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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
RECEIVERSHIP
IS DISSOLVED
Attorneys for Peoples United States
Bank at St. Louis Make Sue
cessful Motion.

st. Louis. Mo-, July lion motion
of the attorneys for the Peoples
United States bank, capitalized at 49,
100000, Judge McElhinney, of the st.
Louis county circuit court, dissolved
the receiverShip for that iustituatiOn,
and discharged Receiver Selden p.
Spencer. appointed by him several
days ago on the request of Secretary
of State Swangcr of Missouri.
Judge McElhimey's action was
based on the ground that Secretary of
State Swangcr failed to make a per.
sonal Investigation of the affairs of
the bank before making application
for a receiver. The court stated that
the receiver had hcen appointed on
representations. which. it had devel.
opctl. were based by Secretary of State
Swangcr on his impression Of the con-
ditions prevailing nj the bank and its
method of conducting its business and
not on facts secured by II thorough in-
NpStinntiou
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Lawson NAV Mean IT,

1t has been difficult for the public
to convince itself that Mr.. Lawson
is thoroughly honest in his present
crusade. The natural suspicion,
encouraged by his enemies, that
there is stock deal revenge, or stock
deal manipulation behind it, is
strong.
But may rot Mr.. Lawson be do
ing exactly the work he says he is?
May it not be that he has decided
to devote some years to the promul-
CATION Of his views of stock gamb-
ling? He has the fortune to warrant
him in any course it is his pleasure
to pursue. He has decided literary
talent which his present notoriety
llatters. He is a man who came
from the ranks ahd who in fit Of
revulsion at the rascalities of the
stock market might revert to an
honest interest in the common peo
pie. May it not be true that he
intends to devote his time and for
tune toa crusade against the cor
rupt business methods of which nc
man knows more than he does.
In any event, there is no Longer
any doubt that he is telling the
truth about stock gambling in Wal
street. Whatever his motive, lie is
letting the cat out of the bag. Mr.
Rogers and the rest are no Longer
attempting to discredit him on thu
theory that he is not relating actua1
occurrences. The disclosures in th,
Equitable have verified him at ever,
point, and have suggested sculdug
cry among men of such standing
that Lawson unsupported could no
have impeached them.
Mr.. Lawson is young, the pcs ,es
sor of abunding vigor, and full o
information secured at first hand
Ii he proposes, as he says he does
to devote the remainder of his life
to exposing the rottenness of the
stock market, he will prove a terro,
to thieves.-Register & Leader.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
j. D. Yoemans Of Sioux City, for.

j. D. Yoemans Of Sioux City, for
mer interstate commerce commissioner
has come out in an interview in the
st. Paul Dispatch, in which he
throws cold water on the Panama
canal project. He intimates that it
has not been undertaken in good
faith, and that it will never be built.
He says, Everybody down there
wants to do what Wallace did, or
what the boss Of the whole works is
doing-live in New York and run it
by proxy. Why should Shonts OF
Wallace be chosen to run canal
anyway? They never did piece OF
work in their lives Of this sort or
anything calculated to equip them
for doing it. Every man selected
so'far to do the work has been pick
ed from transcontinenta railroad.
Would you pick competitor to
build competing business? They
may be all right, but none oft looks
like canal to me"
Speaking of the work itself and
of the prospects Of ever getting done
with it, Mr.. Yoemans says.
The Panama canal is the biggest
humbug of the age. / have no hest
tation in saying that, in my opinion,
there will never be canal built
there. No important American
engineer, who was not paid for it
ever hazarded the opinion that
there would be canal there. The
last monthly report of work done
shows that it will take ITO years
to finish it. The weeds grow in one
end faster than they carry the dirt
out of the other. No engineer has
ever found Il rock or clay bed in
that celebrated Culerba cut, where
the United States has done most of
its work. There has been cut of
$50 feet there and thirty inches of
rainfall in thirty hours down those
banks. Does any one suppose that
the alluvial soil won't wash down in
there 10 make n mud canal too thick
for government dredgc boat to
keep ahuat in? The Nicaragua route
was feasible, and for that reason it
was abandoned. l was member of
a syndicate prepared to build a
canal for $l20,OOO,OGO, which would
have carried 27,OOO,OOO tons OF mer-
chandise annually. We were pre-
pared to do the work in four years.
This looked too much like canal
and the great influence behind the
present transcontinental transporta-
ton business suddenly ceased oppos-
ing the canal project and pushed
the clamor over to Panama. The
men who run our big railroads
know what Panama is. BY the
Nicaragua route as projected, ship
could leave New York harbor and
arrive in San Francisco in eighteen
days. No freight train is now
scheduled to go overland inside of
twenty-three days. That's what
stuck in the Nicaragus project Red
tape, civil service reform and yellow
eyes will do the rest.
The Wallace Taft affair has
caused the people to give their at
tention TO the Panama canal again
and it is the first thing TO come be-
fore the public that would indicate
the correctness Of the view taken by
Mr. Yeomans.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Professor Voges, the director of
the national board of health at Bue-
nos Ayres, according to a report re-
ceived at the State Department, has
discovered remedy for mosquito
bites. The professor states that he
discovered it by accident during his
trip to Paraguay to study the pest.
He had been supplied with all sorts
OF remedies, among them napthaline,
an article Of no value against the
pest, but on using it for bites he
found it Of good effect. 1t neutral
ICES the poison, even when the spot
bitten is greatly inflamated. II
fresh bites are rubbed with naptha-
line no swelling follows. The pro-
lessor considers napthaline almost a
specific against mosquito poison. &
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, the New
York society light, has proved her.
self to be a woman of great business
ability. In 1897 she revoked the
power Of attorney which she had
given her husband to manage her
business affairs and since that time
has made $2O,O00,O00. She is now
in her own right worth about $780,
100000 most Of which she has made
by judicious investments in railroad
shares. She is daughter of the
late Senator Fair of California, for a
share Of whose estate she had to
fight She was not received in New
York's inner circle until after a
struggle against Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish, Mrs. Ogden Goelet and other
leaders.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

GEAR SIGNS TIE ArrolsrnEs
D. witt. TIL. Pl.n, po,sn.,.ry 70 w..h,u.
ton Fast Psradvsnture.

De Witts the Plsni potentlary 10 Washing
tom Past Psradvsnture.
st. Petersburg, July 14.-The Ger
tainty with which the appointment Of
DE Witte as the chief peace plenapo-
Tertiary Of Russia to the Washington
conference was spoken of in these dis
patches yesterday has been justified
by the signing of the appointment by
the ear. 1t is said here that the
declination Of NJ. Munavieff to head
the mission was based partly on the
state of his health and partly on the
fact that his allowance for expenses to
cover the period of his sojourn in the
United States was only $1,000 roubles,
which amount he considered insult
Gent, owing to the great cost of living
In the United States.
De Witte twice refused to become
the successor of NJ. Muravief on the
mission, on the ground that he did not
wish to be a mere figure head In the
transmission to Emperor Nicholas OF
the peace terms offered by Japan. His
selection, therefore, cannot but Ec
taken to NEAR that the emperor has
yielded to his insistcnce that real now
ers plenipotcntiary be conferred upon
Russia's principal representative In tie
peace commission.
Yokohama. July 14.-Dr Morrison.
the London Times correspondent ut Pc.
king, who is here OIL his way to Wash
ington, says that China confidently OK.
poets that peace will be made between
Japan and Russia. relying upon Ja-
pans selection of plenipotentiaries to
cause cessation of hostilities. Re.
gnrding ChiEa's representation at the
peace conference DIR. Morrison said
that certain section of China want.
ed representation in the proceedings,
but as the conference will not be of an
International character these Chinese.
had been urged not to prosecute their
desires. Wiser counsels had vetoed the
idea, being willing to trust to japanese
equity. Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai, the
most influential man in China, Is quite
confident that Japan will act in good
faith
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
The Only One of It's Kind.

On an evening somewhere about the
end of the sixteenth century traveller
from Sweden might have been observ-
ed at the door of the Rose theater In
London. lie was going to see new
piece called "Titus Andronicus," and
in order to follow it in the native Ian
guage he bought copy of the play.
price sixpence, at the theater door.
When he went home to Sweden lie took
the book with him to show his wife
and friends what strange stuff the
foreigner ranted. For 800 years it was
preserved and in 1904, being dlscov-
cred in the home of IL countrywoman,
was transferred for safety to the Lund
university. The book is the only one
of its kind known to exist.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Korea. The Russian trains move as
far a. Changtafu. Information from
the japanese lines indicates that the
rank and file are exceedingly anxious
for peace. To counterfeit this feeling
Field Marshal Oyama is continuing is.
suing glowingappeals to the patriotism
OF his armies. The Chinese say that
decaying corpses buried in shallow
graves in frozen ground after the bat
tie of Mukden have created a terri
BILE condition. Plague and cholera are
said to have appeared among the Jap.
anese.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
WILL BE THE DEATH OF FIVE
Freight Wreck Kills Three and Fatally
Hurts Two Others-Bodies Burned
to "A CriHp

Marshalltown, Ia, July 15.-Three
men were killed and two probably ia
tally injured in n freight wreck on the
Iowa Central railroad near Richland,
la. The dead are Jesie LoHs (cngin-
eer). William West Qiremam and sam
uel Woolsey Cbrakcmnn). The injured
Engineer G. X. Williams and w. l..
McMallon, tiremen.
A car of oil took fire. the tank eX-
ploded and burned the bodies of the
killed to Il crisp. The fire destroyed
a bridge over a creek. where the wreck
occurred and burned six cars. All the
dead men lived at OSknlooSn.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

NJ. Muravieff has resigned his
position as chief peace plenipoten-
tiary for Russia. NJ. White, presi-
dent of the committee of ministers
and regarded by many as the ablest
man in public life in Russia, has
been appointed in his place. He
has been in disfavor at the court of
Gar since the beginning Of the war
with Japan on account of his firm
attitude toward peace. His appoint
mentis taken as asign that the peace
conference to be held in this country
will result in the establishment Of
lasting peace in the far east.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Tho Iowa State Bar Association
which met at Des Moines last week
elected the following officers for the
coming year: President, William
II. Baily of Des Moines; Vice Presi-
dent, II. M. Towner of Corning;
Secretary, Charles M. butcher of
Iowa City; Treasurer, Jesse i.
Stevenson of Des Moines.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Victim of u War Wound.

The secret of Colonel Hendcrson's
retirement from the spcakership of
congress and from public life in 1862
is known ut lnst-d mental difficulty
that finally has defeated him after
years of heroic suffering that resulted
from a wound received in the war of
the rebellion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
ri,e Miserable sIoors.

The lives lived by the Moors are
without perhaps any exception, the
most preca!iotis and miserable that can
be imagined. The poor man is thrown
Into prison for sums lie never possess
cd and can never pay, the rich to be
squeezed Of all he possesses. while
those only can hope to escape who are
members Of families sufficiently power
full to arouse tie fears of the local gov
ernor should he attempt cxtortion and
not sufficiently powerful to stir up the
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
BRYAN on TUE wnosc 1nAcK
Could Land ,t,m.eir in the White nunse-
Municipal Ownership.

Referring to William J. Bryan
l.awS0n sad: 'l;rSan has great ability
and ii is too lad lie cot started on tic
wrong track He would need only >:
per cent of my knowledge OF financial
matters 10 land himself in the White
House with Il rush if lie preached ii
right-ard he would" Other remarks
We're: This is the age of dollars. and
no matter what party is in power the
collar will direct affairs 10 have
$.O0G10.CG0 is TO have unlimited pow
cr. IL chailegucd the system to .ol,
low me west and it did not dare II
am in fight that ought 10 tGuch the
heart of any man who has un ounce OF
red blood in his makeup"
Speaking of municipal ownership OF
public utilities Lawson said: You
think, some of you. that HE solution
of our troubles is in municipal and
federal ownership of our public utili-
ties. | hate to oppose your optimistic
impression that i'll the peoples admin,
istration of the railroad and gas com
panies lies the panacea of our deep
troubles. Munnicipalowncrshipis Il will
o'-the-wisp You are about to try an
experiment in municipal ownership in
Chicago.
ST the system sable to corrupt
the lawmakers and law administrators
who have all these years connived at
the wretclicd management of the Chi
cago railways what possible hope can
there be of relief when the roads are
actually under the management of city
officials elected i'll the same way rs the
lawmakers and administrators whose
weakness and wickcdness have been
so manifest:
"Successinl administration of public
utilities is Incompatible with political
considerations. and if tried in this
country is bound to prove Il disappoint-
Hlcnt ana failure. If II were possible
to bring ii about | believe it would set
back The relief which the people must
have. ut least leo years"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Oyster Bay, n. y, July 17.-Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt Undetermined that the
scandal growing out of the cotton re-
port leaks in the department of asri-
culture shall be probcd to the bottom.
He holds that the mnn or men respon-
sIble for the leaks nreeven in II greater
degree culpable than they would have
been had they stolen money outright.
He has ordered the prosecution Of
Holmes. ii the law covers the case.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

One of tile Interesting things said by
Lawson MAS that since lie had calico
l4,cGo Of them. with Il total value o.
S40.CC0,G8 Among the last | received
were two from tie governor of Louis
iala." said the speaker. He also ;,s
gscrtel he received as many as twenty
live ,nn,,ituiiisatlons in one day iron
highly paid insurance olliciais. who
Keep me completely Informed of all in
suranrc matters and in the belief that
viii M. lc ;ly them furnish me With
AL 81 my ma.piia! about the Juggling
npcrItio! 5 OF tie great insurance com
nnmies."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Jealousy and avaricc of the sultan.
Even the governors of the provinces
suffer Themselves as they make others
suffer. for just MS they squeeze the ug-
ric,iiturist AMI the peasant SO are they
in t;ln squeezed BY tle sultan and his
viz!crs, and should they fail by con-
start presents To maintain II good
opinion at the co,rt they can expect
only Imprisonment and often death.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Lawson Sees the Streets Of Cities
in This Country Running
Red with Blood.
WE MUST CRUSH THE SYSTEM"
Gov. johnson for President In 1908
-Boston Foe of "Frenzied FIJI
nance" Dead Against Mu-
ntcipal Ownership.

Chicago, July 17.-"Days of gloom
and streets running red with blood;
days OF greater alarm than fell upon
st. Petersburg during last winters
reign of terror-thesc are in store for
the American people unless they open
their eyes, rise in their might and crush
with one blow this monster. the sys-
tenn that is thriving at their expense"
closed his speech at the banquet giveH
in his honor by the jefferson club. He
had written an address along with Il
criticism of municipal ownership, but
finding that aticklish subject to criti-
else in that club lie set his written ad
dress aside.
Lawson was given rousing reccp-
ton when lie was introduced, and the
applause continued for nearly five min
utes. During his speech he dropped
frcnZicd finance long enough to make
nomination for the presidency for
the campaign of 1908. II think dis
covered real presidential timber in the
far northwest in Governor Johnson, of
Minnesota" he said. II think he is
just about the man who could sweep
this country as the Democratic nom
inee for president next campaign I'M
less the present president should
change his mind and take the field
again"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Euui,nbie salaries Reduced.

New York. July 13.-Swceping re-
Guctions III the salaries of various Of
iicials and employees of the Equitable
society are announced by Chairman
Morton. These changes> become ctrcc-
tive Aug. | and cause II saving of
Slo0,CGo 10 S2G0,GC0 Il year. Tie redllc-
tons range from 10 per cent. begin
ming with $500 II year. 10 20 per cent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

and taken to the home of the family
at Boston. The general arrived here
on July 10 on tour during which he
intended to visit Grand Army posts
throughout the northwest. He was i'll
when he arrived and gradually failed.
General Rackmar was born July %,
1641, at Bristol, Pa. He enlisted in tho
Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, and
subsequently Joined the First West
Virginia. He served with distinction
throughout the war and nj Five Fork,
was promoted on the field by General
Custer to therank of captain. Through
out three administrations, those of
Governors Long, Talbot and Rice, he
was judge advocate general of Mas
sachusetts.
Baltimore, July 17.-By the death Of
General Blackmar Captain John II.
King. of this city. senior vice COM
mander-in-chIef, becomes. under the
laws of the G. A. r., acting comman-
der-in-chief until next encampment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Nee, TO Urge Statehood

oklahoma City, o. T.. July b.
One thousand Delegates from the In
dian Territory and Oklahoma met in
action looking to immediate state.
hood. Seemingly. the utmost harmon!
prevailed among the delegates. their
only object being to forward the move.
inent for early admission to the Union.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
THE HAWKEYE STATE
TsIegraphic Reports Of Important
Events Occurring During
Past Few Days.
MAIN HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK
Items OF Special Interest Caught from
tho Wires and Prepared for
Our Readers.

Dubuque. July Ii. Living over
again the days of his glory on the bat
tlefeld, sending messages to ina inery
secretaries as If he still were one of
the chiefs of the milton, Colonel Da.
vld B. Henderson is existing in an en-
feebled mental state that threatens TO
carry him to the grave. Calling for his
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

st. Petersburg, July IA. = Rumors
are current in this city that four
grenadier regiments at Moscow have
mutinied ard that at Warsaw certain
officers refused to give the command
to their men to fire on people, who
were making demonstration.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

ES.Speaker David B. Henderson
is very i'll at his home in Dubuque
and there is slight hope Of his recov-
cry. He is suffering from paresis, a
disease that does not readily yield to
treatment. Hope and sympathy for
him is UNIVERSAL in this community
where his name is familiar in almost
every household.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Paresis has set its seal upon him.
and stroke of paralysis. suffered
three weeks ago, has brought him to Il
condition which physicians pronounced
hopeless. Not long ago speaker of the
national house of representatives and
therefore second only to the president
of the United States in power, Colonel
Henderson now is only the shadow of
his former self, haunted by dreams of
his former greatness and cherishing an
ambition that is doomed to disappoint-
mant
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

st. Louis, July l5.-MIrs. Frank Nei-
haus. Jr., the wife of n prominent bust
ness man and a leader in the young So
cial circle, is dead. According to u
statement by her husband they had
Quarreled and he had prepared dose
of cyanide Of potash in her presence
for the purpose of committing suicide.
Before he could stop her she snatched
the poison and drank it herself.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
TELEPHONE ,s4.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1905.

Count Cassini, for the past seven
years Russian Ambassador at Wash
ington, sailed last week to take up
his new diplomatic post at Madrid.
He is succeeded by Baron Rosen,
who arrived in Washington the day
of Count Cassini's departure.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
Wilson s,arts Another Probe.

Washington, July l5.-Through the
receipt of numerous communications
from the south and statements appear
ing in the press ut various times that
the statistics of the department of
agriculture on tobacco were being
manipulated in the interests OF the So
called tobacco trust. Secretary Wilson
has begun an inquiry into the sub
iaot
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
General stoesscl Under Arrest.

st. Petersburg, July 13.-The Nash
ashisn prints u report that Lieutenant
General Staessel has been placed under
arrest at Tsarskoe-Selo in consequence
of the revelations made by the com.
mission which has been investigating
the defense and capitulation of Port
Arthur and that the sword of honor,
donated by number Of French ad-
mirers of General Stoessel will not be
nrosanfad
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
General w. w. Blackmar of Bos-
ton, commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, died
on Sunday last at Boise, Idaho.

Lieutenant Robert Il. Peary has
again started on triple the North
pole. The last expedition conduct
ed by him came within 343 miles of
it and secured much valuable infor-
nation concerning the geography
81 the Attic regions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19
1000 Peasants Arrested.

Odessa. July l7.-Severe measures
have been taken to suppress the I'M
ruly peasants in the government of
Emerson. One thousand and sixty ar
rests have been made in the Parutino
district. The prisoners We're beaten
terribly by the Cossacks. Disorders
have subsidized there, but continue at
Kharkoff and Kursk,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-07-19

Topeka, Kan. July 14.-From in
formation received here by Cyrus I.e-
land, receiver in bankruptcy for c. J.
Devlin. it is understood Walter Reeves,
OF Streator, ILL.,, will be appointed by
the-proper court as the receiver of the
Illinois creditors. Under this arrange
ment the pay roll of the miners in I'LL
nols will be taken care of by Chicago
hanka