Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-07-22

able visiting places.
A very rich vein of lead has been dis
covered near Dubuque.
Burlington police nre making war on
wine rooms and gamblers.
Many improvements are being made
on the State fair grounds.
Olive Nicoletto, a miner, was drown
ed Mt Avery while bathing.
The residence of Dennis Brown of
Washington was destroyed by fire.
The farm house of w. E. Laurence of
New Sharon was destroyed by fire.
The timers of Des Moines have receiv-
ed m advance of % cents In wages.
The BARRIERS union Mt Davenport has
voted to dispense with Sunday shaves.
Nuacatine restaurant keepers have
raised the price of board to 81 per week.
Tony Miller of New Sharon was seri-
ously burned by an explosion of gaso-
line.
Willie Carlson, aged 10, of near Bur
lington, was fatally injured by vicious
horse.
Buchanan County Republicans defeat
ed a proposition to establish the primary
system.
1t is announced that the proposed
Iowa Washington electric line is
sure go.
There was net decrease of eighteen
in the prison population of the State dur
ing June.
The Iowa scandinavian Republican
League elected o. B. Peterson of Nevada
president.
Burlington papers complain that the
city water looks like axle grease and
smells worse.
Mrs. Ida Lange was struck by c.,
Is. & @. train near Burlington and in
stantly killed.
Rev. Tichnor, Presbyterian pastor at
Clarksville, was seriously hurt In run
away accident.
Dave Brice, a former well-known
sporting man of Clinton, committed sui
eide at st. Paul.
Nearly 100000 square yards of asphalt
paving is being laid in the principal cities
of Iva this year.
alt is proposed to straighten the Coon
would cost 100000.
The Burlington Commercial exchange
will make an effort to secure some new
features for that city.
The 10-year-old son of John Anderson
of Creston died from lockjaw, the effect
ola cap pistol wound in the hand.
The First Methodist Church of Des
Moines is planning on installing new
pipe organ, the largest md finest in
Iowa.
Mrs. Alexander Dobbn of State Cen
ter, while walking in her sleep, fell down
stairs and crushed her skull. She will
probably die.
The survivors of the Eighth Iowa cav
airy and Thirty-second Iowa infantry
will meet on the State fair grounds Aug.
25 in reunion.
Auditor Carroll has authorized the
State Savings Bank of Fredericksburg
and the Farmers' Savings Bank of Hart
ley to transact business.
At Onawa Mrs. Elsie Andrews has
sued saloonkeeper and his bondsmen
for $1,000 damages for selling liquor to
her husband, confirmed drunkard
Fire damaged the Windsor Hotel at
Davenport to the extent of $1,000. A
panic among the guests was narrowly
averted, many Of them fleeing in their
night raiment.
Seven-year-old Mary Hosmer of Des
Moincs was probably fatally scalded.
Hsr sister was carrying n large pan of
boiling wnter-the pan slipped from her
hands. and the water fell upon the body
of the young girl.
The State Auditor has checked up his
accounts with the State Treasurer and
the result of the inventory is that the
State is found to have balance of ST.
222,220.12 on hand. The money is dis
tributed as follows: General revenue, ST.
5l0,41S.SS; agricultural college endow-.
ment fund, $685., 1850; Iowa State coll
lcge revenue, $50, 7O1.O4: Normal school
revenue, $16,G45.1S; special university
revenue, s3.03s.53 The cash on hand
is $40, 1S7.S7, while the funds in banks
aggregate S1,542, 5I8.36.
Patents issued Iowans: Michael F.
Byrne. Monticello, screen and storm
door; Albert B. French, Davenport, corn
planter; Nicholas Glnb, Dubuque, bottle
filling machine; Ole H. Grassland, Ken
sett,S clothes line clamp; Ralph w. Hurd,
Mason City, egg case; Henry d. Ja-
cobson and j., F. Trede, Atlantic, pack
age tie; Charles J. Novak, Cedar Rsp-
ids, saw frame stretcher; John b.
Schmidt, Davenport, pedocyclc; Samuel
H. Tinsman, Davenport, lighter; Edward
Walther, Washington, valve; Richard
Wheater, Laddsdale, fastening for picks.
Pretty 16-year-old Clara Fox chose a
dramatic time and place to commit sui
eide If the evidence of the members of
the Shelby Amusement Company is true.
Before six thousand horror-stricken resi-
dents of Webster County the little girl.
dressed in the gayest of colored tights,
leaped from the sixty-foot top of the
court house at Fort Dodge, loosened her
teeth from the strap which held her be-
tween heaven aud earth. and dropped
like plummet to the cement walk be-
low, This she is alleged to have done
after telling the members of the COM
pany that there was nothing left to live
for, asking them to notify her sister in
Omaha of her death, and even going with
them to marble cutters the day before
and telling them to pick out the tomb
stone. Coroner McCreight's jury sat In
session over the body of the dead girl,
failing to reach satisfactory conclusion
as to the real causes and motives for
death.
Attorney e. II. Croker of Cedar Rap
ids. who was at Clinton, prosecuting
cases against six liquor dealers, was at
tackled and driven out of hotel by two
liquor dealers.
Postmaster Hans Hansen of Almont
fatally shot George La Shelle. emptying
the contents Of shotgun into LaShelle's
abdomen. Hansen says he acted in self
defense. He claims that La Shelle came
into the postofiice drunk, became abusive
and finally went out. returning in a short
time with an iron bar, which he bran
dished about Hansen's head. threatening
to kill him.
Andrew McElhinncy, one of the veal
thiest men in northern Iowa, dropped
dead of heart failure at Waterloo. He
was born In ireland in 1929, coming to
this country In 1850. He began work
ss farm hand at RI month He went