Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-12
THE NEWS I'm BR EFF
Happenings of the Week Given
in Condensed Form.
Items of General Interest Concerning
Our Own and Foreign Coun-
trics-Crimes, Casu.
altics, Etc.

Or. Friedrich X. H. Won Lucanus
chief of the kaiser's so-called civil cab
met. is dead in Berlin, at the age of
seventy-seven.
Elevator fires bring insurance COM
panies the heaviest losses Of the year
on Chicago risks.
Tommy Burns. the heavyweight
pugilist, has arrived at Fremantle,
Australia.
The United States Atlantic fleet at
p. M. yesterday was 1,O17 miles dis
tant from Auckland.
Official advices received at Berlin
from Constantinople concerning the po-
litical situation report everything quiet.
George f. Larimer, seventy-three
years old. who made the first Westing-
house air brake, is dead at Pittsburg.
The Association of State and Ma
tional Food and Dalnry Departments is
in session mt Mackinac Island, Mich.
Alfred w. Cooley assistant attorney
general of the United States, has re.
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Increased tonnage from the Pitts
burg district has necessitated the plac-
ing of ten additional freight crews on
the Chautauqua division of the Penn
sylvania railroad.
No rain fell in the corn belt last
night. High temperatures still prevail
In the northwest the weather is gen.
/ ~ f<,. hor
ing.
Miss Amanda Murphy of Lima, o.,
is dead Mt hospital there from the eff
feet OF religious fast which she had
maintained for the past six weeks.
Estrada Cabrera. president of Guate-
mala, has released forty-three political
prisoners.
Early returns from the primaries in
Kansas indicate the defeat Of Sena-
tor Long and the naming of ]. L.
Bristow.
The Grape Growers association Mt
meeting in San Francisco declared
that the moderate use of wines is ben
eflcial.
The Nicaraguan government has
placed funds in Mexico so as to enable
Nicaraguan students to leave Guate.
mala, where 1t is alleged they have
been prosecuted.
Convicted on charge of violating
the antl-pass law, S. G. Waits was
fined $500 and Gertie Williams 500
in the federal court at Helena, Mont.
| Richard Harding Davis, author and
playwright, has been made a deputy
sheriff in North Castle, N. Y.
Insurance agents will have lively
at the st. Paul convention next week.
The intense heat caused water
famine in several sections of Chicago.
Mrs. Alexander Sutherland. whose
husband was shot and fatally injured
at Buffalo, n. Y, has admitted that she
did the shooting, but claims it was &C.
cidental.
Myths Erickson, the Danish explor-
or. met death in the far north, perish.
ing in snow storm.
Edward H. Hartman has arrived al
San Francisco, accompanied by his two
sons and several officials.
The grand Jury ut New York IN!
taken up the Investigation into the al
legged conspiracy to manufacture di
vorce evidence against Frank Jay
Gould.
The Western Passenger association
has refused to grant n special .ate fol
the Bryan notification Aug. -.
The Iowa Republican state centra
committee decided to call a state con
vention in Des Moincs Sept. to nom
mate a candidate to fill the vacanc.
caused by the death Of Justice Charlie.
A. Bishop.
The Idaho Democratic state conven
ton was split in two, both the Dubo..
and anti-Dubois factions organizin:
separate conventions.
The Cleveland American Leagu,
Baseball club bought Wilbur Good,
from the Akron team OF the Ohio an(
Pennsylvania league.
The mills of the Hamilton Manu-
featuring company, Lowell, Mass.
have shut down for two weeks, re
suming on full time Aug. "a.
A voluntary petition in bankruptc,
has been filed in the United State!
, court at PIttsburg by Attorney Charlie!
Mprschauser, representing Harry X
T Thaw.
!. Count Leo Tolstoy is indlspose,
again because of his habitual disre
gard OF the elementary rules Of health
]. G. Darlington, the South Caro-
| lima member of the executive commit
tee of the independence League, ha
rendered his resignation.
, The Independence party is plannin,
to put full state ticket in the mel,
In Kansas by means of n petition con
, tanning the names of $500 voters.
Henry Farman, the aviator, it /
said ut New York. will probably re
turn to France by an early steamer
His aeroplane shows do not pay tn
syndicate which bought him to thi
country
Directors Of the Pullman comp; n!
say earnings of year ending July 5
compare favorably with other years.
The ousted president of the Amer
: lean Strawboard company has peti
/. toned Judge Grosscup to remove hi
successor
Edward H. Llewellyn. Chicago
manufacturer. is hurrying home from
Europe for an operation.
, Manufacturers, talking before foot
: congress, said only inferior product
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