Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-12-26
A new coal mine has been opened up

| The recently canvasscd saloon petition
| in Wright County is inadequate.
Five O., r. & Q. cars We're ditched and
others derailcd in Il recent wreck near
| Abba.
The 3-year-old son of Fred Hudson of
Waterloo fell down stairs and broke u
collar bone.
Three townships in Bluckhawk County
had not one item in the tax sale list
this year.
Prof III. Michner superintendent of
the public schools at Charlton. has suf-
fered stroke of paralysis
Iren Greve and Julia Diggerness, 8 and
9 years old, respectively, were drowned
in the creek near Gushing.
| Conductor Turkey of the c. Il n. w.
was run over by the train at Polk City
and instantly killed. His home was in
| Clinton.
The little 4-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Fay Wright of Pacific juno
ton, was instantly killed by the discharge
of shotgun.
John Arthofer, on trial at Dubuque for
| killing his brother-in-aw, Anton Loibl,
| pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was
sentenced to four years in the peniten-
| tiary.
The j. Il. Smith & Son elevator at
Lamont has been destroyed by fire. The
origin of the fire is unknown, but it is
thought it was started by some means in
the engine room.
The baseball grand stand aud bleach
ers, two frame houses, the livery barn of
l ~ lytla AID, al,
boiler room and stage fixtures were de-
stroyed by fire at Des Moines. Loss S12,-
600.
The Burlington depot at Tuskeego
burned to the ground. The origin of the
fire is not known. All the papers and
office supplies were burned, and this will
prove serious loss to the railroad con-
| pany.
Section men on the Northwestern found
the remains of Andrew Smith lying along
the track near Calamus. The man was
4 last seen at that place and it is thought
he started to walk to Clinton and was
| struck by a train in the night.
Fire destroyed the large general store
of b. u. Craft and the postoiiice at the
town of Evanston. Bert Craft was
sleeping in the store and barely escaped
with his life. The loss is about $500,
| including stamps and postal fixtures.
Charles Kuskie, who was declared in
sane and sent to Independence, returned
home to Rowan and prepared to kill the
whole family He was lodged in the Jail
at Clarion. He escaped from the asylum
| by using the bedding of the room for
ropes to let himself down out of the win
| dow, and Travelled nights and slept in
straw stacks days until he arrived home.
Plats have been received in the Des
Moines land Office for government sur
vey of about 1000 acres of land in Clay
County. The tract embraces about 500
acres of high, dry land and 1,500 acres of
swamp land. The high. dry land will be
entered under the homestead laws and
the other will be patented to the State
by the Federal government, and to Clay
County by the State, to he disposed of as
the county desires or legally can.
Mrs. Amelia Sullivan, wife of Daniel
Sullivan, living about four miles south
west of Pennington, committed suicide
in novel though horrible manner. While
Mr.. Sullivan was at work in the barnyard
she saturated her clothing with Kerosene
and, going out into the garden, ignited
\ tllell. w tlell MI. SSulllNuIl WIFE
her clothing was entirely burned from
her body, even her shoes being consum-
ed, and her body was frightfully burned
and charred.
1 A jury in the Federal Court at Des
AIoines gave Chicago firm of Board of
Trade operators verdict for S6,23S,S5
in their suit against Robert X. Ely of
Adair to collect $4,000 worth of notes
signed by Ely. The jury knocked off
$1,000 on the ground that much of the
debt was incurred by Eby in ''option
deals" on the Board of Trade, and was
therefore a gambling debt and not col
lectable under the laws of Iowa. The
remainder of the account was due OH
what the jury called Legitimate dealing
on the board
Mrs Jeanette Broadbent, profession
al nurse, was found shot in the back OF
the head in her-room in n Des Moines
apartment house. She may not recover.
She has been unable to tell coherent
story, but claims that a man opened her
door, shot her and ran away. She can
not describe her alleged assailant. Her
own revolver was found inside the drawer
with one chamber discharged. A sealed.
letter addressed to a sister and stamped
for mailing lay OH her table. In it she
said her revolver had been stolen. The
shooting has attracted wide attention be.
cause Mrs. Broadbcnt was n witness in
the sensational Richardson divorce case
now on trial, and testified to statements
which she alleged Mrs. Richardson made
to her with regard to Mrs. Richardson's
relations with n leading professional man.
/ Flames entirely destroyed the Sisters
of Mercy convent and parochial school at
/ Fort Dodge, entailing a loss to the build
ing of S11 900 and 81 900 to the fixtures.
AT the time fire broke out ten persons
were asleep in the building. Five were
Sisters and five children. Fire was dis
covered in the school house which adjoins
the convent on the east by Mother Cath
crime. She was awakened by the light,
and found the cupola of the school build
ing in flames. Fastening to the school
building, she started to ring the bell us
the quickest way of rousng the sleep
ers, but ms she grasped the rope it fell
into ashes in her hands. She then ran
to the residence of Father Burke which
is next door. and turned in the alarm to
the fire department. AS she started back
to the convent she was mortified to see
the whole roof of the school building in
flames. The old building was dry as tin
der and burned rapidly.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church
at Chillcothe, recently completed, was
i dedicated with appropriate services. The
ceremonies We're conducted by Rev. ].
/ w. Lambert, presiding elder of the OF
tumwa district.
| G. A. Guild, well-to-do farmer of Hill
township, was fired upon from ambush
while driving. The assailant was con-
cealed in the unlerbrush at the side of
the road. The range was too great and
Mr.. Guild was uninjured, but the heavy
fur overcoat he wore was perforated with
shot in several places. His wagon box
was riddled with bullets.
The large shippers of Des Moines have
devised novel plan to secure lower rail.