Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-03-16
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.

Sunday. Il

sunday.
Figures from Washington show that
meat prices are higher throughout the
world.
Thomas Collier Plat, former Senator
and boss of New York. died at the age
OF ~ years.
Three persons were shot. one fatal
~, in clash of police and strike sympa-
thizers In Philadelphia.
The government threw open for en-
try 10000 acres of irrigated farm
lands in South Dakota.
Monday.
Mae Wood rejoiced over Senator
Platt's death and said she will fight
to prove herself his widow.
Russia turned down appears backed
by Great Britain and will try Tschai.
kovsky and Nine. Breshkovskaya in Sc.
cret.
Jere F. Lillis. banker, who was
slashed by ]. P. Cudahy in Kansas
City. announced that he will not pros.
ecute.
Two men probably killed and TWEEN
Il ty-eight injured was the casualty list
in a mill dust explosion in Roby, Ind.
Labor leaders in charge of the Phil
adelphia car strike hope to enlist the
4 State Federation and have general
strike extended to all Pennsylvania.
Tuesday.
May Yohe filed suit in Oregon for
divorce from Putnam Bradlee Strong,
charging desertion.
Fire destroyed the Chicago Hebrew
Institute, the old-time home of the Con-
vent of the Sacred Heart. s
Strike breakers charged through a
Philadelphia street in a car, firing into
the crowd and wounding six persons.
William Hamilton Mitchell, vice
4 president Of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank, in Chicago, died at the
age of SO.
Canada expects the visit of the
4 American commissioners to end the
tariff war. although no agreement has
been reached. n
France was shaken by disclosures
indicating that the greater part of the
e 5000, 100000 realized from the sale of
church property has vanished; M. Duez
z confessed that he alone lost 100000.
Wednesday.
A strike Of coal miners in the btu.
minous fields on April 1 was declared
certainty.
The Des PLANES River. in Illinois
( in flood, carried off sidewalks, uproot,
ed trees and did other damage.
The department Of justice filed in
Supreme Court its brief in the, suit
to force dissolution of Standard Oil.
The Pennsylvania State Labor Fed,
GRAFTON urged nationwide strike te
win street car contest in Philadelphia
The Commonwealth Edison Company
bought 109 acres for site for vast
new plant In Chicago.
Live hogs passed the predicted high
price Of $10.50 and reached recort
mark.
]. P. Morgan { Co. put through ne
gotiations for forming OF an autono
bile company with q capital OF mil
lions. s.
Philander Knox, Jr., admitted he has
been cut OF with only 500 a month
as the result of his elopement.
"A subcommittee of the House nava
committee refused to reward Com
mander Peary as discoverer Of til,
north pole until he submits proof.
Thursday.
Daniel D. Healy. noted Chicago poll
tician, died.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will devote
his life to philanthropy.
George Bernard Shaw advocated
abolition Of marriage and property.
The government has started a new
move to crush the American Sugar
Company.
Victims of the snow slide and wreck
at Wellington. Wash, may reach to
tai of 100.
& 8siii Friday. i
Estrada was believed to be ready
. for United States intervention.
The American tariff ENJOYS con
.ered with Canadian representatives
at Ottawa.
A general strike in sympathy with
street car men was started at mid
night In Philadelphia.
Forty bodies were recovered from
the ravine where the snowslide struck
two Great Northern trains.
d Il IT, 4
BLACK Hand" demanded $4,000 OF
Caruso on pain of death. and big de
tectives guard the tenor everywhere.
Saturday.
Louis James, the actor, died Of heart
disease in Helena, Mont. II
Ninety-two workmen were killed by
a landslide on the Canadian Pacific.
Ex-Secretary Garfield took the stand
in the Pinchot inquiry and defended
the Roosevelt conservation policies.
Many suits have been filed in the
United States Supreme Court attack.
ing the corporation tax law.
Philadelphia YVES paralyzed by its
gigantic sympathetic strike; the lead.
ers defied the Mayor and held pa
rade; many were hurt in clashes with
the police.
A Washington correspondent says
that the passage of the postal savings
bank bill In the Senate by a strict
4 party vote was the result OF drawn
battle between the insurgents and the
regulars.
THIS AND THAT.
Nine persons were injured in col
lision of ferry boas in a dense fog on
the Delaware River at Philadelphia.