Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-03-06
state Iten,s of 1n.ere.t.

A postoiilce has been established at
Zanetu.
Nellie Carlston, a hired girl at Fort
Dodge, has disappeared.
The proposed detention hospital at
Grinnell will not be built just now.
a new bank with capital of 100000
is to be established soon Mt Fairfield.
1t is estimated that 100000 is spent
yearly on the roads of Marshall County.
Funds are being raised Mt Mt. Auburn
for the construction of a water works
system.
Thieves entered the home of John Ma
han at Emmetsburg and stole S11O from
a trunk. 4
Orville Tennity, aged 10. was sentenced
at Burlington to six years in the pcniten-
tiary for arson.
The Supervisors of Powcshiek County
have provided n stone pile for the enter
tainment of Migrants.
Congress has appropriated $4,000 FOL
the care of the Indian school Mt Toledo,
and $1,000 for the agent.
Farmers at Keosauqua We're victimizc,l
out of $1,000 through signing contracts
that proved to be notes
The Presbyterians at Grand Junction
have extended a call to Rev. Paul b.
Naylor of Litchfeld Neb.
Warren County has given up its in
durable insane TO the care of the State,
and will no longer keep them at the
county farm.
Charles Remission, aged 60 years, IL
blacksmith. formerly of Dysnrt, dropped
dead of heart disease while shoeing n
horse at Tama.
Three prisoners in tho county Jail,
which is in the basement of the court
house in Des Aoincs, We're discovered to
have smallpox and the fonr courts and
the county offices abandoned the build
ing.
Belle Plaine expects the Northwestern
will make several important building i'm
provcments there this year.
Mason City is troubled lest the Iowa
Central remove its division headquarters
from that city to Albert Lea.
The blacksmith shop of Wright l.
Wheatley at Stockport was destroyed by
fire, together with its contents.
Local capitalists at lama may pur-
chase the steam heating plant and install
an electric light plant in connection.
Peter Martin, an aged man, had his
skull fractured in an accident near AZ
ton and has succumbed to his injuries.
The administrator of the estate Of Mid
dleton Jixiden, who was killed by an
Illinois Central train near Kennebec sid
ing. has sued that company for 81 800
damages.
Mrs. Jerry Daily, the wife of garden
er in the outskirts of Walker, was found
dead by her husband, who slept in an
adjacent room. Mrs. Daily had had heart
trouble for some time.
j. NJ. Hoadley's residence in East
Rockford was damaged by fire and wat
err. A boy about 3 years old struck n
match in the bed room. setting fire to the
clothing, and before the flames could he
controlled the entire first floor was
ruined.
The Northwestern has been sued for
100000 damages for the death of John
w. Hill of Montour, who was run down
and killed.
The Council at Indianola has passed an
ordinance granting q franchise to the
street railway company of Des Moines to
enter their town.
Something never before known in Du-
buque occurred at the court house the
other day when Judge Matthews appoint
ed guardian for woman 103 years old.
This woman was Mrs. Mary Morgan,
who reached her 103d year last Noyem-
Der. She lives with her son, Thomas Nor
gan, and Notwithstanding her great age is
still able TO converse intelligently.