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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-17

plumber took Christianson back to
Cleveland for trial
Before leaving, however, he secur-
ed the promise of Phillips to appear
at the trial of Christensen if the
Cleveland authorities should think
such appearance necessary.
The Cleveland authorities did not
think Phillips testimony necessary,
and Christensen was duly convicted
and sent up for eight years.
This, one might imagine, would
end Phillips connection with the
case.
But it did not, because of the sin
lister activities of Harry Hoffman,
which came to a head two months
later.
Harry Hoffman is a character
worth attention. He at one time ran
a resort on the West Side-befOre
the days of Police Captain Meagher.
AS a resort keeper in the levee in
which Mike de Pike Heitler was king,
Hoffman was one of Heitler's lieu
tenants and bosom friends.
Two months after the removal
from Chicago of Christensen, Hoff-
man paid visit to the Office of states
attorney.
Soon after that, Phillips the jeweler
and his brother swOre out warrant
against Hoffman charging him with
swindling them out of $500.
Hoffman was arrested, and Mike
Sullivan today declared that he
would be duly indicted by the grand
jury.
Not long after the activities of
Hoffman came to their ingloriOus
head, the rumor that a plot was
a-foot to "get" police Captain Meagh-
er went humming through the sa-
looms of the West Side.
About the same time, soft-footed
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Progress of the Smith Plan.

The News and Courier says 1.-The
report of the Federal experts that a
loss of almost s10S,000,000 year to
cotton growers in Alabama, Georgia,
Tennessee and Florida would result
from the adoption of the plan pro-
posed recently by Senator Z. d.
Smith, of South Carolina for check
ing the boil weevil is not to be inter-
preted as meaning that it would cost
the Government at Washington any
thing like this amount of money to
put the Smith plan into operation.
No estimate as to this has yet been
furnished. The present report has
reference only to the loss Of revenue
from cotton which the growers in the
States named would experience
should they be restrained from plant
ing cotton. It leaves ont Of account
the fact that the lands would not lie
idle but would be turned at once to
other purposes. Of course it would
not be an altogether easy matter to
discover at once crops which could be
raised and marketed at profit on all
the hundreds of thousands Of acres
now devoted to cotton in the area
which would be affected; but the first
year would undoubtedly prove a hard
one for many farmers. The expert
ence gained the first year, however,
would prove very valuable and there
after the cost of the undertaking
should be materially reduced. One
of the chief difficulties would be that
of securing an honest and equitable
distribution Of the Government
funds"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Why They Want War.

There is no demand from the
American missionaries in Mexico, or
the students or Investigators over
there from this country, for interven-
ton on the part of the United States.
The Americans who want war with
Mexico are for the most part in Mexl-
co with their money. They nave
agents in Mexico and employees IN
Mexico, but personally they are ab-
sent.
When we hear of the fabulous
value of Mexico's undeveloped re-
sources we should not forget that 1t
is not necessarily gold or silver or
copper or cattle or wool that induces
Americans to put their millions into
the industry of that country. 1t is
men. 1t is men who will work for
pittance. There is not in all Mexico
a richer undeveloped resource than
it's sturdy but ignorant and often
misguided men.
These Americans are in Mexico
therefore, primarily because labor
there is cheap, says the New York
World. They knew the risks they
were taking when they made their
investments. They knew that disor-
der prevailed and that life and prop
erty we're not secure. But they took
the chance, because when too many
revolutions were not in progress they
could hire men to work for 1e"
tents a day.
In this way we are to account for
many Of the big American rancnes
nj big American mining enterprises
IN Mexico. When peace prevails, the
.mnortant american capitalists VINO
,wn these properties sometimes pro-
ceed in state to their feudal domains
int chiefly they are represented IN
peace and in war by superintendents
and overseers, some of them natives.
before we talk seriously OF war
with Mexico we must be sure that
Americans have been wronged IN thal
country because they are Americans.
war in behalf of Americans VINO
are attempting by proxy to add to
their wealth by peonage akin to slaV-
orv would not be highly popular even
among our professional iingoes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Who's Your Friend?

Is whiskey your friend? we don
know, you never visit him in the hsh'
Of day, but as the thief sneaks under
the cover Of darkness, you too ma!
steal away to pay him an occasional
visit. If he's your friend, stand os
him. he'll take from you the money
that a poverty-stTicken home cries
for, he'll blight the life Of the woman
trat trusted all to your care, he'll
cnrse unborn children with a drunk
on inheritance, he'll waste your en-
ersv. destroy your will, and leave you
bankrupt and destroyed.
You owe him big debt-no other
friend has done quite so much toI
YOU. He's rid you Of all petty scru-
nles of honesty and purity. "a fact. lie
has made a new man out OF YOU
the eve that once cleaned and spar
kled is now bleared and dali; the
cheeks once so healthy and tlnseo
with the ruddy hue Of young man
hood is bloated and scared with ols-
sipation; the hand that once guideo
the pen so smoothly and oei:cate.y
across the page now jerks its crook
ed way trembling and reelins across
the sheet; the legs upon which you
hunted and fshed now stagser AMI
stumble under their load: and the
mind that once reasoned so accurate
". remembered so perfectly, under
stood so plainly now blunders regu-
larly, reaches its hazy conclusions
slowly, and gropes in darkness among
the simplest problems.
It's a big debt you owe your frleno'
but YOU need never worry about pay
ing it. Broken hearts, ruined h7es'
forsaken ideals, diseased bodies
wasted opportunities, and souls eter-
nally damned, make up the currenc!
with which your debt is paid and OF
these you have no concern.
If whiskey is your friend, Goa heip
yOu
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
WIFE KILLS SELF
WOMAN LEAPS TO Der DEATH In
CHESTER Mill STREAM
Ties ROCK In APRON
Then Jumps in Water Attracting At
tention of Boys Fishing Nearby,
Who Make Search and Find Her
Shoes-They Spread Alarm and
Search Reveals Body.
Search Reveals Body.

With the strings of ginoham
apron tied around her neck and a
seven pound rock secured in the body
of her apron, Mrs. Mary Robertson,
wife Of Sam Robertson, leaped to her
death from the bank to fifteen feet of
water in the mill race at the Manetta
mill at Lando, near Chester, Monday.
After much diving by Fred Heley the
body was recovered thirty-fve feet
down stream. The village of Lando.
in Chester County, was stirred by the
affair.
Mrs. Robertson left Wylie Camp
bells house at Lando about three
o'clock, apparently in state of great
nervousness. She borrowed an apron
from Mrs. Campbell, which was af-
terward found tied around her neck
at the bottom of the stream.
Mrs. Robertson is said to have
made threats recently to kill herself
but the villagers paid little heed to
her. On Sunday her husband left
for Colum bia to stay some time and
this seems to have precipitated the
deed. She is said to have claimed
that she had no friends and that the
only and dearest friend in the world
was going and she thought the sui
cidal course the speediest way to end
her suffering.
She removed her shoes and had
she not left this clew it might have
been a week before her body would
have been recovered. When she
leaped into the stream the noise at
tracted considerable attention from
some boys that we're fishing further
down the stream. They Immediately
made an investigation, which led to
the discovery of the shoes on the
bank.
The alarm was spread and an i'm
mediate search Instituted. Mr.. Hef-
ley, an expert diver, was near, and
he began diving and soon brought
the body to the surface. This made
the eleventh person that he had pull
ed from the water.
It was at first thought that the
drowning had been the result of vio-
lence on the part of some outsider
and Sheriff D. E. Colvin and CO" ">neI
J. Henry GLADDEN., along with LepU+V
|C. Y. Young, were rushed to 80
scene in an automobile. Coroner
GLADDEN. made careful investigation
of the body after empaneling a jury
with G. B. Heath as foreman. He
could find no marks Of violence save
, confusion on the nose which was
attributed to its striking root.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
REMEDY FOR SOCIAL ILLS
COMMON GOOD MOVEMENT GAINS
GREAT IMPETUS.
Prospects Excellent and Hearty WILL
ingness to Help is Shown by Lead
ers in Various Fields.

'fProspects for the approaching
Conference for the Common Good are
exceedingly bright and encouraging,
according to a statememnt issued
Tuesday. The movement IS steadily
gaining in weight and momentum.
Messages Of sympathy and cheer are
being received from all sides. The
hearty support and willingness to
help which are everywhere being
manifested are most hopeful and
stimulating. AS one Of the pamphlets
which is being widely cir lated by
the committee puts it: I'm every man
there exists a willingness, even the
desire, to help, could be found an
easy, practical way to go about it.
Eve love our State and want to
serve her. Service is simply love In
harness. South Carolina is blessed
with many constructive men and Wo-
men, and all are proud Of our pro-
gress in many directions; but there is
great deal of waste and lost matter
in the movement for State better
ment.
"Now, nearly all the special prob
lens and difficulties we have to face
elsewhere. The thing to do is to take
stock Of our chief needs and then to
ind the most effective remedies the
collective experience Of the world can
offer and apply them patiently and
hopefully for the betterment OF oul
State and for the common good.
cit is to find these most effective
remedies that the conference has
been called. Much thought and care
full planning have gone into prepar
| ing the program. The leading point:
| to be discussed are: Cooperation fol
rural development, permanent home:
! for our people, education and Chile
welfare, problems Of citizenship. Be
sides these topics, special minor con
ferences are being arranged as foi
tlows: On the work Of the church II
county development, on health, con
ference Of farmers and business me1
on marketing, and credit on woman
work, on cooperation between col
lleges and high schools. cooperation
of chambers Of commerce for Tura
development.
"From these various and impor
liant subjects every one can find ~orf
to do and an opportunity to aid. Mel
Of national reputation have been Sc
cured to give the fruit Of their ripe
experience and wisdom in short, hVe
addresses. 1t is certain TO be a not
able and inspiring body Of men ant
women that will gather in ColumDls
or August and IT,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
THREATEN POTATO CROP.
Federal Experts Urge Growers te
Fight Tuber Moths.

Warning against a pest that
threatens every dinner table In the
land was issued Monday by the de-
partment Of agriculture against the
potato tuber moth which is workino O
havoc with the potato crop in num-
erous parts of the country and whose
rayages threaten to prevent the
planting of the vegetables in many
places for the winter supply.
The pest is especially prevalent in
California and Texas, the department
reports. and through shipments Of
early potatoes it is being introduced
broadcast throughout the United
States.
Experts of the bureau Of entomol-
ogy urge potato growers they dig
and destroy every potato and vine
that shows the slightest signs of the
moth
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
SINS LEADS TO DEATH.
Woman Takes Poison But Man
Leaves Hotel.

A suicide pact is believed to have
led to the death of Ross Fivanson,
aged twenty, of Hartford, Conn.,,
who was found in hotel room at
Boston, Sunday, victim of poison
ing. The police are looking for a
man who registered with the girl at
the hotel.
Sunday morning the man, who
seemed Ill, went to the hotel office
and inquired the address of doctor.
Half an hour later groans were heard
from the room, and the girl was
found near death. A fragment OF
paper clutched in her hand bore the
name &c. W. Man, Shelbyville, Ind, !"
and asked the police not to blame
"Billy".
"I am tired of the life I am lead
ing and am doing this with a clear
mind" the note said. The girl was
taken to- the city hospital, where she
died. The police think the pair in
tended to die together, but that the
man after his first sip of the poison
changer his mind.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
PELLAGRA MOVES on.
Incurable Disease Invading Territory
in the West.

Pellagra, for which physicians
have found no cure, Is invading ne"
territory, according to officials OF the
United States public health service
who base their belief in the statistics
of the prevalence of the disease IN
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas from
1907 to 1912, which were made pub
lie Saturday.
The figures indicated an increase
in the disease during 1912. Inc
total number Of cases in Oklahoma
during the six years was 472, with a
death rate of 100 cases of 54.9l; IN
Texas 2,62S cases, death rate 1851
and in Arkansas 945, death rate
61.e0. The figures for Arkansas for
1912 were incomplete.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
NEGRO IS ARRESTED
NO EXCITEMENT FOLLOWS, AL.
THOUGH CHARGE is SERIOUS.
B1oodhounds From Penitentiary Sue
cessfully Follow Trail of the In
truder Near Bennettsville.

A man entered the home Of citi-
zen of Brightsyille in Marlboro
County, Sunday night and attempted
an assault upon his daughter as she
slept in her room. She was awaken
ed by the man and jumped from the
bed and called her father. The man
ran from the back door of the house
through which he had entered by
breaking the lock. This occurred
about 2 a. N.
Henry Hubbard, deputy sheriff, re-
ceived a telephone message at the
Jail about 8 a. m. He Immediately
telephoned to the penitentiary in Co.
lumbia for bloodhounds and Officer
Robbins left with the dogs on an
early train.
They arrived at about ten o'clock
and left Immediately for Brightsville.
Sheric Patterson. Deputy Hubbard,
T. C. Chavis, rural policeman and a
large number Of citizens from
Brightsville, Bennettsville and other
parts Of the county Joined In the
hunt.
The dogs were put on the track
and followed it for over mile east
ward, tow"~ '"hbard's creek. They
lost the trail where the man had ap-
parently entered buggy. Suspicion
had pointed to Wilson Rogers, six
teen-year-old negro, son Of Jake Rog-
ers, who lived on E. w. Lilies place
about two miles from the scene of
the attempted assault.
Deputy Hubbard went to the house
and as he approached Wilson asked,
care you looking for me?" Wilson
and two or three other negroes were
told to go to the creek. The dogs
followed Wilson until they caught
him. He was then arrested and
brought in an automobile to Ben
nettsville and put in Jail about two
o'clock. The negro denied all knoWl-
| edge of the crime
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
AEROPLANE WRECKS BOAT.
Tanpico Said to Have Been Destroy
ed by Rebel Aviator.

The Mexican federal gunboat Tam
pico was destroyed Monday by a
bomb dropped from an aeroplane oV-
er Gusymas harbor, declares an Of
fetal insurgent message. 1t was said
that Aviator Didier Mason made
three fights over the harbor before
he succeeded in hitting the boat.
While it was reported during the
Italian-Turkish war that a war YES
sci was sunk by bomb dropped from
an aeroplane, the report was never
confirmed. There is said to be no
other report of a similar feat on rec
ord, although many bombs have been
dropped in military camps during the
Balkan war. Mason has made varl-
Gus attempts to damage the forts and
ships of the Mexican army and navy
at Guaymas. but has met with indlf-
ferent success.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
GIRL SLAIN IN OFFICE.
Shocking Crime Mystery Engages
Dallas Police Force.

Police were called upon Monday to
investigate the death Of Florence
Brown, aged twenty-seven, whose
body was found in the wash room OF
a real estate Office at Dallas, Texas
with the throat cut. When discover
ed the body was still warm. Blood
was spattered over the walls and
floor Of the room and discolored
water had been left in the wash basin
where some one had apparently
washed bloody hands. No instru'
ment with which the act could have
been committed was found.
Miss Brown reported for work al
$3.50 and was known to have been
alone in the Office for half an hour.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Accidentally Killed.

AS she was packing awav laundry
in a trunk in which revolver was
kept. Mrs. Beulah Alridse. wife OF
an employee of the Southern railway
at Spencer, y. c.. was instantly kill
ed bv the accidental discharge of the
weapon. Her six-months-old baby
was in the cradle nearby.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Carries Of Accidents.

George Hogg, a farmer of Scarf.
Tuscaloosa county, Ala. lost three
children in a series Of unusual acc:-
dents. While ha vas cutting Wooa
his axe flew frcn, the helve and
struck his infant in the head. killing
II instantly. He carried the body to
bic bore and tln-n lonrno4 that two
OF his young s~1s bad heeu kicked to
death by a mule.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
They Will Arbitrate.

The threatened strike of $4,000
conductors and trainmen of the forty
five Eastern railroads for higher
wages and improved working condi-
tions will not be called. Articles Of
agreement to arbitrate under the
Newlands act, the questions at issue,
we're signed Saturday by the en-
ployees' representatives at the con-
ference committee of railroad man
ayers.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
WILL WORK FOR LIVE STOCK.
B. II. Rawl Coming to South caro-
lima Soon.

B. n. Rowl, chief of the dairy dlvl-
sion of the department of agriculture
left Washington Wednesday after
noon to take up with Col. ]. A. Banks
and others interested at St. Matthews
on Thursday the matter. Of the organ
ization Of a cooperative association
for live stock raising in South Caro-
lima. This will be the first attempt
of the department Of agriculture 70
encourage. in a substantial way the
live stock industry Of the State.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
HUSBAND CUTS WIFE
FIGHT DEADLY BATTLE AFTER
CUSTOM OF THEIR TRIBE.
Man Had Questioned Faithfulness Of
the Woman and She Demanded the
Test Of Blood.

the Woman and She Demanded the
Test Of Blood.
Samuel Palecia and his wife, We
centalia, are in hospital in Denver,
both suffering from wounds sustain
ed in one of the strangest duels ever
fought in this country. The husband
had accused the woman of unfaith-
fulness to her marriage VOWS, and
she demanded that they settle it as
they do among the tribes in Mexico,
from which both come, by fight to
the death with knives. They fought
until the police, summoned by neigh
bors, broke through the locked doors,
separated them and called an ambu-
lance. Each received many, but not
dangerous wounds.
When the woman demanded the
duel in defense of her name, and the
man acquiesced, they locked the
doors of their home, cleared an en-
tire room of the scant furniture it
contained. took off their outer gar
ments and began the carving match.
Palecia had given his wife the
longest and sharpest knife, and he
also had asked her to tie one Of his
arms behind his back, in order that
they should be more evenly matched.
AS the result the woman got in the
first blow, a slash across the back OF
the mans free hand, from which the
blood flowed freely.
But she held the advantage only
for an instant. The man made a
feint, then recovered quicker than
the woman and drew the razor-llke
blade across the entire length of her
forehead. Blinded by the blood
which gushed into her eyes, the wo-
man threw caution to the winds and
leaped upon her husband. Her slash
ripped open his forearm, but she
paid dearly, for Palecia stabbed her
again and again, until she fell to the
floor. She screamed as her husband
prepared to finish her. Neighbors
heard her and summoned a passing
Doliceman.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Mad Dog Bites Dog.

FL. Lane and Minor Mahaffey. Of
the Camp Creek section of Lancaster
county, two Of Mr.. Lanes daughters
and two other young girls Of the
same neighborhood we're bitten by
mad dog one day last week and are
now taking the Pasteur treatment.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Killed by Old Pistol.

A revolver which was hanging be-
hind picture on the wall of room
at the home of Giuseppe Gastano, at
Tampa, Fla, accidentally exploded
and killed six-year-old Rosia Gas
tano. with a playmate the child had
been swinging the picture by push
ing it with broom. The picture and
the gun came down from the wall
and the revolver exploded as it
struck the floor, the ball entering the
little girls brain.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
KILLS HER HUSBAND.
Then Young Cuban Woman Shoots
Herself, Dying Quickly.

First tying him securely in bed as
he lay asleep, Mrs. Avelina Rodri-
guez, comely young Cuban woman
shot her husband to death at their
home, in the eastern part of Tampa
Saturday morning.
When she saw his life had fed she
cut the bonds from the body and
stretching herself beside him, fired
the remaining shot from the pistol
into her own heart, and was dead
when neighbors rushed into the
house. The pair lay side by side, and
the slender ropes which still partly
held Rodriguez's body to the bed
and the pistol grasped in Mrs. Rodri'
guez's hand told the story.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Firemen Killed in Wreck.

Fireman VIII Harrison was crush
ed to death and TWO negro brakemen
seriously burned and sca!de6 when a
central OF Georgia freight engine was
derailed and turned turtle near hel-
iyton, Ala, Monday.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06

II would be an outrage on Justice
e Frank. the superintendent OF tHe
Atlanta pencil factory. charged WIN
outraging and numbering a young
DIR, onerative of the factory. sucree9s
N escanirs the gallows by fastening
,ie diabo1ical crime on an ignorant
negro employee Of the factory by
frame Nm. This is what he seems 10
le trying to do.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Soldier Kills Himself.

Thomas P. Fashey, aged thirty
nine, of Mingo Junction, O., prl-
vate in Company G, Seventeenth Uni
ted States Infantry, committed sui
eide Thursday at Fort Mcpherson by
shooting himself in the mouth with
his army rife.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
Fifty-Foot Fall Fatal.

Joseph Echols, aged sixteen years,
employed by the Birminghom Boiler
Works Company, while at work at
Thomas furnaces of the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, fell off the
structural work Monday morning
and was instantly killed. He fell
fifty feet.