Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-10

Sonsiueruple h0S cholera ID rep0rte
from parts of Delaware and Buchana
counties.
| Rev. u. l.. Schreincr b; resigned tn
pastorate of the Grace NJ. e. Church a
Burlington.
Pierson has contracted for its waite
works system and it must be complete,
by Dec. 1.
Joel Head, aged 20, of Marshalltown
was run down by an electric car and fa
tally injured.
Three more rural mail routes have beer
established at Columbus Junction, max
ing four in all.
The town of Calamus is being sued fol
$4,000 damages for an accident OH
defective sidewalk.
Ten new steel cages are being installed
in the JUL at Dubuque and the old ones
arc being torn out.
Burglars entered the barber shop OF
VIII johnson at Hornick and carried of
$40 worth of property.
GRIND Mound, Clinton County, now has
three cases of smallpox and the town Is
under strict quarantine.
The Hardin County fair this year was
financial success, the receipts exceeding
those of last year by $500.
The business men of Waterloo have or
ganized hospital association for the es-
Enlistment of hospital.
Sneak thieves are at work in Fort
Dodge and dozens of umbrellas and rub
bcrs have been purloined.
The Reformed Church congregation in
Des Moines is having plans made for n
new $1,000 church building.
Mrs. Eva 7. Spencer of Beaumont has
been appointed seamstress at Rice Sta
ton, Indian school, Arizona.
The large barn of ]. n. Windsor, in
Des Moines, was struck by lightning and
destroyed. Loss about $1,000.
The hardware dealers in Worth, Floyd,
Franklin and Hancock counties have or
ganized and will fight peddlcrs.
The town of Williams has been sued
for $4,000 for injuries growing out of an
accidcnts on Z detective sidewalk.
from che acoatributions
weston sufferers wfn7reacs.- -4lot Is, a0;al-
Lightning started fire ON the farm OF
%. Il. Holsteen, near Denmark, and dam
aged property to the extent of $1,000.
Paul Collins, Ind in Clinton, fell off
tree while nutting and broke his wrist,
the bone protruding through the flesh.
Tho railroad commissioners have con
demncd land in Greene County for the
Northwestern for double track purposes
Cattle dealers at Rock Rapids have
purchased seventeen carloads of cattle
which they will feed and export next
spring.
Horse thieves are at work in western
Iowa, and this time II. Il. Holcomb of
Danbury is mourning the loss of fine
black driving mare.
The barn of John Kelly, near Barnum,
was struck by lightning and entirely de-
stroyed. One horse and several tons of
hay were consumed.
Very weak and with nervous system
almost shattered, Edward Steahr of
South Muscatine is slowly rallying back
to life and the full possession of his
senses, after having been at deaths
door from the effects of n dose of poison
taken while insane with liquor.
Broken-hearted and financially ruined,
Alfred I.orcnz, German shoemaker of
Algona, returned home from Chicago.
Lorenz recently sold his shop and bust
ness and started on n trip to the father
land, but he did not get any nearer Ger
many than Chicago. He was met at the
depot in Chicago by man who asked
him his name. AT first he refused, but
later the man displayed star and threat
ened him with arrest unless he identified
himself. Lorenz then told him his entire
story. A few minutes later he was met
by another man, who addressed him by
name and induced him to go to cheap
clothing store to get a new suit. Lorenz
accompanied him, and there in some man
ned he was robbed OF his little fortune.
Zach Hurley, laborer at Fort Dodge,
was working In sewer when it caved in,
seriously injuring him.
Luther Harding, farmer near Mason
City, was thrown from his wagon and
had his shoulder bone broken in two
places.
E.Minder, janitor in the State house
at Des Moines, fell from window a dis
lance of twenty feet and was severely
injured.
The offices of marshal, street commits
sioner and lamp lighter at Correctionville
have been consolidated, saving the town
$40 month.
John Anderson, prominent stock buy
err, was killed at crossing mile east
of Atlantic by train. Walter Roberts,
another buyer, who was in the carriage
with him, escaped badly injured, though
no bones were broken. At the inquest
Mr. Roberts said the train did not whis-
tie for the crossing.
Recently many Dcs Moines homes have
been visited by two smooth-looking indi
viduals, representing themselves as Cath
Ole priests, who We're soliciting funds
with which to build an orphan asylum in
northern Ireland. They succeeded in Sc
curing hundreds of dollars-how much is
not known--and disappeared from the
city.
The 21s-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Phillips, near Otto. was killed by
eating quantity of medicine tablets.
Robert Golusha, aged Is, residing near
Owego, was shot in the face by the acct
dental discharge of his gun while out
hunting.
George Tongate Of Des Moines was
killed by Rock Island train about n
mile and half south of Dana. Tongate
was sleeping at the side of the track,
with his head near the rail and his arm
extending over. The engineer saw the
man on the track, but not in time to APP
ply the air brakes and stop the train.
Almost the entire train passed over the