Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-10

struck by lightning and the belfry de-
stroyed.
The farm residence of G. l.. Hartshorn
near Clarion, caught fire and was totally
destroyed.
During May the cooperative creamery
at Steamboat Rock received 254,S1a
pounds of milk.
Jack Earle, pioneer of northwestern
Iowa, dropped dead at the home of a
friend at LeNIars.
William Scott, farmer near Jewell
fell under a wagon and received injuries
which proved fatal.
The temperance people of Davis Coun.
ty have raised S1,6S5 to fight the liquor
traffic in that county.
The Methodists at Iowa Falls will ex.
pend $500 in improving their church
property this summer.
l.. G. Dobyns, prominent Iowa cdu.
Gator. died at his home in Oskaloosa af.
ter lingering illness.
Fire destroyed the barn of d. H. West.
brook at Lettsville, and fourteen valua-
BILE horses were cremated.
Safe drillers in Burlington broke into
the safe in drug store there, but secur.
ed only very few dollars.
Four Waterloo fishermen claim to have
seen sturgeon in the river. there that
was at least six feet in length.
A drunken man collided with switch
engine in Waterloo and was thrown a
distance, but escaped uninjured.
Thomas Smith, aged 30, of Centerville
fell from cherry tree and broke his
back. His recovery is doubtful.
A young man jumped off train going
at forty miles an hour, near Iowa City
but escaped with few bruises.
Additional rural free delivery service
will be established Aug. at Fayette
Shannon City and at Shenandoah
An Iowa City woman publicly horse
whipped man who had been the means
Of separating her from her lover.
A. l.. McMasters of Ottumwa had two
ribs broken and sustained severe injuries
about the shoulders in runaway.
The Business Mems League of Du-
buque is raising funds to secure new
railroad southwest from that city.
The citizens of the suburb of Mar.
shalltown recently annexed by the city
will fight annexation proceedings.
An Adams County farmer was bitten
on the hand by rattlesnake, but prompt
measures prevented serious results.
Mrs. Sarah Hetsman has died ut For,
Dodge from ptomaine poisoning caused
by ice cream eaten some days ago.
The Lee County Supervisors have con
tracted with tax ferrets who will secure
no commission until $4,000 is paid in.
Charles Neil, the Des Moines man who
shot at 13-year-old girl has been sen
fenced to one year in the penitentiary.
Dubuque shipbuilding firm has secur.
ed the contract for transfer boat for
Southern railroad, which will be the
heaviest boat ever launched on the Mis-.
sissippi.
The depot at Pulaski was broken into
by burglars, who succeeded in breaking
into the freight room by means of a
crowbar From the freight room they
proceeded to the ticket office and ex-
press Office, where they tore open the
money drawers, but failed to get any
money.
Mayor Storm Bull, at Madison, vetoed
an ordinance giving the use of the streets
for the carnival, AMI the common coun-
Gil sustained the veto by vote of ID to
2. The Midway" features of last year
carnival aroused the opposition of moral
lists.
Louis Busse, wealthy farmer of But.
Ter County, was arrested charged with
the murder of his young wife, bride of
six months. Henry Snider, his hired
man. is also under arrest as an accom-.
plice. The crime was committed a few
days ago. and it was thought at first the
woman had committed suicide by cutting
her throat. The body of the victim was
buried, but owing to the mutterings of
the neighbors of Busse it was taken up
and an autopsy held, which developed
that the woman's skull had been crushed
A partial confession was wrung from
the hired man which indicates that Busse
struck the woman in the head, fracturing
her skull. and then cut her throat, cover.
ing her body with a feather bed and
several pillows, and pouring kerosene OIL
the mass, set it on fire. The feathers re-
fused to burn and neighbor discovered
the fire and put it out, but not until the
body had been badly burned Busse is
Al and his wife was 81 years old. Shortly
before her marriage to Busse the woman
had received $500 from man named
Bell on charge of betrayal. and her 49,
months-old baby had been left in the
house to perish with her.
Marvin Barton aged 16, of Sloan rest
nd h Is nit 40 lie N,.ha, IL
ed, the bullet passing through the foot.
The women prisoners in the peniten-
tiary at Fort Madison are complaining
that they have not enough work to do,
and ask for more.
Henry Johnson, who was terribly in
jured by being caught by machinery in a
plant at Ottumwa, has had to have his
right arm amputated.
Ernest Mapes. water boy for a bridge
gang Mt Iowa City, was knocked off a
bridge distance of forty feet, and his
injuries are serious.
Peter De Smidt and John Van Driest,
two wealthy farmers living just east of
Dakota City, went to Chicago with live
stock, put up at the Atlantic Hotel, and
upon retiring blew out the gas. When
found they were unconscious but still liv-
ing, and We're resuscitated with great diff
ficulty.
Celia Stone, formerly station agent at
Plano, was presented with bankruptcies
by his wife. Three died, but the remain
ing quadruplet and heir to the Stone es-
tate, is alive and doing well. He is in
healthy condition and gives promise of
becoming robust young man. Two boys
and two girls were included in the quar-
tet of youngsters.
Thomas Collingwood of Ottumwa, 10
years old, was adjudged insane and or
dered taken to the hospital at Mount
Pleasant Collingwood had been employ
ed at the Dane Manufacturing Company's
plant and was forced to give up his work
on account of the excessive use of cigar
cts. His mind has been failing for some
time. He is so violent it has taken the
combined efforts of six men to keep him
under control.
Lindsay Smith, aged 90 while trying TO
board a Northwestern train at Dewitt
fell under car and was killed. Smith
created sensation recently by hypnotic
ing himself in church and remaining in