Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-13


apparatus.
The next session of the grand lodge of
colored Pythians of Iowa will be held at
Des Moines.
The First Protestant Methodist Of
East Des Moines has filed articles of in
corporation.
The wheat crop in Woodbury. County
this fall is very disappointing, being of n
poor grade.
A $500, 900 sugar beet factory has been
offered Fort Dodge, if sufficient bcets are
guaranteed.
1t is now believed that the Iowa Cen
trail will pass into the hands of the Mil
waukee road.
Frank Barnes, brakeman on the G. l..
& d., fell under IN engine Mt Iowa Falls
and was killed.
w. d. Drumble of Waterloo while ut
work ut Fairbank was seriously injured
by falling rock.
The property known as the Hanley
Hotel at Iowa City has been partly de-
stroyed by fire.
Money is being raised at Davenport to
build an industrial home at an estimated
cost of $4,000.
A rescue home for fallen women has
been established in Des Moines by the
Salvation army.
Robert w. Lee, living near Let's, has
struck another gas well on his farm at a
depth of 120 feet.
The good roads convention which was
scheduled for Waterloo about Oct. has
been declared off.
left his home recently and no trace of
him can be found.
Constable w. III. Grow of Centeryille
raided house and found considerable
quantity of liquor.
Vandals entered the Morse school
house in Dubuque, smashed the clock,
broke up desks, etc.
Charles Higgins, wanted in Clinton for
embezzlement, and who broke Jail Mt Nor
| rison, has been arrested.
1t is believed that the auditorium at
Des Moines will open this winter for the
regular theatrical season.
Rev. Mcneil of Mitchell has accepted
the passionate of the Congregational
Church at Buffalo Center.
The drilling of II new city well at Iowa
Falls has cut off the supply of number
of springs in the locality.
Fred Williams, a young man Of Des
Aloines, took cramps while swimming in
the river and was drowned.
The offices of the Council Bluffs and
Omaha Railway at Council Bluffs We're
burglarized and $500 stolen.
Two young men at Newton took nine
fish from the Skunk river by unlawful
means, for which they paid $40.
James Kolondo, n miner, was instantly
killed by premature explosion in the
Crescent mine ut What Cheer.
Herman Gilleas, an employe in the /. q.
shops Mt Waterloo, fell off Il pair of
trucks, breaking his collar bone.
Charles Baker who. was injured re-
Gently on the Northwestern near Mar
shalltown, is dead of his injuries.
Burglars entered the office of Felt
house Bros, ut Latimcr. and attempted
to blow open their safe, but without sue
cess.
+. Il. Hunt of Monmouth, ILL.,, stepped
off a switch engine in front of IL passcn-
ger train at Council Bluffs and was
killed.
Mrs. A. j. Lapointe of Fort Dodge
attempted suicide by taking laudanum,
but the prompt action of physicians say.
ed her life.
\ stranger in Dubuque named Giesel,
employed i'll piling lumber, was seriously
injured by being caught under pile OF
falling lumber.
John Oliver of Fax, Mo-, en- route to
Hedrick, was run down by an Iowa Cen
trail switch engine at Oskaloosa and very
seriously injured.
y Sunday school picnic and excursion
from Winfield Melted the church over
$500, after all expenses were paid.
John Seymour. confined at the War
rem County poor farm because of alleged
insanity, has been released on habeas
corpus proceedings.
Rev. r. l.. Eaton, pastor of the First
Nj. Il. Church at Dies Moines, may be-
come the editor Of the Northwestern
Christian Advocate.
James McNamee of Dysart, while
stacking grain. was struck on the eye
with a fork, one tine of which penetrated
almost to the base of the brain.
After an idleness of dozen years the
Monroe County vigilance committee, an
organization for protection to farmers
from cattle thieves and horse thieves, is
being reorganized Thefts from numel.
Gus herds of cattle have caused the re
organization.