Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-10-28
within Our Border,.

Fire destroyed the home Of w. F.
Turner, near Floris.
A State marshal club has been organ
lied at Parkersburg.
A postoffice Is established at Hastings
with Clara Pickens as postmaster.
The Jesnp schools are closed on &c.
count of an outbreak Of scarlet fever.
A mammoth cold storage house 70,
poultry and eggs will be built Mt Ores
ton.
At its last meeting the Council Bluffs
City Council ordered eleven miles of new
sidewalk.
Woodbury. County has almost 500
miles of telegraph and telephone lines
within its borders.
The 1856 employees of the Des Moines
postofsice will hereafter receive their pay
bi-weekly, instead of monthly
Auditor Carroll In his annual report
recommends the creation of an insur
ance department for the State.
NJ. s. Conkright, Davenport laborer
clicked to death Mt the supper table. A
piece Of beefsteak lodged in his throat.
~ H. 1ouSh, VIII eIuDeZNleu FluU OF
the funds Of the Davenport machinists'
Union, has been captured at Lima, Ohio.
William Sornberger and Leon Schultz,
Waterloo boys convicted OF window
smashing. have been sent to the reform
school.
Roy Rosms and son, two Danes, mar
rowly escaped asphyxiation by gas in
Burlington. They evidently blew out
the gas.
While playing ON the school grounds
at Hotna, Charles Evans, 10 years old,
fell and broke his neck, death resulting
instantly.
Mrs. Agnes Simpson OF Nevada has
sued the Iowa Central for $4,000 dam
nges for the death Of her husband, a
switchman, who was killed at Newburg
May s.
Theodore Roosevelt. 1r., is attending
the State University at Iowa City. He
is the son of an Ackiey business man,
distantly related to the White House oc.
cupant.
Dora Kann. the 11-year-oid daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kann of Brook
Ign. accidentally shot md killed herself
with n 22-caliber target rife. The ball
entered just below the heart, killing her
almost instantly.
Fire DESTROYED the depot at Moingonn.
Kate Shelley. the noted Iowa heroine,
was appointed Northwestern agent at
Moingona two days before.
Claus Hendricks, aged 65 years, went
to a vacant house on his farm near Glare
and hanged himself to rafter. Illness
which caused dependency was given as
the cause:
j. F. Fetrow, Muscatine laborer,
slipped and fell eight feet, lighting on a
saw frame. The back of his head was
laid open, supposedly by It striking the
sharp teeth OF the saw, and his back
was seriously injured.
W. l.. Slaves and son Earl of Mar
sllnlltown, who assaulted Des Moines
newspaper collector, were sentenced I'd
four months and thirty days in jail, re.
spcctively.
The people of Appanoose County will
be asked to vote on another bond propo
sition for $4,000 to finish the new court
house, toward which $4,000 had already
been given, but which lacks the above
requisite amount for its completion.
More than ten different skin CRAFTS
have been used to cover the flesh of Jo
hanna Radestad of Burlington. who was
severely burned recently by the explosion
of lamp which she had accidentally
filled with gasoline. She will recover.
( w. A. McHenry, Crawford County
banker. who lives at Denison. the home
Of Secretary Shaw, raises fine cattle a,
recreation and his herd of young cat
tls OF his own breeding has this fall
taken first prize at the Iowa, Minnesota
Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky md ILL
nois State fairs.
Suit has been commenced by the city
OF Ottumwa against the Assyrian As
phalt Company and the American Bond
ing and Trust Company to recover $14,
600 on the bond issued to the city as I
guarantee for seven years OF certain
pavement and curbing. claiming the as
phalt company did not live up to tn,
terms Of the contract