Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-02-07

liams.
The total amount of taxes collected last
year In Story County amounted to $685.
1892.
Dubuque has sold $4,000 refunding
bonds to New York capitalist at 3h
per cent.
Rev. Henry w. Clark has accepted
call to the pastorate of the Baptist church
at Creston.
| Miss Rolston of Albion has been elect
ed to assist principalship at Iowa Falls
high school.
The smallpox did not hinder the people
of Earlham from holding successful
poultry show.
Fully score of towns have been heard
from as candidates for the location of
normal schools.
Rev. Father Farrelly of Denison has
gone TO Europe and the Holy Land for a
six months tour.
The water works committee at Iowa
City 10 contemplating some costly addi-
tons to its plant.
Miss Maria l.. Fry, for tifty-four years
a resident of Iowa City, is dead after a
protracted illness.
| The clothing merchants of Burlington
have signed an agreement to close their
stores at 6:30 p. m.
Dubuque police officials say there is a
remarkable decrease in criminality and
arrests in that city.
The new auditorium at Drake Univer-
sity, exclusive of fittings and furnish
ings, will cost $11, 800.
The Supervisors of Mahaska County
have ordered steel corridors placed in the
county Jail at Oskaloosa
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas w. Bond, of Iowa
Falls, have Just celebrated their sixty
fifth wedding anniversary.
| The report of-the w. e. A. Hospital OF
| Council Bluffs shows an increase of no
patients last year over 1898.
An electric railroad is projected ats
Iowa City to go westward of that city
for about twenty-five miles.
The Cover Banking Company with n
capital stock OF 100000, has opened its
doors to the public at Keswick.
Johnnie Berg, aged 10, of MARSHALL
town, while out hunting, shot himself in
the leg, causing a severe wound.
The Council Bluffs company of the Ma
mustered into the State service.
| Work has again commenced on the pas
senger depot Of the Illinois Central ut
Council Bluffs. 1t will cost about $780,
OOO
The report Of the Davenport postottice
for the last quarter shows the business
there is i'll a tlourishing condition.
Nj. Staffuacer operates 100 acres near
Ackley. During the past eight months he
has sold hogs to the value of So, 500.
Miss Hettic McCord and Miss Belle
Binsain have been appointed as members
of the civil service board at the post
Office at Mason City.
thief at Ackley succeeded in get
ting away with 200 chickens, turkeys
and hog all in one night and left no
trace of his identity.
The White Breast Coal Company, of
Oskaloosa, is prospecting for coal near
! Bouton, on the line of the Chicago Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railroad.
The Iowa Retail Grocers' Association
has filed articles of Incorporation in Polk
County. 1t is designed for the promotion
OF the interests of the trade and is with
ont capital stock.
A Burlington woman with whip i'll
one hand and n revolver in the other
chasing Il man afforded brief sensation
in that city. The cause of the outbreak
is unknown.
The City Council at Oskaloosa is now
wrestling with an ordinance granting
franchise to the water company, which IL
acceptable to both parties will be sub
mitted to the voters of the municipality.
| s. I. Campbell has resigned as post
master at Goldficld and Miss Eva Keith
has been appointed as his successor
Miss Mae Hopkins, handsome ~
| yenr-old school teacher of Gushing, was
arrested charged with cruelty whipping
pupil. The jury acquitted her.
| Judge Shiras in the Federal court at
Dubuque granted an injunction restrain
ing the city Of Cedar Rapids from reduce
ing the water rates. The application was
made by the company and the decision is
considered important in its bearing on
the water works question throughout the
country.
The body of Mrs. Casper Maurer,
which was stolen from grave in the
Rapids City, Ill.,, cemetery, was recoy-
cred at Keokuk by Sheriff l.. Il. Cralle.
the Algona branch of the Iowa Central
Railroad, collapsed and is total wreck.
1t was full of grain. The elevator was
built last year by the Mahoney Elevator
Company, who were operating it.
Harrison p. Stevens, aged GO years, an
inmate of the Iowa soldiers home, was
struck by the Colorado special on the
Northwestern Railway while he was
walking on the track three miles east of
Marshalltown. He had started afoot for
Chicago, where he has sister.
G. S. Rollins. of Davenport, has with
drawn his resignation as pastor of the
Edwards Congregation church.
]. NJ. Randall, who has been farmer
| in Cerro Gordo County for thirty-fve
years. is dead at the advanced age of 30
years.
John NJ. Mcdonald, of Dubuque, has
been appointed to position connected
with the agricultural exhibit to be made
by Dubuque County at Paris.
Preparations are being made by the
temperance people of Cedar County to
appeal from the decision of the Board Of
Supervisors in finding the mulct petition
valid. 1t is now being carefully exam
ined for illegal signatures.