Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-01-28

ed $40 births and 4S5 deaths.
Council Bluffs has contributed $500 to
the famine sufferers of Sweden.
A baby recently born at Shenandoah
weighed one and one-half pounds.
The largest button factory in the
world is to be erected at Muscatine.
The next prohibition State convention
will probably be held in Marshalltown.
Scott County will invest in pack of
bloodhounds to be used in tracking Grim
inals.
Fire at Swaledale destroyed the fur
niture store of l.. Triplett.. Loss SO, 900;
insured.
There are about forty-fve cases of
typhoid fever at Creston, mostly in a
mild form.
The Iowa Retail Hardware Dealers
Association will meet at Des Moines
Feb. lib.
One hundred and seventy-six intoxl-
cants appeared in justice court in Iowa
City in 1902.
Fire at Ryan destroyed the blacksmith
shop of j. A. Thomas. Loss $500, par
tally insured.
Dubuque will insist that all buildings
three stories high or over be equipped
with fire escapes.
Kirk Winchell, who broke Jail at Au-
dubon last summer, has been arrested
at Eau Claire, Wis.
Burlington butchers have organized a
retail protective association, with capt.
tai stock of $4,000.
The judicial district composed of Della
ware, Blackhawk md Buchanan coun-
ties wants third judge.
Wolves are abundant in Dubuque
County and the county is paying out
large sums for bountics.
The Commercial National Bank Of
Waterloo has increased its capital stock
from 100000 to 100000.
A number of Iowa City business men
were mnde the victims of pair of
smooth advertising sharks.
Clinton ministers have filed several
suits against saloonkeepers of that city.
alleging violation of the mulct law.
A company of the National Guard will
probably be organized at Iowa Falls to
succeed the Marshalltown company.
Arguments for new trial in the case
of Jerome Hoot. the Waterloo dynan,iter,
have been filed in the Supreme Court
The little daughter of Barney Racey
of Waterloo was seriously scalded by the
upsetting Of a kettle of boiling water.
Fire Mt Hayesville destroyed Crabb's
hardware store and two small adjoining
buildings. Loss $1,000, partly insured.
Thomas Neagle's shoe store at Oska-
loosa was burglarized while fully lighted,
aud 500 in cash taken from the safe.
The addition to Waterloo, where the
recent factories secured for that city
have been located, has been named West
field.
Elijah Heathcote, sent up from Des
MOines for ten years for attempted MUIR
der, is dead at the Fort Madison peni-
tertiary.
The Union Electric Company of Wat
crloo has expended $4,000 in purchas-
ing new arc lamps for that city's light
ing system.
A gasoline lamp caused fire In the
postofiice Mt Doom. All the valuables
were saved, and as far as known no
great damage was done to the mail.
Burlington taxpayers, at we'll at
tended mass meeting, decided in favor
of several miles of paving and other
improvements during the coming sum
mer.
Gen. Byron A. Bccson, quartermas-
Ter Ter IF the Iowa Soldiers Hone has
received an appoi.,tnnent as treasurer of
the Southern National Soldiers home,
Hampton, Va.
assembly is seriously considering the
proposition of employing general busi-
ness agent to look after union labor in
terests in that city.
Fire at Dewitt destroyed three build
ings containing the stores of w. H.
Schlabach, shoes; w. I. Dennison, hard
ware, and I. s. Connole, groceries. The
loss will exceed $4,000.
a prominent coal operator is authority
for the statement that at the annual
convention of Iowa miners and opera
tors in March the miners will be given d
substantial increase in wages.
Il. A. Marson, the pious fraud, plead
ed guilty at Toledo to the charge of
jumping board bill and was sentenced
to twenty days in Jail, pending which
his other misdeeds will be Investigated
by the officials
Chairman John Cownie of the State
board of control said that the board
would probably ask the Legislature Mt
its next session to vote an appropriation
to defray the expenses of the care and
nf fJ,n Ind do 80
Mrs. Stein of Knoxville.
John Collins, wealthy resident of
Dysart was robbed of $2,1l5, the rob-
bers carrying off a trunk in which the
money was concealed. The robbery was
effected without awakening the family,
and the trunk taken to field, where 1t
was looted. Collins is so years old, and
is said to be very wealthy.
The colored population of Burlington,
and many white persons, are intensely
Interested in 6-year-old wonder called
Lonnie Lawrence Dennis, who is con-
Quoting revival services there. The boy
holds forth at the A. NJ. +. Church in
Central avenue and is greeted by crowd
ed houses every night. He is said TO
have had no schooling, yet he repeats
CAdpleL ullSl Shuplcl VI lltc plDic itC-
cnrately, and delivers long, earnest and
interesting discourses OIL Bible texts.
Fire destroyed the building of the
Farmers Cooperative Creamery Com
pany Mt Cascade. Loss $1,000, insur-
ance $1,000.
The count of money in the State treas
ury on the beginning of another term
for the State Treasurer showed total
of $1,O29,544.76 cash on hand and in
banks, of which 1921 ,472,27 belongs to
the general fund of the State.
Burglars looted the money drawer In
the c., 4 N. w. depot at Council Bluffs
of $40. They had begun work on the
safe, which contained large amount of
money, when they were frightened away.
]. A. Shelley, an Ottumwa packing
house employe, is dead of injuries receiv-
ed by falling down an elevator shaft from
the third story of the plant.