Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25


brain fever. Death was fastened by
violent spasms, which occurred yes
terday and last night.
With the brightest prospects for an
enjoyable week at camp, despite the
hot weather, the members of Company
G, /. N. G., left Ottumwa this morning
enroute to Dubuque, where they Will go
into camp for eight days with the re-
mainder of the Fiftieth regiment and
the whole of the Forty-ninth. Nearly
every member of Company G went to-
camp, and Ottumwa is represented by
forty-four able-bodied soldiers. who are
as well drilled and as. able soldiers as,
will be seen at Dubuque this week.
The two year old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Gee of West Second
street, accidently fell into a boiler of
boiling water this morning and the
left side of the little girls body is
frightfully burned. The little one
was running around in the yard and
caught hold of the boiler and slipped
into the hot water. Its screams attract
ed its mothers attention who hasten
ed to the child and removed it from
the water. DR.. A. o. Williams was
summoned and pronounced the burns
very serious.
fFrom Wednesdays Daiy.l
! Rev. j. w. Lambert, of Agency, pre-
siding elder of the Methodist churches
was in the city this morning enroute
to Moravia on business.
Mrs. Bert Houston and son, Ray
mond, went to Foster this morning
for short visit with Mrs. Houston's
sister, Mrs. Samuel Buckner
! AT o'clock this morning occurred
the death of Helen the six weeks old
daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M.
Smith, 906 Hayne street, after a
weeks illness
Miss Bertha Asbury went to Moravla
this morning for a visit at the home Of
her nephew, Austin Jay, who also re-
turned to Moravia this morning after
a short business visit in the city.
Frank Kerfoot, who spent yesterday
in Bonaparte, this morning stated that
the Wooden mills of Meek Bros have
been compelled to close down at }
O'Clock most every afternoon the past
week On account of the heat.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs
Houdyshell, died at the home four
and one half miles east of this city
: Monday, the funeral occurring yester
day morning. The remains Were
buried in the Round Point cemetery.
Josie Albertson, through her atror
ney, w. w. Rankin, asks for divorce
, from her husband Noah Albertson, al
/ leging cruel and inhuman treatment
The two have been married, the petit
ton states, since December IL, 1898
and have lived in Ottumwa since tina
time. The petitioner wants the cour
to restore to her her maiden name o
Norcutt.
The neighbors of Mrs. Lydia Tobias
an aged woman who resides at thu
; corner of Third and Washington
streets, became alarmed yesterday be
} cause of not having seen her sine
+ Monday and notified the police. TIL
/ doors were forced open and Mrs. Tc
), bias was found in small hot room, Il
the second story of her house some
= what i'll.
: Jack Hicks, one of Wapello county
r substantial farmers residing in Gree
b township, near Ormanyille, fell from
load of wood this afternoon in front c
). the Iowa Steam Laundry, on Sout
q Market street, and fractured his RICH
= hip. He was removed to DR.. William:
=. Office and later to the Ottumwa hosp
!. tai. He is very aged gentleman an
the wounds may prove serious.
Wanted.-An energetic, live, bus
T. ness man to establish a cash poultr
= and produce house in Eldon, Iowa,
,, town of 1000, excellent shipping faci
- tiles, and prosperous farming con
e munity. A small capital offers lare
" returns to anyone taking advantage {
this exceptional opportunity and tt
N hearty support of citizens, and bus
d ness men, is guaranteed. If interes
" ed address lock box No. 50, Eldon, l
Y. Monday evening, at o'clock, Nal
,e Ann, beloved wife and mother of 10
is eph Flactif, departed this life aged
s. years. Death was caused from paral
n sis. The funeral was held from Il
home. corner of Second and Caldwe
streets last evening, at 8 o'clock, co
- Quoted by Rev. Mcmillan, pastor
:. the West End Presbyterian churc
70 The remains were taken this mornil
~ to Brazil. the former home of the fal
N lily, for burial.
of Two young men, giving their nam
= as Joseph Burns and Charles Re
nolds, were arrested yesterday aftt
: noon about 1870 o'clock by Chief CIR
:, and Officer Pitts, on South Mark
. street on the charge OF peddling wit
= out a license. One of the men h
= three new knives in his pocket and t
? other had half pound of gun powd'
q ~ =. -. I IL 81 4hn.r l,nrn hnor, naddli