Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-05

wishes TO remove to Dubuque.
The floating debt of the city of Dubuque
was reduced nearly $4,000 last year.
The schools at Brooklyn closed for
weeks vacation on account of measles.
The Gilman canning factory has reor-
ganized and filed articles of incorpora-
ton.
Two hundred and fifty real estate trans
fers were recorded in Scott County in nine
days.
Sixty-five thousand dollars was voted
for new high school building at Council
Bluffs.
A postoffice has been established at
Henshaw, with Perry e. Shipley as post
master.
Farmers in the western part Of the
State are offering $40 to $25 per month
for hands.
The Dubuque banks are considering q
reduction of interest on deposits from to
per cent.
A company will be incorporated with 4
capital of $4,000 to build an opera house
at Postville.
Keokuk anticipates a telephone war,
which will result in greatly lowering pres
ent prices.
John Ralberry, foreman for, the O. &
n. W., dropped dead at Whiting while un-
loading ties.
John Lee, miner Of Des Moines, was
seriously injured by falling coal at the
Gibson mine.
The boarding halls Mt the agricultural
0nllnUo of maj Jo1 -, 1ns.
most capacity.
Three companies of the new Fifty-sec-
ond regiment have now been mustered
into the service.
Nora Springs will vote on the PROPOSE
ton to bond the city for the construction
of water works.
A firm at Cleveland, Ohio, has accepted
an issue Of $4,000 refunding bonds Of
the city of Dubuque.
There is talk of establishing new short
line steamer service from Dubuque to the
towns north and south.
The Tama and Toledo Electric Railway
and Light Company has filed amended ar
ticles of incorporation.
The Dubuque Council has decided that
the desired appropriation for new bridge
must be by special election.
Two freight trains collided on the Bur
lington few miles from Creston. Two
trainmen were slightly injured.
An entertainment at Council Bluffs for
the hospital fund of the local military
company at Manila netted $637.
John Yount, aged 90, a broom maker Of
Dubuque, Is dead from the effects of rat
poison taken with suicidal intent.
The steamer Hook White sank in the
lower lock Of the Government canal at
Keokuk. The cause is not known.
Osten Delhi, living near Bassett, while
crossing stream swollen by rain, was
washed from his seat and drowned.
N. j. Chambers, Chicago travelling
man, was sandbagged at Council Bluffs
and robbed of n large amount of money.
Floyd is now an incorporated town as
the result of the recent election. The
proposition carried by vote of to 1.
The star route from Iowa Falls to the
postofices at Cottage and Ellis has been
changed from tri-weekly to a daily ser
vice.
Des Moines bankers now carry a total
Of 0,921 ,055 in deposits, an increase Of
over 5000, 900 since the last monthly state
ment.
A recent sale of Fort Dodge business
property brought 500 front foot. -Four
years ago it was offered at $25, without
takers.
Three years ago Louis Wachenheim of
Dubuque had family of nine children.
The last one has just died and the parents
are entirely destitute.
There are only six graduates in medi-
cine in the whole State this year. -Four
Of these are from the Keokuk College and
one each at Sioux and Iowa City.
Mercy hospital, Davenport, will here
after care for the county insane for $11.5O
per month for each person. This is de-
crease of one dollar on former charges.
The collection of fees in the Secretary
of States Office from corporations filing
articles under the new law, which went
into effect April IA, 1896, aggregated $685.
600.
Chief Clerk Penn of the railway mail
service says that since the Northwestern
inaugurated its fast mail the volume Of
mail matter carried has increased 80 per
cent.
The millinery store of Mrs. A. II. Paul
and the Chandler bank building at Ons-
low were destroyed by FIRE. The entire
west side Of Main street had narrow
escape.
The body Of an unknown man, badly
mangled, was found on the tracks of the
c., B. & @. in Des Moines. He had evil
IDENTIFY been struck and run over by a
switch engine.
Wesley Green of Davenport has taken
his place as secretary of the State Horti-
cultural Society, succeeding George H.
Van Houten, who is secretary OF the State
Agricultural Society. The new secretary
is an old horticultural, we'll known in the
State and man Of ability as writer.
Two carloads of colored miners have
been brought from Missouri to work the
mines at Coalfeld. The white miners
struck because the operators refused to
deduct from each mans wages the
amount required by the local union. The
mines have been idle for the past two
months.
A Centerville citizen has brought an in
junction suit against the electric lighting
company and the city on the ground that
the lighting company has no legal fran
chise, as the one under which it operates
was not submitted to vote Of the people
and is therefore null and void.
Two efforts of John w. Rose to commit
suicide have proved vain. He is q farmer,
living at Lake City. He shot himself
while in room in Chicago. The wound
was slight and the next night he rented
another room and took poison. He was
removed to the hospital, where the ply
sicians said he would recover.
AT sigourney, s. w. Brunt, cashier of
the Keokuk County State Bank, has been
sued for $4,000 by John Black, who
claims Brunt alienated his wife's affec-
tons. This is the second suit of this ma
ture brought against Brunt in the last
year.
A stranger about 80 years of age, CIV
ing the name of Milax, claiming to hall
from the State of Oregon, and his desti-
nation Cedar Rapids, was taken in charge
by officers at Wiota. He was in dazed