Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-07

AuolueS III 1OUs.
Rev. J. II. White of Osceola has &C.
copied the call from the Christian Church
at Shenandoah.
The circulation of the Odebolt library
last year was 5,74S, although it contains
only LOGS volumes.
A postoffice has been established at
Webb, and William @. Gannaway ap-
pointed postmaster.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. /. Brown Of Albion
have just celebrated the fftieth anniver
sary of their wedding.
A quantity of liquor was seized at the
demned and destroyed.
Mrs. Slaughter Case of Grinnell has
died of peritonitis, brought about by fall
ing on an icy sidewalk.
The death rate in Muscatine is alarm
ing, and has never been SO great before
unless during some plague.
William Andrews of Clinton, night
switchman, was run down and killed by q
switch engine in the yards there.
The Board of Education at Lime
Springs has been asked to call an cleo
ton to vote on u new school building.
The preliminaries for the formation OF
an independent school district at Crystal
Lake are meeting with some opposition.
Clarence A. Schultz of Knoxville has
been appointed teacher in the Fort
Berthold Indian school at North Dakota.
Over $1,000 has been raised at Daven-
port for the entertainment of the State
encampment of the G. A. II. in that city.
The suburban railway company of
Council Bluffs, between that city and
Omaha, has filed a mortgage for $780,
600.
Mary Franklin of Council Bluffs, after
married life Of thirty years, asks di-
yorce, alleging habitual drunkenness and
threats.
1t is proposed in Marshalltown to levy
n l mill tax for the purpose of establish
ing and maintaining system of parks in
that city.
The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Schuldt of Neville was fatally
burned while playing with pine stock
in stove.
The w. B. Ballew Lumber Company's
yard at Abba was consumed by a suppos-
ed incendiary fire. Loss $4,000, insur-
ance 5000.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
with the Secretary of State by the Fort
Dodge Beet Sugar Company, with cap
ital of $4,000.
The teamsters hauling coal at the Des
Moines mines have made demand on
the operators for an advance in wages of
10 cents per ton.
James II. Woolm, an old soldier who
lived near Richland, was found dead in
a field near his home there. Heart fail
ure was the cause.
The city library trustees at Dies Moines
have rendered room rent free to the
Loyal Legion, Grand Army posts and
Woman's Relief Corps.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. NJ. Higley Of Ocheyedan was severe
ly burned about the hands and head
through playing with matches.
Albert B. Hughes, while en- route from
Burlington to Fremont, Neb., committed
suicide at Council Bluffs by shooting him
self. He was temporarily deranged.
According to statistics received by the
State dairy commissioner there were 49,
800 pounds Of oleomargarine shipped into
Iowa during the year ending June 30.
1899.
Two spans of the new railroad bridge
over the Mississippi river at Dubuque
have been completed and the piling is
now in for the third. Work is being pros
ecuted with all possible expedition.
Two years ago G. T. Dixie, at Clear
Lake, rescued Miss Bonnie Elder Of Ma
son City from drowning, and the other
night she became his wife. Mr.. Dixie is
resident engineer for the Northwestern.
Waterloo is to be made headquarters
for DR.. John Alexander Dowie's disciples
of Zion for Iowa. An immense taber.
nacle is to be built with seating capacity
in it's main audience room for ., 500 peo-
pie.
Mrs. Lizzie Bailey brought suit against
the city of Centerville, claiming damages
for injuries received in falling on de-
fective sidewalk. The jury awarded her
the sum of $500.
Last Christmas William Huff of West
Union, aged 65 years, disappeared from
home after trivial quarrel with his
son-in-law and had not since been heard
from. The other night his body was
found in cave few miles east of the
city. The indications were that death
had come peacefully and from natural
causes and post mortem examination
revealed no evidences of violence.
Icy walks In Grinnell have caused five
or six women of that city to fall within
the past few weeks, resulting in broken
arm in each instance.
Rev. johnson, pastor of the Christian
Church at Union City, has made arrange
ments for the building Of n new house Of
worship ut Kent. This little town is ex-
periencing remarkable boom.
Four well-deined cases of smallpox,
discovered by the city health physician,
have occasioned great excitement and
alarm ut Fort Dodge. Two persons have
been sick with the disease for two weeks
and many outsiders were exposed. A
child from one family has been attending
school regularly.
Il. Fl. Oxley, teacher in district No.
10, Washington township, has been e1-
PEELED on the charge Of excessively whip;
ping the young son of Charles Travis.
The adjudication of the case required a
great deal of time, as there were sew
eral trials, the county superintendent up
holding the decision of the local board.
Mrs. Frank Markell wife of a Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad man of Gin.
ton, committed suicide by jumping into
the cistern at the family home. Some
three years ago daughter committed
suicide by jumping from the railroad
bridge into the Mississippi river, and it
is feared that this has worked on her
mind until she became deranged