Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-06-24
LeMars may get free postal delivery.
A gas lighting plant has just been In.

An unknown man, a la6srer, was kill.
ed by the cars at LeAfars.
The assessed valuation of the city Of
Burlington is S15,OO0,OOO.
A combined armory and assembly hall
will be built Mt Fort Dodge.
The Waterloo Ministerial Union will
make fight against all slot machines.
The new Presbyterian hospital at
Waterloo will be located on the West
Side.
There has not been case of infec-
tious disease In Burlington for over n
month.
An industrial parade will he the fca-
turc of Fort Dodge's Fourth of July eel
ebration.
The residence of =. Kelly. at Ryan,
was struck by lightning and burned to
the ground.
Fully s. per cent of the ice stored In
Des Moines was swept away by the
recent flood.
AT Mount Joy. Mrs. Mary Geitz. aged
81, while in fit of melancholia, hung
herself to hook.
The new electric light plant Mt Wash
ington is now in successful operation. 1t
is owned by the city.
Two children of Alex Snyder are dead
Al Des Moincs as a result of exposure
during the recent flood.
\ system of drainage bitches. to cost
about $1,000. is planned for portion of
the country near Nichols.
Otto Schmidt, aged %. of Clinton
County, was drowned while attempting
to ford swollen stream.
Rev. B. +. w. Golfer formerly of Des
Moines is dead at Moscow, Idaho, where
he went in search of health.
The Iowa Masonic Library at Cedar
Rapids was robbed of coins, stamps and
other relics valued at $1,000.
The Dubuque street car strike is still
unsettled. The employees have rented
hacks and will run hack lines.
1t is again asserted that the Illinois
Central is backing the new Des Mones,
Iowa Falls and Northern Road.
Glenwood husband wants divorce
from his wife because she plays tattoos
on his hend with stove poker.
Miss Sadie Miller of Waterloo will go
to India as a missionary under the aus
pices of the Dunkard denomination.
The Fort Dodge Military Band has
been made the official musical organiza-
tion of the Fifty-sixth Iowa Regiment.
Sister Agnes of Dubuque has been
elected reverend mother superior Of the
entire order of Sisters of Mercy in Iowa.
The Iowa Central State Medical So
ciety will hold its semi-annual conven-
ton in Marshaltown on Tuesday, June
30.
Louis Goochee, Hamilton County
farmer, was seriously burned by the
breaking of bottle containing carbolic
acid.
The Iowa Central has signed an agree
ment for one year with its engineers and
fremen. granting slight increase in
wages.
Mort Rosshaul, porter in Dubuque
hotel, has Just received $4,000 as his
share of the estate of a relative who
died in New York.
AT Des Moines Judge Mcpherson of
the federal court sentenced John Jones
TO pay fine of $500 and retirement in
State prison for fifteen months for boot
Logging.
Ida Kodtman. an Iowa Falls domestic,
narrowly escaped death MS result of
taking internally dose of liniment in
tended for external application for rheu-
matism.
A Wright farmer who is a firm believ-
er In the theory of extensive drainage,
has eight men at work putting tile in his
farm and will have thirty miles of 1t be.
fore he finishes.
Jim Williams, an Ottumwa colored
youth. was shot by circus hand AT
Washington. The shooting followed a
quarrel. The boy will recover. No ar
rests were made.
The new well at the Washington water
plant was completed at about 23S feet
and is complete success. 1t has been
tested and will furnish from 10000 to
$4,000 gallons daily of the purest water.
A committee of the employees of the
Davenport pearl button workers. who
were locked out recently, waited on Su-
perintendent Krause and were informed
that the directors had refused to enter
tain proposition to take back the men
their former wage system.
Iowa will have no woman's department
and no board of lady managers at the st.
Louis exposition. This was settled on
at meeting Of the commissioners at
Des Moines after a discussion that last
ed nearly all day. 1t was decided, how
ever, as compromise, to appoint COM
mittee of three women, whose function
will be to assist the different departments
in the exhibit Of whatever pertains to
the woman's work.
Miss Frances Moore, who was drown
ed at Chicago the other day, was n
daughter of Rev. G. A. Moore. pastor of
the Edwards Congregational Church of
Davenport. The young woman, in COM
pany with the young man named Miller,
who was also drowned, were on n pleas
ure trip to the Spanish caravels in jack
son Park lagoon. 1t is presumed the
young woman fell into the water and that
Miller persisted in trying to rescue her.
Dissatisfied with the mental attain
ments of many of the priests of the
archdiocese and wishing to impress upon
the minds of young Catholics that recti-
tude should not be the only qualification
for admission into the priesthood, it was
decided at the recent synod held in Du-
buque that hereafter the younger priests
of the archdiocese of Dubuque must I'M
dergo an oral and written examination
once year In theology. church history,
canon law and other subjects in which
priest should be conversant. This nc
ton was taken on the advice of Arch
bishop Keane.
Rev. S. NJ. Mcconnell has resigned
the pastorate of the United Presbyterian
Church Mt Wyoming, and will accept a
call to Stanwood.
The meeting of the Upper Mississippi
Turnbezirk, which was to have been held
in Des Moines June 10 to 1S, has been
postponed until Aug. 8 to -. The de-
cision was made because of the floods.
Eva Shonk, aged 43. of Des Moines,
attempted suicide by drowning. She was
rescued. The woman's household goods
were lost in the food, and she declared
that as she had lost her home on earth