Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-08-15
Kamrsr has two cases of smallpox.

Pinkeye is epidemic among hofses W
Alton.
lama is to have new G. & N. w.
depot.
Greene has voted for system OF water
works.
A postof1ice has been established at
Tweten.
Work has commenced on the new jail
at Gearing.
A new bank building is being erected
at Chelsea.
The gas plant at Rockwell is proving
satisfactory.
A number of brick crossings are being
laid at Tama.
A large new water tank is to be erect
ed at Delmar.
The elevator at Stout is being rusheu
to completion.
The canning factory at Eddyville is be-
ing torn down.
Two new grain elevators are heing COM
pletcd at Dixie.
A bank may be started soon at the new
town of !Aredalc.
The Great Western is laying new steer 2
west from Farley.
A now Odd Fellows hall is being erect
ed at Troy Mills.
The brick Touring mills at Iowa City
have closed down.
The new depot at Mason City is fast
nearing completion.
The new NJ. q. Church at Mediapolis
is almost completed.
The horses around Thompson are AZ
nicted with pinkeye.
Two saloons are now running Mt the
new town of Clutter.
The Odd Fellows at Chelsea will erect
fine lodge building.
A horse show will be held IN Des
Moines in September
A Sunday school association mas oeen
organized at Fairfield.
The new Touring mill at Manley Will
be in operation very soon.
A new rural delivery route has been
established at Muscatine.
The roof is being placed on the new
Catholic Church at Tama.
Seven valuable dogs were poisoned in
one night at DeS MolHeS.
Frank Gudgell of Fairfield was seri-
ously injured in n runaway.
The steel bridge over the Cedar at
Waverly has been completed.
Victor's water supply is running short,
and another we'll will be sunk.
Excavations are under way for the pro-
posed opera house at Muscntine.
Douglcrty claims to be fast becoming
central point for stock shipping.
The Scion Bank has increased its cap
ital stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
The corner stone of the new Masonic
temple in Shenandoah will be laid Aug.
10.
Fire destroyed the large barn and out
buildings of John Gordcrs of York town
ship.
Joe Turner of Bedford fell off a lad
der and striking doorstep was instantly
killed.
William earn, chief witness in the c..
II. l. & r. robbery case, broke jail at
Iowa City.
Eight cars on the Chicago Great West
ern loaded with grain were wrecked near
Melbourne.
The c. & y. w. will expcnd $4,000 in
improving and charging its yards at
Belle Plainc.
The Mason City library was allowed
$3.50 insurance for damages to books by
the recent fire.
The foundation and basement for the
new Presbyterian Church at Coggon Is
almost completed.
Mail for the discontinued Office at Ell
mont will be divided among Paris, AL
burnett and Flemingville.
Hugh McCaulcy's family of six at Kent
were poisoned from eating toad stools,
which they took for mushrooms.
The Milwaukee road is erecting double
coal chutes, widening side tracks and lay
ing double switches AT Williamsburg.
Prof T.. l.. Mason of the Clinton high
school has accepted the princpalship Of
the high school at Colorado Springs.
An organization known as the Young
Peoples Christian Temperance Union has
started out to down the saloons, brewer
| les and liquor houses of Dubuque. The
first campaign will he 10 enforce the law
to close saloons OIL Sunday.
| Corning capitalists dropped several
| thousand dollars OH the board Of eX-
change owing TO reduction in price of
| corn.
| John T.. Danison. Il prominent farmer
| near Hepburn, was stricken with apo
plcxy while in the field and died in two
hours.
Fifteen hundred dollars has been appro-
priatcd for the improvement of the ath-
letic grounds at the State University at
Iowa City.
| Fred Bacher, young man of Burling-
ton, had his left hand terribly mangled
by being caught in cog wheel and am
putation may he necessary.
John Nj. McConnaughey, perhaps the
largest boy for his age in the State, was
found dead near his home, two miles west
| of Washington. Hc was found with his
neck broken and his face buried In mud
in ditch where he had fallen. 1t is sup
| posed that he was thrown from his horse
while the animal was trying to cross the
ditch, and that the animal in slipping
back fell on him. He had gone after the
COWS, and being a reckless rider had Mt
tempted to cross the ditch instead of go
| ing around it. He was noted for his i'm
mense size. He was only ten years DID,
and was five feet ten inches in height
and weighed about 1870 pounds. The other
members of the family were of ordinary
size.
A horse belonging to William Lamin
of rhaycr was stolen from the post
where it was tied, near Birds store. No
| trace has been found of the thieves. A
horse stealing epidemic has been preva-.
lent of late. which in Texas would make
hanging bees popular.
III Muscatine William Crouch made a
fierce attack upon his wife with hatch
ct, and failing to accomplish designs on
! her life he then used the weapon OIL him
self, inflicting severe scalp wound. But
for the presence of others who came to
her assistance she would doubtless have
been the victim of his wrath.
George johnson, whose home is in
/ l,n,