Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Gu wages OF section men III per cent.
Lawrence OFT of Dubuque had his foot
crushed by some lumber falling on it.
The proposition for free public library
at Oskaloosa carried by big majority.
The Mitchell farm in Blackhawk Coun-
ty of Ats acres has been sold for $23, $50.
The Sylvan steel mill at Davenport is
idle, us the stranders are striking for 81
a day.
w. Olsenberg of Sioux County lost nine
valuable cows through their eating fax
straw.
a Y will be put in ut Waterloo to con-
meet the Central and Great Western
tracks.
The livery barn of Barron Bros, at
Rock Rapids, was destroyed by fire. Loss
$1,000.
A colored prisoner in the Fort Dodge
Jail complains that he is not furnished
with pic.
The body of the missing Mrs. Spann of
Iowa City has been found in the river by
a hunter.
1t is estimated that fully 1000 miles of
new railroad will be built in the State
this year.
The Iowa iron works of Dubuque are
just completing two steamboats, for the
Mississippi.
The contract will be let soon for the
erection of 10000 bushel elevator at
Des Moines.
Scott County property valuation will be
increased 10 per cent under the new as
sessment law.
In corn production Iowa leads its near
est competitor among the States by 3d.
100000 bushels.
The sawmills at Keokuk will begin op-
erations as soon as logs can be foated
from the north.
The Omaha Bridge and Terminal Com
pany will erect a substantial freight depot
in Council Bluffs.
1t is reported that the Milwaukee will
strengthen out the horseshoe bend in its
road near Martelle.
The grocery store of Ashton Bros. at
Fort Dodge was entered by burglars and
goods Of considerable value stolen.
The probable passing Of the Illinois
Central through the town has started
quite building boom ut Woodbine.
The skull and part of human skeleton
were dug up in the Rock Island yards at
Council Bluffs at depth of forty feet.
Charles Miller and Edward Hale were
sentenced in Keokuk to thirty years each
in the penitentiary for highway robbery.
The vote stood three to one at Garner in
favor of granting a franchise to nm cleo
trio lighting, heating and power company.
Mr.. Hamilton, residing near Moravia,
was getting through wire fence when
his shotgun discharged. shattering his left
hand.
Thomas Paxton of Montour, an old resi-
dent of Tama County, suddenly expired
while seated in chair talking with his
family.
There are at present twenty-nine per-
sons CHI the Delaware County poor farm,
fifteen Of whom are males and fourteen
females.
Anamosa has an outstanding indebted
ness Of $15,S93.94. represented by $11, 900
worth of bonds, and $4,S93.95 in unpaid
warrants.
The contract has been let for the cree
ton of the stove works plant at Keokuk.
The building will cost between $1,000 and
$4,000.
The two little children of James Mich
OILS, near Center Junction, while crossing
pond, broke through the ice and were
drowned.
A quiet poker game in hay NOW at
Batavia was rudely disturbed by the sher-
| iff. The participants were each fined So
and costs.
The lama and Toledo electric light and
street railway company has secured the
contract for lighting Tama for period of
four years.
Victor johnson, aged IA, of Burlington.
while hopping" trains there, had his left
foot crushed by u freight car and he may
lose his foot.
Some miscreant unknown attempted to
wreck Northwestern freight at Mar
shalltown by spiking a switch. Its speed
saved the train.
Miss Williams, aged IA, of Smoky Hol-
low. was found insensible and delirious
near her home. 1t is thought she was
struck by lightning.
The cooperative creamery at Conroy
has opened. 1t had 10000 pounds Of
milk the first day. The buildings are
new, and it is n fine plant.
| The officers of the NJ. & St. L. announce
that the line will be extended from Angus
to Des Moines this year. 1t now enters
the latter city over the Rock Island tracks.
Fred Robinson and Slough McGavren,
two lads of Missouri Valley, drank some
aconite in u livery barn, but through the
prompt use of antidotes no serious results
ensued.
There were two suicides at Creston the
other day. Miss Florence Cruzen, aged
%, disappointed in love, hanged herself
at her fathers home, and Mrs. u. A..
Hedges of Carbon, a patient in the hos
pital, hanged herself in a bath room.
Adjt. Gen. Byers mustered Company G
into the Iowa National Guard Mt Fort
Dodge. The new company has thirty
| eight men, about 65 per cent of them be-
ing old members of the company who serv-
ed ut Chickamauga. Former First Lieu
tenant q. p. Gates was elected captain.
| The Ministerial Association of Des
Moines adopted resolutions indorsng the
attitude taken by the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of the city against the
location of an army post there, on account
of the morals of the city and the danger
to young girls from the presence and in
huence of soldiers. The association rec
ommends that every city do as Des
Moines and refuse the post.
i The Illinois Central Railway will re-
place the present bridge across the Missis-
sippi at Dubuque with new one.
Leading contractors at Des Moines, as
well us paving brick manufacturers who
are generally interested in paving CON
tracts say that there will probably be no
paving laid in Iowa this year. This con-
dition is brought about because of the un-
certainty as to payments under the Dewey
and other decisions of the Supreme Court,
1t has been held that paving assessments
cannot be collected where they exceed the
value of the property and a question has
even arisen as to the legality Of the Iowa
method of assessing improvements by the
| lipeal foot of property abutted.