Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-02-11

| "A commercial club has been organized
Mt Corning.
Petersville Catholics will erect $685.
GOO house Of worship.
Tama County spent 31,556.63 during
the year 1902 for county bridges.
There is talk of erecting a large audi
torium in the park at Goldteld.
Fire escapes have been ordered placed
on all the Dubuque school buildings.
The home of a. c. White, near AZ
ton, was destroyed by fire; loss $4,000.
| The supervisors of Ida County are
discussing the question of employing tax
fcrrcts.
Marshalltown Elks will furnish
room in the new ST. Thomas Hospital In
that city.
The Lewis school is depopulated by
epidemics of measles, chicken poX and
whooping cough.
| David b. Wright has been appointed
postmaster at Linwood, vice Henry L.
Marion, resigned.
Thirty citizens of Stratford were ar
rested for holding UP coal train ana
seizing several cars of fuel.
| a gray fox was killed near Oakland
by Boone Humbert. 1t is the first ami
NAL of the kind ever seen there.
The Masonic bodies of Des Moines are
making arrangements to erect magniA-
cent temple the coming summer.
There is trouble among the members
of Clinton's Carnegie library board md
two of the members have resigned.
The annual meeting of the Iowa State
Teachers Commercial Association will
be held in Des Moines May 10 and 16.
A brick block, the upper story of
which will be used as an opera house,
will be erected at Lone Tree this spring.
Mrs. George Dane, of williamsburg
| was seriously burned by an explosion of
kerosene which she was using to start a
| fire.
The Iowa Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition Commission is looking for ideas
for dairy exhibit at the fair Mt St.
| Louis
Arrangements are being perfected to
reorganize the Doom Savings Bank into
a national bank, with capital Of
$4,000
The annual reports of the various Iowa
fire insurance companies show that last
year was one of the most prosperous in
their history.
A number of prominent Iowa Civil
War veterans will attend the dedication
of the soldiers monument on Shiloh bat
tleield, May 30.
A debate on their respective tenets
of faith between Catholic and Protest
ant ministers of Des Moines is probable
in the near future.
Charles l.. Light, charged with the
murder Of his wife, was found guilty of
manslaughter Mt Pocahontas. The Jury
was out four hours.
Fire destroyed Sutton's stock food fac
tory in Algona. Loss $4,000; small in
surance. The blaze was caused by I'M
explosion of chemicals.
Gus Wacholtz, who disappeared from
Hornick year ago, has returned to the
Iplace. His disappearance was due to
desire to see the country.
A disease resembling hydrophobia has
broken out among stock in the vicinity of
Mt. Ayr. 1t is supposed mad dog has
been loose i'll that region.
The Northern Building Company of
Davenport, well known throughout Iowa,
has failed. An indorsee has assumed
$4,000 of the company's liabilities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Ray, two of
Burlington's respected pioneer residents,
have just celebrated their sixtieth we'd
ding anniversary. They came to Burling-
ton In 1913.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Meredith of near Lynnville was
poisoned from eating red candy. The
child died one hour and half after it
was taken sick.
The board of supervisors of Calhoun
County have acted favorably on another
large drainage system for the county,
making eight established, with four more
under consideration.
The case of Woodson Reagan. convict
ed at Centerville of the murder of his
sweetheart, Ella Clark, has been appeal
ed to the Supreme Court He claims the
shooting was accidental. Both We're COL
ored.
Fire destroyed the residence of D. NJ.
Dowell Mt Washington. Mrs. Dowell's
mother, Mrs. s. NJ. Bartlett, who was i'll
in bed, narrowly escaped cremation, be-
ing rescued just before the structure col
lapsed.
Bishop Corgrove has appointed Rev.
]. L. A. Flanagan as pastor of st.
Matthias Church at Muscatine, in the
place of Father Laurent, deceased. Rev.
Flanagan has been president at st. AM
brose College.
Freddie Buchanan, aged years, was
brutally assaulted by Billy Anderson,
Chicago Great Western laborer, who lad
been stopping at the Buchanan home.
Anderson has fled. The boy is in a pre-
carious condition.
AS result of the efforts of the truant
officer Mt Muscatine, twenty-five INDECENT
children have been provided with clothes
to enable them to attend school respect
ably clad. The officer reports that many
others are sadly in need.
The investigation ordered by the coro-
ner reveals the fact that Mart Woods,
who died mysteriously at Muscatine, had
taken large dose of morphine. The sus-
picion grows that it was given him by
saloon men wishing to prevent his re-
vealing the dynamite plot of 1893 against
John Mahin and others. No arrests have
been made yet. Woods is the fifth man
suspected us uuNlNS kuOWIeuSe OIL the
plot, who has died mysteriously. He
finished n penitentiary sentence for his
share in the crime last August.
Davenport citizens are much stirred up
over the sensational utterances of Bish-
OPP Cosgrove concerning vice in that city.
The Protestant ministers will also urge
action, and 1t is regarded us certain that
a united effort ut municipal publication
will be inaugurated.
William Raab, a potter aud inventive
genius of Waterloo, claims to have dis
covered method by which ten-room
house can be thoroughly heated in the
coolest weather at cost of cents
day for fuel. He has applied for patents
on his discovery. He uses coal dust and
water for fuel.
The Supreme Court has decided that
bees are wild animals and as such their
owners must take precautions to prevent
their injuring others. The case was D.
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