Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-20
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per day.
II The Palo Alto Democrat has sue
cumbed, aged 8.
Davenport has eighty-five retail
grocery stores.
i Fifty-four marriages At Dubuque
since New Years.
4 Prairie hay only brings from a to
$6 per ton in Des Moines.
| In Brooklyn, corn is burned in every
store and Office In the place.
j Judge Rowell, of Alton, saved the
key to his Office. No insurance.
| The assessed taxes for 1872 Of john
son county, amount to 1901, 600.
| Three convicts were pardoned from
the lows Penitentiary last week.
1 Miss Emma Hall, aged u, died Of
episootic In Atlantic last Tuesday.
| The net result Of the late revival Of.
forts ct Ksokuk 10 stated to be lS6 con-
verts.
They can now ship grain from Ma
rion TO Milwaukee for ten cents .
bushel.
The Wapsis river 10 $50 miles long
and drains, with Ito branches, 1000
square milea
Ebenessr Bakers sudden absence
from Estherville 10 regretted to the
extent of 5000.
Dubuque maintains twelve police
men and two marshals at . cost Of g..
600 per annum.
Flax seed Il being converted into
oil, at Cedar Rapids, at the rate Of 800
gallons per day.
Judge Forey refuses to hold court in
the Decatur county court house, be.
cause he thinks It unsafe.
1t cost . Keokuk juror $500 to
learn that he could not leave the box
without leave Of the court.
Chicken cholera At Algona, market
ed for one party six hundred chickens
and seventy turkeys.
An lows City youth attempted to
examine barrel Of oil with lighted
lamp, and the barrel exploded.
as-
Grandpa Childers, of Cass county,
aged 81, recently married . sweet
lump of girl Of only Is summers.
Des Moines talks Of Ahomespun
organization" pledged to wear no
cloth or clothes not made in that city.
The Fort Dodge Catholic Temper
ance Society had An accession of
eighteen members at their last meeting.
A Keokuk attorney managed to re-
iieve his mind and enlighten the jury
in . speech Of i've and . half hours
duration.
The distillery in Camsnche pays
about twelve thousand dollars per
month toward the reduction of the
war debt.
Dubuque is preparing TO build an
immense Opera House, the largest ON
the American continent, to spite Da-
venport.
The 4Etna Life Insurance Company
have loaned $4,000 to the farmers of
Davis county, during the past six
months.
A steer passed over the Southwest
ern road, last week, from Arkansas,
that was nineteen hsnds high, aud
weighed $500 pounds.
A Sioux City couple who courted
by correspondence and welded in haste
have just separated sitter living to-
gether for three month";
Dubuque's town clock 10 to have IL
Illuminated dials, for tho benefit Of
those midnight chaps. who "'sv JUS
bin out W the boys, y know"
The firm Of G. q W. Brubaker, Of
Waterloo, 10 reported failed, and lia-
bilities At $4,000 and assets 80 per
cent. Of the indebtedness.
Tho failure 10 announced OF A J.
Bowley, an Independence dry goods
dealer. Liabilities $4,000. He will
pay about fifty cents on the dollar.
BY the careless mistake Of . Monte.
yuma druggist whole family was re.
Gently poisoned, and prompt discovery
and attention alone saved four lives.
The vinton Eagle IL "pained to
learn that the man who fell OF the
sidewalk, ct the corner of Washing
ton and Concord streets, was drowned"
Upton has had serious stabbing at
fray. Bunker and Belgard, brothers
in-law, had an unpleasantness, aud tho
former was frescoed with seven CASH
es.
| J. c. Moreland, prominent dealer
at Osage. has failed. Liabilities 49,
coo; assets under $4,000 His debts
are owing mostly in Boston and New
York.
| Mr.. Beam, Red Oak lawyer, put
gun powder In ths stove by mistskc,
but there was no mistake in the imme-
diate and satisfactory destruction OF
that heater.
| Tho editor Of the Birmingham En-
u tsypriss, whose corn-crib was robbed
the other night says: ANY man
that IL mean enough TO steal cornffom
poor, blind hog IL pean enough for
any use."
II A "prominent citizen" Of Dubuque,
whose name is not mentioned, HIS de.
serted his wife and family to join q
courtesan in Omaha. The affair oc
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