Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-11-05
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The Catholic Church at NeNaua ID
nearing completion.
A Chautauqua is being planned for
Creston for next year.
The postoffice at Lilly has been dis
continued, mail to Fonda.
Winterset's Business Mems Associa-
ton has been incorporated.
No indictments were returned by the
Audubon County grand jury.
The interurban line between Des
Moines and Mitchellville is now 4insopera-
tion.
George Hunt of Caledonia, Mimi, lost
500 to pickpockets at the Dubuque car
niyal.
Council Bluffs now claims a population
of 31,548, based on a recent directory
census.
The Armour Packing Company will
erect poultry packing establishment ut
Maxwell.
Twenty cases of typhoid fever IRE re-
ported to the State Board of Health from
Ottumwa.
Mrs. Sarah Robly of Centerville was
killed in a runaway accident. She was 60
years old.
are Mt standstill because of scarcity
Of laborers.
At the coming election saloon consent
petition will be circulated among the yot-
ers of Boone County.
A number of typhoid fever cases at
Waterloo have been traced to the use Of
water from an abandoned well.
Clay Congregationalists have just dedi-
Gated a new church TO take the place OF
one erected forty-iye years ago.
A two-story gymnasium, with swim
ming pool and baths, will be added to the
equipment of Des Moines College.
Capt. Seamans of the Burlington >po-
lice force has gone to England and will
bring Embezzler Bishop back for trial.
President Roosevelt and mis- cabinet
have been invited to attend the ledicn-
ton of the Iowa Shiloh monument May
30, 1903.
The State Board of Health has reports
from about dozen localities in the State.
notifying it of the presence of mild cases
of smallpox.
Glidden business men are discussing
the feasibility of organizing a stock COM
pany for the construction of IN electric
lighting plant.
Boone is trying to secure the location
in that city of the offices of the Church
Federation of America, an insurance so-
ciety recently organized at Yale, Iowa.
Joseph Isbom, nged 80, Of Dubuque,
became suddenly insane and WINS seixGd
with desire to kill Mayor Berg. He
was arrested before he had harmed any
one.
The first test of the new truant law in
Des Moines will be made on the 'person ut
young colored lad, who declines to avail
himself of the privileges of securing IN
| education.
Rockford is figuring with resident Of
Cedar Falls who, if given bonus, offers
to erect brick-making plant that will
employ twenty men and turn out 10000
bricks per day.
VIM. Saunders, n Fort Madison me-
chanic, was struck by Santa Fe engine
und possibly fatally injured. Both legs
and one arm were broken and he was
injured internally.
e. G. 1ngledue, a druggist of Gearing,
while temporarily insane, jumped from
a thrid-story window of the Pittsburg
Hotel at Mnnitou. Colo. sustaining i'm
juries from which he died.
| Boone County voters will decide at tho
coming election the question of eXpending
$4,000 for new buildings OH the county
farm. The present structure is charac-
terized rs disgrace to the county.
The Supreme Court has denied re-
hearing in the case of Mrs. Sarah Kuhn
of Keokuk County, convicted Of poison
| ing her crippled husband by placing
t..@,.,, IL, L. Tr,,1, fu
serving life sentence.
William Bueck, Des Moincs photog-
rapher, md married, who forged ,nar-
riage license to square matters with the
parents of a girl with whom he eloped,
confessed his guilt and wae sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary.
Davenport library trustees voted to
christen the new institution in that city.
the Davenport Public Library on. the
Andrew Carnegie Foundation" but the
| City Council voted to name it the "Dnv-
export Free Public Library"
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
elevator of the b. A. Lockwood Grain
Company at Marshalltown, with 10000
bushels of grain and 100 tons of coal, and
also burned the Chicago and Northwest
ern freight depot Loss $4,000.
Willie Mckee, boy 0 years of age,
was found dead Saturday night at his
home in Oak Ridge. A rope fastened to
a tree was twisted about his neck rnd
he had been stranged to denth. No one
knows how the hanging occurred.
On his way home from the Grand
Army encampment G. NJ. Christian Of
Des Moines accidentally met his mother,
whom he had not seen for fifty years. He
thought she was dead and she had given
him up for lost. She is 94 years Old and
he IS.
4 William Jansen, cigar manufacturer,
was accidentally killed while hunting
near DEBORAH. He was accompanied hy
one of his employees, who carried a gun,
Jansen walking close behind him. In some
manner the gun was accidentally dis
charged and Jansen received the full
charge in his left side. He died before
medical aid could reach him.
The federal grand jury Mt Keokuk re-
turned to the United States District
Court M Indictment of the Adams Elk
/ press Company for alleged violation Of
the internal revenue laws. Persons at
Birmingham received G. D. ID. packages
of WHISKY from consigners in Illinois and
paid collections and charges to the ex-
/ press .uReiltS lue STduu jury luu us
trict Attorney Miles held that the G. o.
d. method constituted sale Of goods
by the express company to the consignee
and hence required retail liquor dealers
license.
Edward Croake n Clinton young man.
was assaulted by negro toughs in Chi
cago, robbed and probably fatally injured.
The Mason City Council has entered
into n contract with the Milwaukee rail-
road for the construction Of viaduct in
that city.
The grocery store and residence Of Ed
ward Ryan, Mt Dubuque was damaged
by fire to the extent of $500, insurance
ene-half.
A new fraternal association has been
organized and Incorporated Mt Davenport,
to be known as the Bankers. Pioneer As
ISOLATION.
improvements aggregating $4,000