Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-02-20

A report has been sent out from Bode
denying that there are any cases of
smallpox there.
Peter Kempf was run down by train
while crossing the tracks Mt Dubuque and
badly injured.
Only 175 dogs in Des Moines have
been licensed out of the 2,10O reported
by the assessor.
A city park and library building are
Falls this year.
The county auditors of the State will
hold their annual convention in Des
Moines Feb. 81.
Mrs. j. L. Bracken of lama was Sc
verely wounded on the head by the over
turning of n sleigh.
Considerable building and general inn
provements are being done ut the little
town of Woodward.
Belle Plaine will vote on issuing bonds
for $4,000 to purchase sites for two
new school buildings.
Fire at Gilbert Station destroyed liv-
I cry stable. and eleven horses and COW
persisted in the flames.
Emmett County is out $4,000 yearly
revenue through the defeat of the new
saloon consent petition.
Nearly $4,000 worth of real estate rec
ords We're filed with the auditor of Scott
County In one recent week.
Washington hopes to secure free mail
delivery service, as the postoffice receipts
are nearing the required figure.
Thomas B. Hildebrand, an Iowa man,
has been appointed receiver of public
moneys at St. Michael's, Alaska.
Two fine steers were stolen from the
herd of p. Il. Moore at Elberon, but he
thinks he can locate the thieves.
j. II. Upp, blacksmith at Hepburn,
died of heart failure while chopping
wood in the timber near his home.
George w. Bailey of Owasa, who
jumped his bonds there last October, has
been captured near Miliedgeville. Ill.
Seven valuable cows belonging to John
Simmons, near Marengo, were drowned
by ice on the river breaking while they
were crossing.
An insane man in Des Moines has con-
fessed to the police there that he set fire
to the livery barn that caused the death
Of twenty-six horses.
Miss Margaret Tittemore, Marshall
town society leader about whom much
has been written, has arrived home from
the Orient. Miss Tittemore says she left
San Francisco OH July. % on the Han
cock and arrived at Nagasaki, Japan,
Aug. Is. She was accompanied by Mrs.
Dean. mother of Lieut.. w. s. Dean of
the Fifth cavalry, to whom she had been
engaged and to meet whom it is reported
she made the trip to the East. Miss Tit
temore states that her engagement to
Lieut.. Dean was broken some time ago.
SHE desired to go to Taku, however, in
qler to meet Miss Conger, daughter of
the United States minister, and Miss
Pierce, his niece. No passenger ship be-
ing available. she was, through the con-
uivance of some of the under officers of
the transport India, struggled aboard.
She denies that she donned male attire.
After she reached Tnku she pushed on
to Pekin and joined the Congers.
Egloff Hansen, an employee at the
Creamery Package Company's plant in
Waterloo, was seriously injured by be-
ing caught in swiftly revolving shaft
and whirled through the air at rate
of $50 revolutions minute. 1t seems
that the unfortunate man assembled a step
ladder to repair the shafting and in some
unaccountable manner his clothing be-
came caught in the machinery. The first
intimation that his companions had of
the accident was dull thud which caus-
ed them to look up. There horrible
sight met their eyes. The young man
was being hurled through the air at light
ming speed and at each revolution his
head, arms and feet were thrown against
the ceiling. which was only twenty inches
from the shaft. The engine was stopped
as soon as possible, but not before the
unfortunate fellow had made at least
seventy-five revolutions on the shaft.
When he was Mt last taken from the ma
chinery all his clothing had been torn
from his body and he was covered with
cuts and wounds.
Five boys and girls at Monroe broke
through the ice while skating, but We're
rescued by a companion.
A petition is being circulated and free
IN signed ut Greene asking Congress to
abolish the stamp tax on checks and
drafts.
The canning company at Keokuk has
filed renewed and amended articles of in
corporation. 1t has a capital stock of
100000.
The police ut Waterloo lodged n Swede
the other night who was a years of
age, and was tramping from Chicago to
Minnesota.
The Democratic State committee met
ut Des Moines and decided upon vigor-
Gus efforts to further the organization of
( Democratic clubs. The members sub
scribed 81 each to the campaign fund.
While James Tag was in Crcston sum-
moning physician to attend his sick
wife Don, the S-year-od son, and Leila,
the 4-year-old daughter, were playing in
the smokehOuse. Don unearthed an old
shotgun. He and his sister went in the
yard and began playing soldier. Don was
taking his sister prisoner. He pointed
the gun at her. the muzzle being close to
the girls head. and pulled the trigger
The little ones head was literally blown
off.
John Akett, a janitor at Iowa City,
has fallen heir to $4,000 through the
death of relative in England.
After Michael Benedict and wife of
Lourdes had retired for the night they
got into n quarrel and, failing to settle
it with words, both sprang from the bed
and grabbed weapon. The husband
secured u shotgun aud his wife revolver
and both fired. The charge from the gun
striking Mrs. Benedict in the right shout
der. crushed the bone so badly that am.
putatlon of the arm was necessary. The
cartridge from the revolver struck the
husband Il gluncing blow in the head,
Int the wonnd is not serious. Mrs. Ben.
cdictS condition is critical,