Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-08
Ottumwa Press Put in the Hands
of an Assignee. -
IT WILL CONTINUE PUBLICATION
Assets Are Estimated at $4,000 ana
liabilities at s7,OOO-H. j. Vail,
Managing Editor, will Cons
duct PAPER Under Court.

The Ottumwa Press today made a.
deed OF assignment for the benefit OF
its creditors and named II. j. Vail,i
managing editor OF the paper, as as
slgnee. No statement of assets and
liabilities is obtainable as up to the
time of going to press the deed of as
signment had not been filed, but good
authority places the assets at $4,000
and the liabilities at $1,000. Mr.. Vail
was seen today and said that the deed
had. been made. He said that he had
been engaged in going over the books
for the past two weeks and found that
there was about 1000 on the books
due the Press Publishing company.
that ii collected would enable them to
see their way out of the financial diff
3ficulty. AIR. Vail also said that as he
understood it, loose business methods
caused the assignment. The paper will
hereafter be conducted under the man
agement of Mr.. Vail, under the direc-
ton OF the court. The news of the as
signment will be learned with regret
by the public generally, and the Cour-
Ter extends its sympathies to its con-
temporary.
The blow will fall especially heavy
upon George Riley and Edwin A. Jones,
the principal stockholders, who have
been in the newspaper business in OF
tumwa for many years. They formerly
conducted the Saturday evening Press,
a weekly paper, and were remarkably
successful with it. In the summer of
1897 they started morning daily, and
their financial troubles are said to date
from thai time.
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Cora "A. Fitch, of Eddyville, by her
attorney, +. G. Orelup, today filed a
petition in the district court asking
that she be divorced from her husband,
Lawrence E. Fitch. She says that she
and the defendan5 We're married in
San Diega, CAL, Nov. Is, 1856. and
lived together as husband and wife I'M
til September, 1890, when the defend
ant without any just cause deserted
the plaintiff and has ever since alb
scented himself from her and has not
R contributed toward her support. She
says that there was born to them one
son, Claude Fitch, and that defendant
is not fit or proper person to have
! the care, custody and control of said
child. She asks for divorce or the
grounds of desertion and for the Gus
1ody of the child.
A stipulation of settlement was filed
yesterday in the clerks office in the
case of Clara A. Graves VS.. the c. r. i.
g P. R'y Co. in. which plaintiff asked
I damages against the defendant in the
sum of $500 for obstructing
water course near her land
which caused the water to
overflow and Kill vegetation and render
a part of said land useless. The stipu-,
lation says that the cause is settled
and may be dismissed as defendant has
paid plaintiff $25 in full settlement
OF the damages claimed, and will fix.
the water course in the spring.
Ben Nelson, the man residing near.
the bridge works who was taken vio-
lently insane Tuesday night, has been
sent to the Wapello county hospital.
The commissioners of insanity found
that he was not crazy, but sent him
out to the county farm to recuperate.
Bankruptcy.
The first meeting Of creditors of
John Amsbaugh, bankrupt, Of He'd
rick, was held at the court house this
morning. A. B. Williams was elected
trustee.