Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-05-03
Two Are Run Down by a Car.


Mrs. Sam Gard and her 5-year-old
daughter were run down by street car
in Cedar Rapids. The child died three
hours later. but the mother will survive
They were waiting to board the car and
front. The mother tried to save her and
both were caught under the wheels.
Brief state happenings.
A big timber wolf was killed just out.
side Burlington.
A new stucco mill, to cost $4,000. is to
be located at Fort Dodge.
During the past year 900 pupils have
been enrolled in the Fairfield schools.
Washington has sold its 500, 900 school
bonds to the Citizens Bank of that city.
Charles T. Bradgum of Tracy has been
appointed clerk in the railway mail ser
vice.
A new church and school house are to
be erected at New Providence this sen
son.
S. j. Foxe of Seaton lost three fingers
from his right hand while operating q
buzz saw.
The next Republican State convention
will have ,2S2 delegates, figuring on the
usual basis.
A training school for nurses has been
opened in connection with Mercy hospital
Des Moines.
The contract has been let for new
Methodist Episcopal Church at Carson
to cost $4,000.
Moulton is out of debt and prepared to
give lessons in municipal economy to less
fortunate neighbors.
The Northern Telephone Company OF
Pocahontas County has been incorporat.
ed, with a capital of $4,000.
James Cooney, employed at the Iowa
iron works, Dubuque, lost his right eye
by splinter Of steel which fled into it.
The board of control has contracted for
the furnishing Of 700 volumes for the in.
situations at Anamosa and Council Bluffs
John Poverty, n travelling salesman OF
Dcs Moincs, claims to be second cousin
of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson
Davis.
l.. A. Turner of Atlantic, who was in.
jured in runaway accident ut Atlantic
has since died without regaining con.
seriousness.
William Thayer, running between Du.
buque and Chicago, has been in continu.
GUS service as railroad conductor fol
forty-nine years.
The Business Mems League of Du.
buquc will make an effort to secure the
presence of President Mckinley as the
star attraction during carnival week.
The dead body of Claus Hamann, an
old man, was found in shallow pool OF
water at Council Bluffs. The prevailing
opinion is that it was u case of suicide.
By the giving way of n scaffold on a
building in course of erection at Dayen.
port three workmen were precipitated
twelve feet to the ground and quite seri.
ously injured.
A Clinton man says his son advertised
in matrimonial paper, and his daughter
answered the advertisement. He thinks
he has more than the usual proportion of
fools in the family.
Osknloosa carried her free library prop.
osition by majority of 554, Charlton by
1926 votes for to 107 against, and Fair
field rolled up majority of $40 in favor
of such n proposition.
The members of the bar of Clinton
County have organized and incorporated
law library. Capital stock $1,000,
shares $25 each.
Gideon Daugherty of near Oskaloosa,
one of the best known Masons in Iowa,
is dead. He had built a fine lodge room
on his farm.
AT Kingsley the other evening Mrs. H.
w. Elliott fell into a well and was smoth.
cred in the mud. She was raking the
yard and accidentally fell head first. The
well was twenty-five feet deep and nearly
dry. Mrs. Elliott's head was driven into
the mud by her own weight and as the
well was small she was unable to help
herself.
Patrick Foley, wcll-known Fort
Dodge citizen, aged 20. dropped dead in
the street as he was entering his home.
The Iowa crop bulletin says that com.
pared with last year the season for begin.
ming seeding and other farm operations is
about three weeks late. The frost in the
soil is receding very slowly and the sur
face has been generally too wet for field
work. In the central section beginning
has been made in seeding on dry ridges
and well-drained fields. The fields of win
ter wheat have not as yet shown signs of
life, and 1t is believed that late-sown
wheat is about all killed The consump.
ton Of grain and forage during the last
winter has been much greater than usual.