Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-07

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The postotIice at Morgan has been dis.
continued. mail to Lineville.
A new Presbyterian church will be
erected at Monticello this summer.
James Ross, a 15-year-old Trenton lad,
was terribly bitten by an infatuated hog.
A. l.. johnson has been appointed post
master at Calliope, vice Miss l. Bnrgman
| resigned.
y large barn and contents. belonging
to j. Summerfield, near Jubilee, was de-
stroyed by fire.
Henry and Jane Miles of Springdale
have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding.
The playing season of the 1owa-South
Dakota ball league will open May 81
and close Sept. 10.
A fire at Dewitt badly damaged one of
the largest general merchandise estnb-
lishments in that city.
The annual meeting of the Iowa grand
lodge of Masons will be held in Dubuque
the first week in June.
The elevator of Denkmann Bros. at
Durant. was burned to the ground. Loss
Ala.9lO, insurance $1,000.
The conviction of Louis Busse makes
live men who are sentenced to he hang
ed in Iowa within the next year.
President Stickney of the Great West
ern confirms the report that Clarion will
be made division point on that road.
The Iowa State Amateur Rowing AS
ISOLATION may not hold State regatta
this summer owing to the lack of inter
est manifested.
Mason City is having building boom
this year, and large number of SUBJ
stantlal business and residence houses
will be erected.
The dwelling Of Riley Andrews, south
west of Windham, was burned to the
ground. Neighbors saved nearly all the
household goods.
w. A. Boron. wel-known educator, has
been chosen principal of academic de-
partment of National Memorial Univer-
sity at Mason City.
2-year-old child named Seivert. at
Davenport, was bitten by n mad cat,
causing blood poisoning and cndanger-
ing the child's life.
DIR. Fisher of Central City has dispos-
cd of one of his fine trotters, the consil-
GRAFTON being $1,000. The animal will
he taken to New York.
Julius Brandenburg of Dubuque was
fatally injured in Chicago. In alighting
from a moving train he stepped directly
In front of another train.
A merchant of Sexton was loser by a
small amount on account of n stranger
passing on him one-dollar bill which
had been changed to ten.
Hon. James Brice and ex-President
Grover Cleveland are to lecture before
the graduate club of the State Univer-
sity of Iowa at Iowa City next Tall.
The 4-year-od son of William Jensen,
living near Brayton. was seriously in
jured. He went to sleep in furrow and
Il horse hitchcd to pillow stepped on his
back.
President Stickney of the Chicago
Great Western Railway expects they
will have trains running into Omaha
over the Omaha extension of that road
by Oct. /.
Mrs. Rpssack, who was granted new
trial by the Supreme Court, has been
taken from the penitentiary at Anamosn
to the county Jail in Warren County to
await trial.
Mrs. L. A. Watson. wife of farmer
near Scarsboro, tagged an Iowa Central
passenger train and prevented it from
going through a burning brflge saving
many lives.
Judge Josiah Given of Des AIoines has
accepted the position of dean OF the
Highland Park College of Law, succeed.
ing Judge Ollie, who will devote him
self to his private practice.
Mrs. Thos. Dumphy of Highland town
ship. whose clothes caught fire while
burning rubbish near her house, died
from her injuries. She leaves seven chill
dren. one Of whom, Edward, lives in Des
Moines.
The C. G. w. Railway Company will
build new depot and new freight
house Mt Mason City. to be followed by
other improvements, the total expendi-
ture probably amounting to $4,000.
Eddyville, which was swept by two
fires last summer, is being rapidly built
up in the districts which suffered from
these fires. Aside from an electric light
plant, new business houses and resi-
dences to cost about $4,000 will be
built
AT Oskaloosa Rev. o. A. johnson and
Ed Murray, one of his congregation, in
dulged in an impromptu duel in the street.
As result both are under arrest. The
preacher is wounded in three places, but
none Of the wounds is considered seri-
GUS. The men quarreled over land deal
in which Murray claimed he had been
worsted.
The 3-year-old twin children OF NJ.
Shields, residing at Beargrove, were
found in the debris after fire had con-
sumed u barn. Until the charred remains
of the children were discovered they had
not even been missed. The fire originated
in pile Of rubbish and communicated to
the barn. Unknown to the parents. the
children were playing in the building.
A propitious change in the wind saved
the town of Murray from possible de-
struction by fire. A grain elevator and
extensive corn cribs of o. F. Hulbut &
Co. caught fire and We're destroyed, to-
gether with several freight cars. A high
wind swept the flames toward the bust
ness part of the town, but after destroy
ing portion of the stool. yards the wind
shifted, and the fire was soon under con-
troll. The loss is estimated at nearly $4O.-
900.
With the completion of small piece
of track between Missouri Valley and
Denison, the Northwestern Railway has
double track the entire distance between
Omaha and Chicago. This is the first
double track across the State. -
In the trial Of William Epson at Dav-
export for attempted murder Of his wife,
verdict was returned of assault with
intent to do great bodily injury. He
struck Mrs. Epson on the head with a
Ratchet, and the prosecution held it was
done because she had refused to live
with him and that he intended to end her
life.
John Matthey, aged GO. farmer liv-