Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-20

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hearing of the case is set for next
| Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Ferguson, of
Leando, have returned home after a
visit with Ottumwa friends.
Mrs. Jacob Passmore and daughter,
Miss Carrie, of Selma. are visiting at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Os-
tdiek, 624 North Court street.
Emma Nelson, a resident of the
West End, and for two years domes-
tic in the employ of Major Mahon's
family was adjudged insane today by
the commissioners of insanity and ia
ken to the hospital at Mt. Pleasant by
Sheriff SHUTS.
Mrs. Laura Irwin, who has been
spending the summer with Mr.. and
Mrs. T. P. Baker, on West Second
street, has just returned from tour
east. She visited Washington, D. c.,
Niagara Falls and other places of in
terest. Mrs. Irwin will soon return to
her home in Yieka, Cal.
Mrs. Belle Coddington and daugh-
ter, Miss Laura, formerly of this city,
|
ington, where they will make their fu-
ture home, which is also the home of
a brother of Mrs. Coddington. Miss
Coddington has accepted position as
teacher in the public schools at that
place.
Zip and ]. o. Miller, the colored
men, recently convicted in district
court of assault with intent to commit
manslaughter, were taken to the peni-
Tertiary at Ft. Madison yesterday by
Sheriff Frank SHUTS, where they will
serve four and six months sentence
respectively. Deputy Sheriff Slavens
also took Jim Burton to the same
place today where he will stay for
eighteen months for shooting white
man named William Roy.
Huddleston J. Hartman is in Jail with
a badly wounded head, the result of a
collision with club in the hands of
Officer Ninemier, about $3.50 o'clock
this afternoon. The charge against
Hartman, as it appears on the police
register is raising HI" Hartman
had some words with colored attache
of a side show at the corner of Mar
ket and Second streets this afternoon.
Bystanders say that the colored man
was the aggressor. They further say
that Hartman had done nothing out of
the way. Officer Ninemier apparent
| ly thought differently, however.
Margaret Billingsley, an aged and
penniless old woman was the
beneficiary of number of
charitably inclined men at the
Il I,N
old woman was on her way to Keokuk
where she said she had friends. She
had no home, she said, and was not
able to tell very much about her
friends nor where she came from. She
sat in the ladies' waiting room at the
depot all night, Tuesday night, and
this morning Officer T. B. Copple
raised the necessary $2.25, the fare to
Keokuk, among the passengers at the
depot, and sent the old woman on her
way rejoicing.
i [Fronl Fridays Daily.l
i. Girls, have your finger sized, Scott
i F. M. Tinsley, cashier of the bank
at Stockport, is in the city on business
i today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lock, of He'd
rick, are in the city today viewing the
street fair.
4 Mrs. Carrie Kessinger, of Rome, is
visiting Mrs. w. K. Farmer, of North
i Ash street.
i Miss Maggie Baker, of Rome, is Wis
iting at the home of T. S. Neville, on
North Court street
i Mrs. John Toole, of Belknap, is Wis.
iting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas
Toole, Gil Wabash avenue.
Il Mr.. and Mrs. M. Loughlin, of Sewall
have retired home after few days
visit with friends in the city.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Wilbur, of Belk
i nap, are visiting at the home of w. l.
Thompson, 802 Wabash avenue.
i Mrs. G. Ackley, of Keswick, is Wis
iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P
4 c. Ackley. 1923 East Main street.
P. w. Smith and Miss Galy NJ. Hell
Ter were united in marriage this after
noon by Squire Ballard at his Office.
4 Sam King, of Denver, Col, and
Frank King, of Chicago, are visiting
at the home of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry King.
| Miss Anna Anderson, who has been
twisting at the parental home in Swed
en- for the past four months, is expect
ed home this evening.
4 A marriage license was issued today
y to Robert Strother and Miss Beulah