty-one
years, was found in a small swamp,
about six miles from Walterboro,
with a gunshot wound in his head.
I. NJ. Lemacks, another young man
of the same community, has been
committed to Jail charged with the
supposed crime.
Blocker left home on Saturday, it
is said, with a considerable sum of
money to purchase cattle. He did
not return that night, but his peo-
pie were not alarmed until his mule
and dog returned on Sunday morn
ing.
A search was Immediately institut-
ed. A lady in the community, it is
said, remembered seeing Lemacks
and Blocker enter small swamp
nearby and later heard gun fire,
which, at the time, she paid no atten-
tion to.
The searchers, hearing this alleg-
ed statement, entered the swamp and
found the body of Blocker, with a
hole through his head. 1t was also
brought out at the inquest that Le-
macks was seen to enter the swamp
again on Sunday morning.
Lemacks, on Sunday, had Joined
the search, had visited at the home
Of Blocker's parents, and was pres
ent and testified at the coroner's in
quest held late Sunday night. The
verdict Of the jury at the inquest was
that Blocker had come to his death
by gunshot wounds at the hand OF l.
N. Lemacks, whereupon Lemacks, at
an early hour Monday morning, was
lodged in jail at Walterboro.
Both young men are we'll known
throughout the country, and both
have large numbers of friends.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Money to Move Crops.

For the first time in the history OF
the United States Government the
treasury department recognizes its
obligation to the agricultural inter-
ests. The determination of the DEM
ocratic Administration to let the
bankers of the South and West have
large sums Of money to move the
crops will be of great benefit to the
farmer and all others in these Sec
tions. This is in direct contrast to
the policy of the Republicans. They
always loaned the public money to
Wall Street instead of lending it to
the banks in the South and West to
move the crops.
This means great easing up in
the financial situation. It means that
producers, dealers, millers and ex-
porters of grain and cotton will be
able to sell and handle the new crops
now being harvested to better advan-
tage than for many years. 1t means
a greater demand for what the farm
er has to sell, and plenty of money
or credit with which buyers may he
able to promptly pay for grain and
cotton. 1t means easier conditions
for farmers throughout the crop mar
keting months during the balance of
the year.
1t may not mean higher prices to
producers or consumers, but this ac-
tion of the treasury department will
so facilitate all legitimate transac-
tions in buying and moving, market
ing and moving, marketing and man
ufacturing grain and cotton as to
tremendously benefit all the people
as well as farmers, bankers and the
trade. This new action also viii!
have an important effect in encourag-
ing the progress Of currency and
banking reform. For the first time
the United States recognizes prime
commercial paper, at 65 per cent. OF
its par value, as the basis of current
credit or advances of money from the
| treasury.
This is recognition Of the princi.
pie OF credit currency, in contradis.
tinction to a bond subject currency
Every student of the subject knows
that when Congress finally enacts an
adequate banking law which shall
safely provide for a credit currency
this country will be almost insured
against panics and will leap into {
dominating position as the fnancia
| power Of the world. Orange judo
Southern Farming says that every
principle of sound banking is observ
ed in this transaction.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20

the House.
Three days later" said the wit.
ness, "McDermott told Mulhall that
he had seen the leaders and that they
advised against the introduction OF
the resolution. McDermott lied about
that. He hadn't seen the leaders"
How do you know he lied?" asked
Chairman Garrett.
why he'd rather lie than eat, u
said McMichaels.
The chairman had some difficulty
in restoring order in the committee
room after this outburst.
From the fall of 1909 until Jan.
uary, 1912, McMichaels said he was
almost constantly on the payroll OF
successfully Democratic chief page OF
the House, attendant in the House
press gallery and elevator conductor
in the Capitol. He told of introduc-
ing Mulhall to Representative James
E. McDermott, of Illinois, for whom
he worked as a kind of secretary, and
said that McDermott worked with
Mulhall and provided the latter with
a roo min the basement OF the Capt.
tol, where McDermott, McMichaels
and Mulhall conferred.
did you ever see any money pass
between Mulhall and McDermott?'
asked Chairmana Garrett.
Il never saw any money actually
pass between them" said the witness,
leaning back in his chair and pausine
to puff at his cigarette. "But I had
reason to believe that plenty of it was
passing. I got mine open and above
board"
"Why do you say you had reason
to believe money was passing?'
The witness leaned forward and
pounded on the committee table: Il
am not fool" he continued. when
two guys like me and McDermott sit
down to a table and the two of US
amt got penny. and third guy
comes in and we have eats and drinks
and get up with the dough, I know
that dough don't grow On trees, or on
the tables"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
All the trouble that has come to

All the trouble that has come to
the Wilson Administrator has been
caused by Republican holdovers in
important Offices from which they
should have been removed months
ago. The stand-pat Republicans that
the Democratic Administration found
in many important Offices will miss
no opportunity to embarrass Presl-
dent Wilson in the discharge of his
duties. Every one of them should be
made to walk the plank and men in
svmpathv with the Administration
put in their places.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Three japanese Killed.

At Salem, Oregon, with their heads
almost severed from their bodies,
Koye Kowa and Mrs. Tami Koda and
her child, all Japanese, were found
murdered in an alley near restau-
rant owned by the woman's husband,
Y. Koda. Beside the bodies were
found two bloody knives and revol-
yer. Koda and a companion were
arrested.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Face to Face.

Sad mortal, couldst thou but know
What truly it means to die,
The wings Of thy soul would glow,
And the hopes of thy heart beat
high;
Thou would turn from the Pyrrhon-
ist schools,
And laugh their jargon to scorn,
AS the babble Of midnight fools
Ere the morning of Truth be born:
But /, earth's madness above,
In kingdom Of stormless breath
I gaze on the glory Of love
In the unveiled face Of Death.
I tell thee his face is fair
AS the moon-bow's amber rings,
And the CLEAN, in his unbound hair
Like the flush Of a thousand
springs:
His face is the fathomless beam
OF the star-shine's sacred light,
When the summers of Southland
dream
In the lap Of holy night;
For I, earth's blindness above,
In a kingdom of halycon breath
I gaze on the marvel Of love
In the unveiled face of Death.
In his eyes a heaven there dwells,
But they hold few mysteries now,
And his pity for earth's farewells
Half furrows that shining brow;
Souls taken from Times cold tide
He folds to his fostering breast.
And the tears Of their grief are dried
Ere they enter the courts Of rest;
And still, earth's madness above,
In a kingdom of stormless breath
I gaze on alight that is love
In the unveiled face of Death.
Through the splendor of stars i'm
pearled
In the glow of their far-off grace,
He is soaring world by world
With souls in his strong embrace;
Lone ethers unstirred by wind
At the passage of Death grow
sweet,
With the fragrance that floats behind
The flash Of his winged retreat;
And I, earth's madness above,
Mid a kingdom of tranquil breath,
Have gazed on luster of love
In the unveiled face of Death.
But beyond the stars and the sun,
can follow him still on his way,
Till the pearl-white gates are won
In the calm of the c, trail day.
Far voices Of fond &C aim
Thrill down from the place Of souls
AS Death, with a touch like flame,
Uncloses the goal Of goals;
And from heaven of heavens above,
God speaketh with bateless breath:
Ny angel of perfect love
Is the angel men call Death.
Paul Hamilton Hayne.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Death Caused By Shock.

Howard Dill, aged twenty-five
was shocked to death Friday after
noon and his lifeless body hung from
an arm OF the power company's tow
er for an hour in sight of his seven
teen-year-old bride of one week, near
Coldwater, Ala. Dill climbed the
tower to cut off the power and it was
turned on again while he was on top.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
He Shot Quick.

DR.. W. J. Ciontz, a prominent ply
sician of Alexander, \. c.. was shot
and almost instantly killed there late
Monday, by o. VI. West, rural mail
carrier. The tragedy occurred in
front of the post Office. where West,
it is said, met Clontz and began fir
ing after saving: II hear you are
going to kill me; throw up your
hands"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
BEATS TRAIN IN A RACE.
Aviator Gets From New York to
Washington First.

C. Mirvin Wood, the American
aviator, who Friday attempted a
nonstop race in his monoplane with
train from New York to Washing
ton, and thence to Fort Myer, Va,
for exhibition flights, reached his
destination late Friday afternoon af-
ter he had ben compelled to interrupt
his flight on a farm near Gathers
burg, Nd, sixteen miles from Wash
ington. Wood won his race with the
train, making the landing at Gath
ersburg at one minute after nine
o'clock, forty minutes before the
train rolled into the union station.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Chicken Alone Alive.

With no life but chicken aboard,
the sponging steamer Mobile, picked
up 100 miles west Of Tampa by the
oil steamer Standard Saturday was
towed into Tampa Tuesday. There
was no sign Of its crew, although
when found the ship was under full
sail
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20

Under the Webb law Pc ID by
Congress South Carolina can ?"oHihi:
the shipment of liquor into dry NJ
ties. When this is done. neither the
railroads or the express companies
will handle li1uors intended for poo
ple in dry counties for the simple rea-
son that a heavy penalty attaches 20
them for doing so. That means pro-
hibition. as soon PC the legislature
passes the p"o:.cr law, VII! h It vii
do next January.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
WIFE STAYS HUSBAND
MOTHER OF NINE KILLS HIM IN
SELF-DEFENCE.
Herself Dangerously Wounded She
saws He Beat Her and Stabbed Her
(I,ocf

in Chest.
Using the pistol with which her
husband, Henry Clay Grubb, killed
her brother, Obadiah Davis, eight
years ago, Mrs Grubb shot and kill
ed Grubb early Saturday at the home
of the couple, six miles from Sails
bury, N. C. He was worth 100000
and had had many strange adven-
lures.
The woman has not oeen arrested
She was dangerously wounded in
what she says was an encounter fore
ed on her by her husband. Accord
ing to her story he returned home
drunk, soon after midnight, beat her
clipped off piece Of her ear and
stabbed her in the chest.
To save her own life, she alleges
she drew the pistol that had ended
her brothers life and with 1t ended
that Of her brothers slayer. HeI
story is, the police state, partly cor
roborated by the stories OF her chill
dren, Of whom there are nine.
Grubb was forty years old and un'
til North Carolina went dry, was s
distiller there. Then he moved his
business to Florida and Virginia. He
was the leader in many fights II
Boone Township, the last "feudaP
township in interior North Carolina
He was acquitted Of blame in the
killing Of his wife's brother. 1t was
duel. On the. way home, just after
Davis died, Grubb was. shot by two
negroes and was almost killed.
Then his home was burned. HI
once fought a street duel at Sails
bury with Jim Green. He also hac
attacked Assistant Superintendent O.
Public Instruction when the latter
was making public address. GTubl
was the wealthiest man in Davidson
County.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20

Speaking of the Mexican situation
the Houston Post says: "Let states
men talk now and fools keep in the
background. Fools may get a chance
to show their bravery later on" The
men who go to the front are not
fools. but patriots, it makes no diff
ference what sort of a pretext their
country may be plunged in war. As
general thing the statesmen who
bring on war stay in bomb proofs
while it goes on.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
ENGLAND expects every man to d

England expects every man to do
his duty" said Lord Nelson as the
British feet was about to encounter
the French fleet at Trafalgar. This
is what the good women Of Orange
burg County are silently, but pray
fully, saying to the men of Orange
burg County: "The mothers, wives
and sisters expect you to do your
duty on Tuesday," Oh, men, shall
we fail these guardian angels Of our
homes?
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
TAKES Rim FROM LAURENS JAIL
TO HIS DEATH
ATTACKED YOUNG LADY
Lynchers Remain Deaf to Plea Of Of
fcers Of the Law and Batter Down
Three Iron Doors, Securing Pris-
oner-Body, Riddled With Bull
= lets, Hangs From Trestle.

Richard Puckett, negro about
twenty-five years old, suspected Of
having attacked with criminal intent
young white woman while she was
driving to Laurens Monday morning,
was taken from the Jail at Laurens
about 1880 o'clock Monday night
and lynched by a determined mob Of
at least 1000 men.
The crowd carried out its purpose
despite the pleadings of Sheriff John
D. Owings and Solicitor R. A. Cooper
that the law be allowed to take its
course, the solicitor proming speedy
trial for the negro at an extra term
Of court. For two hours before the
lynching these officials talked to the
crowd in an effort to prevent the con-
summation of the latter's plans, but
only deaf ears were turned to their
entreaties.
Puckett was taken to point near
the union depot, about three hum
dred yards from the jail, swung from
q cross beam OF the railroad trestle
and his body riddled with bullets.
After taking the life Of the prisoner
the mob, apparently satisfied, quietly
dispersed, and half an hour after
wards the only thing to indicate that
q tragedy had been enacted was the
Iifeless body Of the negro swinging
from the trestle. At one O'Clock
Tuesday morning it had not been re-
moved.
Soon after Puckett's arrest on sus-
picion there were signs of impending
trouble, for which the sheriff prepar-
ed by swearing in number Of depu-
ties, about ten in all, to guard the
jail from the expected attack. The
mob rapidly Increased in numbers,
and when it was decided to take the
negro the officers were powerless to
prevent.
The mob first broke through an
iron gate, thereby gaining entrance
to the jail yard and sweeping the Of
uSSfS dSluc. 1ASy SASA SoSSoNSo =
fight Of stairs leading from the yard
to the second floor of the jail, where
the negro was locked in cell
Breaking through two steel doors
and securing their prey was the
work Of but short time for the
hundreds Of lynchers, and soon be-
gan the march to the scene Of the
lynching.
!. Although it Is said that Puckett
confessed his guilt in the afternoon
to Sheriff owings, he denied all
knowledge Of the crime just before
being sent into eternity. Pucket'
had been in trouble before, having
served term on the chain gang.
The victim Of the crime for which
the life Of the negro was taken is a
young widow Of prominent family
connections in this county. She Is
about thirty years of age and has a
SON about five. She was on her way
to Laurens to see a sister, who is LII
at the hospital, when attacked. She
Is reported to be in highly nervous
state, due to fright, although hel
condition is not serious.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
Mulhall is a self-confessed CORFU

Mulhall is a self-confessed corrup-
tiinist, as Senator Townsend claims.
but we fail to see how that helps the
Republican manufacturers who CO.
operated with him in corruption that
they might profit by it. and who as
members of great party devoted to
some of the forms of corruption COM
planned of, made jobbery and privl-
lege respectable for many a year.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20

The Philadelphia Press is impa-
tieat. 1T might help some," j. says,
'if those Democrats down at Wash
ington would let US know just when
they will reduce the cost Of living, as
promised" The Press must remem-
ber that it will take some time to get
rid Of the laws passed by its party
which increased the cost of living, as
we now have it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-20
CIoudburst Causes Damage.

Damage estimated at 100000
was caused by a cloudburst in Colo
rado Monday. of which Colorado city
bore the brunt. Crops were badly
dana sed. county rounds were so bad
IL washed that they will require
thousands Of dollars to repair and
at least fifty families we're rendered
homeless by the food.