Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-11-28

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The little town of Arthur had q $1O.-
GOO fire.
A new button factory is being erected
at Muscatine.
A serious case of varioloid has devel-
oped at Creston.
The diphtheria scare at Central City
had no foundation.
A rural mail route will soon be estab-
lished at Marengo
Blackhawk County has voted for a new
court house and Jail
The postoffice at Alice is to be served
by rural mail carrier.
| Considerable sewerage is being con
structed ut Mason City.
A railroad laborer was run down by a
train and killed at Grnnell
The public schools Mt Oskaloosa now
have an enrolment of / ,226.
Davenport had twcnty-one cases of con-
tagious disease during October.
Over five hundred children are now en-
rolled in the schools at Colfax.
The Latter Day Saints are erecting
a church building ut Mount Pisgah.
The total number of inmates now in
the penitentiary at Anamosa is 45S.
One hundred and eighty dog tags have
been issued this year in Mason City.
A considerable quantity of potatoes
stored at Creston have commenced to rot.
Three large fish nets We're captured re-
Gently by the fish commissioner near Wa
pello.
Work on the bridge in Des Moines has
been discontinued on account of high
water.
Charles Orwell, painter Mt Clinton,
| fell off building and received fatal in
/ juries.
A movement has been started for the
establishment Of saloons in Jefferson
County.
| Mary Larson, domestic near Fort
Dodge. was fatally burned by turpentine
exploding.
II. G. Little aged 81. one of the pion-
GERS of Grinnell passed away Mt his
home there.
Thirty-siS naturalization papers have
been issued this term Of court in Winnie
bago County.
The Council at Des Moines has passed
an ordinance forcing all wires to be plac-
ed underground.
The militia company at Creston may
be mustered out, MS it is not up to the
standard Of efficiency.
Albert zwigart, prominent butcher ut
Clinton, stole five head of fat cattle from
n neighboring farmer.
James l.. Castle, a laborer of State
Center, was robbed of $50 in a colored
dive in NIarshalltown.
The postofiices Mt Moorcville and Ever
green have been discontinued on account
of rural mail delivery.
William Chittenl. aged -, of Eldon,
committed suicide by hanging himself. Ill
health prompted the act.
A man named Ditto of Blairstown was
severely bruised by falling off scaffold-
ing q, distance of twenty feet.
/ William Segelson, a. cattleman of Ida
County, blew out the gas in n hotel in
Chicago and was asphyAiated.
During the six months of the present
police administration in Des Noines $13,-
600 has been collected in fines.
Two hundred and three conversions are
reported from Clarinda on account Of
the recent revival meetings there.
Victor Blair, an Iowa man, has been
reinstated as compositor in the govern
mcnt printing Office in Washington.
Albert AIowder, the night marshal Mt
Coon Rapids, dropped his revolver and
it discharged, the ball lodging in his right
leg.
Mira Hershey, daughter of the late
millionaire lumberman of Muscatine, will
erect hospital and donate it to that
city.
Il. w. Paris. an engineer on the, Rock
Island road, was killed while leaning
from the window of his cab at Council
Bluffs.
Miss Avis jerks of Clinton fell on a
defective sidewalk and sustained injuries
for which she asks the city to pay her
$1,000.
The State Board of Health has got
ten out circular for free distribution
regarding the prevention, cure, etc, of
smallpox.
Rev. Henry Clark has resigned the pas
torate OF the Baptist Church at Creston
on account of some difference with the
official board.
Mrs. Will II. Brown of Mason City,
whose husband was killed last Septem-
Der, died on account of worrying over
his tragic end.
Horse thieves stole II team Of horses
from the barn of Sam Camel in Mar
shalltown and no trace of them has been
found as yet.
4 Seven thousand six hundred and thirty
seven dollars and five cents was paid
to the treasurer OF Jefferson County
during October.
The Royal Brotherhood of America
with headquarters at Des Moincs has
consolidated with the Twentieth Century
Benefit Union OF Creston.
William Hazlett. the county attorney
of Pocahontas County, has sued Frank
Freeman, prominent druggist, for $5,-
600 damages for alleged libel.
b. f. LIGHT of Des Moines has sued
for $1,000 damages against the owners
of the Good block in that city. for in
juries sustained in an elevator accident.
Mrs. Mary Larson. domestic employ
cd by Charles Grouse, living ten miles
southeast of Fort Dodge, was burned 50
badly that She will die. She and Mrs.
Grouse were both injured in ali explosion
of turpentine. The women We're alone
and their screams attracted passers-by n
quarter of mile away. When They
reached the. place the girl was terribly
burned. The doctors say she inhaled
enough of the deadly flame TO produce
death.
An attempt was made at Mediapolis
10 blow up the house of Mrs. A. larson
with dynamite. Indignation is strongly
felt MS result. of the outrage, which
has made widespread sensation.
The stockholders of the Keokuk and