Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-09
Ames is again free of typhoid.

A second rural delivery route has been
started from Toledo.
| Quite number Of sheep are being fed
in Van Buren, County.
The electric light plant at Atlantic is
to be substantially improved.
The police at Council Bluffs are get.
ting after the slot machines.
a fine new Christian Church is rapidly
nearing completion at Logan.
The postoftice at Island Park has been
discontinued; mail to Council Bluffs.
About one hundred and fifty pupils are
now enrolled at the college at Denison.
An effort is being made to get sa-
loon petition passed in Grundy County.
The mines at Centeryille are idle about
half time on account Of the scarcity of
/ cars.
The sacrament of confirmation was ad-
ministered in Clinton to over 1900 chit
dren.
The marshal at Colfax was fined SIS
or thirty days in jail for contempt Of
court.
The attendance at Western College at
Toledo the present term is the best in
years.
Scarcity of iron material is seriously
delaying work on the court house at Fort
Dodge.
Another coal company has been ineor-
porated at Des Moines, with capital Of
$25, 600.
A national bank is being organized at
| Lake Park. 1t will have q capital Of
$4,000.
The city treasury at lama is low and
the Council is shutting off all unnecessary
expense.
The Northwestern's new double track
through Greene County is practically
completed.
The board of health at Waterloo will
| closely investigate the sanitary conditions
of that city.
A man named Anderson of Sheffield,
aged 80 years, fell off scaffold and
broke his hip.
State Center is no longer in darkness,
the electric light plant being again in
running order.
The new Congregational Church at
Clarion has been dedicated with appropri-
| ate ceremonies.
The State has purchased forty-one
acres of ground adjoining the orphans
home at Davenport.
Engineer Lon Abbott of erosion, who
was shot by u stranger some weeks ago,
is able to be around.
The merchants at Mason City were
swindlcd out of about 500 by stranger
passing forged checks.
v. G. King and family of Definnce had
II narrow escape from asphyxiation by
escaping gas from a stove.
Tax ferrets are doing good work in
Hardin County, and a surprisingly large
amount of back taxes have been paid in.
Two colored lads were sentenced at Os-
| kaloosa to ten years each, in the Fort
Madison penitentiary for assault and rob-
berry.
Mrs. Hannah Jamison, aged GO, of At
lantic, has been convicted and sentenced
to eight months in jail for receiving stolen
4 property.
Mrs. Kuhn has been found guilty at
Sigourney of the murder of her husband
by poison. The jury returned its verdict
Recommending life Imprisonment.
The dead body OF 12-year-oIl Inez Glib
son, the niece and adopted daughter of
L. ID. Gibson, a prominent grocer Of
Malvern, was found hangiAg in closet
| which opened from her bedroom. The
child came from school and afterward
went to her room. ostensibly to straight
en- 1T up, and then used her jumping rope
to make the fatal moose. No cause can
be imagined for the child's deed.
Richard Albright, a wealthy German
farmer of Washington. advertised for a
wife and received an answer from Louise
Dennler of New Haven, Conn. Photo
graphs. We're exchanged, ard it was
agreed that the wedding should take
place on certain day. The young WON
an arrived and met Albright, but he was
not satisfied, and, after a comparison Of
the picture with the original, decided that
the photographer had done entirely too
much "retouching." He took Miss DEM
Ter to the home of his friend, Joseph Sim
norman, and then disappeared. When
Albright had been gone for some time
Miss Dennler consulted law firm and
found that her intended spouse had
transferred nearly all Of his property to
friends. Her attorneys found enough live
| stock in his name to provide transporta-
ton back to her home.
1t has developed that the officers and
buyers at the fat stock show held at Chi.
cago recently were taken in by n farm
hand named Maxwell hailing from Mel
rose, and that while he did not commit
any crime his acts show that he has un-
/ ox.n 1NIl rh.>,
out n cent of capital other than So he
borrowed from l.. ID. Lemley of Melrose
| prior to starting, made his way to Chi
cago, md on going to the stock show soon
became one OF the livcliest bidders. 1t
is reported that he had number of
choice animals knocked down to him at
fancy prices and that the amount of his
purchases was in the neighb0rhood of S.
600. Being such lively fellow and such
an apparent good judge of fine stock, and,
besides, n good financier, he was written
up in the Chicago papers and wined and
banlueted by the stockmen. He returned
to Melrose in a parlor car, making no
payments on his purchases, and, of
course, all sales to him were declared off.
Maxwell could not keep the story to him
self and it became public.
e
The postofiices Mt Wheeler and KEN.
ling have been discontinued on account
of rural free delivery.
The contractor in charge of the new
engineering hall at Ames will try to have
it ready for occupancy by September Of
next year.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
approved the application to organize the
First National Bank of Fairbank, with
capital of $4,000.
An ordinance is being talked of at Ian
sing requiring all wood sold on the streets
there to be first weighed by the city
weighmaster.
The Columbian Hearthstone of Iowa
4 City and the Ancient Order of Red Cross
Of Wayerly, two fraternal life insurance
companies, have consolidated.
The administrator of the estate of Joel
| Henld mn apetl man of Morsbolltou,,,