Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-07
MAKES A DISCOVERY
Judge Nourse, OF Des Moines, Says
Colored Men Cannot Vote.
5 PART OF AMENDMENT llUDDL
Iowa Man, Who Was Minister to Ii.
IBERIA During Lincoln's Administra.
ton. Badly Hurt-Dubuque catho.
lies to invest the Archbishop.
pes Moines.

Des Moines.
Judge G. c. Nourse, of this city, who
has served in various official state ca
pacfties since 1854, and who has been
in close touch with the actions of the
Iowa legislature since that time, is all-
thority for the remarkable assertion
that If the Titus amendment is inyal.
i'd, and the supreme court says it is,
the constitutional amendment origin.
ating in the Eleventh general assem-
bly,, giving to the colored men of the
state legal franchise, is invalid and
the negro is therefore casting an IL
legal vote.
Judge Nourse bases this broad as
sertion on the ground that the SUI
preme court of Iowa that made it
possible for the colored man to vote,
places it's ban on constitutional
amendment for the very reasons it ig-
nored when the suffrage amendment
was attacked. Judge Nourse claims
to be able to prove that an improper
record was made in the journals of
both houses of the Eleventh and
Twelfth general assemblies.
If Judge Nourse's theory is correct,
and he has proof Of his assertion, not
9 colored vote in the state of Iowa has
ever been cast legally.
Birmingham.
The school board of this place has
ordered all the school children to be
vaccinated as a precaution against the
smallpox.
Csceola.
Prof. /. Beard, who has been super
lntendent OF the public schools of this
place for the past eleven years, has
rendered his resignation. He will
leave Osceola and engage in business
at some point not yet decided upon.
Bloomfield.
Mrs. Myrtle Ross a former resident
OF this place, where she conducted the
Tr1mble hotel, has sued her husband
for divorce in the Wapello county
district court. She alleges cruel and
tnhuman treatment. The couple was
married in this city in June, 1894.
Atlantic.
Conductor w. NJ. Reeves, while en-.
gagged In assisting in doing some
switching In the Rock Island yards
at this place, was caught between
two freight cars Tuesday evening ana
crushed to death. He stepped be.
tween the draw bars of two approach
ing cars just as they came together
He was caught in the breast and his
chest crushed. He died within a few
y minutes.
Dubuque.
The Catholic clergymen of this
city are making arrangements to
make the investure of Archbishop
Keane with the pallium one of the
most notable events in Catholic circles
4 in Iowa. Invitations will be OK
tended to Cardinal Gibbons and all
the archbishops and bishops and 9th
er noted clergymen in the United
States and Canada. 1t has been near
ly settled that Archbishop ireland, oil
ST. Paul, Will deliver the sermon pr
the occasion.
!, pes Moines.
At the present time less than $15t
has been raised by the Womens Re
lief Corps of Iowa towards the Jennie
Wade monument fund. It was the in
tention to raise $500 to $1,000 this
spring, SO that the monument could
be dedicated on the 3rd or 18th of mex
July, the anniversary of the battle In
which Jennie Wade was killed.
Charlton.
The state library board his author
lied the appointment of travelling Ii
hrary assistant, the duties of whom
will be to classify and catalogue the
books that will circulate over the
state thru this medium. The appoint
ment will be made by State Librarian
Brigham and it is believed he will de
eide upon Miss Margaret W. Brown o.
Charlton. The appointee is doubly
qualified for the position, having thor
oily reorganized the travelling library
of Lucas county as well as being 9
trained librarian.
Sioux City,
Miss Margaret Tittemore, the form
er Sioux City belle about whom sc
many romantic stories have beer
afloat of late, did secrete herself as
stowaway in mems clothes on board
a government transport in Nagasak
harbor last September but not te
meet her alleged fiance, Lieut.. War
rem S. Dean, of the Fifth cavalry. who
was with his command in China She
has just returned to her present
home in Marshalltown from her lone
oriental voyage with a vigorous denial
of the latter part of the story, but the
stowaway part of its still stands good
It has been merely toned down a Bit
and some of its romance taken out.
Ames.
Henry May, rural mail carrier
who was minister to Liberia during
President Lincoln's administration
was seriously injured in runaway
here Monday.
Casey.
Ten thousand dollars is buried some
where about the old home Of Henry
North, a deceased and wealthy mer.
chant of this place. and now the heirs
are hunting for the nrize which is in