Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-16
The chickasaw County fair has been

Fort Madison failed to grant fran
chise for electric lights.
The second crop of wild hay Is being
harvested In Emmett County.
Lone Tree is rejoicing over the posses.
sion of its first cement walk.
The Rock Island depot at Clarksville
will be moved to new location.
Harry Patterson, aged IA, of Rodney,
was drowned while bathing in the Sioux
river.
The remains of little Freda Jess, who
was drowned at Clinton, have been re-
covered.
The Fifty-fourth regiment, 1. N. g.,
1t is announced, will camp this year at
Muscatine.
Less than 80 per cent Of the voters of
Van Buren, County signed the saloon
consent petition.
An incendinry fire destroyed property
valued at $500 belonging to N. B.
Eaves, near Leon.
Mason City has passed an ordinance
requiring all sidewalks hereafter built,
to be made of cement.
There have been many calls on the
charities of Council Bluffs for help as
result of the flood there.
Cal G. Beird was found not guilty Of
the murder of Captain Dundy, after the
third trial at Keosauqua.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Strohbehn of Dav-
export have just celebrated their fifth
eth wedding anniversary.
The authorities of the town Of Buck
eye have forbidden ball playing within
the city limits on Sunday.
II. Q. Hansen, aged AS, painter liv-
ing near Sherrills, drank wood alcohol
and died in terrible agony.
John Plumer, timekeeper for the Rock
Island at Council Bluffs, lost foot by
falling under moving train.
Alexander Mckee, pioneer, is dead
at Stuart, at the age of 81. Death re-
suited from illness following fall.
A 4-year-old Denver boy swallowed a
small circular tin whistle, which was To-
Gated in his stomach with an X-ray ma
chine.
Frank G. Vandenburg of Atlantic has
filed petition in bankruptcy, scheduling
liabilities amounting to $9,301 and assets
SS,276.
One of the rural routes running out
from Alta serves four families with
twelve children each, one ten and two
with nine.
A crusade on behalf of rubber heels
for the shoes worn by school children
has been inaugurated in several towns in
western Iowa.
II. b. White of Waterloo is suffer-
lug from severe bruises and badly In
jured back, caused by fall down the
stairs at his home
The case of Jim Burns, now serving
life sentence for the murder of Jerry
Corcoran at Des Moines, has been ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court.
Spontaneous combustion caused So
600 fire loss for William Lieb, farmer
near Washington. A large barn filled
with grain and machinery burned.
r. w. Dickey of Orilla was kicked
by horse In a stall on the State fair
grounds. The mans limbs were crushed
and one may have to be amputated.
John Riley, Des Moines laborins
man, was struck by Rock Island train
and thrown thirty feet into the air, but
luckily escaped with broken collar
bone.
William Roehrs, aged 80, living near
Sunbury, committed suicide by hanging
in his barn. 1t is supposed he was tenn
porarily deranged. He leaves widow
and three children.
A. B. Rown, well-known race horse
man residing at Clarindn, shot and killed
himself at Creston because his horse had
lost -a-raes- aud because he had lost 500
that he had wagered. 8
Sneak thieves attempted to enter the
house of II. II. Pressler in Muscatine,
but were driven away by Mr.. Pressler
who opened fire with revolver before
they had gained entrance.
Prof. William Mendenhall has resign
ed his chair in the faculty of Parsons
College, that of physics and chemistry.
He has accepted similar position in
Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.
F. H. Ludwig, Modale merchant,
has filed petition in bankruptcy in the
federal court at Council Bluffs, schedul-
ing debts of $4,000. A trustee Of the
stock of goods has been appointed.
Brakeman w. l.. Addison, on G. g.
n. w. train between Watkins and Blairs-
town, was run over and instantly killed.
1t appears that he was on the side Of
the car and that an upright on the bridge
struck him and knocked him under the
wheels. He WIS n nephew of Conductor
Strickland of Clinton.
BY the unarmed Intervention of Geo.
Cook and Harvey Lilliard, a hired man
ON the Cook country place, eight miles
from Davenport, Gus Teros, a Greek la
borer, who had used revolver In
quarrel with other section men, was saw
ed from lyiiching at the hands of eighty
of his Infatuated compatriots.
Sixteen policy holders In the merged
Northwestern Life and Savings Society
of Des Moines have asked the court for
n mandatory injunction requiring the Ma
tional Life Of Minneapolis to return to
Iowa all assets and books of the former
which 1t recently purchased and restrain
In head end collision in the Hastings
yards between the Burlington's west
bound Chicago limited for California and
an extra freight train fourteen passen-
gers were injured. The passenger was
two hours late and running at high
rate of speed. While on curve entering
the yards it collided with the freight,
which was attempting to take the siding.
Both engineers and firemen Jumped and
escaped with bruises. Two day coaches
were badly wrecked, almost every occu-
pant receiving some injury.
Christ Taqnm of Clinton has brought
suit against the Clinton Bridge and Iron
works for $3.50 for injuries received by
a rail falling on and breaking one of his
limbs, alleging carelessness on the part
of other employees of the company in pill
ing the same.
Horace Silk, living near What Cheer,
had very narrow escape from serious
injury or instant death. He was driving
some cattle across the @. & N. w.
tracks, riding horseback, and did not no
tice an approaching train. The horse
he was riding was killed, also one COW,
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