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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23
SHELLEY WILL RECOVER.
Man Who Fell Through Elevator Shaft
is Improving.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
A. ]. Shelley, the man who SO mar
rowly escaped death by falling through
an elevator shaft at the Morrell pack
ing house Saturday morning, is great
ly recovered and the physicians think
he will recover. He has regained con-
seriousness but failed to remember
anything connected with the accident.
His recovery was at first not thought
of, as he fell from the third story OF the
plant to the ground. 1t is thought,
though, the truck which he was push
ing when he fell through the shaft
tended to break his fall by humping
against the sides.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23
Young Man Dies.

[lsrom Mondays Dauy.l
Dick Hills, 20 year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Hills, died this at
ternoon at the home of his parents,
two miles east of the city. Funeral
services will be held from the resi-
dence Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock. The interment will be made
in the Round Point cemetery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
Fred KredroWfke Shot Through the
Hand Though Not Seriously.

From Mondays Daily.
Fred Kredrowfke. Yho resides at
1910 Railroad street, was accidentally
shot last evening while making an eX-
animation of SO calibre revolver. AT
ter returning from work last evening
Mr.. Kredrowfke took his revolver for
the purpose of cleaning and oiling it.
Thinking that all the cartridges were
elected from the cylinder. he pulled
the trigger and the gun exploded
sending bullet through his hand
The wound is not serious although one
of the main arteries was severed. DR.
Newell was called and dressed the
wound
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23
Semi Weekly Courier
CHANGING ADDRESS.

Subscribers wishing their address chang
ed will please give the name of the Post
Office to which the paper has been sent as
well as the Post Office where they desire it
to be changed to.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23
Florida and the South via the Popular
Monon Route.

NOtoIi noutS'
Tourist and homeseekers' tickets to
all southern points. Is days transit
limit, with stopover privileges. All
tickets via Louisville are good for
stopover at French Lick Springs.
Through daily service to Florida, be-
ginning January S, 1908. For Ten
Routes to the South" rates, folders,
etc, address Frank ]. Reed, general
Pass. Agent, Monon Route, Chicago,
or L. 2. Sessions, Gen'l Agent Pass.
Dept, SAL Andrus Bldg, Minneapolis,
MINI.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23

Bring your shoes for repairing to
j. ]. Daniels, No 635 West Second
street, Ottumwa, Iowa. All work neat.
ly done.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-23

The triennial meeting of the Iowa
State Court of Honor will be held at
Des Moines Feb. "a. The order has
5000 members in the state.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12

fnyorably with those of preceding
wars. There was high proportion
of officers killed and wounded, and
high death rate of disease among pr1-
Yates. In action one officer was killed
to every 1915 men, and one officer was
wounded to every 11.34 men. But of
those who died from disease only one
in every $50 men was an officer This
is partly accounted FOR by the reck-
lessness with which the men drank
polluted water The number Of in
valids sent home during the war was
about 10000. and of these more than
5000 died or left the service. The
vast majority, of course, were restor-
ed to health.
The financial cost of the war will
foot up about Si1o0,o00,0 900. This, ac-
cording to the Golden club. is sufficient
to establish 80 universities. while OK
ford and Cambridge are in desperate
need of money. If one-tenth of this
| amount were asked for the endowment
of laboratories, etc. to prevent death
and disease and suffering, with what
contempt would the request he met
with by both government and people,
So far is our poor best from true
| civilization.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12

is undoubtedly hostile to the trusts
and disposed to hold the Republican
party responsible for the continued
failure of the federal government to
meet the problem. And it certainly
has nothing to do with the executive
duty of enforcing the law as it stands.
Mr.. Roosevelt himself was evidently
satisfied of this when he caused pro-
ceedings 10 he instituted against the
Northern railroad combination and
the alleged meat trust under existing
law; and having once begun he might
be expected to continue the process
until, at least. the entire futlllty OF
existing Inv has been demonstrated.
This he is not doing. An occasion for
the further application of existing law
stands ont conspicuously before the
country. There was question whether
meat combination actually existed;
still the President began prosecution.
There Is no question whatever about
the existence of AN anthracite coal
combination and yet the boasted anti
trust feelings OF the Washington gov.
ernment have so far found no ex-
preston IN overt acts.
Words are good II they are backed
up by deeds, and only So" said the
President In his Fourth of July speech.
He has expressed a desire and purpose
to protect the people, with all the
means In his power, from the rapacity
and arbitrary conduct of monopoly
combinations, but in this conspicuous
case he is permitting himself to miss
the greatest of all opportunities to
make good his professions. If any
trust deserves 10 feel the strong hand
of the government, 1t is that trust
which holds poSs3ssion of an inyalua
BILE and limited store of Nature, which
arbitrarily controls output and prices
aud which then assumes the attitude
that II never has anything to arbitrate
and that II Is none of the publlc's bus
lness what II does or does not do. nc
matter how great the injury to the
public may he from its course of nc.
ton. But the hand of the government
| Is held bnck. 1t will not, or II dar,
not, touch this trust.
Obviously, as matters stand, II vii
be impossible for the Presidents part,
to make any very conclusive demon
stration OF hostility to monopoly ant
monopoly cxaction in the coming cam
pnlgn. The most that can be sal,
is that the President has made one O
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12

two spasmodic efforts to enforce ex-
listing antitrust law without results
to date. On the other hand, effective
new trust legislation has been neg
lected when the power existed to en-
act It; and measures designed TO rob
the trusts of some degree of tariff pro
lection have been invariably smothered
and killed. 1t Is quite likely not nee
essary that the Republicans should
convince the voters of the honesty of
their antitrust professions, in order
to carry the House in the fall cleo
tons; but of their ability so to con
vince the people there may be serious
question. The current reports as to
the preparation of effective trust leg
islatlon. which the Republican cam
paien managers are no doubt respon.
sible for, will not go very far in view
of the record of deeds that do'not back
up the words.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12

anything on the real issue. He didn't
want to-
X X
Mr.. G. W. Kicker, civil engineer
with the Cleveland Construction Co.,
recently went to Springfield, Ohio, to
do some engineering for the Spring
field & Xenia Traction Co. While
there he was made violently sick and
brought to his bed by eating what he
claims to have been mushrooms. 1t
happens that Mr.. Kicker is more than
ordinarily particular about his diet,
and claims ability to detect the spuri-
.ous from the real thing, and in view
of this his friends in the local office
of the Cleveland Construction Co. have
sages based upon the assumption that
he has allowed his Judgment and
standing as an epicure to be imposed
upon to the extent of eating toadstools
for mushrooms. Those who are busi-
est in sending the dispatches are
Messrs. Dick" Inskeep, Jim" Muir,
and Roy B. Thompson.
y y X
1t is comforting to know that the
cold summer has not been sent solely
for the discontinue of Americans.
Says "Wattie." the Glasgow CORE
spondent of the Montreal Star:
Here we're at the Largest day, wear
in big coats, burnin' parlour fires, an
shiverin' when we put our noses
roound the corners. We had only IL
| our O. sunshine in the first half o.
June, that is less than half what we
had in the same time last year. This
has been the cauldest June on record.
Sac far 1t has been five degrees 'aneath
Continued on eighth page.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
POPULARITY OF FEDERAL PLAN
FOR CITY GOVERNMENT.
From the Columbus Press,

Whatever may result from the
chaos and confusion respecting mu-
nlcipal government in Ohio occasion.
ed by the recent decision of the SUI.
preme court, 1t Is an absolute certainty
that no system of government will be
elaborated that will be more perfect
than what has come to he known as
the federal plan, Columbus was the
first city in Ohio to substitute this
compact and concrete form of mu
nicipal government for the compound
and complex board system which pre-
viously prevailed. The Columbus
charter became n model for other
cities and since its adoption Dayton,
Toledo, Cleveland and other cities
in and outside of Ohio have been
organized on the federal plan, with
some notifications affecting local con.
ditions.
The Columbus charter has run the
gamut % the courts and was held
throughout TO he constitutional. In
another cause now passing over the
same route of clrcumlocution Judge
Evans, Columbus. again upheld the
constitutlonality of the Columbus
charter, and Judge Evans has rec
ord of but very few reversals in all
his career ms u iurist Whether the
Supreme court would again sustain
the charter IN view Of Its finding In
the Cleveland case, which practically
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
the TRUST ISSUE IN THE CAM
PAiGN.

tFrom the Springfield Republican,
II is unquestlonnbly true that Pres
ident Roosevelt desires the enactment
of u trust regulation law, and intends
10 secure II IL he can. There may he
truth also In the story that he has
called In Congressman Littleheld. of
Maine, 10 draw up bin for submis-
sion to the next session OF Congress.
But II Is more likely that this Is a
report fashioned for use in the COM
ing campaign, when the Democrats
are TO tell the people that no effective
antitrust legislation Is TO he expected
from party that has controlled Con.
gress seven years, and Congress and
the Presidency together five years,
aud has done nothing to curb the
growth and exactlons OF great monop-
oily combinations.
But the Presidents call for new
leglsa ton on the trusts IL not neces
sarily Indicative of belief that eX-
isting law IL wholly useless. He wants
laws TO regulate and curb. rather than
10 destroy, the trusts, while present
federal law aims to destroy, This Is
an enlightened and credltable atti-
tude. but It may not serve to satisfy
public sentiment in tie matter. which
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
WHY PHYSICIANS fail
To Cure Many Cases of Female Ills.
Some Sensible Reasons Why Mrs.
Pinkham is More Successful Than
Many Family Doctors.

peculiar to her fast develop
ing in her system She goes family physician and tells him
story, but not the whole story
She holds back something loses her head becomes gated forg
what finally told
and this completely mysifes the doctor
Is it wonder therefore, that the doctor fails the disease
Still cannot blame the for it embarrassing to detail
some OF the symptoms of her suffering to her family physician
This the hundreds of thousands of
in correspondence with Pinan at Lynn Mass 10 they
ready to advise them she
correspondence
than the physician possibly obtain through personal interview
Following publish letter from showing the result Of
correspondence with Mrs Pkham All such letters are
absolutely confidential Pnka and published
in without the consent in writing OF the patient
but hundreds grateful for the health which Mrs Pink
ham medicine able restore them that they
only publishing write asking that this be
benefited their
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12

"Governor Nash has found that he
tackled proposition concerning which
other Republicans beside Hanna and
Dick have opinions, and that 1t is not
such popular thing, after all, to try
TO write Filipino code for the cities
OF Ohio" says the Columbus Press.
The Filipino code is no worse than
some other codes we know OF. One
iuay be found not hundred miles
from Akron and Youngstown.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
DEM0CRACY'S GREAT OPPORTUN-
lTy,
tContributed.)

The issues arc so clearly set that 1t
is easy for men not allured by selfish
interest or deceived by blind parti.
sanship to find platform broad
enough for all to stand upon. The
danger to political liberty that comes
from too great Capitalization of polit-
ical power was vividly apparent to the
founders Of the republic, and Is no less
clear today. The danger TO economic
liberty that comes from the concentra-
tion of financial power has become evi,
dent to all within the last twenty
years. Now. however, the financial
power and the political power are
Joined In an unholy partnership, a far
graver menace to popular rights than
either force alone.
That such union exlsts between
the most powerfIl corporations and
the men who control the Republican
party can scarcely he denied by any.
one, a study of the history of the at
tempt TO secure justice for Cuba, which
failed in the last Congress, or Of the
provisions of the bill for exploiting the
Philippine islands which passed It,
must convince even the most skepticAl.
| The first problem, then, for the Ameri-
can people, and the essential problem,
IL true popular government is to en-.
| dure upon this continent, Is the break.
ing of this corrupt combination between
the capltallstic class and the admins
tration of the republic. Law and gov
ernment are designed for the protec-
| ticn of the weak against the strong.
The manipulation of government as
an instrument for the further despol-
| ing OF the weak at the hands of the
strong must cense.as
Where should we look for n power to
break these bonds which unite Wall
street and the White House? Where
but to the Democratic party? The
| most dangerous of the syndicates have
been nurlured and brought to maturity
| by an unjust protective tariff. The
Democracy Is the party of free trade
| The violations of law, the securing OF
| special privileges, the crushing out OF
competition which mark the industrin
development of the present day have
been carried ont with the consent and
with the aid of the Republican lend
ers. with whom Mr., Roosevelt, in spit,
of good intentions, has shown neither
the intellect nor the character to cope
Tie democracy is the only party from
which n sincere attempt to regulate
industrial combinations can he hoped
The war of eXtermlnntlor in the Phil
ippne Islands, the war of starvation
now going on IN Cuba. were undcrtall
en- by the Republican party to bcncf
. only thcsc same great financial syndi
cites The Democracy is squarcly an,
honorably committed to liberty a
home and justice abroad.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
MESMERIZED.
A Poisonous Drug Still Freely
Used.

Many people are brought up TO be-
lieye that coffee is necessity of life,
and the strong hold that the drug has
ON the system makes 1t hard to loosen
its grip even when one realizes its in
furious effects.
4 lady In Baraboo, writes Il had
used coffee for years; II seemed one
OF the necessities of life. A few
months ago, my health. which had
been slowly failing, became more i'm
paired, and | knew that unless relief
came from some source. would soon
nervous, had such sick headaches, no
ambitions and felt tired of life. My
husband was also losing his health.
He was troubled so much with indi-
gestion that at times be could ent only
a few mouthfuls of dry bread.
We concluded that coffee was slow
ly poisoning us and stopped 1t and
used hot water, We felt somewhat {
better. but 1t wasn't satisfactory.
Finally, we saw Postum Coffee adver-
tised, and bought package, | fol-
lowed directions for making carefully,
allowing II 10 boil 20 minutes after It
came to the boiling point, and added
cream, which turned II to the loveliest
rich looking aud tasting drink | ever
saw served at any table. and we have
used Postum ever since. gained
five pounds in weight In as many
weeks, and now feel well and strong
in every respect, My headaches have
gone, and ] am a new woman. My
husbands indigestion has left him. and
he can now eat anything" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Greek
] Mich
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
A VERMONT LADy'S
Desperate Fight For Life.
Mrs. Nathan Beal Says:
p Palne's Celery
Compound
Saved Me From the Insane
Hospital as Well as Cured
NV Rheumatism.


There never was remedy so highly
recommended as Paines Celery Com
pound. There never was remedy
in such universal demand. 1t is pop.
ular because 1t makes sick people
well.
Paines Celery Compound has saved
thousands from nervous prostration
and collapse it has effected wonderful
cures in kidney and liver complaints;
Its victories over rheumatism and
neuralgia have commanded the atten-
ton and admiration of our best physi-
ciansIt has cured disease when every
thing else has failed. A.1a
Mrs. Nathan Beals, "a well known
lady of Gallup's Mills, VT, writes as
follows:-"For ten months before I
commenced taking Paines Celery Com
pound, | could not put my foot on the
first round Of my chair, only five in
ches from the floor. | had nearly lost
the use of my left side. and I could
not lift pound weight with my left
hand without danger of dropping it.
! Many times would lift something at
the table only to drop it. had pres
sure in the top of my head and pain
at the base of the brain, which would
leave me so nervous that used to tell
my husband that l would surely go
crazy. l could not keep still at night,
and Sundays were just awful to me.
found my whole system prostrated,
and it took long time to build up my
poor, wornout nerves. think that
Paine's Celery Compound saved me
from the Insane hospital as well as
! cured my rheumatism"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12

abrogates the entire system of classi-
fraction, is matter of some doubt,
but ruling of the court bnsed on such.
a premise as the classification of mu-
inequalities does not imply that the
system of government that has attain
ed the highest degree of efficiency Is at
fault.
1t is foreshadowed by the Putin
Bay conference that the ruling poll
ticians will endeavor to impose upon
all the cities of Ohio the board sys-
tenn which has fourished in Cincin-
natl with such entire satisfaction to
George b. Cox. Wherever the federal
system has been tried an earnest pro-
test will be made against the Coxiza-
tion of Ohio municipalities. Not only
| from political but from civic stand
point, the board plan is obnoxious ex-
cept to schemlng politicians who see
in 1t opportunities for plunder and
machination without fear of punish
ment by the people.
SO satisfactory has the federal sys-
tenn proven to the citizens of Cleve-
land that to revolutionize that city,
now the largest in the state, will mean
to antagonze the popular will, except
that small factor which worships at
the shrine Of Senator Hanna. Under
the federal system Cleveland has had
Republican and Democratic adminls-
trations with such eminent success
that the decision of the Supreme court
has caused a decided feeling of unrest
among all classes of citizens there,
except Hanna's cohorts. because they
see in it the evident purpose to destroy
that popular form of government.
The arguments in favor of the fed
eral plan, stripped of all personal
identity, are on the side of the people
With numerous boards on the rota.
ton plan of tenure overlapping
cha snges in the executive branch there
can be nothing but friction, and otter
open hostility that is so baneful tc
the general welfare. Under the fed
eral plan the citizens hold the admin
istration responsible and If ii does moi
meet the popular expectation the peo
out of existence and try a new corps
of public servants. To destroy thi
privilege means to take away from
the people the chief function of home
rule. TO vest functions in continuous
boards with ono members term eX
piring this year. another next, anothe
the next, and If there be five extend
ing the rotary tenure over period o
five years, means not only to embar
rass the executives chosen by the pee
pie TO administer public affairs but t
hang milstones on the neck of til
Ipeople while the politicians ride thei
"A backs. II the Legislature does nc
comprehend this fact 1t will bette
understand it when the people cleo
n Legislature to revise the new cod
so as to make 1t conform to home rul
principles.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-07-12
Victim of Consumption.
Especial correspondence

Cuyahoga Falls, July 12,-William
Roberts died Friday morning Mt his
home In Northampton township, Of
consumption. He was aged 26 years.
and leaves n wife and child. The flu
neral will take place Sunday at p.
m, from Steel's Corners Disciple
church. Rev C. r.. Osgood will con-
duct services.