Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-11-05
state News In Brief.

A charter has been issued to the Win
terset Savings Bank; capital S25,OOO.
The swine plague has made its appear
ance in portions of Dickinson and Clay
counties.
The new Swedish Lutheran Church at
Logansport has just been dedicated free
| of debt.
Ground has been broken for G $50. 600
addition to st. Francis Academy at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
Newton X. Flukc, widely known in
Iowa horticultural circles, died suddenly
| at Davenport.
Gutenberg voted, 223 to 3s, to. give a
private company a franchise to put in an
electric light plant.
There are 2S,S45 persons of school age
in Polk County. The females exceed the
males by about 200.
Joseph Isborh, who wanted to kill May
or Berg of Dubuque, has been declared
insane and sent to an asylum for treat
| ment.
While burning the weeds off potato
patch Miss Drusy Nixon, an old settler,
| was burned to death ut her home near
Ash Grove.
Will Laux, the LeMars groceryman
| who shot himself u few weeks ago, is re-
covering lie claims the shooting was
| accidental.
| Waterloo police officers are endeavor-
ing to rid that city of the presence of
| n number of evil characters of the femi-
nine gender
. Stephen Rice, nged 16. was Instantly
killed at his home near Eddyville. He
was chopping trees and was struck by the
falling trunk.
| Office thieves are the latest at Fort
Dodge. Many professional men are COM
planning of the loss of stamps md small
sums of money.
A section of the roof sixty by eighty
feet in measurement, of the Oskaloosa
Traction Company's new plant fell, and
three men went with it, but escaped with
their lives. Loss $1,000.
Ottumwa ministers have started a
movement for monster union revival
meeting to be held next spring.
A freight wreck on the Kansas City
division of the Rock Island near Brigh-
ton delayed traffic several hours No
one was injured.
Two Fort Dodge women who mistOok
pan of gasoline for dislwater and plac-
ed it on cook stove were badly burned
by the accompanying explosion.
VIM. Forhc, Des Moines plumber,
broke the nose of his employer, Henry
Elfrits, because the Inter refused to lay
| him the wages lie claimed was due.
p. l.. Kimberly of West Liberty, stu
dent in the Iowa State Agricultural Col
| Iii l,,, ell
Northwestern train while stealing a
ride from the city to the college grounds.
The Scott County Board of Supereis-
ors granted a franchise to the Iowa
Illinois Interurban Railway Company to
build a road from the city limits of Dav-
export to mile beyond Bettendorf on
the river road.
The administrator of the estate of
| Christopher Leonidas, who was shot by
Mate Dan Breen on the steamer Du-
buque. Mt Davenport in July, has served
notice of suit against the Diamond 10
Company and Breen for 900 damages.
d. A. Ray of Davenport has sued the
Tri-City Street Railway Company for
$4,000 for damages alleged to have
been sustained in being struck by car.
The application of number of Gil.
more citizens to organize national bank
/ has been approved by the Comptroller of
the Currency. The institution will have
capital of $4,000.
The American Tobacco Company las
appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court II
case to test the validity of the State law
taxing cigarette dealers S25 month. The
company claims the act is unconstitl,-
tional, as it is placed among the Grim
inal statutes, and that since jobbers ire
exempt 1t is class legislation,