Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-09-20

Pipes are being laid for n heating plant
at Red Oak.
Fort Dodge will build 1850 feet of
sanitary sewer.
There is talk of canning and picking
factory at Alton.
Duncombe has voted for water works
for fire protection.
n telephone line is projected between
Promise City and Atherton.
The retail grocers of Blackhawk Coun-
ty have formed an organization.
The contract for the 10000 bushel clc-
vator at Cumberland has been let.
The Commercial Club at Mason City
is agitating for modern court house.
Funds have been raised by the Meth
odist Society at Kensett for church.
y stock company at Spencer is talking
of erecting n $4,000 opera house and
hotel.
Glenn Holmes, living near Bonaparte,
was thrown from an excursion train and
killed.
A postofflce has been established at
Prairie Bell, with Ezekiel Buck as post
master.
There is talk of holding another beet
sugar convention in Des Moines early in
October.
c. l.. Hulsizer has been appointed n
temporary substitute letter carrier at
Grinnell.
John Menning, an aged farmer near
Hampton, was very seriously injured in n
runaway.
The Postoffice Department has ordered
n rural free delivery established at Green
Mountain.
A young lady named Miss Byers at
Marathon was set upon and killed by n
vicious horse.
The Iowa conference of the German
Methodist Church will hold its next meet
ing at Burlington.
| The Iowa, Minnesota and Northwest
ern has purchased tract of land of 100
acres at Mason City.
An electric light and power company
has been incorporated ut Madrid to put
in an electric light plant.
Three tramps at Maxon, being refused
n ride on Burlington train, stoned the
crew, who narrowly escaped injury.
Five employees of the Great Western
of Dcs Moines We're severely injured near
that city, by being struck by n cable.
Jacob Walters. farmer in Salt Creek
township, committed suicide by taking
arsenic in his coffee while despondsat.
Yelmer johnson, aged 8, of Burlington,
was fatally burned by the explosion Of a
gasoline lamp with which he was playing,
A council of clergymen has ordained
G. A. Mckinley of Westfield as pastor
of the new Congregational Church there.
The question of restrictive milk or
dinance was brought up at the Council
meeting in Fort Dodge, but was defeat
ed.
Miss Anna Latclilder of Sevastopol,
aged 1G, attempted suicide by taking
laudanum and chloroform while dcspon-
dent.
While jumping on moving train
Frank Davenspeke of Richland had his
foot crushed by being thrown beneath the
wheels.
The parents of George Elnig, the o.
year-old boy of Iowa City, who mysteri-
ously disappeared, believe he has been
kidnapped
May, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Haas of Marshalltown,
fell in front of team and sustained Sc
we're injuries.
a meeting of business men was called
at Des Moines to devise means for secur-
ing consent petition for the proposed
new brewery.
c. II. Mann of the Powesheik County
insane hospital had n finger chewed ard
his head smashed in trying to subduc n
woman patient.
The Corn family has just held ra-
union at Tama. the occasion being Inc
fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of tie
parents from England.
Sixteen informations have beer tilsG
against Council Bluffs BARRIERS for vic.
lations of the Sunday law in operating
their shops OH that day.
A party of threshers near Algona were
taken sick from eating cabbage 1t u
believed paris green had been used OF
the plants to kill worms.
n bridge near Belknap gave way WIFI.
George Wagner was crossing with an en-.
CINE and separator. He was severely
crushed between the two.
Willie Davenport, Creston boy, was
found delirious and almost naked. He
says n tramp forced him to drink whisky
and then stole his clothes.
Mayor MacVicar of Des AIoines will
not be candidate for denomination, and
has accepted a position as travelling sales.
man for an Eastern paper firm.
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held their forty-third annual meeting at
Muscatine, at which they displayed some
of the old relics of pioneer days.
Quarantine officers are oil the lookout
in northern Iowa for smallpox, as the
disease is raging at point FIVE miles
from the Iowa border in Minnesota.
Local societies of the mothers congress
are to be established all over the State.
The names of thousands of Iowa ladies'
who are interested in the movement have
been secured at the State fair by the par
ties in charge.
Crazed by intense heat, John Cunning
ham, single, aged 30 years, while in the
custody of officers who were taking him
to his home in Clinton, suddenly drew II
concealed knife and cut his throat, dying
soon after. in spite of surgical attend
ance.
The attorneys for the city of Dubuque
have mapped out a plan for procedure
against the water company. This scheme
includes the immediate starting Of an in
Dependents system and the abandoning Of
all attempts at arbitration and the taking
of the whole matter into the courts as
soon as possible.
Fire broke out OH the farm occupied
by James DeLanty, near Underwood, and
destroyed crib of $500 bushels of corn
and machinery valued at $500.
Oakyille wants the Iowa and NIissis-
sippi Valley Railway and has agreed to
contribute $4,000 in stock subscriptions,