Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-10-28

Deposits OF the State and saving.
banks Of Iowa now amount to $132, $780,.
852.
Work OIL the survey for the Davenport
Iowa City interurban line will begin al
once.
David Smith of Keokuk was drowned
In the Mississippi by the capsizing Of
his skiff.
The postmaster at Council Bluffs will
be allowed one additional letter carrier
on Nov. /.
Fort Dodge is candidate for the next
meeting place Of the Iowa League Of Mu.
inequalities.
Oscar Muir has been appointed post.
master at Raleigh, vice John A. Ketch.
um, resigned.
Council Bluffs was chosen us the place
for the next annual conference Of the
Iowa d. A. r.
II. d. Gordon of Des Moines was Sc.
verely burned at Dexter by the explosion
Of gasoline stove.
There are number of diphtheria
cases at Fort Dodge and an epidemic is
feared in one school.
Isaac and George Shotwell of Carson
have been committed to the reform school
for robbing restaurant.
Rhe planning mill of William G. Jaeger,
at Des Moines, was damaged by fire to
the extent of $4,000; insured.
| Several cows have died in Muscatine
and vicinity, supposedly from the effects
OF eating too much white clover.
Mae Shamethia. Syrian woman ped
der, was struck by n train in the yards
at Burlington and instantly killed.
Brakeman Wheaton of Waterloo lost
portion Of foot in attempting to
board moving engine, at Arlington.
Peter Jensen. for some time employed
on a Swedish newspaper at Council
Bluffs, has mysteriously disappeared.
Guy jackson, aged 10. was killed at
Keokuk by street car. He jumped from
wagon directly in front of moving
car.
or the thirty-three candidates for adj
mission to the bar. who took the exam
nation at Des Moines, all but four
passed.
Ex-Marshal w. A. Richards has re-
ceiyed u letter from someone he had con-
yicted of crime asking him how he liked
retribution.
Rev. w. H. Bunge, the Lutheran pas
tor Mt DIN, has gone to Chicago, where
he will enroll as a student in the Luz
theran seminary.
AT the national convention of the P.
z. o. Sisterhood, at Lincoln, Neb., Mrs.
Laura Weber of Knoxville, Iowa, was
chosen president.
james Regan was sentenced to fifteen
years in the penitentinry for larceny of
a watch, revolver and some money from
T.. c. Caine of Grinnell.
The Monticello hill is the highest point
In Jenes County, it being s43 feet above
the sea level; Anamosa $50, Wyoming
S14, Oxford Junction 729.
Smallpox has been raging Mt Run
of malignant type have been reported.
There have been no deaths.
Fire destroyed the Updike Grain Com
pany's elevator in Missouri Valley, to-
gether with 100000 bushels of grain.
The loss is 500. 900, fully insured
1t is stated on reliable authority that
work on the Winterset- Greenfield extern
sion of the Rock Island has been order
ell stopped. No explanation is given.
Miss Elsie Sproul, a school teacher at
OskalOosa, WAS seriously poisoned, and
several pupils slightly, supposedly from
handling buckeye leaves for models in
drawing.
Ray Fenwick, Des Moines janitor,
fell from the third story of the Eagle
block to the pavement beneath. He
struck some wires In his descent and
may recover.
Warren Lishtfoot, the Burlington lad
who fell from tree, fence picket
piercing his right lung, has almost com.
pletely recovered, much to the surprise
of physicians.
A civil service examination will be
held at Des Moines on Nov. IL for the
position of assistant in soil management
in the Department of Agriculture and
examiner of survey in the land office.
There are forty-seven owners and driy-
ers of automobiles in Des Moines, and
an ordinance has been passed by the
City Council limiting speed of the ma
chimes inside certain limits to eight miles
per hour. outside the limits to twelve
miles, and requiring them to be equip
ped with two lamps, and horn capable
Of being heard 200 feet distant.
While William Pinns was crossing d
bridge near Dubuque with threshing
machine and engine, the bridge broke,
letting the machines and Pinns into the
water below. The machine fell In such
n manner that Pinns was underneath
and unable to extricate himself, but was
able to keep his head out of the water
and escaped with severe bruises.
Two men were captured at an early
hour by Night Waterman Spencer while
trying to rob the Racket store in Nevada.
They had gained entrance to the build
ing and the night watchman's attention
was attracted when they lighted matches.
The men gave their names as Frank
Howard and Dan Ward. Goods found
in their possession We're identified as
having been stolen from a Colo store.
They were bound over to the grand jury.
The matter of effecting a State organ
ization Of the county agricultural socie-
ties or farmers institutes of Iowa will
be taken up Mt the meeting of the State
agricultural department and farmers In
stitutes. which will be held in Des
Moines in December. 1t is probable that
a special organizer from the Agricultural
Department in Washington will be pres
ent at the meeting, for the purpose Of
helping the project. Such State organ
ization, it is planned, would cooperate
directly with the department at Wash
ington, md would act as central body
for the different county societies.
The jury in Clinton, after celebrating
upon the guilt or innocence of Dan MUIR.
ply for seventeen hours, found him gull.
ty as charged. He was indicted for
robbing the residences Of some of the
prominent citizens of the place.
The Des Moines and the Chicago Life
Insurance companies both of Des
Moines, authorize the announcement Of
their consolidation, combining member
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