Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-28
State Items of Interest,

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st. Mary's Episcopal Church Mt Wat
erloo will be remodeled.
GAINESVILLE has voted to build new
school house next year.
The Mt. Vernon Hotel Company has in
corporated; capital $4,000.
Birmingham citizens have organized a
business mems association.
Work is being pushed on the new $780,
600 NJ. Il. Church at Gldden.
Pottawattamic County veterans will
hold n reunion Aug. 6 to 8, at Avoca.
G. w. Phillips was reelected seere-
tary of the State pharmacy commission.
Conrad Reiter has been sentenced Mt
Fairfield to five years in prison for for
gerry.
The Jennings wall paper store at Des
Moines was damaged by fire; loss $1,000,
insured.
Michael O'Ncill of Cherokee was slug
ged by footpads in Council Bluffs and
then robbed.
p. II. Hodges, Marshalltown cleo
trician, was seriously injured by fall
from ladder.
Joseph Fogel of Fort Dodge was badly
injured by fall of rock in the Cardiff
gypsum mines.
A 12-year-old Arlington girl has died
as a result of protracted siege OF the
whooping cough.
The 6-year-old son of Frank Thull of
Council Bluffs is missing and his parents
are distracted.
The G-year-old son of Henry Stadtlan-
der of Burlington lost an eye by falling
against an iron fence.
A buggy and u set of harness was stol-
en- from the barn of l.. Nj. Myers of
Fort Dodge. No clue.
Rev. J. S. Cotton of Laurel has accept
ed call to the pastoratc of the Presbyte-
rian Church MT Charlottesville.
Peter Martinez, a Milwaukee railroad
bridge carpenter of Dubuque, was scrl-
ously injured by falling from n trestle
work near that city.
Edward A. Vogc, representing the
Iowa State normal school, was awarded
fourth place in the annual interstate ora
torical contest of State normal schools,
Mt Emporia, Kan. Illinois secured first
place.
Charles j. Smith, United States COM
missioner, has rendered decision in the
case of Howard Is. Mnhannah Mt Ileo-
kuk Mahannall is held to the United
States grand jury to appear ut the De-
tober term on the charge of perjury in
connection with the attempted rcdemp-
ton of mutilated currency His bond is
fixed Mt $1,000.
The amphitheater at the Indianola fair
grounds was completely wrecked by wind
and the barn of w. /. McElroy was car
ried from its foundation and scattered
over twcntyacre field.
l.. Il. Swartzlandog of Indianola re-
ceived serious scalp wound in pecu-
liar manner. While sitting in his chop
house n pop bottle exploded and the fly
ing glass cut cash five inches long in
his scalp.
The 15-year-old son of j. b. Wells. liv-
ing one mile south of Lacclle, was seri-
ously injured in runaway. The boy
was thrown from wagon, striking his
head on an oil can with such force MS to
| drive the spout into his head.
Miss Alice Parks of Marshalltown was
fatally injured by nm explosion of gaso-
line at Lusk, Wyo., where she has been
employed.
The Burlington sawmills have been
compelled to close down on account of II
scarcity of logs. The low stage of the
river is primarily responsible.
The coroner's jury in the case of VIM.
Jones, the shot lirer who met death at
Des Moines. returned verdict that
death was due 10 his own negligence.
Twenty clerks already employed in tho
De-, lMoines postoiiice are to receive an
nefease of 500 each in salary and the
p1stoficc is to get seven additional
Clerks,