Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-09-30

Jesse Jenkins, a college graduate,
an athlete and a leader among his as
s%ociates, died at the home of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. jenkins,
near. tB~raddyville, from drinking BIZ
chloride of mercury and port wine
solution. jenkins, with others Of the
baseball. team, were in a restaurant
after a game. Seeing a bottle labeled
port wine" on the shelf, Jenkins and
another young man proposed they
take a drink. ~s %s5gE, EE3' ~
The Chicago. C Northwestern rail-
way ran special train through Iowa
en- route from San Francisco Cal, to
Chicago containing 125 Chinese stu
dents, the party being composed Of
both boys and girls. At Chicago the
party will be divided. Some of the
students will enter the Northwestern
university, while the remainder will
be divided between Wesley. Harvard
and Yale. -
Edward Lloyd, a brakeman who
lives at Boone, was injured in a pc.
culiar manner. He was sent back to
flag a train at Missouri Valley and
after setting a torpedo stood back to
avoid the train which he lad been
sent to flag. AS the engine hit the
torpedo, exploding it, the cap flew on
and hit Lloyd, ,inh!cting q dangerous
wound.
Iowa's taxable property for 1914
amounts to $3.717, soc, 900, according to
the report issued by, the auditors Of
flee, following the equalization by the
state executive council. Last year
the taxable property totaled 1866, S00,-
900. Moneys and credits also increas-
ed. This year the amount listed for
taxation is $25o,21s.oo0, an increase Of
$42,9S5,O 900. e.
Count" Nathoo, who has been I'M
der bonds at Iowa City, charged with
seduction, has again escaped the
clutches Of the law, at least so far
as the Johnson county grand jury Is
concerned. 1t is said that the Hindoo
seer escaped because the state found
that it could not prove a necessary
point in the case.
Johnny, the 5 year old son of ]. E.
Brownlee, cashier of the Bettendorf
Savings bank, was run yer and killed
by an automobile driven by Dr.. W. c.
Vollstedt of Davenport. The child
was the prize winner at the baby show
held In Des Moines two years ago.
DR.. Vollstedt was arrested and held
under $1,000 bonds. \
H. F. Buchanan has filed petitions
in the district court for injunctions
against the Eagles club, the Elks'
club, the Owls club and the Prairie
club Of LIE Mars. The plaintiff alleges
in these petitions that liquors are IL.
legally sold in the four places and
asks that the clubs and the owners
Of the buildings be enjoined.
Mrs. Nora Krampe of Newton, wife
Of Leo Krampe, has filed a suit for a
divorce from her husband, who is
serving a life sentence in the p~eniten-
tiary at Fort Madison for the murder
of Matilda Herms Meier of Baxter.
Krampe was sentenced at Newton.
Feb. 16, 1912. : g.. e
An indictment charging the Tri-
State Serum company with the Illegal
sale of hog serum was returned by
the grand jury at Sioux City. The
company, according to the, county at
torney, sold hog serum to farmers and
breeders without a permit from the
state biological laboratory.
The Iowa City Chautauqua associa-
ton has, closed its 1914 season with
the sum Of $3.05 in its favor. Six,
hundred persons have already agreed
to purchase tickets for the 1915 Chau.
tauqua. thus pledging $1,000 In ad-
vance. u p H.,
Burglars blew the %postoffice safe
at Marathon, securing admission
through the Republic Printing Office
which in Is in the rear Of the postof-
flee, Tw%enty-six dollars In cash and
SIS in stamps were carried away.
With an attendance of nearly 1000,
Lone Tree held its homecoming cele
bration. The s~ociability run from
Iowa City had to be- given up because
Of muddy roads, but will probably be
held in October.
A special election will be held at
Postville, Oct. u to$vote on the pro-
posed bond issue Of $25, 900 for a sew.
err system. The city council are con-
sidering the plans of a $1,000 septic
tank. %'-@+
s. M. Cook Of Council Bluffs, aged
40 years, switchman on the North.
western, while at work In the yards
stepped from one engine in front Of
another, and was run over and in
stantly killed. 7%
The John Agen store, one of the
Oldest business houses in Usage, was
destroyed by fire, with all its con-
tents, including the stock and fixtures
of E. w. Palmer's cigar factory and
Of the Usage candy kitchen.
A Mason City contractor has secur
ed the contract for the erection OF a
building for the Grant township con-
solidated7 school district near Swea
City. The building will be completed
next July, and will cost $4,000.
A Keokuk girl is helping to write
passports for Americans in Germany
who apply to the embassy at Berlin.
She is Miss Florence Brinkman, a
prominent musician of Keokuk, who
has been studying in Berlin.
Earle Trutman, aged "a, formerly
of Burlington, but for the last six
months proprietor of a cleaning es-
t%ablishment at Mount Pleasant, was
overcome by gasoline fumes and died
instantly. g.
Mrs. Ella Downing Of Coin was
elected president of the fifth district
W. C. T. U. at the closing session Of
the conference held at Shenandoah.
A lightning bolt which struck on
the farm of Walter Howell near Long
Grove killed T. H.. Bleyer, a farmer,
fatally injured julius Dewinter, his
hired man, and seriously burned Ed
Meyers, another farm hand. The three
were standing in the doorway of the
barn when struck. ',
James Ketchell, a farm laborer on
the way to al adjoining state to work
in the wheat fields. was searched at