Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-02-28

Fruit growers over the State say that
the present open winter and the drouth
will result in light crop.
Ames, was run down by freight train
and perhaps fatally injured.
Dysart has been designated us the
feeding station for western shippers of
hogs over the B., G. Il. 4 N.
The A. o. U. w. lodges of Burling-
ton, which number two thousand, talk of
uniting for the purpose of building
| hall.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of John NJ. Lehman to be
surveyor of customs for the port of Du-
buque.
The cooperative creamery at Ely burn
cd to the ground. The loss will amount
to $1,400, with possibly $1,4OO insur-
ance.
Miss Phyllis Kaufman of Dubuque is
suing Frank B. Artz of Petersburg, Neb.,
asking $4,000 FOR breach of promise to
marry.
The plans for big packing house at
Des Moines are still in the air. The op-
tons taken on desirable property have
expired.
The internal revenue collector of the
Dubuque district is endeavoring to have
the districts changed SO as to conform to
the judicial districts.
| Mrs. Hermann Schurmm of Tiiton is
dead as the result of eating raw pork,
infected with trichina. Other members
of the family are seriously ILL.,
About 100 Indians who have been re-
fused their pay for several years were
paid by Agent Malin last week. Some
of the checks amounted to 5000.
| Masked men entered the house of Mrs.
Lee Gentry in Burlington, and after bind
ing and gagging her, robbed the house of
$11 in currency and other valuables.
4 Money is being raised at Greenfield to
| he offered as a reward to mid in finding
the murderers of Mabel Schotield, who
met her death in an unknown manner last
October in Dies Moines.
A strange misfortune has overtaken
Ambrose Collins of Jefferson. He left
home few nights ago believing he was
followed by mob, and says he wandered
about NIL night, taking refuge at day
break in strawstack, where he lay dur
ing the next day His feet were badly
frozen while he slept. Early the other
morning he went to the house of his
daughter in the east part of town, with
his throat cut from ear to ear the wound
gaping open terribly and exposing the yes
sells of the neck. Happily the knife with
which he did the cutting WAS dull, and
in his mad plunges he failed to sever any
of the arteries or the windpipe, which
must have resulted in speedy death.
Prof. c. +. Curtiss, director of the
Iowa agricultural experiment station,
who represents the agricultural colleges
and experiment stations of the United
| States on the executive committee of the
international live stock exposition, which
will be held in Chicago next December,
has received an offer of 81 900 from the
live stock commission firm of Clay, Rob-
inson & Co. of Chicago, to be competed
for by the exhibition of pure, graded and
| cross-bred beef cattle, sheep and swine
owned by State agricultural colleges or
experiment stations. The one condition
attached to the offer is that all prize
1 money won by such institutions in these
contests must be devoted to the establish
ment of free scholarships in agriculture
for worthy applicants.
John Montgomery, 10S years old, who
for some time had been known as the
Oldest man in Iowa, was killed at Coun-
ell Bluffs. He failed to hear the rum
bling of nm approaching train, and was
run down.
p. +. Guthrie, one of the best-known
men in Dubuque, died quite unexpected
ly. He was "a years old and GANG from
4 Ireland in 1868. He had been identified
with the Democratic party for thirty
years, holding many offices.
The residence of j. G. Hehan in Des
Moines was rifed by burglars of furni-
ture and silver valued at $500.
The Methodist parsonage at Centerville
has been quarantined for thirty days on
account Of scarlet fever in the family.
Jack Shields. under Indictment ut Coun-
ell Bluffs on charge of robbery, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to two years
in the penitentiaEy.
Robert Schneider. a. Council Bluffs
Spectator, who had been on the wrong
side of the wheat market and had lost
all his resources, committed suicide in II
hotel room by taking morphine He left
u
the deed to encouragement over nnfortu-
nate speculation.
Henry Gill, an old man who lived near
Fillmore, went out to milk his cows. His
prolonged absence caused search and he
was found dead sitting on his milking
stool with his hands OH the cows teats.
The COW was contentedly chewing her
cud.
At Audubon, A. l.. Sheets committed
suicide by taking laudanum. He had been
dealing on the Chicago Board of Trade
for some years, and recently, it is said
he fioated numerous notes which were
forged to obtain money. He was arrest.
ed, and the sheriff permitted him to 20 to
4 his home to see his wife before going to
Jail While there he took the poison, and
died in about an hour.
Traffic on the Davenport, Rock Island
and Northwestern road was suspended
more than twelve hours by washout at
Mill creek and one at Duck creek. When
passing over Duck trestle the engineer
felt the bridge giving way and jumped
| into Che creek. No lives were lost.
The two-story frame building of j. ",
Milligan, occupied by Law Bros. az an
| implement warehouse, was burned at Pu.
laski, the origin of the fire being mys-
terry. The fremen were seriously handi.
capped by the intense cold, but managed
to save the surrounding buildings. The
4 losses are us follows: j. w Milligan's
building, $1,000; Law Bros stock. vi
1 900.