Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-12-17

fire Mt Ottumwa. Loss $500.
The Dubuque police force is in de-
moralzed condition as result of petty
jcalousies among the members.
While out hunting, Fred Landphier Of
Peoria was accidentally shot In the arm.
The wound is not serious one.
William Dehart, colored section
hand, fell from hand car near Des
Moines and received fatal injuries.
Reed Lane, son of Joe r. Lane of
Davenport, was seriously injured in q
football game. His shoulder blade was
broken.
Charles Holada pleaded guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree Mt Iowa City for
the killing Of James Gallagher last
spring.
George Krother, "a years old, was
killed by the premature discharge of n
dynamite blast in new sewer in Des
Moines.
The Board of Supervisors of Fayette
County is receiving sketches from archi-
tects for the new court house to be erect
ed at DEBORAH.
Three men held up the station agent Mt
Almont, on the Midland road, md rob-
bed him of ST. They disappeared in the
direction of Clinton.
An S-year-old boy evangelist is Great
ing furore at Buxton. The Juvenile
spiritual prodigy has about ninety con-
versions to his credit.
The eighteenth annual meeting Of the
Northwestern Iowa horticultural Socie-
ty will be held at Nora Springs, Floyd
County, on Dec. 10, II and IS.
Fritz Hamdorf, prominent Wheat
land farmer, committed suicide by taking
strychnine. 1t is believed poor health
had made him temporarily insane.
By the bursting of a balance wheel
on steam saw at Delmar, Will Foley.
16 years old, received injuries that ne
cessitated the amputation of one leg.
The Illinois Central has begun the
work of reducing the grades between
Fort Dodge and Waterloo, for which the
company has set aside about $5OO,00O.
An unknown miscreant threw rock
through window of Milwaukee pas
senger coach near Clinton. Frank Ev-
ans, passenger, was seriously injured.
Henry F. Smith, a prominent young
farmer, was instantly killed and Henry
Hennis seriously injured by the North
western fast train at State Center cross
ing.
Seven hundred and fifty pounds of
turkey and other edibles in proportion
were required for the Thanksgiving din
ner at the Soldiers Home at MARSHALL
town.
For the first time in the history of
Plymouth County there are no criminal
cases on the court docket. Another re-
markable fact is that no divorce cases
are to be heard.
Some of the property found in posses
sion of the negro Boxell, arrested at
Cleveland, has been identified as being
stolen from the store of SHIPPER Bros.
of Sigourney, Nov. 3.
President A. Z. Holder of the State
Federation of Labor has received reports
showing that in the past six months there
have been ninety-two trades and labor
unions organized in Iowa.
The Tri-City Street Railway Company
at Davenport has just completed the
placing of orders for construction mate
rails to be used next year. The amount
of these orders will equal about $125,-
600.
The Iowa main line of the Rock ISL
andn Railroad, which has heretofore been
operated Us single division for dispatch
ing of trains, has been divided into two
divisions, with Des Moines as the focal
point.
A collision in the yards of the Santa
Fe at Fort Madison between IN engine
and freight car caused the death of
John Seaman, aged IS, employed in the
water service of the company, and the
serious injury of Engineer Gumore and
Fireman Leber.
Two revolvers, an oyercoat and several
other smaller articles, found about a
mile and half west of Davenport on
the main line of the Rock Island road,
are the latest discoveries in regard to the
train robbers who held mp the fast ex-
press last Friday night.
BY the verdict of the coroner's jury ut
Muscatine, over the body of Thomas
Winnemore, who was killed by being run
over by loose horse belonging to Will
liam Moore, that man is held RESPONSE
tie for Winnemore's death.
Judge Mcpherson, in the federal court
III Des Moines dissolved the injunctions
obtained in the State courts, restraining
Mai. Turner, in charge of the construc-
ton of the army post there, from building
sewer across certain private land. He
ruled that an army officer carrying cut
orders of superior cannot be interfered
with by State courts.
Mrs James Stuart was thrown from
buggy at Dubuque and terribly injured.
The attending physician found it neces-
sary to take forty-four stitches In re-
placing her scalp.
May Cunningham, 15-year-old Oska-
loosa girl, eloped to Des Moines with
Jesse Herman, aged go. The police are
looking for them and will charge Her
man with abduction.
One man was killed and eight others
seriously injured by the wrecking of n
Wabash work train near Council Bluffs.
The train ran into COW. The caboose
was derailed and William Hudnell of
Moberly, Mo-, stationary engineer,
was killed. The injured were laborers.
A 1O-year-old son of Lars Haglund of
Fort Dodge had narrow escape from
death through eating cough drops by the
Wholesale. The application of stomach
pump saved his life.
o. B. Blachley, wealthy jeweler, kill
ed himself at Cedar Rapids by shooting.
Ill health and worry over the affairs Of
a brother in the insane asylum are be.
lieved to have caused sudden insanity.
A. Gregoris, charged with the murder
of his cousin, George Kolemosky, was
acquitted by jury at Adel. Kolemosky's
body was found in the timber near Per-
ry last spring and Gregoris, who was
hunting with him, was charged with the