Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-08

l IOWu-1dhOtd UdSeDdll CIRCUIT.
Rose Weinstein, aged 5. was rescued
from drowning at Des Moines.
The Grant Club Mt Des Moiiies will
lease new and better quarters.
Work has been commenced on big
transfer building at Waterloo.
The man found dead near Scion Is
supposed to be Joseph Chalsky.
The Iowa and Illinois Railway has IN
creased Its capital to $1,500,OOO.
Stone for the manufacture of cement
has been found near Davenport.
Senator Warren will be renominated
from the Monroe-Marion district.
The city officers of Afarshalltown are
now housed in the court house.
Five scholarships at the State univer-
sity will be given Filipinos free.
River men report the season an ex-
tremely favorable one for logging.
The Mueller lumber yards at Daven-
port have bought land for expansion.
The Des Moines river at Goldfield is
being cleared Of coarse fish by seining.
Dubuque papers demand that the law
against child labor be enforced In that
city.
John Tholson was badly hurt by being
caught in wheels at the Davenport foun-
dry.
The Great Western killed nine short
horns, belonging to NJ. Gilley, near Wat
erloo..
The Buxton people have completed
Mine No. ~ and are building 100
houses.
| Davenport has organized third lodge
of Odd Fellows with a membership ex-
ceeding $50.
the Presbyterian and Congregational
churches Of Lyons.
William Young, Lehigh barber, is
dead, as the result of the lodging of a
piece of onion in his throat.
Roosevelt day cost the city Of Fort
Dodge over $500 in pay for extra police
men and other necessities Of the OCCASION
Mrs. L. F. Luther committed suicide
at Grand Junction by shooting. Mrs. Luz
ther had become respondent on account
of sickness.
George Hardesty, aged IS, died at
Keokuk from heart disease. He came
to Keokuk in 1S49 md for forty-eight
years lived in the house where he died.
He was prominent Odd Fellow.
The body of Seldom McNamee, who
was drowned in the Cedar while boating
with Miss Bessie Graves, foated over
the dam at Waterloo and was recovered
by boy named Simon Wilson. The boy
accepted only $25 of the 500 reward
giving the remainder to McNamee's aged
mother.
Being baseball fan has proven too
much for young man of Council Bluffs
and he has been declared insane on the
subject and sent to st. Demands hos
pital. The form of insanity is harmless
and is apparent in only that he absolute
ly refuses to talk on any other subject
than baseball.
Deputy Sheriff e. E. Reynolds of Rock
Island went to Moline and arrested a
colored woman named Mrs. j. Garnet on
a warrant issued by Justice Schroeder,
charging the woman with kidnapping
Mrs. Garrett is accused of secreting at
her home in Moline white girl by the
name Of Gertie Wright of Davenport
AS the result of an alteration between
two brothers-in-law living about two
miles west of Western, Roy Silver re-
ceived shot in the shoulder and another
through one ear from George Potter, but
in that country guns are not the only
weapons and Silver led out with his re-
naming arm and pounded Potter up SO
that he remained on the battle ground
until discovered by some passers-by,
when he was picked up and a doctor
telephoned for to arrange the fragments
in their proper order. There have been
no arrests so far as known.
The Western Iowa Interurban Rail-
way Company, which was recently in
corporated, will put surveyors in the field
at once.
John Witt. a 14-year-old Davenport
boy. was struck by Rock Island train
in the yards in that city and instantly
killed. In lodging one train the boy
stepped in front of another.
A new brick building costing between
$4,000 and $25, 1000 will be erected by
the Iowa Telephone Company in Ottum.
wa. The entire system will be reorgan-
lied and between $4,000 and 100000
expended.
The Socialist State convention will be
held in Des Moines July 4. 1t Is expect.
ed that 200 delegates will attend. A COM
plete State ticket will be nominated and
plans made for an aggressive campaign.
Reuben Scholes, the 13-year-old son of
Mrs. Levi Hill of Coralville, has been
missing for several days. He had an
overpowering desire to see the world, and
it is thought that he has run away, as
he did SO once before.
Charles Kali, aged IL years, was
drowned in the Floyd river at LeNIars.
With two younger boys he was wading,
md got out of his depth. Peter Hoff-
man, an old man of So years, made an
attempt to rescue the boy.
Matthew McDermott, a well-to-do
farmer, who lived In the country -four
miles west Of Glare, has been missing
and grave fears are entertained for his
safety.
Memorial University, founded by tn.
Sons Of Veterans at Mason City, ha.
closed its first year and the first gradu
ate was James Leggett, colored mar
whose parents were slaves.
II Speaker Henderson has the record fol
securing rural delivery routes. Out of {
total of LOOP routes established in the
! State of Iowa he got for his district 1872
This Is greater than was secured b,
twenty-eight other States, all put T.
sethet.