Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-19
TIE NEWS TN BRIEF
happenings Of the Week Given
in Condensed Form.
Items of General Interest Concerning
Our Own and Foreign Coun.
tries-Crimes. Casu.
alties, Etc

The Republicans Of Texas In state
convention named full state ticket,
promulgated platform and decided to
make hot fight.
Defeated Democratic candidates for
governor praise Stevenson and prom
ise him support
Ten thousand New York unem.
ployed plan to break in upon the de.
liberations Of the coming prosperity
congress.
Wilbur Wright broke his own air
record by keeping his aeroplane aloft
for nearly three minutes and half
and travelling at the rate Of thtrty-slx
miles an hour.
CMcago's rainfall Of 4.S4 inches in
twenty-four hours Is close to the rec
ord. causing much benefit, and the
downpour in the middle west helped
the corn crops.
Socialism was denounced at the
closing session Of the American FEEDER.
alton OF Catholic societies In Boston.
Harold Braley and Miss I.ottie Da-
Wis. In an auto got lost In Death Val
vel, Cal, and narrowly escaped death.
The woman made the last four miles
on foot and sent rescucrs for Bradley.
Eugene V. Debs has declined an III.
vitation to attend conference Of the
unemployed at New York, on the
ground of campaign engagements.
A movement is on foot at Havana
to advance the date of the Cuban
presidential election.
IT is announced at london that
Winston Spencer Churchill. president
Of the board Of trade, will marry
Clementine, daughter Of the late Sir
Hanery Montagu Hozier.
Edwin Hawkins was hanged at
Tucson, A. T.. for the murder Of Al.
bert G. Leonhardt.
The strike of printers which hus
been in progress at Copenhagen for
some time has been settled through
| the Intervention of the minister of the
interior.
The United States feet departed
from Auckland. N. q. for Sydney Of
s:15 o'clock this morning.
Iowa union miners have defeated q
proposal to pension aged and de-
pendent members Of the organization
An epidemic Of spinal meningitis
is raging among children at Eau
Claire, Wis. Seven have died so far
II. Coleman Behen. Of Pittsburg
Pa, q sixteen-year-old boy, camping
at Fighting Island, near Detroit, wal
drowned in the Detroit river.
Tony Pastor, the well-known theatri
cal manager, who was reported near
death ut his home at Elmhurst. L. L.
10 not in imminent danger Of death.
At the business session or the nlntr
national reunion of the Army of the
Philippines at Peoria, ILL.,, Pittsburg
was chosen as the meeting place nexl
year.
When Miss Blanche Lichtenstein. Of
New York, applied to Judge COT. Of
the supreme court. for permission tc
SuunkC uSl. uukAC LIE EcAuoS0 dAu u0
vised her to get married.
! e. W. Reardsley. OF Hartford, Conn.
was chosen president of the Local Fire
Insurance Agents association.
Il Enrico Caruso. the opera singer
said he told his wife to leave him {
month ago because she was not up t.
his standard.
Y. Lightning destroyed the buildings OF
the dairy farm Of c. D. Cantwell. neal
!, Vincenncs. Ind. The loss Is 5000: in
surance. 81. 100, in the Home compan,
Of Vincennes.
: Contestants over the will Of the lat,
Dr.. A. Warner Shepard. of Brooklyn
. n. T.. who left 100000 to his youn,
widow. have arrived at settlement
Miss Maria B.Shepard. niece Of Bos
ton. and other heirs will get poi
ton of the estate.
Frederick Lee Hawthorne, son o
. Julian Hawthorne. the author, narrow
~ escaped drowning In the Hudson
river. He was seized with cramps an,
rescued by lifesavera
The International Typographics
union, In session at Boston, decided {
hold the next convention at st. JOSEPH
Mo. The only change in laws decide
!. on was that abolishing substitute list
in all union o@ces.
Guy Linsea, OF Emporia, Kan, sho
and killed his wife and then turnln
the weapon upon himself indicted ii
tai wound. Domestic troubles.
: William Yancey Cater has been non
mated for governor Of Georgia by tn
, Georgia state convention of the Indt
pendence League. Cater Is a promtnen
farmer.
At the closing session at Boston 9
the International Stereotypers' an
Electrotypers' union Kansas City we
chosen as the next meeting place.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Gilbert Of Pan,
ILL.,. observed their golden wedding al
niversary at Winona Lake, where the
have been spending the summer.
E. Il. Thomas, the banker. risked hl
: own life and was nearly killed in say
! ing the lives Of five strangers in a
J automobile collision In New York.
Brigadier General Frederick Funl
ton arrived ut Fort Leavenworth froI
San Francisco to assume the positio
Of commandant Of the army service
school.
J Judge ]. e. Porter resigned his pos
J as president of the board Of publ
J works Of Mankato, MIMI, as the resul
! Of charges by the mayor that he is n
sDoosible for the epidemic of typhoi
which Is ravaging the town.
} Growing old is often merely a vast
OF dme.-Philadelphia Record.
"RA1sING THE WIND"