Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-22

Fort Dodge wants the 1904 annual
meeting of the Iowa State Medical So
ciety.
The strike of Keokuk tailors has been
settled by the men getting an increase
In wages.
Marshalltown will endeavor to<secure
the 1904 meeting of the State Federation
of Labor.
A valuable driving horse was stolen
from the barn of Simon Shaulis, near
Waterloo.
Dubuque city school teachers have uni
ted in demand on the School Board for
higher wages.
The Iowa Grain Mems Association
decided not to organize mutual insur-
ance company.
Emil Broders, residing i'll Hartley,
committed suicide by taking dose of
hydro cyanic acid.
Highwaymen held up W. ]. Ritten-
myer, dairyman near Coralvillc, and
relieved him of SIS.
Mayor jones'. of Marshalltown, in his
annual address. advocated the erection
of new city hall
The Iowa State Mail Carriers Asso-
citation meets In Clinton May - and Is
in annual convention.
August Dresselhause. first vice presi-
dent Of the Bennett Savings Bank, died
suddenly of apoplexy.
The Fraternal Benefit Association,
headquarters at Des Moines, has filed
articles of incorporation.
Dennis Corcoran. Dubuque street
laborer, Inherited fortune Of $4,000
from New York brother.
The new Methodist Church at Clarion
was dedicated free of debt, $4,000 being
raised on the day of dedication.
Rev. f. w. Hodgdon of New York has
accepted call to the Plymouth Congre-
gational Church at Des MoineA
The Comptroller of the Currency has
designated Dubuque MS n reserve city
under the recent act of Congress.
Iowa horticultursts will meet at Des
AIoines early in May to consider plans
for an exhibit at the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton.
James Patterson, aged IL, was killed
by being struck by the gang plank of the
steamer Winona, as 1t neared the landing
at Clinton.
State Superintendent Barrett is an ad-
ivocate of the idea that the school year
should be extended In length from zine
to ten months.
Company b. Fifty-sixth regiment, Mt
Perry, may be disbanded, a recent inspec-
ton showing it to be far below the stand
ard of efficiency.
During the twelve months just ended
there were nineteen deaths at Ottumwa,
fewer number than for any of the pre-
ceding FIVE years.
The Iowa Agricultural College will
give free seed corn to Iowa farmers for
the purpose of increasing the yield to
5O,OOO,0O0 bushels.
Hon. David B. Henderson, ex-Speaker
of the House of Representatives, has
been voted life member of the Du-
buque lodge of Elks.
Jacob e. Hershberger, prominent
young farmer living near Amisl. is
dead as result of continued hem
orrhages Of the nose.
A competitive examination will be
held at Waterloo May Is to select a
Third District candidate for admission
to the Annapolis naval academy.
Fire at Marshalltown destroyed the
general storekeepers office, coal chutes
and several loaded box cars of the Iowa
Central Railroad. Loss. $40, GOO.
Y Rev. Edward Donnolly, of Walker
was ordained to tile Roman Catholic
priesthood in the chapel of st. Raphael's
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Keane.
Gold has been discovered OIL the farm
of l.. a. Morley, near Ollie. 1t was
found at depth of fifty feet, while the
owner was drilling well. An assay
will be made at once.
The three men who swindled Marble
Rock citizens out of $4,000 in a fake
foot race at Clinton Il few months ago,
are now in Jail at Milwaukee on a
charge of swindling a merchant of the
latter place out of $4,000.
Walter Haskins died at Fremont of
pronounced strychnine poisoning. The
young man ate hearty dinner and was
taken violently i'll soon after. A physi-
clan was called who decided that Has
kins was suffering from strychnine poi
soning. Haskins denied taking the drug
md was anxious to live. Haskins has
lately had love affair with Miss Ra-
chael Kyser, Of Flagler. They had quar-
relied. but all differences had been made
up and Haskins was seemingly in the
best of spirits before he became i'll.
A case of cruel and inhuman treatment
of child of the most revolving nature
was called to the attention of the Wa.
terloo police, and as result two mem.
bers of the family are now serving sen.
fences in the county Jail. Mrs. Carrie
Flemming and her 17-year-old son,
James, were arrested by the police on
beaten 12-year-Old Della Flemming near.
ly to death with club. An investiga.
tion showed that the little girl had been
cruelty beaten and bruised by the in.
human brutes. Her head and shoulders
were mass of bruises and her left arm
was cut open from the elbow down in
such manner that it will require
months to heal. Besides this she has
nearly lost her reason OH account of the
injuries to her head. Inquiries from
neighbours and others revealed the fact
that the child had been subjected to this
kind OF treatment for three or foHu
years, the boy, James, being the princi
pal offender, aided and abetted by the
mother.
The Washington Post, In an editorial
takes the ground that Governor Cum
Minis is the most available man for the
Republican nomination for Vice Presi
lent thus far suggested.
Farmers and business men of Hudson
are contemplating forming co-operativ,
company for the purpose of erecting ailt
maintaining lumber yard and elevator
for the handling of grain.
-Four young men of Dunlap have pait
So and costs apiece to learn that it Il
bad form to hide in dark places aloni
the streets and shout boo" to timit
young ladies' who come past.
An unknown miscreant threw guam
tity of carbolic acid over number o
horses and cattle belonging to n farme
named Pauley, near Dubuque. The ami