Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-02
MfsnAPs AND DISASTERS.

MlSk1AIS AMI D1ShS4ENSs
John Horton negro, his wife, and
five children were drowned in the
back waters of Pear river near Jack
son, Miss, while trying to escape from
the flood
The flood situation in the south
again grows threatening. In some
towns water stands six feet in the
streets.
Harry Miller, 12-year-old boy, was
run over and killed by n Chicago cable
car.
Jockey Frank O'I.eary was killed in
a race on the AQueduct track. Two
other Jockeys and two horses were in
jured.
Albert Myers, aged "A, was killed by
a falling shaft III a planning mill at
Stevens Point, Wis.
Two children, Albert and Frank
Krok, aged and years. ate canned
meat and died from ptomaine poison
ing at Chicago.
One man. was blown almost to at
oms, two men received probably fatal
and eight men and girl serious In
juries by an explosion of blasting pow.
der and dynamite Mt Larimer, Pa.
Hannah Liebowitz, IS years; Amelis
Liebowitz, II years, and Joseph Lie
bowitz, years old, were suffocated to
death in n New York tenament fire.
Cloudbursts in Texas drowned six
residents OF Waco and four or more
citizens of Blackshear.
John Kortas fell from the top Of =
forty-five-foot hoisting derrick at tho
ore docks of the Illinois Steel mills,
Chicago. and WINS killed.
Miss Vivian Clerise and j. w. Car
downie, variety actors, were drowned
in Lake Whitney, near New Haven,
Conn. 4is q
Nine persons were killed and a large
number wounded, many of whom are
likely to die by the falling of q bridge
at Paris exposition.
A passenger train struck and In,
stantly killed two unknown men who
were walking on the track near
Bloomsbury, N. j.
A coal train ran into a shifting en-
glne on the New Jersey Central rail-
road at Philippsburg, N. j., and Mich
ael McNally, fireman of the shlfter.
was crushed to death.
While fighting n fire in twenty
acre wood lot on their farm near Law
ton, Mich, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Brace We're hemmed In by the flames.
Mrs. Brace was burned to death and
her husband fatally injured.
NOTABLE DEATHS.
George Douglas Campbell, Duke Of
| Argyll, is dead.
Judge Charles Chadwick is dead al
| Lawrence, Kan. He was attorney
| general of Kansas in 1860 and pay
| master general of that state in 1864.
Wilhelm Schring, the poet and his
torian, is dead at Carlsruhe, Germany
in his S4th year.
Charles G. Stachelberg, head Of tn,
cigar firm of NJ. Stachelberg & Co., II
dead at his home in New York.
Professor O. X. Spence, professor Of
Greek and French at Fisk university
at Nashville, Tenn. is dead.
Thomas Harland, a well-known law
yer, author of our patent system, Il
dead at New York, aged 10 years.
THE FIRE RECORD.
Forest fires are raging within a mil,
of the outskirts of Duluth, MINI. Re
ports of heavy loss of life In Manitob.
by flames are denied.
The town of Panther, Mex, has beer
completely destroyed by fire.
Fire destroyed Hull, Ont, leaped the
river to Ottawa and burned half the
latter city. Homeless persons number
$4,000; property loss is $20,O00,000.
Fire which stared in Philadelphi,
paper spool factory spread to adjoin
ing property and did $250,000 damage
| Fire destroyed the large tobacco
warehouse of w. s. Matthews & Som
at Louisville. Ky. Loss on stock esti
mated at .$125,0O0; on building, $50,
900.
Fire Of incendiary origin destroyed
st. Johns Reformed Episcopal church
Chicago.
O. H. Rosensteil & Sons vinegar fac
tory at Freeport, Ills was destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000.
\ ODDS AND ENDS.
Leading Italian newspapers oppos,
the renewal Of commercial treatie
with Germany and Austria.
Colombia rebels have capture,
Bocas del Toro and threaten Colon.
Kenosha, Wis, is making elaborat
preparations for the dedication on Me
mortal Day of monument to the wa
heroes of Kenosha county.
According to Mexican statistic
that country is enjoying great prosper
ity.
Spider" Kelly of Terre Haute, Ind
was knocked out In that city by Jacl
Cullen of indianapolis.
| Andrew Cordiff, an Ohio farmer, wa
about to wed Miss Lucy Cole when b.
discovered by accident that she wa
his daughter.
Fifty automobile buses, to b
known as "imperials," are expected t
be in service on Chicago streets within
ninety days.
| General Ruis Rivera has resigne
from Governor Woods cabinet in Cub
and announces lie will run for mayo
of Havana.
MARRIAGE WAS IN HASTE.