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

An artesian gusl,cr was struck ut AL
bion.
Pope Shrader, divine healer, is doinl
Dubuque.
Waterloo is to have second Euro
pean hotel.
Spanish war soldiers at Waterloo vii
form an association.
Council Bluffs officials have set asid
n street rs speedway.
August Haas of Oskaloosa was fount
dead i'll bed. from heart disease.
Major Hoffman of Muscatine sustninet
serious injuries in a runaway.
The proposition to establish salool
rt plaintieM has been defeated.
Citizens of Eldora believe they hav,
discovered deposit of fire clay.
The Union Electric Company of Du
buaue will build now car barns.
The Newton md Northwestern roat
led will be completed by July l.
Tile new telephone system at Council
Bluffs has been put in operation.
The nnti-salonn convention called fo
Joe Byerly OF Pocal,ontas was drown
cd while boating at Vcrmillion, 9. u.
Two million, Eve hundred seventy-si,
thousand, six hundred forty-cisht dol
lars is the total value Of all propert,
In the city of Ottumwa, according to til,
report Of City Assessor j. I. Smith
which has just been completed.
Carl w. Ross. who won the Rhode.
scholarship, was recent resident o.
MGscntinc. His father, who is preach
er. was unable to send the boy to college
The l9d did odd jobs and worked hi
way through. He is about 81 years old
james Egleston, a young man living
few miles south of Iowa City. sho
himself in the temple rather than 70 Il
he inebrinte hospital Mt Cherokee. Will,
HE bullet lodged in his skull and coult
not be removed by the doctor, he is n
present up and around.
The Iowa board of health has declar
I'd consumption contagious disease. ant
will hereafter require that physician.
report all cases within twelve hours.
Skirt dancing has been barred from
the entertainment to he given by the De.
Moipcs Humane Society. The number,
have been omitted from the program.
Patrick ]. kilery, administrator Of
the estate of Frank Curran, who wa.
run over and killed by train at .Hol
land June 20, 1902, has given notice OF
nm action for damages begun against the
saloonkeepers who are alleged to have
sold liquor to the deceased.
Des Moines charitable people are plan
nins to build permanent outing l,ote
ut the "Ledges," territory not fal
from that city, for IN annual outing
place for poor children of the city. II
Is planned to have steward and run
the place during the summer months.
Harry. Pinkham of Nevada owns {
roose Which stands two feet high ant
weighs IA pounds. He will exhibit hi.
colossal fowl ut the st. Louis exposition
The weight of the goose was so great it.
feet became crippled and Pinkham fash
loned for it pair of shoes. With one
pf the eggs of this goose Nevada bonrd
ing house keeper made fourteen custart
pies.
Attorney General Mullen of De.
sIoines has rendered IN opinion 1ha,
stockholders OF corporations have the
right to pay any portion OF their stocl
subscriptions to the corporatiss witllou,
general call from the directors, and wher
bucl. payments are made they become
n part Of the capital stock of the cor
poration. This ruling principally inter
csts Insurance companies, OF which there
nre very many In Des Moincs, beins
nearly 100 home companies there.
Charles Alberts, living north of IL
Mars, while ont cunning for squirrel.
accidentally shot himself through thu
wrist. Tho wound, though severe, is MOI
dangerous.