Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-04-04

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DR.. j. G. Neely has been appointed a.
pension examining surgeon at bedford.
The rulers of Elgin have decided on
elaborate improvements for the streets.
A canton of Patriarchs Militant, 1. o.
o. f., has been instituted at Sigourney.
| Work has commenced on the founda-
tion for the postoff1ce annex at Dubuque.
Diphtheria has broken out at Emerson
and several families have been quaran-
tined.
4 The citizens of Arion have petitioned
the c., NJ. & st. p. to erect new depot
there.
The mulct petition for Blackhawk
County has been fled with the Super
visors.
! Ernest Allen of Clinton had narrow
escape from death by being caught in an
elevator.
The Iowa State Medical Society will
hold three days session at Des Moines
May IL.
| A two-stall engine house will be erect
ed at Davenport for the O., p. L. w.
Railroad.
The Des Moines baseball club has sign
ed articles Of incorporation. Its capital
is $4,000
Rev. BMmgardner has resigned the
pastorate of the Congregational Church
at Newton.
The appropriation of $1,000 for the
Sac and Fox agency in this State has
been dropped.
The contract has been let for eleven
storm caves at school houses in Wash
ington township.
Montgomery County real estate to the
amount of $325,5S5 changed hands in
one recent week.
| Farmers in the northern part Of the
State will offer from $50 to SIS per
month for hands.
The Iowa Holiness Association will
hold its annual camp meeting June $40
near Des Moines.
Rev. II. o. Spcllman of Wisconsin has
been called to the vacant Congregational
pulpit ut Fairfield.
I. s. Scott, one of the most prominent
railroad men in the West, Is dead at his
home in Davenport
The Iowa river bridge between South
and West Amana has been badly dam
aged by running ice.
The Presbyterians advertise their mis-
sionary school building Mt the Muskwaki
reservation for sale.
4 The Kenvass Savings Bank has filed
articles Of incorporation at Des Moines.
Capital stock $4,000.
| The United States steamer General
Barnard, for many years on the AIissis-
| sippi, will be wrecked.
| Five packages of whisky were seized
at Ladora on order Of the Mayor, con-
| demned and destroyed.
Reports from the various county seats
of the State indicate that the payment
of taxes is unusually prompt.
| George Wright, convicted of murder
ut Muscatine and given n life sentence,
has been granted Il new trial.
George Twombly. 14-year-oll lad of
Marshalltown, lost a foot while attempt
ing to board a c. u n. w. engine at that
place.
| Col. Charles Lyman, Government build
! ing inspector, has been in Creston look
| ing ut the proposed sites for the new
postofiicc building.
| In the interest of economy it is now
said that the Burlington school board
will abolish the Office of superintendent
of city schools.
| \ portion of the power house of the
Dubuque ssrect railway burned. Five
ears We're destroyed. Loss S25,OOO, in
surancc $4,000.
Nine young ladies, six of whom are
from Chicago, received the white veil
and We're admitted to the mother house
of the Sisters of Charity at Dubuque.
Walter Coolidge of Quarry has sued
Justice A. w. Dobson for $1,000 dam
ages on the grounds that he was ma
liciously treated and not allowed the priv
| ilegc of defense.
Attorney General Remlcy has handed
down IN important insurance decision, in
which he says that executive officers Of
mutual concerns must be owners of prop
erty insured therein.
| Contracts have been 1T for several
miles of double track railroad between
Murray and Crcston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Bartlett of Extra
have just celebrated the golden anniver-
sary Of their wedding.
| The school board at Mason City has de-
cided to ask a tax OF $1,000 for addi-
tional school buildings this year.
The State Savings Bank at Corning
has increased its capital from S35,OOO to
| $4,000, and its surplus to $4,000.
| Over 100 instruments have been filed
for record during the past two months
| with t1,a roanr1nr IF 1Sra,nnn+ ('nupfy
| The cooperative organization of farm
ers engaged in the grain, fuel and lumber
trade at Rockwell, last year cleared
S5OO,OOO.
j. Beeson, a sergeant in Company II,
Fifty-frst Iowa, has been appointed a
battalion adjutant in the newly organ
lied regiment.
| B. w. NIoissrd Of Marshalltown lost
the sight of his right eye by being struck
by piece of chisel which lie was
working with on wall.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
received communications from several
points in Iowa relative to establishing
national banks under the new currency
law, with capitals of $4,000.
A Burlington woman resisted an Off
Ger. She was tried and fined. Her hus-
band offered TO pay the amount, but she
refused to accept the offer and was com
mitted to Jail for ten days.
Reports from the experts who have
made the experiments are to the effect
that Iowa coal will coke readily and
there is the probability that ovens will
be established at several points in the
coal fields.
The late Charles w. Rand of Burling-
ton left bequest of $4,000 to establish
a free lecture course for that city. The
property Is to be untouched for ten years,
the Accommodations TO be added l,p the