Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-08
MAY SELL REGISTER.
One Of the Pioneer Newspapers of
Iowa May Change Hands.
SAID THAT SYNDICATE NAY BUY IT
Said That the Parties Have Now Come
Together--Tax Collector Makes
Big Haul in Henry county-1iinton
Has Two Centenarans -,.,-
Des Moines.

Des Moines.
1t is reported that negotiations are
now pendi1g for the sale of the Morn
ing Register, but on the other hand,
the statements are denied by the
C.arksons. The story as it is told by
certain newspaper man of the state,
who should be in position to know, al
leges that three months ago the Clark
sons were approached by syndicate
OF gentlemen who desired to secure
control of the property. For time
they absolutely refused to consider an
offer for the plant, but later notified
the syndicate that they had decided to
part with the property if they could
get their price. Accordingly, negotia-
tons were resumed two months ago.
After much parleying the deal was de-
clared off, the syndicate not caring to
pay the price asked. A difference, it
is stated, of $4,000 between the
parties was the reason of the suspen-
sion of all negotiations. Since that
time the syndicate and the Clarksons
have figured together, but with what
results is not known altho the inform
ant said there is every reason to be-
lieve that the sale will be consumated
The complete story of the negotiations
pending is openly talked of in newspa-
per offices of Sioux City and other
places.
Clinton.
Mrs. Mollie Farrisee has just dis
Covered that she is centenarian. Her
Tooth birthday was passed unknown,
as they have for the past half
hn haI 1<tNcr cfO
forgotten her birthday and had
lost track of her age, altho
it was known she was nearly cen
tury old While going thru an old trunk
few days ago she came across some
family records which had reposed
there for the past fifty years They
showed she was born in the parish of
Killmichae county, Cork, Ireland. De-
cember %, 1900. She has outlived two
centuries and yesterday commenced
to live in the third. She is healthy
and vigorous and goes regularly from
her farm to Stockton, distance of six
miles. She is the owner of a large,
fine farm.
VIM. thinner, of this city, the Oldest
man in Iowa, and with but few excep-
tions the Oldest in the world, is also
living in his third century He was
born in 1873. December 81 he attend
ed an entertainment here represent
ing a man of three centuries. He is
also hale and hearty and promises
to live a number of years.
nes Moines.
The Polk county board of supervi-
sors has settled the contest over the
Titus amendment in this county by
sustaining the motion of Will McHenry
made on behalf of DeFord and Hug,
the newly elected supervisors from
the Fifth and Third districts. on the
ground that the board did not have
jurisdiction to hear the contest. This
is the first decision in the Titus
amendment in Polk. county, and is a
victory for the newly elected men, as
opposed to John Fisher and Henry
Mathis, whose terms expire at this
term. Fisher and Mathis both quail
! fled for office this afternoon in anlici-
patton of decision by the contest in
their favor.
Mt. Pleasant.
Judge Mccoy, of Oskaloosa men,
Der of the tax collecting firm of Nc
Coy & Mccoy, has been here closing
up the business of collecting back
taxes for the county, having made a
contract with the county year ago.
1t is not known how much has been
paid in thru his efforts but some place
1t as high as $4,000. His firm had
contracts in Henry, Jefferson, Monroe,
Mahaska, tPoweshiek and Washington
counties during the past year.
oskaloosa.
Roy Baughman. the 11-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ Baughman. was
shot in the arm by the accidental dis
charge of a target rifle in the hands or
another boy. The victim was trying
on an overcoat in one of the stores
when the shot was discharged thru a
plate glass window from the street.
The boy was not seriously injured IL
is thought.
Pacific junction.
Local officers and the Burlington
road detectives are trying to discover
the identity of the person or persons
who placed four crossarms, belonging
on telegraph poles, ON the track at a
point about half mile north of town.
The tlmberS, which are about four
inches thick, were discovered by Yard
Foreman Mcdonald as he was on his
way home in the evening, just short
time before the eastbound fast mail
train was due. Hand the distractions
not been discovered and removed they
might have ditched the train, as they
were so placed that the pilot would
have passed over, leaving them for
the wheels to strike.
Sioux City. sss
The telegraph dispatches which
brought the news of the death of
William Gilmore, of Ottumwa, by be-
ing ground beneath 1.-THE wheels OF
four or five trains on the Big Four
railroad near Otisco, Ind, alarmed
the family of Patrick w. Gilmore, COS
E Bluff street, and kept them in the
greatest suspense the entire day. Mr..
Gilmore had every reason to believe
that the dead man was his son, Viii
liam I. Gilmore, who left Sioux City
last spring, and has recently been
!, working for bridge company in Ne
braska, Ind, only few miles from
where the tragedy occurred. He later
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