Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-07
HE IS A SWlNDLER
Charged With Obtaining Money by
False Pretenses.
RACE WITH DEATH, AND DEATH WON
Adams County Farmer Expires After
Exhausting Skill of Omaha Surgeon,
Who Hurried to Patients Bedside
on Special Translate News.

Grinnell Feb. 5. Especial. y
Charles Boyle, son of highly res
pected farmer, living few miles
south of Grinnell, was arrested Satur-
day evening and taken to Galesburg,
Ills, charged with obtaining money
by false pretense and forgery in
signing name not his own to re-
receipts. His plan, it is alleged, was
to advertise in the Galesburg papers
for young men and women to take pc,
sition in the Pan-American eXposi-
ton at Buffalo the coming summer,
promising to pay them, it is averred,
fifty cents per hour for ten hours work
each day 1t is said that he demand
ed a deposit of 81 for which it is al
legged he gave receipts signed with
the name of e. j. Lyman. 1t is said
that Boyle is not the accredited agent
of the exposition company and that
he had no authority to make the con-
tracts in the manner he did. 1t is al
so alleged that he has no connection
with the exposition whatever.
Creston.
Henry Reese, wealthy farmer of
Adams county, is dead, after having
exhausted the skill of an Omaha ply
sician who came to his home by spe-
cial train for the purpose of per-
forming an operation Mr.. Reese was
taken i'll about week ago A local
physician was called. He decided
that an operation must be performed
within very short time. After a
few minutes consultation the family
concluded to send to Omaha for a
surgeon. A farm hand had horse
saddled and b-idled and as the word
was given, mounted the animal and
rode to Prescott, the nearest town
where he telegraphed for the man of
medicine and made arrangements for
special train. In the shortest DOS
sible time the train was made ready,
the surgeon boarded it and was whirl-
ed to Prescott at the rate of a mile a
minute Upon arriving there car
riage was in waiting and the farm
house, four miles distant, was reach
ed in twenty minutes. The operation
was performed and the patient rallied.
He, apparently, was On the road to re.
covery, but a turn for the worse was
taken Friday and he died that night.
MarshalItown.
Miss Margaret Fillmore, who it was
said was stowaway In the battleship
Indiana enroute to tho United States,
has arrived here. She denies that she
was slowed away in the coal bunkers
Of the big man 'o-war, but admits that
she did not come across the gang
plank clothed in all the peraphernalia
of a twentieth century young woman
1t was stated that Miss Fillmore had
followed her lover to China where she
expected to marry him. 1t was also
said that she tired of the country and
desired to return home at once No
vessels left early enough to suit her
1t was stated, and she boarded the In.
diana, making port where she could
get passage, which she did.
Burlington.
The postoffice department has found
that there is not truth in the charges
brought by Letter Carrier John ]
Daley against the assistant postmast
er at this place, and has ordered Dali
ey's discharge from the service
Daily charged that the assistant post
master favored the other carriers tc
the exclusion of himself, which
amounted, he alleged, to persecution
Mt. Pleasant.
Michael Burke, who was injured il
Lucas county, while a member of the
Burlington railroad bridge gang, has
brought suit against the company fol
$1,000. A timber fell and struck the
plaintiff on the head while he was at
tending to his duties and he charges
that his injuries were received thru
the negligence of the defendant.
Des Moines.
Smallpox was reported to the state
board of health yesterday morning
from the following towns and town
ships: Sioux City, one case; Bea
Grove township, Gass county, twt
cases; Marathon, one case; Harrison
township, Adair county, one case: Lin
coin township, Calhoun county, tire,
cases; Manson, one case; Grant town
ship, Cass County, one case; Gran
township, Ida county, three cases
Jewell three cases; Murray, one case
Creston.
Officers are on the track of Harr,
E. Weller, at one time trusted clerl
in the employ of Ruffcorn & Company
who is thought to be in Indiana. We
Ter is charged with the larceny o
$1,000 from the establishment whicl
employed him. The prosecution i
the outcome of discoveries made
few weeks ago in the store that som
of the employees, had systematicall
robbed the concern by means of trad
ing stamps which. 1t is alleged wer
sold to friends far below their fac
value.
Burlington.
Mrs. M. H. Durham, president c
the Iowa W. c. T. IT,, indorses the a,
ton of Mrs. Nation in breaking up S;
looms. She says:
There is no law made which tn
saloon men do not despise, and whic
they do not continually refuse
obey There is an alarming growt
of the practice, both on the part of til
liquor dealers and the officials cleo
ed, of failure to enforce these law
II Mrs Nation, with her Ratchet, ca
arouse the people to realization {
the saloon evil and the persistent vii
lation of the laws, she will accomplis
much good. Her attacks will arous
the people to an action which will r.
suit in better enforcement of til
law | do not expect to take I'D til