Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-03-04

The town of Bettendorf vii! incorpo-
rate.
A Denison man has invented pinless
clothesline.
/ A Baptist church has been organized
at Tabor.
Fire in the Nelson House at Ames did
S4O0 damage.
\ A lodge of the Il. p. has been or
ganized at Madrid.
Thomas Greenee has disappeared
from North English.
A stock company Is being organized
at Abba to erect an armory.
An orchestra of twenty pieces has
been organized in Cornell College.
disease known as "ergotism" is kill
ing many cattle in Boone County.
w. w. Allen. postmaster and polit-
clan Mt Richland, died of paralysis.
Ottumwa socialists will place ticket
in the field at the coming city election.
The new Congregational Church Mt
Almoral has just been dedicated free of
debt.
About one.ffth of the debt of the ath-
letic society of the State University has
been raised
The Rock Island Railway has announc-
ed that 1t intends building new stock
yards at Clare.
Fire destroyed the residence Of Her.
man Ney of Dubuque Loss $1,000, in
surance $500.
Il Tho A
in existence one year and now las $40
paid-up members.
Fire. caused by an overheated stove
pipe. destroyed the residence of II. A.
Lewis of Humboldt.
The Waterloo w. C. T. U. has pledged
$500 toward the new hospital to be
erected in that city,
Edward NJ. Anderson of Oskaloosa
has been appointed travelling engineer
for the Iowa Central.
Miss Belle Fenton has been appointed
postmaster at Millegeville, vice Eliza-
beth Pepper, resigned.
Des Moines claims more miles of pave
ment than amy city in the world of 10O,-
600 population or less.
The primary department of the Alton
schools has been closed on account of the
prevalence of scarlet fever.
The necessary funds have been sub
scribed for the establishment of Sun
shine Mission in Waterloo
The members of the Council Bluffs
fire and police departments have petit
toned for an increase in salaries.
Joseph Capp of Mason City was fined
$50 in federal court at Fort Dodge for
selling liquor without license.
Money is being raised at Perry for the
purchase of two Kentucky bloodhounds
to be used In tracking criminals.
Ike Doran of Atlantic has just had
restored TO him testament left on the
battlefield at Mill Springs in 1862.
1 The Waterloo City Council has ordered
the laying of three blocks of asphalt paw
ing. as an experiment in that city.
The Wellington Hotel at Des Moines
will be remodeled and made into one of
the largest hostelries in the State.
The State House janitors are displeas-
ed because an order has been issued for
bidding smoking in the capitol building.
Fire at the village of Stiles destroyed
the stores of John II. Collins and Charles
Miller. Loss $4,000, partially insured.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $4,000
to Shenandoah for the establishment of
a public library, on the usual conditions
The Marshaltown City Council passed
a resolution declaring that in future only
union labor should be employed on city
work.
A free home for stranger and working
girls may be established in Dubuque II
plans at present in contemplation are
adopted
Britt is sporting Chinese divorce case
in which the woman, who had been sold
by her husband to another Chinaman
objected.
| Hon. Pblneas F. SturgIs, prominent
citizen of West Union since 1851, and
an ex-member of the Legislature, is dead,
aged Y years.
William Greenwalt of Bentonsport
was seriously and possibly fatally in.
jnred by the falling of tree which he
was chopping.
The people of Shenandoah at n spe
cial election, voted TO accept the Carne
gle proposition for the establishment OF
a public library.
David McClaron, young farmer neat
Winthrop, committed suicide by shooting.
He was Respondent over the failure OF a
financial enterprise.
The Iowa G. A. r. is believed to al.
most unanimously favor the candidacy
of Gen. Black of Illinois for commander
in-chief of the order.
oua1 laJv f~a,,, tI,n a.,,.,,., ...l..
spent night at Burlington hotel, mar
rowly escaped asphyxiation as result
of blowing out the gas.
A number of forged money orders We're
cashed by several Des Moines mer-
chants, and the authorities have so far
failed to find the culprit.
George Wall, confined in the Daven.
port Jail on drunk and disorderly
charge, attempted suicide by cutting an
artery with piece of tin.
| Brakeman ]. x. Williams of Water.
loo fell under moving Illinois Central
train at Manchester and received injuries
leg.
Mrs. D. Henderson, who has Just died
at Anthem, weighed GOO pounds. She
had been i'll for several years of elephan-
tiasis, or enlargement of the tissues Of
the body, and her suffering is said to
have been intense.
The new single span bridge across the
Shell Rock river ut Greene has been
completed and has been accepted by the
County Board of Supervisors. This gives
Greene one of the finest bridges and one
of the longest sisgle span bridges in the
State.
Wilson Bros store and the postoiilce
at Lebanon We're burned. Nothing saw
ed but three barrels of coal oil. The
origin of the fire is not known.
The National Board of Fire Under
writer's has offered n reward of $500 that
will lead to the arrest of the person who
fired the Dobson store at I.eGrand
Dec. 5.