Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-09-16

Is Hamilfol county may erect an In;
zane hospital. So
Tabor college, at Tabor, is being
extensively improved.
Centerville water works will be i'm
proved by the expenditure of $4,000.
The Presbyterians of Toledo have con.
tracted for a new church, to cost 49, 200
INDY be completed In December.
The annual convention Of the Scott
County Sunday School Association will
be held in Davenport Sept. %, 20 and
80.
In all but eight townships of Potta.
wattamie County, the minimum wage for
teachers in the public schools has been
Increased to $40.
Clifford Halferty, 10 years of nge, Of
Sigourney, was kicked by horse and
died the following day from the effect Of
the injury received.
Eight-year.old Freda Jess of Clinton
fell from barge. into what is called
Bever slough, and was drowned before
help could reach her.
At Muscatine, John Neibert unearthed
the cranium and jaw of reindeer said
by Prof. r. NJ. Wtter to have lived
10000 to $4,000 years ago.
Miss Lizzie Murphy of LAWYER has
entered the convent of the Visitation at
Dubuque, ns a sister, anod will be known
as Sister Mary Rosalia.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Union Telephone and Tele-
graph Company with principal offices at
Keokuk; capital stock $1,5O0.OOO.
Mrs. Oskerman, an old lady who lived
at Inland, was found dead in her yard.
The. cause of death was not known, but
there were no indications of foul play
Emma Cornwall of Davenport asks
S25, 900 with interest and costs from the
Davenport Gas and Electric Company
In consideration for the death of her hus-
band, Lawrence b. Cornwall, which she
alleges was due to negligence of the de-
PENDANT while Cornwall was In its EN-
ploy.
Miss Mary Boeter of Muscatine had
her right hand and forearm badly crush
ed by getting it caught in the machinery
at the button factory where she was en-
ployed.
A Waterloo Indy put a IS gold piece
into an automatic weighing machine,
thinking it was penny, but discovered
her loss later and the elusive coin was
recovered.
The wooden water tower of the Mus.
cntine Lumber Company, about seventy.
five feet high, was struck by lightning
during recent storm and considerable
damaged.
Mike Witty is being held to the grand
jury at Davenport under $500 bonds, tc
answer to the charge of the theft of g
quantity of underwear from dry goods
store there.
Three thousand FIVE hundred tons Of
rails are reported to be on the way fol
the l. s. l. Railway, to cost about $780,,
600, and work on the line is progressing
near Davenport.
There WINS peculiar explosion at Ma.
son City about 3 o'clock In the morning
which awoke many people from theil
slumbers, and each seemed to think II
had been right near their house, bu,
what 1t was and where could not be
discovered.
More than $4,000 soft fish have been
removed from the upper Cedar by dep
uty wardens recently. In making one
haul 15pound pike waa taken in the
sein and put back into the river.
A bucket of scalding water upset or
2-year-old Harriet Sullivan of Dubuque
scalding her SO severely as to cause
death. Two other children were scalded
but not SO seriously as the Sullivan girl
The city of Davenport and the Peo
pies Construction Company have been
made defendants In a damage suit III
which Jno. a, MeFate asks for $4,000
on account Ok injuries received by being
thrown from a load Of hay while driv
ing over defective crossing.
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