Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-22


not provide this. Education can do
much. but it cannot do all. Home
training, good raising. the inbred SEN
timent of chivalry of love for the
home and for domestic concerns
these will do more than all legislation
or all mere educational Efforts
Sioux City Tribune.
Seems Strange.-The latest crime
laid at the door of Dowie is one in
which it is chargedfthat he drove wo-
man insane. Miss Anna Fotsch, the
daughter OLA farmer living near Mus
catine, Iowa, is the woman, and she is
now confined as a raving maniac in
the detention hospital in Chicago.
During occasional sane moments she
accuses Dowie and two of the elders
in his Zion home with having obtained
$500 of her money by false pretenses
and 500 by sheer force. She says
that in May of 1900 she went to Dow
les Zion to be treated and that when
she first arrived she had S400 in cash.
They charged her PIP week for her
board, and when her eyes We're finally
opened and she saw through the fake
she had spent $500 with them. The
other SlO0 was deposited with Dowie
for safe keeping and when she an
nounced that she WIS going to leave
and demanded her money, they forci-
bly, elected her from the premises.
After leaving Zion Miss Fotsch went
| to the home of the Rev. Mr.. Murfinger
where she renamed until her father
sent her money with which to go
home. When she had been at home
4 for month or two she lost her mind
and one day started out to walk to
| Chicago without cent on her person.
She says she walked most of the way.
but sometimes stole rides ON the
I trains. and in two weeks completed
! the journey She raves almost con
stantly about the treatment she re-
I ceived at the home of the Zion elders,
and says that the night she was put
out of the place she was forcibly drag
ged from her bed was allowed but a
minute to put on a few clothes and
was then forcibly pushed into the
street and the door slammed behind
her. 1t seems strange that there are
no laws providing for the punishment
of such beings as Dowie, but stranger
still that the people will tolerate such
crimes as are being committed under
the name of Dowieism.--Des Moines
Register.
Same Old Anin1al.-When the old
family horse becomes venerable with
twenty years behind him and lame
leg under him. he should not be taken
/ seriously The family may continue
to say he is.a dear good old horse, but
they are not serious. This is the
democratic situation with reference to
the Kansas City platform and it's i'm
mediate predecessor Endorsed or not
Endorsed it is the same old animal. II
should not be taken too seriously
Brother Murphy stands by the thing
and says it is all right and good for
several other seasons, while others
prefer to put it out on pasture and
leave it off the enumeration when the
assessor comes round.-Clinton Her
aid.
The Late Edwin Manning.-Hon
Edwin Manning was one of the Pic
neers of Iowa. He was a large mar
physically and correspondingly large
mentally. In the business world, cir
cumstances considered, Iowa has no
produced his equal He dealt in lands
, merchandise, and was always interest
} ed in a number of banks. He ha'
partnerships without number and wa:
"A one of the few men who was able tt
/ conduct farms and stores in partner
-Eship with other men and not get thu
worst OF ii. His enterprises were al
: ways successful and IL was seldom
: that he found himself with an I'm
, worthy man. He was pioneer mer
chant and knew how to deal with thu
. people. He had store at nearly ev
! cry town and village on the De!
Moines river from Keosauqua to Ed
dyville His store at Eddyville, wher,
, the firm was Manning and Caldwell
: (the junior member being the Hon.
, L. Caldwell. brother of United States