Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-04

tCOiHpleteu.
A creamery may be erected at Lake
Park this fall.
Hog cholera is still prevalent in the vi
cinity Of Bows.
Muscatine's new public library has been
formally opened.
New. coal mines are being opened in the
vicinity of Abba.
Armstrong is agitating for some system
of street lighting.
The new Catholic church at Clarion is
nearing completion.
The Illinois Central is putting in side
track at Masonville.
Davenport is undecided whether to have
union depot or not.
There is talk of furniture factory be-
ing located at Denison.
The contract will soon be let for the
college at College Springs.
The c. & N. w. will build $4,000
round house at Mason City.
The burned district at Marble Rock is
not liable to be rebuilt soon.
Valley Junction will number its houses
on the Philadelphia system.
The deposits in the banks of Davenport
aggregate nearly $14,00O,OOO.
Plans for a new Episcopal church at
Charlton have been completed.
School at Haesviylle has been post
poned on account of diphtheria.
One savings hank in Clinton has de-
posts aggregating over $3,00O,OOO.
OF the nine prisoners indicted at Mar
shalltown all have pleaded not guilty.
About three hundred children We're vac
cinated in Jackson one week recently.
The Muscatine North and South Rail-
road may be continued to Burlington.
Council Bluffs is considering plan to
put in municipal electric light plant
George Smith, butcher Of Mason
City, committed suicide by taking poison.
The Wayne County fair held at Cory
don came out with a deficit of about $500
A new iron bridge 100 feet long has
been built across Deer creek, near Toledo.
+. A. Belt of Toledo was perhaps IA
tally injured by being thrown from
horse.
Large depositi iron ore, it is report
ed, have been t,..., in Allamakee
County.
About 400 Iowa veterans attended the
national encampment of the G.. n. r. at
Philadelphia.
The Council at Ackley has adopted res
olut'ons for the refunding of the towns
water bonds.
The Marshall County grand jury has
returned indictments against nine prison
ers now in custody.
Simpson College, at Indianola, has re-
opened with great increase in attend
ance over last year.
Fire at Homestead destroyed an eleya-
tor, corn cribs. ETC., causing loss Of sew
eral thousand dollars.
A bull ran amuck in KeosauQua, and
attacked some children, but was lassoed
before serious injury was done.
On account of family troubles Geo. II.
Carpenter of Dcs Moines committed sui
eide by taking dose of laudanum.
Prof. j. j. Kittel of Des Moines fell off
the bridge at Plattsmouth, distance of
forty feet. and was severely injured.
Fire recently at Clarion consumed
barn and team of ponies and damaged
the opera house to the extent of $500.
A train ran into traction engine
which stuck while crossing the track near
Castalia and completely demolished it.
The 1s-months-old child of John
Standt, living near Marble Rock, fell into
water tank and was drowned before
found
the heat recently, and has been adjudg-
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treatment.
The survivors of the Third Iowa cav
airy and the Thirty-sixth Iowa infantry
will hold their reunion at Centerville Oct.
IL and IL.
The Methodist conference at Denison
appointed committee to consider the es-
tablishment Of UNCONVENTIONAL hospital
in this State.
Spontaneous combustion in heap of
slack coal is now believed to have been
the cause of the destruction of the Halnp-
ton water works.
Jack Straney of Dubuque was found
on street in that city with his throat
cut almost from ear to ear, but he will
not say who did it.
A horse driven by Mrs. Weller of Rock
dale SHE'D at a steam roller, upsetting
the buggy and severely injuring Mrs.
Weller and her child.
Fire broke out in the basement Of the
hardware store of Eastwood & Chase at
Monticello, but it was extinguished be-
fore the damage exceeded $500.
The United Christian party will have
| ticket i'll the field. All vacancies on the
ticket have been filled and the work of
securing the necessary signatures to Pc
tition is now going on.
The first authentic case Of golf mania,
as distinct from golf enthusiasm, must be
credited to Burlington. A German farm
err named Gottlieb Hackermann is the
victim. The links of the Boulevard Golf
Club are situated in a picturesque SUBJ
urb known us SunnyslGe, where Hacker
mann has his truck gardens. The other
day his son found the farmer in the cab
bage patch, having great game of golf.
His baggy pantaloons We're rolled up and
his fat calves were wrapped in strips of
red flannel. In the old mans hand was
his heavy hickory cane with crooked
handle. With it he was smashing the
cabbage heads to pieces in vain effort
man said he was playing golf He is
rational on other subjects.
w. Il. Brinton disappointed crowd of
$1,000 at Washington by failing to at
tempt to navigate the air with his ship.
He said the gas generator had not ar
rived. He will make an attempt again
under more favorable conditions.
The handsome $4,000 stone edifce of
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