Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-04-01

has been authorized to begin business
with capital stock of $4,000.
William II. Hearst has signitied his in
tention to he present at the Jefferson
banquet in Des Moines April 2.
The 'Dcs Moines East Side schools are
already making preparations for their ex-
hibit at the st. Louis worlds fair.
The proposition to issue bonds for the
erection of $4,000 high school build
Ing was showed under Mt Burlington.
Fort Dodge telephone girls are de-
manding higher wages and threaten te
strike If their demands are not needed.
A three-months-old baby was left on
the doorstep of T. L. Smith at Des
Moines. There is no clue to the parents.
The Rock Island road will double track
its line between Davenport and Kansas
City, according to the Centerville Citi-
zen.
The Iowa Telephone Association has
under consideration a proposition to es-
tablish toll line clearing house in Dcs
Mones.
The Dubuque Young Women's Chris
tan Association, organized less than n
year ago. already has over 500 paying
members.
Creston has numerous cases of mala-
ria, which the physicians say are direct
ly traceable to the use of polluted drink
ing water.
The old Fiftieth Iowa band of Keokuk
has been revived with twenty-four men,
and without relationship to the Iowa Ma
tional Guard.
Robert Reed and John Wenzel of Lo
gansport pleaded guilty to selling liquor
without license, and were fined $500
and costs each.
Frederick Baier, native of Germany,
but for nearly half n century n resident
of Dubuque, is dead. He was n veteran
of the Mexican war.
Charles Huntzinger, Des Moines
cigar store clerk, has fallen heir to a
large part of 100000 fortune left by
an uncle in Pennsylvania.
The self-government plan was the is
sue in the school election Mt Ida Grove,
and the advocates of the reform Were
defeated by decisive vote.
Former Speaker Henderson is said
to be sufferer from dyspepsia and will
before engaging in active business.
Thieves entered the home of John Spill
man at Fairfield and stole valuables
worth $500. Two other residences were
robbed the same night of small amounts.
The price of Iowa soft lump coal to
consumers will advance from SO to $3.50
as result of the increase of from 10
to 10 per cent in cost to the operators
growing out of the conference Of the
operators and miners of Iowa.
Terribly crushed and mangled and
with life extinct, the remains of James
Baxter, a driver in the mines at Ladds-
dale, were found lying across the track
near the entry of the mine. No one
saw the accident, but it is thought that
two cars loaded with goal passed over
his body.
Jacob Brum, workingman at Iowa
City, ended his life in strange man
ner. He loaded gun with three
cornered file. The trigger being broken,
he placed the butt of the gun in stove
and the muzzle against his breast and
waited till the heat discharged the gun.
The file went through his ,heart.
After being kept in the sweatbox ut
Corydon for nearly day. Elijah Thomas,
who admitted having set fire to the Rea
& Co. livery barn on the night of Feb
10, has made full confession, in which
he admits having been connected with
other fires in that county, and duplicates
John Jones and Nathan Rolf Accord
ing to the story told by Thomas to the
county officers, it is learned that the
gang had under Amusement plans for the
destruction of several other buildings in
Corydon and other places in the county.
1t was stated by Thomas that they had
planned to burn the Corydon lumber
yard, the Alternately livery barn, the
county court house, and if they were sue
cessful in these attempts they had in
tended to destroy every frame building
on the square.
State Architect Liebbe is preparing
plans for the proposed nav prison hos
pital for the penitentiary at Fort Madi-
SOL. The appropriation for this is $780,
OOO
Unknown parties broke into the store
of T. Whipplehauser Mt Muscatine and
made away with large amount of goods,
consisting chiefly of hunters parapher-
MALTA.
Mrs. Gallagher convicted of PERJURY
at Iowa City in the trial of Charles Ho.
lada for the murder of her husband, was
sentenced to fifteen years in the Deni-
Tertiary.
Dubuque club women are looking for
the solution of the servant girl problem.
They are interested in the movement to
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housekeeping.
Iowa patrons of the Elgin Creamery
Company, which went into bankruptcy
last August, will receive 40 per cent
dividends on their claims. This is the
effect of decision rendered by Judge
Mcpherson of the federal court.
Eleven sites have been offered to the
Council Bluffs library hoard rs loca-
ton for the proposed Carnegie library
building. The prices for the sites range
from $500 to $4,000. The board had
submitted the matter to competition.
The Keokuk City Council has appoint.
ed committee to interview the railroad
officials of the Santa Fe Railroad to
investigate the probability of that rail
road running into Keokuk.
At the preliminary hearing of DIR. G.
II. Heath, arrested at Boone for prac
ticing medicine without license. the
defendant was bound over to the grand
jury. The case promises to be btterl.
fought.
Over 5000 worth of stolen goods have
been discovered on the Lazelle farm neal
Polk City, and VIM. Lazelle and VIM
Cook are under arrest. The goods are
supposed to have been stolen in De,