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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
POINTS ON SMALLPOX
The State Board of Health Issues
a Pamphlet.
AUTHENTIC, OFFICIAL INFORMATION
Board Makes Plain the First Indica-
tions of Disease-careful Sanitation.
and Cleanliness, the Board Says, is
the Best Preventive.

The state board of health has issu-
ed pamphlet which gives a great
deal of information concerning
smallpox, the initial symptoms, inva-
sion, prevention and treatment. The
circular of information and recon-
mendations, coming as it does from
the state board, which has first au-
thority in all health matters in the
state, may be considered authentic,
and gathering from the best possible
sources. The following is culled
from the pamphlet:
This disease is characterized by va
rious stages: First, That of incuba-
ton from the time of exposure until
the initial symptoms begin, being
from seven to twenty-one days. Usu-
ally few, if any symptoms occur dur
ing this period.
Second-In adults the disease is
generally ushered in with chill; in
children by convulsive movements
There will be repeated chills during
the first twenty-four hours. Severe
frontal headache, lumbar pains and
vomiting are almost constant symp-
toms. The pains in the back and
limbs are more severe than in other
eruptive feyers during this initial
period. Headache and nausea are al
so persistent and severe. An early
and rapid rise in temperature reach
ing 1903 or 104 degrees Fahrenheit
takes place frequently on the first
Gay. The pulse is quick and full.
The person is restless, distressed and
the face flushed The eyes may be
bright and clear. AS rule the skin
is clear, but there may be profuse
sweat. In children these symptoms
MAY aggrayate especially the deliri-
unl.
Enthusiastically on the third or
fourth day small red spots appear on
the forehead about the roots of the
hair or on the wrists. Within TWEEN
ty-four hours after the first appear
| ance they occur more thickly over the
face and eXtremities and perhaps a
few on the trunk. AS the rash comes
out the fever subsidies and the pa.
tient feels relieved and comfortable
| TT the continent form the initial symp
| toms are more severe. 1t is only as
| the disease progresses that it as
sumes the continent form. On the
| fifth or sixth day the papules become
| vescicular. The SUBMITS become
clear, circular and soon become de
pressed in the center. Some two
days later the clear fluid becomes vel
| low. An areola appears around the
base of the postules and the interven
ing skin is swollen. The tmperature
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
BRAVE SOLDIER GONE
Death of Lieutenant Morrison is
Greatly Regretted.
SON WAS LIKE HIS HONORED SIRE
Displayed Military Traits and Liking
for Military Pursuits While Stud
ent at Ames-Father Was Veteran
of the Civil War.

Des Moines Capital: The cable dis
patches have told of the tragic death
of Lieut.. John Morrison, Jr., of the
Fourth Cavalry in the Philippines.
While details are lacking, it is be-
lieved that Lieutenant Morrison was
shot from ambush while away from
the body of his command. The lieu
tenant was an Iowa boy, born and
bred the son of Hon. John Morrison,
of Keokuk county. His father was a
soldier in the civil war and the young
man displayed military traits and a
liking for military pursuits while a
student at Ames, before his appoint
ment to West Point, which appoint
ment followed the failure of one or
two appointees to pass the necessary
examination. Lieutenant Morrison
was a soldier brave and true and
Iowa has never sent to the front nor
to the battlefield a better man. In
camp and in field he had the same
resolute dashing spirit, always buoy
ant, never cast down by hardships,
long marches, hunger, thirst or
many trials which fall to the lot of a
soldier. He is known among officers
and men for the true soldier and gen
tleman that he was. Every officer in
the army spoke well of him. He new.
err shirked duty or lodged bullet
He had that strange. quiet fearless
ness which characterizes a majority
of the educated and trained soldiers
of the republic. He considered him
self a legitimate and fair mark for the
enemy whenever the enemy could
get him. When the days hard
work was done Morrison was the life
of the mess table, having inherited
| from his Scotch father a taste for hui
NOR. He enjoyed a joke immensely
and while not the equal of his father
as a storyteller, he could do pretty
we'll in that line. While graduate
| of West Point and an officer he never
i forgot to treat the private soldier as
one man should treat another. Ii
4 pouring out his blood in the Philip
pines he has made a costly sacrifice
4 to the enforcement of law and ordel
under our flag. His services in the
| field had covered nearly three years
sof active duty without a sick day, A:
| a member of the Third cavalry he sail
/ ed from Tampa on the Sth day o
June, 1898, with his regiment. HI
served all thru the Cuban campaign
and served under Lawton at e
Caney. His regiment was one of the
/ last of the regulars to leave Cuba
| Finally his command was ordered
home and eventually sent to the Phil
ippines by way of Russia and thu
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
RECALLS BIG THEFT
Parole of Frank Shercleff Famous
Diamond Robber.
CRIME WAS BOLD AND SENSATIONAL
Story of the Theft of $4,000 Worth
of Diamonds From Representative
of Diamond Importers While En-
route to Sioux City.

Des Moines, Jan. 22.-Frank Sher
clen, alias Ed Burke, alias Kid Mccoy.
the man who got away with $4,000
worth of diamonds near Missouri Val
ley eight years ago, committing one
of the most daring train robberieS sim
gle handed ever attempted in the state
has been released from the penitenti-
airy on parol by Governor Shaw after
serving nearly half his sentence of
seventeen years.
The crime for which Shercleff was
serving time was committed on
Sioux City & Pacific train near Cali
fornia junction, and not far from Mis-
souri, Valley, Nov. 4, 1892 William G..
Pollock, member of the firm of w. l..
Pollock & Co., importing jewelers., No.
John street, New York, and travel
ing for that company, had started from
Omaha for Sioux City at o'clock in
the evening. A stranger he had seen
in jewelry store in Omaha was also
on the train.
AS the train crossed the Missouri
river to the Iowa side, the stranger
came up behind Pollock and struck
him terrible blow on the head with
IA shot-bag which burst and scattered
the shot all over the car floor. Pollock
was daZed for a moment, and as he
rose to meet the robber the latter
drew "a revolver and fred it three
times, One shot struck Pollock's left
arm, another his right arm and the
third hit a button on his coat and then
penetrated his breast. None of the
shots were serious and Pollock and
the robber grappled for supremacy
There were only a few persons on
the car otherwise and they were all SO
frightened that not one made an effort
to help Pollock The two men fought
their way along the car from one end
to the other and the robber demanded
Pollock's money. The latter had be-
come SO weakened by the fight and
loss of blood that he yielded and as he
was on the point of getting his pocket
book the robber thrust his hand into
Pollock's vest and drew therefrom a
package containing the diamond sam!
pies which he carried valued at about
$4,000.
AS soon as the robber had secured
this package he broke away and ran
to the rear end of the car where he
pulled the air brake lever and as the
train Stacked up he jumped off. AS 1t
was some time before the train crew
realized what had happened the rob
Der had time to disappear in the rank
weeds of the Missouri river swamps
and the darkness. He had been mask
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
WRECKS TWO MORE
Mrs. Carrie Nation Again Carries
Terror to Saloonkeepers.
RUINS FURNITURE OF TWO PLACES
Finishes BY Shaping the Sheriff When
the Latter Placed Her Under Ar
rest-Proprietor of One Saloon
Draws Gun on Her.

Wichita, Kan, Jan. 22.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation returned to Wichita yesterday
after her recent incarceration under
smallpox quarantine and proceeded to
wreck two saloons, the pieces of which
are being sold tonight for souvenirs.
Mrs. Nation, assisted by Mrs. Julia
Evans, Mrs. Lucy Welhart and Mrs.
Lydia Muntz. all of the local w. G. I.
U. organization, with hatchets con-
cealed under their cloaks entered the
saloon of James Burns, on Douglass
avenue, and proceeded to smash
things. When they had finished their
operations every pane of glass and
slot machine in the place was ruined.
All the show cases, as we'll as the
plate glass windows and doors were
broken into smithereens. The women
next ran to John Herrig's saloon and
had smashed the front of the building
including the plate glass windows,
when the proprietor appeared with a
revolver and placed in at Mrs. Nation S
head and threatened to blow out her
brains if she did not desist.
Yields at Point of Revolver.
She yielded before the poiIted re-
NOlNSI, duu Will HSl SOLiptthioilo "
paired to the Carey hotel bar, where
she made the first attack on the sa-
looms in Wichita three weeks ago.
There three policemen met her, and
after personal engagement took all
the crusaders to the city prison, fol-
lowed by an immense crowd.
Chief of police Cudbon discharged
the prisoners after they promised not
to wreck any more saloons before
noon tomorrow.
After leaving the city building Mrs.
Nation addressed the crowd surround
ing the city building, saying she ex-
pected to begin saloon wrecking again
at noon tomorrow, when her truce
with the chief of police expired.
The women procured wagon and
rode thru the streets singing hymns.
They halted in front of the wrecked
saloons and held prayer meetings.
Assaults Sheriff.
Mrs. Nation caused another sensa
ton last night by slappnig Sheriff
Simmons in the face, taking hold OF
his ears and giving him rough hand
ling generally. Mrs. Nation was al
the Union station in the act of buying
| ticket to neighboring town, when
| the sheriff pulled her sleeve, saying
You are my prisoner, madam"
Mrs. Nation turned and seeing Sher
| iff Simmons, gave him violent slal
across the face. She followed this III
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
REFUSED TO TAKE ACTION.
Guthrie County Commissioners Dazed
by the Titus Amendment Middle.


Guthrie Center. Jan. 22.-The Titus
amendment muddle dazed the board of
supervisors in Guthrie county. They
adjourned without approving the new
county attorney, H. w. Kellogg, Of
Guthrie Center, and w. D. Milligan.
of Panora. These men were at total
loss to know how they were going to
get possession of their offices, since
the old officials would not yield under
the circumstances. Finally they went
over into Dallas county where Judge
Wilkinson was holding court and in
duced the court to approve their bonds
so that they could enter upon their
duties. The board will be asked to
pay some expense bills as soon as it
sufficiently RECEIVERS from its condi-
|tion of stupidity.
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by taking hold of his ears by both
hands and wringing them viciously.
Tremendous excitement followed, as
the sheriff, who is a very small man,
was struggling with his powerful an
tagouist. A policeman came to his
re. . lie and, aided by bystanders, they
picked up the woman bodily and plac-
ed her in cab and landed her in jail.
Late last night Mrs. Wilson and
Mrs Evans were arrested and locked
up, but Mrs. Muntz could not be found.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24

now arises, anu secondary leNeI
makes it's appearance. The swelling
is attended with good deal of pain
and the eyelids are swollen closed
About the tenth day the scabs begin
to dry, the fever begins to subside
again, and the crusts begin to fall off.
By the fourteenth or fifteenth day de-
quamation will be far advanced on
the face. There may be postules in
the mouth and throat insomuch that
the voice may be thickened or lost al
together. When death occurs it is
usually about the time the postules
begin to dry UP, or the tenth or
twelfth day of the disease.
In speaking of the diagnosis. the
circular of the state board saws:
"The disease should not be mistaken
fer chickenpox. cerebrospinal fever,
measles, scarlet fever or typhus few
er. Great care should be taken in d.
agnosing mild cases, altho it is some
times difficult matter to be positive
concerning the disease. But care
FIJI and conscientious study will en-
able one to avoid mistakes
In persons unprotected by vaccina-
ton, smallpox is a very fatal disease.
The death rate, however, varies in
different epidemics, ranging from 20
to 80 per cent. The hemorrhagic
forms are invariably fatal and a ma
jority of those having the continent
form die. Death results from the
system being overwhelmed with poi
son. Throat and lung complications
when appearing in children or in old
age are quite fatal.
Vaccination is the means par excel
lence for the prevention and mitiga-
ton of the disease. The glycerinized
! lymph is the only product that should
be used Argument is unnecessary at
this late date to prove the value of
vaccination. In Germany in 1871 an
| epidemic occurred where in poula-
| ton of fifty millions, one hundred and
| forty-three thousand died. In 1874 a
| law was passed requiring all presons
| to be vaccinated; children during the
| first year, and to be repeated when
ten years of age. The result is that
| the death rate from the disease is on
| ly 116 annually.
! Carefully cleanse the surface when
you intend to apply the virus. Steril-
ize the needle, lancelet or whatever
instrument is to be used If more than
one person is to be vaccinated the in
/ strument should be sterilized after
| each operation, The part should be
lightly scratched, not deep enough to
cause bleeding. Then apply the vir-
! us. Vaccination when successful will
in three or four days produces small
1 papule which becomes vescicular and
is surrounded by circumscribed are,
ola. This continues to develop until
the seventh or eighth day, forming a
/ crust which falls off showing the scar
/ which is characteristic. This all oc
cupies from eighteen to twenty-one
/ days. Vaccine shields are recon-
mended to prevent irritation from the
clothes. Immediate vaccination after
exposure should not be neglected.
Comics of the pamphlet from which
/ the above extract is taken may be Sc
u cured of the health officers at the city
hall or by any citizen interested. The
u circulars are issued for free distribu
4 ton in the hope that the public in
general will be better informed con
corning this worst of all contagious
diseases.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
RURAL TELEPHONES
In Iowa It's Growth is Becoming
Quite Phenomenal.
STILL GREATER PLANS NOW ON FOOT
Special Meeting at MarshalItoWn to
Promote United Action for Extend
ing the Lines in the Central Part
of the State.

Des Moines, jan 22.-The growth
OF strictly ruraltelephone lines in Iowa
has been more phenomenal, if posi-
Bile, than the growth of telephone ex-
changes in the smaller towns and the
long distance connecting lines. All
northern Iowa is covered with indie
pendent long distance lines and in
central Iowa there has been the great
est development of the telephone lines
for the exclusive use of farmers and
those living in small towns. A meet
ing was held at Marshalltown of the
rural lines in central Iowa to take
united action looking to closer con-
nection with the cities. The lines
represented at the meeting We're the
line from Eldora to Written: from
Liscomb to Conrad. thru Grundy counl,
ty; from Bangor to Liscomb, and in
surrounding country; the Bethel line!
running thru the Arney settlement
west of Albion; the line from Arney
to Marshalltown; the Stanford lirs1,
from Liscomb to Union; the Kock
Valley line, southeast of Marshall
town, and the line from New Provi-
dence to Eldora. Work has been
completed on new line from Lis
comb to North Star, four miles east,
that will be patronized by thirteen
farmers. A company has been fncrs-
ed TO run line from Hubbard III
Gearing. 1t will operate twenty
phones. In that immediate vicinity
there are now in operation about
1000 rural telephones. 1t is propos-
cd that they be connected with the
larger cities and towns and that they
operate together all thru central
Iowa for exchange of business among.
the farmers and meeting to effect
all organization to that end will be
held on January 80.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
.TALKSOF PATCROWE
McCampben Converses With a
Newspaper Reporter.
HIS ST. JOSEPH JAIL EXPERIENCE
He and the Alleged Omaha kidnaper
Were Enemies Because Of General
Fight in the Jail corridor-ottu
wa Discovery.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Walter McCampbell,t the colored man
arrested Saturday night, and who is
thought to know something about
some of the recent petty thieyings,
looks like man with past. He first
came into notoriety about the first of
the year, when he ran into the police
station and threw the officers on duty
into a frenzy of excitement, by claim
ing he had just seen Pat Grove. When
he told of his experiences to a Courier
reporter it was seen that he has been
around some, and he admits he has
been in Jail at least once before this.
His Statement.
While talking about the attempt at
thieying at the Cresswell home, he
said the lady identified him as the man
who wore the brown suit, but he didn't
see how she could do that, as he had
on an overcoat, and only had on a
brown coat and vest, and his trousers
were of different color.
The McGregor Letter.
1t was for the purpose of ascertain
ing whether or not McCampbell had
any connection with the anonymous
letter received several days ago by a..
A. McGregor he was called upon at
the jail yesterday afternoon. He was
asked to write few words, which he
did, but the penmanship does not in
any manner conform to that in Macs
Pat Grow" affair.
McCampbell said his home is in Ma
con, Mo-, where his father is promi-
nent colored man, and he says he now
owns property in that city. He also
claims he is a cousin of Walter Davis,
of this city, and that he is connected
with some of the most prominent col
Ored people in northern Missouri.
With Grove In '94.
He claims 1t was during November,
1894, that he made the acquaintance
of the notorious Pat Grove. He had
been arrested and jailed in ST. Joseph,
Mo-, about Thanksgiving time of that
year, and Grove was in Jail at the
same time. On that day Grove and
McCampbell, in company with num-
Der of others, were turned loose in the
corridors of the Jail for the purpose
CT exercising, when some one started
a fight. Groves partner, who was al.
so in the jail, had secured a revolver,
and during this fight, he shot and bad
ly wounded one of the guards.
Made An Enemy.
AS result of this fight in the St
Joseph jail McCampbell says Grove
became his enemy, and threatened to
hurt him if he ever got the chance. He
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
COWS HAVE SENSE.
Supreme Court Says They Have
Opinion in Railroad Case.
LATE NEWS FROM IOWA'S CAPITAL
Lawyers Feel That Something Should
Be Done to Relieve the Supreme
Court in Order That Decisions May
Be Secured More Promptly.

Des Moines, Jan. 21.-The iowa SUI
preme court in an opinion handed
down in the case of w. A. Graybill VS..
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul rail
way held that it was the intent of tha
legislature to protect beasts as well
as men in the statutory provisions re-
quiring the ringing of bell and blow
ing of whistle at farm crossings. 1t
has been held in two or three states
that the sole purpose of such legisla-
ture was to advise human beings of
the approach of danger and the point
had been passed upon in Iowa.
The decision affirms Judge A. B.
Thornell, of Pottawattamie county,
from which district the case was ap-
pealed. Judge Sherwin, author of the
opinion, takes occasion to pass upon
much discussed psychological ques-
ton and to hold that the intelligence
of animals is generally underestimate
ed. The suit in question was brought
to recover damages for the killing of
stock at farm crossing. In appeal
ing the case the instruction of the
lower court that negligence regarding
the statutory provisions does not JUS
fifty a recovery of damages unless it
appears that if such signals had been
given they would have prevented the
cattle going on the track.
The feeling is growing among law
yers and others who have business in
the supreme court of Iowa that some
thing must be done to relieve the
court and make it possible to secure
more prompt decisions and better pre-
parad oninionc Comniaint is made
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
Charged With Riaamy.

Mason City, Jan. 22.-Lewis Kirby,
theatrical performer, left this city yes
terday morning, evading an officer and
leaving his wife and mother. A war
rant was in an officers hands charg-
ing him with bigamy. To friend he
made confession of his guilt. His
last marriage known was to Miss Lii
Ian Mittell, of Benton Harbor, Mich.
Another was with Miss Bertha Carl,
of Kendallville, Ind The wife living
here was Miss Maud Simington, of To-
peka, Kas.
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was in Jail but few days, having been
arrested for disorderly conduct, and
when he was released, he left the city.
Saw Him in Chicago.
The first time he saw Grove after
that time was in Chicago, about two
years ago, but he says Grove did not
see him at that time. McCampbell
drifted around to Keokuk where he
worked for some time, and finally
landed in Ottumwa. He secured work
at the Laclede hotel as waiter, but
only stayed there a few days, bring
ing up at a resort on Green street,
where he played the piano another
week, going from there to a place on
Court street, because he said he got
raise in salary.
Was on Market Street.
1t was while going to work one even
ing week or so ago, that he saw
Grove. He claims he was going to his
place of employment, by the back
streets, when he turned the corner at
the foot of Market street, just below
the Gilbert chop house, and between
there and the tracks, he saw Grove
watching the crowd of skaters on the
signs that he knew the man McCamp-
bell walked down the railroad tracks
Ito Green street and from there went
to the police station, and notified the
officers. They made a close search
but never saw their man after that
time. .McCampbell says since that
time he has stayed in the city, and
worked all the time. and has assisted
the police in trying to locate the much
wanted criminal.
Can Account for Presence.
He claims he can account for his
presence all the time, and especially
on the night the attempt was made to
rob the Cresswell home. He claims
he went to work that night at 1880
O'Clock and remained there all even
ling. AS the attempt to rob Cress-
wells home was made at about s
O'Clock this would preclude the idea
that he had hand in it. He could
not explain why it was, however, that
he knew the robber wore an overcoat,
and how he could be identified as hav-
ing worn a brown suit.
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Suspended kidnapers.

Des Moines, Jan. 22.-President
MacLean. of the State University, TO-
day suspended ten students of the
sophomore class for having kidnapped
President Stiles of the freshman class
on the evening of the annual class
banquet Jan. IA. Stiles was taken ten
miles into the country in a hack, lock-
ed in farm house, and kept there
for two days.
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Can Account for Presence.
REVOLT AGAINST TEACHER.
Students Of Ausustana College Charge
Unreasonable Exactions.

Rock Island, H., Jan. 22.-Students
of Augustana college who are taking
a course in the Swedish language are
up in arms against what they consider
unreasonable eXactions of the profess
sor who teaches that branch. The
students held an indignation meeting
and voted unanimously to refuse to
longer continue the study of Swedish.
The action has caused such stir at
the college that there will likley be an
official investigation.