Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
JoTTIN0e.

800, GOO and will vote ON the question
Oct. 2Sth
| The st. Louis Comedy Company
bilked the Pela Blade out of it's
printing bill.
There's only one thing stronger
than q woman's will, and that's wo-
mans won't"
The State Board of Csnvassers
meet November to count the votes
| for State officers.
/ An Omaha girl born the other day
weighed "a pounds and over. This
is great country.
Zach Pickett is building a pattern
shop for Ottumwa lows Works which
is to be 3Ox45 and two stories high.
Mayor Irwin, of Keokuk, beat
May Fisk's English blends in their
suit for damages. Tally one for IT.
win.
jeff Davis, aged 81, the only son OF
jefferson Davis, died Wednesday
night at O'Clock, miles east of
Memphis.
Inspect your chimneys before cold
weather sets in as it 10 well known
that more fires occur from defective
chimDeys than from any other cause.
In discussion on cremation at .
London club, q member is credited
with the argument: eve earn our
living, why should we not urn our
dead 2"
A clergy man has written to Bos.
ton paper that though . constant Ia.
borer among the poor. he has yet It
find man who could not get worl
If he wanted ii.
: VIM. Mckinley ST., at the ripe az
Of 80 years, soldier Of the war 0
1912, and citizen above reproacf
! died last Wednesday at his home
! stead near Oskaloosa.
N During the etorm of Tuesday
l. man named Harold, living south {
- Winterset, was struck by lightnin
III and instantly killed, together with
" horse he was leading.
ar The Abba Era sage, sthe work {
the new track Of the G. B. & g. r. |
a. is now progressing very rapid
he and affording employment to sever
in hundred men and teams"
M DR.. Brown, of Rockport, KY. b
on resolved not to trim his hair until
KS democratic President has been electe
es- In few years he will have the Ion
lat est hair of any man in the world.
De Owing to the famine in China
large demand for breadstuffs fro
the Pacific slope has been develops
re- and all the steamers from San Fra
ssi- cisco for China, 60 out fully load
vas with flour.
"a The Centerville Citizen SAY
lay "Judge Knapp at this term of CO,
'sa, decided in favor Of the constitute
cen Atty of the two mile liquor ID
,es- The case will be appealed to the s
iao preme Court.
'p' Cedar Rapids Republican.
stood looking at the papers as ii
lar were thrown off by the press, a
ill, then coming around to the other d
few asked: "How often do you have
,rse oil them type ?"
lien The Ottumwa Times says the wa
the works company are going TO put i
wn, pump Of the capacity of "t,centy Sc
lays million gallons per day." Dad
this please tell us where the water is
as come from to supply it2
We Mrs. Mary Joiner, of Tama col
. u ty, Iowa, was married in August Il
killed herself at the home of her p
ents in Hennepin, ILL.,, last Sund
.n- She locked herself in room Z
ius' blew the top Of her head off wit
'n shot gun.
~. The Haaokeye tells of dying a
in Burlington who crawled out Of
- bed, dragged himself to the rock
-. -. chair. pulled the tidy down, role
up and sat down upon it and d
with a sweet smile of triumph Zig
~. ing up his face.
ess A Jacksonville, ILL.,, telegram ga
During the past three weeks by
wn- tual count, there have passed throt
reta this city, bound for the far W
lnty eleven hundred and thirteen emigr
cat wagons, the largest number ever 8
pre- here in the same length Of time.
on j. A. T. Hull, orr new Secretar.
ICE, State, was caned at Bloomfield
Their Monday night. Two or three h
any dred citizens are implicated in
past, affair. Hull has possession of
elgn cane and proposes to keep it.
aif cane lie said to be very fine affair
'uu One company of Judge Trimt
~ 5000, 600 { p army of tramps, mad
by republican legislation, is wan
to work on the Otttumwa water p
the or. No fellow that expects to pu
day, his time talking is wanted. An b
the est days work for honest money
ow2 what is called for.
20 The streets Of the city are ain
has constantly thronged with "move
8 oftgenerally from Illinois and pri
the pally bound tor Nebraska. The e
aver grafton to Nebraska is said to
only greater than ever known bef
ng a Teams are crossing at Nebraska {
and at the rate of from seventy-five
GUN. one hundred per day.
The Circuit Court started of N
=. day with fifteen divorce cases. Tt
h;sn is one case Of Betsy Baker Va E
:. - Baker which proves unmistaks
that "Betsy and ! are out"
Marshall used to say that "gett
drunk at night was very funny,
ac's getting sober next morning was b.
oui 1t is lots of fun to get married,
inter- oat+;ng ,rm.rr;ad again Ia wi
iuou the rub comes in.
scial M reu.a;ao. n..noo., .,
aroo "There ia q disease among the ca
they ~ th;s oonr,, ,ermaa ,he b.v fe
which, though il seldom results ia
inter- ly, is very troublesome. An old
wing mer of wide experience says ne CT