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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
oTTuMWA GIRL MARRIED.
Miss Josie coday Webs Thomas Hig
bee of Bloomfield.

Miss Josie Coday. formerly of this
city and Thomas Higbee of Bloomfield
We're quietly married in that city We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock. Only a
few friends of the contracting parties
witnessed the ceremony. Mr.. Higbee
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hig-
bee of Bloomfield, and is associated
with his father in business. He is a
popular young bushes man, The
bride is daughter of Mrs. Mary Co
day, SIS Taylor street She is well
known Young lady and has large cir
Gle of friends. The young couple came
to this city Thursday afternoon and
were rendered reception at the home
of Mrs. Coday, They returned to
Bloomfield last evening and will make
their home in that city,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
DEATH OF PETER j. RUSH.
Passed Away Last Night After Linser-
ing illness.

From Mondays Daily.
Peter j. Rush died at his home 700
East Main street. at $3.50 O'clock last
evening. Mr.. Rush while only 43 years
of age, was an old settler of Ottumwa
He was born in Ireland in 1860 and
came to this country and to Ottumwa
with his parents in;1866. Practically
all his life has been spent in this city.
Mr.. Rush was big hearted man and
had hosts of friends. He was a most
loving husband and son. He is surviv-
ed by his wife. Mamie A. Rush, his
mother, Mrs. Mary Rush, who made
her home with him, by his sisters,
Misses Nellie and Annie Rush, and his
brothers, Patrick Rush of St Louis
and M. j. Rush of Kansas City,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
TAKEN TO MT. PLEASANT.
Sheriff cremer Places Insane Woman
In Asylum.

From Mondays Dally.
Mrs, Goldie Norris of this city was
adjudged insane late Saturday after
noon by the commissioners of insan-'
ity and was taken to the asylum at Mt.
Pleasant yesterday by Sheriff Cremer.
This afternoon the sheriff was called
to the country, about eight miles north
east of the city to secure Alfred Nc
Cormiok whose neighbors placed a
charge of insanity against him. He
will be brought before the commission
ers of insanity this afternoon.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
the greatest party on earth has licked
the other fellow.
A Fireworks Day.

Every civilized nation has fire,
works day-one date when nothing
but rockets and cannon crackers will
express it's feelingc. The Chinese use
them on their New Years day; the
English have fired crackers on Guy
Fawkes day Nov. 81 ever since the
sixteenth century; the French FIRE
works day is June Fourteenth which is
the French fireworks day is June IA,
the anniversary OF the fall of the Bias
tile The Italians alone, dedicate fire
works not to patriotism but TO the
church. They do not use them on their
national holiday September 20, when
the capture of Rome by the troops OF
Savoy proclaimed united Italy; but ey-
cry feast of the church requires them
in Italy, and there is not a saint on
Mulberry street so poor that he cannot
have a string of colored lights and a
few set pieces on his birthday. The
south always fires crackers on Christ
mas day, and the custom is general
enough to make an important item in
the trade, for every darby in Dixie is
wild for fireworks at Christmas time.
Chinese the orisinators.
The Chinese had frecrackers before
the pyramids were built. They alone,
through the dim ages of antiquity had
the powder to make them. Powder
may not have been utilized for the arts
of war but they always kept enough
of it on hand for their firecrackers,
But like the rest of Chinese ciyiliza-
ton their fireworks We're a species of
arrested development The Chinese
cracker is the protoplasm of pyrotech-
MICS.
The Romans We're very fond of spec
taeular shows, hut they had no gun
powder, and were confined to torches
and fiamheaux for their effects in il
Elimination. The burning of Rome was
their greatest effort in that line. Curt
ously enough, the spectacle planned by
the emperor with all that appetite for
realism which demanded real deaths in
the arena, is today, with one exception.
the most popular of all the spectacular
pyrotechnic shows given in America.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30

f had a yearling colt cut very bad
on fore arm; cut or inches long
and very deep. got a can of Rerry's
Barb Beater of Garrett Bros, Troy,
Ia, and it cured it without a scar or
'callous. You cannot tell where it was
cut. l did not wash OF cleanse it in
any way from the time of injury until
entirely curea. Frank IL, Clark, Troy,
la. Sold by Sargent, CLARK and My
nard.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
MANY DUTIES.

WapeIIo County Farmer Has Corn
Crop In All Stages at Once.
The unreasonable wet weather of
the past year has caused the farmers
many difficulties, but the most pecul-
lar effect of the wet weather was not
ed a few days ago. A farmer living
some four or five miles north of the
city, was raking cornstalks, blowing
for corn, planting corn, blowing corn
and gathering his last years crop all
on the same day and in the same
field
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
ROBBED, THEN SHOT.
Unfortunate Youth at creston Injured
by Hold-up Men.

Creston, June 26,-(Special, )-Her-
man Kreuger, aged 10, was shot in
the o. yards here last night by hold
up men. The wound is fatal He was
robbed and then released, but was
shot while. running away from the
InurdererS.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
THIRTEEN STROKES.
Lightning Has Made Repeated Waits
to Cedar Falls Barn.

Cedar Falls, June 2S.- (Spe-
eiall--W. H. Rown of Cedar
Falls has settled with the in
surance company, receiving $500 for
damage to his barn by wind. The site
is well surrounded and protected by
trees but notwithstanding this fact it
seems to be a faVorite place for the
wind and lightning to work vengeance
as this last stroke made the thirteenth
time that the building has been wreck
ed by the elements.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
Date for TiIIman Trial.

Columbia, s. c., June 26-The trial
of James H. Tillman, charged with the
murder of N. G. Gonzales, win be held
in Lexington county the third week in
September, Judge Gage presiding The
defense wanted a change Of Venue to
Salida county,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
KNOWN IN oTTUMWA.
Democratic Nominee for Governor Has
OttunlWa Relatives.

J. 3. Sullivan of Creston, who was
yesterday nominated as the democratic
candidate for governor of the state of
Iowa by the state democratic conven-
tion which met in Des Moines, is quite
well known in Ottumwa. He has visit.
ed this city frequently, and is we'll
known among the lawyers. He is a
cousin of Dr. J. F. Herrick of this city
who has known him since his boy
hood.
In speaking of the candidate yester
day, DR.. Herriek stated that he had
frequently heard Mr.. Sullivan say that
he, could not afford to be candidate
for Office and for that reason had new
er been an office seeker The nomipa
ton was quite surprise to DR.. Her
rick, who stated that Mr.. Smllivan's
law practice was worth far more te
him financially than the governors
Office would be.
Born Near Mt. Pleasant.
j. B. Sullivan was born in Henry
county, few miles south OF Mt. Pleas
ant. When he was about twelve years
of age, the family moved to farm
near Alton in Union county. Shortly
after his graduation he entered the
law Office of McDill C Sullivan in Aft
on. The members of this firm were
the late Senator McDill and J. r. Sui
the candidate Young Sullivan remain
ed with this firm till he grew to man
hood and was admitted to the bar. A
branch Office OF the firm was establish
ed in Creston and placed in charge OF
the young attorney,
The branch office prospered and al
the time OF the death Of Senator Nc
Dill, was the best paying end of the
business. The firm name was chang
ed to Sullivan & Sullivan, and still
continues under the old name, the ell
der member of the firm remaining at
Alton and conducting that end of the
business, while the Creston branch is
managed by the junior member.
In his practice Mr., Sullivan has been
wonderfully successful and today is EN-,
joying handsome returns from his law
business. In addition to his regular
office practice, he is attorney for sev,
eral corporations and large companies
He is attorney for the Burlington and
draws $4,000 a year as attorney for the
state of Iowa for the Anchor Fire In
surance Co. He is also a state counsel,
or for the Chicago Life Insurance
Co., which has its headquarters in Des
Moines.
Prominent Elk.
Mr.. Sullivan is an eloquent orator
and is a prominent member of the
Elks' lodge. He is frequently asked
to address the Elk assemblies not only
in Iowa but throughout the Other
states. He delivered an address a,
the national meeting of the Elss in
Salt Lake, Utah, and at the last ma
tional meeting of the same order. in
Indianapolis, Ind. AT the dedication
of the new Ellss building in this city
last fall he was also present and de
liyered an address, He is a member
of the Creston branch Of the order.
Mr.. Sullivan is AZ years of age and
has never actively engaged in politics
to any extent always declaring that he
could not afford it. DR.. Hericrk is OF
the opinion that his cousin would iust
about as soon run and be defeated as
to run and be elected, His election
would certainly entail upon him great
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
OWES CHICAGO NOTHING.
Fire Marshal Musham Donates Ser
vices of Men and Steamer.

Mayor nickler is in receipt of let
ter from Fire Marshal Musham OF Chi
cago, stating that the city owed Chi
eago nothing for the services of the
steamer and men during the flood
period when the city water supply
was shut off He stated that the city
of Chicago owed the entire country
a debt of gratitude and was only too
glad to lend a helping hand at any
time
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
BURNING A FORTUNE
sTUPENDous AMOUNT OF MON.
Ely is SPENT ANNUALLY FOR
FIREWORKS.
The Only Business Which Works a65
Days to Make What Will be Used
in One Day and a Nisht-American
Progress Has Elevated Industry.

There is only one business in the
world which works all the year to
prepare something which is to be
used up in one day out of the 365.
The manager of the largest fireworks
company in the world estimates that
the people of the United States burn
up $S,0O0,0OO to $10,O00,0oO on the
Fourth of July. The retail trade neces-
sary to handle this enormous sum does
not begin till few days before the
Fourth and is over by the night of
that day. The next day the fifteen
OF twenty fireworks factories in Amer
lea begin to make fireworks again for
the next Fourth of July BY January
they begin their shipments. Orders
come in till the force of 80 hands runs
up to 800. Inventive brains are rack
ed for ideas and new designs are cum
ningly wrought in falling stars, revoly-
ing wheels and raining fire of red,
white and blue. If there has been a
new president during the year, a new
war, or popular idol or excitement,
Its counterfeit presentment is ingen-
iously encased in an innocent-looking
tube and sent out to spread it's glo-
ries on the evening skies. Cities from
Cape Cod to the Golden Gate issue sol
emn proclamations to restrain the too
hurried enthusiasm Of young America,
The annual discussion over villainies
of the cannon cracker reviyes. Then
the $10,000,000 begins to pour over the
counters. The embargo is lifted.
America breaks into fusilade and it
is all over for another year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30

loss financially not> only during the
term of office but also in the decrease
to which his practice would be sub
jected and which could not be re-
gained.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
REED DISCHARGED.
No Prosecution Made by Miss stiokler

IN Court.
Chicago, June 26. Harold C. Reed,
or Mills, TO escape whom Miss Laura
Stickler is said to have jumped from
hotel window several weeks ago,
discharged today for want of prose
cution. Miss Stickler failed to appear
in court,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
Semi Weekly Courier
CHANGING ADDRESS.

Subscribers wishing their address chang
ed will please give the name of the Post
well as the Post Office where they desire 1t
to be changed to.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
Great Development.

For some unknown reason the art of
firework making has developed in gor-
geousness of coloring and artistic quail
ity of designs more in the last ten
years than during the previous history.
All the advance in chemical and cleo
trio science is utilized, until today any
scene in history can be reproduced.
Their development has taken place in
the United States.
America has furnished the fireworks
for every great historical event in Eu-
rope for the last ten years. The Span
ish government, undismayed by the
free exhibit of American fireworks re-
ceived shortly before, sent to New
York house to light Alfonso to his
throne. When Edward VII was crown
ed London blazed with fireworks
made in American factories and dis
played under the charge of Ameri-
can experts.
The first time American manufac-
turers made Europeans open their
eyes was at the opening of the hle
| ship canal in Schleswig- Ho!stein, some
| ten years ago. The magnificent pro
/. gram of water fireworks then dis
| played by an American house was sc
superior to anything from any other
source that Americas supremacy in
| this line was established once and for
| ALL
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30

The back hair is visible to the
minds eye.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30

Read the Courier for news.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

From Thursdays Daily.
Roscoe Dale Rogers and Miss Pearl
Lorene Alderdice were united in mar.
rage Wednesday at $3.50 o'clock at
the home of the brides parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Alderdice, 214 North
Moore street, in the presence of a few
intimate friends and relatives, Rev. R
L. Patterson, pastor of the Willard
Street Methodist Episcopal church Of
ficiating.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
Mrs. F. Dickerson, 219 North Court
street, left on the noon Rock Island
for Des Moines, and will make a short
visit with friends at that place.
Mrs. e. M. Woodford and daughter,
Miss Mamie, of Blakesburg, are in the
city and are the guests at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. d. A. LaForce, 427 West
Fourth street.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
Notable Exhibits.

The Columbian exposition showed the
finest display ever seen up to that
time. But in the dedication at st
Louis on the evenings of April 80 and
May 1, pyrotechnic art reached its
high water mark in the world.
A Wonderful Piece.
A map of the United States, 100 feet
long showing the thirteen original
safes in the national eolors, with the
boundaries of the Louisiana purchase
outlined, was one of the set pieces. An,
other was the famous old Laolede
house, the first government house in
st. Louis, shown in its actual size, S0x
30 feet The masterpiece was the pre-
sentaSion OIL the building, which is to
be the keystone of the exhibition
grounds, Festival hall, with its long
colonnades and it's tumbling cascades
pouring into the lake in front.
The tremendous picture in fire was
1000 feet long and 100 feet high, a
fac. smile of the building when com
plete. Five thousand dollars it cost
to, paint it in fire OF fifteen minutes;
but it was fifteen minutes pleasure
for 800 900 people In the preparation
of this piece seventy telegraph poles
were required, the placing and re
moval of which alone cost $1,000. Then
100 frames of wood, divided into one
foot compartments, were placed Or
these frames the building and it's ac
cessories We're outlined In bamboo the
workmen copying the designs of the
artists. All along the tracary of ham
boo were placed pins, on which were
fixed "gerbs," packages of colored
fire. AT the summit of all was quick
match, connected with every gerb b,
tube of tissue paper so that the light
when applied ignited the thousands
of gerbs almost instantaneously. The
bill for the two nights display was
$4,000.
Receiving the Prince.
When the prince and princess Of
Wales made their colonial tour, 6
company of twenty experts from a
New York house went around the
world with the royal party, to prepare
| the fireworks for their reception
Through Canada, Australia, New Yea
land, India and South Africa, Ameri
can fireworks handled by American
hand greeted British royalty on British
ground.
This trip, unique in the annals d
trade, is an example of the point o
contact between pyrotechnios and TIL
people. The fireworks man is with hu
manity in it's hours of joy. He doe,
not go to funerals, He helps the worlt
| make holiday and record its ebullien
patriotism. He is always wante,
"When Johnny Comes Marehin,
Home.o when the red letter. days o
history come rolling around, or whel
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-24
BY WILLIAM THORP.
Copyright, 1908, by William Thorp.

Greek, German, French, English
Spanish and Persian fluently, and no.
where could a cleverer or more YER
satlle man be found. Knowing civili-
cation and barbarism thoroughly, he
chose the latter and returned to his
tribe to spend his life in the Sahara
in preference to European cities.
At dinner in London one evening,
just before he returned to Africa, he
was asked
What do you think of European
civilization"
II would rather not say" he replied.
Il am eating your salt and dwelling
in your tents. 1t would be discour-
teous to criticise you"
But he was urged to speak.
"Oh, go ahead, old fellow said his
hosts. Tell us of our faults. Don't
mind being candid"
"Wen. then" he began, 'I came to
Europe with an open mind, expecting
to see much to admire. l have been
bitterly disappointed. Your system OF
life is all wrong, in my eyes"
'How's that?" he was asked, and he
answered:
A story of the Desert.
"Once, according to the legends of
my tribe, there was a wealthy sheikh
who said. L will not live in a tent like
my fathers. I will build me a mighty
palace that all men shall see and adj
mire So he spent his life gathering
marble and stone with vast toll and
cost, and built his palace in the mid
die of the desert. 1t was the work of
his whole life, and, in order to finish
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-24
LACE RIOTS ON
SUMMER WAISTS
AND GOWNS
The Demand of Fashions Brings
Out the Family HeirlOomS.
ValencienneS No Longer a
First Fav0rite.
BY HARRIET HAWLEY.

The wise woman has long considered
her laces to be as precious as her jew
els. a never-failing source of beauty.
But no matter how judiciously she has
bought, how carefully she has boarded,
this summer will overtax her re-
sources. She can make use of every
scrap of real lace she possesses and
still need more, for two or three kinds
are now frequently being used on one
gown alone.
If she does not possess a long purse
she will be forced to fall back on the
imitation laces. To her delight she
will find that the limitations are so
excellent that their authenticity is
seldom questioned. Thus treasured, she
may trim every dress with lace, and
lace, and more lace.
Although every sort of lace is used
the summer has its favorites. Valen-
ciennes is no longer the power which
it used to be. for there is a reaction
against the sheerer laces. No doubt
the heat of the dog days will make it
seem more delectable. Even now it is
charming on some of the Powered or
CANDIES. 1t is extensively inserted on
the lawn waists, and even on the white
Japanese silk blouses, but it recalls
last years styles too wildly to please
the smart woman.
On lingerie it still holds it's own, al
though even in these fields coarser
laces are rivals. Point de Venise, Para
quay and torchon are used on the
sheerest fabrics with pleasing effect.
The different varities of silk lace are
far prettier for the silk blouses. The
shop windows are full of cuffs, col
lars, capes and stoles of Maltese lace.
They are so charming that to see
them is either to covet or to buy
While they appear to best advant-
age on the thin silk waists, they are
largely used on fine lawns, MULE and
batistes. Their soft creamy tone con-
trasts pleasingly either On white or
on any of the more delicate summer
shades.
But the heavier laces are the most
popular. They combine most fittinRly
with the heavy linens and other mer-
cerized fabrics now so fashionable.
The cluny and antique laces are en-
regle on almost every style OF gown
ana on almost every material They
are marvelously initiated at a cost
which brings them within the reach of
every purse. In spite OF the coarseness
OF their thread, they are so open as 20
give a cobweb effect.
Many Of the lace waists are made
OF strips Of antique insertion sewed to-
gether They are extremely plain, as
II fearful that Ornamentstion would
detract from the beauty OF the lace.
They sFe generally worn over d silk
slip IN white OF some contrasting ooi-
on, but midsummer VIII md them IN
lined.
The woman who has dainty lingerie
viii have need ~ %. for me avaraFe
Nsist - literally 4 cobWeb. Fpeclal
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-24

Hes just a poor, unenlightened
savage" says the civilized man when
he reads in his paper that the Abound
of Swat, or some black monarch of
Africa, has been making history again
by opposing European arms or GUS
toms. Then he launches into stream
of criticism of savage and barbaric
races that, to say the least. is not
hattering.
There is another side to the story
the savage's opinion of his critic. On
the whole he disapproves of his critic
as much as the latter disapproves of
him.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the
average barbarian who visits a big
city like New York or London is
overwhelmed by what he sees. AS a
rule, he is disguised. He goes back
to his skin tent in the desert or his
hut in the forest fully convinced that
his way of living is the best, and that
'he that increaseth knowledge in
creaseth sorrow"
One of the most acute critics of
civilization who ever visited in Lon
don was a Bedouin sheikh named
Nicola Eyoub Tams.
He was born and brought up in the
Sahara, and the fierce, free life of the
desert was bred in his bones. But as
q youth he was taken to Cairo and
educated at a Mohammedan college
there, afterwards spending five years
at the universities of Heidelberg and
Oxford. He spoke Arabic. Turkish,