Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-02-11
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w. A. Groneweg, deputy United
States marshal, at Council Bluffs, says
that if E. C. Hinshaw, state game
warden, was correctly quoted as hav-
ing said that Iowa hunters would be
permitted to shoot ducks as usual
next spring because their state H.
censes had been issued, Hinshaw is
going to get lot of hunters into seri-
Gus trouble. The fed eral law Is going
to be enforced and violators will be
arrested and prosecuted despite any
thing to the contrary s$%G ~
b Eli Craven of Graettinger and his
brother Abijah of Wallingford, have
Just received checks in settlement of
AN estate, a good proportion of which
was slaves. The estate was that of
their grandfather, John f. Craven.
who died in North Carolina in 1857.
The property consisted, among other
things, of sixteen slaves and 314 acres
of land. During the civil war the
records in the county seat town of
Asheboro, N. c., we're burned, and for
time all trace of the heirs was lost.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis Rail-
way company must pay to Dana Jenk-
ms of Perry $4,000. the amount al
lowed him by jury about a year
ago. Jenkins was struck by train
near the station at Perry and lost an
arm and a leg. He sued the COM
pany and was given 100000 damages.
This amount was reduced by the court
to 5000 and in the appeal taken by
the company the supreme court up
held the lower court. sss
Special pension bills for Iowans
have passed the house in congress in
number of cases. Representative
tProuty has got, through pensions for
the following Des Moines residents:
Joseph NJ. Johnson, $40; H. L.. Arm
strong, $50; John NJ. Cochrane. $40.
Representative Towner has got
Through the following: John Hodge,
Ianleyville, $50; Dr.. William D.
Christy, Diagonal, $50; William Bald
win, Charlton, $40. MI, III
Beyrisch Jagit, wife and seventeen
children, left Davenport recently for
Fiume, Austria, to claim an estate OF
$4,95O left them by Jagit's brother.
He will receive only $3.50 at Fiume,
however, as the Austrian courts sent
him 81 900 to pay the expenses Of his
family back home. The fare Of the
nineteen amounted to 5000.
"a, Dr.. ]. .Wertz, of Sioux City, district
chairman for the progressive party,
declares that the progressives will
have candidate in the field for sen
ator from Iowa. The declaration was
made at a conference Of the Eleventh
district moosers.
A "go to church campaign will be
conducted at Rockwell City and an
effort made to get everybody to at
tend services. All the advertisements
Of local dealers appearing in the pa
pers will contain request for read
ers to attend church. y. 5
Liquors seized in raid Of the Man
son drug stores was condemned in
court and ordered destroyed. Drug
gists Grieppenberg and Daniels were
arraigned upon a charge Of keeping
a nuisance and bound over to the dis
trict court. ID 4
c. A.. Cartwright, living near Grant,
tried to commit suicide by hanging.
but the rope broke and he fell to the
floor. Members of the family were
aroused by the noise. Cartwright
was sent to an asylum.
Vincent Tarpy, Is. years old, Of
West Side, was killed when return
ing home from hunting. His gun
slipped through a hole in the wagon
bed and when the boy tried to pull
It back it was discharged. $5y %S3S
The question of consolidation Of
schools is being agitated at Alta. 1t
is proposed to take in part Of Noko-
mis-, and Maple Valley. townships. and
II the project carries a new school
house in Alta will be required. &$
u That the women OF the university
,of Iowa soon will organize a woman
suffrage club is the latest rumor. It
is understood that many Of the prom
inent university goods are connected
with the movement. q; 4! ~ M e
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"A petition to Governor Clarke was
circulated at Keokuk protesting
against the alleged hiring Of convicts
from other states to do painting, pa
perhanging and other labor in that
city. u ..:5s .5.s
81 John r. Bell, who has published the
Alta Advertiser for the past two
years. has sold out to David R. Carl
son who formerly was connected with
the Odebolt Chronicle and the Esth-
.erville Enterprise. 5., e, sS..= Il
Cora Leitzke. the Is year old daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. q. A. Leitzke Of
Yorkshire. died as the result Of
burns received Jan. g., when she at
tempted to light the kitchen fire with
4 A. W. Gray, Of Nevada, Ia. has been
appointed teacher at the Shawnee In
dian school, Oklahoma.
The postoffice. at Macy. Hardin
county, has been discontinued. Mail
should be sent to Ackley. ny #
C. N. Sawyer of Hull has announced
his candidacy for representative from
Sioux county on the republican ticket
to succeed Gerrit Klay, who has de-
.cided not to run this year. Mr.. Saw
yer has been county surveyor for a
number of years and was until re-
Gently editor of the Hull Index.
i George Dostal. noted tenor, will
give a recital in his home town Of
Iowa City April 81, his first public ap-
pearance there after. several years
of successful operate career ine It.
ally. Dostal has been taking leading
tenor parts in grand opera in Naples
and Venice. ~ ~
The supreme court Of Iowa definite
ly and finally settled the famous Des
Moines saloon case when it ruled that
it would not grant rehearing. The
saloons are operating now only on the
statement sof consent which they cir
culated during last December.
Pensions recently granted to resi-