Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-08-21

Fireman Roy Imam fell from the ten.
der of his engine at Fort Dodge and broke
limb. Hs3lf
The farmers of the State lost large
numbers of hogs during the recent ex-
cessive heat.
Calvin Titus, the soldier boy Of Ninton.
has passed successful examination at
West Point military academy.
1t is said that green apples on trees
near the burned district in Davenport
were baked during the fire there.
The State Dairy Commissioner has filed
information in Toledo against seven farm
ers for selling adulterated milk to cream
cries.
John w. McGarry, for many years
prominent Emmetsburg merchant, was
found dead in barn. The cause of his
death was heart disease. He retired from
business last year.
Des Moines may have trouble in secur-
ing its army post, us Secretary Root says
it won't be located there unless free wat
er is furnished from city mains, and
d railroad constructed to the site.
Peter Barlow, an old-time switchman
in the employ of the Illinois Central road,
was drowned in the Missouri river ut
Council Bluffs, while bathing. He was
seized with cramps and swept away in
an eddy before assistance coull reach
him.
The strike in Des Moines of about 400
clay workers who went out week ago
in the yards of the Flint, Capital City.
Likes Improvement and Shackelford
Brick companies, forcing shutdown of
the yards for n week and keeping about
500 men out of work. has ended.
Burglars broke into the G. & N. w.
depot at Center Junction and blew open
the safe. There was no money in the
safe and even il there had been they
would have been unable to secure it, as
the explosion SO wrecked the inner door
of the safe that it was impossible to
open it. They then broke the gum ma
chimes and secured the few pennies they
contained.
The sixth annual assembly of the Iowa
Epworth League assembly and training
school opened at Epworth Park, Colfax.
Every part of the State was represented.
The lecturers on the first day We're DIR.
Robert Mcintyre, for the afternoon, who
gave his great soldier lecture, 1.-THE
Bright Side of Soldiers Life" Prof.
Frank B. Robertson in the evening deliv-
cred his stcreopticon lecture on Boerland.
The various institutes and other work
were organized on the SECOND day.
Oliver S. Michel, only son of A. G.
Michel of Rockford, was shot and in
stantly killed in sham battle between
Of nj hn .,ifi
One bullet pierced the body through the
chest, the other entering the back, went
up through the shoulder and then up
through the side of his face. coming out
the top of his head. The Sons of Vet
Grams were having n gala day and this
put n quietus on everything. Oliver was
a boy of IL years. n member of the high
school class of 1902 and general favor
lite.
The Des Moines, Colfax and Eastern
Electric Railway Company won out in
a special election held at Cofax on a
proposition to vote per cent tax and
franchise carrying by ii vote of 26S for
the franchise and 26S for the tax. The
election was attended with the greatest
enthusiasm. A strong opposition was
made to the proposition, but that faction
was in the minority. The band serenad-
ed Mrs. Butler, who is at the head of the
movement to build the intcrurban line,
after the result of the balloting was made
known.
The badly decomposcd body of a man
which. according to paper found on the
body, is that Of jack Lesley of Republic,
Iowa, was found on the bank of the
Cedar river about two miles below Wat
erloo. laudanum vial by his side, with
a card with the following inscription:
''AIy name is Jack Lesley. My family
live at Republic, Chickasaw County,
Iowa. Please notify" plainly indicated
suicide. The discovery was made by two
young boys while hunting frogs. All
Indications point that he had been dead
two months. The body was almost COM
pletely hidden by vines and weeds and
was coatlcss.
A father and mother battlcd in the
streets of Clinton for the possession of
their child, 7-ycar-old boy. The prin-
say and his wife of Chicago Mrs. Lind
say is suing for divorce and the custody
of the child. Before the papers We're
served on Lindsay he disappeared with
the boy. The mother following to Gin
ton, found her child playing in front OF
a house and started to carry him away
ON street car. The father gave chase
and wrenched the child from its mothers
arms. In leaving the car he tripped and
fell, his wife falling over him. They
struggled desperately for the lad in the
street, but the father finally secured him
and hurried into the house.
With federal and State appropriation
the Floyd Memorial Association of Sioux
City erected $4,000 monument to Ser
geant Charles Floyd of the Lewis and
Clarke expedition, who died with the OK
petition two miles south of the city Aug.
20, 1904. He was the first American cit
izcn soldier buried west of the Missis-
sippi The monument was dedicated May
20 last by John a. Kasson of Washing
ton. The monument was erected to an
unknown hero. Nothing was known of
his heritage. Prof. Elliott Couses. the
Washington scientist, and Prof. james
Davie Butler of Madison, Wis, searched
books on the expedition, but found moth
ing of Floyd's history. The other day
Mrs. Frances N. Davis. secretary of the
Floyd Memorial Association. received Il
letter from Mary Floyd McAiullen of
Ellicott City, No., who says that Ser
gcant Floyd was n co-pioneer in Ken
lucky with Daniel Boone. His cousin,
John Floyd, was Governor of Virginia in
1920 and was father of John b. Floyd,
Secretary of War under Buchanan.
John Krenhagen. 12-year-old lad of
Clinton, fell of his wheel and sustained
IL compound fracture Of the arm.
Hurry Hackett of Waterloo had hand
badly mangled while endeavoring to shift
the feed belt of n planning machine.
1t has been repeatedly reported at
Newton that the Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific, will soon erect fine new
passenger station there. Negotiations for
the purchase of a suitable site near their
right of way have been pending for sew
cral weeks and if suitable ground can
lie secured the road will, it is said, build
in the spring.
While left for II few moments Harold,
the infant son of Mr.. ana Mrs William
W IA. II