Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-06-29

near Wellmau. Mr.. Jack was about 20
years old
A marriage occurred few days ago
at Farley, in which the bride was 81
years old.
A 4-year-old boy living near Taylor
was kicked by colt and received in
juries from which he died.
Eating Of a withered apple caused the
death from poisoning Of Vera Sample OF
Woodbine. She was four years old.
Natural gas has been discovered on the
southeast of Glidden, in Richland town
ship.
The citizens Of Webster City will be
given the opportunity within few
weeks of voting on gas franchise prop
osition.
The executive council approved the
appointment OF Labor Commissioner
Brigham Of Frank Bradley to be State
factory inspector
teed good growth by the report Of the
weather observers in the various coun-
ties for the past week.
The Western elevator at Gridley burn
ed, and with 1t two cars of grain and
one car Of flour, also coal and coal Sheds
The loss is well insured.
Mrs. Eunice Fish, wife of Z. l.. Fish,
living five miles south OF Montour, Was
found dead in bed by her husband, who
went to call her. Heart disease was the
cause.
The State board of health has reduc.
ed the length OF quarantine In diphtheria
cases to seven days when antitoxin Is
used in the treatment of the patients.
Otherwise it remains at thirty-five days.
A resolution is to be introduced in the
DAY export Council which will prohibit
the tearing up Of the paved streets for
period Of five years after laid, unless
In event Of gas or water main break-
ing
Dague Thompson of Cedar Rapids has
been found guilty In his trial for assault
with intent to commit manslaughter in
his attack on Miss Pearl Jones, whose
throat he attempted to cut with a pen
l>nife.
Gov. Cummins will fill the State vot.
Ing machine commission by the appoint
ment of D. b. Lyons of Des Moiues.
He is to be named to succeed Commits
sioner Sylvester b. Osborn of Tabor,
resigned.
Henry Fielder, a Lemars restaurant
man, died from the effects of fall. He
fell down 4 cellar way, cutting the back
of his head near the base of the brain.
The injury caused internal hemorrhage
and death ensued.
Albert Greenwood of Palestine, Texas,
assistant attorney general OF the Lone
Star State, is being closely guarded at
Ottumwa, to prevent his doing himself
bodily injury because the girl he was to
marry Tilted him.
Fifty-seven Young men have filed thei,
| applications for the privilege of taking
| an examination before the Supreme
Court for admission to the bar of this
State. 1t is the first class of the year
under the new law.
The crops OF northwestern Iowa end
especially of the Mississippi valley. have
heen injured by heavy rains recently
| Thousands of acres in the Missouri hot
toms are submerged and probably can
| not be utilized for the third successive
year
The State board of control has bought
eighty acres of farm land at Anamosa,
adjacent to the land already owned by
| the State Mt that institution. The land
cost between SOL and sos an acre. The
] buying price was $50 minus certain re-
| David G. Bangs. Sch author and
public official, has petitionedr -tae- E9ik
County District Court TO prevent his
wife using the name OF Bangs, by the
| issuance of an injunction. The Bangs
| people recently severed their matrimonial
| relations.
John Cownie of the State board Of
control is authority for the statement
that the corn outlook just at present is
| 4 trife disheartcning. The cold weather
| and the excessive moisture have combin-
ed to make the Stands" poor In large
number of fields.
There are twenty-seven cases of small
pox in st. Joseph's Mercy hospital for
the insane in Dubuque and the board of
health has ordered q general vaccine
ton. The asylum is under quarantine
| and evory precaution is being taken to
proven spread of the disease.
The State University students who
will receive diplomas this year are di-
vided among the various colleges as fol-
lows: Graduate college. 40; college Of
liberal arts, SIS; medical college, 40; col
lsge of law. 80; college of dentistry, At;
college of homeopathic medicine, 8; col
lege of pharmacy, Is; school for nurses,
{: total, 500.
I'm tp 81 al 4
an effort at suicide in Des Moines be-
cause she was not allowed to continue
in her strange affection for another girl,
Miss Hattie Burrows. The affection she
had manifested had grown so strong as
to be unnatural and she insisted on be-
ing with the Burrows girl all the time.
The latter had grown weary of the sit
uation.
T.. l.. ST. Germaine of the Chippewa
tribe enjoys the distinction of being the
first Indian ever admitted to practice
law in the State of Iowa by the SUI
prenle Court. He was successful in the
May term which has just closed. He
received a collegiate education at Has
kell Institute Lawrence. Kan, where
he was graduated. For the past three
years he has been n student Mt Highland
Park College of Law in Des Moines. His
tribe is located near Flandreau, Wis,
and lie contemplates entering the Uni
versity of Wisconsin fer further law
study. St. Germaine is but % years
of age. lie was one of the thirty-eigiit
out OF class of fifty-seven that passed
the State examination.
Hoodlums assaulted newspaper man
named Carleton and Miss Mary Connolly
in Cumberland with n beer bottle and
inflicted such wounds on the latter that
she will lose her sight. The assailants
waylaid Carleton and the young woman,
who were out buggy riding. They first
abused them with vile epithets,- and then
threw bottles at them. One of them
cut out Miss Connelly's right eye and so
injured the other that its sight will also
be lost. The identity of the men is not
positively known. but several suspected
individuals have made their escape from
the community.
Samuel Cornell, who sued the Keokuk
r,,. 40,