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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-26

Of the First Judicial District Court
for the Week Commencing Feb
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Tillman's beautiful Speech.


The Commoner, OF which William
Jennings Bryan is editor and proprie-
tor, says:
Senator Tillman's speech, accept
ing the situation when mis- colleagues
refused him the Craftsmanship of the
appropriations committee, will shine
out as one of the most beautiful de-
livered in recent years. He said:
"'Under the rule of seniority I was
entitled to the Craftsmanship OF the
committee on appropriations. I ask
ed for that committee, but my COL
leagues on the steering committee
and I know that every member OF
that committee is my friend -
thought that I ought to retire to the
still waters and let the battleships go
out into the open. I bow respectfully
to that decision and cheerfully SUBJ
nit
at was brief but the spirit touched
those who heard it as it will those
who read it. No victory could have
given him such an opportunity to
endear himself to those who know
him. 1t illustrates an old truth, that
darkness brings out the stars"
All of which is calculated to for
ward the cause of harmony and
brotherly love in Democratic ranks.
Just one happy family.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
ARM AND LEG BLOWN OFF.
Old Civil War Bomb Blew Up and
Hurt Two Men.

Having found several bombs in an
old fort near Ferdandina, Fla, Guis-
eppi Giannianmo and Tony Francis
co, fishermen, took one measuring 3
inches in diameter to Salvador's fish
house on the wharf when they COM
menced to investigate, consequently
both are fatally injured, one being
minus a leg while the other had his
arm blown of. The two fishermen
had on several occasions noticed the
old bombs, which had lain idle since
the civil war. Securing hammers
they began to beat On the metal. Sud-
denly there was an explosion and off
went leg and an arm while the
roof of the fish house together with
portion of the side of the building
went up in the air.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
HOME, SWEET HOME.
Why We Do Not Appreciate Home
Like Our Fathers Use To.

It is said when John Howard
Payne wrote Home, Sweet Home"
he himself was homeless wanderer
in the streets. It took a man who
had no home to make the spirit Of
home immortal.
The reason why we of to-day do
not appreciate home more is that it
is too easy to have one. The place
that our grandfathers called home
was little more than shelter. They
knew no comforts such as we have.
They had few luxuries, but the thing
they called home had been fought
for, and so it was dear to them.
To-day, any one can have a home
almost for the asking. He can fill it
with big comfortable furniture that
will give him as much comfort as
used to belong only to royalty. He
can have beautiful draperies in his
windows and fine pictures on his
walls. He can have a piano or
talking machine. He can have rugs
that are copies Of the patterns in pal
aces. And he can do all this on the
most moderate, and most ordinary Of
salaries or wages.
Day by day this paper is filled with
adve, Using that offers every facility
for the furnishing Of the home. Not
only can the man with ready cash
furnish his home On moderate
basis, but even the man without cash
can have all the comforts and lux
uries he desires through system of
credit on home furnishings which has
now become almost national in its
scope.
This is the season when new homes
are springing up on every hand and
the season when old homes are be-
ing remodeled and refurnished for
another year. Therefore it is the sea-
son for home furnishing opportuni-
ties which every live advertising mer-
chant is offering at this time.
Do not hold these home making
opportunities too lightly. Give these
advertisers hearing. What they are
saying is real, and what they are
doing is making history. There has
never been time in the history of
the world when comfort and luxury
were as widespread amongst the peo.
pie as they are to-day.
Look over this advertising to-day.
See if you cannot add the comfort
of a home to the pleasure of your
life, or see if you cannot put more
luxury and more material happiness
into the home you have. Think of
what you need most about your horse
and then look for the advertising of
those things in this paper to-day.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
LEVY ROBbED THE MAIL.
!eero Mail Clerk Arrested on a Very
Serious Charge.

An Augusta dispatch says charged
With robbing the mails, Edward M.
Levy, a negro mail clerk running be-
tween Augusta and Columbia, was
arrested Sunday at noon, given a
preliminary hearing before Commis-
sioner C. J. Skinner Jr., and bound
over to the United States district
court Of South Carolina Monday un-
der $4,000 bond.
United States Deputy Marshal
Murphy made the arrest Sunday as
Levy left the train after completing
his run to Augusta. That this man
has been robbing the mails for the
past seventeen years is the belief Of
the United States post Office inspec-
tors, who have made many attempts
20 secure tangible evidence but have
failed until he was caught red-hand-
ed Sunday.
A decoy letter was mailed to a nc
titious person at Johnston, S. G.,
which contained five marked 81 bills.
A deputy had been sent to Johnston
to await the arrival of the letter and
reported that it failed to arrive. Mr..
). w. Adamson and other secret SER
vice men were wired to arrest the
man when he came to Augusta. The
money was found on him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Farmers, Don't Burn CornStalkS.

sMr. w. F. Massey, in The Progress
sive Farmer, says: Dent burn corn
stalks in order to prepare the land.
A farmer wrote to me asking what
would be the difference between turn
ing under a heavy growth OF dead
seavines and cornstaiks and burning
them. In a heavy growth of pea
vines he will have organic nitrogen
enough to be as valuable as ton an
acre of fertilizer with three per cent.
ammonia and that would be worth
$40 to s12 an ARE. He would lose
this in the burning, and would lose
the humus-making material, and
would have left only the potash and
lime that were in the growth burned.
In many places he would lose as
much as an acre Of the land would
sell for"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
CLAIMS SHE HAD VISION.
Went Two Thousand Miles to be Bap-
tized in Icy Water.

Mrs. Catherine L. Cragin, of Colo
RADIO Springs, travelled 1000 miles to
Lynn, Mass, following a visioo IN
which she declares Christ told her to
go there and become minister. She
received the triple baptismal service
of the church of the Apostles in F2ix
Pond, which was frozen. The mer'
curry hung below the freezing poln.
and a chill wind swept across the
water at sunrise, when the baptism
occurred. Mrs. Cragin is the wife OF
S. W. Cragin, a former professor o.
geology in Colorado COLLEGE. Elder
Adoniram Rawson accompanied Mrs.
Cragin into the water. The cruncned
through the ice and waded out to
their chin, where, with teeth chat
tering and trembling from exposure
they sang hymns, while others OF the
sect kneeled in prayer on the shore.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
TYRUS COBB IS SUED.
Suit is Brought Against Him by DR..
d. J. Hydrick Of Orangeburg.


The State says Robert o. Thackam,
constable to Magistrate James H.
Fowles, of Columbia, Thursday after
noon after the baseball game served
Ty Cobb with bail writ, growing out
of an automobile contract between
the baseball player and D. Hydrick of
Orangeburg. Mr.. Cobb gave bond in
the sum of 500 to cover the claim
and costs. A hearing will be held
before Magistrate Fowles April "a.
On February s, 1910, Mr.. Cobb
made a contract with DR.. D. j. Hy-
drick for him to sell automobiles
III Orangeburg and surrounding
territory. Bond il. the sum of $500
was given by Mr.. Hydrick as good
faith. A clause in the contract, it is
said, stated that in a certain time
either could repudiate the contract.
According to Mr.. Cobb, the con-
tract ran out and DR.. Hydrick did not
sell any automobiles. He says Mr..
Hydrick came to Augusta and de-
manded a settlement of the 5000. He
says he paid him s160. The action
Thursday was to regain the remain
iug $40. Mr.. Cobb says he thought
the matter was settled. Mr.. Cobb
gave the bond of 500 before leaving
to cover the claim and costs until
hearing can be had.
If necessary he will return to Co.
lumbia for the hearing. Mr.. Cobb is
represented by C. T. Graydon, who
will handle the case for him. This
contract was made a little over two
years ago while Ty Cobb was on
business trip to Orangeburg.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Rooseyelt's Grip Disables.

Last October when Col. Roosevelt
made his flying western trip and Wis
tied Seattle, Wash, Abe Krouse, an
ardent Bull Mooser, was one of the
first to greet him. The former presi-
dent grabbed Krouse's right hand
and gave it such a gripping squeeze
that the bones fairly creaked. Since
that day Krouse's right arm has been
HELPLESS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
new and GOOD LAW
CAR AND DEPOT THIEVES WILL
HAVE HARD TINE.
Will Have 10 Stand Trial in Federal

Will Have 10 Stand Trial in Federal
Courts as Well as in State Courts
in tie FGtuic.
Car and depot thieves will find
their operations in the future more
difficult than in the past and will
have to face prosecution in the fed
eral courts as we'll as before state
tribunals as the result of the bill in
troduced by Representative C. c. Car
lin, OF Alexandria, Va, passed by
both houses Of congress, and approx
ed by the president. The new law,
which is good one, has already gone
into effect.
This act imposes a maximum fine
Of $1,000 Or Imprisonment for not
more than ten years for any person
convicted of unlawfully breaking into
any railway car containing interstate
or foreign shipments of freight or ex-
press, or of stealing or obtaining by
fraud or decept or from any car, de-
pot, platform, vessel or wharf, any
freight, express or baggage which
constitutes or is a part of any inter-
state or foreign shipment.
While the Carlin act in no way in
fringes on the jurisdiction Of the
state courts, it puts the whole power
of the federal department Of justice
behind the detection and prosecution
of persons guilty OF stealing from
cars or depots, since it will be rrac-
rically impossible for thieves to dis
t:nguish between intra-state ard in
terstate shipments. There is more OF
this kind Of crime committed than
one would suspect, and this new law
was badly needed to check it.
1t is confidently expected that this
law will have a powerful effect in
breaking up thefts of this character
which not only involve a serious loss
to the railways and cause great in
convenience to shippers and travel
lerS but are a constant menace 10
railway employees and the travelling
public since it is notorious that car
thieves do not hesitate to interfere
with trains or resort to other expe-
dents to serve their own purposes,
regardless of the consequences.
It is a common thing for boxes OF
shoes and other merchandise while
in transit to be broken open and
robbed OF some of its contents. Every
merchant nearly has had this kind OF
pilfering to contend with, but this
new law will do much to break up
this kind of stealing. The railroads,
as we'll as the merchants and others
who have goods shipped over them,
will be greatly benefited by the new
law ,as it will save them much trou-
BILE as well as money.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
MAKES MORE CHARGES
STATEMENT ISSUED on CONFED-
ERATE HOME.
Capt. j. Pat Caldwell, Former Com
mandant, Charges Trouble is Due
to Course Of Richardson.

to Course Of Richardson.
Capt. J. Pat Caldwell, former CON-
mandant Of the Confederate home,
Tuesday gave out the following
statement:
81 have been asked by number of
citizens-not merely my friends but
people generally-to make a state
ment about the cause Of all the trou-
BILE at the Confederate infrmary for
the past year, 1t is perfectly plain
that it is all due to the course Of Maj.
H. W. Richardson.
'I was commandant, with the du-
ties of superintendent and being re-
sponsible for everything, for three
months, from December 6, 1911, to
March /, 1912, under DR.. F. S. Earle
as chairman. 1 dispensed with the
services of an adjutant and thus saw
ed to the State his salary, and myself
performed the duties without addi-
tional compensation. But in March
1912, Mai. Richardson came in as
chairman and Immediately assumed
also the title of treasurer and sal
ary of S100 per month, although
there were no duties for the treasurer
to perform, and I continued to do all
the experimenting. The matron con-
tinued to keep the books, and the
only changeNwas that the pay checks
at the end of the month which had
always been signed by the CHAIR
man" were now signed by the same
man as chairman and treasurer"
For this, and for constantly camping
on the grounds, Mai. Richardson
drew 800 per month.
"He began to meddle with every
thing and to say that he was the
board The old men got dissatisfied,
and said that everything was going
to salaries. If an old soldier dared
to express himself he was in danger
Of being dismissed. Severe rules
were made to prevent the inmates
from making an communications to
the public without the o. K. of the
.ommandant. Dissatisfaction in
creased.
'In the investigation by the legis-
lature and in his afidavits in court
proceedings, Maj. Richardson has
! told many things that can not be veri-
fed. One is his claim that ne put a
new cover on the house. Another is
that he put substantial wire fence
around the eighteen acres Of land
owned by the home. Anybody can
see that there is no fence there. Sim
ilarly he IS wrong in his statements
that he had water works put in the
| new ROOMS.
call this is about like Maj. Rich
ardsonts sworn testimony of the ex-
penses of keeping up the home
where he says the cost is about twen-
ty-fve cents per inmate per day. This
would be about s91 each. My daily
| .ecords show the average number
present was fiftv-seven, which would
make the maintenance cost S5,1S7.
As the appropriation for maintenance
| was $4,000, that leaves nearly s12,-
! 900 unaccounted for, besides the S3,-
900 for repairs and building
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
TURNED DOWN BOARD.
Governor BIease Causes Trouble Ov-
er in Barnwell.

A dispatch from Barnwell says fol-
lowing Governor Blease's refusal to
appoint Messrs. Ashley Stansell, J. A.
Meyer and W. 3. Warren as county
commissioners, the legislative delega-
ton met Saturday to make other
nominations. The new men selected
rs the personnel of the board are w.
I. Johns, of Baldoc; J. W. Patterson,
Of Barnwell, and H. F. Buist, OF
Blackville. The reason given by the
Governor Cor his refusal to appoint
the first selections of the delegation
is that they did not meet the require
ments of the statutes, and that the
Supreme Court had recently decided
that the Governor could refuse to ap-
point men who did not meet with his
approval. His refusal has stirred up
the people of the county quite bit,
as it would have been hard to find
better men than the delegation select
cd
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
HIS letter WON
CONVICTED MURDERER SAVED In
LAST hours
FOOLED BY THE Police
Death Clothes Had Been Given H1m,
When He Wrote Governor He Was
Victim Of the Cnderworld's "Code
of Honor" and Asked for Time to
Present an Alibi.

IT0StuI I'LL
With his execution in the electric
chair only twelve hours away, and
with his death suit, new black suit
and clean white shirt, already laid
on the bed beside him, fate smiled
upon John Hulraney in the death
house of Sing Sing prison, in New
York, and the condemned man now
has sixty days of grace to prove that
he did not murder Patrick McBreen,
a saloon keeper, better known in the
metropolis as Paddy the Priest.
To make certain of her decree, fate
worked through two channels at the
same time. While Cow Sulzer was
granting a reprieve, Mulraney's law
yer succeeded in obtaining stay of
execution through the court upon the
ground of newly discovered evidence.
Gov. Sulzer's action was the result
of a remarkable letter written him by
Mulraney in which the c-nvicted man
declared he was going to his death
the victim of the underworld's "code
of honor, which condemned a
"squealer" as the most "contemptible
thing on earth.
In the missive Mulraney declared
that, believing in the "code Of hon
orr, and thinking that he could not
be convicted because he was innocent,
he had done what he considered a
brave act in trying to protect sup
posed friends by permitting the
charge of murder to be lodged
against him.
The prisoner stated that he had
been framed up" by the New York
police and that, while intoxicated on
whiskey given him by the police, he
had signed confession which he sup
posed was merely a statement de-
scribing his movements on the night
of the murder.
Both Mulraney and his lawyer de-
clare they can produce new witnesses
who will completely clear the prison
er by establishing an alibi. He de-
clares he had this alibi at the time Of
the first trial, but had not presented
it because the police told him 1t
would not be necessary.
John .Dowling, accused Of being
Mulraney's accomplice in the murder
Of McBreen, confessed to his share in
the crime, but died in an insane ward
before he could be tried.
Confidential Agent McCabe, Of the
New York state prison department,
has found witnesses who confirm Null
raney's alibi story, it is said, and
Gov. Sulzer has ordered District At
torney Whitman to make a complete
examination of the case.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
HE SHUT OFF THE GAS.
Russian officers Adopted Queer Way
to Commit Suicide.

Lieut.. Perlovsky of the Russicn
army committed suicide at Warsaw
on Sunday, by deliberately shutting
off the motor of an aeroplane III
which he was flying and droppcl
from a height of 500 feet to the
ground, according to a dispatch re-
ceived recently. The tragedy was be-
lieved to have been an accident unit!
recently when letter written just
before the fatal flight was opened.
In if Lieut.. Perlovsky expressed his
intention of committing suicide in
midair and gave as reason that he
had been the victim of many in
trieueS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Sucitle Imitation Fatal.

Fourteen yeao-rld- John Walton,
of Lancaster, Pa, placed to his tenn
pie a revolver cupposed to be unlaod-
ed, and with the remark. "Thls is
how Brobst shot himself" referring
to a recent suicide, pulled the trigger.
4 bullet entered his brain and he
died in the hospital.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
charge OF MURDER
A SCHOOL BOY Is LODGED In LEX.
INGT0N JAIL
THOUGHT AN ACCIDENT
Cleo Shun, Aged Eighteen Years,
Charged With Numbering Young
Schoolmate, Harvey Long, Aged
Twelve Years, is Arrested on War
rant Sworn Out by Boys Father.

Tdul ShOEu Oue " Ivy , \ o@SA'
Cleo Shull, about eighteen years of
age and still a schoolboy, was lodg-
ed in the Lexington County jail Tues
day night with the charge Of murder
resting against him, it being alleged
that he shot and killed Harvey Long,
aged about twelve years, his school
mate, on the afternoon OF February
2S, last.
The warrant for young Shull's ar
rest was issued by Magistrate Hayes,
of Gilbert, on last Saturday, T. Wade
Long, the father of the child that was
killed, having signed the affidavit.
The warrant was served Tuesday by
Constable Lewie Hallman, who
brought the young man to Jail.
At the time Of the homicide it was
stated that the killing was the result
of the accidental discharge of a shot
gun and no inquest was held, the
family Of the dead boy seeming to be
satisfied with the theory of accident
al killing.
On the afternoon of February %,
it is said, Cleo Shull, Walter Taylor
and Harvey Long, all schoolmates,
were returning to their homes after
the close of school, when they stop
ped at mail box in the road. 1t was
stated at the time that the three boys
were playing with the shot gun and
had been pointing it at each other.
The gun was discharged, it is said,
while in the hands of Cleo Shull, and
Harvey Long fell to the ground NOR.
tally wounded, the entire load having
taken effect in the groin, death ensu-
ing a few hours after in Colum bia
hospital.
1t is said that Cleo Shull had been
in the habit of carrying the gun to
the school house for several days pre-
vious to the tragedy. 1t is reported
that Cleo Shull has made number
of conflicting statements about the
tragedy, which, in part, is said to be
responsible for his arrest.
Harvey Long was son Of T. Wade
Long and Cleo Shull is son of Chas,
E. Shull, the two families have been
near neighbors and intimate friends
for number of years, and the unfor-
tunate taking Of the life Of Harvey
Long is deplored by the entire COM
munity.
E. L. Asbill, Of Leesville, has been
employed to aid in the prosecution,
while Senator W. P. Sharpe has been
retained by young Shulps father to
defend him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Ridiculed Boy Tries to Die.

Ridiculed until life became unbear-
able, William Owens, seventeen years
old, of Huntingdon, W. Va, member
of a wealthy family, who married
Mrs. Ida Gregory, a widow with four
children, shot himself in the breast
and may die. Since his marriage to
Mrs. Gregory, who is thirty-five years
old, Owens relatives had refused to
speak to him.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Saved by Grape Fruit.

At Dayton Mrs. Clinton Wallace
and her three children had a remark
able experience. They were maroon
ed without food when the food came
Tuesday and we're rescued Friday
night. All that time they subsisted
on grape fruit, a box Of which they
secured as it foated up to window.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Rebels Surround FederalS.

Gen. Ojeda, with four hundred
Federals. Is surrounded by a thou
sand State insurgents ten miles be-
low the border at Naco. Sonora, and
making a last stand. Gen. Obreson,
commanding all Sonora insurgent
troops, is on his way from Cananea
with six hundred insurgents rein
torcements.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
No Race Suicide There.

The distinction of being the moth
er of seventeen children, while only
shirty-seven years old, belongs to
Mrs. A. Combs, of Batavia, o. Tie
seventeenth addition arrived = few
days ago and is doing we'll. Among
its numerous brothers am sisters
are triplets and several pairs CT
twins
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Three Trainmen Killed.

Near Hickory, n. c., three train
men we're killed when a Southern
freight train was wrecked. The en-
CINE turned turtle and eighteen cars
left the track. The dead are Con-
ductor Ed Eoyd; Engineer ". ".
Eagle, ard Fireman Hurdle. all OF
whom were riding in the cab. The
cause is unknown.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
Was Waylaid and Shot.

J. R. Coler was waylaid and shot
to death Saturday night at St. Hell
ena Island, with buchsnot, while
walking in the public road after hay
ing made several raids during the
afternoon for contraband liquor.
The sheriff has one negro in jail and
other arrests will follow.
The Washington correspondent or
The State says President Wilson Will
make a good many appointments dur
ing this month.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-09
What Rats Cost France.

Statistics show that s40,000,000
yearly is the estimated damage done
by rats to crops and property in
France. The publication Of these
statistics has given an impetus to
the campaign for the determination
of the rodent, which is also known
to be q transmitter of disease.