Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-04
Brief State Ronn.nin,,-

A bank will be established at Grant.
Clinton teamsters have formed union.
u. j. Muckler, m old resident of To-
ledo, is dead.
The Christian Church at Mystic is be-
Ing remodeled.
Burlington butcher shops will hereafter
close on Sunday.
The Iowa South Dakota Ball League
season has opened.
Benjamin Thomas, aged "a, died at
Floris of smallpox.
S. NJ. Goss of Council Bluffs was badly
beaten by thugs. No clue.
An organization of the Y. W. C. n.
is being formed at Dubuque.
Work on excavating for the new Polk
County court house has been begun.
DR.. w. II. Emmerson has been appoint
ed pension examining surgeon at De.
corah.
Arrangements have been made for
twenty-three blocks OF brick paving to be
done in Waterloo.
Wilton Methodsts will erect a $4,000
church, to take the place of the one burn
ed short time ago.
The State board of health will continue
their former ruling, which disapproves of
internal vaccination.
Rev. L. d. Young has been installed
as pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church at Washington.
1t is believed that the fire which al
most wiped out the little town Of Farlin
was of incendiaryS origin.
The Christian Endeavor societies of tae
Tenth Iowa district have just held we'll
attended meeting at Fairfield
A Creston paper is authority for the
statement that Ottumwa will lose its
division headquarters of the 20"
The Iowa bankers in convention at Des
Moines voted down resolution indors-
ing asset currency and branch banking.
The Sisters of Mercy at Dubuque have
let the contract for tho erection Of an
addition to their hospital to cost S25,-
600.
Dubuque is agitating the question of
making an effort to secure the location
of an eastern Iowa deaf and dumb asy-
lum.
Little Irma Reeves, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Reeves OF Fairport,
fell into vat of boiling water and was
fatally scalded.
Flossie Thomas of Newton, who stab
bed Louis Wade with butcher knife,
from the effects of which be died, has
been exonerated by the coroner's jury.
Fl. s. Gray, paper hanger who re-
t11, 10
tachmcnt for thesdaughter of prosper
Gus farmer. The girls parents objected
and the young couple eloped and were
married.
Ace Cole of Waterloo received sem
tence of thirty days in the Blackhawk
County jail for illegal fishing, having
been caught using trot line more than
half across the stream and using moro
than one lire.
Paul Syvcrson wandered away from
his fathers home in Inwood and is still
missing. 1t is feared he is not in his right
mind.
George Murray, a travelling smokestack
painter, fell from a smokestack at OF
tumwa, and was probably fatally injur-
ed. He fell about forty feet.
District Attorney Miles of the southern
Iowa district, in compliance with n re-
quest from the Attorney General, will
take the dispositions of butchers in n num-
Der of cities in the district in an effort
to determine whether there is beef
trust.
G. Il. Ames, manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company at Des Moines
for several years, has been appointed
manager Of the company at Boston.
John Swisher Of st. Joe, Mo-, was
found in freight car at Shenandoah in
been assaulted by brakeman, and was
unable to move. He had been without
food or drink for three days.
According to the Herald large num-
Der of farmers near Stanwood have been
swindled by fruit tree pcddler. The
order for trees turned out to be entirely
different than the agent represented. The
man was gone when the difference was
discovered.
Mrs. Margaret WATSON, pioneer of
Marshalltown, is dead. She was. sitting
by II window sewing and expired in the
chair. 1t was several minutes before the
family discovered that she was dead.
Waterloo was visited by a shevere cleo
trical storm. Several business buildings
and residences were struck by lightning.
An 1S-months-old child was rendered I'M
conscious by a shock. but will recover
The Des Moines, Iowa Falls and North
ern has placed an order for its new train
equipment. The order includes forty
coal cars, ten box cars. five cabooses. two
baggage and two mail and express cars.
The American Car Foundry Company re-
eelved the order,