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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
ANNUAL MEETING.
Swedish Lutheran church WAX es
GOOD Showing.

GOOD showing
From Fridays Daily.
The annual business meeting OF the
Swedish Lutheran congregation was
held at their church building on North
Jefferson street, Wednesday evening,
and a large number were in attend
ance.
Reports were read from the differ
ent officers, which showed the church
to be in a prosperous condition. Dur
ing the year a large addition, with
basement, has been erected at cost
of $500. This has very much enlarged
the auditorium, giving seating capac-
ity of over 600, and affording suit
able room. for the large and growing
Sunday school in the room below the
church. The total receipts for the
wear were about $4,000. The communi-
cant members number 4s5, and total
membership, 1856.
The following officers were elected
for term of three years: S. j. Sus-
trand and A. p. Anderson, deacons;
John P. Edmund and f. o. Carlson,
trustees. Adolph Nelson was elected as
organist for the year, G. A. Peterson
as janitor, and G. j. Ekfelt as secre-
tary. S. p. johnson, A. P. Anderson
and Carl v. Darrell were elected as aud
ting committee to examine the ac-s
counts of the different treasurers and
financial secretaries. A. p. Anderson
was elected as delegate and John p.
Humid as alternate to the next meet
ing OF the Iowa conference, in April.
1t was decided, as has been the custom
for several years, to hold Swedish
parOchial school next summer during
a period of 10 weeks.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
WANTS 1T INDICTED.
HI. HI. Abrams Setting Federal officials
After an OttumWa Firm


Des Moines Capital: Rev. Fl. II. Alb
er, has started crusade in southeast
ern Iowa and claims to be meeting
with good results. He was in Center
vile and Bloomfield this week and
states that ait these places he succeed
ed in locating number of "holes-in-
the-wall'' and in capturing about $50
gallons of liquor and in closing up the
places discovered. In Centerville he
States that he was highly successful in
locating places where intoxicants We're
sold and in every instance has sue
ceeded in running the men out of bus
mess. AS over half of the bootlegging
cases in the federal court came from
Appanoose and Davis counties and Vi
cinity, his crusade, IL as successful as
claimed, will be a good thing.
Mr.. Abrams states that one barrel of
liquor, which he and his co-workers
was addressed to an official
of Appanoose county and that the bar
rel contained seventy-two bottles of
beer and was marked sugar. Two of
the men who were unprecedented by him
have already left the state. He states
that he has secured ten counts against
an Ottumwa wholesale liquor firm who
he says, have been shipping liquor to
Mystic and having it transported across
country to Centerville. This firm is
one of the largest in Ottumwa and Mr..
Abrams hopes to have it indicted at the
next session of the grand jury. AT
Bloomfield very little was accomplish
ed by him, although an anti-saloon
movement was organized
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
ASSESSORS BEGIN WORK.
Will List Personal Property Only, This
Year.
/ From SATURDAYS Daily.1

The twenty-five assessors in Wapello
county received their books today and
will Immediately begin their work
which will consist of assessing personal
property only. The total levy in the
city of Ottumwa is $3.50 mills, which
is divided as follows: Consolidated
county and state, 1910; corporation,
20; water, S; city schools, 32.1O; special
railroad, Is. Eldon has the lowest levy
of any town in the county, it being
only 6 mills. Eddyville follows with
z; Agency and Kirkville each with g.,
and Chillicothe, 10. The latter levieb
do not include that part apportioned
to the school fund.
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the Wagner apartments all this time
but Mr.. Wagner nor no one in that
vicinity saw Mr.. Deitz return there,
nor has anyone been found who heard
the reports of the revolver which caus-
ed his death.
The supposition is that he shot him
self during fit of temporary insanity,
although there are those who believe
that the fact that two of the bullets
pierced his heart lends suspicion to the
theory that he was murdered and
placed in his room in the position in
which he was found. He was not
known to have had any considerable
amount of money, and as far as is
known there could have been no cause
for this crime. The shooting, as stat
ed before, was done with a single ac-
ton revolver, and the only mysterious
part of the affair is, how he was able
to fire the third shot into his body af-
ter one of the other two had penetrat-
ed his heart.
Very little is known of Mr.. Deitz's
past life. He told Mr.. Lowenberg, Mr..
Wilson'S assistant at the county asy-
lum, that he was 4S years old, and
that he had been in this country six
teen years. He said his father is re-
siding in Leipsic, Germany, and is en-
gagged in the silk manufacturing in
dustry. His family is said to be one
of the first rank in his native country,
altho this report could not be thor
oily substantiated. Mr.. Deitz also
told Mr.. Lowenberg that he had a
brother residing at Crete, Neb. He
said that he was formerly engaged in
the saloon business at Hedrick where
he cleared $1,000. Later he said he
lost all his accumulations. He was a
taNidermist of considerable local repu-
tasion. Mr.. Deitz was member of the
Turnverein society, and his funeral OBJ
sequies will be conducted by the Tur-
nerS.
D. Danquard, John Wagner, John
Kogge, John Dittman, G. Beck and
Ernest Koch have been selected as the
pallbearers and also as a committee to
determine whether the remains shall be
cremated or inferred in the natural
stare.
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READ THIS

$685.. Over again every night.
Then cut it out and rub it on your
bald SPOT OF your patriotic bump-if
you have any. This is not an ad. for
my crockery store. / want to call
your attention to Company c. who
struggled along on their slim allow
ance from the state, and in whom the
public seems to take about as much in
terest as If they didn't exist. They
went away with debt of $4,000
hanging over them, and now they are
trying to get a little money by having
the celebrated Fifty-frst Iowa band in
q concert on Thursday night, the 18th
inst. This band has just returned
from the Philippines and was cele-
DRAFTED for its music and the class of
men composing the band. The boys
have had to guarantee $500, and if the
citizens Of Ottumwa permit them to
lose money they will show lack of
patriotism unworthy any American.
Buy ticket whether you go or not.
Don't say you don't know where to get
them-come to my store and I'll either
sell you one or tell you where to buy
them. Nothing was too good for the
boys when they went away--you made
q big fuss over then-since then you
have had nervous prostration for fear
you would have to help them ten cents
worth. There is lot of big hearted
Englishmen down at the Park house
who have helped the boys out in a way
TO make the average American asham-
ed OF himself. There are 50smen in Co.
g hoping to see the opera house filed
that night--For the sake of common
sdecencv cough up the price of a
ticket or two and help the boys out.
g. vHI ~xHyxx
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Twenty-four Deaths in the City in
the Month Of December.
SECOND WARD LEADS THE MORTALITY
Report shows One Less Birth Than the
Number of Deaths-But Ten Cases
of Typhoid Fever as Against
Thirteen I'm November.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
DR.. j. F. Herrick, physician to the
board of health, has prepared his re-
month of December. A total of TWEEN
ty-four deaths occurred in the city last
months as against fifteen of the pre-
ceding month, of which thirteen were
single, seven married, three widows
and one widower. Ten cases of ty-
phoid Never were reported for the
month of December as against thirteen
the preceding month. Two cases of
diphtheria served to increase the NOR
talisy as against none the preceding
month. One case of tuberculosis was
reported, the same as the month be-
fore. Six of the deaths were children
under one year of age, ten under two
years of age and eleven under five
years. The second ward leads the
mortality with eight and none in the
fourth ward. The birth rate very
nearly kept pace with the deaths, there
being twenty-three births as against
one more than that number of deaths.
The marriages more than offset the
death rate in number. Forty of
that kind of documents were issued.
The mean temperature for the month
was 81 degrees above zero. The high
est temperature during the month was
"a degrees, on the Sth. The lowest was
8 degrees below zero on the 4th. The
greatest range of temperature in any
one day during the month was sc de-
grees on the 4th. The most even tenn
perature of any one day was on the
18th when the mercury varied but six
degrees. The prevailing direction of
the wind was northwesterly. The pre-
cipitation for the month amounted to
ISL inches, the most of which fell on
the 10th of the month, there being
slightly over one-half inch on that day.
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Attempted to commit suictde.

Belknap, Jan. 5.-Wednesday John
Allen, about 80 years of age, attempted
to take his life by hanging. He had
been out of the house while when
his daughter, Mrs. Mary Sharon, heard
a peculiar noise coming from the wood
shed. On going there she found that
he had attempted to hang himself with
a rope fastened to a rafter. She called
for help and attempted to lift him up
and unite the rope, but in this she
failed, when Nellie Cree came to her
aid and cut the rope thereby saving the
mans life. He afterward said to one
of his family: II came near leaving
you, didn't II But will go yet some
time" He has been in poor health for
some time and has repeatedly threat
ened to take his life.
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A HUNTING ACCIDENT.
Charlton BOY VIII Lose His Leg From
GunshOt Wound.

Charlton, Jan. Especial Quite
serious accident occurred yesterday
afternoon, which may result in the
loss Of leg to Master Gus Eggert, the
12-year-old son of August Eggert. To
gether with an older brother and a
cousin, who is visiting here from Michi-
gan, he went out hunting. They be-
came tired and sat down on log to
take lunch, with the gun resting on the
older boys knee and the muzzle about
ten inches from. GUS leg. In some
mysterious manner the gun was dis
charged, carrying the full charge into
his leg between the knee and ankle,
tearing out piece of bone about four
inches long and greatly decorating the
flesh. He was brought home very
faint from loss of blood and the
wounded member attended to by a
physicians, who fears the leg will have
to be amputated.
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PEOPLES PULPIT. |
sProposed Wholesale Liquor Ltcen

SsEfOpOsed Wholesale Liquor License
Editor Courier: Speaking of the or
fdinance now before the city council,
lin relation TO the fixing of consent
4 tax for wholesale liquor dealers at
5000, morning paper quotes an al
4 Legged interview with member of the
: city council, as follows:
II can see motive underlying this,
that makes it one of. the greatest
FRAUDS ever perpetrated on the city.
In plain English language, every saloon
keeper in the city would Immediately
become wholesale dealer
This is the sheerest stuff and nom
sense The facts are that the whole
sale liquor dealers in Ottumwa have to
compete with those of Illinois, who pay
no mulct tax whatever, and with
wholesale dealers from Davenport, Bur
ington, Dubuque and Keokuk, who
only pay the 5000 mulct tax. 1t is
perfectly evident that Ottumwa whole
sale dealers cannot pay 81 800 and COM
pete with these foreign, wholesale deal
ers. The truth is the city would be
the gamer, for the reason that under
the proposed ordinance every whole
sale dealer, and every cold storage
house in the city would have to pay
$500 for year. This means 5000 from
Cheadle & Ford, w. v. Silyers & Co.,
\ M. Schwartz, j. c. Manchester and II.
sisA. Zangs, the latter 5000 on cold stor-
age and $500 on his wholesale house,
making $4,000, where the city now
only gets $1,8O0, a net gain for the city
Il of 800. To say that all the retail
d dealers would become wholesale deal
ers, is the most absurd nonsense. A
Wholesale dealer is defined under the
proposed ordinance to be person who
sells in not less than one gallon lots,
spurious liquors, or one-quarter bar
rel, or one case of two dozen quarts
of malt liquors-all others are retail
dealers and must pay $1,000. No man
could establish a bar, or sell drink
without paying the $1,000, besides the
council has it in its power at any
time, without moments notice, to
Withdraw its resolution of consent. and
thus stop the entire business if it is
abused.
The statement that there is trick
in IT, is unworthy Of any member of
the council, and it is the belief of the
writer that such statement originated
in the MIND of the writer of the al
legged interview.
The wholesale men want an oppor-
tunity to do legitimate business, with
reasonably fair chance to compete
with foreign wholesale dealers. And
1T only remains to be seen whether
they are to be driven out of the town,
or given fair show.
The retail dealers have only each
other to compete with. Not SO with
the wholesale men. Tt has always
been the tradition of Ottumwa to fos-
ter home industries. home investment
and to build up jobbing trade. Will
1T now go back on its record in this
matter, when by doing so it will not
only be the loser of these houses, but
\ also OF the tax? 1t has come to the
point where, unless the $1,000 per year
( is taken off the wholesaler must quit.
Wholesale Liquor Dealer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
SMALLPOX AT ALBA,
Rev. Searcy, the Colored Minister, Az
fiicted With Mild Form of IL.

Abba, Jan. 6.-Albia, the county seat
of Monroe county, has genuine case
of smallpox in the person of Rev. Scar
cy, the negro preacher whose quaran-
tine was reported in the Cou-
rier of previous date. His is not a
severe attack and it is expected nc
Others will develop from it, owing to
the quarantine enforced previous to
and during his sickness. The fact that
smallpox exists in Abba has been care
fully suppressed, the local newspapers
having made no mention of the mat
ter. In fact, one business man thought
the editors might as well walk out of
town as to mention the case in their
news columns. While many profess to
disbelieve the presence of the disease
in Monroe county, the majority seem
convinced, to judge by the fact that
one druggist sold $s5 worth of vaccine
virus in one day and ordered further
supply by express. One physician is
reported to have said that there is no
smallpox in the county, but the report
of the state physician disproves it.
Some complaint is made regarding
alleged slackness of the guard over
.Searcy, it being alleged that the night
guard Sleeps at his post.
Situation at Coalheld.
Coalfield, Jan. 6.-The negro mining
camp, nine miles from Abba, the coun-
ty seat of Monroe county, is still raw
aged by smallpox and its inhabitants
guarded by armed men, lest they
should obey natural impulse and flee
from the place, spreading contagion
and disease. Eight people are
now down with the disease and one
death has resulted. No new cases have
developed within the last seventy-ewo
hours, and the physicians hops that it's
has been checked temporarily,
if not entirely. Every precaution is
being taken by the county officials to
prevent its further spread and to hold
the disease inside the circle already in
fected. A large and sufficient force
guards the village night and day and
whoever attempts to leave does SO at
peril of life. Two physicians have
charge of the patients and the santa
ton of the camp and are doing excel
lent service. The cost to the county is
very considerable, having run over
$4 900 to date.
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Total liabilities
MAY Have Rewer Electlons.

Des Moines, Jan. 5.-Members of the
legislature declare there is little doubt
of the passage of the proposed resolu-
ton for constitutional amendment to
substitute biennial for annual state
elections in Iowa. It passed the last
legislature almost without opposition.
it will extend by one year the terms of
the present governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, state superintendent, one rail
road commissioner and of representa-
tives, county treasurers, sheriffs, coun-
ty superintendent, coroners and sur
veyors who are now serving.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
INSTALLED OFFICERS.
Regular Meeting OF Court OF Honor
Last Evening.

[From Fridays Daily.]
The Ottumwa District Court, No. 1877,
Court OF Honor, held its regular meet
ing last evening. Besides the installa-
ton of officers and other important
business transacted, four new mem.
bers were initiated into the mysteries
of the order, after which an oyster
supper was served. The following wers
the officers installed:
Chancellor Fullmer.
Vice Chancellor-Mrs. T.. Z. Loeb.
Recorder. Z. Briggs.
-reasurer-Mrs. Ella Swanson.
Chaplain-Mrs. Gypsy Rhoades.
Conductor-Earl Toland.
Guard-Miss Maude Connolly.
SentinelJames Trenneman.
Directors-J. o. Loeb, Robert Cam
eron, ,. Is. Murphy.
Medical Directors-Dr. A. O. Will
liams, DR.. S. L. Houck and DR.. D. C.
Brockman. ~
Organists Mrs. Ella Poulton and
Mrs. Inez Cameron. ie
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He Had Cause to ReioIce.

"a young man came into our store
yesterday suffering from severe at
tack Of cramp colic," writes B. r. Hess.
miller and general merchant, Dickey's
Mountain, Pa. "He had tried various
home remedies without relief. As /
had used Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy / gave him a
dose and it soon brought him out all
right. / never saw fellow SO re.
joiced." Sold by druggists.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
what DO the Children Drink,

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRA1N-O? Tt is delicious and nour-
ishing and takes the place of coffee.
The more GRAIN-O you give the chill
dren the more health you distribute
through their systems. Grain-O is
made of pure grains, and when proper
w prepared tastes like the choice
much. All grocers sell it. l5c and 25c.
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Fire at CIinton.

Clinton, Jan. 5.-Fire at an early
hour yesterday morning destroyed
thousands of dollars worth OF goods in
Mccullough Bros. large dry goods
store. The amount of damage cannot
be ascertained until thorough ex-
animation is made. 1t will exceed
$4,000.
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Boston,s Closing out sale.

All our ladies' and misses jackets
and capes at half price. $40 rainy day
Skirts for SIS; standard oil red prints
3sAc; good tennis flannel for Aye. Read
our ad. on page for other bargains.
Boston Store.
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While Joseph scharratt, of Hum
boldt, was oiling machinery in the mill
there he was caught in it and one leg
torn off and the other so badly injured
that amputation was necessary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-09
iowa BANK REPORT.
Total Assets and Liabilities for 1893
Balance at SlO3,743,353,75,

Des Moines, Jan. 5.-State Auditor
Merriam has issued statement show
ing the condition of the 2O5 savings
and 210 state banks in Iowa. It shows
their combined assets and liabilities on
December 2, as follows:
Assets.
Bills receivable .........$ 5,256.12
Cash and cash items -. 4,274,395.14
Credits subject to sight
draft 49,. ........... 1888, s93.71
Overdrafts 80. ......... 1907, 1896
Real and personal proper
ty ...... ......... a,sss,o75.7s
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From Mondays daily.

This morning Sheriff Suits arrested
Thomas Allen, a colored man from
Keytesville, Mo-, on the charge of rape,
said to have been committed at that
place some time ago. The sheriff re-
ceived information this morning that
Allen was wanted and within thirty
minutes had the man In charge, never
having seen him prior to the time of
his arrest. Allen says he will not go
back to Missouri without requisition
papers and it may be two or three
days before they are procured. Allen
has been in Ottumwa for some time
but the authorities at Keytesville, Mo-,
were not aware of his whereabouts
until few days ago when a colored
fellow at that place received letter
from Allen, and it is said, gave the
snap away. Allen worked at the pack
ing house for some time but for the
past week has been working in South
Ottumwa. He was unprecedented by the
sheriff in a room in the second story
of the Leighton building at the corner
of Court and Third streets.
District court convened this morning
with Hon. M, A. Roberts on the bench.
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Charles A. Fisher Says He is I'm
eble to Pay His Debts.
OTHER LOCAL BANKRUPTCY MATTERS
The People. Church, in South ottumwa
Formerly Under the Pastorate of
ID. HI. Crawford, Sold to q
Sew Organization.

[From Saturdays Daily.1
Keokuk, Jan. 6.-(Special.) -Charles
A. Fisher, of Ottumwa, filed a petition
in bankruptcy in the federal court to-
day. The liabilities are given as
amounting to $3,615.74 and the assets
$625.
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.$1Os,74s,ass.75

Total assets ...........$1o3, 743, a53.75
Liabilities.
Capital stock ..........$ 9o,225, 025.od
Due depositors ......... 8,476, 791.67
Due banks and Others .. 1,115,357. 80
Surplus .......... 1,780,4B5.29
Undivided profits 800. :. 2,145,693.99
Total liabilities ....... $103, 743, 353.75
The following comparative statement
shows the growth in their deposits by
quarters since January /, 1899:
january ........ -. ....$64, O69, 164.1O
April ...... .......... 1884, 1851 so
june 30 ................. 77,405, 668.16
September z 80. ........ 80,707, $500
December 5000. $500. 81,476, 791 81
The holding of gold coin has de-
creased as follows:
June 80, 1899 ..........$1, AIS, 692 90
September 2, 1899 ........ 1,444,727.71
December 2, 1899. ......... 1888, 1886
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In Bankruptcy.

The National Bankruptcy News
says: 'Felici, Costa B Co., of Ponce,
Puerto Rico, have been declared bank
rupts in the United States provisional
court. Liabilities 100000; assets,
100000. The firm did large coffee
and general commission business" The
moral of this item is that the courts
are grinding in that place under the
jurisdiction of the United States. This
is probably the first bankrupt matter
to be adjudicated in any Of our re-
Gently acquired possessions.
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Mr.. Fisher has been in business in
this city in the west half of the Chas.
Sax building at the corner of Main and
Green streets, for the past two years.
He carries a line of pictures, picture
frames and art goods. The petition in
this case has not yet reached Referee
Lewis but will doubtless be forwarded
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