Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-10
From the Daily Of Thursday. 4th inst.

From the Daily Of Thursday. 4th inst.
A fellow stood down on tho side.
walk last night and apostrophized
Mitchell 4 Kelley's chicken coon 70,
about half an hour. He was trying "a
make terms with the boss rooster fol
nights lodging. However, he final.
~ got into the wrong coop.
Last night Jim Carroll broke into
the office of the Ottlmwa Gas Co,
and stole about fifty dollars WORT, al
fixtures. tools, &c. Davis caught him
with the the goods in his possession
last night and lodged him i'm jail. lie
had trial this morning, plead guilty,
and was returned to the nest i'm de.
fault of seven hundred dollars bail.
A party Of fellows who play seven
mp with three cards had q fall out
among themselves in q down. town
restaurant last night. One of them
had q hand pretty severely cut, an
other had an ear flattened out abou,
~ thin as two dollar tombstone
and another had map of tho state
marked out on his forehead. copere..
sional districts and Ill.
Geo. q. Griggs the Superintendent
OF the K. & d. N. Railroad il in the
city looking after the interests Of his
road. He informs us that the new
track IL remarkably smooth for new
one, and is nearly all fenced in, the
few remaining gaps being filled MP a,
rapidly as possible. The telegraph
line will be in operation in a day OF
two.
An old duiier came into the basbe,
shop this morning, where we were
being shaved, and held up ! daily
COURIER and said. aIs this Demo.
cratic paper" On being answered in
the negative his underlip dropped and
he replied "then the rooster is on The
wrong siie!' Poor fellow he was a
Missouri Democrat, and Ikea very
large portion Of his party couldn',
read, but understood signs.
Sam Jones. baggageman for the C,
d. 4 @. railroad, came very near being
knocked into kingdom come last night.
Sam happens to be policeman oil
some sort and was watching come sus.
picious movements on thepart Of some
fellow who was plundering around a
freight car standing near. lilo was 90
intentiy engaged that he did not no.
tico he was on the track and train
coming, until The engine struck him
on the hip and knocked him out OF the
road. Sam says the report that tina,
train was ditched, is untrue.
An old man down at the depot to.
day, who came from the west on the
u. Il II. M. train AT noon. and who
was deaf in one ear and could no,
hear much out Of the other, came
near furnishing us an item. lie was
ncandcring along, not paying much
attention to where he was going. and
got so close to moving train tina,
some ofthc machinery caught in his
oyercoat pocket and tore it out. lie
il older now than he was and looks
well as to where he is going.
y 3
Night before last q burglar by th.
naplo OF WIN. Lorraine broke into DER
ry Sweeney's saloon ON Market street,
and stolc few boxes of cigars and
como money. Last night he stole q
watch from some country man and
Davis finding ont something about il
pulled him in out OF the damp, and In
searching him found papers on his
person that proved him to DO the man
who had broken into Sweeney. He
waived examination this morning, and
was bound over 10 the tender mercies
or the District court.
Our old friend, Jonathan Carpenter,
A.. -.