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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
SWALLOWS COIN AND DIES
Young Lad Dies After Thee Days
of Intense Suffering.

A nickel accidentally swallowed
and stuck deep in his throat, battling
the efforts of three physicians to dis
lodge it caused the death Tuesday in
Florence, of Henry Neil Hammond,
fourteen year old son of the Rev. H.
C. Hammond.
The child was playing with the coin
at his home when he looked up at his
mother and announced that he had
swallowed a nickel.
The little fellow died after three
days of intense suffering after he had
been taken from his home in St.
Charles, S. C. to Sumter, for treat
ment and later to a hospital in Flor
ence, where two specialists by use Of
the X-ray, located the coin lodged
deep in the thorax and endeavored to
remove it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
JACOBS WAS CRAZY
Some Believe That Lexington County
Farmer Killed Family.

A special to the State says that
John D. Jacobs, found dead with his
wife and four children in their burn
ed. home near Peak early Saturday
morning had been of unsound mind
for two years is the statement made
by DR.. H. G. Eieazer, a physician Of
Peak. This revelation was made to
the press Monday.
John Jacobs has suffered from
disorder of the brain for two years
or more," said DR.. Eleazer. Fully
two years ago he came to me for con-
sultation, after which he visited
specialist in Columbia. His last con-
sultation with me was not quite three
weeks ago, when he said: 4 don't
mind dying, but I can't leave my
family behind. This thing can't last
much longer with me.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
STRAINED RELATIONS
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND THIS STATE
Caused by Letters Written to the
National War Department by Gov
ernor Blease of the State.

After hearing SECRETARY Garrison's
communication read the Washington
correspondent of the News and Cour-
ier asked Senator Tillman this ques-
ton: What do you understand that
Secretary of War to mean, Senator,
by proper letter."
Senator Tillman answered as fol-
lows: "I would prefer others to in
terpret that language for themselves.
1 will guess this, however:
Governor Blease, whether inten-
tionally or not, has caused the peo-
pie at the war department to have
some bad feeling towards the State
of South Carolina. Naturally so. His
letters have been published in our
principal State newspapers and those
who have read them know how Of
fensive they must have been to all
army officers who ever wore a blue
uniform. He seems to forget that
the United States is now our country
as well as that Of the Yankees and
that we have Southern Democrat in
the Presidents Office for the first time
in fifty years.
"Only two days ago an appropria-
ton was passed by Congress provid-
ing for the payment of the expenses
Of the Confederate and Federal vet
Grams of the District of Columbia to
go to Gettysburg, and that the COM
mission in charge of all arrange
ments and expenditures consisted of
the Secretary of War, a Confederate
veteran and Federal veteran, there
by equal consideration being given
both Northern and Southern armies.
Secretary Garrison does not want
or expect an apology or explanation,
all he expects is letter couched in
respectful terms making a formal re-
quest from the Governor of South
Carolina to the Secretary Of War for
these funds to be available for the
purpose Of mobilizing the militia as
already agreed on and understood,
and to pay their camping expenses.
He does not care for any references
to be made to any communications
that have hitherto passed between
the Governor of South Carolina and
his Office"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Killed by Jealous Husband.

Mrs. C. B. Jones. of Norfolk, Va,
aged thirty years, was Monday shot
and killed by her husband, from
whom she had been separated. She
was shot in the arm and back, the
latter bullet entering her heart. The
woman died en- route to hospital.
Jones was arrested and refused to
make a statement. Jealousy is as
signed as tie cause
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
LITTLE FELLOWS DROWNED
Bridge Leading to Municipal Bath
House Gives Way

A narrow wooden walk leading
over Is feet of water to the munich
pal bath house, at Lawrence, Mass,
in the Merrimac river Monday gave
way under the stamping feet Of "a
crowd of impatient boys and at least
II of the little fellows were drowned.
There may be more bodies in the
stream.
The boys were jumping up and
down when the supports sank and the
walk extension dropped like trap
door, rolling the lads into the water.
It was thought at first that only
three were drowned and it was not
until two hours later that the prob
able loss of life was realized. A boy
in the crowd Of distracted persons on
shore, missing his chum, sent up a
cry "::I don't see Rollie. He must be
drowned"
Boats and graphing irons were
then brought and the river bed was
dragged. When the work ceased late
at night twelve bodies had been re-
covered.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
HOLDS UP MONEY.
COMPTROLLER Jones Declines to Pay
Mr.. Dominick.

Comptroller-Gener Jones said
Wednesday afternoon that he had
held up a claim of $3.50 presented
by F. H. Dominick for attorneys fees
in connection with the test suit on
the bond refunding act. 1t is ex-
pected that the matter will be car
ried to the supreme court.
At a meeting of the sinking fund
commission Wednesday afternoon
Mr.. Jones introduced a resolution to
disallow the claim of Mr.. Domlnlck.
The resolution was voted down. At
a meeting of the commission several
weeks ago the claim was allowed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Drunk Negro Has Luck.

Lying with his head between the
cross ties not six inches away from
passing trains, negro was found
Wednesday night at Columbia hope
lessly drunk. The negro had been no
ticed around the union station, appar-
emily drinking, and was told to move
on. From the time he moved on un-
til found exactly - freight trains
one of As cars-and three passenger
trains passed over these tracks.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
FIVE MEN KILL WOMAN
IN LEE COUNTY AND WHIP HER
DAUGHTER.
The Men Are Now in Jail at Bishop
Vile Charged With the Shooting of
the Woman

Charged with shooting up the
home of Wylie Grayney and killing
Matte Grayney and seriously injur-
ing her daughter, Lizzie Grayney, five
young white men were brought to
Bishopville Tuesday and lodged in
Jail. They are: q. A. Grantham,
Cloy Grantham, Nick Grantham,
Brown Grantham, and Vance Gran
than, sons of Tin Grantham, a resi-
dent of Darlington county. Matte
Grayney, according to the coroner's
jury, came to her death at the hands
of the five Grantham boys. The boys,
it is charged, first told the women to
leave and when they refused proceed
ed to shoot up the house occupied by
the Grayneys.
The story of the tragedy which
occurred in the Kelleytown section of
that county. remote and lawless
district, seems to be interviewer with
alleged relations between Matte
Grayney and Zin Grantham.
The FIVE sons of Zin Grantham, it
is alleged, took ~offense at the rela-
tions between their father and the
Grayney woman. Taking advantage
Of the opportunity when Wylie Gray
ney went to Hartsville, it is charged.
the boys went to the house of the
Grayneys and demanded that the wo-
man leave the section. Upon her re-
fusal to do so, according to the ac-
counts available from men who have
returned from the scene of the affray,
the boys shot up the house, the elder
woman meeting her death in the fus-
illade. The younger woman was bad
ly beaten.
AS soon as news of the affair
reached Bishopville Sheriff Muldrow
and other officers hurried to the
scene. Arriving there they found the
elder Grayney woman dead and her
daughter in precarious condition.
Empaneling a jury Of inquest, the
officers set to work to ascertain the
facts and clear up any mystery. The
inquest was soon over. The coroner's
jury without delay, returned YER
diet holding the five Grantham boys
for the murder of the elder woman.
The sheriff at once arrested them and
made his way to Bishopville, where
they are now in Jail.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
CHARGED WITH PREVENTING Re.
MEDAL LEGISLATION.
TO Protect CHILDREN
Secretary McKelway Says Manufac-
turers Have Kept Legislatures Of
North and South Carolina From
Repeating Law Allowing Children
to Work Eleven Hours a Day.

The cotton manufacturers of four
Southern states-Georgia, Alabama
and the Carolinas-were charged
with having prevented the legisla-
lures of those states from repeating
child labor laws which permit chill
dren twelve years old to work eleven
hours day in the mills, in an ad-
dress at Portland, Ore, Tuesday by
A. J. ,McKeiway, OF Washington, D.
c., secretary for the Southern States
of the National Child Labor Commit
tee. Mr.. McKelway's address was de-
livered at the Sectional Conference
on Capital and Labor incident to the
Worlds Christian Citizenship Con-
ference, in session at Portland.
In addition, Mr.. McKelway charg-
ed the textile manufacturers of
Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Tennes-
see and Tex;s with public opposition
to "the eight-hour day for children
and the nine-hour day for women
workers. At the conclusion of his
address he submitted Declaration
of Dependence" on behalf Of the
"children of America. in mines and
factories and workshops assembled"
EIe said in part:
I'm the opposition to child labor
reform the textile industry has been
even more conspicuous than in its
employment Of children. During the
legislative sessions Of this year, it is
the textile interests of Massachu-
setts and Pennsylvania that have
fought the eight-hour day for chill
dren under sixteen and the textile
manufacturer of Tennessee and Texas
were the public opponents Of the
eight-hour day for children and the
nine-hour day for women workers.
"It is the cotton manufacturers OF
the four Southern states of Georgia,
Alabama, and the Carolinas. that
have prevented. the legislatures OF
those states from prohibiting the
barbarism of allowing twelve-year.
old child work an eleven-hour day
in the case of Georgia a ten-year-old
child. Nor are these low standard
laws adequately enforced in these
states.
"It has been the fashion Of the
American people to end an abuse,
once it's consequences were fairly un-
derstood. It has heard the indict-
ment against the, child labor system,
that it means not only the injury,
physical, mental, moral, to thousands
of individual children, but an injury
to society itself, and injury to the
race. The system stands to-day con-
yicted by public opinion as guilty on
these several counts; that it involves
racial degeneracy, the perpetuatlon
of poverty, the continuance OF de-
pendency, the enlargement of litter
acy, the increase of crime, the disin-
tegration of the family, the lowering
of the wage scale and the swelling OF
the army Of the unemployed. The
verdict is the abolition of child labor
in America at whatever cost.
cit if be proved that child labor IS
not essential to the existence of an
industry, then let child labor die and
the industry live. But if it be claim
ed that any industry can not survive
without the employment OF children,
that industry writes itself down as
unworthy of survival on American
soil.'
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

It is said that Attorney-General
McReynolds has been very kind to
the Republican holdovers in his de-
partment. He even retained the pri-
vate secretary of the former attorney
general and one of the assistant at
torney-generais. b~''' cf whom are
Republicans. This ain ness to Re-
publicans had no o"ec: on McNab,
who was another P~orblican hold
over retained by ""PNvnolds. He
knitted his benefao;or on the first
opportunity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Peeked Into Girls Stockings.

A highwayman who took 81 from
her escort, forced Miss Rosa Clay, OF
Indianapolis, Ind, at the revolver's
point, to lower her stockings and
prove there was no money concealed
therein. Then he thanked her for
her trouble and departed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
SHOOTS IN COURT.
Man Fires Three Times at Prisoner
in Tampa.

Just as County Judge E. V. Whit
aker adjourned court Wednesday
morning at Tampa, Fla, in the pre-
liminary hearing of w. E. Maddox,
white man who is accused of assault
upon a thirteen-year-old girl, E. E.
Green, Of Sylvania, Ca, an uncle Of
the girl, and who was attending Ghe
hearing. drew a revolver and fired
three shots at Maddox. All three
shots went wild and Green was dis
armed by a court deputy before he
could get the range on his intended
victim.
The first shot fired struck the cell
ing. The second punctured law
book, the third splintered the top Of
Judge Whitaker's desk.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Admits He Killed Wife

With a gaping knife wound in her
throat and several bruises on her
face, Mrs. Anne Mattingly Owens.
twenty-five years of age, was found
on a lonely road near River Spring,
about fourteen miles from Leonard
town, Md, Monday night. Bennie
Owens, an oysterman, husband Of the
dead woman, has surrendered himself
to the county authorities and admit
ted that he had killed his wife in an
alteration.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Cigarette Caused Girls Death.

Miss Catherine Breen, nineteen
years old, died in a hospital at Pat
terson, n. j., as the result of burns
caused by falling asleep while snok-
ing cigarette. Before her death the
girl said she hoped her experience
would be a warning to all girls and
women to refrain from contracting
the cigarette habit.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

Like deep sea wave
Where rise no rocks its pride to save
swept down the valley and up the
slopes of Cemetery Ridge at Gettys-
burg to encounter the terrific hurri-
cane of shot and shell that tore
through the advancing ranks, but did
not avail to stop them until the bleed
ing and shattered remnants planted
their banner upon the crest. there to
be beaten back by overwhelming
numbers THE Gold Guard" wrote
Archibald Forbes, the war correspon-
dent of The London Times, who wit
messed the charge of Pickett's men,
"recoiled before a less terrific fire at
Waterloo, but there was no recoil in
these men of the South"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
CONDITION OF COTTON CROP.
Shows improvement During Past
Month Reaching 800.

The condition of cotton on an av-
erage date of June 90, according to
the replies of over 1900 special cor
respondents of the Journal Of Com
merce and Commercial Bulletin, was
sos, compared with sos a month
ago, or an increase of 0.4 point. This
compares with the 1.3 year ago and
the SO in 1911, and ten-year aver
age of $40. The percentage condi-
ton by states, with comparisons, fol-
lows:
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Runs Up high DEATH SCORE IN
CENTRAL West.
over HUNDRED PERISH
Chicago, illinois, and Tucson, Ari-
zona, Hottest Places in the United
States-Prostrations Occur by the
Hundreds Throughout the West,
Causing Many Deaths.

The heat wave, which has continu-
ed uninterruptedly for six days, ex-
tended from Denver to Pittsburg, and
as far north as Lake Superior, Chi
cago, with a temperature of 102 de-,
grees was the hottest place in the
United States except Tucson, Ariz.,
where the temperature also was 1922
Intense suffering was reported in all
the large cities enveloped in the heat
wave.
Thirteen deaths from heat in Wis
consin were reported Monday. There
were scores of prostrations. In Mil
waukee eighteen have died from heat
in the last four days.
More than twenty heat prostra-
tions were reported in Minneapolis
and st. Paul Sunday in addition to
two drownings. The maximum tenn
peratures ranged from "a to 80.
Heat Sunday caused the death Of
six persons and ten prossrations. The
Government kiosk in the downtown
district of Peoria, ILL.,, registered 100
degrees at three o'clock Sunday after
noon.
Five deaths, one person driven in
sane and several prostrations is the
result of the intense heat at South
Bend, Ind, Monday. The tempera-
ture at four o'clock Monday after
noon reached LOG degrees.
At Crank Rapids thirteen deaths
and nearly fifty prostrations have oc-
CURED since Sunday morning. In
tense heat prevailed all over lower
Michigan Monday, death and prostra-
tions being reported from several
other points.
Eleven deaths from heat and neai
ly a score Of prostrations were re
ported in Detroit Monday. Of the
dead, three were adults and eight in
fants. Officially the maximum tenn
perature was S5 degrees but the
thermometer in the street registered
103.
This was the hottest June day re-
corded in Chicago since the Govern
ment records were first kept in 1872.
Ninety-nine degrees was the official
temperature, but the Government
therm ometer on the street level
showed temperature of 102 degrees.
Thirty-nine persons are known to
have died in Chicago Monday as a re-
suit of the intense heat. This num-
ber includes only the cases reported
by the coroner and the police, and it
is expected will be increased by re-
ports Of private physicians. Of these
deaths, thirty-two were the direct re-
suit of heat strokes, five persons COM
mitted suicide as result Of the heat,
and two deaths were of children seek
ing relief.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Flies Across Lake Michigan.

Logan A. Villas, an amateur avi-
ator of Chicago, Tuesday made the
first aeroplane fight across Lake
Michigan. His trip, made in a n.y.
droaeroplane from St. Joseph. Mich
to Chicago consumed one hour and
"a minutes.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Japan Sends Note.

Japan's latest note on the Califor-
mia alien land law arrived by cable
Tuesday. The japanese embassy at
once began work to prepare tfor
presentation to Secretary Bryan.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Kills Wife and Commits Suicide

Henry Dodd, farmer of Green
vale, Tenn, shot and killed his wife
with a rifle Monday and then COM
,uitted suicide. Eleven children sur
sviye. The cause Of the tragedy is
not known.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Five Are Burned to Death.

Five persons were burned to death
and twenty or more seriously injured
in a fire which destroyed an i:nmi-
grant hotel at Sc Greenwich street,
New York, in the downtown section,
late Monday night. They We're all
aliens who had been booked to sail
from New York for their homes in
Europe.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

only a needed stimulus, to the new
generation, growing up in the midst
of universal free schools.
John j. Mcmahon.
Columbia, June IS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
Co.Operates With Wilson.

The Democrats have introduced 4
currency bill in accordance with the
plans of President Wilson.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09
There Was No Recoil.

This is the fiftieth anniversary OF
the day when Pickett's immortal dlvl-
sion
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

A terrific electric storm that pass
ed over the Landsford section Of
Chester county about daybreak Sun
day morning resulted in the loss by
r. H. Fudge of a pair Of fine 1900
pound horse mules, valued at $500.
In the eastern part of the county i'm
mense damage to trees was done by
the storm, also large number being
lifted up by the roots. The crops
were damaged some.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

Heat Sunday caused the death Of
six persons and ten prossrations. The
Government kiosk in the downtown
district of Peoria, ILL.,, registered 100
degrees at three o'clock Sunday after
noon.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

must have been an education in patrl-
otism and character to every private
in the Confederate ranks, even
though to him every printed page be
sealed. No college course could equal
such training to make man-a man
regardful of his country.
Likewise in the struggles OF the
white men of the South after the war
and until the redemption Of their
States-ours in 1S76-there was a
call to high resolves and unselfish
and unflinching exercise or public re-
sponsibility-an exaltation Of coun-
try, which not only entitled every
such man to vote thereafter as an
original charter member and voting
stockholder in the government which
he had helped to rescue and restore,
but actually fitted him for intelligent
and faithful discharge Of the voters
duty-unless he was peculiarly
wrong-minded or suited only for
times of violence.
It is not for US who come after
wards to disfranchise any man who
fought to save the State and helped
redeem the State when all seemed
lost. Hence the constitution OF 1895
provided by special understand
ing" test during three years to regis
ter as lifelong voters all such men,
so that only the new generation
would be obliged to measure up to
the standard of ability to read and
write or else to the standard Of own
ership ofs3O0 worth of property in
order to be entitled to register as a
voter. Such a test is no hardship, and
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

More than twenty heat prostra-
tions were reported in Minneapolis
and St. Paul Sunday in addition to
two drownings. The maximum tenn
peratures ranged from "a to 80.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

At Pickens on Sunday Demus
Cant, eighteen years of age, was kill
ed and Homer Davis was knocked
senseless and seriously injured dur
ing a thunderstorm which visited
that section. The boys were coming
into town just as the cloud was near
ly up and thinking that they could
get home before the rain, began to
run, and running near the home Of
Craig Baker the fatal bolt came.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09


South Carolina. In view Of the fact
that I am informed that these en-
campments are to be very shortly
held, 1 would suggest that If you
gentlemen hope to carry out our sug-
gestion, you have the communication
from the Governor to be made very
promptly.
s'Very sincerely yours,
"(Signed) Lindley M. Garrison,
"Secretary of War"
Senator Tillman sent the following
letter by messenger to Gen. Jones
and Col. Cogswell, and it was receiv-
ed by them:
"June 30,1913.
e'To Gen. Willie Jones and Col. Ju-
lius E. Cogswell. The Raleigh Hotel,
Washington, D. G. Gentlemen: I en-
close herewith letter just received
from the Secretary Of War following
our conference with him. You will
note the suggestion he makes for
prompt action by the Governor.
"I suggest that you wire the Gov
ernor Immediately the result of your
visit. understood you both to say
that you were more than pleased with
the results obtained.
cit now depends on Governor
Blease whether the State militia will
have an encampment or not and
whether the militia GETS ally further
appropriations from the National
Government or not. The delegation
has done all in it's power.
"Yours very respectfully.
(Sinedl "B. R. Tiilman,"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-07-09

This was the hottest June day re-
corded in Chicago since the Govern
ment records were first kept in 1872.
Ninety-nine degrees was the official
temperature, but the Government
thermometer on the street level
showed temperature of 102 degrees.