Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-02-09
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started an investigation of charges that
there is a grocers' trust in Des Moines.
| Marion Stoddard, 4-year-old daugh-
ter of B. NJ. Stoddard of Scion, died of
acute throat trouble after one days
| illness.
| Bert Meek, foreman of the j. Fl.
WEIGH Printing Company at Des
Moines, was badly injured when struck
by street car.
Evidently an insane man is prowling
around Sidney, for a small boy of DR..
l.. W. Bunnell was shot at while doing
chores in his fathers barn.
A sixteen pound baby boy. one of
the largest babies ever born in the
city, arrived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Kreiger of Mason City.
The new Drake gymnasium at Des
Moines, which has just been finished
and which represents an expenditure
of about $4,000, will be called Alumni
Hall.
George Golinghorsts. ST., aged IS. a
pioneer settler of Scott county, died
in Davenport as result of injuries
sustained from fall ON an icy side
walk
Lewis Sprigen. aged 10. who ran
away from his home at WOODBURY. on
Jan. l. is being eagerly sought for by
his father, G. L. Sprigen, wealthy
farmer.
| Hftt
Willie Bulen, aged ~. and Ben Hupp
OF Indianola were victims of coast
ing accident. Bulen had his neck
broken and Hupp's ankle was badly
sprained.
Two hundred dollars per acre was
| the price paid by Charles Hilleman of
Pipestone, Mimi, for thirty-f1ye acre
farm near State Center, owned by Alex
Dobbin.
Milo claims the record in the way of
twin babies. Mrs. Finley Runyan gave
birth to fine pair of twin boys weigh
ing eighteen pounds, each Weighing
exactly nine pounds.
Lee r. Robinson was brought back
from Omaha to face charge OF wife
desertion. Information against him
was sworn out by his wife, Della Rob
inson, on Dec. 4, 1909.
A woman partially identified as the
daughter of E. W. Farnsworth of Shell
don is a patient in the observation
ward of the City hospital In St. Louis
suffering from aphasia.
There are three sausage factories in
Dubuque. which are perhaps the best
known Of their sort in the United
States. and their joint output is some
1,031,000 pounds per year.
Diphtheria, which has caused several
deaths and placed quarantine on sew
eral homes at Eldon, was not stamped
out as was supposed, but it has again
appeared in the home of Warren Nc
Clure
westbound Chicago Great Western
passenger train ran into freight train
standing on an open switch at Graf,
and Engineer McManigal of Chicago
was fatally injured with a fractured
skull. The caboose and a freight car
burned
A south-bound St. Paul passenger
train was wrecked in the railroad
yards at Dubuque and an unidentified
man was killed. After the engine had
passed switch it opened and the rest
of the train ran into coal car. Sew
eral passengers were slightly hurt.
Two men. with fusillade Of shots,
held Banker ]. A. Thompson and Miss
Grace Eldridge, telephone girl, prison
ers in the Thompson home the other
4 morning at 8 o'clock, while three of
their pals dynamited the vault of the
Farmers Savings bank in Hepburn,
and got $3.50 for their trouble.
A handsomely dressed woman, appar-
emily about 80 years of age, walked to
the center of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway Company's
bridge and, posing for a moment on
the high railing, hurled herself fifty
feet into the water below. The river
was filed with floating ice and the
body quickly disappeared. It was re-
covered later.
Following the sensational suicide of
Mrs. Fred Barber in Marshalltown,
Mr.. Barber, crazed with grief, threat
ened to take his life and was restrain.
ed only when Charles Probst, at whose
home Mrs. Barber drank the chloro.
form, grabbed Barber's hand, .5hich
held his opened pocket knife. It deyel.
oped that Mrs. Barber's suicide was
the fourth attempt she had made.
Five members of the Fritz family,
| living south of Menlo, were poisoned
in some unknown way the other day.
Mr.. Fritz had just come to town when
he was called home Immediately and
DR.. Nicol was called out to the place.
The victims were in terrible agony
when the doctor and Mr.. Fritz arrived
and one child was in spasms. The doc
tor worked with them nearly all day,
and 1t is thought that they will all get
well. The family do not know what it
was that caused their sickness unless
1t was oatmeal, which they had for
breakfast. Two of the children did not
eat any of the oatmeal and were not
sick. Mrs. Fritz and four other chill
dren had eaten heartily Of it. 1t is
thought that the oatmeal contained
poison, which was the cause of their
illness.
The bursting Of a Pinch water main
flooded many downtown business
houses in Des Moines and cut off the
northwest part Of the city from water
supply and fire protection for six
hours.
Following long illness with cancer
of the stomach. w. S. Reed, aged 81,
prominent citizen, inventor and for
mer councilman, died in Marshalltown.
At the age of 16 he invented the Reed
heater. which has since Melted him a
fortune.
Apparently in the best of health,
Mrs. 7. ]. Owens of Ottumwa. formerly