Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-11

dead, at the age of SO years.
A company is being organized to build
water works system at Fulton.
A $4,000 addition will be built to tns
OF the school buildings Mt Creston.
Frank Graham ia dead at Burlington
as result of being thrown from horse.
The Mahaska County Hospital Asso-
citation has filed articles of incorpora-
ton.
State good roads convention will
probably be held in Des Moines March
1926.
There are number of cases of typhoid
fever at Pocahontas, and an epidemic Is
feared
1t is estimated that Des Moines sports
lost $4,000 to 100000 in the turf
schemes.
DR.. NJ. B. Cherrie, prominent ply
stefan of Ankeny, is dead after an en-
tended illness.
The farm house of W. A Finn, near
Perry. was burned to the ground. The
loss was $1,000.
Iowa leads the nation in the number
of chickens, having 1s,007,6S3. according
TO census reports.
new l. o. o. F. lodge with mem
bership of more than fifty has just been
organized at Riverton.
FIRE at Lawler destroyed the large
grain elevator of Gilchrist & Co. The
loss is placed at $4,000.
w. A. Robinson of Mondamin attempt
ed to board moving train and as re-
suit Is now minus one leg.
The citizens of Avoca have subscrib-
ed the sum of $4,000 for the establish
ment Of canning factory.
A gasoline stove in the home of a. d.,
Parker at Fort Dodge exploded and Mrs.
Parker was slightly burned.
Attorney Edward Knight of I.orimer,
was shot and killed by man named Will
son as n result of a quarrel.
Frank II. Jones, aged co years, n
prominent merchant of Keokuk for many
years. is dead of pneumonia.
The employees in the Burlington shops
at Creston have again been placed on full
time with an hour at lunch time.
Peter Nissen, near Davenport, died
when alone In his home, and his body
was not discovered for several days.
Chas. Eckburg, an elevator employe at
Burlington, has disappeared and his rela-
tives fear he has met with foul play.
Fifty delegates attended the semi
annual meeting of the Southwestern
Iowa Medical Association at Creston.
Chris Hansen. mn Avoca carpenter,
suffered fractured skull as result Of
the collapse of n scaffold. He may die.
Ottumwa saloonkeepers have petition
ed the Council of that city for reduc-
ton in the license fee from $1,000 to
$500.
Burlington will have ten-team ball
league this summer, composed of the en-
ployes of the various establishments in
that city.
The Ottumwa Baptists have sold their
present church structure to the Y. NJ. @.
A. for $1,000, and will build new $780,
900 edidce.
Some thief broke the glass in show
case in front of Richter & Sons stoSs
at Davenport and carried away furs val
ued at $500.
An Iowa man claims to have been the
first white child born in Chicago. He is
Isaac Miller of Tama, born at Fort Dear
born in 1925.
The Litchfeld Manufacturing Com
pany of Webster City will remove to
Waterloo, having been offered sub
stantial bonus.
Mrs. Mary Spielman of Dubuque has
sued for divorce on the ground, rs she
alleges, that her husband attempted to
roast her alive.
Glass rivalry is rampant in the Cres-
ton high school. Several serious clashes
have occurred, and two students have
been suspended.
A 100000 apartment house will be
erected near the State capitol building in
Des Moines for the accommodation Of
State house employees.
Burlington will vote on the proposition
to issue bonds in the sum of $75, 900 for
the purpose of building new high school
and new ward school.
A large number of Council Bluffs peo-
pie invested their hard-earned cash In
the Ryan company at st. Louis and are
now holding the sack"
Council Bluffs women have organized
a union label league, the purpose of which
is to band themselves together to buy
only union made goods.
A falling scaffold at the soldiers or
phans' home at Davenport resulted in
the death of John c. Davies and the in
jury of four other workmen.
Jerome Hoot, the dynamiter sent Up
from Blackhawk County, threatens to 90
on the lecture platform at the expiration
of his sentence at the Anamosa prison.
John Pfffnar, an ex-convict, was
caught in the act of robbing a saloon at
Dubuque. He is believed to be the man
who robbed n score of places In the last
year.
II. S. Clark of Des Moines was fear
fully burned by the explosion of can
of gasoline. He was starting fire in n
cook stove. and got hold of the gasoline
can instead of kerosene can.
]. e. Wilcher. who is so years of age,
will start from Clinton on tramp to
Kansas City on foot in the spring. He
has made the trip to that city in like
manner on four previous occasions.
Mrs. John Ebberg of Stanhope COM
mitted suicide by drinking concentrated
I've. Her husband was an infdel and
because she could not convert him she
became Respondent. She leaves five chill
dren.
The grand jury at Webster City failed
to return an indictment against Bankie
Flygstad, the 16-year-old boy who killed
his father Feb. 10. The boy killed his
father in self-defense by beating bis
brains out with castiron towel rod Tho
father was drunk and had attacked the
son.
E. A. Kennedy, Marshalltown paint
err, swallowed two ounces of laundanum,
then went home and told his wife that he
would be dead In two hours. She didn't
believe him, but awoke In the morning
and found corpse beside her. No cause
known.
little Grace the 4-year.old d,uobtor