Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-02
Elgin wants fire protection.

Elgin wants fire protection.
The Lanesboro cooperative creamery
has suspended.
Norway will have a fremen's tourna-
ment Sept. 16.
Des Moines butchers will hereafter
close on Sunday.
A Helping Hand mission has been
launched at Dubuque.
j. P. Davis, for fifteen years postmas-
ter at Bonaparte. is dead.
The physicians of Franklin County
have formed an association.
The school census gives Burlington
1900 children of school age.
John Baker, an old settler near Cones
vile, is dead, aged a years.
A sewerage system will be installed in
the business portion of Denison.
George Benedict, the section foreman
injured at Wheelerwood, is dead.
John II. Shields, aged a years,
pioneer of Wapello County, is dead.
Engineer Rush, injured in the @. g.
w. wreck near Minden, may recover.
The walters and restaurant employees
Of Mason City have formed union.
The dates for holding the Delaware
County fair this year are Sept. 0, 10 and
IL.
Mechanicsville Presbyterians have
voted to build $4,000 house of wor-
ship.
James Moore, for twenty-five years a
well-known contractor of Burlington, is
| dead.
The death Is announced of George
Wooley, pioneer business man of West
Liberty.
Circus grafters "short-changed" a num-
Der of Grundy Center people out of vari-
GUS sums.
Chicago parties have become interested
| in the management of the Nuscatine
opera house.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
fine residence of ID. Jones, near Creston.
Loss 5000.
A Council Bluffs milkmaid named Miss
Cora Diller was held up by footpad and
robbed of S..
John Crawford has been appointed
postmaster at Norwood, vice 7. w. Nell
son, resigned.
The Cedar Rapids district conference
of the NJ. E. Church will meet in Scion
OH Sept. and 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. o. Carpenter of Olin
have just celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary.
Charles Lewis, wanted in Oklahoma
for embezzlement, is under arrest ut
Missouri Valley.
Work upon the construction of the
new Rock Island depot at Muscatine will
be begun Mt once.
Seventy-fve pioneer residents of Mar
shall County have died during the twelve
months just ended.
The sixth annual fair of the Clinton
District Fair Association will be held at
Clinton Sept. Sill.
John Samuelson of Des Moines. 10
years old, lost leg while stealing ride
on freight train.
The Davenport Granitoid Company
has been organized at Davenport with
a capital stock of $4,000.
Two hundred spring chickens, valued
at $6O. were stolen from the hennery Of
Mrs. al. BAUM. near Waterloo.
| Blue Grass was swept by fames the
town hall opera house and several resi-
dences and barns being destroyed.
Jones County Prohibitionists met at
| Anamosa and perfected an organization
| for the purpose of enforcing the mulct
law.
Miss Elizabeth Graves Of Manchester
has been elected principal Of the Ryan
public school at salary Of 500 per
month.
John and Eva CLANCY, wanted in Des
Moines for passing forged notes to the
amount of 800, have been arrested in
Duluth.
There Is scarcity of homes for work
ingmen at Waterloo. It is said fifty
houses are needed TO supply the present
demand.
Nearly one hundred Muscatine County
farmers have agreed to raise beets for the
proposed new beet sugar factory at
Fruitland
Henry Simplot of Dubuque is dead,
aged ~ years, after a prolonged illness.
He was a wealthy and respected citizen
Of that place.
Il u. Uiuc nGISh VI SEuLe IIlcdSuEiuk ONSE
five feet from tip to tip was shot and
killed by Livingstone Schiller and Dwight
Seaman of Clinton.
| Miss Eldora Sinks of Marengo has
been notified that she has been given
100000 by H. ]. Thompson of Colorado
Springs. Thompson was mine owner
and bachelor. Three years ago Miss
Sinks, with party of friends, visited
Colorado apd there became acquainted
with him. He was attracted to the young
girl because of her modesty, her kind
ness of heart and unassuming manners.
The other day the notice of his death
came with the statement that he had
willed his entire estate to her, having no
other heirs.
A man hunt in which hundreds of resi-
dents of Cedar County took part resulted
In the finding of the kidnaper of Mrs.
John Telsrow hidden in granary near
Bennett. not far from the foul cellar
where he had held Mrs. Telsrow impris-
oned all Sunday night, to. force ran
som of $4,000 from her husband. The
abductor proved to be John Lueth, a
half-lemented farm hand, who had work.
ed in the neighborhood of Bennett for
several months. He was identified by
Mr.. and Mrs. Telsrow as the man who
had induced them to leave home with
him by false story of their sons ILL
ness at Walcott. A bed of straw on the
| floor above the cellar where Mrs. Tells
row was imprisoned and another In the
yard. lend color to her story that there
were two men implicated in the abduc-
ton. Lueth confessed his guilt, but de-