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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
SHOT IN THE KNEE.
viii Charlton Seriously Wounded by
His Little Cousin.

CentervilIe, Nov. 1s.-Will Charlton
received severe wound in the knee
by being shot by a revolver in the
hands of his little cousin, Virgil Close
VIII was at his mothers home in South
Centerville and was showing his little
cousin how to snap revolver, which
had no loads in 1t. The little girl left
the room and was gone few moments.
When she was out, Will inserted car
tridges in the revolver and laid it
down. Virgil came in later and, not
Knowing that her cousin had loaded
the revolver, picked it up and snapped
it, as she had been shown how to do.
It went off, of course, and the bill
struck Will in the right knee, inflicting
very severe wound, The ball. a 49,
calibre, entered the knee join and rang
ed upward, lodging somewhere in the
feshy part of the thigh, or perhaps in
the thigh bone. Mr.. Charlton will be
laid up for several weeks.
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CALLED TO GIVE THANKS.
Governor Shaw Issues Usual ProcIa.
nation of the Season.

Des Moines, Nov. Ex-Governor
Shaw has issued his Thanksgiving
proclamation. The document, which
is signed by the governor and secre-
tary of state, and bears the seal of
Iowa, contains the following text:
Another harvest season is closing
and the year has been crowned with
Gods goodness. Neither famine nor
pestilence nor other material or physi-
cal misfortune has visited us. Craft
tude becomes a wise and God-fearing
people.
Therefore in harmony with custom,
and in accordance with the proclama-
ton of the president of the United
States, Thursday, November %, is
hereby designated as a day of thanks.
giving and prayer. Let each church
and and every home be an altar of
praise to Him who hath promised that
while the earth remaineth, seedtime
and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and
night, shall not cease"
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pie who think it is as
useless to hope tor health as to cry for the
moon. They have tried many medicines
and many doctors, but all in vain.
A great MANY hopeless men and women
have been cured by the use of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery people with
obstinate coughs, bleeding lungs, night
sweats and other symptoms of disease
which if neglected or unskillfully treated
find fatal termination III consumption.
rGolden Medical Discovery" has Won
derful healing power. 1t increases the
nutrition of the body, and so gives strength
to throw off disease 1t cleanses the blood
from poisonous impurities and enriches it
with the red corpuscles of health. 1t is
not stimulant, but strength giving medi-
cine. 1t contains no alcohol, neither opium,
cocaine, nor any other narcotic.
Sometimes the extra profit paid by
inferior medicines tempts the dealer to
offer substitute as vjust as good" as dis
covery" If you are convinced that IBIS
covery" will cure you accept nothing else.
NJ was iii poor health when 1 commenced
taking DR. Pierce's medicine, n writes Mr., Elmer
Lawlcr, of volga, Jefferson Co.. Indiana. III
had stomach, Kidney, heart, and lung trouble.
Was not able-to do any work. I had severe
cough and hemorrhage of the lungs, but after
gain in atrength and flesh, and stopped Cough
Ing right away. Took about six bottles of the
Golden Medical Discovery then, and last
spring had Grippe, and it settled on my lungs,
leaving me with a severe cough. 1 had the
doctor but he didn't seem to help me any; SO
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o'clock. The honor of opening the
session is usually conceded to the SEN
ion member of the house from Polk
county, which this time would mean
H. E. Teachout After calling the ses-
sion to order the temporary officers
are named and other routine matters
transacted, such as the naming of
committee on credentials and an ad-
journment to await the committees
pleasure in reporting. Members are
then sworn in and permanent officers
chosen.
An entire day is taken in the organ.
ization and then another at least in
the joint session canvas of the vote of
the last election. BY this it will be
seen that the very earliest the inaug-
ural ceremonies could be conducted
would be January 16.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
WANT TWO PAROLES.
Governor Will Be Asked to Release
Two ConyictS,

Belle PLANE, Nov. 15.-Hon. Tom H.
Miner and ex-senator J. ]. Mosnat
have gone to Des Moines, where they
have an appointment with Governor
Leslie M. Shaw for conference rela-
tive to securing paroles for two Tama
and Benton county prisoners, now
serving terms in the Anamosa state
prison.
The prisoners are "Sherm" Wilcox
and John Benish, the former SEN
from Tama county and the latter to
two years from Benton county. Will
cox was convicted of murder in the
second degree in January, 1899, for
the killing of Frank Kosina, Bohe-
milan of Tama. The killing was the
result Of a drunken carousal on one
Sunday afternoon at Bohemian pic
mic near Chelsea. Some words ensued
over threshing machine, and that led
to question as to who should pay for
a key of beer, valued at $3.50. Angry
words followed on both sides, result
ing in Wilcox shooting Kosina with a
revolver. Wilcox has made an exem.
plary convict and the three years that
he has served are considered as neces-
sary punishment for the crime. The
parole will be asked because Of his
good conduct in prison.
John Benish, the other prisoner for
whom parole will be asked, was con-
yicted at the last term of the Benton
county court for assault with attempt
to commit murder. Benish became
enraged at young woman, Agnes Cir
sa, of Walford, whom he had been
keeping company with and who had
cast him aside. He was insanely
jealous and determined to end the
| lives of both. He shot the girl twice
and then himself. The young wom-
ans wounds did not prove to be very
serious and she soon recovered. Ben
ish, however, was the worst injured of
the two, the ball he sent into himself
passing through the left breast, below
the heart At the time he was SEN
fenced it was thought the wound had
healed but he was placed in the pris-
on laundry and has been very i'll, hem
( orrhages having ensued with a result
/ that he has come near dying on one
or two occasions. 1t is because OF his
critical condition that his parole will
De asked.
1t is said the girl has promised te
marry Benish when he is liberated.
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IOWA LAND is HIGH.
Sixty Acres Bring Over 500 Per
Acre.

Newton, Nov. 15.-(Special.)- That
Iowa farm lands have rapidly advanc-
ed in value the past few years is il
Illustrated by two deals here in which
Senator J. R. Cornell purchased from
VIM. Brown siXty-acre farm two
miles from Newton for the sum of
S6,700. On the same day Senator
elect Maytag purchased of NJ. l.. Chen.
eny forty acres one mile from town for
one hundred and fifty dollars per acre.
Mr.. Maytag, it is reported, will erect
a handsome suburban residence and
lay off the ground in elegant style.
These two farms are we'll improved
and show how real estate has advanc.
ed
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BURNED TO DEATH.
A Little Girl Near Fairfield Is In
cinerated.
BODY CHARRED BEYOND RECOGNITION
Supposed That Victim and Little
Brother Were Playing in Barn and
Struck Matches Setting Hay on Fire
High Wind Prevails.

Fairfield, Nov. 13.-The most dis
tressing catastrophe that has ever hap
pened in the history of the county oc-
Cured when little three-year-old
daughter of J. o. Salts, six miles north
west of town, was burned to death and
her body charred beyond recognition.
She and her little five-year-old brother
had been playing together in the barn,
a good sized structure, which was fill
ed with hay and grain, and Mrs. Salts
had been in the house the greater part
of the afternoon attending to her house
hold duties, not thinking that the chill
dren could get into any sort of mis-
chief. The father was at neighbours
when his attention was called to the
fact that smoke was arising from his
barn. He at once made all possible
haste toward home and just as he
reached the burning building the roof
and walls fell in. 1t was at once dis.
covered that the little girl was miss
ing and the half crazed parents began
to search for the body as soon as it
was possible to do SO. After a short
search the parents worst fears were
realized and the body of the child was
found.
How the fire originated will never
be exactly known, the little boy is too
young to tell coherent story, but the
most plausible tale is that the children
had been playing with matches and
that the structure being filled with
dry hay had very easily ignited, burn
ing fiercely after the wind caught the
flames. The fact that the whole build
ing had burned so quickly and had not
been noticed is due to the fact that
the barn is at quite distance from
the house and the high winds aided the
flames in their work in the dry hay.
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LEROY BANK ROBBED.
Two Thousand Dollars Taken by the
Thieves,


Leroy, Nov 15.-The First National
bank of Leroy in Decatur county on
the K. & W., was broken into Wed.
nesday night and $4,000 taken. The
robber effected an entrance through
the door and broke open the safe. Of
ficers were notified of the burglary
yesterday but have been unable to 10.
cate the parties suspected of having
committed the crime.
The bank building was wrecked by
the discharge of nitro-glycerine and
contents of safe scattered about pro-
miscuously. No one was awakened in
time to see any of the robbers or Sc
cure a clue. All the cash was taken.
This makes the eighth bank robbery
in Iowa in the past month
AS Heard at Humiston.
Humiston, Nov. 15.-(Special.)- 1.-The
bank at Leroy, a small town west of
here, was blown open by burglars. The
people were aroused by the explosion
but by the time they reached the build
ing the thieves had fed. About S1,50O
was stolen and nearly that much dam
age done to the building.
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THIRTEEN YEARS A SOLDIER.
Iowa City Man Who Saw Service in
Civil War, Dies,

Iowa City, Nov. 13.-Major Adam
Kramer is dead. He was 81 years old.
He was in active service more than
forty years and was retired in 1897,
served through the civil war with the
Army of the Potomac and was appoint
ed second lieutenant of the Sixth Uni
ted States cavalry in 1868 and captain
in 1874. He aided in quelling the
Sioux outbreak in South Dakota in
1891. Colonel w. F. Cody, buffalo
Bid, entered the United States SER
vice as scout under command of Cap
tain Kramer. The body will be ship
ped to Washington, D. c., and given a
military burial at Arlington heighths.
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HE NEVER CAME BACK.
Humboldt People CIeverly Duped by
Alleged Wealthy kentuckian.

Humboldt, Nov. 15.-He was very
wealthy citizen of Kentucky named
A. J. johnson he said; a breeder of
gilt edge shorhorn cattle. If there
was place anywhere north where it
froze up in the fall and staid frozen
till spring he proposed to find that
very place.
He was sick, very sick of doing bus
of Kentucky.
ness of Kentucky, its lynchings and
crimes.
From afar off he had heard of the
ideal stock farm, known as Glen farm,
owned by our genial citizen, N. R..
Jones. He had come all the way to
Humboldt county to see it.
He saw it, its wooded hills, its flow
ing wells and running brook, the
broad river coursing through it capti-
waited his heart and after some pru-
dent investigation he bought 200
acres and negotiated for 40 acres
more.
He drew on bank in Liberty. KY,
for $4,000 and the deeds were left in
escrow till the cash should arrive.
Then Mr.. Johnson went away for a
day.
1t then cropped out that he had Dor
rowed from the land agent the S. that
he paid to bind the bargain from the
agent who negotiated the sale; that
he had borrowed back of Jones So of
that; that he had struck two clothing
stores for an overcoat and suit OF
clothes; that he had jumped his board
bill and had borrowed a dollar from
his duped landlady and had even
touched the barber for a ten cent
shave.
He never came back; but his draft
got back all right and the Kentucky
banker laughed so loudly that you
could hear him as you read the letter
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EDITORS MEET.
Iowa Newspaper Men in Session at
Waterloo.

Waterloo, Nov .15.-(Special.)-
Hon. Geo. D. Perkins of the Sioux City
Journal opened the annual session of
the Northeastern Editorial association
last evening with an address. The
meeting was held in the opera house
morning the new home of the Report
er was thrown open, Hon. LATE Young
of the Des Moines Capital delivering
the dedicatory address. This after.
noon the editors are being shown
about the city in carriages. They will
take trolley ride to Cedar Falls this
evening.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
BARRETT DECIDES A CASE.
State Superintendent Reverses Van
Buren, County Superintendent.

Buren, County Superintendent.
Des Moines, Nov. 15.-State Super
intendent Barrett has decided an ap.
peal case from Van Buren, county in
which he reverses the county superin-
tendent for refusing to reopen case
after rendering decision. The case
was brought by H. A. Topping and
Thos. Williams, whose children were
left several miles from the school
house by a change of site. The board
was instructed by the county superin,
tendent to provide for the schooling
of the children in adjacent districts,
and being notified that the board had
taken such action, the superintendent
decided in favor of the boards action
in changing the site. The board, it
was alleged by plaintiffs, afterwards
failed to carry out the above provi-
sions, and the county superintendent
was asked to rsopen the case, which
he refused to do. Superintendent
Barrett remands the case, suggesting
that it be reopened and heard again.
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FATAL ACCIDENT.
Man Engaged in Constructing Stand
Pipe Is Killed.

Sac City, Nov. 13.-Charles Glidden,
foreman of the men employed by FIRE.
mont Turner of Des Moines in con-
structing the steel stand pipe for the
Sac City waterworks, was killed Mon
day afternoon. He was standing
with another workman on platform
inside at a height of over eighty feet,
when piece of steel fell, striking and
breaking the platform and precipitat-
ing him to the bottom, where he met
instant death. The other workman
was able to save himself from falling.
Mr.. Glidden was about SO years old
and leaves a wife residing at Ames.
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PRESENT FOR HENDERSON.
Speaker of House Given an Unique Ia.
bile.

Dubuque, Nov. 13.-Speaker Hender-
son has received from Congressman
Small of North Carolina, a table made
from the top of a powder can taken
from the deck of the Almirente Oquen-
do, which was destroyed by the Ameri-
can fleet at Santiago, July 8, 1898. Col.
Henderson prizes it highly. Col. Hen
derson has left for Washington
to prepare for the next session of con-
gress, which opens up December q.
He has vast amount of business on
hand, but is in the best of health and
well prepared to enter upon the long
siege Of work before him.
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LONG ELECTRIC LINE.
System Two Hundred Miles in Length
Is Projected.

Cresco, Nov. 15.-An electric rail
way nearly two hundred niles long is
to be the outgrowth Of tt line from
here to Ch9alas Gay, I'll capital for
which llas sad, oaa described and
the company form senator D. A.
Lyons, who thoue democrat, is so
popular that he W. elected in a
strongly republican county, is pres!-
dent of the corporation. 1t is expect
ed to have the line completed to Char
les City next June and from there it
lis contemplated extending it to E'dora
next fall. At Eldora connection will
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cUMMINs TO BE INDICTED.
VIII Be inausurated Governor About
January 16.

Des Moines, Nov. Depreciation
as to the probable date of the guber-
material inauguration has already COM
menced and those who have figured it
down have learned that it cannot
possibly be before January 16 or II.
1t will take several days for the rout-
inc matters to be attended to before
the ceremony can be held that will in
duct Mr.. Cummins into the Office of
chief executive.
The state legislature convenes the
second Monday in January, which this
years does not occur until jan 10. The
legislature will be called to order at 10
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
SUES MAYOR OF MYSTIC.
Alleged That He Gave Citizen the
Wrong Advice.

Centerville, Nov. 13.-The mayor of
Mystic has a damage suit on his hand
in which one August Knitted sues him
for $500 damages which he sustained
in his reputation for following the ad-
vice of the mayor. 1t seems that Knit
tel was bothered by the hog Of one Of
his neighbors, which was allowed to
run at large contrary to the statutes
of Mystic, made and provided. He
called the attention of the mayor to
the subject and his honor told him to
shoot the blamed hog, it didn't have
any right to run at large anyhow. He
went home and followed the mayors
advice and the consequence was that
he was arrested and served term
in the calaboose for shooting inside of
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
WORK OF FlRERUGs.
General store Near corydon Burns to
the Ground,

Corydon, Nov. 13.-(Special.)- 1.-The
general store Of George L. Clark. at
Cambria, seven miles west of here on
the Keokuk and Western railroad, was
entirely consumed by fire together
with all the contents. The stock
amounted to about $4,000. No cause
can be assigned for the origin of the
fire, but it is very generally believed
that it is the work of an incendiary.
Mr.. Clark had just traded the store
and property for a farm in Missouri
and the parties with whom he had
made the trade were on hand and in.
voicing was to have begun today. A
strong wind was blowing at the time
of the fire and it took hard work to
save the rest of the village.
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FARMER DISAPPEARED.
Fails to Show Up After Visit at keo.
kuk,

Keokuk, Nov. 13-Samuel Smith,
young farmer of Johnson county, came
to Keokuk to visit his sister, Mrs. G.
Hackmeyer, near here, arriving Friday
evening and remaining over night with
friends. When his brother-in-law came
for him Saturday afternoon, Smith was
missing. The matter was placed in
the hands of the police. Recently he
sold farm and had considerable mon
ey on his person. His disappearance
is mystery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
What's Your Face Worth?

Sometimes a fortune, but never, if
you have a sallow complexion, jaun-
diced look, moth patches and blotches
on the skin,-all signs of Liver Trou-
BILE. But Dr. Kings New Life Pills
give Clear Skin, Rosy Cheeks, Rich
Complexion. Only rs cents at Clark
& Mollison's drug store.
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HELD ON POISON CHARGE.
Prominent lowan Must Answer &c
Grand jury.

Carroll, Nov. 15.-Henry Erts was
arrested and brought to this city
charged with attempting to poison the
Naberhous family at Breda last Sun.
day. On preliminary hearing he was
held to await the action Of the grand
jury. Erts and Naberhaus married
sisters. Considerable bitterness ex-
listed on account of family troubles.
Both men are prominent in the com,
munity
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GROUND TO BITS.
sol. Good, colored, Killed at Mt. Pleas.

MT. Pleasant, Nov. 1S.-Solomon
Good, colored, who for the past six
weeks has been an employee of the De-
1ano Hotel in Burlington, was run over
by freight train here and instantly
killed, his body being terribly man
gled. Good was intoxicated.
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PROGRESS OF CUTOFF.
Milwaukee Road Almost Through in
One Township.

Washington. Nov. 15-The Milwau-
kee railroad through, its. grading con-
tracts to contractors and subordinate
ors has almost covered its entire dis.
lance through Highland township with
men, teams. graderss dump carts and
all the other articles necessary in
building railroad which when finish
ed will not have an equal in the state
of Iowa in the matter of its roadbed
and grades
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

Chas. r. Wessmar, Evanston. ILL.,,
writes: MY boy 21a years old had a
severe cold which refused to yield to
any treatment until we tried Foley's
Honey and Tar. lie was completely
cured before using one bottle" Take
none but Foley's. Sold by all drug.
gists.
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IOWA WILL GET WAR CLAIMS.
Major Lothrop of Sioux City Receives
Good News.

Des Moines, Nov. 15.-Captain ]. S..
Lothrop of Sioux City received from
the federal treasury department at
Washington a decision from the court
IF claims on war claims of Maine and
New Hampshire which makes very
certain the expectations that the com.
monwealth of Iowa will be paid at
least 100000 on it's war claim of
s455, 472.61, presented by Captain 10th
rop
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I commenced your med
icine again and took
three or four bottles of
the Discovery and two
walls of DR.. Pierce's Pei
lets. and that straight
ened ME up. I feel like
a different person. I
gladly recommend your
medicine to all suffer
ers, for I know it cured
me.n
DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets cure CON
stipation by curing its
cause.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
A SERIOUS FIRT AT ELkHoRN.
Stiff Wind Handicapped the Work of
the Fire Department.

Audubon, Nov. 10 A destructive
fire occurred at Elkhorn, village of
200 inhabitants, located about sixteen
miles southwest of this city. A stiff
wind was blowing, which handicapped
the work of the fire department. The
fire department of this city was tele-
phoned for and responded In time to
prevent the flames spreading to all
parts of the village. The damage was
about $4,000.
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be made with Mr.. Folks electric line
from Des Moines, completing the long
est electric railway line on record. 1t
will ultimately have connections with
Mason City, Waterloo and Marshall
town and should be one of the great
est feeders" of all railways entering
DeS Moines,
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CITIZEN DONATES.
Proposes to Help Build Library in
Newton.

Newton, Nov 15.-(Special )-Sam-
uel Richards, of this city, an old and
we'll to do citizen has proposed to do
nate to the Newton City library $4,000
to be used in the building fund and for
the purchase of books. The gift is
conditioned that the city council ex-
pend five dollars yearly in labor and
plants upon his cemetery lot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

The Colonel H. G. Jordan dairy farm
COW barn at bingham, Mass. burned.
Loss, between $4,000 and 100000.
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S. M. CART WANTS OFFICE.
Says He Is a Candidate for Reelection
as Chief Clerk.

Des Moines, Nov. lbs. M. Cart
chief clerk of the last Iowa house,
says he is a candidate for reelection
as chief clerk. 1t is conceded that Mr..
Cart has hard fight on his hands.
with the formidable opposition of
Rush Benedict. John Crockett of
Hardin county has been mentioned re-
Gently in connection with this office.
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the city limits or some other charge.
He now sues the mayor for giving him
wrong advice.
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A large steamer, name unknown
was blown to pieces 1000 miles Off the
coast of the United States.