Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-06-24

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Louis Goochee. Hamilton County
farmer, was seriously burned by the
breaking of bottle containing carbolic
acid.
The Iowa Central has signed an agree
ment for one year with its engineers and
firemen, granting slight increase in
wages.
Mort Rosshaul, porter in Dubuque
hotel, has just received $4,000 as his
share of the estate of a relative who
died in New York.
AT Des Moines Judge Mcpherson of
the federal court sentenced John Jones
to pay fine of $500 and retirement in
State prison for fifteen months for boot
Logging.
Ida Kodtman, an Iowa Falls domestic,
narrowly escaped death as result of
taking internally dose of liniment in
tended for external application for rheu-
matism.
A Wright farmer who is firm believ-
er in the theory of extensive drainage,
has eight men at work putting tile in his
farm and will have thirty miles Of it be.
fore he finishes.
Jim Williams. an Ottumwa colored
youth, was shot by circus hand at
Washington The shooting followed a
quarrel. The boy will recover. No ar
rests were made.
The new we'll at the Washington water
plant was completed at about 23s feet
and Is complete success. 1t has been
tested and will furnish from 10000 to
$4,000 gallons daily of the purest water.
A committee of the employees of the
Davenport pearl button workers, who
were locked out recently, waited op Su-
perintendent Krause and were informed
that the directors had refused to enter
tain a proposition to take back the men
and girls without prejudice and reinstate
their former wage system.
Iowa will have no woman's department
and no board of lady managers at the st.
Louis exposition. This was settled on
at meeting of the commissioners ut
Des Moines after a discussion that last
ed nearly all day. 1t was decided. how
ever. as compromise, to appoint COM
mittee of three women, whose function
will be to assist the different departments
in the exhibit of whatever pertains to
the woman's work.
Miss Frances Moore, who was drown
ed at Chicago the other day, was a
daughter of Rev. G. A. Moore, pastor Of
the Edwards Congregational Church Of
Davenport. The young woman, in COM
pany with the young man named Miller,
who was also drowned, were on n pleas-
ure trip to the Spanish caravels in jack
son Park lagoon. 1t is presumed the
young woman fell into the water and that
Miller persisted in trying to rescue her.
Dissatisfied with the mental attain
ments of many of the priests of the
archdiocese and wishing to impress upon
the minds of young Catholics that recti-
tude should not be the only qualification
for admission into the priesthood. it was
decided at the recent synod held in Du-
buque that hereafter the younger priests
of the archdiocese of Dubuque must un-
dergo an oral and written examination
once year In theology. church history,
canon law and other subjects in which
priest should be conversant. This ac-
tion was taken on the advice of Arch
bishop Keane.
Rev. S. NJ. Mcconnell has resigned
the pastorate of the United Presbyterian
Church at Wyoming, and will accept a
call to Stanw0od.
The meeting of the Upper Mississippi
Turnbezirk, which was to have been held
in Des Moines June 10 to 10, has been
postponed until Aug. 8 to IL. The de-
cision was made because of the floods.
Eva Shonk, aged 43, of Des Moines,
attempted suicide by drowning. She was
rescued. The womans household goods
were lost in the flood, and she declared
that as she had lost her home on earth
she hoped to find one in heaven.
Colonel Humphrey has announced the
appointment of A. L. Rule of Mason City
as quartermaster of the Fifty-sixth Reg
iment, and A. +. Peddie of Emmetsburg,
battalion adjutant.
Rev. A. p. Church of the Presbyterian
Church at Wyoming. has resigned, after
continuous pastorate for over ten years,
and will become the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Lansing.
Miss Margaret O'Laughlin, who claim
ed she was incarcerated in Dubuque
hospital at the instance of jealous rela-
tives and who had filed habeas corpus
proceedingst 70 secure her release, has
been taken away from the asylum by a
brother.
The Milwaukee railroad has offered
the town of Lohrville fifty cars of gravel
for crawling the street leading from the
depot to the town.
The town of Jessup has recently COM
pleted a system of water works and now
the City Council has chosen fire chief
and a strong fire company has been or
ganized.
The business men of Dubuque are talk
ing seriously of combining and asking
that writ Of mandamus be issued in
the District Court compelling the COM
pany to operate the street cars. The
general opinion is that neither side Is
making any especial effort toward set
tlsmsnt Of the trouble.