Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-08-12

Deulsoh VIII naVe Il street I0lf sept
2to5.
A Ricevil!e COW is the proud mother
of triplets.
The Pinkerton family has just had {
reunion at Waterloo.
James King, born in ireland in 1912
is dead at Ottumwa.
Creston Swedes have let the contract
for 5000 church.
Thieves stole fine team from w. E.
| Wyatt, near Charlton.
Burglars looted the home of Fred Hop
kins at Nfarshalltown.
Blairstown Presbyterians will have a
silver jubilee Aug. IS.
| A good roads convention will be held al
Council Bluffs Aug. 10.
Lightning damaged the Dallas County
court house to the extent of 500.
The Burlington Railroad has promised
to build new depot at Mt. Pleasant.
William Gown, telephone lineman
was drowned at Des Moines while in
bathing.
Five Waterloo boys were fined So and
costs each for robbing Illinois Central
cabooses
The census shows Keokuk to have
1888 negroes, more than any other
Iowa city.
Gus Carlson, Des Moines miner, was
instantly killed by the premature explo-
sion of blast.
Polk County Socialists have secured a
large tent and will conduct an energetic
campaign this fall
Mrs. A. H. Fox, the mother of Mrs.
ID. r. Henderson, is dead Mt Etiwan-
da. Cal, aged SO.
The new United Brethren Church at
Gladbrook. erected Mt cost of $4,000,
has been dedicated.
A spring of mineral water has been
found on the grounds of the Trappist
monks at Dubuque.
Rev. and Mrs. John Simpson of KEEL
logg have completed the sixty-frst year
of their welded life.
LIE Grand and Dunbar citizens are anx-
ious to secure interurban connections
with Marshalltown.
A team valued ut $3.50 was accident
ally backed into the Mississippi river at
Muscatine and drowned.
The citizens of Dixie are planning for
carnival in the near future. About
$500 has been subscribed.
Davenport saloonkeepers will hold n
meeting to plan for reforms in the con-
duct of their establishments.
A stranger hired team valued at
$500 from Frank Haynes, Humboldt
livcryman, and failed to return.
1t is not improbable that the Iowa
monuments on the Shiloh battlefield will
be dedicated some time in November.
Seven more injunction suits have been
filed against Ottumwa saloonkeepers
charged with violating the mulct law.
The annual reunion of the Third Iowa
cavalry will be held in Keokuk Oct. Z,
8 and 0, during the street fair there.
Des AIoines is trying to secure the re-
moval from Chicago of a factory that
uses corn stalks in the manufacture of
paper.
John T. Jones of Beacon, aged 40 and
single, was instantly killed at Oskaloosa
by Rock Island train. His body was
cut into pieces.
AT the Burlington butchers annual pic
mic two tons of beef and mutton and 800
loaves of rye bread We're eaten by the
crowd i'll attendance.
Mischievous youngsters pulled the plug
i'll the tank of the Great Western Rail
road at Councils Bluffs, and $4,000 gal
Ions of water escaped.
Arthur Hess of Iowa City. aged 10
years. while riding horseback near TiGin,
was thrown by the horse stumbling and
his collar bone broken.
Mrs. Thomas Lucid, who mysteriously
disappeared from her home in Neola. was
found dead in small stream near there.
Foul play is suspected.
The sensational and salacious Buckley
divorce case Mt Waterloo has been set
tied by DIR. Buckley paying his wife ST.
600 and taking divorce.
The coroncr's jury investigating the
demise of Ben Ferris, the c. G. w.
brakeman killed at Dubuque, returned n
verdict of accidental death.
Prof. A. NJ. Wood, former instructor
in mathematics in the Burlington high
school, has accepted position in the
Oak Park. ILL.,, high school.
Trolley day" netted the Marshalltown
Y. NJ. c. A. 1920. Lady conductors
were employed and there were not cars
enough to supply the demand.
Two-year-od Madeline Whitmore of
Fairfield caught her hand in the pulley of
hayfork, and it was found necessary to
amputate all the fingers but one.
The bill to give the treasurer of DAY.
export salary of $4,000 per year and
the interest on the funds deposited in
bank has been vetoed by Mayor Becker.
Jesse Levi. a University of Chicago
student, son of James Levi. Dubuque, Il
dry goods merchant, was drowned in the
river at Chicago. His body was recov-
cred.
Mrs. Alkaline $. Littlejohn, whose
death occurred few days ago ut her
home in Humboldt, was over 90 years
of age and came to the Westh in 1889
as missionary.
Amanda Anderson was found in dy-
ing condition in II hovel in Des Moines.
She was removed to hospital where
death ensued. She literally starved her
| self to death. Over $1,000 has been
found hid in various places about her
home.
II. w. Ackles shot and probably fatal.
ly wounded Isaac Allen and Jack Maher
at the Ackles home ut Atlantic. The
| shooting followed quarrel. Ackles
claims the young men were intoxicated
and attacked him, whereupon he fred in
self-defense. George Snes, who was
with Allen and Maher, escaped.
Attorney General NIullan has issued a
ruling that the State board of medical
examiners cannot discriminate agains,
non-residents in issuine-rermits to timer
mt physicians.
William Scott of Muscatine has frac
tured hip as the result of being dragged
off a load of lumber while going through
a gate, the top of which was not higl
enough to clear.
Isaac Rhodes, an inmate of the Sol
diers' Home, died few days ago ,at
Marshnlltown. He hid $500 few days
before he died and an effort is now being
made to find the money.
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