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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
s2oo, GOO. BONDS oN e72o PLANT.

1llinOisnn's Suit I'm Indiana Reveals
GINS Company's Holdings.
The suit of d. E. Brooks, of Illinois,
to prevent the disposal of land which
he decided in connection with the pur-
chase of $4,000 of bonds issued by.
the Rushville Gas. Heat and Water
Company, has developed some sensa-
tional facts in respect to that corpora
ton. 1t has been found that the total
holdings of the company are worth not
to exceed $3.50, yet on the plant of this
alleged value it issued 100000 of
bonds and sold $4,000 of the issue to
Brooks. taking in exchange real estate
In Chicago and some farm lands in
Illinois. The corporation was formed
with Owen L. Carr as president and
Fred Carroll and John and Henry Wal
tiers as directors. Bonds were issued
and a mortgage covering the s72O gas
plant in favor OF the Farmers Bank of
Rushville for 100000 was made. The
Farmers Bank became merely the pay
er of the interest. Brooks bought
$4,000 of these bonds on the SUPPOSE
ton that the bank was the trustee
He now wants the court to prevent the
sale of the property he traded.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
PLOT WRECK AND LOOT.
Boys Open switch with Idea a
Robbing Victimx' Bodies.

Boys Open Switch with Idea Of
Robbing victims' Bodies.
The arrest of George Lenko, aged 10
years; Stephen Yoski, IA years; Ed
ward Gydooski, ~; Andrew Milken,
~, and Arthur Gydooski, 10, revealed
the attempt of these youngsters to
wreck the early New Haven Railroad
train leaving New York shortly after
noon, for the purpose, as they confess
ed, Of looting the bodies of the dead
and injured. They got so far as to
open the switch near the east Port
Chester (Conn) freight yard. A
switchman happened to see them and
closed it in time to avert an accident.
The boys admitted that they were reg
nlar attendants at moving picture
shows in Port Chester and had ac-
CURED some of their ideas of outlawry
from the melo-dramatic scenes of the
canned drama
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
SLIDE SWEEPS TRAINS
OVER EDGE OF CANYON
1'wenty-three Dead, Twenty-Five
Missing, Under Avalanche in
State of Washington.
FALL 200 FEET INTO A euLcH
Coaches in Twisted Debris at Noun
tain's observation-disclosures
Lines Suffer.

Conditions almost unprecedented in
that section have virtually cut off the
entire northwest, and have tied UP
traffic on half dozen transcontinental
railroads. Thaws in the mountains
have caused avalanches and snow
slides that have swept away mountain
towns and sections of railroad tracks
from Nevada to British Columbia.
Floods also have caused widespread
damage.
In the Cascade mountains in Wash
ington two Great Northern trains were
buried by an avalanche. Twenty
bodies were recovered and scores are
injured or missing. The exact num-
Der of deaths caused by avalanches in
the Rockies, in Idaho, and in western
Montana probably will not be known
until the summer sun melts the great
masses of snow and ice in the canon
into which several mining towns were
swept. So
Further details of the disaster in
which an avalanche swept. two Great
Northern passenger trains and part
Of the town of Wellington, Wash,
down the mountainside at the west
portal of the Cascade tunnel shows it
to be more serious than first reported.
Twenty-three lives are known to have
been lost when the mass of snow,
stones and uprooted trees hurled the
cars containing seventy sleeping per-
sons over the narrow ledge to the bot
tom of the canyon 200 feet below, and
twenty-five more were reported miss
ing. Besides these a score were in
jured.
The avalanche rolled down the noun.
tain at 4:30 a. m. The two trains,
three locomotives, four powerful cleo
trio motors, the depot and water tank
were swept off the ledge and deposited
in twisted mass of wreckage at the
foot of the mountain. The noise from
the snowslide, which was mile long,
could be heard throughout the valley.
The wrecked trains lie piled on top
of each other 200 feet below the sid
ing, on which they stood when the
avalanche swept over them. The cars
were crushed into kindling wood and
no one IN the train escaped injury.
The slide filled the shelf on which the
tracks at Wellington are laid and roll.
ed over the edge into the valley.
Messages telling of the disaster were
sent to Everett and a relief train,
bearing physicians, nurses and work
ers. was made up and dispatched. Ow-
ing to previous slides which blocked
the road and swept away parts of the
track, the rescue train could get no
further than Scenic, whence the res
cuers had to make their way on foot
over the snow.
Four transcontinental lines into
Washington and Oregon are block
AIDED. Only one railroad is operating
into Salt Lake City. West of Utah
the Southern Pacific and Western Pa
cific lines have been cut by swollen
mountain streams.
In Ohio river floods have made 1000
homeless.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
HOGS. REACH THE HIGH RECORD.

Lots of GA Sold at $40 a 100, Aver
aging s2G.4O for Each.
Hogs reached the high record of SIC
per 100 pounds the other day in the
Chicago market, while $10.05 was paid
in Indianapolis and $685. in St. Louis
The price equals the mark set in 1870
and only the war price of $13.25 paid
in 1865 remains to be broken.
The winter packing season, which
closed the other day, is expected to
show a shortage of 100000 hogs com.
pared with the corresponding -four
months year ago. When hogs reach
ed IS in the Chicago stockyards it was
expected big rush would follow, but
it failed to materialize. The same
held good when the price advanced te
50, and the trade is anxiously await
ing to see the effect on the country Of
SO hogs.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
HUNDREDS LOSE LIVES
IN IDAHO AVALANCHE
Burke and Mace Are Overwhelmed
by Huge Masses That Slide
Down Mountain.
FAMILIES TRAPPED m SLEEP
snowslides That Destroy Property
and People Started by Chinook
Winds and Warm Rains.

u = =
Sixty lives have been lost, it is fear.
ed, in two great snowslides which
brought dismay to the mining towns of
the rich Occur d'Alene district IN
Northern Idaho. At 1926 o'clock the
other nightSa snowslide swept down;
the mountain, striking the little town
of Mace and burying twenty-five houses
and their sleeping occupants in a mass
OF snow and ice at the bottom of the
canyon. At $50 a. m. the next day,
another slide rushed down on the town
Of Burke, crushing score of houses
under thousands of tons of earth and
snow. There is fear that the number
Of dead at Burke may be even laryrr
than that at Mace. Because of the
larger population Of Burke, about 900.
the houses were closer together.
Mothers hauled their children to the
side hills; brothers dragged little SIS
tiers to places of safety, and when the
slide struck many of the homes were
deserted by fear-stricken women and
children, while the bread providers
were rescuing injured at the stricken
sister town. &.
old-timers in the Occur d'Alene dis.
trict had been sounding daily warnings
TO Mace, Burke and Black Bear that
because OF the record depth of the!
snow, slides were imminent. For six.
teen winters these towns have cs-
capped devastating slides and SO strong
had the confidence of the miner resi-
dents been that their homes and fami-
lies were safe that no precautions had
been taken.
The little mining town of Mace lies
between PERCEPTIONS mountain sides, a
struggling line OF cottages in the creek
bottoms, bisected by the lines Of the
Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company. Its one "a
dustry is mining and its big mine Is
the Standard. With scarce a dividing
line perceptible the towns of Black
Bear, Gem, Mace and Burke form a
long string Of houses for six miles.
Mace is divided into two parts,
known as Upper and Lower Mace. re-
spectively. The catastrophe occurred
in Lower Mace. where dwelt about 300
miners employed in the Standard
mines. Most of these men were unmar-
ried and, lived in the Hotel Standard.
Reports are that this hotel was in the
path Of the avalanche.
Though first reports of the disaster
were that the town of Gem, Idaho, a
mile above Mace on the same side Of
the canyon, had been overwhelmed,
later news indicates that the town es-
capped. The slide was half mile long
and thirty feet deep.
Thirty-five Italians, sleeping in IN
outfit car on the Northern Pacific sid
ing, who were swept away with. III .ir
car. in the bottom of the canyon, used
the tools in their car to dig themselves
out.
Chinook winds and warm rains start.
ed the Burke snowslide. which increas-
ed in velocity with every foot dowEi
the mountain until, it gained such
liheadway and force that only binding
mist and a roaring warned the score
of families of miners of its approach.
Surface trans were crushed and twist
ed and cabins we're ground to atoms.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

To prevent the possibility Of any
more trip pass frauds being perpetrat-
ed. the Great Northern has decided to
organize labor agency of its own.
The common council of Duluth
adopted the proposed franchise of the
Canadian Northern road for entrance
to the city. The road is required to
pay street assessments the same as any
other property owner.
Exploitation of the benefits of good
roads to both State and farmer meth
DDS of road building, agricultural
schools as means of increasing the
States wealth, and similar questions
will occupy much of the time of the
conservation and agricultural develop
ment congress which will be held in,
st. Paul.
The manager of the Millbrook Land
and Cattle Co., of Wyoming, has laid
a wager of $4,000 with syndicate of
farmers, near Litchfield. Alberta, Can.
that he can raise a heavier Weld ~
oats upon the Laramie plains than can
be raised anywhere else in the worl5.
This farm took the gold medal at the
ST. Louis worlds fair for oats in com
petition with the, whole world.
Armour & Co. of Chicago closed IN.
Minneapolis a deal which means the
establishment at Hill City, MINI. of
large factories for the manufacture of
lard pals and other packages for their
own use. This part of their business
has been carried on at Ithaca and Ma
BILE, Mich, but the supply of hardwood
having been about exhausted in Mich;-
gan they have, been looking about for
several months for new location
where the quantity of hardwood need
ed for their business was satisfactory.
Senator Stephenson, of Wisconsin.
owner of the famous cow. Gertrude
Wayne" last month received from the
COW 613 pounds of milk, which yielded
twenty six pounds Of butter. This hut
ter at AZ cents per pound amounted to
practically $11, to say nothing of ne
drinking extras the COW provided.
Terms of settlement Of the girl shirt
waistmakers' strike were agreed upon
at Philadelphia by board of arbitra-
ton chosen at a recent meeting Of
strike leaders and manufacturers All
the strikers are to be taken back by
their former employers, but the "op An
shop" condition insisted upon by the
manufacturers is to prevail.
Plans have been announced at La
Crosse. Wis, for the final step in the
completion of the greatest water pow.rj
in the Northwest and one of the
largest in the United States, by the
construction of dam at the mouth of
Rock creek on the east fork of Black
River, which will inundate hundreds Of
acres and will provide in all 6.007, O67,-
600 cubic feet OF, storage, to be utilized
by means of 97-foot head which vii,
develop 10000 ten-hour horsepower.
A holding company is in process of
formation in Minneapolis whose object
is to form trust in breakfast foods.
taking over several of the largest cereal
factories in the United States.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09

The German emperor md ministry
of war have decided to Introduce TIE
aeroplane in some form into the regu-
lar army equipment, with the intention
of attaching flying corps to every
regiment.
Theodore Roosevelt, with his son
and other members of his African OK
petition arrived at Gondokoro, Soudan.
at the head of the Nile, all reported
well and enthusiastic over their ex-
periences in the jungle. A native band
escorted the party into the town with
bugles and drums, headed by the tribal
chief. The party next day proceeded
down tine Nile to Khartoum.
At Des Moines, Iowa, the court room
at the police station was recently
turned into a church, and service was
conducted by the Rev. ]. Calfee, an
evangelist, who took the judges usual
place and preached sermon to the
entire night shift of the Des Moines
police force. One convert was made,
John Bergquist, a policeman. asking to
be received into the church.
Serious ARRAYS between the police
and thousands of Socialists occurred
in Berlin and other cities of Germany
when the Socialists held meetings and
marched in the streets to protest
against the proposed franchise bill of
the government. The police used their
sabers In dispensing the marchers, who
in some places made a show Of resist
ance by throwing stones and other mis-
siles. Many were wounded on both
sides before the police, with the aid
of soldiery, were able to repress the
demonstrations.
The new premier of Spain is Jose
Canalejas Mendes, who was called by
King Alfonso to head the liberal GOV
eminent and who boasts of being the
most radical of monarchists. In his
first public sentiment he says he be-
lieves in acts rather than words, and
will submit definite reforms shortly.
A plot has been discovered in India
duplicating number of native SOL
ders have been issued to the Benga-
lese garrison to prevent terroristjc
mass meetings and the police in the
Punjab province now have full author
ity to use their firearms on the slight
est provocation. +,
Dwight E. Woodbridge, writing in
the Mining World. an organ of the
Western mine owners, admits the truth
of the statements made by the Social
list press and the American Magazine
to the effect that slavery exists in
Mexico. He says that he has seen the
bodies of men hanging from trees and
has witnessed the herding and i'll treat
ment of Yaqui Indians who were being
sold into slavery.
The physicians in attendance upon
King Gustave of Sweden, who recently
had to undergo an operation for APP
pendicitis. state that the condition OF
the king is entirely satisfactory and
that he will be up again in fortnight.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
MdEzRE,CLAL
No AfiDsaS lA
A sa9lR s&s&
'zEMANCLAL
CHICAGO.

r. g. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review Of.
Chicago trade says:
Some irregularity in operations iss
due to the holiday this week, severe
storms in the west and hindrances to-
transportation, but there is sustained
activity among the heavy producers
and easier monetary conditions are re-
fiected by increasing bank deposits.
and lower record of trading defaults.
the latter indicating an improved po-
sition of credits over recent reports.
Prospects Of better weather bring;
relief after the long winter to various
interests and new demands III manu-
featuring and distribution become.
more varied, although the develop
ments include none of striking import
ance as to contracts for future execu-
ton.
Price tendencies for factory sup
plies to some extent are seen to be.
easier, and this encourages more at
tention to plans for construction and
railroad needs. There is however,
some conservatism where large finan-
cial commitments are involved and a.
more pronounced disposition to econo-
mize costs of production. Outputs of
factories in the Chicago district stead
lily rise and this causes notable for
warding and an ample movement of
raw and finished products.
Bank clearings, s255.Ss1 ,166, are
9.5 per cent over those of the CORE
spending week in 1909 and compare,
with s259,16s,34S in 1908.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 81, .as against 10 last
week. "a In 1909 and rs in 1908. Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number =,
as against s last week, 6 IN 1909 and
IA in 1908" n sifs'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
NEW YORK.

Trade reports are rather more irreg-
ular. Stormy, cold weather over wide.
areas of country apparently has re
tarded the expansion of the spring
jobbing trade. but nevertheless the dis
tribution has kept up well. in advance
of last year in fact, and distinct gains:
in the volume of house trade are re
ported at many points. Retail trade
has been restricted and this in turn
operates against recorder trade in
spring goods with jobbers. Industries
continue active, but there is rather
more evidence of friction in some
lines. particularly in railroad labor.
Business failures in the United,
States for the week ending with Feb.
"a were 254, as against 1853 last week.,
244 in the corresponding week of 1909.
81 in 1908. 1874 in 1907 and $50 in
Observation-Disclosures.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
TOWNS IN OHIO INUNDATED.
Thousands in Distress, Traffic I'm.
peded, Business Demoralized.

Thousands in Distress, Traffic I'm
peded, Business Demoralized.
Fully a thousand people homeless,
other thousands living on the second
floors of their homes, traffic impeded
and business demoralized in many
places, is the situation in Ohio as the
result of the floods. A bridge was
washed away at Defiance. Mechanics
burg is still under water. Boats only
can be used in the greater part Of War
rem, where the Mahoning is ON ram
page. Water is creeping upon the bust
ness section of Napoleon, and the Guy
ahoga River has inundated Clinton and
Warwick. Rain is still falling in the
southern part of the State, which will
add to the food in the Ohio River va
ley. At GAINESVILLE several hundred
families have been driven from their
homes and the suffering is acute. At
Fremont great danger still turks about
the gorged Sandusky River.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
EIGHTY m PERIL on FLYER.
Twentieth Century Limited, Bound
to Chicago, Derailed.

For reason not let determined, the
west-bound Twentieth Century limited
on the Lake Shore Railroad was de-
rallied at Olmsted Falls, 20 miles west
of Cleveland, the other day. The train
was running at speed of sixty miles
an hour. Two or three passengers
whose names have not yet been learn
ed were only Slightly injured. The
train was running as double-header
and had a straight track. All the seven
cars were derailed, but were not
thrown more than few inches from
the tracks. Neither locomotive was de.
rallied. Five hundred or 600 feet of
track was torn up. There were prob
ably eighty passengers aboard the
train, which was due in Chicago at
$3.50 a. m. A second train was made
up at Cleveland and sent to the scene
of the wreck. The passengers were
taken aboard this train and sent to
their destination.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
ON ICE F1oEs FOR HOURS.

Mother Saves Offspring and Herself
After Accident in Miami River.
Huddled, drenched and shivering, on
cakes of ice, Mrs. William Evans and
her two little children fioated for two
hours in the Miami river near Spring
field, o., the other night before they
could be rescued. The woman attempt
ed to ford the swollen river in a
buggy. A cake of ice struck the horse,
which reared and overturned the
vehicle. Mrs. Evans. keeping herself
afloat by holding to an ice cake, assist
ed her children aboard the ice and
then mounted another herself All
were near collapse when rescued.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
Asou1rH IS HELD m comMoNs.
First Trinl OF Strength ON Chamber
lainss Fiscal Amendment.

First TriaI of Strength ON Chamber
lain's Fiscal Amendment.
The first trial of strength in the
new English House of Commons oc-
Cured the other night at crowded
session when Austen Chamberlain's
fiscal amendment was rejected by
vote of 2S5 to 254. Speeches were
made by Mr.. Balfour, leader of the
opposition; Chancellor Lord George
and others. The government may re-
gard the majority of thirty-one as
satisfactory, as there was no cross
voting and no evidence that the dis
contented groups intend to, try to over
throw the ministry. All the nation
alists, O'Brienites as we'll as Red
mondites and three liberals abstained
from voting. The laborites voted with
the government.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
PERCY IS M1ss1ss1pp1 SENATOR

Long Deadlock ON Successor to Late
U. s. Senator McLaurin Broken.
LIE Roy Percy. of Greenville. one Of
the most brilliant lawyers In Missis-
sippi. was elected United States sena-
tor from the State of Mississippi to
fill out the unexpired term of "A. J..
McLaurin, who died Dec. %.
The election was on the 5sth ballot
by the legislative caucus and after a
deadlocl, that had continued since Jan.
with one or two ballots nearly every
day. When the result Of the ballot
was announced there was scene Of
widest confusion. The vote was:
Percy. 81; vardaman, 50.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
BANKER IS SAVED FROM PRISON.

Minnesota Court Revokes Drew's
Sentence and Orders New Trial.
The Minnesota Supreme Court set
aside the conviction of A. 2. Drew,
former president of the failed Bank Of
Hamline. he'conviction was secured
on charge of accepting deposits after
the bank was insolvent. The court
revokes the sentence of two years. Inn
prisonment and orders new trial be-
cause of error in the lower court
Drew has been out on BAIL The bank,
which failed Jan. Is. 1908. was small
State institution.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
GARY PER11ED BY FIRE.

Firemen Are Hurt and 100000
Loss Caused by Blaze.
More than thirty lives were saved.
several .firemen were injured. and prop
erty loss of nearly 100000 resulted
from a blaze in Gary, Ind, when the
Ohio building burned. The entire town
was threatened with destruction and
appeal was made to the Chicago depart.
ment for aid. 1t was the worst fire in
the Steel City since it was founded.
The fire is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09
PIERRE, 5. D., ADOPTS REFORMS

Indorses Commission Form Of Cow
eminent by Majority of 216.
Pierre, s. D.. adopted the commits
sion form of government the other day
by majority of zig. The. new plan
was generally favored by the business
interests. At special election Dell
Rapids, s. D., adopted the commission
plan Of government by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority. The voters OF Mitchell,
in the same State, defeated the COM
mission form of government by ma.
jority of 1856. Every ward in the city
went against the proposition.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09

R. E. Taylor. first-class fireman, is
dead. five others are badly burned, one
of whom. L. B. Carletilo. second class
fireman, may not survive. and two
more are painfully scalded as the result
of a boiler tube explosion on the torpe-
dos boat destroyer Hopkins in San
Diego Bay. California.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09

The request for 10 per cent inc
rease in their wage scale by the five
marine labor organizations in confer
ence in Detroit with the executive com
mittee of the Dredge Owners Protec-
tive Association was fatty refused by
the dredge owners.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-09

The plant of the Milwaukee Stamp
ing Works. Gath and Pullen avenues
West Allis. Wis, was almost destroyed
by fire. The loss may reach $4,000
The plant manufactured hardware spe
cialties About 100 men were employ
ed there.