Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-11-26

discontinued, mail to Garden Grove
The Sloan town council has refused to
license bowling alley in that place.
Farmers in some sections of the State
are paying corn huskers four cents a
bushel.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Lawburg-Stovcr Grocery Company of
Madrid.
The Concrete Stone Co., new manu-.
featuring industry, has Incorporated at
Waterloo.
a municipal plant as the solution of the
lighting problem.
Cecil Buckley, Waterloo school boy,
suffered the fracture of his collar bone
while playing football.
In a family quarrel at Marine, L. j.
I Giles was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by his son.
ed checks at DEBORAH last April, has been
arrested at Galena, Ill.
The boarding house of John Walker
at Creston was destroyed by fire; loss
$1,000, insurance Sl,300
The annual exhibition of the Missis-
sippi Valley Poultry Association will be
held at Dubuque Jan. 1915.
Charles Vance is dead Mt Shenandoah
us n result of injuries received by being
caught in the gearing of a thresher.
Robbers broke into Scheter Bros big
department store Mt Sigourney and stole
$500 In silk goods and $500 in furs.
The store of d. S. Mawthor was burg
larized at Frederick. A large amount of
goods was taken. There is no clue.
Gov. Cummins has issued proclama-
ton asking the general observance Of
Thursday. Nov. 81, MS Thanksgiving day.
The Marshall County grand jury re-
turned twelve indictments. Six boys
all under II years, are indicted for burg
larry.
Mrs. Mary A. Swan, aged SO, of Des
Moines, was run down by an electric
street car and received injuries that caus-
ed her death.
John b. Lamb, car inspector and re-
pairer for the Chicago, Rick Island and
Pacific Railroad Company, was killed
at Montpelier.
Articles of incorporation of the Ger
mania Verein of Denison have been filed
with the Secretary of State. The capital
stock is $4,000.
Fearing her lover had grown tired of
her, Meta Leisure. Council Bluffs young
woman. attempted suicide by shooting.
She may recover.
While out hunting, Charles Squire of
Ainsworth received an injury by the &C.
cidental discharge of q shotgun, that
may cost him an arm.
The charge for each inebriate in the
State hospitals is SO per month. The
amount is charged up to the county from
whence the dpsomaniac is sentenced.
]. w. Duryea, pioneer citizen of
Boone, was thrown from his buggy by his
horse running away and received fatal
injuries. His head and chest are crushed.
+. w. Siverly of Louisa County, 81
years old. has voted Mt every election
since 1923, in which year he voted for
Andrew Jackson for President, in Penn
sylvanin.
Fire destroyed the old passenger stu
ton of the G. G. w: Railway Mt Mar
shalltown. The building was to have been
used us freight house when the new
station was completed.
Woodbury. County defeated the propo-
sition for an increased bridge levy and
as the county is already up to its limit
Of Indebtedness the county is liable 10
have to do without needed bridges for n
few years
The town of Thayer is excited over he
disappearance of Mrs. William Bacon.
wife of farmer. She left home Oct. 20
to visit friends. Her letter has been re-
ceived from her saying she wanted to
die, but she cannot be located, and her
friends are alarmed.
Frank Perkins. II years old, dead; Asa
Noe, 20 years old. minus hand; Oliver
Fothergill has n bullet in his thigh, and
Frank Cejke may die as the result of n
careless examination of shotguns by the
youths. The boys We're comparing guns
in Ottnmwa when Perkins weapon was
discharged in his face and during the
excitement other hunters were wounded
by the general discharge of their fowl
ing pieces.
Officers of the Des Moines National
Bank have made public the loss of $1,000
shipped by American express to the Bank
of Irwin, on Oct 20. When the package
was opened at Irwin the next day it
contained brown paper. One seal had
been removed from the package without
! breaking it and replaced by the use Of
mucilage after the package had been clos
ed again. 1t is said the mucilage WAS
still soft when the package was opened,
| thus indicating that the contents of the
package had not been removed many
hours.
Through the efforts of the Marshall
County officers the Gearing robbery has
been finally cleared up and most of the
stolen goods recovered, The thieves
broke into the depot at Gearing and stole
sample trunk belonging to n representa-
| tive of the John Pritzloff Hardware Com
pany of Milwaukee. The trunk contained
about $500 worth of cutlery. The Off
GERS arrested r. B. Green at Tnma. Green
| disclosed the fact that there was fence
ut Ferguson. also at Walford, and the
| fact that the goods had been taken from
the trunk ut Ferguson and shipped in n
| telescope to Walford to one William
| Stokes, known MS Iowa Bill' and leader
of the gang. Stokes, however, must have
grown suspicious, for he has kept clear
| Of Walford, as far as the officers are con-
cerned. The officers have other parties
under surveillance.
Interest is being revived in the pro-
posed electric line from Dubuque west
ward to several nearby towns and it is
understood that the promoters of the en-
| terprise will hold another meeting in the
near future and discuss plans for the new
| line.
A man representing himself to he n
hired man of John 7. Baker forged Mr..
Bakers name to six checks OH the First
| National Bank and got them cashei at
various business places at Coon Rapids
first cutting the telephone line that
reaches to Mr.. Bakers neighborhood. He
escaped.
Full particulars in regard to the death
of u. c. Ingledue, the Gearing druggist
at Colorado Springs, explode the suicile
theory and show that his falling out Of q
window was purely accidental.