Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-08-13
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ALL PARTS OF The STATE.
Thomas Dickerson, who was arrest
ed at Victor on a charge OF stealing
horses, Is confined in the Boone coun-
$ty jail. He has made COME sion IN
which, he says he is 70 years old and
an old soldier, serving through the
civil war as a dispatch bearer. The
chase at Malcolm. when got through
the corn fields from the posse. which:
seemed like thousands Of persons, r.;
minded me OF my services for the
government during the. civil war" he
wrote. So far he persists in his re-
sfusal to duplicate others in the sthefts.
f fs Arrangements have been completed
5byIiW.A.C. 5Willett. commander of the
Iowa de partment Grand Army Of the
Republic, and George "A. Newman, adj
5jutant general, for the transportation
OF the iowa veterans to the national
sencampment at Ghattanooga. The
veterans will meet in Chicago and go
from that city by way Of indianapolis.
Cincinnati and Lexing ton, KY, over
the Big Four system, The encamp-
ment opens Sept. / 5. and will continue
until Sept. 20. About 800 Iowa veter-
ans are expected to attend.
"A. writ Of habeas corpus sought by
I DR.. u. i. Aldrich, formerly Of Clear
Lake. who escaped from the hospital
sat Knoxville, was denied by Judge
Clark in district court at Mason City.
In 1910 Dr.. Aldrich voluntarily applied
for permission to enter Knoxville for
treatment Of the drug habit. After q
time there he escaped and subsequent
Y ~ has been practicing his profession
In a $Minnesota town. Last week he
came to visit relatives at Clear Lake
sSand was arrested. He will be sent
y back to Knoxville. z: Il 81 I 4
Roland Yates, q brick layer on the
new Hotel Jefferson, at Iowa City, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Clifton-K elley Carnival
company. because he was chewed lip
by a bulldog. Yates got into dis
pute with the clairvoyant, who called
her husband. saying she had been In
suited. Yates licked the husband, and
then the clairvoyant$ brought on a big
bulldog. which chewed Yates legs
and arms and took a piece out OF one
sear. ID I,
An Italian about 50 years Of age.
whose name is believed to be Charles
Ruffino. was found wandering in a
corn field near 1Ioveland. Ia, and was
taken to 5sanitarium in Council
Bluffs for examination. Tickets car
ried by him showed him to be en- route
4 from "a lam da, CAL, to Italy. Besides
valuable papers found on his person
there was 5000 In gold in a belt. /,
4 Iowa Falls is the home OF horse
having an official record Of travelling
a distance OF three times around the
world and then some. The horse Is
known as Daisy and is the property
of p. s. Laughlin. Mr.. Laughlin was
formerly In the rural carrier service
and for eleven years the horse was In
steady use taveling a distance OF s5,-
900 miles. ;S3 i5j n
3&; &. X. Fisher Of Beaconsfield has fl
ed a petition in the district court at
$Osceola claiming OF b.. ~ Ellston OF
Clarke county 81, 900 damages because
OF the death Of the plaintiffs wife. Eva
M. Fisher, on June 4 from Injuries
received In d runaway. The petition
says the runaway was caused by
Scarelessness IL driving an automobile.
# Abe SLurie Of the 1.urie Drug COM
pany and the White City amusement
park OF Des Moines suffered 4 broken
Jaw and bad bruises when an automo-
bile In which he was riding skidded
,onsa dust hidden bridge at the bottom
of Hill and turned over. The acct.
dent occurred near Oskaloosa. (,
Guy Adams, Sc years old, Of New
Hampton. suffered broken ribs II and
George Palmer Of Bassett suffered
brain injuries when the wagon in
which they were riding was struck by
q Milwaukee freight train at Bassett.i
HI John B. Ertz. as years old. street
car motorman at. Burlington, commit
ted suicide by drinking poison. Some
time ago Ertz fell down stairs and
injured his head and since that time,
his mental faculties have been i'm.
paired. y Al R III .si s..}
Mrs. Otto Schendel. wife of the Mil
waukee station agent at Titus. was
Killed and her husband was injured
when a railway motor car on which
they were riding collided with an au.
tomobile at grade crossing west of
: Titus. 4 55 e "a
A rattlesnake crawled into the home
of Fred Land, near Greenfield. Mrs
Land was alone She called in neigh
bors who killed the snake. The rep.
tile was two feet long and had FIVE
rattles.5 i, gjt,f. 4
5, The plans for the new fireproof hotel
to be constructed on the site OF the
ruined Julien. have arrived in Du-
buq,le and are being inspected by the
directors of the new hotel corpora
ton.
Because he became "hom e-sick" at
the end of three days Of camp life
and deserted the camp. the feature of
his desertion being seventy-mile
hike afoot back to Des Moines, his
home, evidently to prevent intercept
ton OF his escape 1t he went by rail
road, Everett Cooley, private OF
Company A., is under guardhouse sen
3tence of court martial.
j. M. Bechtel and A. A. Si1nons. two
Of the large orchardists of Fremont
county. have disposed Of their crops
Of apples, which will aggregate be-.
tween 5000 and 10000 barrels.
Twenty.three hundred volts of cleo.
tricity which coursed through his
body while he hung suspended above
The ground with a live wire under his
armpit failed to kill John Lancaster,
a telephone lineman at Iowa City. He
was cut down by his comrades In an
unconscious condition. and was resus.
citated after, vigorous work. ri.
Henry Witzke, farmer, was ar
rested In Storm Lake by i. P. An
derson, state dairy and food in