Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-23


Blackleg is reported among herd of
cattle near Thompson.
There is scarcity of rural school
teachers in Pocahontas County.
The Onslow Juvenile Band will in a
few days start on tour of western
Iowa.
Fire. destroyed buildings and grain
valued at $4,000 on the Stark farm, near
Davenport.
Dirk Van der Ploeg has been appoint
ed postmaster ut Otley, vice s. A. Walk
er, resigned.
Forty-eight men engaged in rabbit
hunt at Mediapolis and 1855 "cotton-tails"
were the victims.
H. Panor, wealthy Des Moines mer-
chant was found dead in room in n
Council Bluffs hotel.
Waterloo is soon to have home for
factory girls, which will accommodate
twenty-five persons.
d. II. McCosh of Mt. Morris, ILL.,, is
the new director of the Fifty-fourth regi-
ment band ut Ottumwa.
The First and Second Presbyterian
churches of Dubuque have consolidated
under the name of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church.
There is dearth of school teachers
in Webster County, due in large meas
ure to the numerous marriages of school
ma'ams in the pasp year.
Bergman's Opera House was burned
in McGregor. The ground floor was oc-
cupied by the Kramer clothing and dry
goods houses. Loss sos, 900.
The young men of Wyoming have or
ganized social club which they named
the Sigma Eta Ioay. No one over 25
years old is eligible to membership.
Postmasters have been appointed as
follows: Barnum, Belle v. Kersboom,
vice Win. Garrett, resigned; Croker,
John Il. Horner, vice c. w. Bates, re-
/ signed.
In the contest for sheriff of Adams
J County, Larson, the Democratic candi-
date, Won out by six majority. The un-
official returns gave the Republican can
didate one majority.
T. A. G. Cleasby, druggist at Liberty
vile, has been indicted by the grand jury
for violating the Iowa liquor laws. The
1 Sheriff seized n wagonload of intoXicat-
/ ing liquors Mt his place.
Father Roach of Cascade, who was
| stabbed at the altar of his church by an
insane youth, Charles Mangene, as he
was about to pronounce the benediction
| vt the close of services, will recover.
Mrs. George KHngenbiel of Des
Aoines, who shot and fatally wounded
her insane husband in an effort to turn
him over to the authorities, was formally
! charged with his murder and held to the
grand jury under $1,000 bonds, Kiingen
biel died in the county Jail.
Mrs. Grant Drury, wife of prominent
farmer living near Liscomb, committed
suicide by shooting herself through the
head. Her husband, who was at the
barn, heard the report of the revolver
and fastened to the house. When he ar
rived his wife was dead. Mrs. Drur,
was 80 years old. She was in goot
health and the cause for her act is ,
mystery.
The banks of the State have the pas
year realized a net profit OIL their capita
stock invested of from 10 to 10 per cent
While here and there bank has los
some money, yet as a rule there has beel
great profit in banking.
In Marshalltown Judge Burnham sen
fenced Thomas Gather, recently con
victed of assault with intent 10 commi
manslaughter, to two years imprison
ment at hard labor Mt the penitentiar,
Mt Fort Madison. This is the same sen
tence that was passed by the court be
fore when Gather was convicted Mt hi
first hearing in November, 1902. A pa
role for Gather is recommended b
Judge Burnham. y. n