Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-12-18
Brief state happenings.

Waterloo is being victimized by passers
OF bogus money.
The postoilice ut Sinclair has been dis
continued; mail to Parkersburg.
Il. w. Hatfield has been reappointed
postmaster at Greeley, vice B. II. Far
well, removed.
Burglars entered the store of b. Rich
ards at Rands and stole money and goods
to the amount Of 500. No clue.
William Sharpless, white, was shot and
killed near Oskaloosn by Buck Williams,
colorctl, us the result of an old grudge.
Jesse Oldham, farmer who lived near
Wintcrsct, fell over a prccipice while
walking i'll the timber and broke his neck.
Ilinsman Post, G. A. r., of Dies
Moincs, has started fund for n monu-
ment to Gen. Kinsman at Council Bluffs.
The tax agents now working under n
contract with Dubuque County have add
ed So 900 in back taxes within three and
one-half months.
According to the Globe-Gazctte's pros
perity census" Mason City has popula-
ton of about $500, an increase of tribe
over 800 in the last year.
Harry Angel was smothered to death
in we'll near Binkesburg. He was en-
gagged in digging well and while at the
bottom was overcome by foul air.
The East Dcs Moines school board has
determined to adopt the one session a
day system in the high school for an eN-
detrimental period of one month. If the
pupils make satisfactory progress the sys-
| TEN will be continued.
In the Forthcoming biennial report of
| the State superintendent of public in
| dorsemcnt of the present. system of free
text books. which has heen adopted i'll a
| number of counties in Iowa.
| Alice Scott, aged ) years, daughter of
a wealthy si,lar Rapids resident, died
| from ptomaine poisoning due to partak-
| ing of almond butter put up by social
| ed .'lcalth food concern. Charles A
Scott, her father, was critically i'll, hut
| will recover.
John Machln. a janitor nj the Nolgei
| saloon at Muscatine, was filling an ncety,
line lamp when the jet was left burning
| The result was an explosion and Mnchlil
was blown through the window, lighting
on the sidewalk outside. Hc is painfully
injured.
| The monster steel towboat, "Pctel
| Spraguc," the largest of its kind in thu
world, which was constructed by thu
| Iowa iron works last summer, slid dow
the ways and into the waters of the Mis-
| sissippi the other day in the Dubuque let
hnrbor. where it will remain until com
pleted in the spring.
4 DR.. NJ. y. Nolding of Des AIoincs ha.
been elected by the State board of con
i troll as the superintendent of the new hos
pital for the insane at Cherokee.
Rev. A. A. Johnson, pastor of the AT
| rican NJ. Il. Church of Oskaloosa, wa
shot and seriously wounded i'll his pulpi
by n colored girl, Anna Nelson.
Cornela Llsch of Jackson, MINI.
| through her attorneys, has filed paper
and commenced an action in the Distric
Court of Butler County against the In
corporated town of Parkcrsburg, where
in she asks for Judgment iii the sum o
$4,000, as damages for personal injurie
received by reason of fall on one o
the street crossings in defendant town.
w. Il. Reynolds, travelling salesman
of Sioux Falls, S. D., has been arrested
charged with the murder of Samue
Crofter, n colored clergyman, at Iretor
Mrs. John Krayer, an old woman, wa
struck by Chicago Great Wester
freight at Dubuque. As the engine round
ed curve it struck her unawares an
! she died three hours after.