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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
DlsTuRBER KILLS DEPUTY.
Revenue Officer Shot by Man Whom
He Was Trying to Arrest.

East Lynne, w. Va, March 31.-Sam
D, Smith, deputy sheriff, is reported tc
have been killed few miles south OF
here by Walt Hite. Smith was en-.
deavoring TO arrest IIite for disturb
ance at church. Smith led Il raid on
the gambling dens at Alexandria. Va.
few years ago with decided success.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
Terrific Snow Storm.

Columbus, O., March 31.-A terrific
wind and snow storm has been raging
here since o'clock this morning. The
wind has attained a velocity of thirty
five miles an hour. Telephone, tele-
graph, trolley and electric light wires
are down in all sections of the city.
Plate glass windows were blown in in
the north and south tnds. Reports
show that the storm was general in
Ohio with unusually low temperatures
and frosts throughout the Ohio valley,
much damage from high winds is re-
ported.
Blast Wrecks Church.
Pittsburg, Pa, March 31.-Just at
the close of Easter services a terrific
wind, rain, and hail STORM burst upon
Pittsburg and vicinity. One church
was wrecked, the roof falling upon the
congregation, starting wild panic.
More than score were injured, and
six of these probably will die. In an
other church the side was blown in,
the stove overturned. and the cooler
members of the congregation fought
fire while trying to stop the panic. One
boat was overturned in the river, more
than forty houses were unroofed in
this city and Allegheny, hundreds of
factory chimneys were blown down,
and great loss resulted.
Southern Floods Subsiding.
Atlanta, Ca, March 31.-Floods
throughout the south are slowly re-
ceding and it is believed the worst is
over. Railroads are gradually resum-
ing their regular schedules.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
WRECK CLAIMS FOURTH VICTIM.
Michael Mclaughlin, Motorneer, Dies
of His Injuries at Joliet.

Joliet, H., March 31-Michael Nc
Laughlin, the motorneer who was run
ming the work car that collided with
a southbound passenger car on the
Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway
Friday morning, died at st. Joseph's
hospital in this city last night. This
is the fourth death from the accident
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
FIRE AT ASYLUM.
Laundry at Mt. Pleasant Hospital Dam.
aged by Fire.

Mt. Pleasant, March Especially
Fire of unknown origin damaged the
building occupied by the laundry at
the hospital for the insane between 8
and O'Clock Sunday morning to the
amount of $4,000. The machinery is
intact and is being used today. The
building was not occupied by any of
the inmates.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
EDITOR MANN DIES AT PHOENIX
Former Publisher of Town Topics Sue.
cumbs to CONSUMPTION.

Phoenix, Ariz., March BE. D.
Mann. former editor and publisher of
Town Topics, the well-known New
York society paper, is dead here Of
consumption, and Mrs. Mann, overcome
by grief and from other causes, is in a
serious condition.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
IOWA NEWS AT WASHINGTON.
Things of Interest to People of the
HaWkeye State.

Washington, D. c., March 31.-Post-
masters appointed: Hooking, Monroe
county. Arthur Davis, vice John Schu,
Ter. resigned.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
ROB A BANK IN NEBRASKA.
Burglars Secure $1,000 in Cash ant
$500 in Drafts.

Bazile Mills, Neb,, March 31.-The
safe OF the bank Of Bazile Mills was
blown open and $1,000 in cash and
$500 in drafts stolen. There is no clew
to the robbers. They stole team and
made their escape.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
NEW COUNTERFEIT DISCOVERED
TWO Photographic Prints of Bank Note

Pasted Together Found.
Washington, d. c., March 31.-The
secret service announces that a new
five dollar national bank note, face of
which is fairly deceptive. is in circuia-
ton on two pieces of paper with fiber
between on the Union National bank
OF New Orleans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
SHOOTERS AT KANSAS CITY.
Special Train Loaded With Marksmer
From CHICAGO Arrives.

Kansas City Mo-, March 31.-The
preliminary to the first grand Ameri-
can handicap tournament ever held in
the west is on at Blue River Shooting
Park. The total entry has climbed to
464. There is possibility that the to-
tai may yet be Ats.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
Will Be Hard Eouuht.
SHOOTS A BURGLAR.
Officer in Hand-to-Hand Fight Prove:
Victorious.

Victorious.
Des Moines, March 31.-In hand-to-
hand fight with Albert and Walter
Jackson, whom he detected in the act
of removing merchandise from store
they had burglarized, Officer Miller
last night shot and mortally wounded
Walter and captured Albert. The bur.
glars are negroes, the sons of a
preacher residing in Lincoln, III.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
BRYAN DECIDES TO RETIRE.

VIII Leave Vicissitudes Of Politics for
Country Life.
Lincoln, Neb., March 31.-Bryan in
this weeks Commoner announces that
Bryan and family expect to spend the
remainder of their days at his new
country home near here.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
BANKER DIES.

Illinois Financier Passes Away at Ripe
Old Age.
Rockford, Ill, March 31.-Alexander
D. Forbes, president of the PEOPLES
Bank & Trust Co., is dead here at the
age of 76 years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01
CHOLERA IN MANILA.
Ninety Gases and Seven Deaths From
the Disease.

Manila, March 31.- Since the out
break of cholera here there has been
ninety cases and seventy deaths from
1.-THE disease.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07
The Literary Outlook.
(By Herbert Brewster.)

tBy Herbert BrGWStcr.)
The news that George Douglass Brown
who, under the pen name of "George
Douglass" wrote '"The House With the
Green Shutters" died suddenly on the
2Sth ult., came as a great shock to his
American admirers. OF these there were
assuredly very many. The grim story
of Scotch life made a deep impression on
everyone who read it and, though it was
the first book by the author. he was
hailed as the coming Balzac of his peo-
pie. Literally, Mr.. Brown became ia
nous in a day. The book fell almost still
born from the press in both England and
America. Then one of the editors of the
London Times got hold of a copy and
shortly there appeared d review of the
story which made everyone wonder who
this young writer was that had come
down from the North to conquer literary
England. In this country the book was
on sale for several months before the
public began to talk of it; then, sudden
~ interest was awakened and edition
after edition was sold by the publishers.
George Douglass Brown was thirty
three years old at his death. lie had
been hard working journalist in Lon
don ever since leaving Oxford, but when
his first book made the success it did,
he retired from the daily grind. He took
a house at Halsemere where Tyndall
lived and where Grant Allen and Conan
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07
A SAD DIsAPPoINTMENT.

Ineffective liver medicine is a disap-
pointment. DeWitt's Little Early risers
never disappoint. They cleanse the sys-
tenn of all poison and putrid matter
so gently that one enjoys the pleasant
effects. They are tonic to the liver
w H. King Drug Co., Bobbitt Wynne
Drug Co
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

Baudelaire. And so in Italian literature
Petrarch, Tasso, Leopard. In English
literature there are Pope, Horace Wal
pole, Goldsmith, Gray, Dean Swift, Rog-
ers. Cowper, Collins, Lamb, Charles
Reade, Kinglake, Swinburne, Pater,
Jowett, among the bachelors. In Amer
lean literature we have Washington Irv-
ing, Thoreau, Whittier, Walt Whitman.
/ do not attempt to make large list,
but other eminent celibates occur to me
such as Cavendish, Dalton, Huygens,
Tugenieff, Amiel, William Pitt, Cavour,
Lord Somers.
There is another side to the case. how
ever. Without making up any extend
ed list. one might mention the five great
representatives of five modern litera
tures-Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes,
Moliere and Goethe-who were married
men. 1t would not be difficult to COM
pile a very large list of married men,
now living, who will rank with the I'M
married geniuses and great men, The
case is not proven one way or the other
but it is interesting to note the array of
arguments which have been brought to
bear.
%n%
The complete works of William Haz-
litt the great critic are at last to be is
sued and in most attractive form too.
There are to be sixteen volumes alto
gether and the first will be brought out
early this fall. w. r. Henley has writ
ten an introduction. The most astonish-
ing fact in connection with Hazlitt is
that this is the first complete edition of
his works ever prepared. The edition
in this country is limited to $50 sets.
The work has been printed from the
type, no plates having been made
In the Atlantic Monthly for September
is an article of very considerable timel-
ness and moment, The Now Navy, by
Talcott Williams, LII. ID. The recent pub
LEGATION Of the naval programme of the
European powers, and the unusual elabo-
rateness of the manoeuvres of the Allan
tic squadron have but served to MAKE
moro acute the interest in things naval
which, since the Spanish War, has been
steadily growing among Americans Mr..
Williams has been at the pains of taking
a comprehensive view of the naval equip
ment of the world and he writes upon
the present and future policy of the Uni
ted States with exceptional ability and
mprCSsiven ess, and with an opulence or
suggestive or picturesque detail which
makes excellent reading.
Mrs. Nancy Huston Banks novel. Old
field: A Kentucky Tale of the last Cen
tCry, is now in its third edition. The
charm of the story has been aptly de-
scribcd by reviewer who says that "as
you turn over its pages you get some
thing of the feeling you have when you
open a long shut drawer in which some
thing very fragile and delicate has been
packed away in lavender and dried rose
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

Sir Gilbert Parker has gone to consid-
cradle trouble to deny any knowledge of
a supposed original to his hero, Charley
Steele, in THE Right of Way" 1t seems
that some Chicago newspaper man dis
covered a Mr.. Cantwele, whose real ex-
perience correspondent so closely to those
attributed to the young Canadian law
yer that the author must have drawn his
character from real life. The author
however, writes that he never knew
Cantwele, never saw him and never
heard of him until the newspaper story
of the identity appeared.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

Doyle live now. Everything was going
well for the young man; he had been in
jubilant state for the previous year.
lie had planned a trip on the continent,
tramp through Scotland and several
other pleasure trips, but the fame of his
book actually brought so many visitors
to his home that he could not get away.
Then he decided that he had lost too
much time and he went to work hard on
his second story this story was to have
been finished this fall Meantime he had
become engaged and was to have been
married early this fall, after which event
he had planned wedding journey to
Italy.
AS young man, the author was Gu
rious, Indifferent to study at one time
and almost laborious at books at another.
When he went to school at Glasgow he
neglected his studies for two years, but
in the last year there, he worked hard
and succeeded in winning scholarships
worth altogether some $4,000, These
funds enabled him to go to Oxford,
where he obtained a degree. He had
ideas of his OVID as to the way in which
a man should get an education and a
training for life of writing. He once
told a friend that reading did not count
for much. IT'S what a man learns from
life himself that counts" he said
When he went to London he first found
employment as a reader for a publish
ing house Later on he did reviewing
for the Illustrated London News
sketches for the Spectator and general
newspaper work THE House With the
Green Shutters was written first as q
novelette,, 10000 words long. The pub
Usher to whom it was first submitted
said he would take it if the author would
cut it down to short story of four or
five thousand words. The young man
was much angered at the proposition,
and, instead of following the publishers
suggestion, he heightened the story to
it's present proportions.
Physically, Mr.. Brown was a giant, so
far as strength of constitution and vi
tality were concerned. An American
friend who dined with him no longer than
three weeks ago in London reported him
the very picture of health. Up to the
present writing no details as to the man
ner of his death have come to hand, nor
is there any information to be had re-
garding the amount of work he had done
on his second novel. 1t is not likely,
however, that he had written enough of
the story to justify it's completion by
another writer, so that it is probable
that his literary fame must rest entirely
on THE House With the Green Shut
ters.'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

In the days when Kipling was a bach
elor, he wrote a line which has served
as a slogan for many who argue that
greatness and genius is more common
among the unyoked than the yoked.
"He travels fastest who travels alone,
wrote Kipling, but that, it must be re-
membered was before he was married.
Not long ago a youthful friend of the
authors was married and I<ipling, in
letter of congratulation, wrote: II wish
you as much happiness in your married
life as has come to me in mine. l GER
tainly can not wish you anything more
or better than that.
Now it may be argued by these same
opponents of the unmarried theory that
happiness is one thing and speed In
travel another but the fact stands that
great deal of Kipling.s best work has
been done since his marriage. Most OF
the Jungle Tales were written when the
author lived in a little one-story house
near Brattleboro before he had Cecouped
his small fortune, lost through the fail
ure of a bank and had built Naulahka
Bachelors are indeed very much to
the fore now Mr.. Balfour, the present
premier of England and an author of re-
nown, is distinguished example and
Lord Kitchener is another. In the list
of authors the single men greatness the
orists have formidable array
"All the greatest English historians
have been celibates," writes one
| Hume, Macauley Buckle, Bishop,
Thirlwall So, too, have been most Of the
great osophers-Newton, Leibnitz
| Descartes, Pascal, d'Alembert, Spinoa,
Kant, SchopenhaueT, Won Humboldt
| Nietzsche, Hobbies, Locke. Bentham
| Herbert Spencer. Bishop Butler, Adam
Smith. Great artists, such as Michael
! Angelo, Raphael Turner, Sir Joshua
| Reynolds. Many of the greatest names
| in French literature are those of celiba-
| ties. Voltaire, Rousseau, La Bruyere
| Sainte Beuve, Flaubert De Goncourt
! Merimee, De Musset, De Maupassant
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

The anxiety of publishers to secure
books by men in the public eye is very
often amusing in it's results. A case in
point was noted on the arrival of the
Boer generals in England. Several pub
fishers were at the pier, the particular
desire of each being to secure the forth
coming story by General DeWet on the
Boer side of the war in South Africa.
General DeWet, however, was not so
anxious to make contract and the pub
fishers were not only successfully re-
pulsed, but also routed as we'll. Failing
in their attempt to secure the reminis-
cences of De Wet, they fell upon Gen
Aral De la Rey, but he executed flank
movement and succeeded in making the
English visit without being persuaded
to write a book
The scramble for public men is prob
ably just as strenuous in this country.
The Boer generals are likely to be met
by a delegation Of publishers when they
land in New York. In some cases. the
anxiety to secure the work of some great
men has been so great that the publisher
has secured a pass on the customs boat
and met the incoming steamer down the
bay. Not long ago scientist connected
with one of the museums In New orh
returned from an exploration trip in the
heart of Mexico. The fact that he had
proved to his own satisfaction that there
were existing tribes of Aztecs living in
Mexico was occasion for the interest of
several publishers. The scientist replied
to their requests for a book to be
brought out right away, that it would
take him at least five years to complete
the work necessary to the writing of
such a book and the publishers turned
away disappointed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

owen Wister's novel, The Virginian
has already passed the $4,000 mark, and
orders for it are rapidly increasing. 1t
is pleasant now and then to have evi.
dence such as this that the public is
quick to recognize book of sterling
merit. Moreover, The Virginian is al
ready giving promise of duplicating it's
American success in England The
London Academy, which is not prone to
bcstow praise upon American fiction,
says of it:
We believe in the Virginian, which is
saying a good deal when it is remember
ed that he represents the difficult blend
of extraordinary tenderness and invinci-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-07

The hermit seemed lost in the train of
thought started awhile ago and so he sits
in silence. The guest therefore brings
up the pleasant past evoking the smiles
of the host and the wondering gaze of
the maid.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
BLOW AT POLICE CORRUPTION.

The decision Of the Court of Appeals sustain
ing the Indictment for neglect Of duty found
against Police Captain Herlihy is a valuable re-
enforcement to the local authorities who are
trying TO stamp out police corruption. 1t is so
obviously in accord with common sense that
any contest over the question would be sur
prisng were the workings Of law not so fire.
quentIy out of harmony with all common
sense. To the ordinary mind proof of neglect
of duty, which consisted of showing failure to
suppress 11O illegal resorts, would be worth
more morally and legally, and be less preJudic1al
10 the rights of a defendant, than proof that in
the discharge of his multifarious duties he had
failed to stop one particular violation of law.
Recorder Golf. however held that only one allie
CATION of neglect could be made in an indict-
ment and sustained Herlihy's demurrer. This
finding was reversed by the Appellate Division
and is now finally disposed of by the Court of
Appeals.
The Importance of such a ruling is evident
when the difficulties encountered in securing
conviction of unfathful officials are considered.
In law one instance of neglect may be as Grim
inal as n hundred; 1t is not so, however, in the
minds Of jury. Reasonable men, who ap-
preciate the difficulty of enforcing law in this
city will naturally take a lenent view of an
individual and isolated failure of duty when
there is not the most convincing proof OF actual
corruption as the basis of the failure Such
proof is exceedingly difficult TO secure. and if
forthcoming makes possible conviction Of
much graver crime than neglect of duty. If in
dictments must be limited TO one single in
stance Of neglect, and motive and intent cannot
be shown by testimony to similar neglect, 1t
becomes practically impossible to punish our
Matchmaking and vice protecting officials. When,
however, 1t is allowed TO the District Attorney
TO prove a habit of neglect. he can overcome
any disposition on the part Of Jurors TO find ex-
cuses for unfaithful policemen. Such an in
depreciation OF the law may fairly be consid
cred, Mr.. Jerome says. "the greatest blow to
the collection of blackmail which could pos
"sibly have been given"
The decision places an enormous power in the
hands of the District Attorney. but at the same
time it offers safeguard to well meaning Off
GERS. When it Is in the power OF the prosecu-
ton to show the habit of neglect when 1t exists
jurors will probably be slower than ever TO
convict on evidence of one failure in duty with
out the most ample proof of corrupt intent.
There Is little danger. therefore of faithful Off
GERS being prosecuted for the inevitable lapses
which will occur in enforcing laws in great
city. Men will be tried in a sense on their gen
eral record Of honesty and efficiency. and such
trials will safeguard the innocent while making
more sure the condemnation of the systemati-
cally corrupt.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
CENSUS SPoTLSMEN CIRCUMTENTED.

President Roosevelt has secured the perma-
nent census bureau so much desired by all en-
lightened students of government. and at the
same time has prevented the invasion of the
merit system which some spoilsmen in Congress
thought TO make. He has signed the Census
bill in spite of the provisions in it opening the
door TO the inclusion in the classified service of
the whole army of census employees appointed
without competitive examination, in accord
ance with the anti-Civil Service law under
which the last census was taken.
Probably the spoilsmen thought that with the
door thrown open their favorites could crowd
into office. AT any rate, they did the best they
could. They could not brutally order that these
temporary non-competitive census clerks should
be put in permanent places whether they were
needed or not So they provided that the bu-
reau should take many it wanted and
give them a status which would require their
transfer to other departments when found su-
perfiuOus in the census bureau ahead of per
sons on the competitive eligible lists. 1t was
doubtless hoped that the Director of the Census
would include his whole force under the new
law and then reduce it to suit his permanent
work. leaving the suspended employees in line
for other appointments without examination
The President, however, has crcumvented that
scheme. He has ordered the director 10 put in
the claSSlned service only those persons abSO-
lutely needed for the permanent work of the
bureau. The rest will be dismissed into outer
darkness. If they want permanent places in
the classified service they will have to seek
them by the regular road In honest compe-
tition.
Enforced in this spirit the law will be rot
merely harmless but positively good. There is
no objection to manning the permanent census
bureau from the experienced clerks already en-
gagged on census work. In this case the process
is repeated by which large classes Of govern
ment employees have been brought into the
classified service by successive executive orders
The thing which it was necessary to guard
against was not the permanent employment Of
faithful census clerks in the census bureau
even if they were originally employed through
favoritism. but the invasion of other depart
ments by an army of census employees for whom
there was no more work in their own bureau
and TO whom the government had given en-
ployment as long as they had any right to ex-
pect 1t would have been an outrage on per-
who had taken Civil Service examinations
in good faith and were eligible lists to have
these census clerks put in office ahead Of them