Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-13
ATT ACKEDBY A WOLF.
Farmer Has an Exciting Expert
ence With Hungry Beast.
HOT LUNCHES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Plan Works Well in Sioux City
Archbishop Hennessy's Estate Worth
$6s,ooo-SIot Machines Ordered Out
in oskaloosa-News Of the State.

$6s,000-SIot Machines Ordered Out
in Oskaloosa-News of the State.
Waterloo.
A big grey wolf attacked John M.
Weltzin, a farmer residing near this
place, and had it not been that me
farmer had a shotgun handy he
might have suffered from the beasts
fangs. About 4:30 o'clock in the
morning Mr.. Weltzin had arisen to do
Isis chores. His attention was drawn
outside to where his dogs were bark
ing. Going outside he thought the
dogs had been attacked by another,
but he quickly saw it was big grey
wolf He procured his shotgun and went
to the dogs assistance. The wolf
badly bit one dog and tossed the other
to one side, and then made lunge at
the farmer who raised his gun and
fired in the nick of time. Both bar
rels were discharged, each taking
effect. Mr.. Weltzin brought the
scalp to town and received bounty
of S. on it. 1t was the biggest wolf
ever killed in Blackhawk county.
Sioux City.
Sioux City's experiment with the
hot noon lunch for school children is
proving even greater success this
year than it's short trial last spring
promised. Nearly every student in
the school patronized the lunch coun-
ter and there has been an evident
good effect upon the general health
and work of the school. The board
of education fitted out lunch room
last spring and secured competent
cook to conduct it. For little more
than cost wholesome soups, cold
meats, sandwiches, beans, bread and
butter, fruit. crackers, eggs, toast and
similar foods are furnished at the
noon hour. The bill of fare has be-
come so popular that the accommoda-
lions first provided are entirely made
quate and new tables and chairs were
recently provided.
Davenport.
Cousins may not marry each other
in Illinois, under the laws of that
state. In Iowa, however, there is no
statutory prohibition of such unions.
AS consequence Davenport and 9TH
er river towns in the Hawkeye COM
monwealth are the scenes of many
weddings of those who have the blood
of the same family in their veins.
Oskaloosa.
The cigar manufacturers and all
others who have slot machines in
their places of business have been
warned that such contrivances are il
legal and accordingly have taken
them out, fearing the consequences
following a failure to comply with the
law on such matters.
Fl. Dodge.
Considerable stir is being created
| in neighboring cities by the announce
ment that the Marshalltown e Da-
kota railroad will be merged into a
new railroad, to be known as the
Boone, Rockwell City & Northern.
The change will involve the construc-
ton of eight miles of road from Boone
to Fraser and of twenty-five miles
| from Gowrie to Rockwell City. 1t is
| said that eastern capitalists are back
of the enterprise and will push it
thru, and it is expected that the work
of building will begin in the spring.
Report has it that the construction OF
the proposed Line will make an exten.
sion of the Iowa Central from Sioux
City to Boone, a distance of only fiji
teen miles, to connect with the new
road. Hamilton Brown, president OF
the Marshalltown & Dakota road, is
said to be responsible for this state
ment.
Mt. Pleasant.
Mail Carrier Shepp has curiosity
in the shape of a Mexican postal or
der which was sent to one of his sons
in payment for pair of fancy pig
cons. AS it is printed and written ir
Spanish the postal authorities here
will have to wait for the advice before
they can tell what amount to pay.
Davenport.
Katie Emmett, the actress, has re
turned to Chicago, after a stay cover
ing almost all of last week at the Kim
ball house. There have been reports
in circulation to the effect that Miss
Emmett missed her date here because
she had been tampering with drink
and that her prolonged stay, and the
breaking of her dates, was all due tt
the manner in which she insisted il
humoring her appetite in that direc
ton, but the facts are that she wa!
taken ill here, and that for severa
days she was quite an invalid. 1t wa.
illness and not intemperance, and sh,
is ready for the road again.
Dubuque.
Never in the history of the Catholi,
church in Dubuque have there beer
as many persons confirmed on sin
gle occasion as there were Sunda.
in st. Raphaels Cathedral. The sac
rament was administered to probabl.
eight hundred, many of whom wer,
persons well advanced in years. Their,
were so many of them that the tw,
main aisles were completely filled max
ing it necessary for large number o
spectators to seek seats in other POI
lions of the church. At o'clock tn
ceremonies commenced and it was no
until nearly that they were conclud
ed An idea of Archbishop Keane'
talk can be cleaned from this fact.
Additional Steamships.
, New Orleans, La, Dec. 5.-Durin
the present month the Illinois Centrs
railroad will put on line of steam
. ships in London and another line t