Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-05-01
Paving is being agitated for shenan-

SIC VI the SlICctS At ANeN tOu Is ~ W.
paved this year, the contract having been
let.
An Ottumwa hotelkceper was discov-
cred using oleomargarine and was fined
SGD.
Julius Peterson, an aged resident of
Atlantic, was struck by a train and
killed.
A land and cattle company, capitalized
at 100000, has incorporated in Council
Bluffs.
II. Il. Pickney of llcokuk has wandered
away from his home in demented con-
dition.
1t is runored that the Chicago Great
Western will develop the coal fields at
Lehigh.
A 10-year-old Ottumwa boy was bitten
by dog on the hand and quite severely
injured.
s Frank lierbis of Dubuque was serious
~ injured while attempting to jump from
a train.
The Ware Savings Bank of Ware has
fled articles of incorporation. Capital
$4,000.
Rev. 1. NJ. Mcrlingjones has been chos-
EN- as the new rector of Christ Church
in Waterloo.
The police mt Creston found the dead
body of an infant in coal shed adjoining
an empty house.
Expert crooks in Des AIoines cracked
big safe in seed store there and Sc
cured about $500.
John w. Freeman, wanted at What
Cheer for forgery, has been captured at
Albert Lea, MINI.
An interurban line between Fort Madi-
son and Nauvoo is to be constructed by
Chicago capitalist
An electric railroad is to be built this
summer twelve miles in length from
Waterloo to Denver.
The G. A. II. post at Modale will buy
a strip of ground for park purposes and
donate it to the town.
The encampment of the Forty,ninth
and Fiftieth Iowa regiments will be held
this summer at Dubuque.
Sneak thieves stole about S4OO worth
of copper wire from the Edison electric
light plant in Des Moines.
Henry Thomas, for thirty years in
charge of mine Mt Colfax, was crushed
to death by fall of slate.
A bold thief entered the residence of
Mrs. Susie kellogg in Waterloo and made
| off with valuable fur cape.
Tramps in the railroad yards Mt Cres-
ton slugged George Baker, an old soldier,
and beat him into insensibility.
Dell Peek, farmer near Waterloo,
was stricken with apopleNy while in his
| wagon, and died in short time.
The Appanoose County Board of Edu-
cation has let the contract for county
school text books for five years.
A suburban railway company has been
incorporated in Boone, which will run a
line out to the Kate Shelley bridge.
A handcar was capsized at Gilman by
a dog jumping under it and the occupant,
j. II. Boileau, was injured internally.
| A farmer at Pine Mills lost three hogs
and one COW resulting from bites received
from dogs afflicted with hydrophobia.
An enraged woman got after Du-
buque's dog catcher and doused him with
water because he tried to ensnare her
pet.
| Davenport is enforcing its curfew or
dinancc, which requires all children I'M
der II years to be off the streets at 8
p. III.
Alton is to lose one of it's best bust
ness enterprises, as the Diapers, extern
sive horse dealers, nre removing to Mis-
souri,
Tax ferrets have discovered that about
4 $6,O0O.O00 owned by Blackhawk County
people is loaned in neighboring counties
to escape taxation.
Mrs. NJ. Carroll, residing near Mason
City, while gargling her throat used car.
bolic acid by mistake, but no fatal re-
suits are looked for.
1 William p. Parks of Shenandoah, d
former member of the Fifty-frst Iowa,
took an overdose of laudanum which
came near proving fatal.
4 Frank Smith of Unionville fell under
a moving freight train in the lower rail.
road yards of Burlington and had his
leg cut off just above the ankle.
\ A Wintcrset man purchased last win.
4 ter from trappers pelts of 1874 slllnks
295 muskrats, 247 civet cats, 81 opos
sums, 80 raccoons, 321 minks, 8 wolves
and 3 gray foxes.
4 Joshua Durbin, living six miles south
east of Hastings, was found dead in his
buggy by Roy and Nucrle McKowen
while returning home from Emerson. Ep
ilepsy was the cause of death.
Thomas Powers, ST., of Keswick. re
ceived II telegram that his son, Thomas
Powers, Jr., had climbed to the top Of
his windmill to fix some part of the ma
chinery. Around his neck he wore n hi,
4 handkerchief. In some way the handker
chief got caught in the mill aud began tt
choke him to death. He made severa
heroic struggles to frae himself, but II
was of no use. He whipped out his knife
and tried to cut the handkerchief ant
thus free himself, but the knife slipped
from his hand. No one could reach hin
and extricate him from his awful doom
He choked to death.
a sensation has been caused Mt Deloi
j, by the arrest of Willard Turner oil 1
charge OF burglary. Some weeks ago tn,
store of A. l.. Hunt was robbed of goods
and among other things large quaint
ty of cigars. 1t was by these that tn,
young man was traced.
4 Abe Lafterty, the well-knOwn Eddyvill,
boy who was supposed to have been acct
dentally drowned in the Des Moines rive
about month ago, is alive. A tram
giving his name as Ed Ward appeared
in Eddyyille with the information tina
he had left him but short time befor,
ut Nobleton.
Fred Evans, a druggist Mt Sargean
Bluffs, dislocated his neck in II game o
baseball between the Sioux City Higl
School team and the Sergeant Bluffs min
at Sergeant Bluffs, and 1t is feared Ii
will not live. His lower limbs are par
alyzed.
Two burglars We're found in the stor
Of Freud Il Co. of Lowden by III. Ander
son, n clerk, when he entered the build
ing where he sleeps. He drew a gun an,
n lively fusillnle followed. The fire bel
sounded an alarm and brought out tn
villagers, who Joined in the chase. Th
burglars escaped in the darkness. The,
secured many valuable watches and othe
jewelry