Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-15
$40 bills are in clrcu,a.

Bakers of Dubuque have organized a
union and will demand shorter hours.
The old Crawford County Court house
at Derison is to be transformed into n
hotel
The debate between Iowa College aud
Dies Moincs College was won by the
former
n national bank with capital of $685.
900 is soon to be organized at Lime
Springs.
Owen McPakc died at West Burling
ton. Mt the age of 100 years and Ave
months.
Abraham W. Buell. has been appointed
postmaster at Marsh, vice r. F. Morris,
resigned.
Robbers dynamited the safe In the
postoflice at Lake Mills, securing several
hundred dollars.
Gov. Cummins will pardon Joseph
Mulick. the Howard County youth sent
up for manslaughter.
Lyman Brothers wholesale millinery
house at Cedar Rapids was robbed of
silk valued at 5000.
BY the caving of sand pit on the
farm of Will C. Tyrell. near Alexander.
Nern iaw. aged 6, lost his life.
The johnson County Telephone Com.
pany will add eighty-two miles OF wire
to its lines in the immediate future.
y motion for new trial has been fled
in the case of James Burns, convicted Mt
Des Moines Of the murder of James Cor
coran.
A movement is on foot to build an In
terurban railway line between Washing
ton and Iowa City, passing through Riv.
erside.
The board of control is investigating
the charge that attendants at the Folk
County insane hospital have been guilty
OF abusing patients.
1t is estimated that the city assess
inent of Des Moines this year will foot
up $1S,O00,00O, an increase of 5000
600 over the figure last year.
Mrs. e. j. Hood of Glare was at
tackled by two ferocious hogs she was
endeavoring to drive into n pen. and
badly injured before help arrived.
George W. Reed, young man EN-
ployed recently at Des Moines in various
capacities, has disappeared, leaving a
note saying he contemplated suicide.
Andrew Johnson, well-known farmer
near Ewart, was trampled upon and rem
dered unconscious while endeavoring to
milk vicious COW. He will recover.
A printers strike is imminent at Ores,
ton owing to the inability of employers
and men to get together OH the all-im-
portant subject of just remuneration.
A Rock Island construction train load
ed with workmen was wrecked near Sey-
mour. Fireman w. T.. Hartley of Tren-
ton, No., was killed, and several were
injured.
Charles Berkeley, young farmer liv-
lug near Geneva, is minus portion of
one hand as the result of the accidental
discharge of a shotgun while he was
hunting.
The school directors of Osceola County
have decided to advance the salary OF
tenchers of the first grade $40 month
and those of the second grade to $3t
per month.
The Castana Savings Bank has decid
cd TO offer to the farmers of the county
the best ten ears of corn grown in Mo-
mona County.
The twenty-second child born to Mr..
md Mrs. George Woolsley of Creston has
been named Theodore Roosevelt Wool
sley. Mrs. Woolsley is Al years old and
in perfect health.
A young man named George White of
Lone Tree fell under d moving Rock
Island train he was attempting to board
and received injuries that necessitatei
the amputation of an arm.
The free text book system is said to
be very unpopular among Council Bluffs
school ma ans, who say it creates an
endless amount of work. and they pro-
pose agitating the question of the repeal
of the law in that city.
In running fight at the farm of w.
II. Earl Mt Norwood, Henry Cole, a
negro. was shot and killed while he was
in the act of stealing quantity of pro-
visions. Earl and his nephew, Herbert
B. Paine, fired upon the negro.
There Is a strong prospect of a move
ment being started before the next Cen
eral Assembly for the creation of new
State officer, that of superintendent of
farmers institutes. Wisconsin and some
other States have an officer of this kind.
The trustees of the Iowa State Col
lege have rejected all the bids for the
new main building. The lowest bid was
S350,O0O, whereas but $225, 900 had been
appropriated for the structure. The
plans will be modified and new bids
asked.
For fifteen years the music in the
Methodist Church ut Swaledale has been
furnished by quartet choir and an or.
ganist who nre all grandparents. The
choir is composed of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bardsley. Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Miller aud
the organist is Mrs. G. w. LOOMS.
Daniel Austin, Soldiers Home vet.
cran, who suddenly disappeared from the
Marshalltown institution last June and
was generally supposed to have been
drowned in the high water then prevail.
ing, has turned up at the home alive
and well. Austin has been in Missouri
most of the time since he left the home.
John McSweeney, one of the most
prominent young farmers of Pottawat.
TAME County, has disappeared from his
home near Carson. His health had been
poor and it is feared he became dement,.
ed and wandered away and possibly per.
shed from exposure.
Miss Marie Glessner, daughter of a
well-known Blackhnwk County farmer
suffered the dislocation of her lower Jaw
as the result of yawning. Owing to the
almost impossible condition of the roads
it was several hours before a physician
could be secured to reduce the disloca.
ton.
1t will cost Des Moines $500 to en-.
terrain the 1904 meeting of the national
conference of Charities and Corrections
which will undoubtedly be held in that
city provided the sum can be raised.
Frank Lukes, farm hand employed
for many years in the vicinity of Mar
shalltown, is dead, leaving securities
valued at $1,000. Efforts to locate lis
relatives have SO far proved unsuccess
full.
Two children, aged and ~ years, the
sons of ]. y. johnson. died at Glen
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