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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Damaging storms In the state.

A severe storm which passed over
southwestern Iowa did considerable dam
age to crops in the eastern part of Potta-
wattomie and western Cass County. A
strip of country several miles wide was
visited by hail, and the corn crop was en-
tirely ruined. At Avoca lightning struck
an elevator belonging to the Des Moines
Elevator Company and it was destroyed.
The loss is estimated at S50,0OO on the
building and the grain that 1t contained.
A cyclone struck the little town of Han
mas Siding. on the Minneapolis and st.
Louis Railway. II. A. Shaw and wife
are lying at the point of death as the re-
suit Of injuries received from falling tim
ters. and several others We're slightly in
jured. The elevate. of Way, johnson x
Go. was among the buildings destroyed.
A violent storm extended from -Algona to
l.uverne. twenty miles long and nine
miles wide, prostrating corn and running
ANAL
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

General Jake Smith has been useful.
He has helped to impress upon the CIV
ilized world the horrors of Civilized"
warfare. Whatever may have been his
provocation he shocked the enlightened
people of his country, and he may even
have Jared some of the Europeans
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
How Working People View 1t.

When an honest labOring man or
woman, who is not looking for charity.
but for fair wages, reads in the papers
that the cost of living to-day is higher
than 1t has been at the beginning Of
any fiscal year since 1865, what does
he or she care if a trust magnate has
endowed another library? Does that
endowment really improve the present
magnificent opportunities for securing
superior education in this country p
Boston Globe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Why Trusts Hold Control.

With a billion-dollar steel trust clear
ing up $140,O0O,OOO year and the
American consumer paying one-third
more for his steel goods than Euro
peans pay for the identical article
made by the same trust and sent
abroad-it is easy to see why the trusts
keep control of the Republican party.
1.-The tariff is the mother of trusts"
said Mr.. Havemeyer. of the sugar
trust. And the Republican party is the
agent of the trusts, In that 1t is re-
sponsible for the tariff laws.-St. Paul
Globe.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Met n Horrible Fnte.

A horrible accident occurred near Clare,
when runaway team threw William
Kliehm and his daughter on sickle and
terribly mangled them. He aud his
daughter were driving when the team he
came frightened and ran away. The
father and daughter We're so terribly cut
and mnngled that their lives are despaircl
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Not Easy Of Explanation.

Mr.. Austin, the newspaper man
whom Mr.. Hanna made chief of the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics, is an
expounder of the doctrine that trade
follows the flag, but he has difficulty
In explaining the falling off in our ex-
ports during the past year, amounting
to more than s1O0,OOO,OO0 in value. He
is no worse off, however, than all the
other imperlalist soothsayers who have
found 1t to their profit to disseminate
fairy tales about the effects OF Eek
pansion" upon our foreign trads and
our national prosperity.-Hartford,
Conn, Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Fortune frorn Failure.

The news has been received in Mason
City that o. d. Buchecker, formerly OF
that place, has just sold his home fnrm
near selby. s. D., for $4,000. The farm
consisted of 2,4O0 acres, with barns and
other improvements, but the price was
enough to show how the Dakota lands
have increased in value in decade Five
years ago o. ID. Buchecker was accounted
bankrupt in the public estimation. He
had failed in the coal business and part
ed with his farm Of section of the best
land In Cerro Gordo County. aud when
he went to Dakota people said that Bu-
checkers career was ended. But i:
wasn't. A wealthy Mason City banker
stnke5 him with enough money to build
barns and other buildings on ranch Of
wha. was considered only grazing land of
doubtful quality, helped him 10 stock it,
and Buchecker began to get on again.
To-day he is rich man again. with 100
quarter sections of Dakota land still 10
the good
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
rhev Must AN Re Crnzy,

If Hoar is crazy on the subject OF
the Philippines, so was Benjamin Har-
rison, so is Governor Boutwell, and
George f. Edmunds and Thomas B.
Reed. A man who harbors the idea
that we have not ''outgrown the con.
stitution" or that the Declaration of
Independence is something more than
mass of "glittering generalities" is
necessarily crazy.-Helena Independ-
ant
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

If the President spends two hours
per day in the garden trying to pull up
trust weeds he will soon find out that
they grow from the hill in which the
tariff root has been imbedded.-ltich.
mond Times
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
4 Roy Seriously Injured.

"A little son OF VIM. Dickinson living
near Garpayillo. was terribly injured by
being run. 1oseta "a binder. The little
fellow came out into the fen. .-'stS,hsrs his
father was cutting grain and lay down
to sleep unobserved. He was in the track
of the binder and rs 1t passed the large
bull wheel ran over his head. The boy
was badly bruised. but there is some
hope of his recovery.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Pirates in Agreement Arain.


Even the tiger is for harmony, after
he has had his dinner, and, therefore.
there is nothing surprising in the re-
ports that Quay has held out the olive
branch to his former henchman and
late antagonist, Elkin, and that they
have decided to bury their differences
This corresponds to the general rules
Of piracy everywhere. Tile pirate chief
is the man who can hit the hardest and
he remains chief just as long as he can
shrivel up other mems aspirations by
glance of his eye. Quay proved that
he could hit the hardest and now his
late antagonists, in splints and ban
dages, are flocking to renew their hon.
age Besides, the signs Of more plum
der are not lacking. York Even
ing Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Practice Far short of Profession.

The Democrats are determined to APP
peal to history to prove that no anti
trust legislation is to be expected from
the Republican majority in Congress.
Scarcely day passes but one Of their
politicians repeats the charge on the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

At Audubon Lucinda r. Robson has
filed petition for a divorce from Jo-
seph Robson. The wife alleges cruel and
inhuman treatment and asks for $4,000
alimony. She claims he has abused her
at various times since, beating and
pounding her and forcing her to do a
mans work on the farm and the house
work us well. Mr.. Robson is well-to-
do farmer. the owner OF four hundred and
eighty acres of land besides personal
property. Mrs. Robson asks for 100000
alimony and 5000 for attorneys fees.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

Many woman clothes her body until
she resembles fashion plate, while
she lets her mind go ragged.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

When girl over % is still a belle,
either her father is rich. or she lives In
a big house. and gives parties.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

The Executive Council has completed
the assessment of the railroad, telegraph,
telephone and express company property
of the State. The increase in the rail-
| road assessment over last year is $4.041,-
556 which amount is borne almost wholly
by the trunk lines, the Northwestern
|.SES2gaukec, and Burlington lines getting
the ks.s xieSt Increase. The assessment
of the telegraph, is'eA ehone and express
companies property also Shows sun.
stantial increase. The railroads alone will
be obliged under the new assessment to
pay in taxes approximately S121 DAG more
than last year. The State levy was fixed
by the council at 31s mills. The council
was given authority to raise approximate
ly $780, 900. but took into consideration
in fixing the levy the $456,0O0 received
from the national government few
weeks ago in war claims. The eleven
principal railroad systems of the State
bear all but S6S,T63 of the increase. The
principal lines and the amounts of their
increase follow:
Burlington. Cedar Rapids x North
Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy -. 665,46I
Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul 900,S So.
Northwestern .............. 1,1O0,54G
Chicago Great Western .......... 250,1Ss
Chicago. st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha .................. 22O,IUJ
Dubuque 4 Sioux City ......... 25O,01a
Minneapolis & st. Louis .......... 25,732
The Iowa Central and Wabash roads
were not changed, the assessment being
same as last year.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
$; gIl]llIEEEII[
a.Es,.s4 NilEaI.

DR.. G. f. Applegatc, superintendent Of
the hospital for the insane at Mt. Pleas.
ant. makes the statement that the per
cent OF rccoyeries of insane patients in
Iowa is on the increase This is the con-
cluson he reaches backed up by Stats
tics which he has submitted in the forty
third annual report of the Mt. Pleasant
institution filed with the State Board of
Control the other day. Figures submit
ted by DIR. Applegate show that 10 per
cent of the patients discharged as recov-
cred during the past year remained in this
improved condition. DIR. Apologize
strongly commends the system of parole
of insane patients adopted by the Board
of Control, stating that in several cases
he knows where recovery has been has
tened by the paroling of the patient. In
no case has there been any accident to or
net of violence by paroled subject. or
the 16o patients out OH parole during the
past year 23 We're discharged as recov-
cred, 43 as improved, 3 as unimproyed, D
died, ID were returned, and G3 are still
out on parole. At the beginning of the
present fiscal year there We're 53S men
and AGO women, making n total of 09S
patients in the Mt. Pleasant hospital.
During the year there We're admitted for
the first time 1914 men and 100 women,
making total of BOB. Seventy-sevem
men and 46 women. u total of l23, were
readmitted during the year. The whole
number treated during the period was
1,424, or 500 men and 615 women. Dur
ing the forty-three years history OF the
Institution. closing with June 80, 1902,
l1.S62 patients have been treated. or
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

Unapprcciative TIM Plate Workers.
1t is difficult to find any palliation for
those tin-plate workers who have de-
clined to have their wages reduced %
per cent in order that the American
Tin-Platc Company may underbid the
mills of Wales and secure contract
for ths :..ek!aS of 100000 boxes OF tin
plate, for the ssssa ndard OIL Company, Mt
the lowest rates ever IIt.sated. The men
are actually given the opportunity to de-
prive themselves by their own volition
to create benefits which they will not
share in. Gould anything be more lib
eral? There are not many countries in
which the criminal has the right to Sc
lect the method of his execution. The
Indication of preference not to be
executed at all shows nature lacking
in gratitude. Courier-Jour-
nal
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Trusts CONTEMPT for the Public.

Trusts Coutem ut for the Public.
1T Is none of the lpublic's business"
says an anarchist,4, coal road presl.
dent, in answer to the question why
they will not CONSENT to arbitrate n
strike the entire lpss whereof falls
finally on the public. The public Is
not concerned" s;Ays President vree-
land, of the Metropolitan Railway
Company, in ans wer to an Inquiry
about poisonous Bulphuric acid fumes
forced by certain lof its crosstown cars
into the noses and lungs Of tile public
for months past This is the bee that
is getting into the bonnets of tn, presi-
dents of our publicly franchsed cor
porations-'.nonf of the publb.'s bus!.
ness" How fat this contemr.. of pub
lie corporations for the public can be
carried without causing the meek and
patient public to rise in effective re.
bellion nobody knows.-New York
World.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

platform or in the presf. 1t may as
well be honestly ADMITTED that the rec
ords for the last six years, during
whics period the Republican party has
been in absolute control OF the Govern
ment, are all In their favor. President
Roosevelt declared in his Fourth of
July speech: Words a fe good IL backed
by deeds, and only 81" II his party
persists in refusing to live up to its pro-
fession It will stand Condemned by the
words of its foremost representative
Philadelphia North A, american.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

M.
III. ne a,nua, fspp.l VI 'iie iowa eoiuters
Lioue ~ Marshai'towh SHOWS that there
naNe hot peen 81 many deaths IN .hc
~. .anAs u tue oNn Mar veterans curing
.ne pas. year as lnere mas peen evidences
W i,n ~easeheo ph!sicai coha't'ohs wmrh
Min peiore many YEARS MAKE percep.'ois
'aioaus. ,a y, Tue year iovl. Com
nanuahl ~ " rioteon. VINO s"phits Tue
tepor. ~ the State !'oaIu OF Son nao
eo,efiis 'he year CLOSING June su' iov%'
says .nere were 500 veterans cared LOT III
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13

Judge Kline of the Board of Control
states that since Mt. Pleasant Hospital
has been designated by the board us the
place for the commitment and detention
of inebriatcs. DIR. Apologize. the super.
intendcnt. has received numerous appli,
cations for admission and patients are ar
irving there every day from various parts
of the State in such numbers MS to give
ground for the belief that the room set
apart for them will soon be exhausted.
Plans have been completed for seven
ty-two buildings at the Des Moines army
post. These are sufficient in size and
number to quarter full regiment of cav
airy. The plans have been approved by
the War Department.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-13
Tho Heralded rru.t War.

Again 1t Is announced from Washing.
ton that Attorney General Knox will
proceed vigorously against the trusts.
He Is described as waiting impatiently
for decisions in the suits pending, and
to be full Of plans for the assault on
the monopolies and combinations that
menace and Cypress the people.
The attack by President Roosevelt
In his Fourth Of July speech was bonn.
bardment of the Trust citadel with pro
jectiles of thistledown, and the pros.
pectiye siege by Attorney General
Knox will be no more calculated to
cause the trusts concern.
Knox seriously attack the trusts.
Knox, the trust lawyer, who went di-
rectly from the position of attorney for
the armor-plate highwaymen to the AT.
torney Generals desk?
States who, though he had been the
lawyer for one of the large component
companies of the Steel Trust, did not,
according to his own declaration, know
there was any Steel Trust?
Knox, whose position as the bulwark
Of the trusts is so well known that the
non-partisan Antitrust League has de-
manded his removal at the hands of the
President?
Knox, whose communication as to the
nefarious Eastern Railroad Association
brought this characterization of him
less than a month ago on the floor Of
the House of Representatives?
THE palpable evasion, the contempti
BILE cowardice and chicanery of the At
torney Generals reply were SO plain
and SO damaging to his official sincerity
and cendor that not leading newspa.
per In the country but commented
upon 1t most critically and disparaging.
~. Any one who runs may read be
tween and in the lines of this communi
cation his absolute unwillingness to en-
force the law, and his corrupt complai
sance toward the known violators OF
the law, because, presumably, they
were his recent clients and his pros.
pective friends. 1t is document OF
such disingenuous and dishonest tone
and temper as to render 1t certain, in
the minds of all impartial judges, that
no antitrust suit will ever be instituted
by the present Attorney General, ex
cept under the compulsion Of necessity
and when instituted will never be pros
ecuted in good faith, nor with reason
able official honor and intelligence"
Attorney General Knox will seriously
attack the trusts when John w. Gates
moves to have gambling in stocks sup
pressed and John ID. Rockefeller enters
the lists as champion of the Income
Tax!-Chicago American.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
SAFES USED IN CHURHES
USES TO WHICH THEY ARE
 PUT.
Steel Poor Boxes Now-Hnve Combima-
 ton Locks.

Yes" said a safe manufacturer safes are used in churches, to some eX- tent, but not to keep money in, because the money isn't kept in churches What they are used for here is to keep the church records and papers in for one thing, and for another, for the preser- vation and safe keeping of the church plate and sacred vessels.
 "A church buying a safe for the pre- servation of it's books and records and so on would very probably buy cne sec ond-hand. It would commonly be kept somewhere in the basement of the church, out of the way, and it would not be essential that it should be bur glar proof.
 ''On the other hand, safes for church plate and sacred vessels might in some cases contain pieces of great value and would be made for protection against burglars as well as against fire. Such safes might be specially designed and built to hold the particular vessels kept in them.
 "But while the use of regular safes in churches is confined to the purpose de- scribed, there are now used in churches of all denominations many strong boxes of steel in place of the old time boxes of wood, poor boxes and guild boxes for the reception of offerines and contributions, placed permanently in the churches attached to the walls in vestibules or in the body of the church.
 Such boxes, of course, are not in- tended to keep money i'll for any length of time, and the amounts in them a any time may not be great. But made of wood and locked with an ordinary lock they are liable to be broken open and rified or the whole box to be carried off, for that matter. by thieves
 "rbese steel boxes are bolted to the wall so that they can't be torn loo9a, While it Is easy to drop money into tht steel strong box is so contrived that money cannot be fished out of it, and it has a combination lock. It isn't intend- ed to be fire and burglar proof, but it is sneakthief proof; and so it serves it's purpose and it is moreover compara~ lively inexpensive.-From the New York Sun,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Opening, Highest, Lowest Quotation On the New York Stock Exchange, reported
 by Prince x Whltely, Brokers, 15 Center
 street, New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
THE STOCK M4RHET,
UnavaiIing Effort to Contest Downward
 Tendency.

New York, May 7.-To-day's stock market reflected an unavailing effort to contest the downward tendency After yesterdays revulsion from the semi-de- moralization on Monday. some reaction ary tendency was natural to restore the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
THE OREGON CAMPAIGN

Every reader of the two opposing po- litical platforms in this state cam paign must have been impressed with the striking correspondence existing in many points, such as fat salaries for state officials, elections of senators by popular vote initiative and referendum Chinese exclusion, river improvement, organized labor, land laws, trusts. Fed eral aid to irrigation, isthmian canal, On these and perhaps on other heads the two parties make professions that are substantially identical.
 But parties are not to be estimated by by their professions. They are not even to be judged by the things that come along from year to year, but by the whole course and tenor of their history, purposes and tendencies
 The whole course and tenor of the Democratic party for generation has been contrary to the best interests of the country, and if it's proposals had been followed throughout the last 40 years, the nations course would have been one of humiliation and shame Such would be the result of following its proposals now, as much as at any time in our history.
 The Democrats were wrong about the great questions that centered about the conflict involved in our civil war. They were wrong again on the great ques- tions gathered about the issue of hon. est money against dishonest money.
 Today the civil war is behind us and the money question is behind us. The great questions before us for solu- ton are those growing out of the Span ish war, and again the Democratic party Is wrong, It insistently arrays it. self against the patriotic impulse, against the national honor and grand eur, against the extension of the nation al sovereignty against the enhancement of our political and commercial pos ton on the Pacific ocean and it's shores.
 These large questions must be con- sidered ill estimating the claims of the parties for popular confidence. No considerable body of intelligent public opinion could be brought to say that the proposals of the Democratic party are any more deserving of acceptance today than they have been heretofore
 Oregon will either go Republican in June or it will go Democratic. If it goes Republican 1t will declare for ex- pansion, progress and greatness in na- tional affairs. If it goes Democratic 1t will declare for isolation, litteness and stagnation. It will either yield to "the craven fear of being great" or else re- spond to the virile impulse of national assertion and pride.
 One peculiarity of the campaign is the number of young men who will be actively engaged on both sides. There will be no side issues. The Populists and Silver Republicans, as such, will not take part in this contest. It is to be 8 straight-out party fight between the Republicans and Democrats.-Port land Oregonan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
EinamciaI.
$75,OOO Wabash River Traction
 Company, Of Wabash and Peru, Ind, First Mortgage 5 p. cent Gold Bonds.
Dated August 1, 1901. Due August 1. 1931.

Dated August 1, 1901. Due August 1, 1931.
 lntrest and principal payable at the offcs or the New Haven Trust Co.,, New Haven, Conn, Trustee for the bondholders.
 Total amount issued, 275, ,OO0.
 The Wabash River Traction Company is owned and operated by prominent Connecti. cut Street Railway men, and controls thu Street Railway systems of Wabash and Peru, two of the most prosperous and rapidly growing cities in Indiana.
 We purchased the entire issue of bonds \ and have sold about 100000 of them. Wa offer the balance as a very safe and desir+ able 5 per cent, investment.
 Special circular and price on application.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
%Ex-Dividend.

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THl NEW HAVEN COUNTY NAT BANK, q New Haven, In the State of Connecticut a the close of business April 30, 1902.
 ItGnIfEItltS
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
Govern ment Bon yas.
Bid. Asked,
Cotton.

Cotton. Reported over the private wire of J l.. Mo. Lean x Co.,, 2S Broad street. New York; New Haven office $40 Chapel street, Hu. binger Building. Norman A. Tanner. manager.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
No Loss ofTime.

I have sold Chamberlain's Cholc Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for years, and would rather be out of office and sugar than it, I sold five bottles of it yesterday to threshers that could go no farther, and they are at work again this morning.-H. R. Phelps, Plymouth, Oklahoma. As will be seen by the above the threshers were able to keep on with their work without los- ing single days time. You should keep a bottle of this Remedy in your home. For sale by all druggists.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
MALCOM X C0OMBE.

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