Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-02-16
SUMMARY OF THE
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS.
Sunday.

spite the Board of Education's ban.
"a The Pope rejected audience with for
mer Vice President Fairbanks because
he addressed the Methodists in Rome.
big Tim" Sullivan, Tammany boss
Of New York's Bowery, made his an
nual distribution of 5000 pairs Of
shoes and stockings to the poor.
Monday.
The King of Sweden was operated
on Tor appendicitis.
John L. Sullivan married an old
sweetheart in Boston.
Mrs. Lavender, of Chicago, has filed
Z $4,000 SANDER suit, naming Rev. w.
p. Tilroe.
Howard G. Hetzler, of Chicago. was
elected president of the Chicago and
Western Indiana railroad.
The Federal Incorporation bill, in
troduced into Congress. is likely not
to be passed at this session.
Wade H. Ellis resigned as assistant
attorney general In Washington to take
charge of the Ohio campaign.
strychnine formed part Of much
medicine taken by Colonel Swope, his
nurse testified at the inquest In Kan
sas City.
Tuesday.
The Senate adopted resolution to
take up an investigation of the cost
OF living.
An agreement practically was reached
to hold the Jeffries-Johnson bout in or
near San Francisco.
General vasquez reported to Madriz
that he had won victory over army Of
Chamorro at Boaco.
New and startling testimony was
given at the inquest into the death of
Colonel Swope at Independence, Mo.
Commander Peary announced his
Willingness to head an expedition to
the south pole, and gave $1,000 to start
a fund.
The report of the investigation of the
Hooking pool said that some firms mer
1t severe condemnation" but nothing
more drastic was recommended.
Wednesday.
Federal jobs in Illinois were held up
by deadlock between Senators Cullom
and Lorimer.
DR.. Mary e. Green, famed for her
fight to become member of the medi-
cal profession, died in Seattle, aged &C
years. r.
"A house bill in Washington provides
appropriations of 100000 for i'm
provements of waterways in MISSISSIPPI
pi valley.
The coroner's jury named DR.. Hyde
rs the slayer Of Col. Thomas H. Swope.
but was unable to say whether the poi
son was given with felonious intent.
Thursday.
Prices in New York OF beef and other
staple foods made sudden rise.
despite the boycott,
Guggenheim copper stocks depreci-
ated $23.000.000 in a smash Of prices;
Morgan's vengeance was seen.
The United States and Germany
reached an agreement on the main
points at issue in the tariff situation.
Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw was grant
ed separation from w. Gould Brokaw
and $4,000 year alimony In New
York.
The Lavender case was practically
thrown out of court in Chicago when
new bill Of particulars was ordered
and the jury dismissed.
Charles L. Warmer. embezzler Of
the Big Four at Cincinnati, unfolded a
remarkable tale of crime. naming
Frank Comstock and e. s. Cooke as
short In their accounts.
Friday.
The Seine fell rapidly and Paris was
again approaching normal.
The Nicarauuan insurgents bonn
barded Greytown and captured Boace.
The Roosevelt party arrived at Nj
mule: all members were in good
health.
An official of the Canadian Pacific
says, 100, 900 will quit the United States
for the Dominion this year.
Wireless telegraphy saved the cap
tain and forty-six men of the sinking
steamer Kentucky of Hatteras.
A verdict for $4,000 damages was
rendered D. 3. Loewe Of Danbury,
~ hot o1rn, 80 hat
State.
Saturday.
Managua heard that the government
forces scored victory at Santo To
maso.
Robbers blew the safe of the State
Bank at Wister, Okla, and escaped
with $1,740.
When ex-State Treasurer Glazier, of
Z Michigan, was sentenced to, prison, he
tainted and his wife and daughters
fell beside him.
In Chicago the grand jury reported
four indictments In the shale rock
scandal, reindicted ten formerly in
dicted in connection with work on sec.
ton N of Lawrence avenue sewer and
concluded the inquiry.
TOLD IN a FEW LINES.
Henry w. Taft, brother of the Presi-
dent, WHO is i'll of erysipelas in Los
Angeles, has been pronounced out OF
all danger.
Nearly 1900 employees of the ma
chine shops of the Bethlehem, Pa.