Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31


shortly afterwards, the doctors stating
that Jeffreys body was literally en-
balmed or cured.
Oskaloosa.
The Southern Iowa Spiritualists' as
ISOLATION closed three days session
in this city Sunday evening. The
meeting was for the transaction of
business coming properly before the
association and for the delivering of
number of lectures before the asso-
citation. The meeting was not the
regular annual meeting for the cleo
tion of officers but was rather a con-
vocation. The next meeting of the as
ISOLATION will be held at Marshalltown
at the summer camp the last week in
June and the first in July and occurs
just before the Clinton meeting.
Clinton.
Petitions are in circulation and
Clinton will soon have saloons operat-
ed strictly within the limitations of
the mulct law. The strange part of
the movement is that it has the in
dorsement of the ministerial union,
and church and temperance people
generally are signing the saloon pc
titions. In every other county or
city where such petitions have been
circulated the ministers have stoutly
opposed them. 1t is understood that
petitions are to be circulated in Du-
buque, Davenport, Burlington and 9TH
er river cities, and the mulct law
put into force.
Creston.
Everybody is scared or disguised
over the smallpox scare which exists
1t wasn't bad until Sunday afternoon
when the heath, authorities found
new case of the alleged disease. A
man named Griffin from Mt. Ayr
came to town and went to Jake Pol
ems, on the south side, for dinner.
Then he went out and spent the after.
noon with friends, finally going to
Chas. Culver's for supper. After sup
per he got sick and the authorities
sent him to the pest house. The
symptoms were right for the horrible
disease and he will remain there for
the proper time.
Des Moines.
Assistant Adjutant General Geo. A.
Newman, of the G. A. R., has receiv-
ed letter from Commander Leo
Rassieur, of st. Louis, in reply to an
inquiry as to the recent decision to To-
cate the encampment at Cleveland in
stead of Denver. He declares that
Denver failed to secure the rate re-
quired from the Western Passenger
association, while Cleveland secured
cent mile rate from the Central
Passenger association. Commander
Rassieur says he hopes that Iowa will
pay no attention to the distorted state
ments which are being sent out by
Denver regarding the change.
Des Moines.
Battle flags of the Ninth and Fiji
teenth Iowa infantry have been re-
moved from the sealed glass cases on
the second floor of the state house
and will be forwarded at once to Gen.
Granville w. Dodge, at New York
city, who will place them in the tomb
of General U. S. Grant. The last gen.
eral assembly ordered two flags from
the Iowa collection to be sent to
Grants tomb. The selection was
made by Governor Shaw because both
the Ninth and Fifteenth regiment had
several flags, while some of the other
regiments had but one flag, and to
have selected any of those flags would
have left the regiment without repre-
sentation in the Iowa collection.
Des Moines.
Articles of incorporation for the
new financial house of Des Moines,
the Iowa State bank, have been filed
with the county recorder. The direc-
tors and incorporators of the new
bank are James R. Baxter, George A.
Dissmore, ]. N. Rockwell, Edward H.
Hunter, w. D. Skinner and M. F,
Kingman. The officers of the bank
are James R. Baxter, president; Ed
ward H. Hunter, vice-president, and
George A. Dissmore, cashier. The
new bank is incorporated for $4,000
capital, will occupy the banking
rooms in the Equitable building for
merly occupied by the Bankers State
bank of Iowa. Business of the new
bank will be commenced February l.
Sioux City.
An automatic revolver that will fire
i've shots in less than two seconds
or about as rapidly as the forefinger
can play upon the delicate trigger,
has just been perfected by C. A.
Huntley, of Elk Point, S. D., at the
gun shop of j. w. Boyd, 5O4 Fifth
street, in Sioux City After finishing
his working model the inventor made
his first test last week in the presence
of number of sportsmen; the bullets
poured from it almost like they do
from a machine gun and the bang-bang
bang of the report was almost a
continuous rattle
Mr.. Huntley makes use of the force
of the recoil of each shot to revolve
the cylinder containing the cartridges;
almost instantaneously after the dis
charge of cartridge the cylinder
has been shifted and the gun is ready
for another shot. The finger need
touch the trigger only lightly and NOT
do the work necessary to fire double
action revolver.
Mason City.
The death of Mrs. E. Smith, SO
years of age, was caused by one of
the strangest diseases on record--os-
teomalacia-which is the wasting
away of the strength of the bones and
n aking them brittle. While turning
the patient in bed during her illness
the bones of her legs and ribs were
broken. Physicians say that it is one
of the most extraordinary cases ever
known