Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29

meat weekly, 1900 pounds of butter
monthly, fourteen sacks of flour daily.
and $500 worth of milk per month,
The youngest veteran at the home is
" and the Oldest 81.
Mason City.-There has been big
howl in this city ever since the census
enumeration has been reported by the
government The census enumerat.
ors could find only 6,746 people in the
city, while the most conservative esti-
mates from the school population. the
registration lists and the names re.
turned by the new directory placed
the population at over 5000. The
Globe Gazette proposes to make q
census of its own to show the errors
of the enumerators, and has called for
volunteers in every block in the city
to enumerate their block and in this
way obtain perfect census. The
scheme is meeting the heartiest
approval and the most prominent
men and women in the city are asking
for the enumeration of their blocks,
The Globe Gazette calls it the 'spros-
lperity census" and claims that the to.
tai will reach 5000.
| Webster city-Fen Fue, the Chinese
laundrymen here, leaves tonight for
San Francisco, from where he will sail
for Hong Kong, China, where he will
be married. He has never seen his
prospective bride, but says his mother
has made all the arrangements and
| good Cinnamon never think of dis
putting the parental dictum in such
affairs. He says the parents of the
bride and groom always make the
bargain and the couple never ques-
ton the old folks judgments.
Davenport-The number of diph-
iberia cases in the city is on the i'm
crease. Three new cases were re-
ported this morning and the indica-
lions are that this month will end
with the largest number of cases re-
ported to the board of health that has
been known in any time for several
years.
Muscatine.-The announcement of
the Muscaune County Poultry and Pet
Stock Association has just been is
sued, and judging from the prizes Of
fered and other inducements held
forth to competitors the show which
will be held Jan. 8, and 5, will be the
greatest exhibit of fowls and pet stock
ever held in the country.
GIadbrook.-A skull and few, par
TALLY burned bones are all that are
left of Peter Peters, of Reinbeck, who
started last evening in an emigrant
car containing three horses six cows
and Lis household furniture from
Relnbeck for Salem, S. ID. The car
was switched in on a siding, thence to
/ be taken by the C. &c N. w. to the des-
tination. Early this morning a pile
| OF ashes were found where last even
ing there had been car. Some time
4 during the night the car had caught
| fire and it, together with its contents,
had been entirely destroyed.
Westinghouse. Chas. Dean, who
was convicted of cheating by false pre-
tense, was Sentenced by Judge Dew
i ey to one month in the county jail,
and fined four hundred dollars and
costs in district court yesterday morn
ing at 8 o'clock.
Webster city.-Mrs Jennie Huston,
OF Minneapolis, who was reported to
have committed suicide at her home,
several weeks since, has written
friends here that tue report was a
mistake, that it has caused her and
her family much annoyance, and that
she believes she is in as sane state
of mind as some of the people who
spread the report about her suicide.
1t will be remembered that the suicide
was attributed to temporary insanity.
TT. Mathematician eighteen years
ago nine horses were killed in Han
cock county, one a 5000 animal belong.
ing to Frank Willis, of Joetta, whose
throat was cut. Andrew jackson, liv,
ing near Joetta, who is now under al.
rest for the same offense, was found
guilty of the crime and sentenced to
the penitentiary. He served a short
term and was released On the plea OF
his widowed monther, on the condition
that he should leave the state and
never return.
/ He went to Pike county, Missouri,
and was there but short time when
he was arrested and convicted of the
same offense, having, it is said, killed
4 nineteen horses He spent four years
at Jefferson City, being sentenced
twice, two years each time. and re.
turned to this locality last March,
where he has been off and OF ever
since. He was arrested near Carthage
a few days ago as reports of horses
being killed in Hancock county have
been coluing in for some time.
No reasons whatever can be given
/ for the alleged actions Of the man exs
cept that he has mania for killing