Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-05-11

pairs.
Council Bluffs people have been noti-
ned TO clean up their alleys and back
yards.
Wilson Terry. Madison County farm
er, killed himself, using a razor. No
cause known.
II. G. Kcphart 100 years old, pnssed
away in Clarksvillc. lie came to Du-
buquc in 1910.
Fire destroyed the home of w. p.
Perry at Burlington. Lo,s $780, in
surance S1,10O.
Dubuque jobbers and manufacturers
will make no excursion to surrounding
towns this spring.
Twenty-six gamblers, arraignetl In po-
lice court at Des Moines, paid fines of
from $40 to $50 each.
The new First Presbyterian Church at
Des Moines has been dedicated free of
debt. 1t cost $4,000.
Mr.. md Mrs. Allen Cnsady of Van
Buren County celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary Of their marriage.
Arthur Wood Of Bloomfield lost an
eye MS result of the explosion of
glass water gauge ON a boiler
Montour ministers have arranged that
there shall be temperance sermon
preached each month in the year.
Carroll County teachers offer prizes
to the boys and girls who can keep the
finest looking gardens and lawns.
Unknown miscreants shot and fatally
wounded fine driving horse belonging
tc Sheriff kelleher Of Pocahontas.
Thieves robbed the postofflce and gem
eral store at Viewer, taking stamps and
n quantity Of merchandise. No clue.
Geo. Waters, dining car employe, is
dead at Davenport ms result Of fall
down stairs while walking in his sleep.
Mart O'Dopnell, who disappeared from
Colo recently, has been located at St.
Louis. He assigns no reason for leaving
home.
Belnice Trowbridge. years old, of
Clarion, was seriously burned by her
clothing catching fire from burning
leaves.
The Floyd County Agricultural So
ciety is offering prizes for the hest hired
girl and the best hired man employed OH
a farm.
A fine specimen of white swan was
Shot near G.slo.--It -measured- seven feet
from tip to tip of wing and weighed %
pounds.
The lockout of the building trades at
Des AIoines hns stopped work OH con-
tracts for buildings at the State fair
grounds.
Contracts for stock food, signed by
Blnckhawk County farmers, are now said
to be turning up i'll the shape of promls-
sorry notes.
The strikers In the gypsum mines at
Fort Dodge have all finally returned to
work, the strike having been settled by
compromise.
johnson County announces decrease
in the acreage OF pasturage and an in
crease in the acreage of cultivated land
for tlie~scason.
Harrison County farmers report the
wheat rotting in the fields, and they fear
a repetition of last years loss Of crops
on the lowlands.
The federal grand jury at Kcokuk in
licted Michael Kelley of AIarslialltown
for alleged attempting to frauduIcntly
obtain Il pension.
The death is announced of Mrs. Mar
garet Summers. wife of Prof. II. Il.
Summers OF the sociology department. of
Iowa State College.
Fort Dodge will hereafter enforce the
ordinance prohibiting boniires, q number
of disastrous blazes recently having mar
r0wly been averted.
Edward Heidi, weil-kuown Dcs
Molpes travelling man, has been declared
insane. He recently made two attempts
at se1f-destructiop.
For fourteen years Fred Krog has
lived within two and half miles of
Petersburg. and fer all that time has
never visited the place.
The Mayor of Early has issued a mani
festo against 'peeping Toms" Of whom
the town is said to laye large num-
Der, or n few who keep very busy.
Hamilton County authorities have been
aroused by the wholesale killing of song
birds by railroad laborcrs and will be-
gin prosecutions If the practice is not
stopped.
Gertrude McDonaldi sent up from
Davenport year ago on a f1ve-year sen
tence FOR larceny, has been paroled
Des NIoincs raised $4,000 Of the ST.
600 needed for the entertainment Of the
State firemen's tournament, June 21.24.
Fire broke out in the hardware store
of Crast & Son In linden, spread to the
harness shop of Charles johnson, and
totally destroyed both buildings. The
fire is supposed to have been started by
two tramps seen about the buildings n
short time before. Loss of Crast & Son
$4,000. Loss of Charles johnson ST.
600.
Albert Il. Kutsch of Dubuque has filed
papers in suit for $4,000 against the
Chicago Grent Western Railway for per-
sonal injuries received in the yards at
Oelwein on Oct. 6, 1908. Kutsch was a
brakeman and was injured while at
work.
The adopted son of Fred Ripley, living
few miles east of Humboldt, met his
death while leading the farm horses out
to water. The young lad, who was only
- .years old, had tied the halter rope
Of one of the horses about his waist and
in some manner tile horse became fright
cned. The hoy WINS thrown OFF his feet
and received severe skull injury, killing
him instantly.
Gustav Marx. hanged in Chicago for
murder. killed Arthur Meade in West
Liberty, according to n Chicago paper,
which says that Marx confessed to killing
"a clerk in railroad station in West
Liberty, Iowa." If this is true, the
search for the murderer of the West
Liberty vo1np man has cnded II 10
known, however, that Marshal Wiley Of
West Liberty is working on another clew.
Martin Wescott, who, on the night of
Dec. 12, struck and killed George Logue
in quarrel at Hanlontown, was sentenc-
ediby Judge Smith to FIVE years at hard
labor in the penitentiary. Both men
were intoxicated at tho time. Wescott
was convicted upon his own testimony.