Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-22
MINOR STATE ITEMS.
Mary E. Bertch has been appointe,
postmaster at Peterson.

Mary e. Bertch has been appointed
postmaster at Peterson.
A new superintendent comes to the
schools Of Emmetsburg in the person.
of Prof. ]. R. Combs, of Des Moines.
Miss Fern Smith of Corning has ac-
,cepted position as vocal music teach
|; er in a girls college at Pulaski, Tenn.
While on her honeymoon Mrs Frank
B, Sherwood. daughter of 7. r.. Rrod.
erick. Of Sioux City. was killed by a
train at Arion.
Mrs. Fred Otto, of Fort Dodge, died
suddenly at her home after an illness
of little over twenty-four hours, death
resulting from an attack of gall stones.
Mrs. George Hooker, an aged woman
of Ogden, fell and broke her hip. Mrs.
Hooker is more than SO years Of age.
and it is feared the injury may prove
fatal.
Frank Dobler died in Maquoketa
from the effects of blood poisoning,
caused by scratching his finger on q
rusty nail in a salt barrel. He was i'll
only few days.
H. H. Morton, travelling salesman
for an Omaha grocery firm, was served
formaldehyde by mistake for mineral
water in drug store in Atlantic and
died Immediately.
Sam Costello fatally shot Charles
Glfdden as he was breaking into Cor
sello's store in Cedar Rapids. Gid
den tried to escape and walked block
after being shot. He was placed under
arrest and taken to Mercy hospital,
where he died in six hours. Corsello
was not arrested.
Two box cars on the side track at
Moingona. used for freight house
and depot, together with loaded Chi
cago & Northwestern ear, burned the
other morning at o'clock. This is
the third fire within a few months
there. People have been asking for
a new depot. Kate Shelly is the agent
there.
William Fitzpatrick, aged 10, son Of
Mrs. H. Fitzpatrick of Dubuque, lies
at the point of death in Mercy hospi-
tai as result of colliding with man
on an opposite base ball team in
game. Young Fitzpatrick was run
ming for base when he collided with
the man, striking his head and par
TALLY fracturing his skull, and being
rendered unconscious.
A small boy and a match came near
causing another disastrous fire at
Swaledale. but was stopped after de-
stroying the barn. horse and other
property Of M. Swanson.
It is unofhcially announced that the
street car company and the interurban
company will build freight and pas
senger depot to cost $250,O0O on the
site of the car barns burned in Des
Moines. New car barns are to be built
on the east side near the baseball park
costing $4,000.
The Ottumwa federal building will
be the best building in the entire State
Of Iowa, not exceeded by single one
except in point of cost, according to the
opinion of Contractor Bartlett.
At the annual meeting Of the com
mittee Fort Dodge was selected as the
place for holding the next annual camp
meeting of the Fort Dodge district Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
A large barn, eight horses, farm ma.
chinery, buggles and few hundred
bushels of grain on the william Finne.
gan farm near Swaledaie. burned. Ine
loss is $4,000; insured for about han.
Lewis Holmes. aged 16, is under ar
rest in Burlington, charged with the
theft of horse and buggy from Dunn's
Hotel. Holmes drove away with the
rig and was apprehended at the farm
house where he had stopped to feed the
horse.
Rev. James H. Ledis. Brighton, was
fined $50 and costs in police court in
Rock Island. 1t is charged that he
came to Rock Island, followed on the
next train by a woman member of his
congregation, and that they registered
at Rock Island hotel as man and
wife.