Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-02-17

Measles are epidemic in severe form
at LeNIars.
The Rock Island will bnild n depot Al
Gilmore City.
A $1,000 bridge will be built across til,
Skunk river near Rubio.
Mrs. Louisa Schmidt, pioneer, i.
.sss-3d at Waterloo, aged 81.
TIE town of C,.,c,nnati is cxperieu.,
Ing a religious awakening.
Keokuk citizens are kicking OH the
quality of the water supply.
Scarlet fever at Dunkerton is abating,
and schools and churches have reopened
a factory for the manufacture of
screen wire goods will be built ut Cin-
ton.
The plans have been submitted for the
proposed new Rock Island depot ut Mus.
catine.
The Johnson-Fisk two-story block at
Keoknk burned. Loss $4,000, insurance
$4,000.
The baseball carnival netted the pro
motcrs of the Burlington ball club about
$1,000.
BGdc business men have organized q
debating society which holds weekly
meetings.
Potatoes nrc selling ut 81 to S1.lO
wholesale, per bushel, ut some points in
the State.
A band is being organized at Waterloo
The organization will have about fifty
instruments.
Numerous violations of the game law
by dynamiters of fish are reported from
New Hartford.
James Griffin, a prominent business
man of Creston, died suddenly at his
home in that city.
The State bowling tournament will be
held at Fort Dodge in March; $500 in
prizes will be offered.
The residence of Dennis Hammond
near Columbus City burned, the Gre
starting from defective fue
A stock company has been formed
Mt Murshalltownuto finance that city's
ball team in the proposed Iowa league.
Several Mormon elders have been
working in Davenport and other eastern
Iowa cities. They want actual settlers
OH farms in Utah.
In Rock Rapids the grand jury has
indicted Charles Rocker and wife for the
murder Of August Schrader, who was
found hanging in his barn June 10, 1900.
The Hamilton County poorllouse near
Webster City caught fire and burned for
two hours. A panic was narrowly avert
ed among the patients. The damage will
not be great.
President Stickney of the Great West
ern has promised to assist Fort Dodge
i'll securing factories that would employ
as many men as the shops that were re-
Gently removed to Clarion.
Fire in the First Christian Church at
Logan during services caused panic
among the congregation. No one was
hurt, but many persons had narrow es.
capes. The loss is $4,000.
The Muscatine lodge of Workmen is
now the largest in the State. 1t has 9GC
members, 121 of whom were initiated
Thursday evening.
In District Court at Muscatine vii,
liam WEIGH pleaded guilty to shooting
and slightly wounding Robert Hickey
during quarrel Mt Wilton, and was
fined 500 and costs.
Albert Richter OF Dubuque has beer
given highest honors in his graduating
class at Annapolis academy, and will be
retained as instructor on the faculty
Richter has had an unusually fine record
in the institution. He received highest
honors in 1901 and 1903, and was second
in 1902.
The estate of James and Edward
punkley, the two boys who We're killed
by Great Western train at u crossing
accident in Dubuque recently, will re-
cover $4,000 from the road, together
with the funeral expenses and physi
clans clnims, as n settlement of the
claims.
Lemoine Mott, a wealthy Des Moline.
miller, whose nephew, L. ii. Mott, i.
under sentence to hang at NIissoula
Mont, for numbering his wife a yea,
ago, has gone to Montana with til,
avowed intention of spending any amour
necessary to save his nephew. He nj
ready has spent considerable money ii
the case,