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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
THE TAX AID PETITION,


The followin g is copy of the tax
aid petition now being circulated for
signatures:
TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MANCHESTER, IOWA:
The undersigned, resident freehold
Taxpayers of the City of Manchester,
Iowa, respectfully ask that the question
of aiding the MANCHESTER AND
ONEIDA RAILWAY COMPANY,
said Company being railroad company
Incorporated under the laws of the
State of Iowa, in the construction of a
projected, ordinary or standard gauge
railroad, through and from the said
City of Manchester, Iowa, to the viii
lage of Oneida in Delaware county,
Iowa, by the levy, collection and pay
ment to said Railway Company Of q
| five (5) per cent. tax on the assessed
value of the property in the said city
of Manchester, be submitted to the
voters of the City of Manchester, Iowa,
at a special election called for that pur-
pose; and that all of said tax shall be
collected in one year, and that no part
thereof shall become due until said pro.
posed line is fully completed from the
southwesterly angle of the intersection
of the right-of-way of the CHICAGO
GREAT WESTERN RY. CO., and
the right-of-way of the CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
Co., at or near the village of Oneida,
Delaware county, Iowa, to point or
place in said City of Manchester, Iowa,
at least sixty 1907 rods inside of its cor
porate limits; and that the said part of
said railroad, which is to be fully COM
pleted before any part of said tax shall
become due, shall be so completed on
or before December /, 1901, and such
completion shall be- all the work re-
quired to be done. - s'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
TWINS MARRIED. TO TWINS.
Crabbe Brothers and the Dotson Sister
Welded In Ohio.

Crabbe Brothers and the Dotson Sisters
Welded In Ohio.
Columbus. o., April 16.-A unique
double Easter wedding was solemnized
when Guy 0mer Crabbe and Roy Ho-
mer Crabbe, twins, were married to
Aidrien Z. Dotson and Edna A. Dot
son, twins. The groms are % years old
and the brides 1S. The former were
born at Mount Sterling and the latter
at Harrisville, w. Va. The twins in
each case have always lived together,
and not wishing to be separated in
marriage they decided to furnish q
double house. One couple will occupy
the upper fiat, the other the lower, and
both flats are furnished exactly alike
The ceremony was performed at West
erville, the home of the brides, by the
Rev Rudfsill
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
AssAILED By DR.. PARKHURsT.
Says tho Presbyterian Confession Of Faith
Should. BE Erased.

Says tho Presbyterian Confession Of Faith
Should Be Erased.
New York, April 16-Dr. Charles 81.
Parkhurst, in his sermon on Chris
tianity us Accepted by Many of To-
day" said the Presbyterian confession
of faith should be obliterated. He
called 1t libel on the infinite grace
of God" DR.. Parkhurst said in part:
II am not SO much rejecting upon
the confession of faith as upon the use
that traditional and stereotyped ORTIZ
odoxy-what call CONCEALED ortho-
doxy-makes of the confession; at the
same time avail myself of the oppor
tunity of that allusion to say that we
ought to have new confession Of
faith. It is surprising that the presby-
terlan church is able to do as much as
it is doing with such an incubus
strapped upon us as we are tottering
under in our present confession. In
the first place, the thing needed is not
system of theology, for that is what
our present confession is, but simple,
brief Saxon statement Of half dozen
or so of the vital ingredients of Jesus
Christ's message to the world"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
The New York World 4 %
Week Edition.
ALMOST A DA1LY-AT THE
PRICE OF A WEEKLY.

The most widely circulated /" weekly"
newspaper in America is the Thrice-a-
week edition of The New York World,
and with the Presidential campaign now
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Here are some of the reasons why 1t Isl
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1t is issued every other day, and is to
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Every week each subscriber receives
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season "a pages each week.
The price is only $1.00 per year.
1t is virtually daily at the price of q
weekly.
Its news covers every known part Of
the world. Noweekly newspaper could
stand alone and furnish such service.
The Thrice.a w eek.World has at its
disposal all of the resources of the great
est newspaper in existence-the wonder
of modern journalism" Americas
Greatest Newspaper" as it has been
justly termed-The New York World.
Its political news Is absolutely impair
tial. This fact will be of especial value
in the Presidential campaign coming on.
The best of current fiction Is found In
its columns. N
These are only some of the reasons :.
ghere are others. Read 1t and see them,
a,
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

ST. LOUIS, April 13.-The idea Of
making the coming Dewey reception on
May 3, and more of state affair
than was at first contemplated by in
viting the mayors of the leading towns
of the state to name delegations to rep
resent their respective communities has
been decided on at a meeting of the en-
tertainment committee. The sugges-
ton was made in communication
from Howard Elliott, general manager
of the Burlington. The suggestion met
with instant favor and the invitation
will probably be extended by means of
an open letter through the press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
BUSINESS NOTES.

Business men in the Wisconsin Riv.
err valley are going to expend $5,0O0.-
600 in developing the water power in
the Wisconsin River valley.
The demand for cash in the Chicago
market is so strong that one bank re-
ports no new loans under 6 per cent.
Renhard L. Co.'s private bank al
Columbus, o., has closed its doors.
large box factory will be erected
mt Watertown, Wis, this spring. II
will employ 200 persons.
The banking house of Reinhard &
CO., Columbus, o., was forced to sus
pend after a run of a month.
The Chicago and Northwestern road
has sent five large locomotives north
from Green Bay, Wis, to handle the
Immense ore business which the COM
pany expects to do this season.
The telegraphers on the Southern
railway have gone on strike. They
number 1000.
w. II. Dildine. of Sioux City, Ia,
has purchased the. lease of the Leland
hotel at Chicago.
The Burlington road Is preparing
plans for an extension Of its line to
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
STRUCK BY A CYCLONE
Eight Houses Wrecked in the
Town Of Royse, Tex.
SEVERAL LIVES REPORTED LOST.

Vivid Electric Display Early in tho Night
Is Followed by n Deadly Gyolone-Tele-
graph and Telephone Lines Destroyed
Great Damage by Storm Reported from
the Vicinity of Clearwater, kan.-Lives
Are Sacrificed.
Royse, Tex, April 16.-A cyclone
struck this place at midnight and 1t is
believed that several lives have been
lost Eight houses We're wrecked and
at this hour the greatest excitement
prevails.
There had been an electrical display
early in the night and ominous clouds
had gathered in the northeast. There
was, however, but little wind. A
light breeze prevailed until about fir
teen minutes before the cyclone. This
came almost without warning.
A man in a buggy was lifted FROM
his seat and blown 100 yards. Tele-
graph and telephone lines were de-
stroyed. Royse is thirty miles north
of Dallas.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
NOTABLE DEATHS.

Mrs. Kate G. Huddlestone, one Of
the best known club women of the
country, is dead at Chicago.
Thomas G. Hannah, prominent
member OF the Chicago Board Of
Trade. is dead.
Rev. William F. Junlin, q we'll
known Presbyterian minister, is dead
at Mont Clair. N. ].
=. Commodore William X. Mayo, Unit
ed States navy, retired, died Mt Wash.
ington Monday night, aged 76 years.
George w. Dillaway, one of the
largest wholesale and retail crockery
dealers in the west, is dead, at Mus
catine, Ia.
Baron Inchiquin edward Donough
O'BrieD is dead. W
Colonel j. H. Lifford, one of the
noted characters in Texas, is dead al
his home near Beeville, that state. 81
Frank II. Gushing, for years con.
nected with the United States bureau
Of ethnology, is dead at his home in
Washington, d. G.
Major Martin NJ. Burke of the regu-
lar army, superintendent of national
cemeteries, is dead at st. Mary's hos:
pital, Quincy, Ills. ,o5'
George H. Scripps, of the Scripps- Nc
Rae league, is dead. 80
Mrs. Bridget Gormann, aged 10:
years, is dead Mt her home in Pana
Ills.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
LIVES LOST IN KANSAS STORM.
Great Damage 1. Reported from the Vi
cinity of Clearwater.

Great Damage Is Reported from the VI
Cinity of Clearwater.
Wichita, Kan, April 16.-A storm
approaching tornado in proportion is
reported from near Winfield, between
her and Newton, and in the vicinity
west of Clearwater. Two deaths are
reported and four people are said to
have been injured by overturned
houses. Wires are down and names
and particulars are unobtainable.
AT Putnam 1t is said several houses
were blown down and four people Sc
riously injured. Word was brought
by passengers on the south-bound
Santa Fe passenger train that two per-
sons were killed.
West Of Clearwater, In the country
northeast of Adams. on the Engle.
wood branch of the Santa Fe railroad,
it is reported that strip Of country
five miles long was swept by a storm
at o'clock in the evening, and sew
eral farm houses, barns and other
buildings blown down. No casualties
are reported from there.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
MESELEx TO VISIT ANNA GOULD.


Emperor of Abyssinia Will be the GUESS
n of tho Countess of Castellnne.
New York, April 16.-The most Pc
culiar and signal honor ever conferred
upon an American will be the visit Oh
the Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia to
the Countess de Castellane, formerly
Anna Gould of New York.
The emperor will visit the Paris ex-
position as guest Of the French ma.
ton. In his case, as in that of several
other foreign potentates, the French
government will assign the duty of en-
PERTAINING to some citizen of wealth
and high social position. 1t has been
decided that the honor of entertaining
Menelek and his wife. the Empress
Taitou, shall devolve upon the Count
and Countess de Castellane.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Paris, April 16-The Paris Roubaix
autocar race led to serious accident.
Two competitors on motor-tricycles
collided and dashed Mt the speed of
an express train into a crowd of 1000
who had assembled at n crossroads In
the forest Of St. German to witness
their passing. Twenty persons We're
knocked down, some having bones
broken and many others being bruised.
Nine. Charles Bos. wife of one of the
deputies for the department of the
Seine, sustained a compound fracture.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Spread ofJineo Injection,
baltimore Sun

Imperialism has spread by infection
from one jingo.crazed country to
another until 1t has come to be recog-
nized as an International "principle"
that weaker nations may be robbed of
their liberties as we'll as their lands in
order that the strong nations may
Compensate" each other and maintain
peace among themselves, based on q
copartnership in conquest, annexation
and plumber. And it is into this VIC
ious maze of imperial "world politics"
that the Nc Kinley administration is
leading US.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Dies MONIES, April 12.-State Treas
urer Herriott has sent to Poweshiek and
Bremen counties the first swamp land
money to be paid under the law passed
by the last legislature. Since 1850
counties have been compelled to send
agents to the seat of government to get
this money, but by the provisions Of an
act passed by the ssth general assembly
the treasurer is authorized to transmit
these funds by draft.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Omaha, Neb., April 16-Reports at
railroad headquarters indicate that the
rain the last forty-eight hours extends
pretty much over the eastern half Of
Nebraska and may continue for an
other day. Railroad agents report
that the rainfall will be of great bene.
fit to the winter wheat fields, as it will
be to the spring wheat in southern
counties. 1t is said the acreage de.
voted to corn this year will exceed that
of any former year owing largely to
the high price that has prevailed the
last winter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Z ADMIRAL MAY VISIT IOWA.


Dewey Planning Western Trip In juno to
|1n.i - Include Western Cities.
d, DAVENPORT, Ia, April 1O.-Congress.
man Joe r. Lane sent word to the
Davenport Business Mems association
that he called upon Admiral Dewey and
presented the invitation to him to visit
the three cities of Iowa and the Rock
Island arsenal during his western trip
early the coming month. He says the
admiral expressed great appreciation,
but fears it will be impossible to arrange
to acceptit this trip, his route from Obi
cago to St. Louis having been made up
for some time past. The admiral. how
ever, says he has accepted an invitation
to go to Detroit in June and is contem-
plating accepting invitations to visit
Milwaukee and st. Paul also and if he
goes to the latter place thinks il proba.
BILE that he can accept the invitation to
come here at that time.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Married by Telegraph.

KANSAS CITY, Kan, April ia
marriage service by telegraph with the
bride and groom 200 miles apart was
carried out between Kansas City and
Mulhall, o. T., at noon. The groom
was Andrew M. Candell of Washington,
an entomologist attached to the depart
ment of agriculture, and the bride was
Miss Penelope Cundiff of Perkins, O.
T., the daughter Of prosperous farmer
of that place. The questions and re.
spones were wired back and forth and
repeated at each end to the couple by
the telegraph operators. the ceremony
renpiripg. 70 minutes time.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Hennessy WIN Conte.t.

DUBUQUE, April l2.-Michael j. Hem
messy yesterday filed a petition to have
the will of his brother, Archbishop Hen
messy, declared null and void. He al
leges the will on file is not the last one;
that there are two new wills, one dis
posing Of church property, the other of
private property. They bear date Of
Jan. 1S, 1900, while the original bears
the bate of Jan. II. The new wills are
said to have tho same witnesses as
the first one and to have many erasures
and interlines. The wills are in the
possession of an attorney, who refuses
to make public their provisions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, April lo.-The
Iowa State Retail Grocers' association
will meet here April "a in its second
annual convention, continuing in ses-
sion for three days. During the same
week, beginning Monday afternoon and
closing Saturday night and in connec-
ton AID under tho direction Of the as.
ISOLATION, the Transmississippi Food OK.
position win be held.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

JUNIOR PROGRAM.
Thursday Afternoon.
Junior work in charge OF Mrs. McQuilkin.
$50 Prayer.
Scripture.
1:4O How to Hold the Attention,
How - Ma,o ia io;. Mrs Mrs, N % HUNT
sponsibiiity. ....Mfss Mile Brintnell
The Band of Mercy -. Miss Eva Benson
The Juniors Our Hope fo- the Future,
................... Mrs. Frank Howard
How to Get Junior Superintendent,
.......::.. Rev. +. l.. Hildebrand
How to Present TO Juniors the Claims
of Christ ......... Rev. A. A. Tanner
3:15 Junior Rally. Miss Edith Durham
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Relief OF the Orphans of India.

The famine.in India has left so many
destitute children whose pitiable condi.
ton should appeal to every enlightened
American for help. In view of these
circumstances the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the NJ. e. church
will give dinner in the store building,
on the west side of Franklin street, one
door south of the Bradley & Sherman
building, on Saturday, April 81, the
proceeds to be devoted to the relief of
orphans in India. A good bill of fare
has been arranged to be in charge of
Miss Jennie Langhammer, which
will insure excellent preparation.
Dinner will be served from half-past
eleven as long as necessary, and we ask
for the patronage of the people in city
and county.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Refunds Citirens' Money.

DIES MONIES, April lo.-Yesterday
the state began paying back the parties
who advanced $40, 1000 for the return Of
the Fifty-first Iowa regiment from San
Francisco to Council Bluffs last fall.
By an act Of the legislature, with pub.
LEGATION clause attached which makes
the money now available, this entire
sum was appropriated by the state to
reimburse the 1888 banks of the state
which donated the sum,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, April 1O.-A
meeting of the executive committee Of
the Iowa State Amateur Rowing asso-
citation will be held in this city on April
10. The meeting is held for the pur-
pose of electing officers for the ensuing
years, selecting the place for holding
the annual regatta, selecting medals
and arranging such other matters as
may come before them. Much interest
is being manifested in the coming meet
ING.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

OTTuMwA, Ia, April 10.-Andy New
man. prosperous and well known
farmer. residing three miles south Of
Pennington, committed suicide yester.
day by drowning. His body was found
in q pond on his farm. in which tho
water was only 18 inches deep. Des-
pondency over i'll health is supposed to
have been the cause of his rash act.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
-HERRIoTT HAS AN INNING.
Iowa State Treasurer Files q Second State
,nent of Official yyronus


mcnt of Official Wrongs.
DIES MONIES, April 12.-State Treas.
urer John Herriott yesterday filed sec
ond statement, less voluminous, but
more sweeping than the first protest, in
which he not only reopens the attacks
on his colleagues of the executive coun.
Gil, but gives in no gentle words his
opinion of the Republican state central
committee and its methods. He alleges
that the committee has resorted to
doubtful practices in order to smother
the revelations made in his protest.
Governor Shaw and Secretary Dob.
son had little to say in regard to Her.
riott's statement, but O. W. Phillips,
secretary Of the state central committee,
talked freely Of the position Of the com.
mittee and its object in doing the things
told and strongly condemned by Her.
riokA
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

LEMARs, Ia, April 12.-By an agree
ment arrived at yesterday by the Illinois.
Des Moines, Northwest Iowa and Platte
river (Neb.) conferences of the United
Evangelical church, the normal school
at this place was accepted for theo.
logical seminary, to be called Western
Union college. An endowment fund
of 800, 900 has been started.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Dies MONIES, April ia. B. Gum
minis and Judge S. F. Proutty Of this
city, who have been understood to be
candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton for congress, and Edmund Nichols
of Dallas county, have announced that
they will not oppose the, denomination
of Captain j. A. T. Hull and this as
sures his denomination without opposi-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
Saints Criticise Bishops Methods.

LAMONT, Ia, April 1.-THE chief
item of interest in the Saints confer
ence yesterday was the report of the
committee to audit the books of the
church. 1t arraigned severely the
methods employed in the Office of the
bishop and recommended radical
changes therein. The bishop made a
lengthy statement in his own defense,
to which the chairman of the committee
made an explanatory reply,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Cicero, the pagan orator, declared;
"There is no way by which men can ap-
proach nearer to the gods than by con-
tributing to the welfare of their fellow
crestures." With all of our theology
and christian teaching, who among us
can improve upon the old pagan's state
mentS 81
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

OTTuMwA, Ia, April l3.-Oskaloosa
has been stricken with smallpox, Ia
cases developing there yesterday. The
Birdsail hotel has been quarantined, a
large number of travelling men being
included in the quarantine. Felix Ep.
pinger, q prominent business man, is
stricken. Rigid quarantine is exercised
everywhere.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Johnstown, Pa, April 16.-At
"speak easy" at mine No. 81 of the
Berwind-White Coal company, near
Windber, Somerset county, riot oc-
Cured shortly before midnight III
which three men We're killed, one be.
ing shot and two stabbed to death, and
another man was so badly stabbed that
his recovery is doubtful. One Italian
is supposed to have done the killing.
He is said to have fled toward this city
and the police here are on the lookout
for him. The killing is said to have.
been the elimination of n drunken
rnw
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
IOWA GASOLINE LAMP CASE
Supreme Court of State Reverses Decision
of Lower Court.

supreme VOurC OF state ReverG61 Decision
of Lower Court.
Dies MONIES, April 1S.-The celebrated
gasoline lamp case, entitled the State
of Iowa against O. r. Santee, was de-
cided by the supreme court Yesterday,
and the result was reversal of the find
ing of the lower court. The facts are
as follows: Information was filed
against defendant for using gasoline in
illuminating building without the use
of Welsbach lamp. The case was tried
in the Polk district court, resulting in q
directed verdict of not guilty, and the
state appealed.
The court holds that the statute is un.
constitutional us creating monopoly;
but holds that the defendant was guilty
under the agreed statement of facts for
having violated other sections of the
statute.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

NEvAuA, Ia, April 1s.-In the man
aamus suit of the Duluth and New Or
leans railroad against the trustees OF
Nevada township, Judge Whitaker is
sued an order compelling the board to
submit the proposition of issuing bonds
to aid in the construction of the road
to vote of the people.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18
BANKERS STRANGE DEATH.
Body of Truman d. Harker Is Found III
Water on Lake Shore .f5si

Fort DODGE, Ia, April l2.-The body
Of Truman D. Harker, president of the
First National bank of Storm Lake, was
found in about ten inches of water on
the lake shore near that city about mid
night. After the bank closed he took his
gun and started duck hunting. Not re.
turning alta late hour the family be.
came anxious and a searching party was
organized. After two hours search the
body was located among the weeds on
the shore of the lake. There were no
marks of any kind OH his person and
the gun by his side had not been dis.
charged. His accounts are in excellent
shape. An inquest will be held today.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-18

Sioux Falls, S. d., April 1G.-The
jury returned verdict of not guilty
in the case Of Joe Kirby, a prominent
charge of receiving postage stamps
while knowing them to have been