Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-01-10
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The glucose factory at Davenport daily
brushes 10000 bushels of corn.
Trapping skunks is getting to be quite
an industry in Jefferson County.
The Davenport Presbyterians have ded
cated their new $4,000 church.
The Iowa Central is thinking of run
ninsti Sunday train to Algona.
Geo. Hanna and Thomas Pakins. o
Epwood, are late victims of wood alec
hol.
The town of Woodbine has purchased
building and will remodel it into cit.
hall
1t rs said that the road to be built from
Tipton to Muscatine is backed by the q
Il 4. w.
The Southwestern Iowa Horticultural
Society held their twenty-ffth annua
merting in Logan.
Pew. A. d. Kinzer of Lyons has &c
ce ,ted call to the Congregations
C:iurch at Marion.
Edward Way, well-known citizen o,
Hamilton County, has been adjudged in
sane and taken to Independence.
S. Shocking, aged IS, was run down
by a train at Osceola and so badly injur
ed that he died in a few hours.
Eva Stevens has sued the city of Des
sioines for $1,000 damages for injuries
ueceived on q defective sidewalk.
S. l.. Gardner, an invalid at Month.
cello, tripped on rug and was thrown
against chair, breaking two ribs.
Ray Bendel, a 9-year old Dubuque boy,
was drowned while walking on thin ice
at the Eagle Point Ferry landing.
The prosperous village of Bellevue has
expended S32,226 during the year in
handsome residences and store buildings.
The Postofiice Department has ordered
| a sub-station at Marshalltown, to be
known as substitute No. Soldiers
Home).
w. j. Hayward of St. Joseph, No..
a brakeman, fell under a train at Bart
| lett. which necessitated his right arm
being amputated.
! Henry Barber, mathematician of Lost
Nation, has gone crazy through constant
| study OF the problem when does the
twentieth century begin?"
The Des Moines Edison Light Com
pany has been sued for $4,000 damages
for the death of John l. Mcdonald, who
was killed by live wire.
| Mrs. Eftie Marshall, who died at the
aome of her daughter, near Morton, Pot
:awattamie County, at the age of u
gears, had lived in Iowa forty-eight
| Years.
Circumstances enshrouding the death
OF Mrs. Joseph Weitz of Dubuque were
regarded by physician of that city as
| $, 0picious, so he refused to issue death
cei tificate.
rhe little daughter of 3. Stiffler of
Wtaterset attempted to slide down BAN
nis;er at school, but fell distance of
fiftI>n feet, breaking limb and severe
ly hsuising herself.
Tl., proposition to incorporate Kelley
The result was an almost unanimous vote
In favor of the proposition, the vote heing
81 for to 2 against it.
Davenport has been full of enthusiasm
oy,r the arrival there of the track-laying
forceof the Davenport, Rock Island and
Northwestern Railway, with clean
stretch of Tack behind them, connecting
that city with Clinton.
William II. Penn has been appointed
assistant superb tendent Of the sixth di-
vision Of the railway mil service, with
ofical headquarters at chicago but he
!, will be permitted to retail MS neaoquar-
tiers Al 80 Moines. Te has been in the
| railway mai ervj~- for twenty-seven
years.
The jury in the case of the Grimes es-
tate VS.. the Chicago Great Western Rail
| way Company, begun in the District
Court at West Union to recover 5000
damages for the death of w. j. Grimes,
locomotive engineer, has brought in a
verdict for the prosecution, fixing the
damages at $4,000.
| At Waterloo, Nettie NJ. Hoot has filed
an action for divorce against Jerome w.
Hoot, and it is said she charges him
with attempted murder by sending her an
internal machine from Chicago. Hoot
has not as vet been located. The police
claim that the explosive used was dyna-
mite purchased in Des Moines, and that
the box was made by cabinetmaker at
! Omaha on Hoot's order. 1t is believed
| that Hoot arranged the machine himself
in Chicago. The county board of super
visors has offered 500 for Hoot's cap
| ture.
Gov. Shaw and Adjt. Gen. Byers re-
turned from Washington, D. c., assured
of success in securing the payment of
| Iowa war claims. Gov. Shaw said that
the War Department complimented Gen.
Byers by saying that the Iowa claims
were made out in better and more intelli-
gible style than those of any other State
and that more of them had been paid,
proportionately. The department will
promptly pay about $4,000 more of them
and the remaining $4,000, which was
| for expenses incurred after July 8, will
have to go through Congress.
| What has proved to be one of the best
laid and smoothest plans at jail break.
ing in the history of Cerro Gordo Coun.
ty has just been unearthed by the Off
GERS at Mason City. The three persons
who planned the deal and came neal
carrying it into execution are F. Il. Bal
ley, who is confined on charge of horse
stealing, Charles Mitchell and ]. d. Mil
Ter, both held on charge of larceny. II
would be difficult to improve on the plans
and preparations of the trio. and the mar
who invented the crude tools with which
| they intended to bore and saw through
the walls and bars of the jail is certainly
an inventive genius. Some assistance
was given from the outside, but the
greater part of the tools We're the worl
of the men on the inside, and the collec
| ton is sight to behold.
| Mrs. Dickens, charged with murder
was released at Dubuque, evidence moi
being sufficient to hold her.
The depot at Weed was broken into
The thief was captured in the net anG
held till the marshal from Wall LAX.
reached Weed.
In the case of Langan VS.. Aetna, Pal
atine, German Alliance and Spring Gar
den Insurance companies, Judge Shirs.
at Dubuque gave decision in favor q
the plaintiff for the full amount of thu