Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-11-04

a1ter ne opened OH sundays.
Creston's new federal building will be
rendy for occupancy about Nov. /.
Mrs. T. Il. Holm. aged $50 years, an
old resident of Fort Dodge,:is dead.
The residence of Herbert Stein at Os-
kaloosa was badly damaged by fire.
w. N. Sheets of Des Moines fell dead
while running to catch street car.
The Iowa building Mt the Worlds Fair
will he completed inside of month.
Peter Goodwin. n wealthy farmer and
pioneer of Washington County, is dead.
The Rock Island depot at Blue Grass
was robbed of a quantity of merchan-
disc.
Peter Fisher, aged %, of Palmer, was
run down and killed by a train at Fort
Dodge.
George Hinton. aged IS. and Jerry
Kirby, aged so, Blackhawk County pion-
GERS, are dead.
Joseph Nieman. nm Earlville imple-
ment dealer, has assigned; liabilities $24.-
600, assets $4,000.
The enrolment in the Muscatine
schools this year is 2.GO6, nm increase
of 81 over last year.
A supposed incendiary set fire to the
school house ut Latimer, but prompt
work saved the building.
Surveyors have been secured to begin
work on the Iowa City. Knlona and
Western interurban railway.
The Dysart creamery has changed
ownership. the Cedar Rapids Creamery
Company now having control.
The judge of the District Court at OF
tumwa granted twenty.seyen divorces
during the term just ended.
Lawrence Rigley. aged &c years, and
Martin NJ. Carpenter, aged 81 years, old
residents of Keokuk,, are dead.
A company has been organized at Olin
to construct n gas plant to light the city
business places and residences.
Edward r. Collins has been elected
principal of the Iowa City high school,
vice Prof. Fitzpatrick, resigned.
Mrs. NJ. r. English of Washington
was seriously injured in wreck Of a
Missouri Pacific train at Joplin.
Nine-year-old Leroy Chopek OF Iowa
City was run over by a heavily loaded
wagon and was seriously injured.
The semi-annual meeting of the South
eastern Iowa Medical Association will
be held in Muscatine in November.
More than 1000 girls have been cared
for Mt Benedict Home in Des Moines
during its twenty-one years of life.
The public library Mt Council Bluffs
contains %, 1865 volumes, 1882 of which
are in the regular circulating library.
Frank Martinez. the Italian arrested
at Webster City for passing counterfeit
money, has been held to the grind jury.
AT Emerson, William Eaton paid Il.
g. Priest $40 for damages sustained by
bees singing to death a team of horses.
The contract for the naw Crawford
County court house Mt Denison has been
let. The building will cost about $780,
600.
S In rough house in n Des Mo:nes
lunch room, Il. G. Bray had his left eye
destroyed by glass dish thrown by Ira
Owens.
Will Pearson OF Creston has been ap-
pointed to the position of deputy United
States marshal, vice W. A. Richards, re-
signed.
There appears to lie an epidemic Of
diphtheria in Fort Dodge, and two
deaths have already resulted from the
disease.
Erred Turner, n farmer near Apling-
ton, was probably fatally hurt in run
away accident. He was terribly injured
about the head.
The stone work on the new medical
buildings of the State University at Iowa
City is practically completed, except or
namental work.
Mrs. Stubs, wife OF G. Salvation army
captain at Waterloo, has disappeared,
and it is feared she lost her reason and
wandered away.
Leon Rouche, aged lG, of Waterloo,
was probably fatally injured while at
tempting to board moving train Mt
Mona Junction.
The Rock Island limited crashed into
an extra freight train at Oxford. A
dozen persons were slightly injured and
both engines wrecked.
The Iowa State Retail Grocers' Asso-
ciation will hold its annual convention
III Des Moincs Feb. o, 10 and II, and at
that time will begin well-laid campaign
for the passing of a pure food bill.
An effort is heing made to secure a
pardon or parole for George Stewart,
serving a six years. sentence from Mills
County for horse stealing. He was only
10 when the crime was committed and 1t
is said was led into it by Charles Smith,
negro, who had been in the penitpn-
tiary before.
H. r. Haroff arrived in Pacific juno
ton the other day to disprove his death.
Several months ago man supposed to
be Haroff died Of consumption and was
buried by the Local lodge of Odd Fellows.
The dead man bore card of Buffalo,
Wyo., lodge. Now the real Hnroff, who
moved from Wyoming to Omaha recent
~, lns appeared and proved that the
man who died was some ole else.
The famous Parker will case was de-
cided in Davenport by Judge Wolf, who
holds that Francis Parker, son Of Mrs.
Fraissainet and Frederick Parker OF
Omaha, was acknowledged in deeds to
be the son of Frederick Parker, and
hence is heir to onc-half of the $1,000
600 estate Of James Monroe Parker, the
grandfather. Judge Wolf holds that Mrs.
Fraissainet was n servant and not Par.
ker's wife.
Sam Moorehcad OF Des Moines was
kicked to the floor and trampled upon by
his horse. He was terribly injured, and
will probably lose his right limb at the
knee.
Randall Blanchard. farm hand EN-.
ployed near Fort Dodge, was thrown
from horse, the horse fell OH to him,
and Blanchard suffered badly injured
hip and several broken ribs.
The wives and daughters of members
Of labor unions ut Ottumwa nave formed
II Union Label League, each member OF
which is pledged to buy only such goods
us bear the union label.
Raymond and james Wilkins, Des
Moines youths, are under arrest at Mil
ford, where they have been visiting
charged with theft and defacing build
inss.
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