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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Brief state happenings.

Waterloo is to have glove factory.
Keokuk.
John Il. March has been appointed post
master at Seny.
A telephone exchange has just been
completed at Corwith.
Another lodge of the Yeomen has been
organized at Mason City.
A new canning company has been or
ganized in Marshalltown.
The electric light plant at State Cen
ter is fast nearing completion.
Council Bluffs has opened the reading
room in its new public library.
The citizens of Pleasant Plain will vote
on the question of Incorporation.
Thirty Blackhawk County farms
changed owners during recent week.
Two workingmen have been killed on
the new railroad bridge over the Skunk
river near Rome.
The knights of Khorassan have Or
ganized in Des Moines and filed articles
of incorporation.
A number of farmers near Corwith
are holding auctions preparatory to NOV
ing to Minnesota.
A new train has been put OH the Bur-
lington and Western between Oskaloosa
and Belle PLANE.
Herbert Strawborn of Ackley lost his
left hand while firing an old musket at
a charivari party. 49,,
The Milford Mill Company of Dickin-
In, l., 4 ~,
a capital of $4,000.
The Woman's Relief Corps of New
Hartford has presented another flag to
the high school there.
Floyd County will vote on the ques-
ton of uniformity in text books at its
coming school election.
Tramps and hoboes that are fed by Os-
kaloosa have to pay for their reception
by working on the streets.
Marshalltown can have beet sugar
factory if the farmers will guarantee a
sufficient acreage of beets.
Preston Keister Of Washington, while
attending to his work around his house,
dropped dead of heart failure.
The congregation of st. Joseph's Cath
Ole Church at Waterloo are thinking of
erecting a new so, 900 church.
1t is believed that the total enrolment
for the year at the Agricultural College
at Ames will so over the 800 mark
n young man Mt Abba will engage in
the business of raising polecats for the
hides they will furnish for the market.
All branches of the medical service at
Des Moines will be asked to aid in the
establishment of the proposed Methodist
hospital.
There are over six hundred men in the
soldiers home at Marshalltown and as a
result it is crowded to its utmost ca
pacity.
Freight train No. SO was wrecked at
Fort Dodge by breaking in two and rum
ming together. Conductor Whalen was
slightly injured.
The B., G. r. & n. Railway is storing
$50 cars of steel at Rockford. The steel
is all eighty-pound, and the total weight
Of the $50 cars amounts to 10,6OO,O Uu
pounds.
j. A. Adams was kicked by mule at
Ainsworth, sustaining frightful flesh
wound over the eye. He will recover.
Inc citizens of Indianola are talking of
selling their electric lighting plant and
putting in sewerage system with the
proceeds.
Benjamin Marshall of Burlington re-
gently deceased, had lived in Des Moines
County continuously for sixty-one years,
having settled there in 1889.
Twelve machinists quit work at the
Oelwein railway shops and scattered in
all directions. Hereafter the company
will give the preference to married men,
who are more apt TO be steady and per-
manent fixtures.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

malnsprings to repair after warm,
humid day than ut any other time.
Others believe the breaking to be due
to electric disturbances, stating that
after an electrical storm they find that
many of their customers bring their
watches to them for repair. The sud-
den cooling and consequent contrac-
tion of the tightly wound handspring,
caused by the removal Of the watch
from the body on cool night following
warm day. is believed by some to ac-
count, In measure. for the accidents
mentioned. So far. however. no en-
tirely satisfactory explanation has
been suggested. The only conclusion
to be drawn from the acknowledged
facts of the case is that 1t Is not safe
for the matchmaker to infer. merely
from the breaking of handspring,
that 1t Is Of an inferior grade, nor for
his customer to believe the watchmak-
er deficient in skill because the main
spring Of his timepiece has snapped
shortly after being replaced.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

three times he dropped out of sight
All these years mother and son have
been searching for each other. The
boy made habit Of working until he
had saved 500. when he would leave
his work and renew the search for his
parents. He says he will now take up
the search for his father, Peter Pippin.
The mother married j. Fl. Lyles after
her divorce from Pippin. The reunion
recently in st. Louis was joyful one.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
The Interest the Banks Net.

Representative Bell, Of Colorado
showed in short speech that the
claims repeatedly made by Republi.
cans, that the banks made no profits by
the deposits of Government money,
We're ridiculous. He had written to
State treasurers and ascertained that
they received from 111a to per cent. on
daily balances from the banks in which
State funds were deposited, but the
Government didn't receive cent OF
interest on the millions deposited by
Secretary Cages orders in national
banks. Mr.. Bell characterized those
deposits as crime against the people
LAFAYETTE Journal
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Woman Fatally Burned.

AT Clinton Mr.. and Mrs. w. ellis
were badly burned by lamp exploding.
The burning oil was scattered over the
clothes of Mrs. ellis and she ran scream-
ing from the room. Neighbors, hearing
her cries, ran to the rescue and extin-
guished the flames. Her face, arms and
back We're badly burned and she will die.
Mr.. ellis was not so badly burned, yet
is in terrible condition,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
JUST vAccINATED, THAT'S ALL.

The Pretty Young Woman Made the
Passengers Angry.
There was something strikingly pic
torial in the appearance of young
lady who sat in the upper left-hand
corner of a Jackson avenue trolley car
during one of its outbound runs the
other morning, says the New Orleans
Times Democrat. 1t was due, no doubt,
to many things-to the aristocratic
slenderness of her figure; to her wide,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Assassination Was Intended.

The perpetrator of the shocking at
tempt at murder which occurred at Char
iton recently seems to be no nearer APP
prehension and punishment than on the
evening when the dastardly deed was
committed. Miss Annie Heming was
struck down on the streets of Charlton
by an unknown person who evidently in
tended her assassination. She had been
out practicing singing for festival. On
her return she was attacked from behind
by some unknown enemy and beaten into
insensibility with an ash club taken from
the rings of wagon. The would-be as
sassin left, thinking her dead, and made
good his escape.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

There is one thing certain: the sons
Of the women who play cards all day
will never torment their wives by
boasting OF the good pies their mothers
used to make.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
FOUND HIS MOTHER,

Claude rippin's Search Is Rewarded
After Twenty.three Years.
Mrs. j. H. Lyles. of st. Louis. has
been reunited to her son after a sepa-
ration Of % years. The boy Claude
was u boy of 9 when his parents sepa-
rated, the father taking the son with
him to Canada. where he placed him
in convent school under an assumed
name. After visiting the boy two or
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Lodge Halls Burned at Moingona,

Blair block at Moingona was burned to
the ground. The lower floor was unoc-
cupied and the Masonic and Odd FELL
lows halls We're above, and ali their par
aphernalia and effects We're total loss.
The building was erected in 1867 by the
Moingona Coal Company and was the
property of the estate of John l. Blair.
1t is not known what insurance, if any,
was carried or whether the block will be
rebuilt
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

1t being fact that there is So, OOO, 600
less gold in circulation in the United
States than there was year ago, and
the total volume Of money" being
greater than it was year ago, it fol
lows that there has been vast in
crease of promises to pay, token money,
representatives of money; 1t follows
that those who own the diminished sup
ply Of actual money are in position to
corner the money market with greater
ease than they were this time last year;
that the country is more completely at
the mercy of those benevolent gold
owners, whose benevolence is the kind
the lion shows the lamb.-Helena
MONTY Independent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

In addition to adding 40 per cent. to
the cost Of print paper, which is a
grievous burden upon newspaper pub.
fishers, the trusts have decreased the
advertising revenues Of newspapers
about $40, 100000 a year. Fort Worth
Register.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Miners Get an Advance.

The joint scale committee of the State
Association of Coal Operators and the
United Mine Workers of Iowa has decid-
ed on 1O-cent advance throughout the
State on the price for mining coal. This
settles a controversy which has continued
since Fob liz
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

Mckinley will be forced to explain why
he took both sides of the question, and
why at last he harked away from his
Just recommendation and helped to
pass a measure which he at first con
demned.-Chicago Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Killed His Brother-in-Law.

Christopher Bauer, Garfield township
farmer, was killed by his brother-in-law,
Ernest Meyers, at the latter's farm in
Rutland township. Meyers quarreled with
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dora Bauer, and
struck her Bauer interfered and Mey-
ers severed his jugular vein with pock-
etknife.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Gieantic Moth.

The largest insect known to ento-
mologists is a Central American moth,
called the Erebus Strix. which expands
its wings from eleven to eighteen
inches.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Once Noted Anarchist Dead.

Charles Turk, one of the Chicago Hay
market anarchists, dropped dead on the
street in Sumner. Death was due to al
coholism
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
So the British Saw,

The Boer believes the earth is fat,
and that it would be impossible for riv-
ers to flow northward IL 1t were round.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

Times have changed: 1t is no longer
possible to find a man whom girl can
tiatter by saying she prays for him.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
A Ketorner.

Mrs. Corncribber-I reckon our Hen
merry has Joined the law and order
league at Yale"
Mr.. Corncribber-why do you think
that?
Mrs. Corncribber-Why, he writes
that he's helped to break up four
shows at the opera house this week.
Them theaters is very pernicious
things, you kpPw.-Judge.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
That Porto Rico Bill,


That ubiquitous Porto Rican tariff
bill passed the House of Representa-
tives by Il majority of eleven votes.
The bill is breach of good faith to-
ward the Porto Ricans, it is unconsti-
tutional, unjust and direct and abject
surrender to the demands of the trusts.
In spite of the fact that President
Mckinley advised free trade for Porto
Rico in his message to Congress he is
reported to have used his personal in
fuence to secure the passage of this
robber tariff bill. In spite of the fact
that the administration representative
at Porto Rico recommended free trade
rs the one thing needed to save the
people of that island from bankruptcy
and want, the administration forces at
Washington have put the bill through
the house.
But there are several other facts
which the Republicans will have to
reckon with before they are done with
this traitorous and malodorous bust
ness. There is n Supreme Court which
Will be asked to pass upon the layr
There is n Constitution of the UniteA
States which has been violated. And
quite the most important fact of all,
there is a public sentiment which will
rerndiate the men who have lent them.
selves to the performance of this iniqui-
tous deed.
Many influential Republican newspa-
DerS have dpnnIlncpd the ,naasura 40
unconstitutional and impolitic. The
Republican party is divided on the
issue, and in the approaching campaign
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Don't Forget 1t.

Here is the Monroe doctrine, with
whichit is well occasionally to refresh
the minds Of our people:
The American continents, by the free
and independent condition which they
have assumed and maintain, are hence
forth not to be considered as subjects for
future colonization by any European
power. 80
We owe 1t, therefore, to candor and
to the amicable relations existing be-
tween the United States and those pow
ers to declare that we should consider
any attempt on their part to extend their
system to any portion Of this hemisphere
Is dangerous to our peace and safety.
{ With the existing colonies or dependen-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

A girls idea Of doing hard work il
the time she spends calling her brother
to come and fill the wood box.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

cies of any European power we have no,
interfered, and shall not interfere. But
with the governments who have declared
their independence and maintained it,
and whose independence we have, on
great consideration and on just princi-
pies. acknowledged, we could not view
any interposition for the purpose of OPP
pressing them, or controlling in any other
manner their destiny, by any European
power, in any other light than as the
manifestation of an unfriendly disposi-
ton toward the United States.
The Mckinley doctrine is an offensive
and defensive alliance with Great Brit
ain.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

he regards as willing tools or as easily
seduced subjects, willing to accept
their daily bread as full compensa-
ton for the privilege of being Ameri-
can citizens; but he reckons with the
trusts, the money power, and the proof
Of 1T is, there are none of them Demo-
Gratis. All Of them are on the side Of
Mr.. Mckinley, clamorlng for his re-
election. If there We're only few
trusts and millionaires opposed to Mr..
Mckinley, 1t would enable the people
to have better opinion Of his ultimate
Intentions, but they are all shouting
prosperity, and stuffing their pockets
and vaults with the entire proceeds of
IT. Mr.. Mckinley looks OH and mods
his head in approval, which is all he
does except when the rights of the peo-
pie are concerned, then their clamors
are the bowling of n mass of anarchists
to be put down and exterminated with
the sword Of Islander and calumniatlon.
The Higher Law Must Prevail.
The New York World quotes Senator
Hoar rs being radically opposed to Mr..
McKinley's lmperialistic policy, but as
opposed to electing Mr.. Bryan because
1t is ian alternative not to be contem-
plated for a moment, inasmuch us Mr..
Bryan could do nothing IL elected"
The World rather favors this view Of
the matter, and adds the bogy Of free
silver to the things which Mr.. Bryan
will have no power to exploit should he
be elected. "How will it be possible,
even If Mr.. Bryan be President, to
undo and repeal what the present Con-
gress shall enact" in regard to gold and
silver? He must execute the law
which he will find on the statute book,
whether he likes 1t or does not like it,
until majority of both houses of Con-
gress shall order 1t otherwise"
In the almost universal oblivion of an
organic law which is superior to the
statute law, it is forgotten that If Mr..
Bryan be elected he may take it into
his head to enforce that organic law.
There Is not constitutional lawyer in
the country not in the pay of trusts
who does not know that there is no
such thing as an irrepealable law, and
that the obligation of contracts does
not cover fraud upon the people.
There is no law of robbery and plumber
that Mr.. Bryan may not successfully
resist by virtue of his oath of office to
support the Constitution. The execu-
tive head of the ation is not dependent
upon the will Of the money power
operating through Congress to the de-
struction Of the public welfare. Mr..
Bryan may do many things If elected,
and he may also prevent many other
things from operating for the exclusive
benefit Of a special class.
Don't Forget 1t.
Here Is the Monroe doctrine, with
whichiit is well occasionally to refresh
the minds of orr DeOnle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

has been point of excursion and an
object of curiosity for sight seers ever
since it was built. Gen. Grant was
taken there on one occasion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
Under Orchard Boughs.
OR three days Ford

OR three days Ford
Ashcroft, editor of
the popular Nova
Days Magazine. has
been kept at home
by a wretched cold.
To-day he felt al
most himself again.
but a whistling,
driving snowstorm.
a fierce blizzard,
such US sometimes
r.A-ln. W. ~
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-02-08
THE CLARK INVESTIGATION.
witnesses Examined by the Defense In
REPUTATION Of some Testimony Ohsred
by the Prosecution.

Washington, Feb. 6.-The two most
important witnesses before the Clark
investigating committee of the SEN
ate yesterday were Representative ia
oueth, of the Montana Legislature,
and A. B. Cook, ex-state auditor. Mr..
,Iaoueth is one of the members in
whose name Mr.. Whiteside claimed
to have received $1,000 for voting for
Mr.. Clark for the senate and Mr.
Cook had been represented by Speak
err Stiff, of the Montana house, as
having tried to induce him to vote
for Mr.. Clark for a money considera-
ton. Both denied these charges. Mr..
Jaqueth said he had never before seen
the envelope in which the $1,000 said
to have been intended for him had
been placed. Mr.. Cook declared that
he had never but once talked with
Mr.. Stiff concerning the contest for
the United States senate and that Mr..
Stiff had brought up the subject, sug-
costing that he might cast his vote
for Mr.. Clark for the senate for $780,
900, but that he (Cook)) had said
that he was not interested in the
senatorial contest to this extent. A
half dozen other witnesses were ex-
amined, all by the defense and each
in REPUTATION of some testimony of
tered by the prosecution.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-02-08
BlENE WEEKLY REFLECTOR ABILENE KANSAS FEBRUARY PAGES
BIG LABOR WAR.


acago, Feb. 6.-ihe big labor war
which will probably tie up all build
ing operations in Chicago began yes
terday when the contractors enforced
the new rules governing workmen.
On some OF the jobs the men refused
to go to work at all when they ar
rived at the usual hour in the morn
ing. The trouble spread rapidly dur
ing the day and by evening nearly
1000 of the 1000 men VINO nave Deeh
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-02-08
BRYAN IN MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Nebraskan Make. an Address at Pitts
held-Enthusinstic Welcome at North
Adams Leaves for Greenfield,

Pittsfeld Mass, Feb. Civilian j.
BRYAN yesterday afternoon addressed
a mass meeting in the Casino, at
tended by people from all parts OF
western Massachusetts. Ex-Con-
gresham John c. Crosby presided. On
the subject of Imperialism Mr.. Bryan
declared that the only question at IS
sue to-day is whether this nation
shall stand on the declaration of in
dependence or get off it. That dis
tinctly states that we cannot buy gov
crnments with or without the con
sent of their people. But the pur'
chase of people and their conquest
by war are against the declaration
Mr.. Bryan left for North Adams at
five o'clock and spoke at Odd Fellows
hall. where he received an enthusi
astc welcome. He leaves to-day for
Greenfield,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-02-08
THE CLARK BRIBERY CASE.


Washington, Feb. 3.-The defense
in the case of Senator Clark, OF Mon
tana before the senate committee
on privileges and elections yesterday
begun the presentation Of its side OF
the controversy. The first half OF the
day was given to three witnesses for
memorialists, after which Thomas I.
Lyons, county attorney OF Jefferson
county, was put on the stand by Mr.
Faulkner in Mr. Clark's behalf. His
testimony was rather startling in sew
eral respects. He brought Represent
tative Campbell, one Of the attorneys
for the prosecution, into the con-
troversy as. all active participant in
the case, saying that Mr.. Campbell
had promised him $1,000 to testify in
the case against Mr.. Clark in thi..
prosecution. tie had previously been
a worker for Mr.. Clark and said that
he acted in this matter at the in
stance of Mr.. c. W. Clark, playing the
part, as the witness put IT, "of a
Whiteside on the other side"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-02-08
what A Catholic bishop Saya

Joliet, ILL.,, Feb. ga mass meet
ing to approve the course OF the
Beers in South Africa was held in the
theater yesterday afternoon, There
were about 1000 present. John L.
Heating, of Chicago, president OF the
Ancient Order of lIibernians, was the
principal speaker, lie asserted that
Englishmen did not make good citi-
izens of this country and he was
greeted by Kisses. Resolutions eulo-
giving Kruger and Ibis stand for
liberty" and condemning Great Brit
ain were approved amidst great APP
plause. The English sympathizers
distributed circulars which bore an
open letter from the Catholic bishop
of Kimberley, which declares that
Chamberlain indictment OF the
Transvaal was fair.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-02-08
M'cRUM AT NEW YORK.
Ths Former United States Consul ut Pre-
torls Says He Will Issue y Statement
Telling why lie Left His Post

New York, Feb. 5,--Charles II, Ma
crum, the former United States CON
sui at Pretoria, who aafed to be re-
called at q time when affairs in the
republic were at crisis and when
his presence at the Tra oswald republic
was urgently required by the state
department, arrived here to-day on
the American line steamship st. Paul.
with him were his wife and little
daughter. Mr.. Macrum has main
tanned silence as to his reasons for
wishing to leave his station and
though repeatedly asked TO make pub
lie his reasons for so doing he has
refused. His silence is still nnbro-
ken, though Mr.. Macrum says that
after his arrival in Washington and
visit to the state department he will
issue statement over his signature
telling why he left his post at such
Q critical time.