Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-15
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Oakville has voted to incorporate.


Oakvile has voted to INCORPORATE.
Klemme business men will erect a
brick hotel.
Deposits in Des Moines banks have de-
creased in two months from S3051, 242
to S2,S67 SOC.
O'Brien County Democrats placed but
one candidate in nonination-for the
Office of sheriff.
G. d. ELLIS, an attorney of Charles
City, Iowa, was run down and severely
injured by an express wagon.
The school census of Belle PLANE gives
that city 80 children of school age, 4SI
being males and 4S6 being females.
james Jones, an Atlantic implement
dealer, has made an assignment. 1t is
thought all claims will be paid in full.
John Newhouse, Creston carpenter
fell from scafrold, a distance of twenty
feet, and is now paralyzed from his neck
down.
Guy Davis of Thayer, n water boy for
Burlington route construction gang. fell
under Il moving train and suffered the loss
of one leg.
Mary Griffin has sued the city Of Os.
kaloosa for $500 for injuries alleged t,
have been received by fall on n defec.
tive sidewalk.
Work on the new city hall, postoiIicc
and other buildings at Creston may be
delayed many months on account of the
scarcity of brick.
Postmnsters appointed: Clemens, vii
nj. n 4.
ed; Lowell, Emmett II. Morrow, vice b
G. Lite, resigned.
In decision just rendered ut Du
buque. Judge Shiras, in federal court, dc.
cided that his court had jurisdiction over
suits for contesting wills when III,
amount involved exceeded $1,000 and til,
parties interested are residents of differ
ent States.
1t is expected that the Fort Dodge
Omaha line of the Great Western vii
be in operation by Nov. !.
Iowa ranks thirteenth among the appl,
producing States, according to the figure.
issued by Secretary Greene of the Stat,
Horticultural Society.
Mrs. w. T. Marine, pioneer resident
Of Benton County and mother of former
Pension Agent S. A. Marine, died recent
~ in Des Moines, aged 81 years.
The Chicago Great Western will en-
large its Dubuque shops and has peti
toned that city's Council for vacation
of street to give needed room.
Mrs. +. L. Schulz, living near Burling
ton, drank cupful of carbolic acid. mis-
taking it for nerve tonic, and died In
few minutes.
An explosion of gasoline caused n fir,
which destroyed the residence of Antn,
Fisher at Buffalo Center. Mrs. Fisher
was seriously burned
Emil Lorenz, a 13-year-old Dubmau,
boy. was shot in the shoulder by the nc
cidental discharge of gun in the hands
of companion while out hunting.
John w. Sims of Knoxville, who killed
his father last August to prevent hin
from killing his mother, was discharged
the grand jury having found no bill
against him.
A courtship by wire eliminated in tn,
marriage of Charles HANCOCK, trail
dispatcher for the Burlington Railroad
in Ottumwa, to Miss Name II. Wist.
telegraph operator of Albany, Mo.
Thomas Tobin, who slew New Yorl
! millionaire recently for purposes of rob
berry and then attempted to cremate tn
body, was former inmate of one of TIL
Iowa penitentiaries, serving two year
for burglary.
A gang of tramps terrorized some o
/, the residents near Knoxville. At on
farm house they compelled .ae lady o
Ike house to cook them n meal. enforcin.
their demands at the point of gun. III
/ miscrearts made good their escape.