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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
RUSS SEXES SOME MORE SHIPS
vladivostok Squadron Is busy. as Well a
the Volunteers.

Vladivostok Squadron Is busy, IA Well ~
the Volunteers.
Toxic, July 25.-The Russian Vladi.
vostok squadron has sunk the Fritish
steamer knight Commander, which IL
captured Off the coast of IZu province
The Knight Commander was from
New York. The Russian warships
were last reported to the southwest Of
Cape Iro, lzu province steering to the
west. The VladivostOk squadron also
captured German vessel believed to
be the Arabia with 10000 tons of flour,
and an unknown British steamer The
two vessels were sent to VladivOstok
IL charge Of prize crews.
Port Said, July %. Advices re-
eeived here say that the Russian vOlun-
teer fleet steamer Smolensk fired three
blank shots across the bows of the
British steamer Ardova, the cargo of
which consists of coal and explosives,
and the vessel not stopping the Smo-
lensk sent two loaded shots Mt her,
one of them passing over her amid
ships, and the other over her stern.
The ArdOva was then seized and her
crew transferred to the Snfolensk. Her
icnrgo is from New York, and proba-
bly, consists Of supplies for the Unit
ed States garrison in the Philippines.
This will not involve the United
States, however, as the ship flies the
British flag.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
Democratic State Convention.


Town CITY, tss.:,TJuly 20. - After
se!seahg resolutions committee
which would write platform in ac-
cordance with the platform adopted at
the st. Louis convention the Iowa
Democrats. in state convention here.
listened to the speech Of Temporary
Chairman Stiger, sent message of
congratulation to Judge Alton B. Park
er at his home in Esopus, and then ad.
jouned until 8 p. IN.
The applause for Chairman Stigel
was especially strong when he dis.
cussed the tariff and reciprocity and
insisted that there should be no re-
vision by the Republican method. He
urged that there should be no dissen.
sions In the ranks. The resolution t.
Judge Parker was as follows: lows
Democrats in state convention Assem-
bled congratulate you and the nation
on your nomination, aud the prospect
Of your election We wish you God
speed"
At the afternoon session the follow
ing ticket was chosen: Electors-at
large, w. o. Schmidt, Of Davenport
and ]. B. Romans, of Denison; secre
tay of state, Charles A. Dickson
Sioux City; auditor. Edgar F. Medary
Waukon; treasurer, Henry Riegelman
Des Moines; attorney general, Maui
rice O'Connor, Fort Dodge: railway
commissioners, ]. p. Monatrey, Fair
field; supreme Judge. ]. w. Sullivan
KOssuth county
The platform adopted by the conven
ton is exceedingly brief, and simply
Endorses the platform aud ticket mad.
at st. Louis. and pledges them lows
Democratic support.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
ARepublican Boomerang.

A boomerang is described as q
singular missile weapon, which
when thrown at an adversary is apt
to return and strike the person who
throws it. 1t is a political boomer
ang that is creating CONSERVATION in
the ranks Of the republican party in
the state of Wisconsin.
A few years ago many republican
states, Wisconsin and Iowa among
the number, passed statutes prohib-
iting the name of a candidate from
appearing on more than one ticket at
the same election. This Legislation
was smart, tricky, politics, on the
part Of the republicans, to prevent
fusion between the democrats and
other minority parties.
This year there are two republican
parties in Wisconsin, irreconcilably
divided on state issues, but vying
with each other in professions Of
loyalty to the republican national
ticket. Each party has nominated a
separate state ticket, with identical
presidential electors, and right there
is where the boomerang hits them
hard. The name of no elector can
appear more than once on any bal
lot and that provision of the Wis
consin statute may defeat the Roose
welt electors. Some contend the:
the courts should be called urc:l te
declare the law invalid. 81 account
of its manifestly unjust purpose
while others say that they had soon
! 81 see the national ticket defeated
than admit their political rascalit,
in such a public manner.
IF the republicans lose Wiscon
sins electoral vote this year, ant
the vote of the state should be de
cisive of the presidential election,
will be another case like the one w
read about in the Book of Esthe,
where Hannah hung on the gallow
erected by him for the execution Q
his adversary, Mordecai. In tn
long run it pays to be honest il
politics as well as in business.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27

John Sharp Williams, the adroit
and scholarly leader of the democrats
in the lower house of Congress, tells,
about "The Spirit Of the. 4o,;s
q Convention @ye lie lie current number
Golfers Weekly. His article is
charmingly written, and argumenta-
tive in both text and context. 1t is
Of more than ordinary interest to the
writer, who occupied the adjacent
seat in the convention to Mr.. Will
liams and where he could not help
but observe the effect of the conven-
TONS changing spirit upon the
democratic leader.
No men in the convention cheered
longer or louder for Mr.. Bryan and
voted against him oftener than the
Mississippians did, and here is Mr.
Williams clever explanation: "The
South held the balance Of powe,
both in the applause and voting, and
{ illustrated once more its traditional
warmness Of heart and soundness O
head" For finished product tina
is a gem. No one can fully appre
ciate;its merit who was not in til,
shop where it was made and saw thu
chips chat were hewn off.
Mr.. Williams is so years old. He
was born in Memphis, Tenn, ane
his father was killed while leading {
Confederate regiment at the battle o
Shiloh. He is not great orator
but in mental force and scholarly at
tainments there are few men in his
class.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
MRS. MAVERICK SET FREE
American Woman Who Has Served Long
Term In an English Prison Is
Finally KeIeaxed.


Cornwall. Eng, July 21.-Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick is free. She left here
at 11:43 a. M. OH her way to France.
Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Flor
ence Elizabeth Chandler. member
of a well-known and prosperous SOUTH
ern family, was married July 81, 1881,
in st. James church, Piccadilly, TO
James Maybricl, of Liverpool. She
was then 1S years old. Her husband
was over 40 years of age. In the
spring of 1889 Mr.. Maybrick became
Ill, and in few days he died His
brothers investigated his death and
charged Mrs A1aybrick with the muir.
der Of her husband
A long trial followed, and n number
of doctors swore that the deceased
died Of arsenical poisoning The de-
Tense proved that for twenty years
Mr.. Maybrick had been confirmed
user of arsenic, and that he daily took
doses large enough to have killed a
dozen ordinary men. Mrs. Maybrick
was eventually sentenced to death by
the judge, Sir Fitzjames Stephen,
who spoke for two days in charging
the jury. He said 1t was impossible
for them to find her guilty in the face
of the medical evidence. The Judge
died some time later in mad house.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
The waimnnru Gey.er.

The great Waimangu geyscr in the
north island of New Zealand is sur.
rounded by hills from 800 to 500 feet
high, oil covered with volcanic debris
from the terrible Tararewa eruption in
1886, when the mountain of that name
exploded, causing destruction and
havoc for miles, including the loss of
two native villages with their inhabit-
ants-close upon 100 lives. This val
ley is throughout III constant state of
geyser action. Everywhere the ground
is covered with "blowholes" and pools,
the hot, sulphurous water with steam
bubbling up ut numerous points. Erup-
tons take place without any special
prelude. The imprisoned forces of ma
ture, with seemingly one gigantic, COIL
centrated effort, shoot up an immense
and terrible mass Of water, redhot lava
and stones to the height of from 400 to
1850 feet, spreading In all directions,
covering frequently the hills around.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK.
An Ancient Phrase That Has Many
PhnAes of Meaning.

An Ancient Phrase That Has Many
Phnses of Meaning.
The phrase "by hook or by crook
may simply refer to I'M ancient Gus
tom which allowed persons to collect
for fuel dead wood In the kings forest
such as they could break Off and re-
move with cart, hook and crook"
Some trace its significance "by foul
means or by fair" to the contrasted
uses Of the footpal's hook or the
bishops crook.
Others remind us Of the expression
In very early days "by nuke DER
krooke"-thnt is, by bending the knees
and crlnglng low.
Another plausible explanation is that
after the great fire of London disputes
MS to ownership Of land We're settled
by two surveyors whose names were
Hook and Crook.
Quite different is the view taken by
those who tell us that when Strong.
bow sailed for Ireland he Instructed
his men to make their attack by Hook,
n promontory northeast of Waterford,
or by Crook, harbor on the south
coast.
In my case, the phrase is very old
for 1t was used by Bacon 1850, by
Shelton, the poet laureate $500, and
by Chaucer nearly GOO years ago.
Parsons.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27

Al, M, One Man Nominated by Aco,a,ns
t,on-Sp.cch l,y Cumu.tns.

All nut One Man Nominated by AcGiaine-
ton Speech by Gnn,mins.
Des Moines, la, July 21.--Thc fol-
lowing ticket was nominated by the
Republicans of iowa: Secretary Of
state. w. d. Martin, of Adair; treas.
urer, q. s. Gilbertson, of Winnebago;
auditor of state. b. Il. Carroll. of Da-
Wis; attorney general, G. w. Mullan,
of Blackhawk; supreme judge, II. u.
Deemer, of Montgomery; railroad COM
missioner N. S. Ketchum, of Marshall;
slectors-at-large, Colonel u. Fl. Orms-
by, of Palo Alto, and j. III. Trewin, of
Linn.
The convention was notably har-
monious. every candidate but railroad
commissioner being nominated by ac.
clqamation. Ketchum won the rail-
road commissionership in two ballots.
The session was one of the briefest
held in years. and it was marked by
but one enthusiastic demonstration
that which greeted Governor Cummms
when his name was read in resoiu-
tons before the convention. The del
egNtes chered for several minutes, UNI
til the governor was forced to come to
the platform and make short speech.
Governor Cummins aligned himself
fully for the campaign with the DOM
inant faction In the party, which is
opposed to him. He declared himself
In perfect accord with the address of
Representative Hepburn, leading
standpatter, and as he continued in
this harmonious vein he was accord
ed cheer upon cheer.
The resolutions adopted ore brief,
and they include nothing to give Of
fenso to the Iowa idea minority, in.
dorse the Chicago national platform
the administration Of President Roose
welt and the nomination Of Roosevelt
and Fairbanks. The Iowa delegation
in congress is Endorsed. and also the
administration of Governor Cummins
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
Nub Of the Trouble Is "D,scriminatIon."
BOTH SIDES MAKE STATEMENT
Charges Made by Donnelly : What the
Packers Have to Say.

Charges Made by Donnelly = What the
Packers Have to Say.
President Donnelly and other strike
leaders issued statement as follows:
THE packers signed an agreement
thut there would be no discrimination
used in the rehiring OF the men. THIS
was taken by the officers of the or
ganization In good faith. In the rel,ir-
Ing of the men, they We're lined up
like cattle. The foremen and super
intendents. walking through the lines
would pick out man and say: You
come up The next would be ordered
out of line and told he could not be
used.
ut was always the good, active TN
Ion man whom they could not USE
This has been the system In the past
and that was our main reason for in
sisting on time limit in the agree
mcnt. In spite of this, the packers
intention was to hire only such men
as Were fayorites. They also hired
men In some departments who had not
been employed prior to the strike.
Superintendent Benson, of the Ar
mour canning department, addressed
the employees this morning as follows:
You went away like cattle, and we
will take you back like CATTLE This
language was addressed to both men
and women.'n
This is what the packers say: Much
to our surprise, the men, after report
ing for work this morning, and after
getting started In nearly all houses,
were ordered out again. We thought
the officials of the organization clearly
understood that the business had been
more or less interrupted during the
strike, and that some days would lie
required to get started up in anything
like full capacity. 1t is the intention
of the packers to carry out their agrees
ment in every particular, and If any
house has given cause for grievance
the same can be, and any future griev-
ances will be, readily adjusted"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
Platonic Love.
PA, what's platonic loveY'
Its generally bunch Of trouble u
disguise. Exchange.
Rosin For Waterproof.

Rosin is used to form waterproof
paper for use in butchers shops, fish
markets and also for building epur-
poses, and, strange to say, this I'M
prOvement reduces the cost of the pa
per. All methods of applying rosIn in
solution after the paper is finished add
heavily to its cost and also render it
very brittle, but If the rosin is dis
solved in potash and mixed with the
pulp in the beating engine and this
alkali afterward treated with alum it
becomes neutralized md washed away,
leaving the finely diffused rosin
throughout the whole mass.
1t is also used for protecting the
coarser manufactured products, such
ms agricultural implements, against
rust by mixing 1t In solution with
benzine. This is applied MS varnisll,
and the benzine rapidly dries away,
leaving coat which protects the ma
terial until 1t goes to the severe service
Of actual use.-Engineering.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27

packers and the strikers maintain that
they are living up to Wednesdays
agreement for a settlement by arbitra-
tion and that it is the other side That
is responsible for the renewal of hosiil-
tiles.
After the adjournment committee
appointed for the purpose merely an
nounced that the peace negotiations
had failed, but that there was still
hope that an agreement could be
reached in the near future. No written
statement of what transpired i'll the
meeting was given out, us has been
customary at former conferences. and
the committee declined to give any fur
ther Information except that another
meeting would be held.
1t was learned, however, that the
obstacle which prevented Il settlement
of the strike wus the fact that the
strikers had made new demands on
the packers. When the first strike was
settled on an arbitration basis it in
clude d II provision that the strikers
We're all to be reinstated within forty
five days. After the renewal of the
strike Donnelly demanded that all the
strikers be reinstated within ten days,
Instead of forty-tive, as provided in
the original agreement.
This the packers refused to do. al
leging that they had lived up to their
agreement and that as no discrimina-
ton in the rehiring of the men
had been meant the strikers should
abide by the agreement which was
signed by all OF the butchers unions,
and also by the allied trades unions at
the yards, who We're at the conference
and took part in the proceedings
which led up to the arbitration agree
ment decided on last Wednesday night.
The question of reinstatement has
all along been the one point on which
it was impossible to reach an agree
mcnt. Roth sides seem determined to
maintain the stand they have taken
and unless one or the other offers some
sort of compromise today's confer.
ence will fail i'll its object.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
DEMOCRACY OF MISSOURI


Joseph w. Folk Heads the Ticket Nom.
inated-Couldn't Beat secre- xDn,ln
tary Cook.
Jefferson City, Mo-, July 22.-Gov-
ernor, Joseph w. Folk, of st. Louis;
lieutenant governor, Thomas L. Rubey,
of La Plata; secretary of state, Sam
uel b. Cook, of Mexico; auditor, AL
bert o. Allen. of New Madrid; treas
urer, Judge James Cowgirl, of Kan
sas City; attorney general, Elliot w.
Major, of Bowling Green; railroad and
warehouse commissioner, III. Rubey
Oglesby, of Warrensburg.
This is the ticket nominated by the
Democratic state convention which
convened here last Tuesday and nd
journed sine die late yesterday after
one of the most harmonious conven-
tons that ever had been held in the
history of the state Democracy. The
only fight in the convention was on
the nomination of Cook for secretary
of state, it being held by his opponents,
some of whom had been instructed for
him, that he could not stand on the
platform adopted, but when the test
of strength came Cook was NOM
mated on the first ballot with great
ovation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
VIOLENCE AT STRIKE POINT
Non.Unlon Men Mobbed ut St. Joseph an
Chicago.

Non.Union Men Mobbed Mt St. Joseph and
Chicago.
Chicago, July 23-There was more
strike turbulence here in the twenty
four hours after the agreement be-
tween the packers and butchers had
ben signed than during any other sim
liar time during the strike. Non-un-
ion men We're mobbcd and at one time
savage attack was made on police
escorting non-union men from the
works.
Last night, after it became known
that settlement had not been reached
the strikers grew more turbulent and
violent. A non-union girl was mobbed
by nearly 1000 boys and girls, who,
when she reached her fathers house,
battered the house with stones and
bricks until wagon load of police
men arrived. There We're assaults on
non-union men all over the packing
house district. No arrests were re-
ported.
AT Kansas City, Mo-, big crowd
gathered Mt the Toll box factory, n
non-union plant which does work for
Swift & Co., and when it became
threatening was dispersed by the po-
lice.
AT st. Joseph, No., earnest efforts
on the part of the police department
to maintain peace We're only partly
successful The strikers sought out
several non-union men who were at.
tackled and severely beaten. George
Hensley, a police officer in citizens
clothes, was seriously hurt by striking
butchers. IT, l1s
AT Fort Worth, Tex, but four OF
the strikers applied for work at the
Swift and Armour plants when the
whistle blew. The first attuck on a
non-union man occurred at noon. A
negro laborer was set upon by Il squad
of union pickets and choked. He man
aged to escape without serious in
l iul'ipS
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
FALL RIVER MILLS CLOSED
Thirty Thousand Operatives Do Not Re-
port for Work as = Protest
to Wage Reduction.


to Wage Reduction.
Fall River, Mass, July 25.-The
strike order issued by the Fall River
textile council calling for upward of
10000 operatives to remain away from
the mills in protest against reduction
of 1215 per cent. in wages, has become
effective and the response was us gen.
eral rs the labor leaders had predicted.
In the thirty-sevcn mills involved in
the agreement to reduce wages it is
estimated that not more than 300 en-
tered all the gates in place of the tide
Of operatives which between q o'clock
and G:30 every morning sweeps
through the various entrances, and be-
fore O'clock practically every mill in
volved in the trouble had shut down.
The strikers. who in some instances
had assembled near the mills, dis
persed quietly.
Both sides admit that this is the
beginning of one of the most deter
mined contests which Fall River has
ever seen. The manufacturers main
tain that they have tried every plan
which they could think of to avoid n
reduction of wages, and took that final
step only when driven to do so to save
their business. On the other hand, the
operatives says that the conditions af-
fecting cotton manufacturers here did
Il nnt 1yo rrn nt Such n raductiOn
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
Temporary Chairman stiger's Speech.

1t may seem extravagant, but in
our iudepent Mr.. Stiger's speech as
tenn. i chairman Of tho Iowa
City convention is entitled toa place
among the very best convention
speeches ever delivered in Iowa. The
Register and Leader says, that ut
was on the whole better than John
Sharp Williams much heralded ad-
dress at st. Louis 1t also says,
speaking of Mr.. Stiger's attack on
the tariff, that he refused to consult
expediency, and thereby proved, as
the cheers of the convention did,
that even in gathering met to cele-
brate the defeat Of Bryan, the ideas
and spirit of Bryan were still domi-
nant." Here are two paragraphs
which illustrate the terse pungency
and stalwart democracy which char
acterized all that Mr.. Stiger said:
To-day it is a battle Of Drawn and
"brain against the minions Of pelf
"who fight honest toll in field and
shop and mine, and struggling tai
cent at desk and bench and bar, UNI
fair from behind corporate law
"corruptly used and basely admins
tered"
"The system Of protection as now
defended by the republican party is
''the most insolent and brutal exer-
''cise of the taxing power Of govern
"ment ever witnessed by people
capable of governing themselves"
Mr.. Stiger touched every hill and
hollow in present day politics, and
presented the claims Of militant
democracy to public confidence in a
most convincing manner.
The speech in its entirety would
make an admirable campaign docu-
ment, and we trust that steps will
be taken to give it the largest cir
culation possible.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27

The Iowa stock-raisers, who re-
ioiced when the managers of the
packing houses gave millions to
Mark Hanna's campaign fund, are
not feeling as hilarious as they did.
They now know that the so-called
contributions were little less than
purchases Of licenses to plumber, of
privileges to graft, and that the
grafters have worked their purchas-
ed privileges with frenzied fierce
,+eeeren defiance ofsthe natien'n
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
Case of senator Burton.

Washington, July 22-Justice Brew.
er, of the United States supreme court,
has granted writ of error to the
tUMted States district court for the
eastern district of Missouri, In the
case Of Senator Joseph B. Burton, con.
victed in st. Louis Of accepting fee
for service before the postottice de-
partment while member of the
United States senate. The case will
be reviewed by the United States gu.
preme court probably in the fall.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27
SAFE ROBBERS GET NOTHING
Force of the Explosion Denolishes the
Now State Bank Building ut
East Moline, Ill.

Davenport, Ia, July 22.-Two men
entered the new state bank at East
Moline, ILL.,, at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, blew UP the big safe by charge
of nitro-glycerine and, although secur-
ing no money, according TO the officers
of the bank, demolished the entire bank
building and scattered broken pieces
of wood and plaster i'll all directions.
The terrific explosion was the result
of too much nitro-glycerinc being ap-
piled in the wrong place. Over pint
was poured into the cracks of the first
heavy doors Of the safe, which is one
of three and stands in II cache built
for it in the building. The cracks We're
carefully soaped and n fuse applied ut
the bottom. This fuse was touched off
and caused the explosion, which tore
the heavy doors out of their setting
and wrecked the entire place.
Every sheriff in Illinois and eastern
Iowa has been notified and the capt
ure of the men is expected before
nightfall, MS one of the robbers is
thought to have been seriously injured
in the demolition. of the building.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-07-27

One of the piratical firms compos..
ing the criminalbeef trust contribut:
ed $40O,O0O.OO to the republican
campaign fund in 1896. Is that the
reason why it is permitted to openly
violate the federal statutes and rob
with monstrous rapacity the house.
holders on one side and the cattle
raisers on the other?