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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07

Take trip on the Sound aud
visit the q. 3 navy yard. see the
battleahlpa Oregon. Wisconsin and
Nebraska. the cruisers Buffalo and
the training ship Philadelphia. the
mammoth dry docks. torpodo boats
and prison ship Nipsic ioats leave
Pier Z, foot 81 Yeeief way. 8 times
daily. Round trip. S0c %"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07
TEA.

The English serve tea
and a biscuit in business
at four O'Clock /; a nice lit
tie break.
Your Rtaesf Istm4Ess your money
n yom don't libe SSH Ehtag Best.
we. pas him
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07

The cornet Player Of the Future.
Being y more 81 less idiotic prog
nosticaiion Of the things that mar
happen TO the band man who hopes
70 succeed. IN the days when too
much atteati0n viii be given TO the
development % one talent.
Tknrr All nInhf
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07

Women's and Childrens Hose and Underwear
Important Specials for the Thrifty Buyer Tomorrow
lsaturuayl.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07
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Black Taffeta Silk,
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An excellent dress and waist
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07

From $40 TIL 10: 30.
The Celebrated Half
Wool Danish Cloth.
every color, including
cream. Saturday
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? 30 to i0sa0. per
yard .s. ..t2he
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07

"Th book hero
Inc who sweeps
hauFhtIly fro ~
N pnm wonldn
know n broom ei
she saw one.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07
Silk Waists,
Sc to $40

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-02-07

Rainproof crsvenetse Coats. for wome
are all wool. coi0ss tan. brown. era
ting tiEht fttiuE aud half.fittiug
trimmed With straps Of same mater
prices $1,000. tiaq0 and $500. On
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27

Some years ago was teacher in
Afghanistan. and during my stay in
that country | was often an unwilling
witness of some horrible exhibitions
of torture. Here is one they use in the
case of women To extract testimony
1t consists in piying off the finger
nails by means of small chisel or
brad awl. which is showed III slowly.
but firmly. from the finger tip down
ward under the quick of the nail. which
is then lifted up and out.
This is another that once saw used
in the case of small child who would
not own up to some petty theft: Sticks
were thrust between It's fingers and
the fingers then squeezed together. So
that the sticks crushed into the bones.
So much for women and children,
Here is a method of eliciting informa
ton from an unwilling man: The cul-
prit is stripped to the waist. and then
boiling oil is licked on to his back.
This seldom fails to find the mans
tongue.
The above are the chief forms of
"fahaha." or torture. for the purpose
Of eliciting information. but 1t must
be stated that such infections as nip.
ping of noses, tearing out tongues or
splitting eyeballs do not come under
the heading of "fahana." they being
punishments rather than tortures.-
London Standard,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
news OF THE STATE
Happenings Which Are Of General
interest to All the People
Of Iowa.
MATTERS REPORTED BY WIRE
Telegraph New. of Events which
Have Occurred In the Hawk.
eye State DurieR tho
Past Few Days.

Davenport. Ia. May 25.-Miss Bes-
sic Johnson, a Davenport girl who has
been teaching school Mt Princeton, a
thriving town thirty-ave miles from
here, is the center Of . series of incl
dents that is attracting much ,attsn-
tion there and here. For her vindica-
ton apd because of circumstances sur
rounding the action of the school
board in declining to reappoint her she
commenced suit for 10000 damages
against the four Princeton school dl-
rectors-E. L. Slaughter, s. 1. Porter,
p. H. McGinnis and Harry Martin, all
prominent residents of Princeton.
Miss Johnson taught school in
Princeton for year and was the lead
er of the social set there during that
time. Among those who paid her a
good deal of attention was True Metz
ger, well known young man and u
member Of one of the leading families.
Miss johnson says in her suit that the
school directors commented on these
attentions in manper that was dam
aging to her character.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
woman's Home Companion f4fdaue

Five hundred photographs of.tHresi
dent Rooseveit, all assembled Id one
big double psge picture, Is K l99sinch-
es 10 size, il an extraordi, ar. f-s.dr- Of
the June WoMANs HOME ..i0MPAEIoN
The 1--WE hundred paosographs.w ,re AK
en- 10 almost every state II, tse U lion,
at all periods of Roosevelt's public
career, and show bis wonderful versAtiI.
ity and energy.
In the June COMPANION appear the
titst chapters of Harvey J. O'h'grlns'
great story, "a Grand Army Man.
based on Belasso's famous pl.s st the
same name, In which David Wa,6eld
starred all last winter. Other Teton in
this delightful summer mavSz,ne IL by
Elizabeth Stuart Phelpa, Z,na Gale,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Temple
Bailey and Clinton Dangelfipl,i
Kellogg Drrlsnd, Who Of late has
spent much time In R,s 10, tells u e
drama tic aud thrilling story of the
bravest girls of the Russian h. v0iutiol,.
Margaret E. Sangster writes on the
American woman as sOcfalengine, r.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale ueesstts his
monthly page to some workIHg rules OF
life. Grace Margaret Gonld.,Sb fsah-
Ion expert, gives many prASt;Gal rug-
gestions for summer dresstaK.,. Sam
Loyd's Own Puzzle Page is,EI. thine Of
interest for the puzzle low nA'sS.!ifff
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
.SMASH-UP
JULY FOURTH
Locomotive. ssing Nile 4 Minst. Meet su
Tia Same Track At the Big Indspsad-
saes, Iowa, 9Th d July Celebration.
ONLY SPECTACLE ON EARTH
Two Eigtty-1sn Engines ia Hs,s-sa snssh-up
Many Special Features.

These levithans will be under full
steam, the safety valves popping, blow
ere roaring, and the spiteful stfeaks of
snowy vap0r driving into the open with
every stroke of the pist0ns. When
these mighty monsters begin their short
journey from either end Of the enclos-
ure an engineer and q fireman will be
In their accustomed places, but when
the throttles are pulled wide open these
men will leap from the foot boards
while the big machines leap forward to
total destruction.
Imagination can scarcely picture the
overlapping climax when these mas
terpiecoe Of mechanical skill sweep to-
gether with whtrlwind epeed, rear up.
ward and fall back like two fufits !,
amid cloud of swirllng steam, lesy-
ing but two shapelees masses of twist-
ed steel where q moment before sped
the magnificent machines whose prOto-
types whirl across the country with
boilers that culver and vibrste to the
song of steam, whose seething fire.
boxes generate more and more Of the
vOndrOus power which to control needs
be hsrnessed with the strongest steel
bshds.
This exhibition will give the pleasure
seeker IN opportunity to view the sw.
fol catastrophe of Q railroad wreck 10
all its realism, but with the factor of
danger eliminated.
The material that is being used In
the construction of the track 10 the
same as Is being used on oil the rail-
roads.
] AK your local ticket agent about thu
low rate for Saturday, July 4th.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
pueh..ss and Anarchist.

Upon one occasion the Duchesse
dues and Louise Michel met at the
bedside of Il poor sick woman whom
they We're mutually aiding. They met
here frequently for u brief period. The
woman died. Louise Michel. who was
present ut the death, wrote to the
duchesse: "AIadame--Our poor friend is
dead. ! have looked among her few
belongings for souvenir for you.
Here is small piece of passementerie
done by her hands. Accept it, A
few days afterward Nine. u Duchesse
dues. nee Mortemart. went to the
home Of Louise Michel. the anarchist
"a bizarre abode at Levallois where
the poor found always both good
word and II piece of bread-to thank
the red virgil" for her letter and her
gift. A friendship so was cemented
between the oddly assorted pair that
was later not without result in the
operation of the most gigantic charity
of the Duchesse d'Uzes- Roulangerism
-Harper's Bazaar
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
INVITATION TO LABOR.
New Departure Of the Presby.
terrain Body as to Trades
Unions.
MEETING HELD AT KANSAS CITY
Church Is Urged to Recognize the
Wants Of the Workman
Methods, Conference Notable for 40
cusations Against Men Nomi.
mated to the Episcopacy-
United Presbyterians.

AT Kansas City. Sunday presbyteri-
an evangelism among laboring men
was the theme of the addresses ut q
great massmeeting for men at Conven-
tion hall, the speakers being Rev.
Charles Sickle, superintendent of the
Presbyterian department of labor and
church. and John B. Lennon, treasur-
err of the American Federation of La.
her Rev. Sickle mailed personal
invitation to every union labor man in
the city; nonunion men were also
specially invited and II magnificent au-
dielce greeted the speakers. Rev.
Stclzle, who was himself formerly !,
union macllinist, organized tlle depart
n,ent of church and labor in the Pres
byterinn church, and he devotes his
energies to the work of organizing the
church, and the workers of the world
closer together.
Department Is . Potent Agency.
This department is rapidly becoming
one Of the big things Of the Freshly
terian church, and it is potent agen-
cy IN enlisting men in the service of
the church, a work which is also one
sof the greatest functions of the Pres.
bytcrian brotherhood. Rev. Stelzle's
address was comprehensive discus.
sion Of the relations Of Christianity to
the lahoring man, and n strong argn-
ment in support of the position that
laboring men should be Christians.
Views of Treasurer Lennon.
Lennon complimented the I.resbyter-
ian church OH being the first church to
recognize the Importance Of the trades
unions. Explaining the Indifference of
union labor toward the church he said:
'1he wageworkers. seeing no interest
or but little interest--manifested in
tile church i'll the human side of the
religious question, or In the question
of bread and butter and decent liv-
ing. have naturally drifted away from
the church to a very great extent; AMI
am constrained to believe that they
are not going back i'll large numbers
until the church will emphasize just
as strongly the human side of the re
llgion of Jesus Christ as they do the
spiritual side.'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
SIXTY DIE IN A WRECK
HUNDRED OTHERS ARE INJURED
Defective Switch ON Railway Near
Antwerp Causes = Frightful
Hallway Disaster.

One of the worst railroad acct
dents in Europe in recent times
occurred at Contich, station six
miles southeast of Antwerp. on the
main line. The exact number of VIC
tins has not been determined, but the
latest estimate places the number at
sixty killed and one hundred wound
ed. The catastrophe appears to have
been due to defective switch where
the main line crosses local line.
At this point train carrying large
number Of pilgrims on their way to a
local shrine was standing. Into this
the Antwerp Brussels express dashed
at speed of fifty miles an hour, lit
orally leaping on top of it. The heavy
coaches Of the express crushed the
lighter train into splinters. The res
cuers even the doctors, who were
hardened to such scenes+were sick
ened at the sight that met their gaze.
In one place dismembered hand was
found clntching one Of the supports of
a torn car. The most of the dead could
not he recognized. either being decapi-
tetcd or their heads being terribly
crushed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
LATEST BALLOON D1sAsrlR
Great Gas Bag Tilts, EAplodes and
-. with Sixteen on Board Falls
800 Feet.


with Sixteen on Board Falls
800 Feet.
Seven men seriously injured In a
sensational airship accident at Bcrke-
ley, CAL, are all doing well at
the Roosevelt hospital. None of them
will die. ]. A. Morrell, the inventor,
aud Captain Penfold, an Australian
aeronaut who slowed himself away in
the air craft after he had been ordered
off. and had both legs broken, are both
much improved. Eight others were
less seriously hurt in the accident,
which was a thrilling disaster. !.
The great airship was on its trial
trip in Berkeley and rose three hun
dred feet from the eartl before 10000
people; then 1t tilted, burst and dropped
to the ground with its crew Of sixteen
men. every one of whom was injured.
by one of those peculiar and fortunate
chains Of circumstances which some.
times attend sensational accidents, the
sixteen men miraculously escaped
death.
There were five gasoline engines dis
tributed along the framework under
the balloon, which was caterpiller.
shaped, and the size of the gasbas
may be judged from the fact that the
engines We're fifty feet apart. The Ell.
gines were not properly distributed, it
seems, for as soon az two of them
were put in motion the front end of
the balloon tilted down and the rush
of gas TO the upper end exploded tho
bag and down 1t came.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
CONFERENCE is NOTABLE
Principally Because of Attacks Made
on Candidates for Bishoprics.

Principally Because of Attacks Made
on Candidates for Bishoprics.
The Methodist Episcopal church
conference now current at Baltimore
will doubtless be long remembered
for the number and peculiar charac.
ter of the attacks that have been made
upon candidates for the bishoprics to
he filled. The most pronounced suffer.
err has heen Rev. DR. Charles l.. Good
ELL of Calvary church. New York. A
Picayune story that falsely represented
Rev. pr. William A. Quayle us having
IN his youth acted the part of jilt
apparently hurt him for time, hut the
reaction brought by the statement OF
the truth has been markedly to his
advantage.
A similar result is probable in the
case of Rev. DR.. Joseph Hingeley, sec
rotary of the conference, against whom
resident of the DOCTORS home city,
Minneapolis, attempted to influence
delegates--and succeeded for Il time.
by means of kilograms declaring that
Minneapolis was astOnished at the
prominence given DIR. Hingeley in the
hnllotins n fourth candidate who has
been made the victim of story part
ly told, which if told IN full could not
possibly have influenced tie vote Of
any sane man against him, Is Rev. DIR.
George p. Eckman, pastor of ST.
Fnul's church. New York.
Apropos to this matter New York
telegram tells of a meeting Of more
than 1000 members of DIR. Goodelrs
congregation, in which every one went
to the communion rail and shook hands
with the clergyman and assured him
Of their utter confidence In his in
tegrity. Later a committee. OF the
members issued a statement protesting
against .'the injustice suffered by our
beloved pastor on account u the I'M
Christian methodsemployed III tie gen
eral conference" and declaring that
the pastor needs no vindicatiOn. The
charge made against DIR. Goodell was
thnt he had been 4 principal in divorce
proceedings. later enlarged to the
charge that he was correspondent.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
Mae Wood ts Beaten.


Mae c. Wood, whose suit for an alb
solute divorce from United States Sen
ator Platt has been on trial in the
supreme court at New York city
for several days, has been committed
to the Tombs prison after Justice
O'Gorman had dismissed the complaint
In her action and ordered her held in
5000 on a charge of perjury. The de!
cision in Platt's favor, and the sud
den and sensational end of the suit,
came after day which the defense
occupied largely with the Introduction
of expert and other testimony attack
ing the authenticity Of the documents
by which the plaintiff was seeking to
establish her alleged marriage to
Flat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
late NEWS BY WIRE
DEATH GETS BUSY AGAIN.
Iseaps Dreadful Harvest by Railway
and Other Fatal Acct

Philadelphia, May %. = Three per-
sons were instantly killed; at least five
others were so badly inju. ed that there
is no hope for their recovery, and for
ty-tive We're seriously hurt iii col
iisicn between trolley cars OH German
town avenue near Chestnut H,Il, sub
urb III the northern section Of the city.
The only body identified is tnat of
Mrs. George d. Wagner. aged sixty
five years. OF Cornwell, Pa. The bod.
les of Hi unidentified woman about
sixty years of age, and an unidentified
man about forty-five years old are in a
hospital near the scene of the accident.
Among those who were seriously in
jured were: George Wagner, whose
wife was killed; Alexander Mckay,
who has wooden leg, and the art,fi-
cial member wasejammed up into his
body. The accident was caused by u
car running north jumping track
while going down steep grade not far
from Chestnut Hill.
across the sonthbound track and was
struck by IL car OH that track. Both
cars were filed with passengers.
Richmond. Mo-, May :5.-A spring
wagon in which four persons were rid
ing slipped off 1, bridge into Il flooded
stream tch miles northeas. Of here.
Three of the occupants of the vehicle
were drowned, as follows: Carl John
son (ten years old, james Pat1on and
Cora Patton.
San Francisco, May 25.-Two crowd
ed trolley cars collided at -Devisadero
and Sacramento streets ut the rCIt II
steep hill. killing Henry Gaer. a
+ travelling salesman, and injurng twen-
ty other passengers. one fatally and
several seriously,
Reynolds Neb., May Phone man
was Killed. three injured and u score
of passengers was severely shaken up
in q head-on collision that occurred here
on the Burlington between q passenger
and freight train. The dead man Is
George Finley, engineer of ,ne passen-
ger train.
st. Louis. May 25.-W. H. Howard.
wealthy commission merchant, of this
city. was struck and instantly killed by
lightning during heavy electrical
and rain storm which swept over ST.
Louis. He took shelter under tree
when the storm stopped his golf.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
Flood Ia Very Deadly

Seven people are dead. 5000 are
homeless. a dozen or more reported
to have been killed in Fort Worth
and North Fort Worth, Tex, as a
result of the greatest rise in the his
tory of the Trinity river, which, begin
ming at 7:30 p. III. reached a climax
twenty-four hours later. Following the
torrentlal rains of Saturday and yes
terday volume of seven inches-the
river went three inches above the rec
ord-breaking flood of 1880. Stock val
ned at many thousands of dollars, in
Guiding 2,5OO sheep penned up in the
stock yards in North Fort Worth was
washed down stream and destroyed
The property loss cannot be estimated
as yet.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
TORNADO SWEEPS A PATH
Comes Down on an Iowa Valley and
Blows Everything Away-One
Aged Man 10 KILLED.

Abba, H.. May pa tornado orig
mating nine miles west of Abba came
down the valley with the speed of an
express train. and all the buildings in
its path We're blown away and stock
was killed The path was about a
quarter Of mile wide.
in Abba the wind Fitted a cOrncrib
and hurled it several rods against j.
NJ. Taylor, seventy-eight years old,
who was feeding; chickens, crushing
him to death. The Grant school was
damaged. and the pupils had narrow
escape from flying bricks and glass,
which cut several persbns. Broken
trees did great damage to stock.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF ToLEDo)
11rAS COJfNrY =


Frank }. Cheney makes oath that be
is sentor part,er of the firm of F. j.
theiey Il Co, doing business in the
CT, of roltGn county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the sum
of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by the use of Halls Ca
tarrh Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
lnsmy presence this 9TH day of Deem
Der, A b. 1885,.
tSEAL) A w. GLEASON
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halle Cstarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Ut the system. Send
for testimonial free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, O
Sold BY ell Druggists, IS.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
NAV lnsane. Saw Court,

Poughkeepsie, n. Y. May 25.-Har-
nv X. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford
White. will not be released from the
lunatic asylum. This is the decision
reached by Justice Morschauser of the
supreme court, in a decision filed early
III the day on Thaw's application for
release on ii writ Of habeas corpus.
Both points brought up by Thaw's
attorneys are decided against him. The
justice declares that Thaw is now in
sane AMI should not be allowed at
large and he further declares that the
commitment to the lunatic asylum by
Justice Bowling after the last trial Of
the case was entirely legal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
May Reform Sioux City.

Sioux City, la. Aiay 2S.-Men's
clubs connected with Sioux City
churches have organized an associa.
ton to be- known as the Federation
OF Christian Brotherhood. The new
club. which starts with a.membesship
Of LOCO, will begin a campaign -'for
Sunday closing of theaters, peoIrooms
and skating Kinks. The organization
is headed by Alderman 4. w. Bayne
of Morningside.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
DOCTOR AND EDITOR r1aHr
They Punch Each osh.r ,n the stree.
for Several Seconds. but VIII
Recover.s


Waverly, Ia. May 25.-As result
Of the alleged prosecutions fthe Way.
erly doctors by Charles W. Miller,
chairman Of the Democratic state cen.
trail committee and editor Of the WaI
erly Deomerat, DIR. j. T. Auner called
Miller, to account in fight in which
both cembatants were injured. The
fight took place in the principal street
of the city. and consisted of several
seconds most vigorous pounding.
Miller has repeatedly ridiculed the
county medical society and made a spe.
cial attack upon the prices charged by
the members Of the society for surgi.
cal operations. Neither OF The pattic-
ipants in the fight was severely hurt
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-05-27
Charge IL Not Revealed.

Des Moines. Ia. May. 21.-The per-
sonnet Of the courtmartial to try Major
Charles +. George. one of the most
popular officers in the service, and a
veteran of twenty-five years in the
army. has been announced Mt Fort Des
Moines. The charge is not revealed.
Major George at present! commands
the local army recruiting station. He
was graduated from the United States
Military academy in 1881.