Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-31


Godfried Albrecht, wealthy recluse
residing near Dubuque, was found dead
| in bed.
| A tramp was sent to Jail for thirty
| days at Onawa for throwing stone at
| n train.
Rural free delivery service has been
ordered established at West Union
Sept. 2.
The old settlers and old soldiers meet
ing at Havelock this year will be held
Aug. I.
John II. Durfey, Waterloo man, was
thrown from a wagon and died from his
injuries.
Twenty-eight cases and six kegs of
beer recently seized at Mason City will
be destroyed.
George Haynes of Mason City was run
over by runaway team, but escaped Sc
rious injury.
The City Council at Boone has refused
to continue the permits of the saloon men
operating there.
| Charles l.. Hudlcr, Muscatine man,
! was killed while making coupling in
| the yards at Pueblo.
l
| Waterloo, n company having been form
ed with $4,000 capital.
| A petition is being circulated at WASH
ington asking for municipal ownership
| of the electric light plant.
Louie Sproat of Hillsboro had his arm
caught in the gearing of iandcar and
| nmputation may be necessary.
Seventy-tiye acres of pasture land near
Eldon was destroyed by fire and 250
sheep were saved with difficulty.
Three hundred and eight dog licenses
have been issued in Dubuque since the
campaign against CANNES started.
A handcuffed prisoner escaped from
| Nebraska sheriff near Abba by jumping
from train, and cannot be found.
The friends of Henry Henkel, who re-
Gently disappeared from Fort Dodge, are
afraid that he has met with foud play.
s. B. Bachol, employed in a freight
depot in Davenport, was crazed by the
| heat and attempted to murder compan-
| ion.
Mrs s.. Bush of Boone was entering
her carriage when the horse backed and
threw her to the ground, breaking
limb
\ According to the statements of Gov.
! Shaw there will be no increase in the
assessed valuation of Iowa lands this
year
The Great Western is making prepara-
lions for the erection of Il big bridge
across the Des Moines river at Fort
/ Dodge.
The canning factory Mt Waterloo has
been purchased by Chicago millionaire,
and next season the capacity will be
doubled.
Two prisoners in the Fort Madison
| penitentiary got into fight while no one
was present. and both are now inmates of
the hospital.
An Ottumwa business man chartered
n special train to Charlton to see his dy-
| ing mother, and arrived just a few min
':as too late
!, Miss Dot Bryant of Des Moines at
tempted suicide by taking carbolic acid
in an Ottumwa hotel, on account of
lovers quarrel.
Spontaneous combustion in the Cum
mings ice houses in Ottumwa started
fire which destroyed the buildings and
about $500 tons of ice.
While insane from jealousy Frederick
Fuerholm, young farmer living in the
| Waubonsei hills. twelve miles south Of
| Glcnwood, cut his wife's throat with an
AK, almost severing the head from the
shoulders. killing her instantly. He then
killed her G-year-old son by former hus-
band. Going out doors he cut his horses
throat with razor and allowed the ami
NAL to bleed to death. Fuerholm then
- Al. I. H. L..
which he literally blew the top of his
head off with large revolver. The
neighbors hearing the shot and seeing the
fire of the buildings, ran to the place.
The child lay near the door. but was too
badly burned to show how he had been
killed Mrs. Fuerholm lay in another
pnrt of the house and while her body
was badly charred her head and Shout,
ders showed how she had met her death.
| The buildings were a total loss. Fuer-
holm had been married but short while.
There had been frequent violent Quarrels.
He had also quarreled great deal with
his wife's family. After cutting the
horses throat Fuerholm hung the razor
in a, tree and hung his marriage certif-
cate on the fence.
The Dubuque, vinton and Southwest
| poration, giving Its capital at 100000.
A 13-year-old lad named Berkeley, liv-
ing near Geneva, had limb broken by
lever on hay rake flying back md
striking him.
Frank Shade of Keokuk fell from a
derrick through the breaking of rope,
distance of ninety feet in dry dock
there, but will recover.
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collided with COW, which was cut in
two. The car was derailed and the mo-
torman suffered broken arm.
A fireman on the Wabash Railroad
turned the hose on a couple of young
tramps OIL the train, and in revenge they
attempted to burn the water tank.
Fire caused by some careless smoker
started on the farm Of John Swiers about
five miles southeast of Doud's Station.
1t soon spread to adjoining farms. A
large amount of wood, fences, pasture
and timber is destroyed.
| A. G. Houghton and Mrs. Annie Nord-
ness eloped from Stauhope. Houghton.
is 40 years old and has wife and two
daughters, and a son in Oregon. The
Nordness woman is 30 and has deserted
Il her Ave children, the oldest Of whom Is
under 10.
q Fire swept the Des Moines County
poor farm, destroying the superinten-
dents residence, the old poor house, con-
tanning the sane paupers, and the large
j new insane structure.
IS Contractor Charles Peterson expert
enced q narrow escape from instant
81 death while ut work in a sewer in Fort
Dodge. He was engaged in looking af-
ter force of men digging deep sewer
and was down in the ditch when the
! walls caved in without warming. Fortu-
} nately the planking on the sides fell in
such a manner that he was saved from
instant death. The men engaged in the
work came at once to his rescue and dug