Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-27

was In the city today on business and
incidentally renewed his subscription
to the Courier. Mayor Humbert has
been a continuous subscriber to the
Courier for forty-four years
A Want AID Record-20 replies to a
want adj inserted in the Semi-Week-
ly two times last week. That is GER
ta1nly good investment You can
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Mrs. w. S. Shearer, accompanied by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bax-
ter, of Mt. Pleasant, and her husbands
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. M. Shearer,
of North Willard street, left last even
ing for Cedar. Mrs. w. S. Shearer
will go to Mt. Pleasant to make her flu
ture home with her parents.
James Curran, 1886 East Second
street, received broken leg yesterday
afternoon about 4: 80 o'clock by fall
from the first floor to the basement
of the building recently purchased by
Pallister Bros, on North Market street
and which is being remodeled by that
firm. Mr.. Curran is employed on the
work, and had started to go into the
basement and did not observe that the
stairs leading thereto had been remov-
ed during the day, and as a result he
fell distance of about ten feet. 9th
er men working in the basement of the
building, carried him to the street,
where he was removed to his home in
the patrol wagon, and Drs. Spilman
and Mccormick dressed the injured
limb. This was found to be broken at
the hip, and the muscles and ligaments
badly bruised and strained. Today
Mr.. Curran is reported to be doing as
well as could be expected.
Legitimate fishermen of this city are
up in arms over the wholesale slaug-,
ter of fish now going on in the Des
Moines river in this city. Poachers
with trammel nets, gigs, spears and
every other conceivable continuance
with which to capture fish are at work
in the river near here, and they are
rapidly depicting the waters of all the
game fish, to say nothing of the COM
mon kinds. 1t is said that one crowd
while at work Sunday night, captured
a barrel of bass, such as were placed
in the river here last summer by Fish
Commissioner Lincoln. Wagon loads
after wagon loads of all kinds of fish
are being taken out of the river every
night by these poachers and up to
the present there does not seem to be
any means by which it can be prevent
ed. Old fishermen say that unless the
practice is stopped at once there will
be no legitimate fishing here next year
at all.
[From Wednesdays Daily.J
R. Randall of Agency is in the city
today on business.
J. H. Mathews, of Chillicothe, was
in the city today on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Robinson of He'd
rick were in the city today shopping.
A marriage license has been issued
to Silas c. French and Miss Mamie R.
Gates.
Yesterday afternoon, about o'clock
occurred the death of John Dittman,
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Dittman, of 1901 East Main street, at
the age of years and months.
Articles of incorporation for the To-
wa Speciality company to manufac-
ture, sell and operate tobacco pipes
and specialties, were filed in the coun-
ty recorders Office today. The capital
stock of the company is placed at S1O,-
600. Otis P. Higdon and N. l.. Gun
bingham are the incorporators.
John FullIner, one of the Jurors in
the Cronk case, was excused from SER
vice on the trial by Judge Roberts to-
day, and an agreement was made to
go ahead with the case with eleven
jurors. Mr.. Fullmer received a tele-
gram from Muscatine announcing the
serious illness of his father and this
was the reason given for excusing
him. Evidence for the plaintiff is still
being introduced in the case, and it is
doubtful if it will be finished this
week.
Drexel Earl Green, the seventeen
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Green, of North Frank street, is con
fined in the county jail awaiting the
action of the grand jury upon his case,
a confessed burglar. Young Green
admits having robbed Ballagh's bake
ry late Saturday night, taking 50 from
the cash register. He says he cut a
rear window glass, and then broke a
hole large enough to admit his body.
He was taken into custody late last
evening by Officer Lerche, and taken
to the police station where he made a
confession to Chief Gray, and later
made signed statement of his ac-
lions on the night of the robbery and
how he did the work. He was ar
raigned before Judge Moon in police
court this morning, where he agaik
told his story, and was held to the
grand jury. His bonds were fixed at
So 600 and in defau1t Of tha sama he