Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-06-25

| A postoffice has been established at
Coulter, with George II. Propst us post
master.
| The starch trust may rebuild the starch
works destroyed by fire at Des Moines
year ago.
George Florence of Mason City was
accidentally shot in the knee by a care
less hunter.
John Heideman, the Blackhawk Coun-
ty youth injured by pulverizer, died
of his injuries.
Plans for the new Milwaukee depot at
| Washington have been completed and
work on the building will begin at once.
Stock to the amount of $4,000 has
been subscribed for the new hotel ut
Fort Dodge. Only $4,000 more is want
ed.
| The labor unions of Waterloo have in
augurated the plan of holding annual me-
mortal services in honor of their dead
comrades.
William S. Maxwell of Arkansas City,
Kan, has been appointed industrial
teacher Mt the Sac and Fox Indian
school, lama.
| Popejoy is to have new Methodist
Church, which will cost $1,000. Two
thousand dollars of this amount has al
ready been pledged.
The congregation of st. Peters and St
Paul's Church at Sherrill's Mound has
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of that church.
The Colfax City Council has just cor
Guided a long time lease with the own
ers of the electric light plant, with a
privilege purchase clause attached.
State Binder Tedford of Mt Ayr and
Miss Regina Vale of Bonaparte We're
| united in marriage at the home of the
bride. Their home will be in Mt. Ayr.
| Jacob Shuerman, Des Moines book
keeper, shot and seriously wounded fell
low who attempted to hold him up. The
wounded man refuses to reveal his iden-
tity.
| Thirty OF the business men of Alton
formed an association the other day and
in short time 1900 was raised with
which to purchase and equip baseball
park.
On account of i'll health, August Hen
selmann of Burlington threw himself in
front of switch engine and was run
over, dying instantly. He was 65 years
of age.
Edward Pollock was found dead in bed
at his home near Littleton. He had been
| living alone and had been dead some time
when found. Death resulted from nat
urai causes.
In making an eight-foot cut through
mound-like hill near Rock Rapids for n
new road the graders found the skeletons
of four bodies of Indians in fair state
of preservation.
! Judge o. p. Shiras of Dubukuc has
| been on the bench of the United States
| courts for the northern district of Iowa
twenty years, or since the district was
created in 1882.
During thunder storm at Lacona
| team hitched to wagon in which were
four boys was struck by lightning and
both horses killed. The boys were Sc
verely shocked.
All Davenport school children must be
| vaccinated before the beginning of the
next school year. according to recent
order promulgated by the local board of
health of that city.
Mrs. Mary Bennett of Des Moines,
aged a years. died from the effect of
burns received by accidentally overturn-
ing lamp she was carrying which set
fire to her clothing.
Secretary Wesley Greene of the State
Horticultural Society says the Indications
| at the close of May We're that there will
be about two-thirds of a. crop of apples
| and other tree fruits.
One hundred miners houses, each TO be-
comfortable and include n cistern, will be
built In Buxton as soon as possible,
which means an increase of ut least 500
in the population this summer.
There is scarcity Of laborers of all
kinds in and about Creston. There is
shortage of men for rairoad work MT
S1.75 per day, and carpenters, farm
hands and day laborers are in demand.
William and Elizabeth Ferris of To-
ledo celebrated their tfticth wedding an
| niversary at their home with number
of friends. They received congratulate
tons and pile of gold coins as souve-
Mrs.
verdict of not guilty was rendered
in the Justices court at Ottumwa in the
case against John III. Springer, charged
with breaking the Sabbath by selling
meat on that day. His attorneys plead
Ell Necessity as tne cOuSe.
One of the boldest robberies in years
was committed ut Missouri Valley on the
leading business street. Burglars broke
| out two large plate glass windows in the
building occupied by the Globe Clothing
Company by throwing large scale weights
| through them The robbers then secured
large quantity of clothing and shoes
used for display purposes in the windows.
A clam digger at Dubuque found the
body of young woman lying in the river
along the Iowa shore above Eagle Point
bridge, the northern limit of the city.
The nose was broken and the eye discol-
ored and these wounds gave rise to the
theory of murder. The body was idcnti-
fed as that of Matilda Wagner. 23 years
old. daughter of Christian Wagner, II
wellto-do farmer near Apple River, Ill.
She had been employed in the family of
George Enneign at Freeport. Ill. She
disappeared from Ennegn's home on
Sunday evening. She left the house
| without hat or wrap and wandered over
to East Freeport, where she met n friend
from whom she parted at the court house.
That was the last seen of her at Free
port. Her disappearance was attributed
by the Enneign family to insanity, as for
weeks she had been down-hearted and
worried.
| The report of births and deaths for
| Emmett County during 1901 shows 2O2
births and 60 deaths. Figuring on 10000
population makes the death rate So per
1000.
The beds in the home of Mr.. Waiter
son. foreman of the B., @. II. 4 N. at
Nichols, We're torn to pieces by burglars
in an effort to find his money. They Sc
cured $76.
The old soldiers of Oakland and vicin-
ity have raised the money and purchased
$1,000 soldiers monument, which will
be placed in Oakland cemetery probably
by July 4.
State Treasurer Gibertson's check of
! collections of collateral inheritance tax