Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-01-03

| Creston will make an effort to secure
the 1901 meeting of the Iowa Dairymen's
Association.
Two towns in Emmett County have ask
ed to be named Luzon by the Postoffice
Department.
Five BARRIERS in Des Moines were fined
$3.50 each for keeping their shops open
on Sunday.
The Northwestern road has commence
ed excavations for its new round house
at Mason City.
A saloonkeeper at Denison had to pay
a woman $500 for selling liquor illegally
to her husband.
]. p. Jacques, miner at Coalville was
perhaps fatally injured by a fall Of slate
in mine there.
Five valuable colts belonging to a
farmer near Nodaway were run into and
killed by the cars.
The last spike has been driven on the
Fonda, Marathon and Spencer extension
of the O., NJ. & st. P.
Harry L. Wagner, aged "a, living
near Blue Grass, fell into we'll head
first and was drowned.
A society lady of Des Moines has been
arrested for shoplifting, but was releas-
ed on making restitution.
Rev. Joseph A. Anderson of Creston
has accepted call to the Swedish L,l-
theran Church at Boone.
Officials of the Iowa Central say the
company will build fine new depot at
Mason City in the spring.
Capt. H. E. Dwyer of Company A,
Fifty-second Iowa, at Mason City, has
handed in his resignation.
The general store of Shower & Lundy
ut Altoona was entered by burglars and
a quantity of goods taken.
Over FIVE hundred school children have
been yaccinated at Rock Rapids. The
law is being enforced there.
The G. 4 N. w. Railroad has paid out
$4,000 to laborers ut the camp at Quar-
ry every month since last May.
George Harris. colored, shot and killed
a colored woman cook at the railroad
camp near Fairfield and escaped.
The Associated Charities of Des Moines
will hold charity ball in January, in
opposition to the ministerial society.
jesse Walters, 17-year-old lad of
Waterloo, was shot in the side by the
accidental discharge of his shotgun.
Burglars attempted to blow open the
safe of the FL. A. Bechtel Lumber Com
pany at Abel, but We're unsuccessful
| The report of the fish commissioner
shows that fourteen cars of fish have
been placed in Iowa waters this year.
The site Of the postoffice at Broadway
has been removed into Delaware Coun-
ty, and VIM. Kehoe appointed postmas-
| ter.
Mrs. Archie of Nodaway has commenc-
ed action against the c., B. & @. for
$1,000 damages for the death of her hus-
band.
The custodian of the public building at
Davenport has been authorized to invite
bids for furnishing electric light for that
| building.
]. S. Crawford of the Cherokee Her
aid has been appointed an attache to the
| United States commission to the Paris
exposition.
Peter Brown of Missouri Valley was
shot in the thigh through a companion
dropping revolver, which caused it to
discharge.
G. b. Antes, an engineer at the power
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ly burned by an electric spark from the
machinery.
| Fred Sparks, quarantined for diphthe-
ria at Marshalltown, left town unknown
to the authorities, and they have offered
$40 for his arrest.
The 12-year-old son of Mr.. Smith, liv-
ing near Danbury, is suffering from lock.
jaw, caused by lash of whip slight
ly bruising his face.
George Rosenfeld, n wealthy farmer of
Story County, left his home near Kelly
with $4,000 in his possession with the
intention of going to Germany, without
telling his family, but he was stopped at
Chicago.
DR.. Preston, a physician of the Board
of Health ut Davenport, recommends
that the regulations governing vaccina-
| tion be put into effect, as smallpox prom
Uses to be prevalent over the country
this winter.
Sixty-three pupils in the high school
at Shenandoah have been converted as a
result of revival meetings held there.
Harley Barnhill, the Chicago Great
Western brakeman who was injured
few days ago at Green Mountain, had
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entertained for his recovery.
The records of the Iowa weather and
crop service show that the total output
Of corn in this State for the ten years
! from 1890 to 1899 inclusive, amounts to
over two and half billion bushels, or
an average of over 25O,OOO,OOO bushels
per year.
The judiciary committee OF the City
Council of Marshalltown has refunded
$4,000 of the city's bonds at reduced
rates.
The Iowa Short Horn Breeders As
sociation has held its meeting at Ames.
The attendance has been the largest in
recent years, there being in the neighbor-
hood of 100 representative stock men
from different parts of the State there.
A new mining discovery is announced
at Dubuque. 1t is the finding of lead
ore under zinc ore. The discovery was
made in the Pixies Peak shaft, which
had been operated by means of pump
for some time past. Great results are
expected.
John Savage, Il young man of Colfax,
fell down the shaft of the Carbondale
mine at Des Moines, Il distance of 125
feet, and was killed.
w. A. Jefferson has commenced suit
in Des Ae,nes against the keystone Coal
CompsscS: - $1,000 damages for injuries
received in fall of slate, caused by
negligence of the company.
Early the other morning burglar en-
tered the Office OF the st. Louis, Keokuk
and Northwestern Railroad Company at
Fort Madison and secured S134 by open
ing the safe during the temporary alb
sence of the operator. An attempt was
made to rob the Santa Fe depot, but
| failed,