Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30


street, a son.
The board Of supervisors have adj
journed until Monday, February 5.
Mrs. Don A. Pool, East Fifth street,
left this morning for Oakland, Cal,
where she will visit with her father
and brother.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Manley Forsythe and Miss Clystie
l.. Hayes; Dr. B. E. Hines and Miss
Margaret H. Swirles.
Miss Orpha Beggs, of West Fourth
street, left this morning for Keosau.
qua, called there by telegram an.
nouncing the death of her uncle, Rob.
ert Beggs.
Katie Carr, the little daughter of
John Carr, west of the city, who was
run over by wagon last week on her
way home from school, having the
right limb badly crushed, is reported
to be getting along very nicely.
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Mrs. Minnie Midlothian and two
children, Avis and Frank, of Kirkville,
| arrived in the city last night on Bur
| lington No. from Ulysses, Neb., where
they have been visiting for the past
six months. Mrs. Midlothian went to
Nebraska last summer on account of
her health which is now greatly i'm
proved. They left on the noon Rock
| Island for their home in Kirkville.
William R. Armstrong has resigned
the captaincy of Company G of this
city. The resignation was forwarded
to Adjutant General Byers today with
the approval of Colonel Caughlan.
Captain Armstrong gives up his mill
tary career on account of leaving the
state. He expects to leave about
March for Portland, Oregon, where
he expects to make his future home.
R. H. Moore, of this city, received a
telegram from his brother, w. S.
announcing the death of their sister,
Mrs. Mary Page, in that city yester-
day afternoon. Mrs. Page was form
u
to Des Moines about twenty years ago,
which place she has made her home
ever since. Death occurred at the
Methodist hospital where she had been
for some time for treatment
w. A. McIntire, of this city, former
lily state senator from Wapello county
was last evening elected trustee of the
iowa State Normal school at Cedar
Falls, to succeed Trustee Mullen, Of
Iowa City, and to serve for six years
Mr.. McIntire was chosen unanimously
, lin joint session of the two houses
; of the state legislature, held last even
ing at the capitol building in Des
Moines. His name was placed il
nomination at a caucus held last weel
and he was chosen without opposition
last evening.
| A gray haired man in his bare fee
: running madly up Court street was the
startling sight that greeted the few
pedestrians at the junction of Second
: and Court streets shortly after mid
: night last night An Investigation re
: vealed the fact that the man was de
: mented, and was under the hallucina
) ton that some one was after him try
r ing to murder him. He ran from tn,
4 Park hotel to the lobby of the post
: office where he was taken into custod,
r by Officer Black, and taken to the pc
: lice station where he was detained un
S til this morning. The mans name wa
, found to be Shaugnessey, and hi
: home in Harper, Kan. This mornin.
> his two sons made their appearance
and took the old gentleman in charg
, and started on toward their Kansa
. home. The trio were on their wa
: from Gowrie, where they had just bun
- led their mother, when the aged fatf
Z er's mind gave way under the terribl
: strain.
). At high noon today, at the home c
e Mr.. and Mrs. James Swirles, $50 Mort
: Court street, the marriage of thei
a daughter, Miss Marjorie H. Swirles
l. to DR.. B. E. Hines, of Mill Greek, Pa
e was solemnized, the ceremony helm
/. performed by Rev. F. G. Davies, pa:
r tor of the First Baptist church. TIL
s. affair was very quiet, being witnesse
s by none but the members of tn
5, brides family. The bride is we
l. known in Ottumwa, where she has n
e, sided several years. She is talen
i. ed musician and has many friends i
If this city and elsewhere. DR.. Hines
I. but little known here, having sper
( but short time in this city prior
S. the marriage. He has but recent
r returned from the Philippines, whel
J. he saw service as army surgeon. ID
IL and Mrs. Hines left this afternoon G
Burlington No. 6 for Chicago, whel
they will visit for a few days. Fro
there they will go east and will pro
T. ably make their home at Mill Creek.
9. From Thursdays Daily.l
: Mrs. E. F. Lawson of Highland W;