Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-01-17
An opera house is talked OF at Yale.

j Blanchard proposes to pave all its
! principal streets next season.
George A. Baker has been commits
stoned postmaster at Andrew.
There is n movement on foot at Chel
sea for an electric light plant.
/ The deposit liabilities of the banks of
Palo Alto County aggregate $945, 225.55.
The Illinois Central passenger and
| freight depot at Dunlap is nearing com
pletion.
A postotlice has been established at
Crona and Henry Dyear appointed post
master.
The Mississippi river at Davenport is
but eight inches above low water mark
at present.
The savings banks at Dubuque have
increased their interest OH time deposits
to 4 per cent.
Davenport citizens raised $1G0 in u
weeks time for widows and orphans of
Beers killed in war.
j. w. Essey, n pioneer settler of Iowa,
died Mt Cedar Rapids aged 50 years. He
came to Iowa in 1S47.
Shenandoah boasts of the largest ac-
WV ASAOst Siu>S lue SStule LIS pres
ent membership is GA.
Frank Fay, the Burlington train
wrecker, has been sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary.
Raymond G. Wolfe of Humboldt has
been appointed II teacher at Chilocco,
Oklahoma, Indian school.
The school at Blanchard is not large
enough for the number of pupils and a
larger building is contemplated.
was killed by Milwaukee freight train
near Louisa while stealing a ride.
The treasurer of Pottawattamie Coun-
| ty issued GA certificates of sale at the
recent tax sale, aggregating $12,957.
Joe Judd of Thurman, while cutting
down tree. had one of his legs broken
by the trees suddenly topping over on
him.
Mr.. Cross of Wilton, while in Mus
catine fell down an elevator shaft two
stories, but escaped without broken
bone.
| DR.. William II. Randall, one of the
most widely known practitioners in Des
Moines County, died at his home in Au-
gusta.
An unknown man was killed by jump
ing or falling from the east-bonnd pas
senger train about one mile west of
| Ames.
John O'Keefe. Northwestern en-
ploye Mt AIarshaltown. was severely
bruised by falling off derrick in the
yards there.
AT AIarshalltown w. II. II. Woodward,
a prominent farmer, had an arm blown
off Mt the shoulder by the explosion of
both barrels of his shotgun.
The Iowa Produce Co. bought of a
Winneshiek County farmer $4,000 pounds
of homegrown popcorn. paying 10 cents
per bushel for 75-pound bushels.
Miss Emma Dye, principal of Lucas
school at Des Moines, tried to fill gas
oline stove tank while the jet was light
ed and was badly burned in the eXplo
| sion.
In the court Mt Kcokuk, Frank g
Heller has sued Miss Nellie Knox, a
teacher in the Summitville schools, for
$1,000 damages for breaking his sons
arm while whipping him.
Engineer Il. j. Fisle of the Northwest
ern Railroad fell from his engine near
| Mechanicsville and sustained injuries
| from which he died. His absence was
not discovered till the train reached Ber-
tram, having run fifty miles without an
engineer.
! Young Almer INirkeudall of Logan went
hunting, and while out tried to climb a
tree and draw the gun up after him.
from one barrel went through his arm
above the elbow, tearing through the
flesh and bone.
\ Scott County farmer named Kohl
while alighting from his wagon fell and
striking upon his head, fractured one of
the upper vertebra of the spinal column
and practically crushed the spinal col
umn. Although his neck is broken Kohl
was still alive ut last reports.
A stock company of local capitalists
has been formed at Fort Madison for
the establishment of n canning factory,
1 with paid-up capital stock of 100000.
Among the stockholders is Mayor Sam
uel Atlee. The plant will have a. ca
pacity of 10000 cents day.
For consideration of $4,000 the Pill.
ger Grocery Company of Burlington sold
their entire stock of fixtures and good
will to the Biklen-W Winner Grocery Com.
pany, whose 100000 stock was destroy.
ed by fire. The Pilger Grocery Com.
pany will permanently retire from bust
ness.
Capt. NJ. NJ. Marshall of Des Moines,
who had been engaged by johnson Coun.
ty to ferret out the tax dodgers in Iowa
4 City, attempted suicide He shot him
self with revolver, the bullet passing
through his left breast. He had written
a statement to the effect that his life
was one of happiness and that the only
cause for his act was wheels in the
head
Fred Brant, through his attorney, T.
w. Hall, has filed IL suit in District
Court against the Chicago and North.
4 western Railway Company for damages
for personal injuries to the amount OF
$1,000. In his petition he alleges that
he was run down by Northwestern
switch engine in Clinton on the evening
of Nov. 8 last. He states that three
ribs were broken and other injuries sus.
tanned, which will be permanent. The
company is charged with carelessness in
several respects.
Henry Krack, boss miller ut the Mar.
shalltown glucose works, was instantly
killed by an explosion of a Pinch steam
pipe. He leaves Il wife and three chill.
dren. Hans Anderson was badly burn
ed.
A Burlington young man rented a BIZ
1 cycle. but he did not notice it was q
chainless variety. He rode several miles
into the country and when resting along
the roadside, suddenly discovered the
absence of the chain. He hunted dill
gently to find it. and not succeeding,
hired kind-hearted farmer to haul him
and the wheel back to town.
Elder Gillen of the Latter Day Saints
Church and resident of Lamont. is
missing. The last heard or seen of him
was about six weeks ago, when son
saw him off OH n train at Kansas City
for st. Louis. The railroad company is
trying to locate him.
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