Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-12-25


Charles Albert Tolliver, indicted ON the
charge of murder in the first degree, has
been found guilty of manslaughter at
Des Moines. Tollver struck and killed
Barney Rourke several weeks ago and
the grand jury indicted him little later.
The numerous fires of late, some of
which have been attended with considera-
BILE loss, have given impetus to the sen
timent prevailing to some degree for
long time that the time has arrived when
Marshalltown should have paid depart
ment.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Iowa Academy of Sciences will be held in
the geological rooms of the State capitol
at Des Moines on Dec. 90 and u. An
interesting program has been given out
by Prof. s. W. Boyer of the Iowa State
College, secretary of the association
The following officers We're elected at
the twenty-tifth annual meeting of the
Iowa State Travelling Mems Association:
President, w. H. Wheeler; Vice Presi-
dent, II. B. Hedge; Secretary and Treas
urer, f. L. Haley; Directors, w. f.
Mitchell, l.. C. Deets, Charles Willis,
Thomas NJ. Langan, A. L. olmsted.
The lifeless body of Mrs. Fred Some
walt, woman about 10 years of age,
who resided on a farm five miles south
west of Sigourney. was found hanging
with rope around her neck. She had
been in ill health for some time, and it is
thought that her ailment unbalanced her
mind and caused her to strange herself
The annual report of criminal convic-
tons In Iowa for the past year has been
compiled by Deputies Jamison and Brew
er. of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Following are the statistics for 1901:
Number of convicts, 1920; years Jail SEN
tence, so; months Jail sentence, s: days
jail sentence, 2S; penitentiary sentence.
years, ], 1SS; fines collected, S52,651; ex-
penses to counties, 1864 1854; paid county
attorneys, SGO,O7S.
Poll tax dodgers in Iowa Falls will be
given taste of the law and delinqueats
will find the payment Of this tax is an
obligation not easily evaded. The City
Council has decided that the men who
have refused to either work out this tax
or pay the equivalent in money will be
given an opportunity of having their real
or personal property levied on to satisfy
the claims Of the law and of the munici-
pality.
w. w. Gillette won't forget it if he
lives to be 100 He is a farmer and tills
the soil, when it isn't frozen, near Mis-
souriville. He wanted to go from On
ava to Salix and got to the station just
as the train was pulling out. Nothing
daunted, he leaped on the steps of u
vestibuled Pullman and hung there for
twenty miles. Unfortunately the mer-
curry was IS degrees below zero, and Mr..
Gillette's hands, feet and face were
frozen solid. A woman passenger heard
him scream and had the porter open the
door. He has been thawed out and will
live.
Edward Schumann, farmer of Sigour-
ney, and a widower with four children,
recently wrote to his brother, Jacob, a
farmer of Saxony, to pick out an indus
trious woman in SaXony and send her
to Sigourney. Edward said he would
marry the woman as soon as she got TO
his home. Jacob selected his servant,
Clara Fleischer, 80 years old, and she
was willing to become Mrs. Edward
Schumann. She arrived in New York re-
Gently from Antwerp by the Red Star
steamship Friesland, with prepaid
ticket to Sigourney. She has never seen
the Iowa farmer.
The Chicago and Northwestern has
cleared the ground on the Clinton side
of the river preparatory to beginning
work on the new double track bridge they
are about to build across the Mississippi
river at that place. The present bridge
was built but four years ago, but bust
ness has increased SO rapidly that the
company is obliged to double the bridge
capacity. The total length of the new
bridge will be little less than mile.
The company owns Little Rock island,
which lies just to the east of the chan
mel, which shortens the bridge and makes
its building easier.
Fred Shue, driver of delivery wagon,
was struck by an Illinois Central switch
engine in Waterloo while crossing the
tracks and severely injured. The engine
| struck the wagon, completely overturn-
ing it and throwing Shue outside the
tracks.
Little 9-year-old Mabel Dunbar fell for
| ty feet through the trestle work bridge
Of the Iowa Central Railway over vii.
low creek between State and Seventh
streets, Mason City. and suffered frac-
ture Of the skull, but lives and although
her condition is precarious she may re-
cover.
F. I. Mason, a travelling man whose
home is in ST. Louis, had his leg crushed
| in the Hotel Julien elevator In Dubuque
and amputation was necessary. In enter
ing the elevator he stumbled and fell,
one leg extending over the edge of the
elevator, which had just started.
The Ames Opera House has been or
dered closed by the City Council. Sew
eral months ago the Board of Aldermen
ordered that stage entrance be built
| and the stairway now in use be covered.
The latter has been complied with, but
| was built contrary to a city ordinance,
which says that no structure shall be
erected of intlammable material within
certain limits.
The official board of the Waterloo NJ.
E. Church has passed resolution reauir.
| ing the women members of the congreya.
ton to remove their hats during the ser
vice. There is great rejoicing among the
male members of the church, and no re-
monstrance has been filed from the won.
| en- us vet.
The divorce suit of Halversoin VS.. Hal.
| version, in which Fort Dodge attorneys
have been interested and which came I'm
for trial in Storm Lake only to be trans.
ferred to Fort Dodge. has come to n
sudden and tragic end through the sudden
death of Mrs. Halvcrson ut the home of
her parents a short distance from Callen.
| der.