Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-02
Brief State Happenings.

Guthrie Center has n building boom.
Charlottesville has new town we'll,
with $50 feet of water.
L. B. Steel has been appointed post
master at Graple, vice NJ. Steel, resigned.
DIR. @. NJ. Sevele has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at Mason
City.
The King-Jordan mill at Denison was
totally destroyed by fire. 1t may be re-
built.
The fine residence of Alfred Heron in
Dubuque was destroyed by fire. Loss
5000.
The Nora Springs Seminary has been
purchased by syndicate of business men
of that town.
The Sioux Association of Congregation
al Churches will hold meeting at Mo-
willie April 0 and 10.
f. =. Willard has been reelected su-
perntendent of the Marshaltown school
at salary of $1,000.
A stranger giving his name ms 2. j.
Collins attempted to pass n worthless
check for S444 on an Ottumwa business
man, and is now in the tolls
The Methodists of Moulton have COM
pleted and dedicated their new church.
The structure is free of debt. nearly ST.
600 being raised on dedication day.
S. j. Sads, n pioneer Iowan and one
of the Oldest Odd Fellows in the State,
is dead at his home in Burlington. He
became resident of that city in 1910.
BY the end of the month every over
head wire belonging to the Edison sys-
TEN, in the business district of Dcs
Moines, will have been put underground.
Robert Tray, a coal miner of Cleveland,
aged 40 years, was killed by Burling-
ton train near Lucas. He was walking
on the track and met the train at n
curve.
A Muscatne nimrod shot white swan
while on n recent hunting expedition. The
bird measured seven feet from tip to tip
These birds have been very scarce in this
State in recent years.
The last chapter in the now famous
Kempley land case was enacted at Fort
Dodge when the deeds to Mr.. Kempley's
Webster County land, which were fraud
nlently secured from him by DR.. Orrin
l.. Woodwork, We're returned by County
Auditor Ford in response to an order
from Judge Whitaker. Word of the final
fate of Woodwork has been received
After long period of imprisonment his
case recently came up for trial at Los
Angeles and he was fined 500 for carry
ing counterfeiters' dies on his person.
w. B. Tade of Hillsboro took the silver
cup in the agricultural contest Mt Knox
vile, Tenn. He was the best judge of
sheep and swine
Frank Dillon. clerk in n Clinton
restaurant, robbed his employer of a
large quantity of silyerware and cigars
and then left for parts unknown.
Fire originated in the a. II. Hohl meat
market in Tacoma and spread TO the La
coma Ledger office and residence of G. Il.
Tilden, reducing buildings and contents
to ashes. except some furniture saved by
Tiden. The total loss is estimated at
about $4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
George A. Goodrich, farmer living
one mile east of Ira, caught his left hand
in buzz saw run by steam and before
the engine could be stopped his hand was
almost sawed off.
1t is unofiicially reported that the ILL
nois Central has decided to abolish its
shops at Dubuque. Within the next few
months the shops are to be RACED and the
machinery taken to Waterloo and Free
port.
Haven Knudson, n 17-year-old boy,
living near Milford, was accidentally
shot in the left foot by companion
while hunting. All the bones of the in
step were shattered. He will probably
lose the foot.
Ernest Hindley, 19-year-old Center
vile youth. has been sent to prison for
three years for burglarizing farm house
near Seymour. A 14-year-old companion
was sent to the reform school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Morton of Shelby
have celebrated the sixty-ffth annivcr-
sary of their wedding. They have TWEEN
ty grandchildren and ten great-grandchl-
dren and are still in good health.
Charles Overstreet, an unmarried man
3S years of age, placed rifle under his
chin at Adel, pulled the trigger with his
foot and tore great hole through his
head, causing instant death. Ill health is
supposed to have been the cause of the
deed.
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