Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-10-14
Dubuoue i, in the tsroe, Of a servant

at Mason City.
Blue Grass will vote on the question
of Incorporation.
The Wapello County Humane Society
will be recognized.
The residence Of DIR. Powell at Earl
ing was robbed Of $50.
A municipal temperance league has
been formed at Waterloo.
Lehigh is to have a new school build-
ing, to cost about $4,000.
Mrs. Susan Mccarthy died recently at
Davenport, aged 85 years.
1t il planned to exhibit ton Of lows
honey at the st. Louis fair.
George Luck Is dead at Dubuque. He
was born in that city in 1889.
There are 6,258 books in the Mussef
free public library at Muscatine.
A daring but unsuccessful attempt
was made to rob the jewelry store ct
Thornton.
Gov. Cummins has issued his annual
election proclamation, The election oc.
ours Nov. 5.
James w. Breeding, sheriff Of Madi.
son County, is dead at Winterset Of
typhoid fever.
The Iowa conference of the United
Brethren Church has been divided into
two districts.
Ray G. Delmase, former deputy
United States marshal, is dead at LORI
NOR. aged 02.
The Tri-State Street Railway Com
pany will build immense new car barns
at Davenport.
The Waterloo street car company win
add mile of new track In the business
part of the city,
Robbers looted three residences at
Madrid, at one OF them securing 800
and gold watch. 81
The Scott County grand jury returned
twenty indictments out Of thirty.two
cases investigated. ~
James Mccormick, aged 90, and Annie
Keys, aged Is. Of Buxton, have just been;
made man and wife.
Fire destroyed large barn and con-
tents on the farm Of John Frehse, near
West Point. Loss $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. 8. Corey Of Fort
Dodge have Just celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their wedding.
Opal Panic, Des Moines PAGER, drop
ped dead in the 2:35 pace at Lake Com
trary track, near st. Joseph, Mo.
The c.. NJ. & st. P. Railway contem-
plates extensive improvements in the OF
tumwa yards, and additions to the depot
there.
Two freight trains on the Rock Island
collided head-on six miles east Of Cen
terville. John Goodman Of Eldon was
killed.
Rev. DIR. ]. A. Earl, Baptist minister
At Waterloo, may resign to accept Z call
to the Chicago Avenue Baptist Church Of
Minneapolis.
A fine barn on the Orrin Teeter farm,
near Waterloo, was destroyed by FIRE,
caused by a horse kicking over q Lam
tern. Loss $500.
Damage suits aggregating $4,000 arc
pending against Clarion, MS a result Of
injuries alleged to have been received on
defective sidewalks.
Hopeyille has asked to have the rural
mail route, which furnishes its mail SER
vice now, abandoned, and a star route
from Murray re-establishcd.
The cocaine, morphine and other drug
habits are spreading at an alarming rate
in Fort Dodge, according to the state
mcpt Of physician Of that city.
The pay Of teachers in the Dubuque
County schools has been Increased slight
~, to the following amounts: First grade,
S35; second grade. $3.50 a month. , -
The Oldest woman In Washington
County is Mrs. Catherine Ongemach,
who has celebrated her ninety fifth birth
day. She hos never worn glasses.
Mrs. Nina Scllick, residing In Dies
Moines, attempted suicide by swallowing
an ounce of laudanum. A stomach pump
saved her. She had quarreled with her
husband.
Earl Doty of West Union and Miss
Lizzie Talbot have just been married at
Toledo. The couple will sail next month
for Canton, Chan. where they will enter
the missionary field under the supervis-
ion of the United Brethren Church.
| David Jacobson, IA years old, residing
near Fort Dodge, fell from load Of hay
in sucli a manner as to impale himself
on fork. He died in terrible agony .
few hours later.
Former Deputy United States Mar
4 shall w. A. Richards Of Creston wa6
found guilty of the robbery Of ME- and
Mrs p. Sullivan at Hamilton the night
of New Years day. Baird. who was
wounded in the hold-up, turned States
1 evidence against Richards. He testified
that he and crook nnmed Redrnp secur-
ed the 1000 that was extorted from the
Sullivans, and that Richards engineered
the robbery and stood guard at the door
while 1t was going on. He claimed, too,
that Richards must have got the money.
Mayor Stebbins of Iowa City and
4 President MacLean Of the State UMyer-
sity of Iowa faced a mob OF thousand
students the other afteronon and forbade
them from proceeding with the sophie
more-freshman annual rush. It Is the first
time in the history of the institution that
this has been done. The sophomorea had
suspended huge wooden bottle Of milk
from cable stretched ncross the campus
and had dragged freshmen thither,
drenched them with milk, and forced
them to drink the dirty fluid as It pour.
ed down from the bottle. The freshmen
outnumbered the sophs, but were unable
to tear down the bottle. They overpow-
l cAVu ihunS oSspAiOuAO-Nc, hOWGNSks WAA>A
dragged them away half denuded and Inn
prisoned them in coal house. OtheN
they deluged at the university pump.
| Despondent and tired Of life, Mrs.
Gustu Maher of Dcs Aloines attempted
suicide in the Dies Aioines river. Two
neighbor women prevented the consum-
nation of her purpose.
\ A new department at Iowa State Col.
lege that has begun work this term is the
department of soil physics. The depart.
ment has been put under the charge Of
Prof. W. H. Stevenson.
! The fact that a nephew of Bishop
4 Cosgrove has been ruined in the dives Of
Davenport has started the Catholic au-
thorities Of that city on another reform
movement against mwlessness.
A mysterious death is reported from
the country seven miles south Of Elmer
son. An unknown man was found In q
water tank on n farm. His throat was