Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-06-20
State Items of 1nterest.

"A IuTIueT HeuE OlO uuS piuuteu I'VE
acres of tobacco.
The G. & N. w. will put in an inter-
locking switch at Alnes.
Chintz bugs are ravaging truck gar
dens around Des Moines.
Fire in Des Moines damaged the Kurtz
block to the extent of $1,000.
The Congregationalists Mt Clarion have
decided to erect a $4,000 church.
The farm house of Frank Lord near
Iowa City was destroyed by fire.
Tramps entered the store of Cookery
Mt Wadena and stole 500 in cash.
The Catholic Church at Vincent, de-
stroyed by lightning, will be rebuilt.
The Nutwood Driving Club has fled
articles Of incorporation at Dubuque.
Boone County's expenses for the small
poX cases will foot up to about $1,000.
Attorney H. B. Smith, Dubuque, broke
the State bowling record with n score of
PCS.
The gun club at Waterloo will hold a
month.
Tramps are beginning to arrive at Bur-
lington to attend the annual convention
of their order.
The Surveyors for the proposed rail
road from Dubuque to Clinton have COM
menced work.
The Assessors returns in Marshall
County show an increase in valuation of
over half million.
Warren Knowlton, formerly of Du-
buque, will tour Great Britain and the
continent on wheels.
demic among children IN different points
of Van Buren, County.
The State board Of control will ask
for bids for n years supply of canned
goods for the State institutions.
The Council at West Union has passed
an ordinance prohibiting ball playing on
the streets or public grounds of the city.
The tenth annual meeting of the Iowa
State Log Rolling Association OF the
Doodmen of the World was held in Deni-
son.
Charles Anderson has sued the town of
Fort Dodge for damages, claiming he
was wrongly and illegally confined in a
pest house.
A New York company is putting in
place book stock in the new State his
torical building at Des Moines that will
accommodate 10000 books.
The Supervisors of Washington, Jeffer.
son and Henry counties have declined to
accept the bridge over the Skunk river ut
Coppocks claiming that it is not up to
contract.
An explosion of gas machine in the
basement of general merchandise store
at Cambridge seriously injured Charles
Webb. Fred, John and Rlbert Hill.
a letter received from Maj. John T.
Hull, stationed in the Philippines, says
that Capt. ]. L. Davidson of Muscatine,
member of the Eleventh cavalry, has
been severely injured.
Ex-Sheriff w. w. Sinclair of Hamilton
County, prominent politician and farm.
CT, has disappeared from his home in
Cass township and there is no clew to his
whereabouts. His friends are much
alarmed.
Wesley Myers, near Luther, is planting
one of the greatest orchards in the State
1t will contain five thousand cherry and
two thousand apple trees.
a company with Il capital of $4,000
is talked of at Davenport to manufacture
baby cabs that can be folded up and
placed into a small compass.
II the enthusiasm displayed at the
meeting of Waterloo citizens to organize
for the purpose of entertaining the State
regatta this year may be taken us cri.
terion, the August boat races will be the
most successful in the history of the
Iowa State Amateur Rowing Association
Waterloo will leave nothing undone to
make the regatta decided success.
The Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul
flyer was wrecked ut Persia, the result Of
spread rails.
A travelling man by the name of Saw.
yer, who represented New York cloth.
ing house, committed suicide at Mason
City by cutting his throat.
Gov. Shaw has been invited by j. L.
Milligan, general secretary, in behalf OF
the National Prison Association, to an
point delegates to represent this State al
the next annual congress of that associa
ton to be held at Cleveland, Ohio. Sept
% to 90. Not only are the officials OF
prisons and reformatories eligible. but
all are SO who are interested in the SO
luton Of the great prison problem.