Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-11-28

Balzer Nicholas, retired Parkersburg
farmer, was suffocated by gas that escap-
cd from a stove.
In the recent election the proposition
to levy n l mill tax to build Jail and
sheriff's residence at Bedford failed to
carry, although the present Jail is prac-
tically useless and necessitates the ex-
pensc of taking the prisoners to Ores
ton.
Fred Vogel, a farm hand in the employ
of g. Bothel, about seven and half
miles southeast of Iowa City, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to a raf.
ter in the corn crib with piece of wire
and the circumstances attending the sui
eide We're such that it is believed the man
was temporarily demented.
AT Oskaloosa the electric street car or.
dnance passed the City Council upon its
second reading. There will be one more
reading, at n meeting TO be called by the
Mayor as soon MS convenient, but ii is
generally conceded that this will lie only
formal matter. 1t will Their so to the
people for ratification at special cleo
ton. The present franchise does not pro
vide for light contract. but it is I'M
derstood the Oskaoosn Street Car and
Land Company will he given the contract
if they build the road If they fail tt
construct the road within one year the!
forfeit all rights they now hold.
Since the election there have been many
comments ms to who is the oldest voter
in the United States, but SO far as heard
from. Iowa takes the lead by eight years
The Chicago Tribune states that so fal
j. Wesley Walters of Philadelphia hat
voted for more presidents than any Other
man in the United Suites. William Zim
mer, the centennran of Clinton. can dis
count the Philadelphia man by eight
years and by two presidents. Mr.. Wal
ters cast his first vote in 1873. VIM. Zim
was born in April. 1889. and became OF
age in 1920 He is hale and hearty and
is seen on the streets of Clinton ever,
fair day. Vi
Although an investigation has been con
Quoted by the authorities both at Mar
shalltown and Waterloo in regard to tho
confession of the man named Rawlins
who says he burned n barn near Mar
shalltown two years ago for which an in
nocent man named Faust suffered tern
Of confinement in the penitentiary at Fort
Madison, nothing has been discovered
which will be of any aid to the officers
Rawlins, who disappeared after leaving
his written confession i'll the hands Of
Postmaster Munger, has not been seer
and all efforts to trace him have been III
vain.
Mrs. Elizabeth Figgin, n widow living
two and one-half miles east of West
Point, was seriously if not fatally injur
ed in railway accident at Sawyer. She
was driving n single horse and buggy
and for some unaccountable reason col
lided with freight train. The horse
was killed, the buggy smashed and the
unfortunate womans skull fractured in
two places.
Captain j. n. G. Yeoman OF Fort
Dodge, one Of the men who captured JEFF
Davis ana received a large reward from
the government for this service, died al
Washington Court House, Ohio, ut the
home of his sister, Mrs. Jane Ogle. He
was captain in the First Ohio cavalry.
Bertha and Albert Nagel, children OF
William Nagel of Clinton, were fatally
burned by the explosion of lamp. 9th.
or members of the family We're injured
and the house destroyed.
Marvin Witter, student at the State
College at Ames, is dead as a result OF
typhoid fever. Witter was one of the
first to be taken sick when the epidemic
of fever broke out ut the college and
has been very sick man for some time
His life had been despaircd of for several
days and his parents had been summoned
and were at his bedside when he died
This is the second death Mt the college
and the third among the students, one
having died at his Bone.