Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-23

There have been 10 burglaries in |
Washington for four years and no fires
last year.
Another rural delivery route has been
planned in Lucas County, starting at |
Charlton.
In recent piano contest in Dubuque
the successful organization secured 1885,
$50 votes.
A county league has been organized
at Waterloo for the study and collection
of stamps.
The inspection of the Iowa National
Guard will commence the latter part of
this month.
There are fifty-eight new cases on the
docket for the January term of court at
Fort Dodge.
Waterloo's latest organization is
bowling club, and it has expended 81 900
on fixtures.
-Four hundred and cighty.seven mar
riage licenses were issued in Dubuque
County last year.
Forty-six cars of grain and stock We're
shipped from the little town of Yetter
during December.
The total actual value of all taxable
more than last year.
The plans for the new federal build
ing at Oskaloosa do not meet with gen
eral approval there.
Joseph Lynn of Marshalltown may lose
the sight of one eye by chip of coal
penetrating the pupil.
The womans club at Des Moines is
considering the erection of a club house
to cost about $4,000.
The 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis of Creston was smothered while
asleep with its parents.
The British government has allowed
Clinton woman $1,000. Her husband was
killed during the siege of Kimberley.
Because his uncle leased him about
love affair C.. g. Allen, aged 20, near
Des Moines, shot and seriously wounded
him.
Herbert Mercer, aged IT,, of Correc-
tionville, was shot in the face by com
panion and may lose the sight of both
eyes.
joan Thompson, prominent in Odd Eel,
low orders of the State and pioneer
resident of Waterloo, is dead at his home
there.
Two farm hands at Avoca had their
watches and some money stolen while at
tending perffosmance in the opera house
there.
Audubons town debt of $4,000 has
been refunded, taking up the old per
cent bonds and issuing new ones at AZ
per cent.
Mrs. NJ. A. Bartholomew of Marshall,
town, who was thrown from her buggy
few weeks ago, has succumbcd to her
injuries.
The sacristy of st. Wencesaus Catho-
lie Church in Iowa City was damaged by
fire and its contents destroyed. Loss
about 5000.
The postoiiice at Clermont was robbed
the other night and $500 in stamps taken.
The safe was drilled open. The robbers
Went north.
Unknown persons placed timbers on
the railroad track near Pacific Junction,
and two boys are suspected and are be-
ing watched.
The 12-year-old son of John Maum
near Menlo, disappeared some time ago
| and his body has just been discovered
by a hunter.
| Frank ID. Stout of Dubuque has donat-
ed the site for the free $4,000 public IL
brary building to be erected there by An
drew Carnegie.
Judge \. II. Dewey of the sixth Judi
cial district made an important ruling
when he refused to grant the injunction
prayed for by the Temperance League
to restrain express companies from carry.
ing Intoxicating liquors and to close the
Burlington and Northwestern railroad de.
pots at Washington. Davenport liquor
from there shipped ii to Washington,
Iowa. The injunction asked was to pre-
| vent this. The judge refused, holding
thut the liquor was Il legitimate article
of commerce under the decision of the
Supreme Court. The temperance people
will carry the case higher.
Gus Weiss of Denison has been arrest
1 ed charged with defrauding his employ.
| ers. When taken into custody in Des
Moincs he had 100 white shirts in his nos.
session.
| DIR. James S. Herlies, wel-known
| physician at Waterloo, has succumbed
to injuries received in 1897, when he was
thrown from his cutter by striking an
obstruction in the street.
| Clifford Brown. n Des Moines lad,
4 while visiting at Wichita, Kan, fell out
of hay NOW and had his jaw bone
/ hrnl- i'm ty. ,,ln
and sustained internal injuries.
Roy Baughman, aged IL, of Oskaloosa,
while trying OH nm overcoat in store
there was shot in the arm by the dis
charge of an air rifle in the hands of n
young man who was passing the store.
Murray has been inoculated with small
poX and the authorities have closed the
public schools and churches and forbid.
den the holding of public meetings. A
portion Of the town is under strict quar-
antinc.
Fire which originated in the pool room
at ST. Anthony completely destroyed the
| pool ROOM hotel and harness shop. A
vacant lot between the drug store and
harness shop saved the former and prob
ably the rest of the town.
Harry u. lfouty, Well-known young
society man of Des Moines, committed
suicide by shooting himself at North
Platte, Neb.. while on his why home from
San Francisco. Illness was the cause.
The mine al Cleveland, No. 4, was the
scene of an explosion that caused tho
death of three men. the serious iniur,
of several more, besides considerable
loss of property. Shortly after the da,
shift had left the shaft, w. A. Bennett
went into the mine, where ten men were
still at work, aud the blaze from his
miners lamp exploded the gas, killing
4 him, Mr.. Duncan and w. II. Jenkin.
instantly and injuring several others. The
mine caught fire, but was extinguished