Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-09

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dead. aged e3 years.
Salem voted by large majority to es-
tablish municipal gas plant.
Jesse Jones, for fifty years. resident
of Boone County. is dead, aged 90 years.
E The town of Enterprise has been plat
ted by Des Nj Is mining company.
Two hundred homIs for miners: will be
built.
Mrs. Margaret Hirst, aged SO, fell
from a ond-story window at Keokuk
and received serious and possibly fatal
injuries.
Fred Myrick, who broke jail at Knox
vile some time ago, Is under arrest in
for his return.
Fort Dodge will not get the encamp-
ment Of the Fifty-siXth regiment, the
business men refusing to subscribe the
necessary funds.
Burglars blew open the safe In the
store of ID. ii. Kirk at Swaledale, but
were frightened away before they secur-
ed any money.
Alfred Jordan, Clinton switchman,
has brought suit against the g. & N. w.
for $4,000 damages for injuries receiv-
ed while Mt work.
A receiver has been appointed for the
wholesale tobacco firm of A. j. Marx
& Co. of Des Moines. Assets and lia-
bilfties not stated.
David Richardson, membership secre-
tary Of the Dubuque y. NJ. c. A., will
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ganized at Centerville.
Mrs. ]. H. Goodrich of Waterloo, aged
30 years, stumbled while walking in the
yard. fell heavily to the ground and dis
located her shoulder.
The creditors of Brown, Randolph
Bros. 4 Tngo, Warren County general
merchandise firm, have filed n petition
for the appointment of II receiver for the
Arm. Liabilities are about $4,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
approved the application Of the following
persDIls to organize the First National
Bank of buckingham, with capital of
S25,OOO: w. G. Mccormick, L. c. Bar
Der, T. F. Clark, T. ]. McGinnis and II.
L. Daniel.
There will be in all eighteen stations
on the line of the new Milwaukee cut
of. They are Ottumwa, Davenport, Mus
catine. Washington, Rutledgc, Richland,
Cone. Fairport, Montpelier and Buffalo,
all old towns; Farson, Rubio, Titus. Has
kins, Gladwin, Modura, Arden and Sud
bury, new towns.
Ida NJ. Hlingsworth of Cambridge has
sued her father-in-law, NJ. d. filings.
worth, for 5000 damages for alienation
of her husbands affections.
Ruddy Brothers, packers of Kansas
City, who bought the Iowa Packing
Company's plant in Clinton, have force
of men at work getting it ready to op.
crate. The plant has been idle for some
years.
In the District Court at Clinton, VII.
helmina Gerkin has filed suit against Jas
8. Carpenter for damages in the sum Of
$1,000, alleging assault with large dip
per and meat cleaver, disabling her fol-
long time. Both parties live at Wheat,
land.
Chemists are at work in the water
works at Burlington, analyzing to de.
termine a method of filtering by which
the water of the city may be brought tc
greater degree of purity.
While pitching winning game of bal
for his team at Fort Dodge last week
Holland, the fast colored frat baseman Of
the Algona Brownies, was taken with
an epileptic At, which left him uncon
scious over two hours.
Because her husband refused to pay
for a piano for which she had contracted
Mrs. August Wosseng of Marshalltowr
has concluded that three months of mar
ried life are enough for her and has saet
IN . divorce,