Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-09-05

him four or five times in the breast,
side and abdomen, iniiicting wounds
which we are informed may prove
fatal.
From Thursday . Daily.
Elias Garfield, living near Chilli.
Gothic, lost his. wheat Wednesday
night by having the stacks set on fire
by lightning. This is considerable
loss to Elias, but he cant help it now.
He will build his stacks In the same
place next year, where we hope the
lightning wont strike again.
From rridas'a DAILY.
Mr.. VIM. A Nye, Of Chillicothe, is
In town to-day. He informs us that
he has notified the Chairman Of the
Republican County Committee, of his
acceptance of the nomination for Rep
resentative In place Of VIM. NJ. Nc.
Pherrin declined. "a
Jim. Robb, sheriff of Monroe coun-
ty, yesterday evening brought over q
prisoner, Nelson Weeks, on the charge
OF committing rape on young lady
somewhere in the neighborhood of
Eddyville. He was bound over in
the sum of 500 to await the action of
the District Court.
At the meeting of the Ottumwa
Guards last night, Lieut.. /. J. Allen
was elected Captain usce Captain
Jacques, recently elected Mayor of the
9th regiment. Cyrus Armstrong wa,
elected lst Lieutenant rice Allcr
elected Captain. The boys had I
good time after the election and the,
kept 1t up till late at night.
Charles Linquist, a young MAI
about twenty years of age, whose pa
rents reside here, was drowned IL
White Breast Creek, near Chariton
day before yesterday while in
swimming. We understand that b
was . steady young man in the EN-
ploy Of the B. y NJ. r. r. &
His remains were brought here ant
followed to ionr cemetery by larg
concourse Of friends yesterday.
During the severe rain and thunde
storm Of Tuesday evening, the light
ming struck d stack of hay for Mr.. AL
cock, across the river. The bolt mad
. straight hole from bottom to top 0
the stack. The fire was simmediatel,
put out, but upon scattering and dry
ing the hay, it is found so Charge
with electricity that stock will nc
eat it.
w. L. Carter, Of Happy Hollow, il
company with four comrades this al
ternoon started out on chicken hun
and as usual with inexperienced o
careless people, in removing his GU
from the wagon caught it by the mu7
zle and pulled towards him. Will
lam received the, full charge of sho
in his left leg but probably, with tn
assistance of DR.. Lathrop, he may b
around again in few months. !
foolish trick and a bad leg. IS 8
II appears that the Liberals swer
as completely snubbed out in tn
State Convention, as they were j
Wapello county. When the Libcr,
comes to vote at the coming election
he will look in vain from the top
the bottom of his ticket for a repre-
sentative Of the Liberal Republican,
who ,bolted in 1872. IT.. SsIg
II is true that most Of these me
have become dissatisfied with thei
new associates, and are now back INF
the Republican party to stay. 4
But it would seem that the other
who still Stag superfluous" on Ii
Democratic stage, ought to have bee
saved the humiliation of voting
straight out old hide bound, bourbo
ticket, from Governor down to Core
ner. Especially since the head Of ths
ticket was the most conspicuous fir
in-the rear copperhead in Iowa d.
ring the war, and who owes b
nomination directly to that fact.
1RIohAAa YOUNG.
Brigham Young, the MOrmo
Prophet, died at his home in Sa
Lake City, August 10Th, at the advan'
ed age Of rs.
He was native of Vermont an