Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

The plans for the opera house at Grin
nell have been completed.
The new jail and sheriff's residence in
johnson County cost S14,125.
Miss Jane Smith of Marshalltown has
just celebrated her 102d birthday.
Fire at Dexter totally destroyed the
creamery and an adjoining ice house.
| Work has been commenced on the new
100000 federal building at Clinton.
George f. Holloway OF Bancroft sold
team of driving horses for $1,000.
The corner stone of the Grace NJ. E.
Church in Des Moines willbe laid July o.
Michael Baum, an nged resident of
Fairfield. fell off a scaffolding some weeks
ago and has succumbed to his injuries.
A young man at Fort Dodge stole a
wheel and rode out of the city, but fell
| going down hill and was badly bruised.
Mrs. Isaac Guthrie, aged -, of New
ton sat down in n chair. hut miscalculat-
ed the distance and fell, breaking her hip
bone.
n farmer boy named Clapper, near Ma
son City, was dragged distance by a
| frightened horse and. sustained severe in
juries.
Frank Evans of Sergeant Bluffs, after
living ten weeks with a broken neck, is
dead. His neck was broken while play
ing ball.
Henry Huppy, young farmer near
Waterloo, was struck by lightning. but
will recover. He was deafened by the
| stroke. however
AT Fort Dodge the verdict of the jury
in the case of Prowse vs.. The Great
Western road awards $1T,90o to the
| plaintiff. The suit was brought for $40,-
600 rs the result of injuries received by
the plaintiff in an accident last August
while he was Il conductor on the road.
| Frank Bennett was found dead at IL
desolate spot by the roadside on Soap
creek. He is supposed to have been
murdered
| Cy Young. restaurant keeper of Lee
ando, has disappeared, caused, it is al.
legged, by his having disagreement with
his wife. His wife fears he may have
committed suicide.
| Henry johnson, a young man IS years
of age, an employe of the Hardsocg Man
ufacturing Company Mt Ottumwa, was
drawn into a belt and whirled about by
the machinery. Both of his legs and his
left arm are broken.
| The fftieth anniversary of the Sister
| Clement membership of the Sisters of
Charity was observed by religious cere-
mony at the mother house in Dubuque.
Mrs. Alexander Hood, aged 30 years.
wife of the foreman of one of the large
| Lee mines at Mystic was run down by
a switch engine and instantly killed near
the Mystic depot.
A very serious accident happened to
two Eldon men Mt the Laddsdale hill
Love Cross and Frank Walker had been
to Laddsdale to get some tools and COM
ing down hill the dray wagon, getting
In n rut, upset, throwing the men out
and the tools on them. Both were hurt
internally. Mr.. Walker died.
A child murder has been brought to
light at Oskaloosa by some boys finding
the corpse of very young infant in ii
ravine with its forehead perforated with
some kind of a sharp instrument. There
is no clue to the identity of the child or
/ its murderer.
| A sealed bottle picked up in the ice
harbor at Dubuque contained peculiar
| communication. The note which was
handed to the coroner reads as follows:
II am Russell Janney. here drown
myself this day, Sunday, June > am
from Platteville, Wis., The coroner
communicated with the marshal at
Platteville and learned that man by
that name was known in Platteyille.