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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15
Mystic.


Mystic, Aug. 15.-Miss Jessie Grit
illess, of Centerville, spent a few
days with Halle Studebaker this
week.
Mrs. John Luse has been elected as
teacher in the public school to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Miss Cora Halves.
The band gave their weekly con-
cert Tuesday evening"
Harry Stowe has moved into and
greatly. improved the residence prop.
erty on North Hill he recently pur.
chased from VIM. Ellis.
The Mystic Cyclones will play three
games of ball with the Chillicoti,e,
Mo-, nine Friday, Saturday and Sun
day of this week on the ball ground at
this place. These promise to be the
most interesting games of the season.
The teachers from this place are at.
tending normal institute in Center
vile.
Henry Zigler of Blakesburg, was in
town on business Monday.
Chas. Berge has returned from To.
peka, Kas., where he has spent the
past few months.
The social given Saturday night by
the ladies for the benefit of the bail
boys was success.
Mrs. Martha Johnson and children
departed for Oregon Tuesday morn.
ing where they will be joined by her
husband and make their future home.
Arthur Stone returned a few days
ago from avisit to the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo, N. Y.
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Village Creek.

Village Creek, Aug. 15.-C. H. Glass;
man returned today from Kansas and
Missouri where he has been the past
two weeks. He will start for Kansas
about November 1 to make that his
future home.
Mike Schwartz and Joe Kasman
marketed straw in Ottumwa last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Lannon's are proud
of baby girl.
Nell Nellison, of Ottumwa, is Wis
itor at Lewis Kassman's this week.
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New York Butter and Edo Market.

NEW YUTK 6U0ter dTIC egg WdrKet.
New York, Aug. 15.-Butter, steady;
Eggs, firmer; 14@17.
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Chicago Poultry Market.

Chicago, Aug. l5.-Iced poultry, un
changed; turkeys COS; chickens 71l
OBS.
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this season. Norm is one of the best
pitchers in southern Iowa. Herb Rees
Bonapartes catcher, has also done
some fine work this season.
O. E. Rowland and wife, of Milton,
spent Sunday at the home of l.. d.
Brunk.
Mrs. H. Stewart was in Keokuk Sat
urday.
Thos McConnaughey was in Keo-
kuk Thursday, taking treatment.
Mrs. VIM. -Aealy is visiting her
daghuter, Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, near
Sharon
Frank Coolidge was down from Ell
don Friday.
Messrs. BENZ. Ketcham. Harry Wor-
den, Harry Boyer and A. Mcdonald, of
| this city, attended the funeral of
Judge Sloan at Keosauqua Thursday.
Miss Margaret Stebbins is attending
the Lee county normal at Ft Madison.
Aaron Blackford attended the de-
clamatory contest at Keosauqua We'd
nesday.
Work on the new $1,000 Presbyteri-
an church is progressing nicely. N.
H. Smith has been awarded the car
penter work.
Miss Gertrude Mcdonald is visiting
in Fairfield.
Miss Emma Riggs, of Leighton, is
visiting in the city with friends.
/ Frank Sturdevant was in Centerville
last week.
Hazel Dell.
Hazel Dell, Aug. 15.-Jesse Helmig
is moving over into Davis county or
the J. A. Mcconnell farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Ruffing visited
Sunday at the Thomas Flynn home.
Miss Pearl Hollingsworth spent
. Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Joe Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of South OF
tumwa visited Sunday with A. L. Bur
ton and wife.
Mrs. ]. M. Bailey is visiting friends
in Ottumwa.
; o. G. Truitt and son and daughter
Master Dale Truitt and Mrs. Edit
Oglevie and his niece, Miss Lou Truitr
; spent Sunday at the home of Mr.. ant
Mrs. E. Truitt of Drakesville. 1t be
ing E. Truths sixty-fourth birthda,
about twenty others were present ant
spent the day.
Friday while out hunting, Newton
Skinner was accidentally shot by CIV
Skinner. In picking up the gun i
;. caught on stick and was accidental,
discharged. Seventeen shots strucl
Mr. Skinner. 1t is thought that tn
: wounds will not prove serious.
l Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Moss are tn,
proud parents of bouncing girl.
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Chicago Butter and Egg Market.
Chicago, Aug. 15.-Butter, steady
creameries 141a@21; diaries 1872 OBS
Eggs, steady; 131s014k.
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Moravia.

Moravia, Aug i55I.-Miss Maud Jor.
dan and Emma Brown, of Centerville,
are the guests of Mrs. E. L. Merring
this week
The ice cream social given by the
ladies aid society Saturday evening
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
Notes of Current Events.

Mexico buys all OF it's shears and sharp.
edged tools from tle United States.
Formosa now has a railway about
twenty-eight miles long, connecting Tai
nan with Takao.
High school has been established in
Autoloma, Tatuila, Samoa, under Amer
lean supervision.
In boring for oil at Beaumont, Texas,
it is reported that a vein Of pure sulphur
seventy feet thick was discovered.
The Hungarian government has forbid
den the practice of .hypnotism. except by
medical men and under special permits.
sion.
Buttons and trimmings to the value of
S1,GS3,SG9 were imported into the Unit.
ed States from Paris in u single quarter
last year.
Frank Trout, II, Magnetic Springs. o.,
burned to death. Brother and sister
locked him in and went to town to do
some shopping.
About $4,000 has been subscribed to
the fund to buy Admiral Scnley a home,
at Washington. It's expected that $15.-
600 will be raised.
Among the women who registered for
the spring election at Ottawa, Kan, IL
"Aunty" Lewis, 11G, colored.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
CONDITION OF CROPS.
WEATHER BuREAU'sWEEKLYAG
R!ovlTuRAL REPORT.
Weather A~bnor.nally Cool and Unfav.
orabie for termination ard Growth
Farm Work Retarded in Some Sec.
tions by Rains.

The weekly crop report of the weathe,
bureau shows that over the greater part
OF the country east of the Rocky Noun
tains the week has been a%hnormally cool
and mnfavorahlc for germinution and
growth. Excessive rains retarded farm
work iii the States of the middle Rocky
Mountain slope and lower Missouri wall
ley, while Il large part of the lake region.
southern Florida and California need
rain. With the exception OF portions OF
the lake region. Florida, Texas and
California. there is generally ample mois-
f'lrc in the soil, ana the conditions now
most needed, especially in the central
valleys and middle Atlantic States, are
sunshine and warmth. In Texas, where
it has been very dry. good rains have
fallen over The eastern and central por-
tions of the State.
Slow progress has been made with corn
planting. none having vet been planted
north of the Ohio river or farther north
Than southern Missouri To the westward.
i'oor stands are generally reported in tho
Southern States. where the bulk of the
crop has been planted. and Il portion is
under cultivation.
Nearly all reports from the winter
NjcHt SlltpS snow tnat winter wheat has
made favorable progress. although its
growth has moi beer rapid. owing to low
temperatures. In Texas the crop has
been materially improved where rains
have fallen. hut i'll that State, as well as
in Oklahoma. the crop has been seriously
damaged by insects. On the Pacific
coast the condition of the crop continues
promising. with the exception of the late
sown in California, which is suffering for
rain.
Spring wheat seeding is we'll advanced
over the southern portion of the spring
wheat region, and some has been sown on
the highlands in northern Minnesota. In
South Dakota the early sown is germi-
mating we'll. Dat seeding has been rapid
~ pushed in portions OF the central val
leys. some having been sown as far north
as southern Minnesota and New York,
but slow progress has been made in Ken
lucky and portions of Missouri.
Although some cotton has been planted
i'll the northern portion of the cotton belt,
and planting is general in the central
and southern districts. the cool weather
has retarded this work, and that planted
is terminating slowly. In Virginia, the
Carolinas and Kentucky tobacco plants
are Very backward, but in Maryland they
are in Il more thrifty condition.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
RousED sY MANY RogeER.gs.,
Government Urges fos.rnasters to

Government Urges F~ostnrssters to
Take Better Care of lunds.
The Postoiiice Department, reused by
numerous robberies throughout the conn
try. notably that Of $1,0UU in bills at Chi
cago recently, has issued the following
general instructions to postmasters IT,
sardins the care of government funds
and stamp supplies:
~Postmasters arc required to exercise the
srcatest care and give tile best possible pro
. lection 10 Government funds ana stamp sup
plies in their custody. During business hours
isoney. postage stamps, etc.. must he kept
so as TO he inaccessible to the public ana
concealed from view. Ii the postoitice, when
u~noccupied, is not such Il safe place as TO
warrant the postmaster in leaving his per-
Sonal funds therein all Government moneys,
postage stamps. etc. mast he removed there
from TO Il place of the greatest possible
safety.
The law provides that a postmaster may
deposit his funds in II national bank If there
ne one In his town, city or county. If. how
ever, there be no national! bank so located
md a private l.ink be accessible there viii.
be no objection to IL postmaster placing his
Government funds. postage. stamps. etc.
therein. provided that they be placed in II
private receptacle us his official property
and subject to his exclusive control. and that
this be done ut his OWN risk and expense.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
r x QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $3.50; hogs. shipping grades.
sso.oO to $500; sheep, fair to choice. $3.0l
TO 5000; wheat, No. . red, lie to 73c,
corn. No. ., , to ABE; oats. No. .. 25c
to 26c; ye. No. 2, 4Sc TO 49c: butter,
choice creamery. 19c to zoe. eggs. fresh,
lie to l2c; potatoes, SIC to SIC per
bushel.
lndianapo!is-Cattle. shipping. $500 tic
$500; hogs, choice light, $500 to $3.50:
sheep. common to prime. $500 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 2, G9c to zoe; corn. No. (.
white. ABE to 44c; oats, No. = white,
.2Sc to 20c.
st. Louis-Cattlc. 1928 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $G.O5; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat. No. .. Use to t9c: corn. No. =,
He to 42c; oats, No. =. bic 10 pc; rye,
No. - 53c to SAC.
Cincinnati-Cattlc. $500 to S5.15: hogs.
$500 to Si.1O: sheep, $500 to $4.35;
wlleat. No. :. s5c to 76c; corn, No. .
mixed. 44c to loc; oats. No. = mixed, 21c
10 2Sc; rye. No. .. 53c to SAC.
prtroit-Cattle. $3.50 TO S4.75: hogs.
$500 to $500: sheep. $40 to $500;
wheat, No. =. dc to 74c: corn, No. .
yellow. Abe to 44c: oats, No. = white.
.29c to Doe: rye. 5ic to soc.
Tolcdo-Whcat, No. . mixed. tic to
1:'c: corn. No. = mixed. Ale to 44c: oats.
No. . mixed. Die to &c; rye, No. =. 4Yc
to zoe: clover seed. prime. $3.50 to $500.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. . northern.
Ilc to PC; corn. No. 3, 42c to 43c; oats.
No. = white. Use to 29c: rye. No. /. :ioc
to Ole: barley. No. .. ste to SIC; pork,
mess, S14.25.
Bnffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50: hogs. fair to prime. S 90
to S6.3O; sheep. fair to choice, $3.50 to
$500; lambs, common to extra, $3.50 to
1915.
New York.cattle. 1915 to s5.c5; hogs,
$500 to $G.4O: sheep. $500 to 1915:
wheat. No. 9 red. 7gc to Tie; corn. No. 9.
4Sc to 49c; oats. No. 2 white. Bic to 32c:
butter. creamery, Zoe to PIC; eggs, wey.
e:n, 13c to lac.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
FIGHT o LIKELY.
Chinese Force Ordered to Retire
Behind the Great Wall.

Chinese Force Ordered to Retire
Behind the Great Wall.
In consequence of strong representations
10 the Chinese government, an imperial de-
cree, dated April Ii, has been issued. Or
derihG the Chinese troops at lIuai Lu to
Immediately remove outside the great
wall.
Ihe Chinese troops, whose withdrawal
outside the great wall is ordered 10y inn
perial decree, are understood 10 he the
force which the German and French ex-
petition rs preparing to attack.
uuai lu is located in the cable dis
patches as southwest of I'ao Ting Flu.
The Chinese occupied a position within
the limits of the territory which the milf
tary representatives of the powers had
uecreeu as being under their protection.
Paris dispatch says in consequence
OF the imperial decree ordering the Chi
nese troops 10 leave the territory consider
ed under the protection of the allied forces,
The franco-German expedition has been
abandoned. France will shortly with
traw 10000 troops from China.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
GIVES TIPS ON HElREssEs.
Matrimonial Bureau Keeps English
NOble1ncu Informed.

HhsttTlAioLiuI bureau ACeIS iiSu
Nob1erncu Informed.
Several English noblemen. unmarried,
have received circulars from Paris ask
ing them to subscribe to Il matrimonial
agency which appears to deal chiefly in
American heiresscs. For II subscription
of a sovereign n month the subscriber is
entitled to accurate information regard
ing the personal characteristics and tinan.
cial prospects of any American girl re-
garding whom he may inquire. The
agency also keeps him posted as to the
names of heiresses who are still lin the
market" and for an extra fee will Sc
cure an Introduction to the desired one.
In exceptional cases, where there is a
fair prospect of getting the money back
with liberal interest, the agency will pro-
cure some II to grub stake the noble
adventurer while he is engaged in his
quest for a wealthy wife. 1t is rumored
that a number Of i~mpecunious individu-
ais, with handles to their names, will be
grub staked" to America this year to
prospect for matrimonial pay ore.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
BIG EASTERN FLOODS
IMMENSE DAMAGE is DONE IN
THE OHIO VALLEY.
Scores of Towns wishou, ,,isn.iu.
Facilities and Suffering Is Wide.
spread-Oniy Two Fatalities Hav.
Been Reported.

u most widespread and destruc,iv,
STORM, from a material point of view, has
passed over the Ohio valley. 1t has left a
zone of ruin 200 miles in diameter. 1t was
unusual in that it presented so many
oilterent features. Cities seventy miles
from Pittsburg, Pa, were tied up by one
OF the worst snowstorms ever known.
While the snowfall was from eighteen
ihcnes to three feet deep, which is not cN-
traord!nary. tho nov vas so wet that N
ciung IN weigEty masses To shade and
Irult trees and electric wires and poles.
bearing them tc the earth. IL settled on
steam and stree, railroads like wet sand.
stopping all traihc and making pedes-
tralnism a feat for only the mes. hardy.
Tue fall was so heavy and spontaneous in
some places that the residents declare IT
seemed like the Bursting of a snowclond,
a few miles away from these unfortunate
own were municipalities in just as dire
straits from ram and traffic was practical
~ suspended. Wa,o; oeerilowed and
= washed out railroad tracks. and hiilsides
came down and barred the rails. Nearly
every town on the Ohio ltiver between
tittsburg and Whee,lns was IA darkness
Saturday night.
Electric light plant. or their w.le. arr
damaged, and the gas IN the mans is gen
eraliy turned off. A remarkable feature
n N1e storm is that but few fatalities have
reported. A railroader. caught i'll Il
wrecs ceased by a and slide, and The
death of an old woman from shock, are the
only ones known so far. There may be
others, however. as communication is cut
oil from many popuious places, and it Will
he several days before ihe total damage
can be footed up.
". The damage may reach 5000, 900. Tn,
ailroads think they have lost 81 ,o00, 0o0.
Loss of wages TO the army OF workers
IN manufacturing plants up and down She
rivers will amount mp 70 $500, 900, and the
repairs 10 plants will cost a large sum
The damage 10 stores. stocks, residences
and furniture IN Iitlsburg. Allegheny and
towns and cities down he Ohio Will prob
ably reach $500, 600. The telegraph COM
panles have suffered severely, but cannot
yet compute their losses. In addition
there is the enormous indirect damage
caused by the almos, compile suspension
~! trade. What that amounts to no one
' eau. determine exactly, and estimates sim.
ply Ieflect the conservative or fai,ca.
ciatacter of the computer.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
SMALLPOX CAUSES TROUBLE.
Interstate Warfare on Lime Between
Minnesota and South Dakota.

NAlnnrSOti ana South Dakota.
An interstate warfare growing out of
smallpox conditions at .Sisseton, S. d., is
on at Browns Valley, MINI. More than
100 eases of the disease exist at Sisscton,
and Browns Valley forbade persons from
there who had been exposed from enter
ing the village. This enraged the Sisse-
ton authorities, and under pretense of hav-
ing quarantined Roberts County they
placed armed guards Oh the state line. one
half mile from Browns Valley, who forbi
farmers from any section to come across.
Many farmers have broken the guard line
by running their horses. while some have
been arrested and taken into Sisseton.
fourteen miles distant. There is great eN-
element over the affair, and unless the
state authorities of the two states take a
hand and bring about an adjustment of
The matter there Will undoubtedly be SER
iols trouble. There is no smallpox III
Browns Valley.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
HAS A CLOSE A l
Commander in chicrofAllics Nearly
pcrisiles il. Il tire in pc,rin.

commander in Chicfof4 Allies Nearly
perislies in IL Fire in pclsin.
A dispatch from Pekin says that Connt
Won Waldersee escaped from the burning
palace of the empress. which was de-
siroyed by fire. through a window with
great difficulty. Mai. Gen. SchwartZkopf,
Count Won Waldersce's chief of staff, APP
pears TO have lost his life by returning to
the burning building after having escaped
from it. Incendiarism is suspected.
This incident may prove more serious
than appears on the surface. 1t is known
from diplomatic communications received
in Washington that intense feeling has
been aroused among the Chinese over the
occupat on of the empress dowager's pail
ace by Count von Waldersee and staff.
This was graphically set forth in a letter
recently received in Washington from one
of the foremost officials at Pekin. lie de-
scribed in detail the manner in which the
palace had been turned over to military
uses. and commented upon the iMdigni,y
which it involved to the Chinese people
and the imperial family. Moreover, it is
known this military occupation of the inn
perial palace was the moving cause for
the rejection of all ovcrtltes for the return
of the imperial family to Pekin.
From the Chinese standpoint it is i'm
possible even to consider the return of the
imperial family so long as the commander
in chief of the allied forces was in actual
occupation OF the empress palace. Now
that the palace is entirely destroyed itmay
have Il bearing on the return of the I'M
perial family.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26

RESULT OF SNOWSL,DE.
Two Engines Hurled Into Il Chasm
and -Four Men Killed,

A terrible accident occurred OIL the Col
orado and Northwestern road near Boul-
der. Colo. Two big engines attached to a
passenger train coming from Ward to
Boulder We're struck by a huge snowslide
and hurled into a clasm below. -Four
trainmcn were killed.
1t is said that the ears. which were heav-
lily loaded with passengers, were not
touched by the Slide. James Marks, the
second fireman, was found under the snow
with a broken leg, but not fatally injured.
Oliver Sells. a boy, who was taking kodac
pictures OF the engine bucking the SNOW
was carried down by the slide and will
probably die. The Slide was about 200
feet wide and 6 feet deep.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
Pat Grove in indiana.

Rat Grove. alleged kidnaper of young
Edward Cudahy of Omaha, is thought TO
be in Hamilton County, Indiana, near
N~oblesviile. Detectives from Omaha are
Grove formerly f%requentcd. Grove went
TO Hamilton County fifteen years ago and
lived in the county four years, during
which time he married the daughter of
John ltambo of Fishers station. She died
later in Omaha.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-04-26
ANARCHIST PRINCE ADVISES.
.irapotkin of Russia Consulted by
Hirs. Parsons in Chicago.


In the interests OF anarchists and an
archy Prince Peter AleXievetch krapotkin.
Me Russian leader, and Lucy Parsons, an
anarchist of Chicago, held q conference
last FRIDAY at the Hull House. The pres
eiee OF the prince IN Chicago has rou ed
enthusiasm among Chicago anarchists. who
say 1T VIII greatly strengthen their cause.
Twelve years ago Mrs. Parsons and the
irlnce met in London, speaking from the
same platform. Mrs. Parsons whose hus-
oi'hd was one of those executed for p~artic-
'iatlng in the Haymariet riots, said:
wy husband died for eXpounding and
following the principles which the works
81 krapo'kln inspired in him. Is ii not
strange that while a few years ago the fol-
lowers OF Krapotkin were hanged, now, in
isol. their leader and teacher is being en-
icrtalned and welcomed eyeryWherep"