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SIgourney.

Sigourney, Nov. 10. - Marriage
licenses have been issued to Scott M
johnson q and Donnie Crushae o.
Fred w. Coser 26 and Pearl Green
~, John W. Hooke 81 and L. e.
Wagamon 81, |. H. Rasmus 26 and
Myrtle l. Cole &c.
George e. Swain of North English
was in Sigourney Wednesday.
Mrs. E. M. Stevens, of Knoxville. is
visiting relatives in this vicinity. She
leaves today for Washington to spend
few days with her father.
All Logan left yesterday for Colfax
A. N. Strain was in Sigourney yes.
terday.
W. K. Hollingsworth is packing up
to leave for Florida to locate, where
he has purchased some fine property
Frank Branson was at Thornburg
the other day.
j. F. Barnes has gone to Des MONIES
where he takes position as solicitor
for the Register and Leader.
j. G. BEEN was over from What
Cheer the first of the week.
Mrs. Goodman, of Ollie, is visiting
relatives here.
Ralph Coffman, Of Keota, was in
town yesterday.
M. Brewer was up from Clear Creek
Wednesday.
3. f. Phelps was over from Hedrick
Wednesday.
Geo, Poff and VIM. Orr, Jr.. We're
over from What Cheer yesterday.
Ed Lally was over from What Cheer
Yesterday
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North Fairyiew.

North Fairview, Nov 13.-J. C. Sims
Of Walla-W alla, Washington, has been
in this vicinity visiting with his I'M
cles, George and Sam Black, and with
other relatives. He has been gone
from here for forty years.
Mrs. Nan Gardner and children re-
turned home Saturday to Villisca, af-
ter spending several weeks with
friends and relatives.
VIM. A. Fulton, of Libertyvilie pass.
ed through this vicinity Saturday.
VIM. Bartholow and daugter, Miss
Mary, were callers at town Saturday.
NJ c. Loveless and son Lee. were
business callers at town Thursday
Frank and Ed. Stever were visiting
near Collect Sunday with their friend,
Grant Mckee
George Bowers and family and Miss
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Charlton.

Charlton, Nov. 13.-Tne board of su.
pervisors are in regular session this
week with all the members present
One of the most important matters of
business to be transacted was the can
vassing of the vote cast at the cleo
ton. This work was completed yes
terday afternoon. the vote being prac-
tlcally the same as found by the
judges in the various precincts and as
appeared in The Courier the day after
the election. The board is still in ses-
sion today.
VIM. Van Benthusan, of Columbia,
was business visitor in the city yes
terday
Miss Grace Blous went up to Des
Moines yesterday for few days visit
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Houston, of Rus.
sell, were in the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Erickson have
returned to their former home in ST.
Joe.
Elias d. Horner, of Greenville, was
calling on friends in the city yester-
day
Rev. Henry returned home last eye>
ming from Ottumwa.
Mrs. Jacob Goltry visited in the citv
yesterday with her daughter Mrs w.
J. Simpson. She returned to her home
in Russell this morning.
Leander Moore, of Derby, was
county seat visitor Wednesday
Justice Manning pronounced the
words yesterday morning that made
B. M. Sutton and Miss Inez Norris
man and wife. They left Immediately
for Corning for few days visit with
relatives.
MRS. James McEndree and Mrs.
Piessle Similar will entertain the la.
ales OF the Baptist Benevolent society
tomorrow afternoon at the home OF
the former.
MISS Margaret Mccormick returned
nome yesterday from few days visit
in Chicago
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Foster.

Foster, Nov. 13.-Dr Early, of Hill
ton, was in Foster Tuesday on profess
sional business.
Milo Trussell, cashier of the Mora
via bank, was transacting business in
Foster last Saturday.
James Anderson and family were
visiting Mr.. Anderson's brothers in
Willard last Sunday
DR.. Woodruff and family left Foster
last Saturday. They will visit among
friends in Louisa county for a short
time and will then go to Tennessee
where they may make their future
home.
Dr.. Gross, of Hynes, has bought one
OF VIM. Trussell's houses and will take
possession Immediately.
w. H. Burdan is suffering with sore
throat.
Mrs. Mary Bowley met with quite a
painful accident last Wednesday morn
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I that il he ever returned he would kill
him. Or !une 6 last, Duff returned to
Garden Grove, ostensibly on bushes.
Clark happened to be in town and
caught sight OF the object of his hat
red. Armed with a double barreled
shot gun he followed Duff into drug
store and opened fire without word.
The first shot shattered Duffs right
arm: the second struck q vital spot
below the right shoulder and he fell
on his back and died almost without
a struggle.
The state introduced twelve wit
nesses. A. c. Bunney testified that the
defendant procured the shotgun at his
hardware store and that he saw him
load the gun Clark claimed that he
was going to hunt squirrels. Witness
heard the explosion, and on going on
the street saw Clark coming out of
the drug store He handed the gun to
Bunney, saying: 81 have killed old
Duff. He has ruined my family"
Mr.. Steele in his opening statement
to the jury outlined the defense to be
emotional insanity. The first witness
for defendant was Edward Grimsley,
formerly a neighbor of Clark in Illi-
nois. He testified to Clark's good
character and amiable disposition.
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Farmer on Trial for Killing a
Doctor.
SEQUEL TO TRAGEDY Al LEON
Intimacy Between Physician and Wife
Of the Man Who Committed the
Crime Leads to the Formers Death
by Violence.

Leon, Nov. 3.-The trial of w. II.
Clark for the murder of Dr. w. d.
Duff. in Stiles drug store, in Garden
Grove, on June 6, 1902, is on in the
district court before Judge Towser.
The court room is crowded with spec
tators. many of them women, showing
the interest which the public is taking
In one OF the most important murder
cases ever tried in the county.
History Of Case.
DR.. w. D. Duff a widely known ply
stefan of Garden Grove, was shot
and instantly killed June 6, by w. H.
Clark. a farmer residing several miles
east of the town. Clark was reared
to manhood in Menard county. Illinois,
and for sixteen years lived in the lit
tie town of Sweetwater. His parents
died when he was child, and he was
reared by his grandfather. He mar
ried the daughter of William Parkins,
ST., coal operator, and five children
were born to this union. He possess.
ed a happy home and no cloud obscur-
ed the sky of his domestic happiness.
Clark finally decided to come to Iowa
and engage in farming, and about five
years ago located on large farm
several miles east of Garden Grove
He prospered in his work and himself
and family soon won the respect OF
all who knew them. At Length Mrs.
Clark became i'll and she was placed
under the professional care OF Dr..
Duff. An intimacy sprang up between
physician and patient and soon became
the discussion of the gossips OF the
town and neighborhood
Clark was aware of the situation and
demonstrated with his wife on her I'M
wifely conduct but all to no purpose.
She told him she thought more of Duff
than any man she had ever seen and
would do as she pleased. The wrong
ed husband became desperate and no
titled Duff that he must leave the
country or he would kill him. Duff
agreed to do SO and sold out and NOV
ed to town in an adjoining county.
Prior to his exodus, Clark warned him
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Edna Garrett spent Sunday at the os

Edna Garrett spent Sunday at the Os-
car SteVer home.
Lee LovelesS was a business caller
at Libertyyille Saturday.
George Black and j. G. Sims visited
with relatives at Selma Saturday.
Miss Eunice Sheets, Miss Della and
Mabel Stever and Miss Maud and Ber-
tina Mcbride attended Sunday school
at the Baptist church Sunday.
There will be quarterly meeting at
the Mt Zion church, beginning Sun
day morning and lasting until Tues
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs and children
from Colorado travelled through in a
wagon to the parental home OF Mr..
and Mrs VIM Bartholow. They ar
rived here Monday evening.
M. C. Loveless was a business call
er at the VILLAGE. Steele home Tues
day evening.
VIM. Gonterman and son, Tillet,
passed through this vicinity Wednes-
day.
Clark Greenland. of Batavia, passed
through this vicinity Wednesday.
EIdon.
Eldon, Nov 13.-Misses Dollie and
Kittie Walters spent Tuesday evening
in Ottumwa.
Miss Edith Norton was an Ottumwa
visitor yesterday.
Fred Burns has the position OF night
yard clerk in the Rock Island yard at
this place.
Mrs. l. C. McCrary was an ottumwa
visitor yesterday.
Miss Myrtle Puttoroff spent the day
in Floris.
Miss Minnie Penny of Kohoko, Mo-,
is visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs
j. M. Penny
Mrs. w. D. Henkle and Mrs. Frank
Hinkle spent today in Ottumwa shop
ping.
Lyle Hall was an Ottumwa visitor
yesterday.
Abba.
Abba Nov l3.-Ruby Salisbury
youngest daughter of George Sauls-
bury, architect of the courthouse. who
has been quite sick with typhoid fever,
| is getting along nicely now.
In the district court is the case OF
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yesterday to Chicago where he is en-
ployed as meat. Inspector
S. A. Newell was an Ottumwa visitor
| today.
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REMARKABLE RUN oFluck.
An Evening incident in John Morris
sey's Gambling House.

All evening InCtuent IN Jonn MOTIFS
sey's Gambling House.
In gambling one thing is certain,
and that is the very large percentage
in favor OF the bank or the game.
Caprice is the only law of chance.
And the results are as fanciful as
they are unanticipated. One summer
the last Of John Morrissey's life
a party from Washington were max
ing merry in the wine room of the
club house in Saratoga, among whom
embassy. Without remark, this at
tache suddenly rose, entered the play
room and going to a roulette table,
tossed hundred dollar bin on ten,
black. The dealer politely informed
him that he had exceeded the limit.
The attatche was insistent. Norris
sey, sauntering up, nodded " the deal
er to let it go. 1t won. Refusing
to accept chips the attache gathered
in his winnings and rejoined his
friends. Half an hour. later he did the
same thing, and was again successful.
At frequent intervals he repeated his
trips, invariably winning, never once.
losing until he had won $17.500. when
his friends carried him off. AS he
left. Morrissey remarked to friend:
Il never take the limit Off that the
bank doesn't lose" Nevertheless. there
was a profit on the nights play for
the bank.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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No Hustle In Cuba

The hustling Chicago drummer.
stands a chance OF going crazy if sent
to do business with Cuban merchants
A salesman who has been on visit
TO that island says: IF you reach
Havana on Saturday OF course you
call Immediately on the merchants
with whom you expect TO deal. The
first thing asked you is when you ex-
pect to go away. The ship, we will
say, goes on Tuesday morning and
you hope to get through and take it,
That settles it. You canno; do busi-
ness with one of them. You m,Nt
wait for later boat or do nothing.
The moment you begin to hurry them
they suspect you and hold alopf?"
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Pray Without Ceasinu.

There is one spot in the United
states where the voice of PRAYER is
never still. cor more than twenty
months the "Erret' OF prayer" that
surrounds the Temple of Truth, near
Lisbon Falls, Me, has never for an
instant been without the sound of a
human voice in supplcation. 1t is
the intention of the people who at
tend to this remarkable form of wor-
ship that prayer in the turret shall
never cease SO long as the building
shall stand. Those who take part in
the service compose the Holy Ghost
and Us Society. The society affiliates
with no denomination, and tries to
conform strictly to the teachings of
the Bible. Starting without a penny,
it has in few years achieved such
success that it has built four build
ings, the Temple of Truth among
them, which form rectangle capable
of seating 10000 peo2le-Methodiss
Magazine.
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GAVE HER THE DIRECTIONS.
Lady Asked for the Location of the
Snokiau Car.

smoking Gar.
Vice-president William C. Barnett
of the New York. New Haven & Hart
ford railroad has reputation as a
joker among railroad men. especially
in his home town, New Haven.
One day last week be and Presi-
dent John NJ. Hall of the Consolidated
road were waiting for train at the
New Haven station and had been
there but few minutes wAen an ex-
press from New York drey in. The
two officials We're about to start out
on an inspection trip over the road
and happened TO be standing opposite
me last Car of the train. AS it came
to stop a well-dressed, middle-aged
woman. carrying golf clubs and d
dress suit case, hurried up to them
and asked: is this the smoking car,
please?1
No" said Mr.. Barnett, pointing in
the direction of the engine, you will
find it the second car forward" and
resumed his talk.
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TOO MUCH NATURE STUDY.
One Woman Whose Soul at Last Rose
in Rebellion.

in Rebellion.
In a town where nature study"
RACES, an elderly lady met friend in a
shady avenue and asked:
do you know anything about
birds?"
No the friend replied in tone of
some mystifcation. I'm sorry but
don't
Sorry? Oh, you are such a relief
just met Mrs. c., and she grasped my
arm, and gazing upward, said oh,
did you hear that perfectly lovely
Spike-beaked. purple-eyed tickle bird?'
mo sooner had gone block than |
met Mrs. X. Don't move a muscle.
Right up there on that branch is one
of those rare, exquisite, speckIe-winged
ring-tailed screamers.'
You and l seem to be the only sane
people. Let's rejoice in chorus"
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The Exit Of Jesms.

Copyright 1902. Daily Story Pub. Coz
60 way, childrun, de cl' man doan
feel like teliin' no stories tday. Be-
sides, he only came to de big house
to hol private reesepshun wild yoah
pap, who gives de OF man open house
t'day. Den, LOO, de heart am sad, an
de tongue am still in consequence.
wat! Yoah jest took it? Now,
locker we're, yoan yungsters, yoah
Uncle Jess doan want nobody to stole
for him, even if tbs tobaccy' How
evah, seein' it's heah. guess mebbe
dat might effec' de loostration O. my
speech, so I'll tell yoah bout dat
onery son Jim O. mine Nebber heerd
it? Well well. or Jess doan of'en
tell O. things wat make his heart jump
in his wuthless brack breast.
"Yoah see, childrun, dis happened
when yoah gran pap wah young man
must er been erbont six yeahs be-
foah yoah pap wah bohn. De trub-
bic tween de Noath and de South had
.bruk out, an de sogers wah fittin' all
ober de country. De niggahs on our
place wah all satisfied. an de did'n'
to the Noath. De mahstah, yoah
gran'pap, wah a shoah 'nuf angel, he
wah, an de niggars would er died fer
him, de would, indeed"
The tattered coat sleeve touched the
old mans eyes where few drops OF
moisture had suddenly appeared.
DE hide of de OF man am wrinll-
led an cracked now, but in de happy
days befoah de wah he can see de
mahstah in his big cheer at de table,
wild all de fine ladies an gemman
creakin wild good eatin's. In dem
Gays de cabins y de field hands wah
rebber widout der fiap-jacks an poak
meat, an de feet O de wimmen wah
always er dancin'.
Den. as l says, de trubble brecks
out We didn't spect ter see no Van
kee sojers in ou- part O. de valley, an
de mahst2h might er staid dere wild
out goin' ter fight at all. Course he
didn't do nothin' o de kind, but ne
done offered his services to de state
to help whip de Yankees. 1t walnut
very long befoah he wah made a
!Si itil II u Oh 5toS ttCIAc ioliciS iliili
trough all. When de boss lef' foah de
t.onI he say to me an de othah men:
less, yoah are TO so wild me if
yoah likes. Othahwise yoah may jine
any o de otnah hans what might
wanter so Noath. ! gives any one der
freedom to leabe ef de wants ter go
We'll, sir, not a niggah moved.
'cept yoah Uncle Jess. an he only
eaged up little clussar to de OF
mahstah.
THANK yoah ALL yoah gran'dad
say quiet like. 1'll leabe yoah all to
took care O. de place till | returns.
Come on. Jes,' an ne went er ridin'
like mad down de road wild de tear.
streamin' from his purity eyes. Well,
we didn't see de OF place for moren a
year, an den we friin ourselves in
our own Ian clus to de place wah |
was rised
Jess, would yoah like to see yoah'
OF woman an de boy?' says mahstah.
'Bress Gawd, yes. sah' | ansahd
quick. fob l wah buhrin' ter see her
face an dat boy O mine.
We'll we went ter de oil home an
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Future of Senator Plat.

There is still some talk that Senator
Thomas G. Platt may retire at the
close of his present term. 1t is re-
called, in connection with this rumor,
that since Thurlow Weeds day every
leader of the Republican parry III New
York state has been United States
senator-William H. Seward, Reuben
Z. Fenton, Roscoe Conkling and
Thomas Collier Platt. 1t is said that
though Senator Platt is certain Of
election he would not, even in that
event, serve another full term.
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de mastah set in his own cheer jes
de sameS in de oIden days"

de mahstah set in his own cheer an
de table wail set ies' de same's II de
olden days.
When de mahstah set himself
down he tolo de help TO all so down
in de big nahn an git ready foah an
ol fashioned dance.
Yet de tears bust right out when
he wah left alone wild me, an he
frew his aims erround dis same OF
wrinllled neck an crieN as if his poah
heart would broke. Aftah while de
tears stopped an he took his place
at oe table. But he didn't eat none
jes looked trum de picture Of his daid
pap an nanny to de cheers wah de
o.Eah fine peoples uster set
"An' den, as dis n;ggah crouched
in a cohner. wild his heart breakin' at
de grief O de mounner, he hes:y1 =
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wah sittin' at de table jes' like he wah
.reamin'. Dat wan on account O. de
sorrow touchin' of his soul, yeah
know.
'Mahstah, do what tells yoah
now an foller OF Jess l said. Gin
me dat purity ssojer coat O. yourn a
minute. Thank yoah. sab. Now.
Jeems, take it, an lemme kiss .yoah
big thick lips fer yer an yoah mann
my. Now scoot.'
DE boy. he wah only bout eighteen
yeahs OF, he wah, frew de big coat
erbout him an jes' as de sojers wah
erbout to come in de front doah he
jumped from de back an started like
Jack rabbit fer de woods what leads
inter Mahtin's swamp. He -wah in
plain sight, an de sojers, seein' de
officers coat by de light O. de bright
moon, all trailed aftah him like a dog
aftah coon. Frum de windah l sab
some little dist specks jump up in de
road neab de boy feet, but he kept
on er dodgip an er dodgin' wild de
cracks. cracks maxim music be-
hind him,
An den | quick frew de silber in
its hidin' place an got de mahstah to
our horses, what de sojers didn't hab
no time ter take. We hadn't much
more'n struckNde pike when we heerd
er disappointed yell in de rear, an we
sab de soiers staht aftah us in er hur-
ry. 1t didn't take us long ter git in
Devils Bend, when we turned inter de
woods. an der walnut no Noathern
Yankees could cotch us den, nohow.
Mahstah an l got erway easy, 'ceptin'
he losed his coat, ,whatwah-what
must have cost MIN fohty dollahs."
Again the suspicious moisture glis-
tened in the half-closed eyes and the
contracted wrinkles drew the wizened
old face into queer grimace.
But what of jim, Uncle Jess; did
he get away, too?"
Hush. chile, hush! Doan yoah see
yoah poah OF uncle am not well ter
day? De heart am sad an de pow full
misery o de grabe hang heavy ovah
MIS- head, foh-foh dey cotched him.
Dey cotched dc poah brack boy on'y
when---when he dropped daid wild
wild er bullet frew his brain" and the
old mans head fell forward on his
folded arms, as his feeble, emaciated
form shook convuisively.
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wah sittin at de table jes' like he wah
6reamin'. Dat wan on account O. de
sorrow touchin' of his soul, yeah
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sFRl5f GRE AssMolk PrAre.


SsoSS ~ sE
The exposition at Dusseldorf. Ger
many, last year was remarkable for
its metallurgical display, which was
the most extensive ever collected for
any exposition. those Of Chicago and
Paris not excepted. eg
One of the most striking features Of
this metallurgical collection was. q
great nickea-steel armor plate from
the factories of Fried. Krupp OF Es.
en- feet wide and eleven and eight
tenths inches thick weighing LOG tons,
or 233.2O0 pounds
This plate has remarkably smooth
surface ana regular shape. 1t was
rolled from an ingot of steel weighing
23O tons, which was fourteen feet four
inches long, twelve feet five inches
wide and forty inches thick. In roll
ing it the heat OF the casting pit was
not utilized but the ingot was cooled
after being taken from the pit, and
then heated to white heat in reheat-
ing furnace before being. rolled. In
trimming it down with the circular
saw it lost twenty-four tons in weight.
The special car for transporting the
plate from Essen to Dusseldorf was
the same that was used to transport
the forty -centimeter Krupp gun to
the port OF Spezzia, Italy, and the for.
ty-two centimeter gun to Hamburg for
shipment to the Chicago Worlds Fair.
This armor plate-the largest that,
has ever been rolled-is not intended
for use on any battleship, and on &C
count of its immense size, cannot be
so used, but was merely exhibited to
illustrate the capacity of the Krupp
plant.-New York Sun.
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runnin' O. bare feet. an den de voice
o. dat Jim O. mine cried softly:
"'Oh, daddy, daddy! Git de mahs-
tab erway quick. De sojers hab
cotched all de hans in de balm, an
deys comm here now fer de mahstah.
jes' got out foah de took the balm
well. childrun, de brain of de OIL
man wicked purity fast den, yoah can
bet
yeah, Jeems,' says, Use gotter
stay wild him, so yoah must help yoah
dad ter save him. Lemme whisper in
yoah brack year tole him what ter
do an den turned ter mahstah, who
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einnati, Chattanooga. Birmingham and
all points in the East
Through Sleeper. New Orleans to
New York via Chattanooga, Bristol.
Lynchburg, Washington and Pennsyl.
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Pullman Sleeper, New Orleans to
Cincinnati.
Dining Car Service on both New
York and Cincinnati Lines serving all
meals.
Cooleet, CleAnest.
Full detailed informats v furnished
On application.
Geo. H. Smith, @
@. p. A..
& r. \. Anderson.
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There is no other animal SO tire.
some as the talkat'.a man who has
nothing to say.
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