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

Inc Iowa antitrust league has menu
bership Of 10000.
The Odd Fellows at Clinton are think
ing Of building temple.
The third telephone enterprise has been
organized at Iowa Falls.
Beaconsfield has determined by vote
Of 30 to II to incorporate.
Arrangements have been completed for
Touring mill for Winterset.
A postoffice has been established at
Lanyon, with George G. Dowd as post
master.
A canning company has been organized
ut Waterloo with paid-up capital of
5000.
f. w. Smith has been appointed post
master at Iveyville, vice o. L. Muzzey,
removed.
The farmers institute at Humboldt pro-
tested against the Capitalization of coun-
try schools.
A scheme is OH foot among citizens Of
Hardin and Franklin counties to hold an
inter-county fair.
Corydon citizens want special election
to vote on the question of electric lights
anu water works.
Daniel Morford has sued the marshal
of Lone Tree for $1,000 damages for
false Imprisonment.
1t is costing the taxpayers of Monroe
County $3.50 per day for guarding the
smallpox Mt Coalfield.
james A. Oates of Inwood has been APP
pointed teacher in the Indian school at
Yakima, Washington.
An electric light plant is being INSTALL
ed in a mill at Carbon, and it will fur
nish light to the town.
Articles have been fled with the county
recorder ut Burlington for the Fairfield
and Ottumwa Railroad
A motion for new trial in the case Of
George Wright, convicted Of murder ut
Muscatine, has been filed.
The fine new residence of NJ. j. Gar
wood at Iowa Falls was destroyed by
fire. Loss about $1,000.
A syndicate will probably continue Nut
wood Park at Dubuque, and have RACES
there as usual this year.
A saloon petition is being circulated Mt
Nit. Ayr, and the temperance people are
PhSPdiihS u MISUNDERSTANDING.
The infant child of H. Il. White, living
near Clemens, was choked to death by
button lodging in its windpipe.
Duquette & Co.. wholesale fruit deal
ers of Council Bluffs, have made an
assignment in favor of creditors.
New Hartford comes to the front with
a record of 100000 expended for inn
provements during the last year.
The Illinois Central will erect a new
depot at Iowa Falls and otherwise i'm
prove its property at that point.
DR.. Edward Osborn, for twenty years
a physician and surgeon of Mason City,
died suddenly ut his home of apoplexy.
The Edwards Congregational Society
at Davenport have planned to remodel
their building at cost of about S12,UOO.
John Houghton of Fontanelle, while
engaged in family row, was shot in
mysterious manner. No arrests have
been made.
The Dubuque Water Company has de-
cided to accept the city's proposition of
So4o,OO0 for its plant. The deal is SUBJ
lect to popular vote at the next election
in April.
ii. NJ. Day, who had brilliant civil
war record, rising to the position of brig
adler general through bravery on the bat
tleteld, died at Cedar Rapids of heart
trouble. aged "a years. He was conspic-
uous in Grand Army circles.
Oskaloosa will make determined eff
fort to secure one Of the new normal
schools.
Vaccination is enforced at the schools
at Winterset to prevent the spreading of
smallpox.
Philippine veterans of Des Moines are
to form club, to be known as the Eighth
Army Corps Club.
Over two thousand steamboats, passed
through the draw of the bridge at Bur-
lington last year.
Edward Mark, residing near Lacona,
committed suicide by hanging himself,
without any apparent cause.
The farm house of O. z. Benson, near
Geneva, together with contents, was de-
stroyed by fire, Loss $1,000, origin UNI
known.
During the first five weeks that the
penny savings system was in vogue in
the schools of Keokuk more than $500
was deposited by the pupils.
r. E. Thorpe of West Union tracked
rabbit twenty-five miles and shot at 1t,
but before he could secure it the rabbit
made him walk fifteen miles farther.
The women of the New Salem Church
Of Decatur County have made crazy
quilt with more than 700 names worked
in silk. 1t will be sold to the highest
bidder for the benefit of the church.
Johnny Harper, an Iowa City lad of
ten years, left home and walked to Cedar
Rapids in n day. The police took him in
charge.
The savings bank at Pocahontas has in
creased its capital from $4,000 to $685.
600. The Dallas County Savings Bank
has increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
The total tax OH assessed property in
Plymouth County for the coming year is
$1S9. 46S, which is a considerable reduc-
ton over that of the past few years.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pc.
titioned Congress that an appropriation
Of $1,000 be made to reimburse John NJ.
Kemble. collector Of internal revenue of
Burlington, for loss of revenue stamps.