Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-01-20


ordinance taxing dogs So head.
The Ottumwa Trades and Labor AS
sembly is raising hospital fund.
The Gage grocery at Floyd has been
placed in the hands of n receiver.
Webster City merchants have ADAM
doned the giving of trade coupons.
The Wilton Canning Company, capt.
talized at $4,000, has incorporated.
c. S. Seymour of Thornburg was
struck by train and fatally injured.
The office of division engineer of the
Iowa Central, at Marshalltown, has been
abolished.
AT an expense of $1,000, the main
street ut Delmar has been guttered and
mncadamized.
The Rice restaurant Mt Toledo has
been placed in tho hands OF the sheriff,
acting for the creditors
The $4,000 building of the Marshall
town Odd Fellows is now free of debt.
The building was. erected in 1886.
There is n shortage of corn in north
west Iowa and farmers are compelled to
sell much of their half fattened stock.
Attorneys for Mrs. Lavelleur, whose
trial for the murder Of her husband at
Newton, has twice resulted in disagree
ment, have applied for a change of
venue.
A crusade against Sunday opening Of
business houses has been begun at Lis
bon. restaurant keeper was fined SIS
and costs for keeping his place of BUSH
ness open.
Detief Evers of Denison, who killed
his child by giving 1t carbolic acid and
attempted to kill his wife, has been de-
clared insane and taken to Clarinda for
treatment.
About thirty of the business men of
West Union have each pledged $3.50 an
nually for five years us permanent
fund with which to sustain the public
library of that place.
Armour & Co. of Chicago have leased
the Tama Paper Mills and Filler Co.'s
plant in its entirety from II. ]. Fergu-
son, trustee for the creditors, and will
put it into operation at once.
The total amount of property which
changed hands In 1903 in Woodbury.
County was S4,71G,151.O6. The total for
1902 was S6,279,47S.09, showing de-
crease of S1,583,S27.O3 for 1908.
Michael ]. Coproy of Clinton, a bar
keeper was convicted of conspiracy to
burglarize several wealthy homes in
Clinton and was sentenced to ten years
at hard labor in the penitentiary.
The responsibility for the fire which
destroyed one wing of the capitol build
ing at Des Moines has been fixed by the
executive council on workman, who
entered the building with lighted can
die.
a Chicago Great Western passenger
train struck n grocer's delivery sleigh Mt
a crossing in Dubuque, killing Clifford
and James Dunkley, IL and 0 years old,
respectively, and injuring Edward Koch,
the driver.
Frank Benedict fatally shot his wife
in the head, wounded Steve Erwin and
then blew out his own brains. Mrs.
Benedict had quarreled with him and
left his home and was stopping at Err
wins place. "
The city of Waterloo maintains
blacklist of persons to whom the saloons
are prohibited selling liquors. The list
is revised monthly. Jan. two names
were removed from the list and eight
new ones added
An uproar of unusual proportions has
arisen at Iowa Falls because of the in
ability of the heating apparatus to keep
the public school buildings warm enough
for occupancy. Ira Nichols, member
of the board, has resigned.
= Robbers forced their way into the Citi-
zens Bank Mt Luton, wrecked tie safe
after 9se kasopts, stole d rig from the.
livery barn of n. Huur and escaped with
i'll the money in the bank, between 5000
and $I00. There are no clues.
R2y. Il. ]. Babcock of I.ockport, N.
". has been called to the rectorship Of
the Episcopal Church at Council Bluffs,
recently made vacant by the resignation
OF DR.. Geo. Il. Walk, who is now pastor
of Grace Church, Cedar Rapids.
III rear-end collision of Milwaukee
and st. Paul freight trains near LIE
Claire Brakeman Fred Lynch was killed
and Engineer Hornins and Fireman Par
ker, both of Dubuque, We're slightly in
jured. Confusion in the train orders is
given as the cause.
The little 12-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. A. HOMELAND, who resides four
miles east Of Randall, was shot and in
stantly killed by his half brother, lad
of about his age. The boys were hunt
ing when in shooting carelessly at
mark the accident occurred.
Supervising Engineer G. l.. Linley fell
sixty feet to his death while making an
inspection of the State capitol building
wing ruined by fire in Des Moines. Lin
Icy was making an inspection of the To-
cality where the flames originated when
the burned floor gave way with him, pre-
cipitating him to the floor of the cham
Der of Representatives,. His skull was
crushed and he died almost instantly.
Linley was unmarried and % years old.
He lived in Chicago.
The bodies CT richly jeweled women,
victims of the lroquois Theater fire in
Chicago, have been claimed as their
wives by ghoujs who seek to turn this
tragedy to their own advantage and have
been carried off, while their husbands
and relatives, who gladly sacrificed the
jewels if they might but have the bodies
are left to search in vain, according to
tne SluleIncHt OIL IteN. IL. H. MARSH, puS-
tor of the Congregational Church in
Burlington. Rev. Marsh is in Chicago
where he went to aid in the search for
the bodies of his sister-in-law, Mrs. A.
=. Hull, and her three children, who are
numbered among the fire victims.
Numbering her helpless husband with
laudanum as he lay sick in bed in order
to get his life insurance of $1,000, is the
crime charged against Mrs. Belle Lewis
of Ottumwa, in an indictment just re-
turned by the Keokuk County grand
jury. The couple formerly lived at ST.
Courtney and Lewis died suddenly Oct.
10. 1t is known the woman bought lau-
danum just previous to her husbands
death. After his funeral the suspicious
Of the officials We're aroused, the body
was disinterred and chemical analysis
of the stomach showed the presence of
laulnnum.
Banker Charles f. Woods shot and ill.,
stantly killed himself in his bank at st.
l'borlas Ga fNr ne could ha loo ,, al tI,o