Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09

But very little business was transacted
but tomorrow afternoon chancery as
Segment will be made The following
cases were settled and dismissed: A. C.
Steck VS.. the City of Ottumwa, an in
junction case; Virginia Grant ct al VS..
B. F. SHUTS, sheriff, injunction; Min
ME w. Campbell VS.. w. L. Bradshaw ct
al, foreclosure; the case of David Ross
VS.. Lewis Allison, an injunction, was
assigned for trial next Wednesday. The
case of U. S. Grant VS.. Jane Baker was
assigned for next Thursday. The de-
PENDANT in the case of Leo e. Stevens
VS.. the Iowa Central Railway company,
has asked that the cause be transfer
red to the federal court, which the
court ordered. This is damage case
in which the plaintiffs administrator
asks damages for personal injury. The
claim of S. e. Adler against the estate
of John G.. Kaiser was settled and dis
missed. The widow of Jerry tanning,
deceased, has refused to take under
the will and filed her election to take
under the law. The will of Hiram
Connolly was admitted to probate and
/. Martha Connolly appointed executriN
without bonds. The will of Elizabeth
Farrell was admitted to probate and
Hattie Farrell appointed administra-
triN with will annexed and her bond
fixed at $500 with sureties tc be app
proved by the clerk.
A petition was filed in the clerks
Office TODAY entitled George Haw &
Co. VS.. +. B. Needham & Co, in which
the plaintiff alleges that the defend
ants are indebted to them on certain
promissory note and also on account
in the sum of $320.S6. Plaintiff alleges
that the defendants are about to dis
pose of their property in whole or in
part with intent to defraud their cred
itors and asks that writ of attach
ment issue against the property of de-
PENDANT. Geo. F. Heindel is attorney
for plaintiff.
Police Court.
Four men and a young girl constitut-
ed the list of Offenders in police coura
this morning. The girlwa charged with
obtaining goods by false pretense and
three of the men were charged with in
toNication, while the fourth was charg-
ed with the larceny of coal from coal
cars in the c., B. & @. yards this morn
ing.
The girl gave her name as Lola Hen
bricks and said she resided in Eldon.
The court told her she was charged
with getting jacket and dress skirt
at the Boston store last Saturday I'M
der the representation that she was a
niece of Arthur Gephart. And further
that she was also charged with getting
a pair of shoes from.the Famous Shoe
store under the representation that she
was working for Arthur Gephart. To
both charges she plead not guilty and
said that her sister, Bessie, had sent
her for the articles. The case is being
tried this afternoon. Miss Hendricks
is about Is years. of age, and while she
did not seem to be much worried in po-
lice court this morning, yet she did
not have the appearance of a person
who would originate and carry out a
scheme of that kind. It is claimed that
she wore the articles gotten Saturday,
in police court this morning.
John Stromberg was arrested this
morning by Detective Jim Harrison, Of
The Burlington, on the charge of the
larceny of coal from the cirs in the
Burlington yards. Stromberg plead
not guilty to the charge and said that
he did take coal from the ground near
one of the cars on the right-of-way :.
1t was the first offense for Stromberg
and the court fined him $40 and COM
mitted him.