Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-10-11
The Iowa Central is enlarsins Its yards

The Iowa Central is enlarging Its yards
at Grinnell
A system of sewerage is being talked of
for Iowa Falls.
The postoffice at Vega, Henry County,
has been discontinued.
The court house at Fairfield was struck
by lightning and slightly damaged.
lightning caused the destruction of
Fosters mill, near Manley Junction.
The school census at Waterloo gives
3,42S persons of school age in the city.
The body of an unknown man was TAX
en- from the Mississippi river at Burling-
ton.
Mrs. Lalander, wife of the superintend-
dead
Two telephone exchanges are being put
in at Waterloo, one on each side Of the
river.
Burglars secured $75 and gold watch
from the residence of g. G. Hull at New
Sharon.
Henry Vance, aged IS, and Anna Scott,
aged T6, were recently married at Des
Moines.
The Christian Scientists expect to erect
an elegant church building at Fort Dodge
next year.
Fire, originating from defective fue,
destroyed the residence Of Jesse Harlan
at Osceola.
The postmaster of DEBORAH will be al
lowed one additional carrier, to take eff
feet Nov. 1.
The value of improvements ut Mt.
Vernon during the past year will aggre-
gate $4,000.
The miners at the Gleason mines near
Fort Dodge are out on strike, demanding
higher wages.
A new commercial agency is to enter
the field in this State. with headquarters
at Des Moines.
The public schools of Newton opened
with an enrolment of 705, slight in
crease over last year.
A man named Currey eloped with his
mother-inlaw from Grinnell. The cou-
Pile were arrested at Omaha.
Burglars dynamited the safe in the
store of McLain Bros. at Dubuque and
secured cash to the amount of $115.
George Beebe, the boy injured by be-
ing struck by train at railway cross
ing in Abba, is dead from his injuries.
The corner stone of the Episcopal
chapel at Ames was laid with impressive
ceremonies, Bishop Morrison officiating.
Tramps broke into way car at Gid
den and stole case CT ,..gh-priced shoes.
They made their escape with the plumber.
In taking the school census of Musca-
tine eighteen pairs of twins were found
and twelve married women of school age.
Owing to the high prices for labor and
material the building Of the public H.
brary at Fort Dodge will be put off until
spring.
The citizens of Oskaloosa are seeking
to raise the required bonus to secure the
removal of large plant from Bussey to
their town.
Mrs. Mary Clark, an aged woman Of
Dubuque, committed suicide by jumping
into cistern. Nothing is known as to
the cause Of the act.
The employees Of the gypsum mill at
Fort Dodge, who have been out OIL
strike for some time, have returned to
work on compromise.
Buchanan County has kept James Poor
in the Office of County Treasurer for four
teen terms of two years each, making
record for this Office in the State.
lightning struck the large barn of MI
chael Damn at Fairfield and 1t was
entirely consumed by FIRE, together with
number Of cows in the building.
c,,sx
against Mayor Fritz Klus and Marshal
Bauer of Luzerne for $4,000 for false
Imprisonment and injury to his reputa-
| ton.
William Winslow of Des Moines has
been held to the grand jury on charge
of murder in the first degree without
bail. He is charged with the killing Of
i William Tilton.
The land owners near Let's, on whose
property natural gas has been found,
have organized an improvement COM
pany. They expect to sink experimental
wells to great depth and ascertain the
extent Of the vein and its suitability for
commercial purposes.
The City Council Of Osceola has enter
tanned proposition from IN outside cor.
poration to put in system of water
works and lighting plant at cost Of
$45, 600, the city to be bonded to that
amount. The proposition will be submit
| ted to the voters at an early date.
| Judge Macy in the District Court at
Council Bluffs decided that the property
Of an implement dealer is not goods in
transit, and hence is subject to local
taxation" Suit was brought by the
Rock Island Plow Company to restrain
the county treasurer from levying taxes
on its stock. The company set up that
the stock had already been assessed in
Illinois, and that the goods in Council
Bluffs were simply goods in transit"
The court held that as the company re.
tailed its goods there they were not
goods in transit" but subject to levy
and taxation.
Fred Hoffman of Harlan was hurled
off the Union Pacific bridge at Omaha
into the Missouri river, seventy feet be-
low, by a robber. He had met In Coun-
Gil Bluffs man who gave his name us
Frank Smith. Together they started
across the railroad bridge for Omaha.
When about 200 feet on the bridge Smith
asked Hoffman for cents with which to
| pay tolls at the west end Of the bridge.
Hoffman took out his purse and was In
the act Of getting the money when Smith
sprang at him, snatched the purse con-
tanning $12 and knocked Hoffman off the
bridge. Huffman plunged headlong into
the water, which was four feet deep. As
he fell he yelled frantically, attracting the
attention of the bridge Waterman and Of
boatman below, who rescued him with
difficulty.
Sheriff Shelton of Logan started to take
a prisoner to Anamosa and when four
miles beyond Stanton the prisoner jump
ed from the train and Mr.. Shelton eter
him. It was dark and the escaping ris-
oner could not be seen, SO he escaped,
though handcuffed.
It is announced that the Letters of Chi
cago are perfecting plans to open several
coke furnaces in Iowa. Coal men say
they are figuring on locations at Oska-
loosa and Centerville AND add that the
| Centeryille coal would make excellent