Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-12-02

Aue WILSON Rouse, recently destroyed
by fire ut Denison. will be rebuilt.
The Cpdike elevator. recently burned
at Missouri Valley, will be rebuilt.
P. G. Rich of Lorn was robbed of So
200 by two footp9ds in Kansas City.
The burned district of Abba will be
rebuilt In a more substantial manner.
Henry Steffen, sent to prison from LIE
Mars for granddaughter, is seeking par
don.
The management of the Burlington
street railway have provided club rooms
for their employees.
F. L. Bennett is under arrest at Des
Moines charged with stealing horse and
buggy at st. Paul.
Capt. and Mrs. j. T. Parker Of Sigour-
ney have just celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
A new national bank is being organ.
lied at Sheldon to take the place of the
one recently suspended.
William Nevins of Bloomington, Mimi,
is under arrest ut Loveland on the
charge Of passing forged checks.
A movement Is OIL foot, fathered by
1 sAS NSsosG Athti-SuAOOu Iedkuc, " IdAS6 lu0
mulct tax assessed against saloons.
The Postmaster General has allowed
the postmaster at Des Moines three adj
ditional letter carriers on Dec. I.
The Waterloo health department IL
getting after the doctors who disregard
the law regarding contagious diseases.
Conductor r.. s. Hubbard. one of the
pioneer employees Of the Dubuque division
Of the Milwaukee, is dead at Savanna,
Ill. +
The average attendance in the Iowa
City schools the past year was 1850,
and the average cost per pupil per month
S17.G0.
A large portion Of the O.. B. & @.
doubts rack between Creston and Coun-
Gil Bluns is now ready for regular train
service.
The Council Bluffs library trustees are
planning trips to number of cities to
secure ideas before beginning their new
building.
The postmaster at Fort Dodge has
made application for the appointment of
a mounted mail carrier for the suburbs
OF that city.
While +. W. Hutchinson was cutting
wood near Afuscatine the az glanced
from log mud struck his foot, cutting
of two toes.
| Great numbers Of carp are being tax
en- from the Coon river Mt Auburn, and
many of them weigh from ten to twelve
pounds apiece.
Henry Ohsann of Lyons fell from a
roof and is suffering a number of frac-
tured bones and severe bruises as re-
suit Of the fall.
There are number of cases Of diph-
liberia in Muscatine, and strict quaran-
tine is being enforced to prevent the dis
ease spreading.
The supervisors of Woodbury. County
have voted to issue per cent bonds to
the amount of $4,000 to take up out
standing Q per cent bonds.
A lie Mars woman, Jennie Schaarts,
has broken the matrimonial record. Her
husband was killed last month. and she
has just married feeble-minded man.
Rev. Howard Cramblet, who has been
pastor of the Christian Church Mt Hamp-
/. ton for the past two years, has rendered
his resignation In order to accept a larg-
er pnstorate ut Mansfield, Ohio.
The gasoline launch, Helen Louise,
belonging to j.. B. Morrison. burned to
the waters edge at Fort Madison. Three
employees. Clyde Mills, William Schultz
and George Wilmington. were badly
burned, narrowly escaping with their
lives.
Inc Bank OF lreton, private institu-
| ton, with II. F.. McKeeyer as cashier.
Inns cIosad Ito doors nnt;a. ssaa;,,a
NClosed for T,,ouidationn was nos.sd l nn
the doors and No turtle, sts,.nant w ~
given ont me failure =, TIC sh.,dar
State Rnnk "a ss,d IN 'h,v. hasr nasnnn.
s;t,la for tho c,o.;n. -
ns,,.s's.
a. Neuuen, retired Silh!on farm
g. .. was sW'holea OUT OF Ss,Vo oy a man
Esns ms hume as Wliiam Lunger.
nunser por1oWeo the money from hed-
uen' uhu gave as security Forged deed
lJ n.s alio -, nan larn. near Maquokest eta
Mn,eh ne aeciarea ne naa oought. Lun-
''s1s' a'e 1nAno y
The body OF woman found in the
woods near Belle PLANE has been identi-
ned as that OF Mrs. William Myers of
helster, Mimi. William Myers identified
the body as that OF his wife, who disap-
peared from her home several weeks
aso. Myers ..'s 10 = Mea.thy Ier1nan farm
e "onan answering ms w,ies de-
sci ,:l,.. passea .aloukH nelle flaine IN
ns ,.n, Covert wagon; hccompanled py
an MnknoWn man. Inc eoroners jury
re. . seIuics ., murder. omeers are
enueasoflis " nl'a 'he "omans COM
panioh.
John Booth Of Colorado. now attending
Drake University In Des Moines, who
won the State college oratorical contest.
has been charged with plagiarism and
has admitted the charge. Booth ad-
vances the novel defense TINT thought Is
common product and he therefore had
the right to It,. Booths grafton was en-
titled THE Sublimity Of Great Convic-
lions" and was largely reproduction
from chapter In Patriots and Prin-
ciples. called The Value of Decision"
The plagiarism was discovered by girl