Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-05-07
State Item. of Intere.t.
August Moreno, Keokuk laborer, sui
cided by shooting.

cided by shooting.
An unknown man was killed by the
cars at Cromwell.
Over fifty houses are under construc-
ton in Iowa City.
Capitalists are planning to build new
hotel at Des Moines.
Work on the Creston- Winterset inter
urban line is to be started soon.
The April session of the Fort Dodge
presbytery was held in Grand junction.
-Four two-story brick blocks and sew
| cral fine residences will be erected ut
Bonaparte this summer.
Gen. j. s. Clarkson of Iowa has taken
the oath of office as surveyor Of csutoms
Of the port of New York.
A Mrs. Hutchins, leading lady for the
Rucker show company, was found guilty
at Clinton of shoplifting and fined $3.50.
A man named Edwards, u stranger
looking for work. was killed by Il Bur-
lington fast mail train near Hastings.
Booker L. Washington has been ell
gagged to deliver an address before the
students Of the State university in ..une.
w. P. Roy, man who was preparing
to start Turkish bath establishment ut
Muscatine, has disappeared mysterious
ly.
A Des Moines skirt manufacturing firm
is to remove to Marshalltown, where it
will furnish employment for thirty peo-
pie.
Twenty-nine applicants passed the re-
cent examination of the State pharmacy
commission, out of total of eighty -one
examined.
Keokuk's Mayor. Hon. Theodore A.
Craig, was united in marriage to Miss
Edna Jean Blood of st. Louis recently
at the latter place.
Ground has been secured and the funds
raised, and Iowa Falls is to have an
$4,000 hospital, on which work will be
commenced at once.
The Board of Supervisors of Monroe
County has let the contract for the cree
ton of $4,000 court house, to be built
on the site of the old one ut Abba.
A Burlington train struck and instant
~ killed the 2-year-old son Of Harry
Gardner at Red Oak. The boy was
laughing at the engineer when til cen
CINE struck him.
1t is expected that the Y. NJ. G. A.
at Davenport will ask its friends for
$4,000 or more during the summer for
improvements, one of which is the COM
pletion of the large auditorium.
Robert Rubendall, an aged Des Moines
man, was assaulted by thugs, who rob
bed him and then threw him into the
river. He crawled out and is not serious
ly injured.
BY the decision of Marshall County
justice court, II thrashing in that county
is worth $500, the amount of the verdict
against II. w. Hogue for assault on
Frank Gambling.
Frank Holdrafter, living near Mar
shalltown, narrowly escaped death. A
Northwestern train struck and killed his
team and demolished his wagon, but he
escaped serious injury.
The Waterloo City Council has rejected
the request of the labor organizations of
that city that the union label be placed
on all city printing.
A creamery at Brushy was destroyed
by fire during the recent high winds,
and for time it was thought the whole
village would be consumed.
The Des Moines tailors who struck
for IN increase amounting to about 81 so
suit have accepted an advance of about
81 suit and returned to work.
The Legislature recently appropriated
$4,000 for the Orphans Home at Dav-
export, and the amount will be expend-
ed shortly for improvements to the home.
The Saylor mine operators will be re-
quested to dispense with colored work
men. The farmers of the neighborhood
are organizing to demand this action. as
result of the Peterson murder.
The big plant of the National Starch
Company in Des Moines, which was al.
most entirely-wiped out by fire three
months ago, will probably never be re-
built. The property is owned by the
trust.
A bill granting an increase Of pension
to $50 per month passed the national
House and will undoubtedly be fayorably
acted upon by the Senate, for Mrs. Caro-
line NJ. Stone, widow Of. FORMER Gov.
Stone Of Iowa.
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