Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-02-12
state Iten,s Of Interest,

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State Items of Interest.
A farm near Norway recently sold for
500 an acre.
In Iowa there are 1900 churches and
1850 school houses.
A battery of light artillery will be
formed ut Des Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Thorpe of Du-
buque have celebrated their golden we'd
ding.
An effort is being made to raise funds
for the completion of the college building
at Tabor.
The graduating exercises of the State
University will be held this year in a
mammoth tent.
At a fancy stock sale at Sutherland,
Poland China hogs sold ut price of
$3.50 per head.
Among Cedar Rapids prospective new
buildings are $4,000 hospital and a
S11 900 school building.
The Iowa Historical Society has re-
ceivcd some valuable acquisitions recent
ly in the way of Indian relics, etc.
to reopen the ease of Charles Thomas,
in connection with the mysterious death
of Mabel Scofield.
Greene is having some trouble with
its water works contractors. and refuses
to pay certain balance until certain
work has been done.
G. G. DuBosc has been indicted by the
grand jury AT Ottumwa for the embez-
Element of $1,000. There are eleven
counts to the Indictment.
An Armstrong fur dealer has handled
$4,000 worth of the goods within three
months, an evidence that the game is
not all gone from Iowa.
The Battendorf Steel and Axle and
Car Holster Company plant was partly
DESTROYED by fire at Davenport. Loss
$4,000, insurance S1G3,000.
The buggy occupied by o. II. Kellogg,
Il Galva rural mail carrier, was wrecked
in Il collision with passenger train, but
he escaped with slight injuries.
Frank Adams, who lost leg in rail
road accident at Missouri Valley, has set
tied with the Northwestern company, re-
ceiving $4,000 i'll cash, IL pass on the
road good for one year, and medical eX-
pcnseS paid.
Iowa ranks first of all the States in
the value of the farm crops for 1901,
aud in the value of its live stock for the
same year. The farm crop of Iowa was
valued at S2T4,0O0,000, and the live stock
at S2Gl.000,000.
Frank Bender, the Waterloo engineer
whose lungs Were penetrated by n rag
ged board in IL railroad accident ut Fort
Dodge some time ago, is reported to be re,
covering. The case has excited much com
ment among physicians, who regard his
recovery rs little short of miraculous.
A disastrous fire broke out in the vii.
lagc of Norwalk, consuming the largest
part of the business section. II. s.
Trusler's harness shop, the Norwalk
Journal Wells drug store and Simon
Cassady's bank We're destroyed. The loss
will be $4,000. partly covered by in,
surance.
Judge A. II. Dewey at Oskaloosa pro-
nounced sentence of death upon Richard
Williams, colored, convicted of the muir
der of William Sharper. Execution was
set for March 10.
One hundred families of Hollanders
from different sections of Illinois have
purchased 10000 acres of land in Des
Ioines County and will settle thereon
The land was mostly reclaimed by the
new government levce.
The citizens of Walker have determined
to prevent lawlessness in the town. Eigh
teen young men We're arraigned bcfort
Justice Hutchins on the charge of dis
turbing n lawful assembly. A number OF
the young men have pleaded guilty.
Dcs Mones will be made the disbursin4
point for the rural mail delivery system
of Iowa. All carriers will be paid from
the postotiice in that city. The Januar,
payment wis amount to $25,01S.
Congressman Rumple of the Second
Iowa district has introduced n bill In
Congress for the protection of the pear
industry along the Mississippi river. II
provides for closed season of three
months.
The mine Il the Mine Star Coal Com
pany, n few miles from the scene OF iii,
Lost Creek horror of last week, caught
kfre from an explosion following shot.
1T by miners. Forty men had just left
b works.