Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-08

Clarion has new telephone system.
The opera house at Waterloo has been
sold.
Shenandoah is enjoying q building
boom.
A pigeon ranch has been started at
Ruthven.
A telephone system is being installed
at Conrad.
The electric light plant at Rockford
has been sold.
The sugar beet crop at Iowa Falls is
very promising.
The contract has been let for $1,000
hotel at Emerson.
There are good prospects for modern
hotel at Red Oak.
The NJ. e. Church at Bows will be
dedicated Sept. 6.
Plans are being prepared for new NJ.
b. Church for Conrad.
The B., g. II. & N. is cutting down
the grade east of Rowan.
/ The anti-saloon league is very active
at present in Iowa County.
Fire at Lamotte from an unknown
source caused loss of $1,000.
Chariton's new Methodist Church has
been dedicated. 1t cost $2S,137.
Ground has been broken for new &c..
OOO bank building at Dougherty.
A window pepper has raised the indig.
nation of the citizens of Newton.
Funds are being raised to erect n Luz
theran church in Vernon township.
Davenport has let the contract for
twenty-one blocks of street paving.
A flow of gas has been found at depth
Of sixty feet on a farm nenr Muscatine.
Ben Fort of Davenport died Of lockjaw
resulting from Fourth of July accident.
The Winneshiek County fair will be
held at DEBORAH this year, Aug. % to 81.
The Council at Anamosa will extend
the sewer system in that town this sum-
mer.
The contract has been let for number
Of bridges In Wright and Humboldt coun-
ties.
About $4,000 has been subscribed Mt
Des Moines towards securing nm army
post.
Iowa Falls will enforce the law requir-
ing burial permit before interment is
made.
The School Board at Iowa City has
sold $4,000 worth of school bonds Mt 4
per cent.
A strong effort will be made to dedi-
cate the new Des Moincs auditorium free
of debt.
Philip Boussey has left his home at
DEBORAH, without leaving any trace be-
hind him.
The new Northwestern bridge over
Linn creek, near Marshaltown, has been
completed.
Algona has citizen who il she lives
to next January will have lived in three
centuries.
Miss Minnie Dillon, school teacher
residing near Joslyn, has mysteriously
disappeared.
A bridge on the Chicago Great Western
near Bremen, one hundred feet long, was
destroyed by fire.
A swindler with forged deed victim
lied loan agent at Rock Rapids to the
extent Of $2.1OO.
Dysart people are agitating the re-
moval Of hitching posts from the main
street to side streets.
The old roundhouse of the Kcokuk and
Western in Des Moines is to be convert
| ed into repair shops.
The G. & N. w. is building n spur line
at Grand Junction to connect with its
gravel pit near there.
The annual reunion Of the Twenty
eighth Iowa regiment will be held ut
Grinnell in September.
j. Morgan, mariset gardener ut At
lantic, has been granted patent on q
new planting machine.
Des Moines is to have packing plant,
the City Council having agreed to remit
the taxes for some time.
Two barrels Of bottled "tonic" and u
| half-barrel Of hard cider were seized by
the authorities at Written.
j. w. Knapp, stock buyer, was
knocked inscnsible at the stock yards Mt
Redfeld and robbed Of $500.
Application has been granted to con-
vert the Commercial Savings Bank Of
| Milford into national bank.
In getting off train Mt Mount Vernon
Victor Hahn, aged 20, stepped in front
of locomotive and was killed.
s. Amandt, well-to-do farmer living
three miles from Rockwell, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head
He had become violently insane and up.
on complaint OF his family deputy sher-
| if started to take him into custody. The
officer found his lifcless body upon the
floor.
Engineer Joseph A. Trusty, one of the
Oldest and best known men on the Illinois
Central Railroad, was run over by q
switch engine, with the result that his
right limb above the knee and his right
arm were amputated. The accident took
place directly in front Of the passenger
depot at Fort Dodge, in view Of dozens
of people. Trusty was on the track
stopping over and did not see the switch
engine, which passed completely over
him.
John Macdonald, u former resident of
Creston, while in Montana five years ago
| killed man. He alleged he acted in self
defense, but was convicted of murder aud
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
MacDonald's daughter, now ~ years old,
lives at Creston. Knowing that ex-Sena-
tor Clark would be at the Democratic
national convention, the girl raised money
enough to buy ticket and went to Kan
sas City. She called on Mr.. Clark and
told her story. He made her his guest
and promised to help her. Later, after
investigation, he instructed his attorneys
in Montana to present the case to the
board Of pardons. Word arrived the 9TH
err Cay that pardon had been granted,
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