Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-12

Company Will extend their lines to Alton.
Des Noines has total debt of $780,
064.S1, and has S97, $3.50 in the treasury.
A bonus is being raised at Knowlton
to secure the location of a foundry there.
| There is considerable talk about the ex-
tension of the Rock Island from Tara to
Shelby.
A postofiice has been established at Owl
Lake, with Charles w. Bowers as post
master.
The ferryboat between Davenport and
Rock Island has commenced Its seasons
running.
Fred Jones of Washington has been sem
fenced to six months Imprisonment for
bigamy.
Part of the bridge across the Wapsie
at Paris was washed away by the recent
high water.
The Postal Telegraph Company will put
in messenger call box service in Daven-
port at once.
The township district of Grant has de-
cided to place storm caves near every
school house.
Mr.. Campbell's store at Patterson was
entered by burglars and large number
of shoes stolen.
A firm at Springfield, Ohio, will build
a factory at Iowa City. They will en-
ploy 100 men.
The osteopaths of the State will make
strong fight to secure member of the
State medical board.
One thousand dollars has been subscrib-
ed for the operation of the brick and tile
| factory Mt Defiance.
George Miles, colored, was sentenced
in Des Moines to seven years in the peni-
Tertiary for burglary.
The school at Washington has been
closed.on account of diphtheria, but there
is no fear of a spread.
Luzon will be the name of the new town
in Amsterdam township if the Govern
ment doesn't object.
The Congregational Church at Clinton
has extended a call to the Rev. e. B.
Dean Of Willmette, Ill.
1t is rumored that beet sugar factory
will be established five miles west of Ma
son City this summer.
A Touring mill with a capacity of fifty
barrels per day will be erected at Har-
Ian the coming season.
Charles Kelly of Des Moines was held
| up by three men on the outskirts of that
city and relieved of $77.
Scurvy has broken out among cattle in
the vicinity of Mon0na and some farmers
have suffered heavy losses.
A. II. Miller, who pleaded guilty at Ma
son City to selling liquor contrary to law.
was fined $500 or 127 days in jail.
The machinery for the electric light
plant Mt Algona has arrived, and the plant
will be in operation in few weeks.
| Frank Bloomfield, bridge carpenter,
fell from bridge across Squaw creek,
near Hampton, and fractured his hip.
John Fades of Moorhead, while in
hotel at Omaha, blew out the gas instead
of turning it out and was asphyxiatcd.
The class of 1900 at Iowa College, Grin
NELL is preparing TO give Greek play as
a substitute for the usual junior annual.
George Powell and Guy S. Swires, mail
carriers of Atlantic. have had their sal
aries raised from 5000 to $3.50 per annum.
Thieves broke into the Glen Hill school
building and removed goods valued at
from SIS to $50. No trace of them found.
The proposition to build a new school
house at Mona was carried at the recent
election by vote of Al for to 30 against
The farm house of Berry Palmer, near
Washington, together with its contents,
was destroyed by fire, with loss of about
$1,000.
Rev. James Edmonson, pastor of the
Peoples Church at Marshalltown, has
resigned his passionate on account of ILL
health.
The Commercial Exchange at Des
Moines has appointed a committee to con-
slider how home manufactures can best
be encouraged.
Mrs. August Streitzel of Missouri Val
ley committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid. Domestic trouble is said to have
been the cause.
The warden of the Fort Madison peni-
Tertiary advocates the employment of con-
victs on a big farm on which needed sup,
plies can be raised.
a blaze started from lamp in the Mil.
Ter Hotel at Missouri Valley and before Il
was extinguished destroyed between $3.50
and $500 worth of property.
The plant of the NIuscatine Electric
Light and Power Company has been sold
to local syndicate This company op-
crates the street railway, gas and electric
| light plants.
| Henry Addison, a young man of Ser.
| geant's Bluff, has been adjudged insane
and taken to Clarinda for treatment. His
insanity is supposed to have been caused
by sunstroke.
The National Life and Trust Company
has been organized at Des Moines, with
Secretary of State Dobson as president,
and Gov. Shaw as director. 1t has a can
ital of 100000.
Captain Il. G. Johnson of Company NJ,
| Forty-ninth Iowa of MaQuoketa, was
married at Marshalltown to Miss Ada NJ.
Mershon. Captain johnson is home on
leave Of absence.
III. A. Turner, who lives near Redtield,
was hauling load of wood when the
wagon slid on an icy place and he was
caught between the wagon and tree and
crushed to death.
AT Omaha, the coroners jury in the
Patterson block fire rendered a verdict
that the fire originated in pile of in
tlammable material at the foot of the ele-
vator shaft; that Il water meter inspector
had been using matches to read meter
in the immediate vicinity of the intlamma-
BILE material, not more than two or three
minutes before the fire was discovered,
and that the cause of the fire was gross
carelessness on the part of the said in
spector.
A civil service examination will be held
at Burlington May 1, TO fill the position of
fireman and assistant janitor in the pub
lie building at that city.
Calle Wicker, aged 20, son of an old
settler of Runnells, was out hunting,
when gun was accidentally discharged,
the young man receiving the full load in
the body. He died shortly afterward
Cerebro-spinal meningitis is epidemic
near Davenport, rs well as other parts of
Iowa. A dozen deaths have occurred Mt
Rock Island and Moline, H., and one
death in Davenport The local anthnri.