Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-17
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wood has been dedicated.
Sheffield is to have another banking
institution, making three.
The barn of Fred Glaman at Jewell
has been destroyed by fire.
Grinnell is the latest town to be STRUCK
by the Belgium hare craze.
Davenport has three more girls OF
school age than there are boys.
Marysville claims to have one Of the
largest coal veins in the State.
The Sunday closing movement at Dav-
export has passed out of existence.
The new Presbyterian Church at Bows
will be dedicated in the near future.
The residence of f. NJ. Cooksie in Des
Moines was totally destroyed by fire.
The town of Dixon will hold an cleo
ton on the proposition to incorporate.
Des Moines has over 5000 dogs. but
license has only been paid on about $50.
| The First National Bank Mt Algona
is increasing its circulation by $4,000.
Eugene Flynn, a farmer near Dubuque,
was sho. in the leg while handling a
| rifle.
The now Swedish Mission Evangelical
Church at Fort Dodge has been ledi-
| Gated
The city Of Dubuque is suing hotel
there for license as prescribed by all or
dinance.
The authorities at Des Moines raided
drug sture and seized twenty-three
cases Of beer.
Two safe crackers were sentenced at
Marshalltown to ten years each in the
penitentiary.
Frank George, switchman at Des
Moines, was found dead on the tracks
near his home.
Jesse Pollard, charged at Centerville
with assault with murderous intent, las
been acquitted.
John II. Copenheffer of Creston has
been admitted to practice before the In
terror Department.
The grocery store of ]. s. Farr at Os.
kaloosa was looted BY burglars and at
forwards set on fire.
The recent sacred concert Mt Dies
Aoines for the benefit Of the Galveston
sufferers netted 1867.
w. T. Hoggman, letter carrier ill The
postotfice at Muscatine, has been proinot.
ed from 5000 to $3.50.
Harrison Trussler an aged man ut Ira,
was run over by freight train and his
injuries proved fatal.
The iron for the new court house at
Iowa City has arrived and will be placed
In position Immediately.
A laborer named Finnegan in grading
gang near Alton was run down by a
train and instantly killed.
Robbers entered the Office of the Iowa
Dairy Co. at Des Moines and riled the
money drawer of its contents.
The sheriff at Atlantic has been for
hidden by the postmaster to open private
mail received by the prisoners.
George Reinhart, Northwestern
brakeman, fell through bridge Mt Day
ton and was severely injured.
Will Dishong, a young man at Ham
burg, had his arm crushed in cog wheel
and amputation was necessary.
The Iowa Central has issued an order
to employees forbidding them to make use
of the practices of the dead beat.
The State Horticultural Society at
Ames' Is being furnished with splendid
collection of the fora Of the State.
poration, t MAKING qlp ts Telephone Com
The contracts have been let for the new
gypsum mill and machinery to be erected
Mt Carbon by Waterloo capitalists.
Oscar Henry, young farm hand near
Merrill, was shot in the breast while
drawing shotgun from hay rack.
Frank Sigler, the Fremont County
farm hand, tried at Sidney for murder in
the second degree, was found guilty.
Six hundred and eighty-ive pupils are
now enrolled at the schools in Denison,
an increase Of over 100 over last year.
A horse thief stole from the barn of
Ole Lundy, near West Quarry, team
of horses, new set of harness and
buggy.
Crooks in Des Moines entered the FL
lott Anderson furniture store and looted
the safe in broad daylight without at
tracing attention.
George Hopper, part owner of meat
market at Fort Dodge, returned from a
short trip to find that his partner had
skinned with almost the entire stock.
Fred Deems, who at the present time
occupies cell in the Cass County jail
charged with robbery, will probably soon
be called upon to answer to more seri-
ous charge. In Audubon County in the
spring Of 1895 man named 81 Frisbe
WAS found dead, having been shot and
robbed. To add to the mystery, the
murdered man was a nonresident and
no one knew anything about him or his
business. The case was long ago given
IN as unfathomablc. 1t is now reported
that Fred Deems, while swapping yarns
with his fellow prisoners, confessed to the
killing of Frisbe He said that he had
stolen horse and while fleeing through
Audubon County with the stolen animal
fell upon Frisbe, whom H. suspected of
being a detective. and quarrel ensned
which terminated in the murder. Beems
was caught and sent to the penitentiary
for horse stealing.
Siam was almost destroyed by fire. The
Odd Fellows hall and four business
blocks were consumed.
Ernest Atwater, his wife and two
daughters, who were murdered at Foo
Chow Aug. Is, were formerly residents
Of Oskaloosa.
A farmer named Fry, near Charlton,
had his foot caught in threshing ma
chine and so badly mutilated that ampu-
tation was necessary.
The wheelmen at Des Moines are try
ing to secure an ordinance which will
permit them to ride on sidewalks where
the streets are not paved.
The State commissioner of labor has re-
ceiyed reports from over four hundred
trades and labor unions, including thirty
two agricultural unions.
During an electrical storm at Fort
Dodge @. H. Wilson, travelling man in
the employ of the G. D. Clagg Wool and
Hide Company, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. The bolt was the
only severe one during the storm.
Henry Schaeffer, aged GO years,
farmer near Lamotte, was killed by his
daughter. schaeffer attempted to kill his