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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-05
Daily Doings of Some of Q ttumwa's
Close Neighbors.
personal, SOCIAL And POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous Firth. tothe
philosophical Observation ofSa.es,
Are Chronicled by The CourIer's
tpectnl Correspondents.
BLLkNAf.

Belknap July 5.-Mrs. c. Y. Ware, of
Ottumwa, came over Friday morning
for a visit with Mr.. Wares parents, i.
Ware and wife. Mr.. Ware came Sat
urday night and they returned home
together Sunday evening.
j. w. Bolivar is having verand:,
added to the front Of his dwelling.
Doc. Thompson, of Floris, is doing the
work.
Otis Pickett and wife visited Sat-
urday night at the parental Frank
Pickett home near Sherman chapel.
Samuel Wells and family visited Sat
urday night and Sunday near Sherman
Chapel, with Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Ed
crime.
Will Toole, of OttuInwa, spent Fri
day here with friends.
VIM. Pickett and family expect 70
leave tonight on the excursion to
Kansas City to visit relatives. They
expect to be absent about four days
Frank Pettet will act as foreman on
the section during Mr.. Puckett's ab.
sence.
Miss Ursel Allen, of Des Moines,
came in Friday for a visit with Mrs
Mary Sharon and family. She left
here for Bloomfield, where she expects
to, Stay with Mrs. S. +. Mcconnell dur
ing Mr.. McConnell's absence at the
convention at Kansas City.
Miss Ora Combs. Of Bloomfild, spent
Sunday here with her parents, Andrew
Combs and wife.
Miss Fife Bolivar went to Floris Fri.
dav afternoon for her aunt, Mrs. Doc
Thompson, who returned home Will
her, visiting Friday night and Satur
day at the Bolivar home and returning
to her home on Saturday evening witt
her husband
The day operator at the tower, Shcr.
man Dillon, has been given short lay
off. During his absence the night snan
Tom Cameron, will take his plaza,
while Frank O'Neai, of Galatin, Mo-,
will take Mr.. Caneron's place.
Frank Pickett and wife, of Sherman
Chapel, visited here with friends Sat
urday.
The Rock Island surveying party left
here for Trenton last week. They eS-
pect to survey on the first route sur
veyed. which leaves the line about
Dunville.
Miss Lizzie Mcconnell was agreeably
surprised at her home Saturday even
: IHS ny d SURPRISE party SGtten up DN
Miss Anna McCarty. The inviteS
guests came bringing with them ict
cream and cake. The guests wers
Messrs. ard Mesdames. Harmon Rime
Frank Warner, Louie Wagner, Mrs
Mary mccarthy, Misses Anna, Laura and
Hazel McCarty, Eta Mum, Lottie Mel
son, Nora Schubert, Stella and Eliza
Sample, Myrtle Fleming, Aria and Ber-
tina McIntire, A1essrs. Frank and FL
mer NcCarty, Alec Martin, Marshal
and Emmett Bachman, John and Oscar
Sample, Charlie Mason, John Wagner
Charlie Skinner, Frank and Ed Rhine
Willie Bennett, N. Carson and John
Hawkins. The evening was spent with
music and eating ice cream anhcake.
w. w. Allen, of Eldon, spent Sunday
here with relatives.
Sherman Dillon and wife leave this
evening for a weeks visit with reia
tiyes near Eldon. Mr.. Dillon also de
sires to consult with a physician there
in regard to his health. which has be
come IMPAIRED
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stein were married Wednesday evening,
June 81 at the home of the bride, Rev.
Saddler, of the Baptist church, ofticiat-
ing. They will be at home to their
friends after July L., 1900.
The members of the Christian choir
gave a minstrel entertainment in the
opera house Friday night.
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KlRKVILLR,

Kirkville, July GA large portion of
the people of Kirkville and vicinity
spent the Fourth at Fremont. The
day was an exceptionally fine one al
tho very warm and the people all
seemed to enjoy the occasion very
much and the good people of Fremont
treated them very kindly.
Aunt Martha Owens is much better
and all will be glad to see her up and
about again soon.
The installation of the elected Off
GERS of Hatfield lodge, No. ISL, will oc-
cur at their next regular meeting,
which will be on Tuesday night, July
II.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will give a social Tuesday
night, the 10th.
Last Saturday evening the Christian
Endeavor society of the Presbyterian
church surprised Miss Elsie Bissell.
Her aunt, Mrs. J. %. Bissell, had ex-
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SELMA.

SELMA. az. 80 I
Selma, July 5-Born, to Mr.. and Mrs,
Henry Cunningham Tuesday night, a.
son. IS
Mrs. J. T. 0verturf left for Des,
Moines to visit her little grandson
Wednesday morning.
Our new telephone line expects soon
to extend to Troy via White Elm.
Mrs. Frances Baker has been rusti-
eating on the farm with her sister this
week.
A very large crowd attended the bas-
ket meeting Sunday. Six converts
were sprinkled and five were baptized.
I. T. Rodgers returned from Mon
tana Tuesday night where he has been
engaged carpentering. He has enough
of the west at present. Late last sea-
son he had fall of sixty feet from a
crushing mill.
Our people celebrated the Fourth at
Eldon and, of course, enjoyed meeting
the small boy and the cracker.
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ELDON.

Eldon, July 5.-Mrs. L. z. Coad left
yesterday for Keosauqua to visit.
Mrs. Chas. Jordan, of Fairfield, is
visiting Miss Floy Murphy.
Misses Florence and Amy Fry, of OF
tumwa, are visiting Miss Anna Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. III. Chase, of Viroquo,
Wis, are visiting Mrs. Woodhouse.
Miss Anna Jones, of Keb, is visiting
Miss Bess Walker.
Mr., Coad and children are visiting at
Danvilie.
Mrs. v. A. Myers, of Bellville, Kan,
is visiting Mrs. G. Myers and A. Bet
terton.
Miss Myrtle Sullivan, of Leando, is
visiting Miss Stella Hellyer.
Frank Henig, of Galesburg, ILL.,, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. A. j. Henig.
Misses Lula and May Rogers, of Sell
ma, are visiting R. Ritz and family.
Miss Eason, of Bonaparte, is visiting
Miss Marcia Basquin.
Miss Amy Hatch, of Ottumwa, is Wis
ting Misses Kittie and Louise Moore.
June and Lloyd Kremer returned
from Columbus Junction Monday
night.
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Nora and Libbie Fish, Eva Garfield and
Mrs. Jane Garfield.
Frank Johnston visited friends near
Blakesburg Sunday.
Charley Harlan attended lodge in
Blakesburg Saturday night.
Frank Ienger spent Sunday at home
with his parents near Blakesburg.
Misses Ethel and Mabel Upp, of near
Blakesburg. attended church at Chris
tiansburg Sunday.
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MARTINSBURG.


Martinsburg, July Miss Belle Cart
wright, of Ottumwa, came out to the
burg yesterday and is stopping at p.
w. Young's. Miss Cartwright has 4
music class here.
Miss Maggie Sherlock entertained
some of her friends Saturday evening.
Among them were Mrs. Dale, of Ere
mont, and Mrs. johnson, of Sigour-
ney.
A. A. Taylor, of the Presbyterian
church, preached from the NJ. L. pull
pit last Sabbath at IL 4. IN
Miss Hannah Nevens, of Pennsyl-
vania, is visiting with the Pollock fam
lilies in and about the burg.
Mrs. VIM. Henry, of Fairfield, is
visiting with old friends in and around
the burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. r. Harvey, after a
three weeks stay in Ohio, have returns
ed to their home here.
Mrs. Maud Hampton has returned
home from Washington, Iowa, whsre
she has been stopping for the last ten
DAYS.
A. NJ. Utterback, of Hedrick, was in
the burg Monday
NJ f. Sanches went to Ottumwa on
business last Friday.
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FL,OK,Ix

Floris. July 6.-Mrs. Younkip. of
Wood county Kansas, daughter OF
Joseph Peden came Monday to be with
her father during his illness.
+ Cyrus Hale fell out Of n cherry tree
Tuesday and dislocated mis- Shoulder.
DIR. Parker was summoned and put it
in place. ", - IL,
+ Isaac Tasting went to Mcu;ton Tues
day, to visit his son..
Miss Viola Sawyers came from Me-
graska Monday. where sac has been
visiting her sister for some time.
George Post, of Laddsdale, came
here Wednesday to. do some trading.
( c. II. johnson made business trip
to Ottumwa Wednesday,.
/. Rev. A. w. Miller came here Friday
accompanied by his daughter. who has
received the fall term Of school at the
Coon Schank school house.
Mrs. II. G. Tasting of Drakeville,
visited with relatives here Thursday
and Friday.
Mrs. Plank's baby fell Thursday and
broke it's collar bone.
Miss Fife Bolivar, of Belknap, was
here Friday and Mrs. Wesley Thompson
accompanied her home.
Ode Strickland, Elroy swinney, T.
Cheatham and Joe Sloan went to Cen
terville Saturday to attend the show.
Mrs. Sloan has been Wishing the
past week in Mark and Bloomfield.
Miss Emma Swinney of Dorville, has
been visiting here at her uncle Delna
Swinney's the past week.
Boone Swinney, of Bloomfield, was
hee Sunday to see his father, who is
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st. Louis Market.

St. Louis, July 5.-Wheat, cash rs
Sept. 1874.
Corn, cash 411a; Sept. 42M.
Oats, cash rs; Sept. 22R.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
FUSION CONFERENCE ENDS.
Finance Committees Are Nance
and Headquarters Moved.

Finance Committees Are Named
and Headquarters Moved.
Lincoln, Neb.-(Special)- )-After hav-
Ing been two days in session, the state
executive committees of the fusion par
ties adjourned. satisfactory solu-
ion of the ways and means problem
was reached and the fusion campaign
from now until election day will be
active, aggressive and harmonious.
The new finance committee is COM
posed of Henry Blum, democrat; C. J..
West, populist, and A. H. Gleason, sill
yer republican. They will at once be-
gin the work of securing the funds
necessary to the legitimate prosecution
of the campaign.
1t was decided to move the populist
national and state headquarters from
the Lincoln hotel to the Lindell.
Mr.. Bryan announced in most pos
tive manner that he regarded the in
come tax as one of the issues of the
campaign ,and that he would discuss it
in his letter of acceptance, but not in
his notification speech. He said:
81 shall not discuss the question in
my speech at Indianapolis, but shall do
so later in my letter of acceptance.
The reaffirmation of the Chicago plat
form at Kansas City certainly regard
as adherence to the demand for an
income tax.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
POSITIVE NEWS FROM AMERICANS.
Colonel CooIridge Receives Letter
From Military Attache,


Washington, D. C.-(Special.) )-Adju-
tant General Corbin has received a dis
patch from Lieutenant Colonel Cool
idge, commanding the Ninth infantry
at Tien Tsin. 1t came by way Of Che
Foo and is as follows:
'Tien Tsin, July 27.-Following let
ter of Lieutenant Colonel Shiba, mill
tary attache at the legation of Pekin,
dated July %, arrived Tfen Tsin July
25, at o'clock in the evening:
"'Pekin, July %, Evening.-we are
all awaiting impatiently arrival of rein
forcing army. When are you coming ?
All legations have been blockaded since
18th last month, and since the Goth we
have been attacked continually night
and day by the Chinese soldiers from
more than ten encampments.
"'By supreme effort we are still
defending. We are daily awaiting with
the greatest anxiety arrival of rein
forcing army, and if you can't reach
here in less than a weeds time, it is
probable that we will be unable to hold
out any longer. Emperor and empress
dowager appear to be still at Pekin.
Were four reinforcements to arrive,
very probable that they would flee to
Wan Sho Shan
Killed and wounded up to date,
eight killed, one a captain of infantry
and an ambassadors attache; seven ser
iously wounded, the first secretary of
legation being one of the twenty slight
ly wounded. The number of Euro
peans killed is sixty in ALL
COOLIDGE"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
YNLe's MAMMOTH TURTLE.
Remarkable Fossil On Exhibition OF
a Giant Turtle.

New Haven, )-There
has been put on exhibition in the Pea
body museum at Yale the most remark
restored. 1t is the skull of a giant tur-
tie that lived 100000 years ago.
He had exactly the same character
istics that the skull of a turtle today
Possesses. and it's restoration conclu-
siyely proves that the turtle is the only
object of the living world which is di-
rectly connected with the far distant
ages of geological times. In a word
the turtle, which is nowadays regarded
as one of the lowest and most uninter-
esting forms Of the living world, has
the greatest and most important his
tory of all living things.
The skeleton which has just been
restored for the Yale museum was
found five years ago by DR.. G.. r. Vie
land, graduate of the Pennsylvania
State college, who Is now connected
DR.. Wieland found the skeleton while
digging for fossils on the banks Of the
Cheyenne river in the Black Hills. The
skeleton was embedded in a cretaceous
formation, which indicated that this
country was once covered by a salt
water ocean, in which this great turtle
and many other prehistoric creatures
lived.
The skull, which DR.. Wieland has re-
stored, is twenty-nine inches in length
and sixteen inches in depth. The skull
of DR.. Wieland's turtle must have bt-
longed to turtle that weighed at least
5000 pounds. Today the largest marine
turtles weigh less than 1,500 pounds,
and the largest skeletons in the muse
ums belonged to turtles that weighed
less than 1000 pounds.
DR.. Wieland has made a long and
careful study of the turtle, as he is and
as he was. He has discovered many
interesting and remarkable things
about this obscure creature.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
HOW TO COOK EGGS,

Jane r. Clemmens in Orange Judd
Farmer suggests the following ways
to prepare eggs for the table:
Creamed Eggs-Place on a hot dish
the slices of toast and pour a hot cream
sauce upon them. Have ready as many
hard-boiled eggs as you have slices of
bread. Place on the toast the whites
cut in thin, narrow strips, and over this
sprinkle the crumbled yolks. Continue
for three or four layers. Set in hot
over for a few minutes. Garnish with
parsley and serve at once.
Egg Frizzle-Scald smoked beef, sill
vered. pour off the water, and frizzle
IT with butter in a frying pan. Just
before taking up stir in two or three
well-beaten eggs and stir until the
eggs are cooked.
Deviled Eggs-Halve hard boiled eggs
lengthwise. Remove the yolks very
carefully, rub them smooth, allow one
teaspoon olive oil and one-half tea
spoon mustard to each half dozen eggs,
add some finely chopped cold meat and
season with salt and pepper. Fill the
hollow whites with the mixture and
serve on lettuce leaves.
Baked Eggs-Break carefully into a
well buttered pudding dish six eggs.
Season with salt and pepper. Pour over
them a cupful of gravy and bake until
the whites become firm. Serve hot on
buttered toast.
Rumbled Eggs-Beat four eggs with a
rounded teaspoonful of warm butter.
add one teaspoon cream or milk and
season with salt and pepper Cook in a
saucepan, stirring constantly for about
five minutes. Serve at once on buttered
toast.
Scalloped Eggs-Make q force meat OF
scraps OF cold cooked meat (beef is
best and Ii should be finely minced on
ground) some cold mashed potatoes, or
grated bread. Season with salt and
pepper, add little minced parsley and
melted butter, and moisten with rich
milk. Half fill the patty pans with
the mixture, break an egg carefully or
top of each, dredge with salt, pepper
and grated cracker. Bake ten minutes
or. until the eggs are set. Serve al
once Cold minced ham is nice also.
Eggs with Bacon-Pile brown toast
In the center of heated dish, arrange
slices of nicely fried bacon around tho
edge, pour over a little brown sauce
Law on hard boiled sliced eggs. Garnisf
with lettuce or parsley and serve a
once.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
FIGH
THE LEGATIONS AT PEKIN STILL
HOLD OUT.
ARE ALIVE AND WELL,
Can Hold Out a Few Days Longer
and PitifuI Appeal for Relief
Is Made.

Chicago, Ill.-(Special.)-A cable dis
patch to the Daily News from Che Foo,
July 81 (via Shanghai, August u, says:
DR.. Robert Coltman, jr., the staff
correspondent of the Chicago Record in
Pekin, who had not been heard from
since June II, sends the following dis
patch:
"Pekin, July 21.-Baron Won Ketteler,
the German minister, was murdered by
Chinese troops and his secretary wound
ed June 20, while on his way to the
tsung Ii yamen. The foreign residents
are besieged in the British legation
and have been under daily fire from
artillery and rifles.
''The cowardice Of the Chinese fortu-
nately prevented them from making
successful rushes. Our losses are sixty
killed and seventy wounded. The Chi
nese losses exceed 1000.
There has been no word from the
outside world. Food is plentiful, such
as it fs-rice and horsefesh. Yesterday,
under a flag of truce, message was
sent by Yung Lu, asking if Sir Claude
Macdonald, the British minister, would
consent to truce. The minister re-
piled he was willing provided the Chi
nese came no closer. The shell firing
then ceased and everything is now
quiet
I'VE now hope that, having defeated
the Chinese, relief is nearing us. We
are all exhausted with constant stand
ing on guard, fighting, building barri-
cades and digging trenches both night
and day.
"All the legations except the British
are utterly wrecked by shot and shell.
The Austrian, Belgian and Holland
buildings are utterly wrecked by shot
and shell and burned to the ground.
The British legation is also much shat
tered. The United States marines still
hold a vital position on the city wall
commanding the legation.
after a brilliant sortie on the night
of~July 3, Captain Myer74succeeded in
driving back the Kansuh mounted
troops. During the fight Captain My
ers was slightly wounded. Secretary
Squires of the United States legation
deserves the greatest credit for his
services throughout the siege. His
military experience and energy are in
valuable. Many flags and rifles were
captured by Captain Myers.
eve fear that treachery is possible
when the defeated Chinese troops enter
the city. Meanwhile we are living in
intense anxiety and hoping for early
relief" LII
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
BREssI ADMITS HIS CRIME.
Read News Papers Which Recon-
mended RegiCide.

Rome.-(Special.e liking Humbert's S
murderer, Gaetano Bressi, was a silk
weaver for thirty years, and has only
lately returned from Paterson, N. j.,
where has was a voracious reader of
various Italian anarchistic newspapers
published there, recommending regi-
eide. He admitted the crime frankly
Several letters were found In his pock-
cts. Forty arrests Immediately fol-
lowed the assassination.
The king was shot close to the heart.
Leaning heavily on his side, he MUIR
INJURED: "It is nothing but suddenly
lost consciousness and died bkfore
reaching the royal villa, where Queen
Margherita saw the body lifted from
the carriage and brought before her.
A narrowing scene naturally followed.
Though order is being maintained
throughout the country, the whole
army is kept ready at the different gar
risons at the disposal of the civil power
The entire population is deeply griev-
ed, and the newspapers-sven the so
cialist organs-execrate the assassin.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
SKETCH OF THE ASSASSIN.
Bressi Came From America and
Lived in New Jersey.

6reSSi came From America and
Lived in New Jersey.
New York.-(Special.)-A Bressi
lived in Paterson for over q year. He
apears to have had various names The
one he gave when taken into custody
for the murder Of the king Of Italy
was one. Another was Angelus Bressi,
and still another, the one by which he
will be known to those who knew him
in Paterson, was Gaeteno Bressi. He
was employed in Hamil & Booths silk
mills. His close friend there was Carl
boni Sperandio, the man who a few
weeks ago shot down his foreman and
then killed himself, leaving behind a
letter telling how he had been selected
by lot to kill King Humbert, and hav-
ing choice. owing to his living so far
away from Italy, killed the foreman in
stead.
A few months ago a man said to be
Count Moletoski, the head of the Ital-
ian anarchists, was in Paterson, and
during his stay Sperandio and Bressi
were his companions, and they showed
him about the city and introduced him
to others in the city, who were his
mentors there. 1t would seem that his
friend having faltered at regicide,
Bressi took up the burden where Spe-
randio refused it and went across the
ocean to carry out the decree that
Humbert must die.
In manners Bressi was quiet. Men
who worked beside him in Hamil &
Booths mill say he was the last one
they would select as an assassin He
went about his work quietly. He spoke
little and volunteered nothing about
himself When there was a shop call
and the men went on one Of their nu-
merous strikes, Bressi left his looms
obediently. but was never one of the
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
NO. 10.
RAILROAD CASE ADVANCED,
Legality CT State Board to be Pass
ed Upon October 1st.

Legality CT StaI0 6O0FQ 20 Dc F8SS-
ed Upon October ist.
Lincoln. Neb.-tSpecial. .)-Judges Sui
livan and Holcomb and Chief Justice
Norval of the supreme court Of Me-
braska, met in the consultation room
and decided to advance the damage
suits of the state against the Burling-
ton and Elkhorn railroads for violations
ton, since rescinded, establishing car
load rates for the shipment Of live
stock between points within the state.
The briefs of the state are ordered to
be submitted by August 20. and the re-
ply briefs by September 10. The cases.
which are Identical will be argued and
submitted at the first sitting in Sep
tember. and a decision may be expected
by October.
This action is taken, it is understood.
because in the cases in question is in
volved the point whether the law Gre
ating the state board of transportation
was passed in a constitutional manner.
1t was on this point that Judge Mum
ger of the federal court held that the
board had no legal existence, and on 1t
he granted the railroads a temporary
injunction restraining the board from
issuing any order interfering with exc
listing rates. The question whether this
order shall be made permanent VIII
come before Judge Munger some time
during the October term of court.
The reason the supreme court is ask
ed to pass on this same point before
Judge Munger takes the matter up for
final disposition is that the United
States supreme court has established
rule that state courts shall be the final
judge of all state laws in which the
United States constitution is not in
volved
Accordingly should the supreme court
of Nebraska decide that the manner OF
the passage of the board of Transports
ton law was constitutional. Attorney
General Smyth would go before Judge
Munger and call up the injunction, ask
ing that it be dissolved. This, Of course,
hinges on the decision of the supreme
court, and what its Judgment will be Ii
purely a matter of conjecture i