Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-02
Brief State Happenlne..

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storage plant.
Clinton's new $50, 900 hospital has been
formally dedicated.
A business mems association in being
talked of at Kellogg.
The new saloon consent petition in JEFF
ferson County has not been filed within
the required time.
The proposition to establish new base
ball park at Des Moines is not being
favorably received.
The bell now being put in position in
the court house tower at Mason City
weighs 2,2o0 pounds.
Bevel Morgan, aged 20, woodchopper,
was seriously if not fatally injured by n
falling tree near Delhi.
A new bridge is to be erected near
Woodstock by the Supervisors of Wright
and Hamilton counties.
ED Harrison is suing L. Il. Nash at
Toledo for $4,000 damages for alienat-
ing his wife's affections
The Interstate Fair Association at Ma
rion, with capital of $4,000, has filed
articles Of incorporation.
The sisters of Mt. st. Joseph's at Du-
buque will erect $4,000 addition to
their institute next spring.
Monroe County has only one creamery,
and of its product but 6,453 pounds were
shipped out of the county.
Two drunken men at Danbury quarrel
ed and one was so badly cut about the
rigbt-eye that it had to be removed.
The lighting plant at Waterloo has
been sold, and the new company will ex-
pend about $4,000 on improvements.
Seventeen creameries in Grundy Coun-
ty shipped during the past year 953, 723
pounds of butter into Eastern markets.
Minor Sims, near Ladora, had hand
badly lacerated, two fingers having to be
amputated, by getting it caught in the
gearing of u traction engine.
Secretary of War Root has approved
the selection of the Brisco-Denny FARMS
near Des Moines, as the site for q new
army post.
| A special municipal election at Oska-
loosa on the adoption of an electric street
car franchise, electric light and heating
| plants, resulted in favor of the PROPOSE
ton, by 800 majority.
George Kettleson, aged 30, was run
over by motor car on the electric line
near Emery and instantly killed. He was
| lying on the track when the accident oc-
Cured. His body was severed above the
/ hips.
Mrs. Michael j. Manion of Davenport
1 threw stove lid at her husband, striking
him on the head, seriously wounding him.
Ray Allen, a lad of Tama, while skat-
ing, broke through the ice and would
have drowned but for an Indian throwing
him pole
AT Waukon prisoners in the county
jail came near being smothered to death
by smoke from refractory or defective
chimney. Their cries and the noise they
made finally aroused the deputy sheriff
and he rescued them just in the nick of
time. A few nights previous the fire de-
Dartment was called out and put out a
fire that had got start In the attic of
the Jail building.
George Baker Of Charlton, who sued
the Burlington Railroad Company for
$4,000 on account of personal damages
sustained by plaintiff, through the alleged
| negligence of defendant in operating its
trains, was awarded a verdict of $500.
Gov. Shaw has received letter from
Minister Conger of China, stating that he
had secured possession of one of the can
non mounted on the walls of Pekin and
which had been used in the defense of
that city against the approach of the al
led powers, and that he would donate the
same to the Iowa Historical department
if the State would pay the freight from
San Francisco to pes Moipes. The offer
will BIO accepted,