Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-11-19
state News In Brief.

At cattle sale near Des Moines $50
head brought $4,000.
The home of David jenkins of Keb
was robbed of nearly $50 in cash.
Clinton will probably build pest house
to care for prospective smallpox patients.
Rural routes have been established at
Monticello and Anamosa, keystone and
Robins.
Council Bluffs milk dealers have rails
ed the price of the lacteal fluid to 81
cents quart.
Waterloo is after threshing machine
manufacturing plant, which is seeking a
western location.
c. ]. McCunc, an Audubon live stock
dealer, was slugged and robbed Mt Oma-
ha. He lost $50.
Mrs. Edward Sims, former resident
of Waterloo, committed suicide iii Chi,
lago while Respondent.
The postotiice at Bowen will be dis.
continued Dec. 1 mail will be supplied by
rural carrier from Monticello.
Mrs. Henry Metzger of Buffalo drown
ed herself in the Mississippi. Domestic
troubles are believed to have caused TIE
deed.
Titus Smith, an cx-convict and a had
man. confined in the Dubuque County
jail. escaped by scaling the walls of the
prison yard.
The Polk County grand jury is plan
ming to again take up the Mabel Schoticll
murder case, and will give it thorough
Investigation.
nra rot toH IN,
sections of the State, and many fine sre-
cimens of the American national lird
have been shot
Several cases of diphtheria have brok.
Ell out at Burlington. and the health ,u.
thorities of that city fear the number
will be greatly increased.
Merritt Greene of Marshalltown las
been appointed receiver of the Rhodes
Carmean Buggy Company ut MARSHALL
town, vice l.. b. Goodrich.
The following postofiices have been
discontinued: Bailtown, mail to Waupe-
ton: Bankstone, mail to Farley; King,
mail to Dubuque; Luxembourg, mail to
Dyersville; Melleray, mail to Peosta;
New Vienna, mail to Dyersville; O'Neil
mail to Waupeton; Placid, mail to Ep.
worth; Rickardville. mail to Waupcton;
Tivoli, mail to Farley; Lattners. mail tc
Epworth; Rock Dale, mail to Dubuque
Washington Mills, mail to Barnard; Gro.
zier and Racine, mail to Newell
o. Nj. Gillette. who has been chosen
MS grand chancellor of the knights OF
Pytlias of the State of Iowa, has beer
n member of the grand lodge of that do
main since 1884 and has served on many
of the grand lodge committees. He was
born i'll 1850 and came to his present
home in Independence in 1866 and in
1879 WAS admitted to the bar. A few
years later he served as County CLERK
and Mt the expiration of his term engaged
iii the banking business, in which he has
been engaged ever since.
The proposition for the erection of /.
new $4,000 court house at Centervll,
carried with majority of $50.
Samuel Fryer of Belle Plainc wa.
found guilty at Washington of selling in
toxicating liquors in n railroad gradn.
camp, and fined $50 and costs.
The st. Bernard private hospital Al
Council Bluffs now contains over 1870 in
sane and nervous patients, sixty of WHOM
are Pottawattamie County charges.
Conductor Forrest of Washington. VIII,
| was thought to have been fatally injured
| in the recent freight wreck at Brighton
is now improving and may recover.
The store of Frey Il Packard at Earl
ham was burglarized and clothing, boot
and shoes to the value of nearly SJOl
were carted out of town without leavin.
4 clue.
II. II. Barton, who is accused of en-
bezzling several hundred dollars from
Davenport cigarmaker, has been bonnt
over to the Scott County grand jury i'm
der $500 bonds.
The body of man with the initial
"E. e." tattooed on his arm was foun,
In the river near Davenport. Cuts OIL
his head, evidently made by some sharl
instrument, indicated that he had heeI
murdered and his body thrown into Thu
river.
Postmasters appointed: Bolan, i'raml
l.. Benish, vice William ii. Whitcome
resigned; Seneca. Don G. Adams, Vic
Henry Warner, resigned.
The case of tile State VS.. former Sec
rotary of State Mcfarland, implicated il
the State census scandals few year
ago, has been stricken from the locke
of the State Supreme Court. 1t has beel
settled to the satisfaction CT all parties
Peter Jansen of Preston, aged is, com
mtted suicide BY hanging. He had Al
alteration with some boys In the neigh
borhood and threatened to shoot them
1t is supposed that dependency cause
by the affair and the fear of prosecution
induced him TO commit the rash act.