Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-01-08

j. G. Cattrell Of Plymouth County has
filed contest papers with the Secretary
of State and will contest the election Of
IL. o. Fields as representative.
The Most Rev. Archbishop Keane do
mates 5000 towards the erection of new
church at Stone City. The pastor Rev.
Father Liddy. subscribes 500 and prom
iscs more as the work progresses.
Should Des Moines fail to meet the
| demands of the government for the loca-
tion of the army post it is understood
that meeting will be called and plans
| devised for securing the post for Ottum-
| wa.
Superintendent f. p. Fitzgerald of the
| girls industrial school at Mitchellville
takes the ground that the age limit of
girls confined in the institution at Mitch
ellvile should be 81 years, instead of Is,
as the law now stands.
While walking alongside a load of logs,
Sam Red was almost instantly killed.
The accident happened on the Bell-Wy-
ant farm, about twelve miles south of
Gleiiwoud. Lin some way the load became
uncouplcd and the logs rolled off the
wagon OH to Red; crushing the life out
Of him almost i'll an instant
| The oft-ruinored union station in Fort
| Dodge, by which the NJ. & st. l.. roads
| and the Central would consolidate their
depot facilities, is now said to be Ger
tainty. The location of the new depot
will be changed from the present site now
occupied by the two roads to a site more
| centrally located to the business portion
4 ,ft t.,. L.
News comes from Washington that the
other members of the Iowa delegation
| are preparing to give Senators Allison
and Dollivcr grand reception on their
return to the national capital city, after
the reelection to the United States Sen
ate by the Iowa Legislature. 1t will be
| the first time that two United States
Senators We're elected from Iowa at the
same time and by so nearly an unani-
nous vote us both Allison and Dolliver
will be.
The trustees Of Iowa State College
have closed Il contract with the Union
stock yards of Chicago by which the
stock yards company is to furnish fifty
head Of blooded animals to the expert
ment Station free of charge to be used
hy the college in experiments in breeding
live stock. This is the first time the col
lege has entered upon experiments in
live stock breeding on an extensive scale,
and it is made possible only because of
the offer of the stock yards company.
Work will commence at once under the
direction of Prof. Curtiss, and will be
continued over n series of years.
Judge Mcpherson, sitting in the Unit
ed States Federal Court at Kansas City,
Mo-, has granted the City Water Supply
Company of Ottumwa IL supplemental in
junction against the city OF Ottumwa to
restrain it from building new system
of water works. The new injunction
was granted in response to Il supplement-
al petition which was recently filed by
the plaintiff on the ground that since the
original injunction was granted the city
had held an election, at which time it
had ratified contract entered into be-
tween 1t and the Fruin-Bambricll Con-
struction Company of st. Louis for the
erection of the new water works.
An important decision was handed
down in the Supreme Court in Des
Aloihes affecting the rights of the public
to harvest ice OH government waters.
Inc case IN question Is that OF Henry
Becker ana Albert .azlnser VS.. John Han,
appellants. The plaintiffs sought to re-
STRAIN the defendants from interfering in
the harvesting OF Ice on the canal at keo-
kuk, which the former had cleared and
appropriated. The lower court held that
the plaintiffs We're entitled to the ice
and is affirmed by the Supreme Court in
an opinion written nv Jndgo Sberwin A
number Of rulings ora citod to show that
from mn examination of tbe anthor;t;es
II is onn,rent tb,t No rulo of oynrnnr;o.
tion cnn ba ndonto1 fron, an, nat,o noss.
cd mon that viii exoctl, e. ~, n'N'
John Raymond, weli-dressed young
man about 70 years old, presented HIM
sell to Mayor Martin of Waterloo and re-
quested that he be sentenced to thirty
days IN the county Jail. He was cut of
work, mad no money and was generally
uownhearteu. Raymond stated that his
nome was at Wllliamsport, Ia. lie has
been travelling around the country the
past summer working at odd Jobs. Since
the cold weather set in work has been
hard to secure. He had saved little dur
ing the summer and was unprepared for
the rainy day. He had no friends In
this section and his money gave out. AS
a last resort he presented himself to the
Mayor and made the above request. The
Mayor gave the young fellow the price of
meal. some good advice and informa-
ton where he could secure work.
rho low, Srnro,,, Cow. Ia. a,,;,.,
one case which the court said was on
tirely without precedent, and laid down
general rule in regard to liability of a
person in selling dangerous articles to
an ignorant person. William II. Gibson
bought of II. Torbett. a druggist of Du-
buQue, 80 cents worth of phosphorus. 1t
appears that Gibson was going to invent
or manufacture something with phospho-
rus in it, but he really knew nothing
about the qualities of the stuff, and when
he received it he was severely burned.
He sued the druggist and claimed that
his letter to the druggist showea he was
Ignorant of the properties of the sub
stance ana therefore IL was me duty