Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-17
TRIED TO SUICIDE.
Daughter of Council Bluffs Man
Seeks to End Existence.
JOKE AT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Iowa's Oldest Banking House Loses
Its Identity and is Consolidated
With Another Institution-But One
Case Of Smallpox at Murray,

With Another Institution-But One
Case Of Smallpox at Murray,
Davenport.
1t has just leaked out that the
young and beautiful daughter of a
NIT suicide in one of the hotels in this
city. She had been separated from
her husband and had come to this
place to stay with relatives. With
but little warning she left the place
where she has been staying and repair
ed to cheap hotel where she took a
dose of laudanum with suicidal in
tent Her condition was discovered
by hotel employees, a physician sum
/. moned and the woman .resuscitated.
She is the daughter of prominent
Council Bluffs citizen and the wife of
an Omaha hotel man. Out of respect
for the feelings of both father and
husband her name is not given. The
cause for the act is supposed to be
ldespondency
Clinton.
Some men at Charlotte, small
town in this county, induced Henry
Hersberg, a farmer living two miles
south of town to get on broncho.
Hersberg, who was intoxicated, got
on the horse and started home He
was thrown off and killed. Hersberg
was a well known farmer. The COM
munity is indignant over the affair.
The man leaves a wife and two chill
dren.
Sioux City.
Iowa's Oldest banking house, the
firm of Weare & Allison, will lose it's
identity on and after January IA An
nouncement has just been made that
1t will be consolidated with the Iowa
State National bank, of Sioux City,
and in the future its business will be
conducted under the name and char
ter of that institution. 1t will be one
of the wealthiest and strongest in the
state with deposits of more than $2,250,-
0s0 and discounts in excess of 81 $780,
coo. Weare & Allison's bank is known
thruout the west; it is the oldest insti-
tuition of its kind in Iowa. having been
established in 1856,and continued con-
stantly in business since then, wealth
ering every storm and crash that has
swept the country.
Creston.
No more cases of smallpox have
broken out at Murray. Miss Stock
well, who was unfortunate in contract
Ing the disease while acting as dea-
coness at Davenport, is still quite sick
The strict action taken by the authori-
ties to prevent the spread of the dis
case will probably have the desired
effect. The schools are closed and pub
s lie meetings forbidden.
Des Moines.
At midnight Saturday night the
quarantine was removed from the
Iowa hotel where case of smallpox
existed. The hotel has been fumigat-
ed and the hosiery is open to the pub
Tic.
EIdon.
George Friend, publisher Of the Ell
don Forum, is i'll at his home suffer
Ing from nervous prostration. The
announcement of his illness in his pa
per concludes with the statement that
1t will, now be in order for someone
else to step in and derive the benefits
from the business which he has devot-
ed these years of unremitting toll to
build up"
Melrose.
A report reaches the city of the ar
rest of Frank Montague a few days
ago, charged with the murder of VIM.
Gilmore, of Ottumwa, who was found
dead along the track of the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern near Jefferson
vile, Indiana, about two weeks ago.
Frank Montague, who is about %
years of age, is brother of Mrs.
Thos Fitzgerald, who resides one mile
north OF the city. He was in Melrose
and stayed at the home of his sister
from about October /, 1899, to May,
1900, when he left for the east. Mr..
Montague, while in this vicinity, was
a quiet, unoffensive, gentlemanly sort
OF an individual and conducted himself
in a very becoming manner to every.
one with whom he came in contact
while here
Sac City.
The board of supervisors TODAY de-
clared not sufficient the statement of
consent for saloons recently filed in
Sac county. The number of names
\ filed was 1920, of which lao were
withdrawn and thirty-three were found
to be illegal This left the statement
esghty-nine short of the required 65
per cent.
Iowa City.
One of the projected enterprises
which will be sought by the business
men of Iowa City this spring will be
an electric line from this place to. Will
liamsburg in Iowa county. This road
will not only be an enterprise of the
business men of this city but also OF
the town of Williamsburg and the res
idents of the excellent farming com
munfty along the proposed route
Plans are in contemplation to raise
the money necessary for the construc-
ton of this road and its equipment by
means of local capital and enough as
surances have already been obtained
which will warrant the prediction that
the road will surely be built. This
will also be a solution to the question
of street railway for Iowa City if the
road is built as contemplated The
route selected will be thru one of the
most prosperous farming communities
in this state and such connecting
line will surely have splendid patron
age.
Many Iowa towns have electric
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