Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-11-26
Within Our Border,,

The epidemic of typhoid fever in Du-
buque is abating.
The glucose factory at Marshalltown
will be reopened about Dec. !.
The Ottumwa Commercial Club has
been organized OH a permanent basis.
A carriage factory, with capital of
$4,000, will he established at Marenso.
A commercial club has been organized
ut West Liberty, with thirty-siX mem
bcrs.
The Peerless button factory at Musca-
tine will be remodeled and greatly ell
largcd.
There is in Waterloo citizen 80 years
old who has never exercised the right of
suffrage.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Wheeler of Cedar
Falls have just celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary.
Ed Harper of Halifax, Ind, was found
dead in bed ut Fremont. He had suffer-
ed from heart trouble.
Roswell Neff, wanted at Leavenworth,
Kan, for desertion from the regular
army, has been captured Mt Burlington.
Joseph Cerwenske, farmer who re-
sided near Rockford, dropped dead after
indulging in an exciting race with n
neighbor.
AS the result of dispute over farm
deal. p. Il. Cold has sued John I. Jack
in the Shelby County District Court for
| $4,000 damages.
1t is expected that trains will be run
ming between Iowa Falls and Des Moines
on the Des Moines, Iowa Falls and
Northern by Dec. Is.
The proposition to vote tax for the
erection of n memorial hall in honor of
dead soldiers was defeated in Dubuque
County at the recent election.
The State Board of Health has passed
a resolution declaring that it will not
recognize the internal method Of vaccina-
ton employed by some doctors.
Ten Iowa Falls girls have formed n
club for the purpose of raising 81 900
to endow room in Ellsworth hospital.
They have fund of $500 to start with.
An attempt was made to rob the Gar
win State Bank, hut the robbers We're
frightened away. A burglars outfit was
found in the bank in the morning and
the safe had been tempered with.
A farmer named Colwell, living north
| of Fort Dodge. had an exciting chase
after n deer and finally brought down tile
animal with shot from his rife The
| ANIMAL which was n doe weighing 755
pounds, is supposed to lave escaped
from one of the deer parks in the yicin-
| ity.
The recent decision of the Supreme
| hat
does not create presumption of gnilt
will, unless modified. make it more diff
cult than ever to secure the conviction of
persons charged with that particular kind
] Of felony. Already court officials are
complaining of its effect.
Peter Barrett, farmer near Moor
land, became insane because the officials
| of his township constructed ditch which
| he feared would drain n slough on his
land.
| According to the official returns, the
Republican State ticket carried Scott
County by majority of 1877, while Judge
| Wade. for Congress, carried the county
by 14S.
Many rural communities are complain
ing of the insolence of the Migrants who
are now making their way from their
summer haunts in the north to the south
and.
Harry Cornish one of the prominent
igures in the now famous Molineuy case
At New York City, had charge of Y. NJ.
q. A. athletics in Des Moines some six
.een years ago.
Dubuque business men have called a
meeting for the purpose of apitoti,y the
establishment of a pork packing indus
Try in that city. Eastern capitalists. it
is said, have agreed to finance the enter.
prise.
Julius Krell, IL Davenport drug clerk.
Is dead rs result of the explosion of
barrel Of wood alcohol. He went 10
the basement for some of the alcohol,
md the explosion followed the striking of
q match. He was terribly burned.
A resolution has been introduced in the
Marshalltown City Council with a view
to calling a special election to vote ,pon
the question of municipal ownership of n
gas and electric light plant.
The State Railroad Commission las
received reports for this year from MI
! the railroads in the State and the WORK
of compilation for the annual rcport will
be begun at once. Thirty-four different
/ lines have reported.
| The body of Charles McDermott of
Burlington, who disappeared, has been
found in the Mississippi river. He was
a passenger on the steamer Nautilus, and
1t is believed he walked off the boat into
the water while asleep,