Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-03

\ toilet soap factory will be located
at Boone.
A. Alexander. weil,known banker of
Jewell, is dead.
The question of uniform text books is
being agitatcd in Sac County.
C. C. Bisler aud sons, breeders of
Shorthorn cattle, Hartwick, assigned
Mrs. Maude Gruwell, wife of we'll
| known farmer near Ottumwa, has disap-
peared.
y company for the manufacture of
washing machines has been organized at
Davenport.
interested in the speculative ventures in
the Isle of Pines
Dcs Moines policemen are seeking IN
increase in salaries. Their present pay
is $50 per month.
The proposition to erect Il $4,000
court house carried in Crawford County
by a majority of 602.
Harry Bingham, a 12-year-old boy who
resided near Shenandoah, was accident
ally killed while hunting.
a Jack the Kisser" is operating at
Clinton. unattended women on the streets
Mt night being the victims.
The store of j. Il. Bunger at Thaycr
was robbed of $40 in cash and quantity
OF merchandise. No clue.
Unknown robbers looted the general
store of Barr 4 Ounce. Mt Berwick. The
loss is estimated ut $500. No clue.
Owners of button factories ut Musca.
tine and other eastern Iowa cities are
considering proposition to merge their
plants.
The flyer on the Sioux City line Of the
Illinois Central ran into Il drove of cat
tie near LeMars, KILN. nearly forty of
the animals.
Mrs. Sampcl Yapp, wife of farmer
near Pierson, committed suicide by jump
Ing into a pond near her home De-
spondency the cause.
The Waterloo police department has
begun the taking of II census of that city.
1t is estimated that the job Will he com
plcted i'll three weeks.
The grand jury at Davenport found
mo bill' against Mate Dan Brccp. the
slayer of the Lconidas medicine men.
The jury found the killing unsuitable.
Postmasters appointed in Iowa: Ar
kins. a. C. Stewart, vice Il. w. I.avenby,
resigned: Gladstone, +. b. Corson. Wee
H. III. Hand, resigned: Otranto Station.
]. ID. Kelley, vice Anton George, Jr., re
signed.
Joseph Arumin. engaged in paintiil.
the steeple of the Holy Ghost Church Mt
Dubuque, fell from the scaffolding, Il dis
lance of one hundred feet, aud sustained
fatal injuries.
Returns from the recent election show
that the Prohibition party failed to poll
10000 votes in Iowa. The ticket will
have to be placed on the ballot by petit
ton next year.
The liabilities of the Otto bank, which
reccntly failed, are SIi5.GSS; available as
sets less than half that amount. A dozen
or more banks will enter the fight for
tn division of the assets.
The effort of the saloon element to Sc
cure the signatures of 90 per cent of the
voters of Boone County to mulct petit
ton was failure.
An unknown thief broke into the office
of the Rand Lumber Company in Oska-
loosa, broke open desk and tore up and
also burned number of papers it con-
tanned.
Albert Richardson, who lived at Linn
Grove. committed suicide by hanging.
He was prosperous farmer, aged about
so years, and leaves II widow and FAM
lily of young children. The supposed cause
of the suicide is in the fact that he had
rented his farm and became disconnected
over the arrangement.
Emma Schwemm. domestic employ
ed in the household of Frank Kin,ball,
Tripoli farmer, is the heroine of
shooting ARRAY with a tramp in which
the girl proved victorious. The young
lady was alone in the house when the
tramp approached and demanded some
thing to eat, attempting to enforce his
demands at the point Of revolver. The
plucky girl also procured revolver and
several shots We're exchanged, during
which it was thought the thug was
wounded in the arm. He made his es-
cape.
George Sherman Des MONIES car
penter, fell twenty feet from scaffold,
and received possibly fatal injuries,