Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-02
A VERY "HOT TINE
Portions of Feminine Population
Get Obstreperous.
BURLINGTON OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Three Divorce Cases Filed in District
court-Mrs. Minnie Smith Says Her
Boy is Observation-Disclosures curt
News.

Certain portions of the feminine pop
ulation of Ottumwa were on tear
last evening. Two girls fought each
other to standstill on an incoming
Milwaukee train, and a third, a young
married woman, was arrested at the
instigation of her husband on the
charge Of frequenting one of the down
town wine rooms over a certain sa-
loon.
The hair pulling match it is said,
started on the Milwaukee train last
evening which brought Ottumwa peo-
pie home from the races at Hedrick.
1t is said that one of the girls is the
| daughter of a prominent South Side
man and that the other is an inmate
of the Baker house. The daughter of
the South Side citizen was with a
young Ottumwa sport but left her seat
| for a moment. When she came back
she found it occupied by the girl from
| the Baker house. The trouble began
at once. 1t is said the South Side
girl pulled the other girls hair, tore
an earring from her ear, scratched
her face and otherwise spent her fury
until bystanders interfered. 1t is SAID
the Baker house girls face was COW
cred with blood and her long SILKY
tresses scattered over the car.
| A young married woman was arrest
ed last evening in the wine room con-
nected with down town Ottumwa sa-
loon, at the instigation of her husband,
who had just returned to town. NOT
| finding his wife at home he began
still hunt and found her in the wine
room. He enlisted the services OF
a policeman and had his better half
arrested. She was taken to Jail,
where she stayed over night and was
released this morning. The wife says
that her husband deserted her some
time ago after having spent $4,000
which she inherited from her father
estate. She begged her husband, IL
is said, no. 20 push the charge against
her, but he was obdurate and allowed
| her to lie in Jail over night. Those
who heard the young wife plead for
mercy at the hands of the husband
say that it was heartbreaking. 1t is
said that the husband has been guilty
of cruel treatment toward his wife and
is no better than she is.
Three divorce cases and one dam
age case against the Burlington Rail-
way company were filed today in the
clerks Office.
Matte French, by her attorney, G.
Il G.. Leech, desires a divorce fro!l her
4 husband on the grounds of cruel and
inhuman treatment. She recites that
she and her husband, Daniel w.
French, were married in Newton, De
cember 5, 1897, and that one son,
Charles Forest French, now about one
year and seven months old, was born
to them. She alleges that her hus-
band forgot his duties as husband
to the extent that he struck her with
his fist and otherwise mistreated her.
tody of the child.
Culah Brown asks for a divorce
from her husband, o. E. Brown, on the
grounds of adultery. She recites that
they were married in Keosauqua, Jan
uary 5, 1897, but the petition does
not state when they separated. Sum
ner Siberell is her attorney.
Belle Bean desires a divorce from
her husband, H. B. Bean. l.. G. Hen
dershott is her attorney, and in the
, petition filed today the plaintiff re
CITES that she and her husband were
married May 7, 1898, and lived togeth
) er until October, 1896, when her hus
| band without any just or reasonable
3 cause deserted her, for which she
, asks a legal separation.
| Henri Coyle has sued the Burlington
} hallway company for $l,999 on oc
count of the alleged negligence of the
: company in permitting an obstruction
: to be placed so close to the track a:
Ito strike him in the back while riding
on the steps of vestibuled train jus
> west of Lucas, July IA. Jaques
V Jaques are Mr.. Coyle's attorneys ant
: III the petition filed today it is es
planned how Mr.. Coyle came to be rid
ing on the steps instead of in thu
train The plaintiff recites that h,
boarded train known as No. 2 on TIL
date above set out and sat down in tn,
smoking car He alleges that he wa
told to take rear car by the conduc
tor, but could not get to the rear ca
on account of the doors being locked
At the next stop after Alton he did ge
out of the car and went to the rea
car, but discovered that he had lei
his valise in the first car. At Luca
he left the train and proceeded to tn
smoking car which contained his va
lise, but before he reached it tn
train started and he was compelle
to jump onto the steps of the coacl
nearest him. He discovered that tn
train was vestibuled and that the sid
= doors were locked. He chung to tn
guard rails, but when some distanc
west of Lucas he was struck in tn
back by some obstruction, knocke
from the train and down an embanl
l. ment. He alleges that he sustaine
7 injuries in the shoulder, arm, BAG
and side, and also was injured intel
nally. For all of which he asks dan
B ages in the sum of $1,000 on the allie
4 cation that the company was negl
7 gent in placing the thing which struc
him too close to the track.
DELIVERY SUDDENLY.
Mrs. Julia b. Watts Expired at He
Home Last EVENING".