Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-06-28

To fill orders
The officers of the Dubuque ball club
are undecided as to whether or not they
will continue it.
About forty pharmacy students have
taken The prescribed examination at Des
Moines this week.
The school board of Marshalltown has
decided 10 call in $4,000 of the $50, 900 in
bonds outstanding.
The Scott County normal institute will
open at Davenport July 8 and continue in
session two weeks.
The explosion of gasoline stove in the
residence of ID. Letter of Coin very badly
damaged the house.
Rev. Owen Odell has been invited to the
pastorate of the Second Presbyterian
Church at Dubuque.
The contract for carrying the mails
from Epworth to Placid has been award
ed to Il. j. Murtaugh.
The old Northwestern depot Mt Dunlap
is being torn down to make place for a
more modern structure.
The Iowa iron works, Dubuque, has
constructed in its yards.
1t is now said the temperance people
have postponed their crusade against Des-
Moines saloons until fall.
A Chinaman at Davenport has had his
celestial patronymic of Sing Wah changed
to American Charley King.
The graduating class of the Creston
high school numbered twenty-eight, of
whom but TWO We're males.
John Ryan, section hand at Malvern.
was run down and instantly killed by the
fast mail on the c., b. 4 Q.
A number of the violators of the fish
laws at Humboldt have been arrested by
Warden Delevan and fined.
The young child of Charles Epperson of
Grinnell swallowed couple Of arsenic
pills and died within an hour.
Iowa Falls has contracted for new
deep well, hoping that this will solve the
problem of water supply for the city.
A woman has been elected to fill va
cnncy on the business committee of the
Congregational Church at Muscatine.
Veterans of the Franco-Prussian war
residing in Dubuque gave picnic which
was attended by three thousand people.
Mrs. Maggie Neal and Vossler, farm
er, are dead at Alingo from drinking wood
alcohol. Six others have been very i'll.
John I. Stewart of North Liberty was
badly injured at the Coralville quarries by
lot of rock and earth caving in on him.
Mrs. Carrie F.. Odgers of Rochester at
tempted suicide by drowning while de-
spondent over being deserted by her hus-
band.
The three days gathering of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society at Shenandoah
drew out large attendance of delegates
md visitors.
.Tewelry stolen from the home of Henry
Thoren of Ackley about year ago has
been found by a farmer i'll his hay nov
six or eight miles away.
According to assessment figures the ac-
tual value of real estate and personal
property in Waterloo foots up $S,S53, $50
an increase of 1896. 141 in personal prop
erty over last year.
A young man named Lockhart and Il
companion from Spencer, while fishing on
Lost Island lake near Emmetsburg, were
thrown into the water by the capsizing OF
their boat and Lockhart was drowned.
The City Council of Council Bluffs has
asked the court to grant an injunction re-
straining the Union Pacific from laying
new tracks on a certain street. The city
alleges that the company has not carried
out the contract under the terms Of which
it was entitled to operate in the street.
Nels Peterson, n carpenter by trade
aged A., was found dead in n Des AIoines
lumber yard by the police Peterson was
drinking heavily the day before. The case
is being investigated, as there is evidence
of foul play.
Prof. o. I. Morgan, the alleged hereto
who was tried before the trustees OF
Drake University last April and transfer
red from the theological department to the
chair of Hebrew and Greek languages
has been removed FROM the faculty ant
institution altogether by the trustees.
The possibility of an outbreak of small
pox is causing daily meetings of the Dav
export Board of Health and the vaccine
ton of scores of persons. Mary Seibel is
under quarantine Mt her home near there
with mild attack and Lincoln w. Pope
is at Iowa City seriously ill from tn,
same disease. Both were taken sick Al
Davenport. On being taken i'll they wen
TO their homes, but as Pope stopped at 1
boarding house and Miss Seibel WORKED
in a hotel the exposures TO infection were
many. Pope contracted the disease d,
Leclaire, where there were nineteen cases
but no deaths.
Thirty of the fraternal bodies of Mar
shalltown have Joined to make the cele
bration of the Fourth in that city grea
success.
The Shriners of Kaaba temple of tn,
Mystic Shrine has Just initiated elias.
of nine. The ceremonies were followed b,
banquet.
Too early entries have knocked out. sew
eral race meetings this summer and calico
off some of the races in others. AT leas
this is what the horsemen say. The en-
tries for all the meetings in the grea
Western circuit had to be made by Ma,
II. The races were from July l to Sep
TENDER. The Des Moines and Davenpor
meetings We're called off altogether.
Iowa College at Grnnell, at its annua
commencement, listened to commence
ment address by s. NJ. Jones, the Mayol
Of Toledo, Ohio.
John Wilkey, ID years of age, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself. He is ,
sou of Theodore Wilkey, prominent
farmer, living three miles from Rocl
Branch. While romping with other boy.
he was thrown into water tank. Al
the time the ducking did not affect him
but few days later Mr.. Barnard wen
into the COW barn and found the boy hang
ing from beam. The theory is the bo,
struck his head in falling into the tank
and that he was deranged when he com
mattsa spiG!ds,