Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-22
state News In Brief.


A Presbyterian Church has been or
ganized ut Haskins.
The Burlington telephone system will
be rebuilt at cost of $4,000.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed
Crause's livery barn at Sherwood.
Mrs. Il. S. Murphy, resident of Bur
lington for fifty years, is dead, aged 81.
w. A. Stevenson, prominent Water
loo business man, is dead of appendicitis
The Leligh Savings Bank has incrcas-
ed its capital stock from $4,000 TO So
600.
was dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies.
A number of blocks of asphalt paving
have been ordered by the Fort Dodge
City Council.
The Iowa Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion will hold its annual show in Water
loo, Dec, 1920.
A number of the light and power COM
panies of the State have been compelled
to resort to the use of oil as fuel.
The contract for Hampton's public IL
brary has been let. The price is $4,000
exclusive of plumbing and heating.
Henry ID. Lewis, n well-known en-
ploye of the Illinois Central for many
years, is dead at Dubuque, aged 81.
Boone County will vote Nov. 4 on the
proposition to issue bonds in the sum of
SIS, 600 for the erection of new county
home.
The Waterloo Canning Company will
in n few days close its factory for tie
season. The total output will be about
100000 cans.
The contract has been let for the con-
struction of the y. NJ. G. A. building mt
Muscatine. The cost, including plumb
ing, will be $4,000.
Patrick Ryan, Clinton young man.
who came home drunk and assaulted his
father with chair, has been arrested on
the charge of attempted murder.
The Women's Christian Association of
Council Bluffs is considering plans for
raising the $4,000 required to build the
new hospital proposed in that city.
A bloodhound which has been used to
good advantage by Blackhawk authori-
ties in tracking criminals has been sold
to federal authorities in Tennessee and
will now be employed in running down
moonshiners.
w. Il. Tomlinson, prominent bust
ness man, well known throughout south
eastern Iowa, is dead ut Burlington.
Rev. DIR. j. e. Refill, rector of st.
Johns Episcopal Church at Clinton, has
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Church, Madison, Wis.
The State capitol commission will ad-
vertise for bids for the erection of n
freproof document warehouse, to be built
opposite the capitol grounds.
Six acres of land adjoining the town
of Greene has been given to that city for
n public park. 1t will be named Perrin
Park" after the donor, ]. Perrin.
The appeal of Phillips and Brooks, the
Albert City bank robbers sentenced to
hang, will be heard ut the present ses-
sion of the Supreme Court.
In fit of dependency over financial
matters, A. ii. Paine of New London
sought to secure relief by suicide, hut
was prevented by friends.
The State will make handsome profit
OH the new edition of the code. 1t sells
at So per volume, and the cost was but
$1.25. There will be 1900 copies
Train No. 4 on the Kcokuk & Western
was derailed by an open switch fifty
miles south of Des Moines, and wrecked.
The engineer and fireman were badly ill.,
jured.
Monopolies on n small scale is the or
der of the day at Ruthven. The two
competing livery stables recently merged
and now the hotels of the town have been
placed under one management.
Contracts have been signed for the
erection at Cedar Rapids of new starch
factory, with daily capacity of 1000
bushels of corn, for the Douglas Com
pany. Work is to begin at once. The
capital is 100000.
Judge shiras has made the following
discharges in bankruptcy in the Cedar
Rapids division of federal court: Wilson
w. Leonard, Iowa Falls; Henry ]. Rum
BILE 4 Son, Clinton; Albert 3. Beall, Gin
ton.