Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-15
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

From Fridays Daily.
A marriage license was issued yes
terday afternoon to Morton Criley
s and Miss Mary McCreary.
Look over the want ads in the Cou-
rier and see if you don't find just
what you are looking for there.
Edward Lowenberg and Miss Ethel
Michael, of the county farm, are re-
ported as being quite i'll of grip.
J. b. Kitterman. of Chillicothe, was
In town today.He reports that there
are no more new cases of diphtheria
at that place, tho there is yet much
sickness.
Miss Fannie D. Shuts, profession
al dressmaker, who has been living in
Newton, has taken UP her residence
at the home of Rev, q. ]. Fish, 933
West Main street, and she expects
to reside here permanently.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. J. RAIDER and grand
sons, of Knox county, Mo-, were in the
city this morning enroute to Blakes-
burg Ito visit relatives. While in the
city they visited with their daughter,
Miss Minnie Crawford, on May street.
Anil Anderson. who resides on Wal
nut avenue, while at work at the gas
plant this afternoon, got the fingers of
his right hand caught between two
cog-wheels, with the result that the
Index finger OF the right hand was split
from the end OF the second joint The
/. man was taken to the Ottumwa hos
I pital whore the wound was dressed
Ed. Glover, arrested yesterday after
noon, after desperate attempt to es-
cape, was fined $50 in police court
at o'clock this afternoon on his plead
ing guilty to charge of disturbing
the peace. Two officers started to
arrest the young man and when he
ran it was squarely into the arms of
Captain John Gray, who f1oored him
with club.
The Bloomfield Democrat is no
longer the property of S. r. McCon-
nell, the type, presses, good will, etc,
having been sold to Harvey c. Leach,
ex-treasurer of this county, and at
present assistant cashier of the Tay-
lor-McGowen bank, who will assume
active control of the paper as soon
as he can be relieved from his duties
at the bank.-Bloomfield Democrat.
Brakeman Beckman, of the Iowa
Central, was badly hurt at Eddyville
Tuesday afternoon. While the engine
was on the bridge Beckman attempting
to go around on the tender. He lost
his balance and fell twelve feet. 4
Attorneys A. w. Enoch, of Ottumwa,
and w. S. Kenworthy, of Oskaloosa.
have been in attendance at court in
this city this week. ~ A saloon keep
er in Ottumwa on last Saturday night
shot into a crowd of people in that
city, the shot being intended for a
negro. but 1t hit stranger in the leg.
On Monday the shooter was arrested.
The moral is-keep out of crowd in
front of saloon when in Ottumwa.-
Abba Union.
From Saturdays Daily.
Mrs. Mary Crowley is reported to
be i'll at her home on East Main street.
Mrs, Mary Dallas is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever at her residence, 1854
Railroad street.
Miss Amanda Wymore, of Chillico-
the, returned home today after visit
ing with her sister, Mrs w. M. John.
son, on Jay street, for a few days.
If you have any sheep. stock, farm
machinery, etc, to sell you can find
no cheaper or quicker way of getting
a purchaser than thru the Couriers
want column.
Martin Criley and Miss May Nc
Creary were united in marriage
Thursday evening at the home of the
bridegroom's father, e. B. Criley on
North Davis street in South Ottum
wa, the Rev. A. Il Criley, of Eddy
vile, a brother of the bridegroom