Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-10-09

A button factory is to be established
Mt Warsaw in the near future.
Dubuque will build detention hospital
as soon as site is agreed upon.
Work on the new Iowa Central depot
at Mason City has been commenced.
Boone will build new school house
to cost in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Talmage creamery burned to the
ground and only the separators were
saved.
A recent school census at Mason esti-
mates the population of that city Mt over
1000.
Mason City is planning $4,000 Y.
NJ. G. A. building to be completed be-
fore Feb. 1.
Davenport proposes TO erect u fine
monument to the memory of the late
President Mckinley.
Coe College at Cedar Rapids has added
the study of law to its senior course. At
torney A. T. Berkabile has been chosen
lecturer.
The Iowa Telephone Company at Dav-
export hus purchased $1,000 gas engine
to be used as an auxiliary should the
power from the city electric company fail
to supply them.
The contract has been let for the in
stallation of a system Of water works for
the Woodbury. County poor farm. yetal
Lacroix of Salix secured the contract
with bid of $34o.
@. ID. Vaught, president of the school
board at Dixie. refused to allow the
schools to close to allow the children to
attend memorial services in honor Of our
martyred President.
A gang of rowdies at Burlington at
tempted to lay out Joseph l.. Kemble
of that city, resulting in Kemble's shoot
ing two Of the miscreants, one of whom
will probably lose foot.
The Grinnell City Council has, just
adopted an ordinance which makes 1t a
crime for two or more persons to con-
gregate and buy each other drinks. 1t is
held that treating promotes drunken
ness.
Work will be begun soon in removing
the. brick depot of the B., G. r. a. N.
Railway at Northwood to a point about
220 yards to the east. placing it on the
main line of the Iowa Central. Both
roads will use the depot after its re-
moval.
Rev. Tillinghast of the Church Of the
Redeemer (Uniyersalist), Waterloo, has
been offered one of the largest churches
Of that faith at Brooklyn N. Y.
A Germania young lady found man
under her bed and treated him to cold
douse from the water pitcher and then
finished up the job by nearly beating his
brains out with window stick.
In the woods. out mile and half
from Keosauqua. Frank Smith, aged As
years, was found dead with an empty
shotgun by his side and his head partly
blown away. 1t was clearly case of
suicide.
An order has been issued by the Chi
cago Western transferring the office of
roadmaster Of the Oelwein-Des Moines
division from Des Moines to MARSHALL
| town.
John Bradshaw was acquitted at OF
tumwa of the charge of numbering Court
Musgrove. The jury was out about five
hours. The trial was one of the shortest
in the history of the county, it occupy
ing less than three days.
The body Of an unknown woman was
found in clump of high weeds by farm
hands who were cutting corn in field
near Emmetsburg. The condition of the
body indicates an exposure of six or eight
weeks. Identification is impossible.
Folee Owsley. colorcd, of Lucas, and
Maggie Spencer, white, of Mt. Zion, were
united in marriage by Justice Long of
Charlton. Miss Spencer was 80 years
of age and Mr.. Owsley rs years old. The
groom is n negss e ..e most pronounced
type.
When Peter Rourke. a teamster of
Waterloo, returned home to his supper he
found the house quiet and no signs of the
evening meal prepared. Going upstairs
to his wife's room. he found the door
locked, and breaking it open he discov-
cred his 19-year-old wife lying on the
bed, dead. Mrs. Rourke was the victim
Of heart trouble and this was undouoted-
" ths cause Of her sudden death,