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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
New York Produce Market,

New York. Dec. 2-Wheat - May,
S4Ac.
Corn, 4sasc.
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LITTLE cHlLD's DEATH.
George, Son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Chenoweth, Passes Away.

From Wednesdays Daily.
George w. Chenoweth, aged years,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cheno-
weth, 225 Mabel street, died this
morning at 3 o'clock. Services will
be held at the residence tomorrow at
1890 o'clock, by Rev. HORNED. The
remains will be shipped tomorrow af-
ternoon at 1850 o'clock to Abba, where
the funeral and the interment will
tafkesesrYi,s Yi,st,e.sseSrsss=ssesi s,-s.s - -
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TO RECEIVE REYES.
Secretary Hay Win Meet the Colombia
Representative.

Washington, Dec q DR.. Herran,
the Colombian charge, called at the
state department today and arranged
with Secretary Hay that the latter
should formally receive General Reyes
tomorrow
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SAFE BLOWERS FOILED
Niro-G -Glycerine Found Near Door Of Des
Moines Bank

pEs MONIES, DEC. 2JANlToRs TODAY DISCOVERED
STICK OF NiTRoGLYcERNE FITTED EXPLODING APPLi
ANce JUST OUTSIDE THE DOOR NATIONAL
BANK. ATTEMPTED TO EFFECT AN
ENTRANCE, BUT WERE FRIGHTENED AWAY.
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the home of Mrs. Tharps son-in-law

the home OF Mrs. Tharps son-in- law
A. NJ. Ford.
Walter Barns of Pttsburg, Pa, is
visiting at the home of DR.. A. NJ. Ford
and other relatives this week. Mr..
Barns recently received severe inJu-
ries in u runaway and has been d
patient in hospital for some time.
w. M. Hotchkiss. left Tuesday for
Davenport, where he is spending ten
days attending a dealers convention
in session there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fortune left
Tuesday for ST. Louis, where they Will
remain until the last Of the week and
buy new goods.
j. 7. Dabney left Wednesday for
Unionville, Mo, where he is attend
ing the North Missouri poultry show.
Byron Spencer returned Monday to
Glenwood, Mo-. after a short visit With
Mrs. Jennie Spencer and other rela-
tives in the city.
Messrs G. H. and C. r. Hardy and
families left Tuesday for Mexico, Mo-,
where they have decided to To-
cate.
Mr.. Bussey of Bussey, accompanied
by his sister, Mrs. George Clark, OF
Pueblo. Colo, who have been spend
ing the past few days at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. Will Saunders and 9TH
er relatives left Tuesday for Pulaski
and other points in this county, where
they will visit relatives for a Short
time.
Mr.. and Mrs, S. M. Atwood returned
Wednesday from Minneapolis. where
| they have been spending the pasl
| five or six weeks at the bedside of theil
son, Claude, who was able to return
| home with them. Mr.. Atwood has
been seriously sick and his friends arr
! rejoiced at his recovery.
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CHICAGO Butter and Egg Market.

Chicago, dec. 2.-Butter, firmer.
Creameries, 16@25c; dairies, 14@t9c.
Eggs, steady, 23@26c.
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THE WEATHER

Iowa--PartIy cloudy tonight and
Thursday With possibly showers or.
snow furries in the east portion,
tonight; cooler Thursday.
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New York Poultry Marke,

New York, Dec. Poultry Alive,
steady Chickens 1G1ac; fowls. 1ikc;
turkeys. 12c. Dressed, weak. Chiek-
ems, 129135zc; fowls. 1Sc; turkeys. Is
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chicago Poultry Market

Chicago, Dec. Poultry Turkeys.
steady, 9110c; chickens, firm. S1a a
SC; springs, Sk@9c.
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New York Butter and Egg Market.

New York. Dec. 2.---Butter, frm. EX-
ira creamery, 25c; common TO choice.
Eggs, firm. Extras. SOc; thirds to
seconds, 27@2Sc; firsts. s9c; refriger-
ated, 22@26c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
BUILDINGS
IN RUINS
OTTAWA UNIVERSITY BURNS TO
THE GRoUND-LosS
s25o,ooo.

Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 2.-The Ottawa
university was totally destroyed by fire
today. The loss estimated at $250,06o.
Ii will be two years before it can be
rebuilt. There were 45o students at
the university, which was Roman
Catholic institution.
Students Have Marrow Escapes.
a large number of the students are
from the United States. Several of
them had narrow escapes, and a mum
ber We're forced to jump from the
fourth and fifth stories into blankets
held by the firemen, few being slight
~ injured
Priests Badly Injured.
Two priest were, seriously hurt and
another probably fatally.
Started From Cgaret.
hTe lire is supposed to have resulted
from burning cigaret.
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RUSSIANS pIsoRpgRLY.
University at Kieff is Closed secaus

OF IToUbTeS.
Kieff Russia Dec 1.-The Univer-
sity here has been closed until Jan-
ualy 3 becallse of II renewal of the
disorders on the part OF the stu
dants-
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REDS SEIZED
MEN CAPTURED IN PHlLADEL
PHIA ADMIT THEY ARE OF
THE MAFlA.

Philadelphia, Dec 2.--In a raid on a
tenement house today the police cap
tured fifteen supposed members of the
Malta. The capture was the result OF
a complaint made by the officers of the
Merchants bank who said they receiv-
ed a blackmailing letter and were
threatened with death if they refused
to comply with the demands for
money.
Admit They Belong.
AT the hearing one of the prisoners
admitted that he and his companions
are members of the Malta and are in
communication with similar branches
in other cities. They were held in
bail, charged with conspiracy and
threatening to kill.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
Peoria Produce Market,
CT Louis Produce Market.

Peorie, Dec. Corn higher. No 3,
42Asc.
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ST Loeis. Dec 2.--Wheat Cash,
nominal. May. sSMs3lsc.
1torn--Cash, i0l2e; MAJ, tpM@
ssts--cash. ss1ac;. May. sTAe. q
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Maple Grave.

Maple Grove. Dec. 2.-Rev. w. j.
Smith, of Pella will fill his regular ap-
pointment at the Baptist church next
Sunday.
Miss Hattie Arnold spent Friday ev-
ening with friends.
Mrs. Emma Lowell has returned to
her home from a visit with her son,
Roy Lowell, and wife. of Ottumwa.
Luke Dodd attended church in Mo-
ravia Thursday evening.
Miss Arlie Tadlock returned home
Saturday from visit with friends in
Centerville.
Frank Shellic and Edward Derst de-
livered ohgs in Morayia Tuesday.
School at this place opened Monday
after two weeks vacation.
Mrs. Minnie Kingery entertained
friends at her home a few days ago.
G. C. Long and family We're in Mora
via recently.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
IN PARKS STEPS.

Convicted of Extortion.
New York Dec. 2.-Timothy McCar.
thy, walking delegate for the House
smiths & Bridgemen's union. was to
day found guilty of extorting $500
from Hermon Loebel, for terminating
strikes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
hazei Dell.

Hazel Dell.
Hazel Dell, Dec. 1.-The Hazel Dell
school began Monday, November %, af-
ter a two weeks vacation.
j. A. Kennedy is quite sick with
grip.
Carl Harlem, of Ottumwa, visited
Sunday with friends in Hazel Dell.
Miss Inez Truitt spent Monday with
Sarah Hill.
Mrs. VIM. Gift had the misfortune
last Wednesday to run nail into her
foot. 1t is not thought that the result
will be serious.
F. A. Hollingsworth, of Ottumwa.vis-
tied recently at the home OF his pa
rents.
Mrs. Jones, of Lancaster, Mo-, is
spending the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. w. L. Beamer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-03
Douds,

Douds.
| Douds, Dec FL. w. Rowley, SEN
| ior editor of the Keosauqua Republi-
can, was caller in town Wednesday.
Mrs. w. H. Bills died at her home in
this place on Wednesday evening, Nov.
25, after a lingering illness, and was
| buried Thursday afternoon at the Zion
Lutheran cemetery. The deceased was
81 years old, and had been resident OF
this place and vicinity about 20 years,
She was faithful wife, a kind mother,
and was highly respected by all.
Ira Mccullough and son Harold, OF
near Selma, We're Sunday visitors with
relatives at this place.
| Married, at Ottumwa First M. b
church, on Tuesday /, Nov. "a, at z
o'clock, p. M, Rev. A. E. Craig ofticiat
ing. Mr. George Siemon and Miss Wei
tha Elerick. The bride is the only
daughter of State Senator-elect james
Elerick, of this place, and the groom
prosperous young farmer living neal
town. The highly respected and hap
py couple started on their wedding torll
on Thursday morning for Los Angeles
4 Cal. They expect to remain in Califor
MIA for the winter.
Frank Hudson returned Saturda.
from visit with friends west OF here
The following marriages were sol
emnized Thanksgiving IN the vicinit.
of this place and Leando: Charlie
Brodine to Miss Fannie Boyer, Charlie
Shaffer to Miss Effie Denning, Harr.
Lagle to Miss Ona Brown, and Tildel
Cade to Miss Maud Pool.
! Born, on November "a, to Mr.. ant
Mrs. Lee Cox. boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bridge, Q
Bonaparte, spent Thanksgiving wit
their daughter, Mrs. Lee Cox. Nj
Bridge returned home that evening
! jbut his wife remained for an eNtende
; visit with her daughter.
Mr.. George Bowers and family vi:
tied over Sunday with relatives in tn
country.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
AN ELECTRIC EYE-OpENER.
Novel Alarm Apparatus That Has
Been Invented"b by q outh-
e,rn NIau.

There is in Mobile a gentleman who
in the past has been in the habit of
oversleeping in the morning hours,
and as his business requires that he
down street early, it is essential
thai he should awaken at a certain
hour. Time after time he came late
to his business, in spite Of alarm clocks
and other appliances to get his eyes
opened at the proper time. One morn
ing recently he entered the office on
time to the minute. The others in the
Office expressed great surprise at this
unusual event, and asked the whyfore
of it, reports the Mobile Register.
II determined that this business of
sleeping when I should be awake had
to stop, SO I called in an electrician
and he fixed me up a few things. /
have it so arranged that at the hour
set a light flashes in my eyes. If this
is not successful, and 1 do not get up
and throw the switch, a mosquito bar
and the frame falls-on me. If / still
slumber and sleep a gong like the one
used on the patrol wagon goes off.
Should | fail to notice these things,
there is over my bed a bucket filled
with water, having a small nozzle at
tached, and a rachel releases a stop,
SO that a stream of water is squirted
INTO my face. When I sleep through
all these it will be time to order my
coffin"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
ACTIVE VOLCANO IN UTAH.
Small Crmter Recently Discovered by
~prospectorn In Salt Lake
Region.

What appears to be a partly active
volcano has just been discovered
by George McNeme and several other
prospectors, at a point about 20 miles
north of Moab and two miles east of
where Salt Wash crosses Salt valley,
and about six miles south of Richard
son post office, reports the Salt Lake
Tribune.
On a high mesa the p~rospectors dis
covered steam or smoke rising scme.
distance from where they were and on
investigation found that it rose from
a hole in the solid sandstone formation.
The orifice is oblong, about three feet
in width and six feet long.
A strong current ofwarm air carry
ing some vapor arises, but seems to
have little or no gaseous smell. The
sides of the hole arc very black and
sooty. A rock thrown in apparently
falls a long distance. The prospectors
working in that section Will make fur
Their Investigation.
This section has been prospected
over for a number CT years, and cattle
and sheepmen have ridden over it for
the past 25 years without discovering
the crater. The prospectors who Wis.
tied it say they would not have found
it but for seeing the steam arise, as it
is a place that would be unlikely to be
passed. 1t appears to lie arnold rolcan.
ic vent that has been lying dormant for
years and is just beginning to show
signs of activity. .
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
WHY THEY TATTOO. :
Strange Relief of WoMen in the
+ Lnughlan Islands, Near
New Guinea.

In several islands of the Indo-Pacifc
region, says Prof. Thilenius, who
has been closely studying the subject
for some months, the belief prevails
that persons who are tattooed have a
much better chance of getting safely
into the next world than those who are
not tattooed, says tie New York Her
aid.
AS a typical example, he cites the
case of the women in the Laughlan is
lands. a small group,east of the south
ern end OF New Guinea. These women
tattoo the greater part of their bodies
with argled designs, but never fail to
tattoo concentric circles on their legs.
They believe that between the
Laughlan islands and the island OF
Vatum. in the Trobriand group, to
which their souls should go, there is a
great snake over which they must pass.
The snake asks each soul for her tat.
tooing, and the soul takes it off and
gives it to the snake, who covers itself
with it. The snake then becomes
broad and fiat, and the soulpasses over
it as over a bridge.
If, however, the soul is not3tattooed,
the snake shrinks. and the soul falls
into the-sea and cannot reach the bles-
sed sanctuary in Vatum. Moreover,
worse still, these wretched souls are
straightway changed into fish.
This strange belief has prevailed in
the Laughlan islands for a long time,
and there is no evidence thatitisdying
out.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
CATCHING CRABS FOR MARKET.
Ingcn:oan Mcthnd by Which Large
Numbers Are Procured from q
Maryland River

Those who crab for market on the
Choptank river, Maryland, have an in
genious method Of catching crabs in
quantities, says Country Life in Amer
lea. A rope about the thickness of q
clothesline, several hundred feet long,
is kept coiled in a key. The closer
the cover the more pleasant the sail
with the fisherman to the grabbing
grounds, for at intervals of two feet
along the entire length of thesrope he
has UNFINISHED it and inserted between
the stands short pieces of sailed cells.
The torsion of the stands holds them
tightly in place. Each end Of the rope
has a key buoy attached, together with
a heavy stone. Arriving at the ia
vored place, usually on oyster beds,
he throws aakeg overheard and pays
out his highly scented rope as he sails.
When the othsf end is reachedthe an
chors it with another stone, and throws
out anotheebuoy. After lowering his
sail he waits a few minutes, then
takes his stand on the bow of his boat.
Alongsiqe of him is his landing net,
with a handle six feet long. He raises
the buoy and stone, and hand over
hand pulls his boat along the line.
When a crab, clinging to its refresh
msnt, comes in sight he seizes his net,
dashss it under the crab, and filings it
into the boat. The wary crab may
ioosen his hold ard dive for the bot
tom, but such is the fsherman's dex-
terity that his Inet~is swifter than the
crab. One seldom gets away. Several
hundreds Of crabs are often taken at
each o~verhauling of the rope. When he.
has caught all he wants, he packs them
in barrels and sells them 10 local deal-
ers, who ships them to market
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
LITTLE BIT OF HOLLAND.
The Busy Fishermen and Their
.'VFows" of YoIendam Who Catch
GuiIders of Tourists.

The inhabitants daily dress in
their Sunday best, to catch the
"guilders" oil unsuspecting tourists;
but along the dyke, in the single
street of Nolendam, one sees the fish
ermen and their good "vrows," not
in holiday attire, but dressed for
their vocation, precisely as Volendan.
fishermen have been clothed for CEN
turtles past, says Four-Track News.
The men wear tight-fitting jackets,
buttoned to short, full brooches, wood
en- shoes, and a shock of straight, thick
hair, clipped by their coed DANES
around the edge of a bowl, in the good
o!d-fashioned way. The women are
busy as ants in a heap of sand, wasting
rOt a moment CT time, knitting their
long wooden stockings as they cIatter
along the bustling street in their shoes
of wood, and short striped skirts with
padded hips, their heads surmounted
by clean white caps of characteristic
cut.
The tiny houses, the narrow street,
everything is so compact. that one cas-
lily imagines he is in a dolls village
while the prodigious men and stalwart
women recall the childhood's wonder
ment, when Il gaze first rested upon
the illustrations as we turned the
pages of "Gulliver's Travels"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
IN THE ALLIGATOR PONDS.
a Reptiles Collect In Great Num-
bers I'm the Swamns of the
Florida Coat.

Alligator hunting used to be wanton
slaughter; now there is a w%ell-deined
code of ethics for the sportsman. Ten
years ago it would have been hard to
oyerestimate the number of a1ligators
IN Florida. Since then the skin hunt
ers have made such inroads upon them
that they arr now almost difficult to
nm in some localities. The home of
the alligator is the Great Cypress
swamp west of the Everglades. In
the dry season the water recedes from
great portions of this tract, leaving
many small ponds, in which alligators
collect in great numbers.
l once set up mycamera on the Dor
der OF n of these ponds, which was
nearly circular in form, about 200 feet
N diameter, and surrounded by dense
vegetation, says a writer in Country
Life in America. At first the reptiles
disappeared, but after the camera was
adjusted a peculiar nasal sound. like
the cawing of a crow, initiated with
closed nostrils, Immediately dotted the
surface with eager eyes, and soon
brought scores of gators into full
view. One of the pictures then OBJ
tanned shows rs aMgators.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
JEWELED PRINCES OF INDIA.
Barbarfc SpIendor of the GuIkwar
OF: Baroda When Decorated
b! with His Gems.

The princes "beggar description"
animated nuggets, ambulatory mines
of Jewels" mt has said.
The crown jewels of the guikwar of
Baroda are valued at $2O.O 600, 900. No
bluevault of Dresden nor dragon.
guarded tower could mine the treas
ures ofsthat most charming and cult
waited of India's princes, Sivajo-Rao
guikwar of Baroda, says Everybody's
Magazine.
Seven rows of magnificent pearls
are his favorite wear, but he has SO
necklaces Of equal yalue-parures in
every gem. First in wonder comes the
famous diamond cape made for the fe-
rocious Khandarao, who might be
called the last of Roman emperors
from his passionate fondness for
bloody arenic sports. 1t falls from neck
to shoulders in a great mass of table,
cut stones, fringed with pear-shaped
emeralds.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
IMPORT WORMS FOR BIRDS.
A Chicago Dealer Receives Large
Quantities from nm Old Ger
man in New Jersey.

Chicago is obliged to import its meal
worms from New Jersey.
The worm most valued from a COM
mercial standpoint is the small, inch
and a half long specimen known as the
meal worm, usually found in -four mills
and kindred places. 1t is sold at all
bird stores as a dessert or piece de re-
sistance for the family canary or par
rot. The retail price for meal worms
is scents per hundred, and large guam
titles are sold, says the Chicago Trib-
une. A man who sells a large number
of meal worms at his bird store in State
street each year says that the supply
used to come from various mills around
the country, the mill boys being tempt
ed by liberal rewards to put in their
noon hours prying around behind the
loose boards of the mill exhuming the
worms and sending them to Chicago.
But now the dealer receives all his
supply from an old German down in
New Jersey, who runs a sort Of meal
worm ranch. This man breeds the
worms and ships them when they are
fully grown and of proper weight and
color. He has a building fixed up to
resemble an old mill, full of loose
boards and with flour and meal plenti-
fully sprinkled around. The unsus-
pecting worms are led to believe that
they are boarding in a real mill until
such time as they are fat enough to
cause a canary birds heart to dilate
with JOY. Then they are ruth1essly
seized, packed into tins, and sent to
market.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
WANT WOMEN PARTNERS.
In business Compacts Wonen No
Longer Prefer Men ns at One
Time They Did.

"When a woman in business wants to
extend her trade and increase her cap
ital by taking in a partner, she seeks
for another woman" said an agent
who makes a goodincome by managing.
transactions of this kind in onnec-
ton with a real estate business, re-
ports the New York Times. SIN for
mer days, when a woman's husband
died and left her with a profitable
business on her hands, she either sold
it or took ina man as a partner. As
a general thing it ended in the mans
! getting control of the store and the
woman selling out at a very much re-
dnSed figure. But as a rule women
know much more about business than
they did a few years ago, and are keep
Ing alive to opportunities for turning
over, their money at quick profits. Men
in our line of business have on their
bonl,z a number of women who have
anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000 to in
vest in some congenial occupation,
where tney can take a personal part
inSthe management. AS a rule, part
nershiys of this sort are good money!
maIess. Whenever a man and a wom-
an gos into business partnership,
there is trouble. The woman is ever
suspicious that the man is trying to
take unfnir advantage of her, and the
man is seldom slow in expressing his
conviction that the woman is slow,
and hasn't q grain of omm sense.
In the stenograph sr's business women
partnerships are sery frequent. Some
Of them have the most profitable es-
tabllshments in town.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-01-29
Variety STARS WIN TITLES.
slsEaRgGesmaH NobIennen Fall Victims
to the harms of Dancers
n And Actresses.

The number of variety dancers and
singers in Germany who get notable
husbands-notable hat is to say, as
regards titles and riches-is rapidly in
creasing, says a Berlin report. An in
4uiring statistician has ascertained
that GO per cent. of German variety
actresses who marry win husbands in
far better social position than their
birth and training would have led them
to expect, and 20 per cent. wed men of
title. At the present time 3S' counts
have wives who were comedy actresses
or dancers. A Prussian prince (Adal-
bert) is morganatically married to
Therese Elsstair and Prince Philip of
Hanan to Albertine Staber: Among
other bearers of proud names who have
recently married stage women are
Duke Ernst of Wurtenberg, Prince
Sulkowsky, Prince Paul of Thurn and
Taxis and Count Schafranch. Every
year the number of such marriages in