Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-12
STATE NEWS.

Corning has large, new hotel.
Pauper support cost Mills county
$500 last year.
The Rescue Fire Company of Des
Moines has disbanded.
A new opera house broke out on
the lst at McGregor with calico
ball.
Des Moines has . bath house where
you can get wet to order for Is cents.
and soap furnished.
Cedar Rapids has been informed
that the Bender it has in Jail Is not the
Bender ii thought II was.
Another victim to the national
game. Willie Hosford, of Davenport,
aged 9, had his nose broken by base
ball.
A fourth vein of coal four and one
half feet thick has bcen discovered
at Des Moines, l25 feet from the sur
face.
A swindler is on his travels through
Iowa selling bogus powder, which
he warrants will render kerosene non
explosive.
P. Baker, of Sibley, had his legs
frozen OFF last winter. Gangrene set
in after amputation, and he has Just
died from the effects.
A distinguished stranger visiting
Iowa City few days ago, Knocked
the Mayor of that town into PIE.
when he expressed admiration of
the University Chapel and called ii a
Jail.
On "Wednesday night Museatine had
a $4,000 fire. 1t itdestroycd Kinks pla-
ming mill, Nestor & Pekilder's wagon
factory, and John Pekildcr's residence.
insur's's.'s. ..sfsss +ssye..a. A.
The Cedar Falls Garette saws Mr..
Young, just north of Janesville, has q
cheese factory in full running order,
and uses the milk from one hundred
and twenty-five cows, and intends to
enlarge his business.
a Dubuque chap went to ball. and
when he got ready to go to bed, laid his
cigar on bed in his room and got in
to another, forgetting all about his
cigar. He woke up when the fire
reached his feet. after having burned
up the other bed.
Scarlet fever RACES at Ames, and the
public schools are closed in conse-
quence, says the Representative 1t
also says that Rev. Wilson is under
$500 bonds for removing pane of
glass to effect an entrance into the
Methodist Chapel, which had been
locked against him.
Col. Aaron Brown, of Des Moines,
lowa's excellent Register of the State
Land Office, had a waif month old
laid at the door OF his residence last
Thursday evening, 1t is a bright lit
tie female baby, for which the Col. is
anxious to find q mother. The natural
or an adopted one will do.
A Panora man borrowed buggy of
livery man, and when the buggy
came back there was lady's breast--
|.pin in it. The livery man sent il to
the residence of the man who borrow
ed the team. The lady of the house
said 1t did not belong to her, but she
would keep 1t and ask her husband
about It.
The Journal makes mention of a
remarkable cure of a paralytic citizen
of Muscatine. II says that VIM.
Chambers, Sr., an octogenarian of
that city, having been afflicted with
paralysis OF one leg for two years,
during which time he was unable to
walk, started for Ottumwa last We'd
nesday to seek relief at the establish
ment Of Paul Caster, the ..faith doc
tor. Saturday evening Mr.. c. re-
turned apparently as well as ever and
| flourishing his crulch like shellala
instead of using il as support. He
says he was cured simply by tho lay
ing on of hands-snimal magnetism
or whatever yon want to call it..
SOLD AGAiN.'-" But whar's the
| money! That is The question that is
bo,hering Messrs. Fix & Connors, who
are jewelry dealers in Burlington -
About threo week ago the Haoheye
says man representing himself ,cealthy
went into the said establishment and
desired to look through the stock with
view Of buying about three thous-
and dollars worth Of goods for n
brother doing business in Ottumwa,
for which he would pay cash. The
goods We're there and the prices made
satisfactory. Being handy man, he
proposed to help pack his large purcha-
ses, which job, unfortunately, kept all
hands busy until after banking hours,
and as his funds were all in the bank,
Of course, payment Of the bill had to
be deferred till morning. As the bank
couldn't find anything to the credit OF
the dealer in diamonds aud fine goods,
and as the goods were not claimed, IL
was but natural that suspicion should
arise that there was "a pin loose9 some.
where, and on investigation, it was
found that not only . pin, but several
gold watches, and other valuable goods
were non est to the value Of about 81,
100. Messrs. Fix & Connors are now
looking for their new made business
acquaintance.