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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-29
Irish Bend.

Irish Bend, May 2S.-Newton Brock.
enridge and Miss Anna Campbell were
calling on friends here on Sunday.
Miss Agnes Minear of near Kilbourn
has returned from Silver Creek, Neb.,
where she made an extended visit with
her sister, Mrs Jay Baird.
Quite a number from here attended
memorial services at Leando.
Mrs. Grant Ruby of Winchester
spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs.
John Craig.
d. Skinner visited his notfer at
Stockport last week.
Quite nulaber of the old neighbors,
relatives and .,ssnds of the late Mrs.
John Brown 81 keosauqua, ate ed
her funeral her>Isaturday.
Hrs. stonsl 3ad Mrs Elizabeth
Adams visite< she Fyazee home Fri
day.
Nj. MschA beavia was In the
vicinity buytns, ~ last week.
ME-, anG Mrt. Marryman returned
from nesSAfe4nee FSiday where they
had beau Renting Che state encamp-
mens=
There Is c great deal of complaint
here Of the canker worm destroying
orchards. Several orchards have been
stripped of their 1eaves.
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Lebanon,

Lebanon, May 29.-Silas Humphrey
and wife passed through town Tues
day enroute for Milton.
Miss Myrtle Monger, of Mt Pleas
ant, is here on a visit to her brother,
Clayton Monger.
Mrs. Alvira Van Fleet is visiting in
Chequest at the home of Lewis Seam
ster.
DR.. G. S. Guernsey left Wednesday
to visit with his daughter, Mrs. Julia
Dean, at Hinsdaie, Ill.
Mr.. Cass was in town Wednesday.
Mr.. Baldwin, of Selma, took in cat
tie here Saturday.
Frank Reynolds, of Cantril, passed
through the town Wednesday.
Volney Cassidy, of Troy, was seen
on the streets Thursday
Miss Clarissa Harrison, of Keosau-
qua, is the guest of Mrs. Laura Wig
gins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Brooks, of Eldon,
were over Sunday visitors here with
relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs, Snider traded in Can
tril Saturday.
Arthur yinson and Ervey Van Fleet
came down from Eldon Saturday to
spend Sunday.
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Pulaski.


Pulaski, May 29.-Ab. Downing and
Supervisor Dodge were Pulaski visit
ors last Tuesday.
Mrs. J. e. Heskett and son, Russell.
left last week for a visit at Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Groges and daughter, Mrs. Jes-
sic Hunt returned home Thursday
from Oneida, ILL.,, where they have
been visiting Mrs. Bessie Offerlie of
that place.
Mrs. Thos. Milliken spent few days
in Bloomfield last week.
The Pulaski Greys played the Ne
braska Indians at Bloomfield Wednes-
day, at Milton Thursday and at this
place Friday. The Indians won all
three games.
The Christian church will observe
Children's day on June at this place.
Quite an interesting program is being
arranged.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Milligan of
Bloomfield spent Sunday with their
parents at this place.
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SEARCH JESSE HAMMOND FOR a
GUN IN. COURT
CONTINUED From Page Nine.)

that EVENING"" resumed the plaintiffs
lawyer.
| Yes, in about half an hour.
| did he come back to the house?"
| Yes
How did you know he was there? %
line bell rang"
What did you do?"
i was afraid to go to the door. Mrs.
Allen wouldn't let Fred go, and we
asked Dr. Walston if he wouldn't pro-
Itect us. He then went to the door
and / followed him. He opened the
door and Hammond said he wanted to
see me. The doctor told him he
couldn't. He said he would. Then in
minute the door was slammed shut
and the shot was fred
THE door was shut before the shot
was fired?"
! "Yes."
How high up in the door did the
bullet striker"
81 don't Know how many feet exact
ly."
well, about how high on you would
the bullet have struck if you had been
! in front of the door?"
81 think about here" holding her
hhand level with her mouth.
Where did the bullet go then?"
1T struck the wall and then glanced
to the ceiling
Attorney Ethridge then began the
cross examination.
do you believe in supreme being,
Mrs. eHammond?" was the first ques-
ton asked by the defense.
81 do"
when did you first see Mr.. HAM
mond in the parlor?"
When Fred opened the door and
went out"
"Who was there?"
Mrs. Allen, Fred, DR.. Walston and
myself"
Had you invited Mr.. Hammond to
come up to the house?"
NO"
Didn't you telephone and request
some one to ask Mr.. Hammond to call
you up by 'phone?"
Il did not"
You said Fred said to Hammond:
You struck my mother and that
Hammond replied. know l did, Now
didn't he say 4 did not
mo, he didn't
You're sure of that?"
Yes
Couldn't be mistaken
NO.
did Dr. Walston have revolver"
"The policemen took one from him
when they came and searched him."
Where did he have it?"
"In his right hip-pocket, believe"
Didn't Draw Gun.
"You didn't see him draw revol-
yer in the hall?"
NO.
Were Mrs. Allen and Fred in the
|hall?"
YES
Attorney Bradshaw took the wit.
ness.
did Mr.. Hammond come up, TO SEQ
you three or four weeks befosa thg
happened?"
Eyes" =
What did he say?"
"He said that if / was as srfesas a
woman as he thought, would. yet @
few thousand dollars out of ydslatnn
and then kill him. He said that he
intended to kill the -
WAS Hammond armed?"
yes: he had a revolver, and ~
it and laid it on the mantle and Il
D0lWeeu Tie revolver anu MIN WllIo
he was there. / gave it to him when
he Went away.
Attorney Ethridge resumed for the
defense.
Did DR.. Walston viist you frequent
iy both before and after the divorce?"
"We object" said both of the attor-
Ineys for the plaintiff. After a half
hour of wrangling the court overruled
the objection.
The witness then answered yes"
did he call on you when you lived
at 1872 Fifth street,
HE called sometimes
Attorney McHenry again objected,
and said that these questions could not
lead up to a plea of self-defense and
that was the only grouds on which
they could be admitted
Maybe you know all that we pur-
pose, Mr.. McHenry." said Lawyer Eth
ridge with some asperity.
Il think do, said McHenry.
Shocked the State
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Avery.

NNStys
Avery, May 2S.-Memorial day will
be observed here with appropriate
services. The address will be made
by Rev. l. B. Taylor.
Mrs. j. w. Richter and Mrs. Moore
were Abba visitors Thursday.
Miss Anna Palmquist is quarantine
ed at her home with smallpox.
Mrs. G. B. Skeels spent few days
of last week visiting her son in Hite-
man.
Rev. B. w. Petit and wife are the
proud parents of a baby girl since last
week.
Mrs. Geo. Luke was a passenger for
Ottumwa Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Allen and Mrs. Chisholm
were Ottumwa visitors Friday.
Abba Friday. NJ,
Misses Gertrude Amsbury and Ma
bel French were Abba visitors Satur-
day.
Rev. I. B. Taylor occupied the pull
pit at Haden Chapel Sunday evening.
]. q. Evans returned home from
Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday evening on
No. 4.
Rev. I. B. Taylor made trip to Mt.
Pleasant Wednesday, returning home
Thursday.
Will Evans and wife spent Sunday
at Hynes.
Mrs. Bridges is slowly recovering
from her recent illness.
Mrs. Maggie West was an Abba Wis
itor recently.
Bert Fisher and wife, of Hynes,
spent Sunday in Avery.
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Hitenan.

Hiteman, May 2S.-Jno. Werner,
mine inspector. was business caller
Monday.
o. L. Canning visited last week with
his brother. Ed, in Omaha.
Arthur WEIGH, driver in mine No.
l, had his leg broken Friday.
Mr.. Walters and sister of Ottumwa
We're over Sunday visitors at the Sam,
uels home.
Miss Bessie Peart returned home
Saturday after weeks visit with rel
atives at Pekay.
The Degree of Honor gave an ice
cream social in the l. o. o. F. hall Sat
urday evening.
Mrs. P. H. Waterman entertained a
company of friends Saturday after
noon.
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Albany.

Albany, May 2S.-Abundant rains
have visited this community recently.
AS result crops of all kinds are look
ing well.
A surprise party to the number of
eighty-three called on Elisha Tadlock
last Thursday evening. it being her
seventy-third birthday. A pleasant ev-
ening was spent. Mr.. Tadlock lives in
West Albany and is one of the pio-
neers.
Samuel Jay visited over night Sat
urday with Walter Smith in West AL
bany, returning home on Sunday. He
was accompanied by Walter Smith
and Jay Cohagon.
j. A. Collins, the Albany postmaster,
is on trade for a South Dakota farm
and may leave this vicinity.
A telephone meeting at Orren Cas-
sirs in East. Albany Tuesday evening
was quite well attended.
Thomas Yenger passed through Al
bany Sunday.
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Packwood.

Packwood, May 29.-Mrs. C. S.
Adams received the sad intelligence
Tuesday of the unexpected death of
her father, Mr.. Paterson, who resides
in the northern part of the state. Mr..
and Mrs. Adams have gone to the fu-
neral.
Mrs. Minnick has gone to Ottumwa
to care for her aged father.
Miss Sears of near Brookville was a
Packwood caller Tuesday
Memorial services were conducted
at the NJ. E. church Sunday. Rev. j.
G. Caughlan delivered one of the fin
est addresses ever listened to here.
Mrs. c. T. Norman and her guest,
Mrs R. Nourse, visited Friday and
Saturday in Fairfield with Mrs. L. T..
Goble and Mrs. 0. D. Stubs.
Mrs. Fielder Woolums entertained
party of friends Tuesday at dinner.
David Roth, wife and sister, are pre-.
pairing to spend the summer in Den
yer.
A great deal of trouble is caused
here by persons turning their stock out
regardless of the law. Gardens and
fruit trees have been badly injured by
stock.
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= - 81 J..
League. Although -the weather was
somewhat . .unfayorable a splendid pro-
gram was rendered and nice. sumsre-
John Arnold and Elias Hall shipped
SIX car loads Of stock to Chicago Sun
day. a special train conveying them to
Ft. Madison.
D.=C. Dreamer has further improved
MS residence by a coat of paint.
Fred Bryant of. yermilion, S. d. is
visiting his grandfather, ]. NJ. Bryan.
An entertainment will be given in
the hall Wednesday evening under the
auspices of the Epworth League by
John Holland. 1t will consist of mu.
sic, whistling representations. ETC.,
Mrs. j.. R. Dole and daughter Eva
are visiting Mrs. G. T. Mckee, east of
town.
Messrs. Crabb and Hays of New
London have been guests of VIM.
Miser.
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tthrong of people. The building was
far too small for the number. Rev.
Cornell was at: his. hest and the SER
mon VAS an excellent one. In, the
evening another good sized audience
heard him preach at the same place.
:. Mrs. Olga Hosford and baby of Bur-
lngton are guests of friends here.
Mrs. a. 7. Mills is quite sick.
Mrs. p. Ferne Howard of Burlington
is expected here Thursday.
The local Epworth League is ar
ranging for the district convention
next week. 1t expects one hundred
visitors and entertainment will be pro-
vided for all.
s. Bales has bought the Frank prop
erty in the north part of the village.
Mr.. Frank will build on Main street
near his mill
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Sargent were in
Clay Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Smith and son
Frank expect to- leave for the west
next week.
Mrs. Cora Thompson has been quite
sick, but is reported better.
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Shocked the State.

We'll, we intend to show" said Eth
ridge, getting up, before this trial is
through. that there was a conspiracy
to murder Hammond"
Attorney Bradshaw then made
formal speech to the court to show
that these questions could not be ask
ed properly as characterization, be.
cause the points had not been brought
UP in the direct examination.
The court refused to bar out the
questions.
Didn't you telephone DR.. Walston
one time and ted him that Mr.. Ham
mand had just gone out of town and
that the coast was clear?"
mo, didn't" replied Mrs. Ham
mond with some vim and snap.
well, WE'LL" said the attorney for
the defense. Your honor, will you
please to have subpoena issued for
Nettie Singer?"
The subpoena was issued and Miss
Singer will be asked to give testimony
on this point.
did you go out to DR.. Walston's
house on Woodland, avenue at differ
ent times and stay all night"
Il did not"
lou uOH remember OF MS calling
there and finding you at the Officer
The witness was informed by the
court that she need not answer ques-
tons that might incriminate herself.
Another long Wrangle occurred be-
tween the lawyers about admitting
such. evidence and Attorney Walling-
ford stated that the evidence would
tend to assist in proving the unrelia-
bility of the witness evidence
Mrs. Allen was put on the stand and
testified to much the same regarding
the shooting as Mrs. Hammond had
testified to.
A considerable numbergof spectators
were present when the trial opened at
2 o'clock. Only witnesses for the pros
ecution We're present. They were
Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. Allen, Fred Allen
DR.. Walston, and from the police force
Chief Bracket, Captain Miller, ex-
Captain Graves and Officers Newell,
Hess, Dorsey and Bean 1t is under.
stood that the defense will put on
about twenty Witnesses.
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81 Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, May II. Mr.. and Mrs
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-. ",
Keb, May 27-Mrs. Martha Ruther-
ford, of Ottumwa, visited recently at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Quinn.
J. B. Wood, of oskaloosa, was in
town this week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fredrickson,
commenced keepinghouse in the Bate
man house on Main street this week.
Mrs. John Given is on the sick list
this week.
Mrs. John Daniels spent Friday in
Ottumwa with friends.
The Davis family, Of Bloomfield,
played to full house on last Wednes-
day night.
Harry Davis, of Hiteman, secured
work in the mines last week. He for
merly lived in Keb-
The many old neighbors of Mrs.
John Madison were pleased to read in
the Foster correspondence to the Cou-
rier on Friday of her rapid improve
ment in health.
Lewis Friday secured the manage
ment of Brown brothers. store last
week and entered upon hfs duties. He
|is a promising young man who came
here a few years ago from Missouri
and worked for John Bennett. His
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-10
HEARD za PASSING

Carnegie says: q have never yet met a man who fully understood two different kinds of business"
 The president has asked congress to appropriate $200,ooO for the ex- penses of a commission to investigate and report on Pan-American railway to run down the axis of the American continents and connect North, Gen. tral and South America.
 Lloyds Register, the authority on shipping, says that Great Britain has one-half the total tonnage of the world. The fifth largest vessel own CT is the United States Steel corpora ton, the two leading German trans Atlantic lines being first and second.
 The late Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton opposed the free dis tribution of seeds as being too pattern alistic for this form of government, and on that score found himself at odds with congress, where the seeds were used as political perquisites.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-10
OLDEST DREssMAKERs' BILL.

Among the documents which have lately been discovered in Chaldea is tablet which may well De called the oldest dressmakers' bill in the world. /" It was the custom of the Babylonian kings to present to the temple sets of robes for the use of the priests and priestesses. This was lsually done every year. Many of these lists are in the British museum. The oldest hitherto known has been that of a king about 1450 B. c. The document now discovered is, however, much older. This tablet is of limestone, and was found in the ruins of a temple in the city of Nippur, in southern Chal- dea. This temple was dedicated to the ghost god,' and had large priesthood attached to it.
 From the style of the writing, which is extremely archaic, and from the cll- rious system of numerals employed, the tablet, it is said. cannot be of later date than 2S00 B. c. It contains a list of 92 vestments which were pre- sented to the temple of the king Tie name of the king is, unfortunately. omitted. The inscription ends with the words: Tn all, 92 vestments, the bill Qistl of the temple for the priests this year." Manypf the words are un- known and are~ doubtless technical terms employed by the modistes of that day.
 Among the items are Twelve white robes of the temple, eight robes of the house of his lady, ten collars of the house of his lady,, ten pure gold col lars, two white robes" An item to- ward the end of this curious i,jii- -Four scented robes"-is suggestive of the passage in Psalm KY, in which are mentioned the robes redoiant of "myrrh and aloes and cassia.'s
 It was evidently the custom in Baby Ion to perfume the robes. as it is at the present in India and Persia This document is of value as showing the great development which had taken place in the textile arts in Chaldea. even at that early period.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-10
HARD WORK IN JAIL

A man who lives in a small town in New Haven county has puzzled the constabulary of the county for fort night He is a sober mechanic, draws salary of $2.50 per day and owns his house and little garden. He has daughter about II years old. His wife, feeling that she could leave the house in charge of the little girl, has been for several months at work in a shop near her home. The couple supposed that their daughter was attending school regularly, were surprised to learn that she had been playing tru- ant. for several weeks. The father was brought into the district court and charged with disobeying the State law, which requires parents to keep children under IA years of age in school. He did not take kindly to be ing brought into court and made a de- fense. The justice sentenced him to pay fine of $15. He refused openly boasting that he would go to jail first. Two or three friends offered to pay his fine for him, but he refused, saying 'I've always been a law-abiding citi- zen. If they want to send me to jail let them.
 
 Whalley avenue a week ago Saturday to work out his sentence. On the way the sheriff who accompanied him grew sympathetic and offered to pay his fine, but the man refused, saying that he had been persecuted and that he would not give in He was kept in jail over Sunday and on Monday morning was set to work in the chair department. It so happened that the hardest job in the department happen ed to be vacant. This consists in hauling a loaded box up an incline plane and sending it back again. The man worked at this all day Monday and, although he was used to manual labor, he was pretty we'll used up as evening drew near.
 About o'clock, his wife came in to the office of the jail and announced that she had come to pay his fine. The jailer accepted it and said that if the woman would wait her husband would be released to go with her. She an- swered Not a bit of it. You wait till 1 get down town. If he knows that I paid it he'll refuse to leave" She took a car down town. Her husband was called to the office. He was told that l his fine had been paid. He at first re- fused to go, saying that he had been sentenced to jail and he would stay till he had worked out his sentence Finally the jailer told him that they could keep him no longer, that he had no right here now and that he must go. On hearing this he donned his hat and prepared to leave.
 l He thanked the jailer for his kind ness but said, s'that was fearful job you gave me. Pm 1aboring man but never met such a fierce proposition in the way of work as that is" He was assured that he happened to be given that job simply because it hap pened to be vavant and so he strutted down the steps. When half way down the walk he suddenly stopped and came back to the office. He approach ed the jailer and said:
 I'm only poor man, but in the name of humanity I'll give couple of dollars for you people to get a pair l of castors for that box'
 He handed the jaiIer a $2 bill and left the jail.
 l
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-10

showing the origin and early history of this mission work Tn 1915 Bishop Dubourg of New Orleans stopped Ill Lyons, France, on his return from Rome where he had been consecrated, and, anxious because of the poverty of an American diocese in which he had everything to organize, recommended it to the charity of the well-to-do ciu- zens of Lyons. The next year the direct ors of the Paris Seminary of Foreign Missions sought to revive the so-called union of prayer, founded in the pre- ceding century in France for the con- version of infidels-a union disbanded by the French revolution. This at tempt also awakened the missionary sympathy of the Lyons people, which had already been evoked by Bishop Dubourg. The result was the founda- tion at Lyons of a society the members of which pledged themselves to con tribute sou Ca cent week toward the support of foreign missions. The membership soon rose to thousand. From the start the society for the propagation of the faith, founded to assist the apostolate throughout the world, received encouragement from the Roman Catholic prelates of all countries, and in 1S40 Pope Gregory XVI recommended it to the patronage of Roman Catholics everywhere In its first year, 1922, the society had col lected from all sources a little more than four thousand dollars; the in crease of receipts since then can best be shown by saying that in this coun- try alone the society has spent nearly six million dollars ill missionary work, while throughout the world it has distributed a total of nearly sixty-six million dollars.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-10

On last Sunday afternoon in the house of representatives there oc- cured an event which carried the spectators back to the sorrowful scenes of last September when the fu- neral services of President Mckinley took place in the rotunda of the capi- tol. On handsome catafalque re- posed all that was mortal of Amos J. Cummings of New York, who for fourteen years had represented his constituents in the lower chamber of congress. Around the bier were gath cred more than half of the members of the house and the galleries were crowded with sorrowing friends. D. Couden. the blind chaplain of the house. Rev Wallace Radcliffe, a Pres byterian minister. and Dr D. J. Staff ford, a Roman Catholic priest, all united in their praises of the charac- ter of the dead while a choir sang '.Nearer, My God, to Thee" The fact that the arrangements were made to hold the funeral in the house testified to the high esteem in which he was held by his colleagues.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-10

The United States senate, in pass ing the sundry civil appropriation bill, added an amendment which places at the immediate disposal of the presi- dent $200,000 for the purpose of erect ing an executive office on the white house grounds, and for the renovation of the white house itself, $35,000 to be devoted for the latter purpose. It is MT Roosevelt's desire to erect a one story building just west of the white house which will contain ample ac- coinmodation for himself and the clerical force which he employs. The building will be furnished in modern style. Both Mir and Mrs Roosevelt are opposed to any changes in the white house which would serve to de- stroy it's historic character In fact, it is Mrs Roosevelts idea in renovat- ing the house to do so with the great est regard to it's original design and the only changes will be the removal of some of the more recent and incon- gruous fixtures which have been placed within it's walls. The old mantels will be restored and every eff fort will be made to reproduce in so far as may be, the original appear ance of the home of the presidents.