Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-24

The seaeon Tor slipping down On
sidewalks is almost here. Be pa
| tient, you will soon have a chance.
| Work is progressing very favorably
on the new foundry. The basement
| is now nearly completed.
There was twenty. five wagon loads
OF wood standing on Court street this
afternoon at one time.
This is one of the busiest days we
have seen in Ottumwa for long time
The streets are full Of tcams, and trade
appears to be excellent. s
That greatest of all walking frauds,
Weston, ia being badly beaten by
O'Leary, Western man. We hope
this is the last We shall hear of Yves.
ton.
Moody and Sankey have shaken the
dust OF Sodom (New York; from OF
their feet and proceed now to Phila
delphia, where "they are neither cold
nor hot"
4 The Ediyville Idrertiser says That
",he packing honse starts to-day. II
will be operated by Manning u Ep
person. with Mr.. Benz Ladd. of OF
tumwa, in charge. Several hundred
hogs are in tho pens awaiting slaugh'
/ r
ter as We go to press"
! Brick Pomcroy, Of the New York
Democrat wcars a $4,000 diamond pin,
but he has fizzlcd all the same. On
the 18th in the bankruptcy Court he
acknowledged that he owed $4,000,
and owned 5000, 900 worth ofproperty.
A team belodging to man living
in Richland township, whose name we
did not learn, ran away with its
driver this morning on upper Main
street. The driver was thrown out OF
the wagon but held on to the lines and
stopped the team. He was somewhat
bruised and scratched but not serious
ly hurt.
There waa well-dressed individual
around at private houses yesterday
beg ging for his dinner, and he war
followed by a carpet-bagger with
rubber shoes on, who came to the
back door and did not rap any too
loud, but pretented that he had some
thing to sell. Don't let any such cat
tie inside of your houses. They are
spies, looking ouI for spoons and
Other valuable goods that are easily
slowed away.
Gen. Hedrick, to-day, came home
from Milwaukee on a flying visit.--
The whisky war. which was supposed
to be nearly over there, through new
Developments, appears to be just
fairly opening. The last sensation
there was the arrcs. to-day OF =. ]
Conklin, ex- Revenue Agent, ON charge
of having been In cahoot with th'
dishonest distillers of that crooked
4 whisky city. We shall expect to heal
OF rich developementa from there be
fore long.
j Val Mendel, Of the Abba Union
and j. A. T. Hull, of the Bloomfield
Republican, were IN the city to-da!
and gave us a call. The last we saw
of them they were heading for th'
water power works.
Strangers, some how, have happ.
faculty of getting into difficulties
there is any possible chance. To-da.
three men from Henry county wer
in the city and got up some sort of
gambling expedition Of their OWL
the nature of which we did not learn
Marshal Vannaman hearing some
thing of the matter, started after am
arrested all three. They We're take
before Esq. Fetzer, two of the part
were discharged, and the other, Ban
clay Hampton, was fined $40 an
costs.
. This afternoon few men from tn
country were in town and manage
to get little too noisy for pleasure
Marshal Vannaman happening along
arrested one of the party and starte
with him for the Jail, where he shout
have been long before. The fello'
resisted somewhat, but when job
+. lit out and took up the slack in h
), right arm that fellow marched alon
3 as easy as if he liked it. The otht
s two stepped up and interfered. bl
: were showed to one side and Il
march commenced again.
q Then it was that the fun bega
n One Of the party unbnttoned his owe
n coat. stamped and swore like a pirat
Il tnat he could lick every child in O
!. tumwa, and all that sort of thing, III
q til he saw Edge Davis coming for hi
on run. 1t was then his courai
forsook him, and in less than tv
minutes he turned the corner ne
GRAY &c Bedwell's livery stable, ru
ming like bay steer through cor
:, field, and was still going, with DAY
- gaining on him. The last we saw
y them, they were on Washingt
$ street, nip and tuck, with the prob
4 bilities all in favor Of Davis.
= We mentioned yesterday, the ac'
: dental shooting of Theophilus Sto'
= sci. DR.. Lathrop visited the FAM
and found that it was entirely &C
dental. 1t appears that Peter Sto'
In sell, Theophilus' father, had bouR
NJ the latter shotgun, which was X
or in closet under the stairway, and
yesterday a younger brother, az
-, about ten, had taken the gun out
the closet to see If it was loaded.
W found that it was, and in putting
10 back into the elosdt, carrying 1t bre'
.. foremost, the hammer struck on
r. door-j am, exploding the gun o
OF tearing almost the whole right s
d, side of his brothers face of. The
d. says he did not cock the gun at
- Theophilus was only about six I
from the muzzle of the gun at
time it was unluckily discharg
y. The baby was lying on the bed,
es- was unhurt. Mr.. Stoessel and fam
81, will, have the sympathy of MT
ar friends in their misfortune. Thi
ese another sad warning against keep
Try loaded fire arms in the house VII
ca children can handle them.
sls.
From the. Daily Of Nov. ed.
nee Fifiy-fre freight trains pas
~ through this city yesterday over
C. b. e. @. Railroad,
m To-day Comstocks station will
na abandoned, and the new statiol