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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
CALLS FOR SANITARIUM
McADOO WANTS PELLAGRA HOS
PITAL FOR SOUTH.
Secretary Of Treasury Considers it
Important to Take Steps to Meet
This Emergency.

Secretary McAdoo Wednesday ask
ed congress to appropriate $4,000
for a pellagra hospital in the South
In his letter to the speaker, the secre-
tary pointed out that pellagra bur
dens on communities in which 1t pre-
walls and that, while investigations
of pellagra have been Systematically
carried on at the marine hospital at
Savannah for several years and i'm
portant bacteriologic and epidemiol-
ogic studies are being carried on
from that station, that institution
has no facilities for the conduct of
metabolic and physico-chemical
studies.
The latter studies are necessary at
this time, according to the public
health service, because Of the suspi-
cion Of the association Of the disease
with diet and metabolism. Secretary
McAdoo added: ga number Of food
products are under suspicion, thus
duplicating several important indus
tries, and IL becomes important from
both sanitary and economic stand
points to determine once and for all
what bearing, If any, foods have on
the continuance OF the disease.
These studies necessarily will be
Of a highly technical natur~, requir-
ing special facilities to guard against
the possibility Of errors creeping in
during the experiment. In order 20
carry on these special studies, tenn
porary hospitals and laboratory facil-
tiles will be required in some local
ity where pellagra is highly preVa-
lent. The need for this hospital and
laboratory is to meet an emergency,
as judging by the past, the disease
will recur in the early spring in In
creasing virulence. When the emer-
gency shall have passed and the spec
ial studies completed the hospital and
labratorv can be readily discontin-
ued."
To carry out this plan, Secretary
McAdoo proposed to embrace in the
recommended $4,000 these items:
Equipment Of hospital with 25 beds,
$4,000: equipment Of chemical labor
atory $4,000; payment Of personel,
exclusive of pharmacists and commits
stoned officer, $4,000; maintenance
Of hospital, $4,000; maintenance Of
laboratory, $4,000.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
SOIL SURVEYS COMPLETED.
During. 1913 U. S. Government Fin
ished Soil Surveys.

The bureau OF soils OF the United
States department Of agriculture
continued the soils surveys in South
Carolina during the year 1913, and
the field work was completed il Bam-
berg, Orangeburg and Union coun-
ties, comprising an area OF approx
mately 1894 square miles. These
counties, together with the work
already accomplished III the State,
make total area Of approximately
1911 square miles, or S,S91,o40
acres. It is the plan to carry on
work in Chesterfield and Florence
counties during the present season
and the work in Chesterfield has al
ready begun. Four men will be
maintained in Chesterfield and two
in Florence, making six .men in all.
These facts appear from the forth
coming annual report OF E. ]. Wat
SON, commissioner OF agriculture.
The following list gives the names
Of the areas surveyed in the State
and those assigned for the present
season, togeth with the number of
SQUARE miles.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
PUTS. 1T TO THEM.
Georgia Judge Bids Fair to Stop Pts
tol Toting.

No mercy will be shown pistol
toters when they are arraigned before
Judge Benjamin H. Hill Of Atlanta,
Ga. Judge Hill Thursday morning,
when passing sentence, announced
a fat policy Of his court, which
means chain gang sentence without
the alternative of a fine for every
man convicted before him of carrying
a pistol, concealed, or unconcealed.
There is no excuse for pistol tot
ing" said the julist from the bench,
land 1t might as we'll be understood
right now that every man. regardless
OF age or color, who is convicted be-
fore me OF carrying a pistol, is going
to receive the full limit Of the law.
I am not going to allow convicted
defendants the alternative OF paying
a hne, but on cinviction they will be
sentenced to the chain gang for
twelve months"
Judge Hill let it be plainly known
that this policy will apply to persons
convicted OF carrying a weapon with
out license as we'll as those convict
ed OF carrying a concealed weapon.
The case, which caused the comments
Of the jurist, was against John Har-
ris, a negro, who had entered a plea
Of guilty to the charge Of carrying a
pistol without license.
His attorney asked that the court
treat the case leniently, and it was
then that Judge Hill made his state
ment. The carrying Of a concealed
weapon and the carrying Of a pistol
without license are both misde-
meanors, and the maximum sentence
In Georgia is twelve months on the
chain gang or a fine not to exceed
$1,000.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14

he always was by the poorer classes,
Villa made his escape. Villa took a
leading part in the Madero revolu-
ton, and when the cause triumphed
was given command Of a volunteer
corps at Parral in Chihuahua. His
loyalty to Madero was never open to
question.
When, In 1912, Gen. Pascual
Orozco revolted against Madero, Villa
fought and defeated him near Parral.
Later, under Gen. Huerta, who was
sent out to campaign against Orozco,
Villa incurred the enmity Of Huerta
and was sent to prison IN Mexico
city. It was there that he learned to
write. All day long he scribbled on
the walls Of the cell. Then one night
the news was flashed on the wires
that Villa had escaped and was on his
way to the United States. 1t has
always been supposed that President
Madero, who saved him from death
by execution by Huerta, caused the
escape.
Villa came to Ell Paso, arriving
there in March, 1913, shortly after
the time Of Madero's assassination.
With eight men he at once made ar
rangements to cross the line and
fight. Nine months later Villa had
$4,000 we'll equipped men in the
field. Practically all the arms, am
munition and money were taken from
the Federals after battles.
Villa captured Torreon, besieged
Chihuahua city, then by quick
stroke dashed to the border and cap
tured Juarez. Then he returned
southwark, defeated Gen. Mercado's
Federals who had marched north
from. chihuahua city. The entire
Federal army, panic stricken, fled to
Ojinaga, and Villa occupied Chihua-
hua city.
Villa likes Americans and his
frien dliness has always been conspic-
uous. That accounts for the measure
OF popularity which he enjoys among
Americans. He has often helped cit
liens OF the United States in Mexico
and is quick to rectify any wrongs
done them. He Is friend Of the
poor, now as In his bandit days. One
Of his first acts after reaching Chi
huahua cit ywas to order the native
merchants to reduce their goods tt
cost in order that the starving popu
lace might better afford to buy.
He Is anxious for success and while
acknowledging the authority Of Car
rama, IS known to be chafng at"the
delays in tho Sonora campaign, a:
| contrasted with his own successes
Mexicans rally to victorious banner
Should Villas successes continue
there IS no telling but that he ma,
far overshadow his present superior
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
FEW, MORE MADE FREE.
Blease Pardons One and Paroles Sew.
eral Other Criminals.

eral Other Criminals.
Among those who received execu-
tive clemency on the first Of the year
were:
J. Caesar Watts, white, convicted
at the October, 1911, term Of court
for Lancaster county, Of murder,
with recommendation to mercy, and
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
State -penitentiary. Granted a full
and free pardon.
Henry Patrick, white, convicted at
the November, 1908, term OF court
for Marlboro county, Of murder, with
recommendation to mercy, and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment in the
State penitentiary. Paroled upon the
condition that he remain sober.
Harvey Jackson, white, convicted
at the April, 1900, term OF court for
Chesterfield county, Of murder, with
recommendaticnsto mercy. and*sen-
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
:. State penitentiary. Paroled during
good behavior.
William Braswell, white. convicted
In Richland. September, 1913. OF
highway robbery and larceny. and
sentenced to three years. Psroled
during good behavior.
Hollie Leslie. colored, convicted In
Abbeyille in 1911, Of murder, with
recommendation to mercy. and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. Parol-
ed during good behavior.
Ludie Heard. colored. convicted IN
Greenville September. 1910. Of as
sault and battery with intent to kill
and sentenced, to seven years impris'
onment. Paroled during good be-
haEior.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
PLAN TO MEET ATTACK
FToERALs SAY EACH DAY GIVES
THEM STRENGTH.
They Await Villas Rebel Troops
Which Are Supposed to be Gath
ering for the Attack.

Returning Thursday to Ojinaga
from a accommodating trip, Gen. Pas
cual Orozco, commander OF federal
volunteers, said he had encountered
only the outposts Of the rebel army.
The rebels were believed to be con-
centrating under personal direction
Of Gen. Francisco Villa, to present a
solid front when they again march
on Ojinaga.
All nine generals who remain in
the trenches at Ojinaga, with the
1000 Huerta soldiers, said every
hour OF delay gave them opportunity
to prepare resistance and Gen. Villa
would have to increase the rebel
force greatly to repeat the six days
battle of last week, when the rebels
came within 400 yards Of the Ojinaga
trenches without being. able to take
them.
Gen. Francisco Castro, commander
OF the federal regular army, said he
was confident his army never would
be beaten by Villa. He said he was
well aware that the impending con-
| fict was Of momentous Importance
to the Huerta regime. It would set
tie, he said, question whether the
Mexico City government was to main
tain its authority In the north or
whether the "lawless rebels which go
by the name Of constitutionalists are
to have full sway"
The federal commander said his
soldiers had endured hardships, had
gone without food for days, ragged
and footsore, they had marched over
the waterless desert as token OF
their: loyalty and he did not believe
they would run at the sound Of bat
tie.
"Wel1 never retreat, but all OF US
will die right here in Ojinaga II our
ammunition gives out" said Gen.
Castro, himself garbed in torn and
dusty uniform as evidence Of the re-
cent fighting.
Reports have reached Federal
headquarters that since their with
drawal from the battle Monday the
rebels had not only been strengthen
ed by reinforcements from Chihua-
hua but they also had obtained
quantities Of ammunition. The fed
eral army has only what ammunition
was left after the battle and has no
means of replenishing its stores.
. A story Of the death Of Col. Gully,
relative Of the rich Terrazas family,
who joined the federal army as
volunteer. was told today by priest.
The priest said Gully, accidentally
shot by his men in last Sundays en-
gagement, had requested when dying
that the rumor Of his shooting be
kept from the rebels, as they might
consider the federals had become e1-
cited.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
YEGGMAN SENT UP AGAIN
MCKINLEY, PAROLED RECENTLY,
GUILTY OF ROBBERY.
Veterana Safe Cracker, Unable to
Break Down Chain Of Circumstan-
tial Evidence Must Return to Pen.

William Mckinley, the safe-rob
Der, paroled by Governor Biease
Thanksgiving Day, after he had serv'
ed six years Of ten-year term in the
State prison was convicted in the
circuit court at Spartanburg Thurs
day OF robbing the store OF Renard
Frey, at Fair Forest on December TO-
about two weeks after his release
Judge Shipp sentenced him to serve
one year and one month.
The evidence against Mckinley
was circumstantial, but there was not
a+weak link in the chain which Solic-
itor Albert E. Hill wound around
him. One Of the bits Of evidence on
which the solicitor laid emphasis was
q button with tuft Of cloth attached
found near the scene Of the robbery.
The button was Of identically the
same kind as the buttons Of McKin-
ley's suit, and the cloth also CORE
sponded. One Of his buttons was
missing.
A bottle about half-flled with
what the officers alleged to be nitro
glycerine was also introduced in evil
dence. It was found in the camp, in
the woods where Mckinley was ar
rested. Nitro-glcerine was used, it
was claimed, in the attempt to rob
the safe In Frey's store. Testimony
that Mckinley traded shirt stolen
from Frey's store to Elmore Wright,
fellow prisoner in the county jail,
also Influenced the jury, Wright, a
paroled murderer, will be tried for
shooting Ernest ,Mcabee, his wife's
cousin, some time after Wright left
the prison.
Mckinley acted as his own coun-
sell. He strongly denied his guilt.
He made frequent objections to the
testimony offered by the State. In
addressing the jury Mckinley told Of
the hardships he endured in the brief
period between his release from the
prison and his arrest. He said he
had only s1.S5 when he left prison,
had no friends to whom he could ap-
peal and was forced to live the life
Of q vagrant. He told Of his wan
derings in South Carolina and Geor-
gia prior to his arrival at Spartan
burg. He said that when he was ar
rested he was on his way to Virginia.
The man made a pitiful plea for mer-
cy, asking the jury to dismiss from
their minds the past record and not
convict him on circumstantial evil
dence.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
BURNED AT SEA.

Crew Of British Bark Rescued After
Drifting Three Days.
The German bark Eilbeck arrived
at Astoria, Ore, Thursday from San
ia Rosalia with Capt. W. Marsters,
his wife and two young daughters
and sixteen officers and men OF the
British bark Battle Abbey, burned at
sea December 20. The party aban-
doned the vessel and for three days
dritted in a lifeboat before they were
picked up by the Eilbeck. Bad
weather had caused considerable suf-
fering. The Battle Abbey was reg
lstered under the British flag. She
was OF 1853 tons burden and was
out Of Newcastle, N. S. w, October
IS, bound for Vancouver, B. c.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
SHOOTS MAN AND CHILD
CAROLINIAS REPORTED SLAIN
IN CALIFORNIA.
Was Paying Attention to Divorced
Woman When She Discovered That
He Was Married.

! he as Marr1eU.
Efforts to establish a motive for
the double murder and suicide, which
caused the deaths Of w NJ. Melton, a
Los Angeles, CAL, attorney; Mrs.
Mary Graves Cox, OF San Francisco,
and the latter's daughter. Florence,
~ years old, in rooming house at
Los Angeles late Tuesday night, have
proved futile.
Lodgers in the house where the
tragedy occurred said that when last
seen together, Melton md Mrs. Cox
had appeared to be on the best OF
terms and there was nothing to indi-
cate a quarrel. The police, however,
believe Mrs. Cox did the shooting.
She Is a divorcee Of about three
years.
Melton received four wounds, any
one Of which would have been fatal,
while Mrs. Cox was shot but once.
Around the wound in her head were
powder marks, indicating that the
revolver had been very close. There
was found q photograph OF herself
and the child, on which Mrs. Cox
had written Florence Cox and Mary
Graves. 2,734 Mission street, San
Francisco-report the news at
home"
The wife Of W. M. Melton. the at
torney and realty agent, killed Tues
day night in the tragedy which
brought death also to Mrs. Mary
Graves Cox and her daughter, Flor
ence, has been located at Los Angeles
also. A history Of the mans life led
officers to conclude that the double
murder and suicide were the outcome
Of Melton's inability to meet his en-
gagement to marry Mrs. Cox.
Mrs. Melton visited the morgue
and identified the body Of her hus-
band. Police officers said they were
told by her that Melton had lived at
home and was regarded by her and
her neighbors as a model husband.
His frequent absence from home, she
said, she believed was duo to bust
ness.
The police theory to account for
the tragedy Is that Mrs. Cox learned
Of the existence Of Mrs. Melton,
and that In a paro1ysm Of anger she
shot Melton and her daughter and
then killed herself.
A dispatch from Spartanburg says
that w NJ. Melton. the attorney who
was mysterialy killed at Los Angeles,
Cal. Tuesday night. is believed to-
have been a Spartanburg man, who
has several brothers and sisters
there. He was a son Of the late Rev.
Newton K. Melton, long prominent
member of the South Carolina Con-
ference OF the Methodist Episcopal
church, South. Mr. Melton's re]a-
tives have received no word from
Los Angeles concerning the tragedy,
and hoped that by strange coinci-
dence the man slain may be some
body else Of 1dentically the same
name, profession and place Of resi-
dence. but news from Los Angeles
tends to confirm tn esupposition that
Melton was the Spartanburg man.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
TRAIN IS MAROONED.
Passengers Reach San Francis

Passengers Reach San Francisco
After Enforced Stay in Canon.
=, Cut OF from communication with
tho outside world since Monday a
week ago, when a Western Pacific
overland train from San Francisco
became marooned in the Feather
river canon, 96 passengers reached
San Francisco Sunday. Several aged
persons and children had to be car
ried from the stalled train over the
debris and rocks on the tracks a
quarter Of a mile. The storm. which
caused the train to be stalled by
landslides, was so severe that few
passengers ventured outside the cars
until they started for the relief train.
For two nights the marooned passen-
gers were in darkness.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
To Frame Canal Law.

One OF President Wilson's hrst acts
upon returning to Washington will
be to determine the plan Of govern
ment OF the Panama canal zone. Sec
retary Garrison Wednesday declined
to say whether he had recommended
q military or civil government organ
iZation.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Woman Accuses Husband.

That her husband, Peter Rooney,
had poured alcohol on her and then
set her "on fire with q match was
the ante-mortem statement made by
Mrs. Mary Rooney, 43 years Of aga,
who died In a hospital at Jersey City
n. J., Wednesday night as the result
Of burns received Tuesday night.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
INJURIES PROVE FATAL.
Little Laurens Boy Fearfully Scalded
by Falling in Pot.

As the result of scalds and burns
received three days ago, Jack Dendy,
aged Z, eldest child OF Joseph j.
Dendy, a prominent. farmer and busi-
ness man OF Laurens county, died
Sunday night at the family home.
While warming himself before fire
under a pot in the yard, the lad acci-
dentally fell into the vessel Of boil
ing water and was terribly scalded
from his neck to the waist line.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Decorates an American.

Third Oflcer ". Wynon, Of the
Rer Star steamship Kroonland, an
American, was Thursday decorated
BY the Belgian Government for cour-
age in assisting at the rescue Of the
survivors of the Volturno when abe
was burned in Mid-Gtlantic last Oct.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Derelict IL Sunk.

The part OF the Oklahoma which
remained afoat after the disaster
and menaced navigation, was sunk
Wednesday by the revenue cutter
senaca. It took fifteen explosive
shells, fred frora six-p;ouHd guns. to
sscd the ds.ss!ct to tsa bottom.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Trainrnan Meets Death.

Richard Sondley Jr. was crushed
to death Wednesday night in the
seaboard Air Line yards at Abbeville.
He was fagman for the company
and was on his way to 90 out on his
run, when attempting to avoid one
train he stepped direetly IN front of
an. engine backing up to the round
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Banker Takes Life.

K. A. Grady, paying teller at the
Macon National bank, shot and killed
himself Thursday afternoon. Fail
ing eyesight is given as the cause OF
his act.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Sumter Negro Killed.

Near Brogdens, In Sumter county,
Tuesday afternoon Alma Washing
ton, a negro boy, who says he Is only
ten years Of age, stabbed and killed
Preston Stewart, another negro boy,
who was IS years Of sge. 4 playful
SSrfsia laAr fs q f%ht
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
School Girl Murdered.

The body OF Dixie McAdams, a
16-year-old school girl Of Ruston,
La, was found Tuesday by the road
side, sixteen miles northeast Of her
home, where she had been murder
cd.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
SENATOR SMITH TALKS OF THE
new CURRENCY Law
Big help TO FARMERS
Junior Senator Speaks to Sea Island
Cotton Growers Association at
Charleston-Says He iS Very Glad
That Farmers Interests Are Well
Safe Guarded by Currency Law.

"I have certainly enjoyed this op-
portunity OF meeting the planters OF
Charleston county and Of seeing
what intelligent efforts they are
making to improve agricultural con-
ditions in this section" said United
States Senator Ellison Durant Smith
to q reporter for Tie News and
Courier while on q visit to Charles
ton Wednesday.
senatorssmith was in attendance
en- the annual meeting Of the Sea II
land Cotton Growers association, at
which he delivered an address. He
was interviewed at the Commercial
Club. where he was the centre OF q
large group OF planters, all OF whom
were interestedly making inquiries
Of the Senator cnocerning the various
measures he introduced in Congress
recently for the improvement OF asri-
cultural conditions in the country.
and especially for the improvement
Of cotton conditions.
Senator Smith did not discuss pol
itics. He remarked that he had not
come for the purpose. He discussed
the currency bill fight Interestingly
and said that the thing which had,
probably given him most pleasure
during the last few months was the
adoption OF his resolution by the
Democratic caucus to endorse the
amendment to the currency bill max
ing farmers notes running as long as
six months basis Of the new currency.
and also the amendment to i've years
the life Of loans on farm lands. South
Carolina. represented by Representa-
tive Lever in the House and BY Sena-
tor Smith in the upper body. IN this
way was instrumental In performing
what is considered a great service to
the farmers Of the whole South.
Respecting embodiment Of these
items in the currency bill. Senator
Smith said: "They recognize the
man engagedin agriculture as bust
ness man as we'll as farmer. Their
effect Is to give the farmer six
months time on his loans instead Of
ninety days. The nature Of the
farmerss~busiHess Is suck that-he has
no marketable, return before six
months after negotiating his loans"
He said that his aim had been to
put into the currency system Of the
United States what has never been
in 1t before. the recognition OF real
estate and the products of real estate
as collateral In national bank loans.
Senator Smith Is so pleased with
the result Of his efforts IN this mat
tor that. exhibiting the original draft
Of his resolution. containing the sig
natures Of twenty-seven Democratic
Senators. he said he intended having
It framed and keeping It permanent
ly. He said that though he has de-
voted the major portion Of his efforts
while in Congress toward the better
ment Of agricultural conditions.
especially in the South. and has had
several important measures toward
this er6 adopted, he was perhaps as
highly: pleased over this piece Of
work as over anything else he had
ever done.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-01-14
Boiler Explodes.

Three employees were killed and
four probably fatally hurt Thursday
at Bridgeport ILL.,, when a boiler
which had just been installed explod-
al