Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-06
state News.


dred tons Of coal per week.
Hugh Morrison, a young man resid-
ing near Des Moincs has become in
sane.
Mr.. Shackford coupled cars at Dies
Moines on Tuesday and lost three fin
gers by it.
Muscatine county has three sgricul-
tural societies, and the idea is that it
is about time to quit.
Muscatine county has three agricuI-
tnral societies, and the idea is that it's
about time to quit.
The next National Camp Meeting is
to be held on the fair grounds at Cedar
Rapids, in June next
A Mr.. Wesley, of Kossuth county,
has had all his toes amputated as re.
suit of freezing them the other day.
Visitors at the Dubuque county roor
house tell shocking tales of filth and
barbarities that appear to be character
istic of the place.
One citizen Of Cedar Rapids offers
to take 10000 stock and another citi-
zen SIC, 600 stock in the knitting factory
it is proposed to locate in that city.
A middle aged woman, "ofrcspecta.
BILE connections" was picked up in the
streets of Dubuque last Sunday, SO in
toxicated that she could not navi-
gate.
About fourteen hundred delegates
were in attendance at the State Grange
of Patrons Of Husbandry, at Des
Moines on Tuesday. The sessions
were secret.
George Grant, London dry goods
merchant, has bought one hundred Sec
tons of land somewhere in Iowa, and
will send over colony Of people to
settle upon it
Mr.. Simon Cummins, who was in.
jured by the recent railroad accident
near Manchester, has sued the Illinois
Central Railroad Company to recover
s3pOo damages.
Gov, Carpenter has appointed Jos
Eibeck, OF Clayton county. Commits
si0ner to the Vienna Exposition, which
meets in Vienna, May ls', aud closes
Oct. 3lst, 1873.
A little son Of William Heiderer, o.
Des Moines, about two years OF age
upset pan of scalding milk on him.
self few days since. from the effects
. of which he diefon Sunday.
The finances of Tama county are In
good condition. A few years ago the
county nsd8debeof s7Ooe@ (which -h..
been paid of, and af the beginning Of
the present month there was in the
treasury sl3,966.Go
| Michael Miller, Clarke county far.
mer, had young aud blushing wife, q
lovely aud lively little housekeeper..-
He also had a nice young man TO work
around the farm for his board. One
day last week they both came up miss.
ing and $40 in grecnbacks with them
A gentleman from Indiana recent,
started chair factory at Clinton, and
IL now gives employment to IS men il
the machine department, besides keep
ing $50 to 800 men, women and child
rem constantly employed in bottomine
the chairs.
Michael Miller, Clarke county
farmer, had young and blushine
wife, lovely and lively little house
keeper. He also had nice young mar
TO work around the farm for his board
One day last week they both came az
missing, and twenty dollars in green
backs with them.
| A woman named Neshire, left I
comfortable prairie home In Plymouth
county recently, forsaking her husband
and two children, and hired ont as I
servant girl in Sioux City, so as to b,
near gay lotharia, with whom she hae
formed an improper acquaintance
Her husband forgave her and fnall,
persuaded her to return.
/ A Fort Dodge law firm has move
case. A man, married in Ireland, hat
two children, had trouble with hi
| wife, and she left him, neither apply
ing for divorce. Leaving his chill
dren with his father, he came to thi
country. and seventeen years ago mar
ried. His first wife married again ant
died. Last fall he died, leaving fiv
children by his second wife, and IS, ,OO
worth of property. The father nov
comes forward and claims pay for tn
maintailance of his two children b,
his first wife.