Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-23


Improvements under way and COM
pleted at Lime Springs aggregate $4,000
The State has sold small island In
the Mississippi near Davenport for $3.50
cash.
The State Bank of Collins has been au.
thorized to begin business; capital
sos, 900.
Mayor Morgan of Council Bluffs has
issued an order closing all gambling
houses.
Surveyors are in Grinnell surveying for
an electric line between Waterloo and
Grinnell.
Dubuque Republicans have invited
President Roosevelt to visit that city
this fall.
The remains of Clark Meyer, who was
murdered in Council Bluffs, were buried
at Fairfield.
Willie Hammond, Des Moines lad,
has disappeared, and his parents fear he
was drowned.
The proposition to give gas company
franchise carried at Shenandoah by q
vote Of 294 to 4.
1t is rumored that the Northwestern
machinists may strike, in sympathy with
the boilermakers.
The hardware store of Huber & kal.
back, at Oskaloosa, was robbed of about
500 worth Of goods.
The county attorneys of the State will
hold their next annual meeting at Des
Moines July % and 20.
The Waterville. Savings Bank, ALBANIA
kee County, has filed articles Of incor.
poration; capital $4,000.
The annual convention of the Iowa As
ISOLATION of County Sheriffs will be held
in Des Moines July % and "a.
In small freight wreck on the North
western at Missouri Valley, box car
was demolished and Engineer O'Rourke
had leg broken.
General Arthur Macarthur will prob
ably accompany President Roosevelt to
Council Bluffs at the time of the Philip
pine Veterans reunion.
Council Bluffs street car motormen and
conductors will hereafter carry revolvers
on their night runs, in anticipation Of in
terviews with hold-up men.
Walter Pringle, arrested at Clinton for
selling liquor from raft In the Missis-
sippi in violation of the mulct law, plead
ed guilty and was fined $50 and costs.
A 9-months-old child of N. J. Vickery,
of Dewitt, swallowed number of tab
lets of corrosive sublimate. The prompt
arrival Of physician saved the child's
life.
Friends of Hon. S. I. Meservey, of
Fort Dodge, are suggesting him as a
suitable man for director Of the United
States mint in case George e. Roberts
resigns.
Maggie Hines, Davenport girl afilict-
ed with the habit of eating her own hair,
was operated upon by physicians, who re-
moved matted ball Of hair from her
stomach.
Nellie Richardson, 16-year-old Abba
girl, was fatally injured while coasting
down steep hill. She lost control OF
her wheel and was thrown in such man
ner as to cause conclusion of the brain.
A young lady about 20 years Of age.
named Osgood, was found dead in a well
Mt her fathers home, four miles west Of
Winterset. 1t is supposed she commit
ted suicide, though no cause is known
for the act.
Judge Withrow, of the District Court,
has granted an injunction restraining the
city Of Burlington from buying the water
works, which are now the property of a
private corporation. The case will be
taken to the Supreme Court.
The famous O'Brien County land cases
have been decided by Judge o. P. Shiras
of the federal court in favor Of the home
steaders. The cases have been In the
courts for years. The Sioux City and
st. Paul Railroad claimed title to vast
tracts of land, which the government had
dedicated to homestead purposes. The
suits were between the homesteaders and
persons who had purchased land from the
railroad company. The Department of
the Interior some time ago ruled in favor
of the purchasers. Judge Shiras reverses
the department. twenty-five thousand
acres are involved in his decision and
forty lawsuits affected.
While coasting down hill, Ora Will
liams. 15-year-old boy at Soldier, was
thrown from his wheel into wire fence
and received injuries that may prove
fatal.
i Surveyors are at work on the route of
the Sioux City extension of the Great
Western. 1t is said two routes have al
ready been laid out, but that neither one
is entirely satisfactory.
An appropriation Of $3.50, 900 was made
by Congress for the site for the new
postofiice building at Des Moines, which
is to contain 10000 square feet. A site
has been offered on the river front.
1t is now Known that Miss Wagner
whose body was found in the Mississippi
at Dubuque, was murdered by unknown
men. Officers are working on the case.
Il. A. Kolar, for twenty years agent
for the Iowa Central Railroad at Ack.
ley, committed suicide at that place by
cutting his throat. No motive is known
Daniel Spengler of Peiro made up his
mind to get married and selected Miss
Efie Hummel of that town for the bride
Without her knowledge of his intent, he
went to Sioux City and secured the Ii.
cense. Returning to Peiro he made his
business known to the young lady and
would not desist till placed under arrest
on charge Of insanity.
Stephen D. Hickman, weli-known
Charlton attorney, has died as a result
of injuries received from horses kick
VIII Thompson, former Des Moines
boy, committed suicide at Boulder, Colo.
by blowing himself to pieces with dyna-
mite. He was victim of i'll health.
Silas johnson, II years old, drowned
himself in Mud lake. He was under i'll
dictment for having placed Instructions
on the Chicago and Northwestern tracks
north of Jewell last March, when he is
said to have piled stones and debris on q
bridge. He was tried in April, when
the jury disagreed. The reading Of cheap
novels put the idea into his bead that Ae
could become desperate,