Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-23
AROUND A BIG STATE
INTERESTING ITEMS OF LATE
IOWA NEWS.
state Finance. In Pro.p.rou. cona,.
tion : Station Agent Returns and
Makes Up shsrtase-Boy walks on
Train While Asleep.

The biennial report of State Treasurer
GDbertson has been printed. 1t makes
most excellent showing of the finances
OF the State and indicates. that the bal
ance that will be on hand at the end Of
the next year will be far in excess Of
what was anticipated. Conservative es-
Inmates by the several State departments
and the committees on ways and means
Of the Twenty-ninth General Assembly
as to probable receipts and disburse-
ments placed the cash balance in the
treasury Jan. 1, 1904, belonging to the
general revenue, at between $4,000 and
100000. Large receipts from unexped-
ed sources will make this balance near
er 100000. The balance at the close
Of June 80, 1903, was $1,57O,47S.Ss.
Many appropriations made by the Twen-
ty-ninth General Assembly have either
not been drawn or nre yet to become
available, and therefore this present bal
ance will be much reduced later. The
estimated receipts were much below the
actual receipts.
Total receipts ending 1908 sc, III 1855 so
Total receipts ending 1901. 5,120,O59 "a
Increase 1903 over 1901 $3.50, 795 96
Every source of revenue save one
shows an increase over the preceding
period. The receipts from State institu-
lions under the board Of control show a
decrease of 81, 9SS92. The others show
large increases. Those from miscellane-
GUS receipts are accounted for by the
receipt from the United States govern
ment of the following:
Rafund Civil War c1niu, eAKa AIT 90
Refund Spanish war claim. S3,771 GO
Refund Tama Indian quar-
sntine ....s.............. 1000 90
1otal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $49I lS9 90
The increase IN taxes from counties
for the biennial period is $249, 4SS. 90;
in corporation tax, S50.344. 35; collateral
inheritance tax. 3S,20O.2c; in fees from
State officers, $780, 52.78.
Fifty Poisoned by "Cider.''
Fully fifty persons were poisoned by
drinking orange cider" at the Fairfield
fair grounds. NJ. j. Garvin and Frank
Donnellson ran the stand at which the
decoction was sold. They offered the
people all they could drink for 8 cents.
Many women and children availed them
selves Of the opportunity to quench their
thirst. Soon after drinking they were
taken with violent vomiting and be-
came unconscious. Dozens were loaded
into wagons and buggies and hurried
away to the doctors. Garvin has been
placed in Jail. Donnellson escaped. It
has been ascertained that the fakers put
common dye into the fluid they were sell
ing to color 1t orange. The dye con-
tanned arsenic.
Missing station Agent Returns.
Word has been received by the Mime
apolis and st. Louis oficials at Fort
Dodge that Agent Perfaetor Of TINT road
whose sudden disappearance from Burn
yide, where he was stationed, has caus-
ID 30 much wonder, has returned. Per
factor left over week before andSit was
thought for some time that he had met
with foul play. This was cleared up by
the discovery that he had bought ticket
10 Chicago from Fort Dodge. A small
shortage in his accounts was discovered
BY the railroad company. This he made
up on his return, but what reasons he
gives for his sudden disappearance, leav.
| ing the door of the station open, hns no,
been learned.
\ Youth's Marrow Escape.
\ Master Willie Hennessey, the 14-year
old son Of Patrick Hennessey, a shoe
man Of Cripple Creek, Colo, narrowl,
escaped death near Iowa City He wal
en- route to South Bend, Ind, to entes
Notre Dame University. When mile
and . half east Of the city, while che
train was going at the rate of fifty miles
/
the platform of the car. He landed head
foremost in the sand. When he came tc
he returned to the city and examination
bySa physician proved that no bones
were broken. The plucky youngster pro.
ceeded to Notre Dame later.
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