Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-03-15
Elrin will have a new opera house.

creamery Mt Laurel.
The number of inmates in all the State
institutions now is G,1I9.
The Christian denomination will build
a church at Nora Springs.
The Presbyterian Society at Ottosen
is preparing to build n church.
The Methodists of Aurora are contem-
plating the erection Of a church.
Emmetsburg expects that the extension
of the NJ. & st. l.. will touch there.
Prohibitionists will hold their State con-
vention in Des Moines May % and "a.
Fire in the store of True Bros, at
Avoca, caused loss estimated at $1,0OO.
An effort was made to burglarize the
postofiice at Agency, but was frustrated.
The banks at Muscatine have reduced
their rate of interest from to per cent.
Mary Crawford of Newmarket, 20 years
old, committed suicide by taking lauda-
nun.
The creamery at Emmctsburg received
during the past month 347, 1853 pounds OF
milk.
The Glenwood State Bank has filed ar
ticles of incorporation. Capital given at
$4,000.
The State Board of Health will here
after hold semi-annual examinations for
embalmers.
Company X of the Fifty-second Iowa
is to remain at Emmctsburg and will be
rcorganiZed.
The Dubuque Packing Company has re-
sumcd operations with capacity Of GOO
hogs day.
The independent school district Of Iowa
Falls has decided to refund $1,000 of the
school bonds.
The Iowa Telephone Company has been
granted franchise for telephone sys-
TEN at Ackley.
OF the forty-siX men mustered into the
Fort Madison company twenty-six served
in the Spanish war.
The City Council at West Union has
voted to erect fire department building
at cost of $4,000.
Rev. Father DAILY, assistant pastor Of
the cathedral at Dubuque, has been trans
ferrcd to Volga City.
A pickle sailing house will be erected at
Washington if farmers will agree to raise
200 acres of cucumbers.
Fort Dodge is to put in another tele-
phone company and between the two 500
instruments will he in use.
1t is understood that new buildings will
soon take the place of those destroyed by
fire recently at Humeston.
The people of Carnforth are talking of
building a church. AT present there is
not church in that township.
H. 1f
has purchased $4,000 rcfunding bonds of
the school district at per cent
Joe Zero and Joe McGlinn quarreled ut
Basset and in the fight Zero was badly
stabbed. McGlinn made his escape.
or thrty-iive persons who presented
| themselves at Des Moines for eXamina-
| ton as pharmacists but four passed.
The school house at Quarry, together
with contents, was destroyed by fire. Loss
about 200. 1t originated from stove.
/ The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Day of Union township fell into n tub Of
hot water and was SO badly scalded that
it died.
The final figures in the johnson County
election show that the court house propo-
sition carried by 400 majority and the
new Jail by 1925.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
will build new freight house at Mason
City. Work will be begun as early in the
spring rs possible.
Unless the State Board of Health
grants certificates to practice osteopaths
making application the matter will be
carried into the courts.
A man named Collins, aged so, of Clear
Lake, cloped with young girl of 10 of
that place. The mother of the girl will
resort to law to recover her.
The senior class of the Harvard law
school elected Charles o. Parish of Cla-
rinda commencement day marshal. The
election carries high social honors.
A man named Stephenson Informed the
police of Keokuk that he had been assault
ed by a stranger giving his name as Ward
and severely stabbed. The assailant es-
capped into Missouri before he could be
captured.
Rev. William N Coffcy was sentenced
to three and one-half years in prison by
Judge Bishop of the District Court at Des
Moines for grand larceny. Coffey, who
is divinity student, stole 5000 from Mrs.
Magart, Il widow.
John Hickman was domiciled Mt Mercy
hospital, Dubuque. being in the last stages
of consumption. He sought to leave his
bed for Il sunny spot, fell and died before
help could reach him. He was formerly
an alderman in that city.
The administrators of the estate of
George Ahcarn is suing the Illinois Cen
trail for $4,000 in the District Court at
Dubuque Ahcarn was bridge builder
in the employ of the Central and was kill
ed while engaged in his work.
AT Ackley, Mrs. |. Calender was burned
TO death. She was an invalid and was at
home alone When her husband returned
he found her burned to crisp. The
house was full of smoke and it is not
known how the fire originated.
AT Council Bluffs, two men were in
stantly killed and a third sustained a
broken leg and was otherwise injured by
the cavng in of n bank of earth, near
which they were working. One of the
dead men is j. U. Black and the other is
Frank Kroner, who had applied and been
put to work but few hours before. The
injured man is c. p. Reed.
The 3-ycar-old daughter of Mrs An
, ton Stuchon, living near Little Turkey,
was playing in the house alone when her
dress caught fire at the stove and she was
burned to death.
, Louis Burke working on the new bridge
near Lehigh, lost his footing and fell a
, distance of twenty-five feet into pool of
, water, which had formed over the ice, and
this probably saved his life.
Thrty-thrce per cent of the applicants
| TO join the Fort Madison military COM
pany were rejected because of what is
t known as cigarette heart, caused by ex-
ccssive indulgence in the habit.
Three suicides within week is the rec
ord as made up in Davenport when Fritz
p Bratsch shot himself Bratsch was an
, old German. He left note asking the
forgiveness of friends and stating that an