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

The Treasurer of State collected $1O3,-
600 inheritance tax last year.
DR.. H. E. Hunter of Newton is dead.
He was nearly 72 years of age.
The socialists will hold their State
convention at Davenport Sept. 2.
The Hershey memorial hospital at Mus
catine is open for the reception of pa
tents.
Street paving in Des Moines may be
deferred on account of the high price of
brick.
The Iowa Prisoners of War Associa-
ton will have no reunion at the State fair
this year.
The st. Peters Church building. one of
the Oldest structures in Keokuk. is being
torn down.
The Fort Dodge cereal mills will reopen
IN August. Employment will be given
eighty girls.
The State Association of osteopaths
haa decided toincorporate under the laws
Of the State.
In runaway at Grand Ford, Fred
Crees, a prominent farmer, was seri-
ously injured.
The Eleventh District Democratic
congressional convention will be held at
LeMars Aug. 81.
Two Illinois Central switch engines
collided in the yards at Waterloo and
were badly damnged.(
The Sidney Chautauqua will be held
Aug. 0 to II. A large tent has been Sc
cura1 for fho noco sion
Several instances are reported from
Dubuque In which pet dogs have become
afflicted with smallpox.
George w. Steinbrech, former resi-
dent of Iowa City, was drowned in the
White river in Montana.
A number OF cases of CHAMBERS have
been found among horses in railroad
camps near Fort Dodge.
Des Mcines police raidcd the gambling
dens in that city. Six places We're visited
and thirty-four men arrested.
David McElyogue, Des Moines litho-
grapher, was struck by Rock Island
switch engine and fatally injured.
In Wolf creek, near Climbing Hill,
Henry Goodrich, aged 18, was seized
with cramps and drowned while swim
ming.
The Fort Dodge City Council has pass
ed an ordinance providing for fire es-
capes on buildings three stories high and
over.
Articles of incorporation for the State
Savings Bank of Logan have been filed
with the Secretary of State. Its capital
is $4,000.
The board of control will soon adyer.
tise for bids on the new buildings to be
erected at the Soldiers Home at Mar.
shalltown.
Leith City is the name of new town
recently located in Adair County. 1t
will be station on the Creston inter
urban line.
The Tama County Supervisors have
purchased sectional wall maps for each
school house in the county at So per map.
Surveys are being made in this State
for the Illinois Central Railways con.
templated double track between Chica I'd
and Omaha.
Isaac Morlen, stabbed with a corkscrew
during drunken row ut Fairfield, will
recover. His assailants were held to the
grand jury.
The saloons of Iowa County are al
allowed to open and the petition Of con.
sent is now valid, pending an appeal to
the District Court.
Ernest Walling, 13-year-old Glen
wood lad was struck in the eye by a
piece of clay thrown by playmate. The
sight was destroyed.
| fNho coutroot Por - $500, I'LL,
ing to be erected at Marshalltown has
been let for $4,000. 1t will be called
the "Glick" school.
The residence of Jonas Midgelow. neal
Clinton, was totally destroyed by fire
together with its contents, including
nearly $500 in money.
In Clinton Moses Labarge, aged so
interfered between his daughter and her
husband, Ed Widner. The latter struck
Labarge on the head with flatiron, caus
ing instant death.
1t Is reported that thousands of acres
Of corn ground in Hamilton County will
yield nothing but fodder this year OH
account of excessive rainfall.
Rev. G. NJ. d. Slocum. formerly pas
tor OF the Congregational Church at Gil
man, has been declared hopelessly in,
sane. he Is at present In New York.
The Clarinda, College Springs and
Southern Hallway Company, with CAPT
tai of 100000, has. fled articles of in
corporation with the Secretary of State
SIX saloon men OF 0ttumwa were fined
by Judge Roberts for not observing the
Injunction issued against them last
spring. Each OF the six must pay the
'sss. and ~ ssserasy's fen,