Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-03

is held at Agency. Three hundred OF
tumwans attend.
23-Miss Catherine Ostdiek and Ed
ward Martin Hanke of Marshalltown
are united in marriage at St. MarY'S
recto-y.
24--The lifeless body of man after
wards identified as Jack Monroe, found
at the mouth of the Cass street sewer.
/ Mrs. Mary E. Evans. wife of William
G. Evans, night police captain, passes
away.
25-A. H. Haines is arrested at AL
bia, charged with circulating worthless
script made in imitation Of that used
by the Black Diamond store.
25-F. 5. Murphy of Ottumwa Is
elected director of the A. o. H. at
that state convention held at Emmets-
! burg. Miss Mary Consodine is elected
secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary.
| 26-Peter Mcdonald is killed by fall
ing to the ground from the window OF
! his room in a boarding house at Rut-
ledge.
27-The annual Wapello county
teachers institute opens weeks
session.
The August term of the Wapello
county district court begins following
the summer vacation.
The suit of Charles E. Morgan VS..
the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway company, one of the most
noted of recent lawsuits in this coun-
ty, is settled and dismissed.
| 81. B. Sax is sued for $3,2S214 by
j. H. Merrill, j. w. Garner and Calvin
Manning.
30-Three important changes are
announced in the local Burlington Of
fees: T. B. Miller, trainmaster goes
to Sterling. Colo, to become superin-
tendent of the B. & M. division, being
succeeded by j. R. Young of Creston.
w. H. Dewitt OF Hannibal to be train
master Of eastern portion of Ottumwa
division.
September.
| ANNUAL picnic of the Ottumwa
Travelling men is held in Redman's
grove.
Delegates to the republican 5conven-
ton are elected in all precincts out
side Of Center township and Eldon.
| 2-Elizabeth Mary Luke, infant
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John G.. Luke
accidentally obtains strychnine tablets
and eats them, death resulting.
| 3-Ottumwa public schools resume
work after summers vacation.
Walter e. Chambers, a grandson Of
Mrs. Daniel Eaton of this city. dies
suddenly at Pueblo, Colo.
No formal celebration of Labor day
held in Ottumwa
Republican primaries are held in
Center township at Eldon
Second district convention Of the
w. G. T. u. opens at the First Meth
odist Episcopal church.
/ CT of -
W. G. T. u. elects officers for the
coming year.
Grand jury returns Indictment
against Joseph Mcmillan. charged with
robbery. and four others defendant on
various charges.
Big Four fair opens at Eldon.
Charles E. Augustine, a lineman sof
the Ottumwa Railway and Light COM
pany, Is killed by a live wire
| &C. R. Porter, democratic candt
date for governor, opens his campaign
with stirring address delivered in
this city.
IF. W. Darner is indicted for for-
gerry by the grand jury.
The city council orders $3.50 feet Of
new sewerage.
Annual outing of the employees OF
the Dain Manufacturing company held
at Keok1k and Fort Madison.
| 8-Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., passes
through Ottumwa enroute east after a
western hunting trip.
Republican county convention to
nominate county candidates is held
John Overman, one Of the earliest
and oldest settlers of Wapello county,
passes away.
9-Rev. John Hastie, pastor of the
South Ottumwa Baptist church, an.
nounces his resignation from the pas
/ torate.
| 10-Ottumwa democrats elects deles
gates to the county convention
4 Mrs. Grace Van Ess, prisoner in
the county Jail, charged with disturb
ing the peace, attempts to hang her
self, using pair of hose as a rope.
i 12-George Fife. Rock Island EN-.
ploye, is struck by Rock Island train
and instantly killed, near Eldon.
Miss Anna Stevens and viii H. Wy
coff are united in marriage.
13-The Courier carrier boys visit
Parker's White City.
/ 14-Wapello county socialists hold
convention and nominate county cans
didatcs
i 15-Democrats of Wapello county
nominate county candidates in conven,
ton.
James Kline is struck by train on
Burlington tracks west of city, his
right leg being severed.
/ Two street cars collide on West Sec:
ond street; several passengers thrown
to the ground Mrs. G. o. Wolf, mem.
Der Of tie White City company, is se-
J verely injured.
4 The mission conducted for the past
week at st. Patrick's Catholic church
closes
17-Tim Murphy. an aged inmate Of
the Wapello county hospital, attempts
suicide by cutting his throat with a
case knife.
A week of lectures for non Catholics
is begun in ST. Patrick's Catholic
church.
1S-Charles Newman, aged Z years.
fells 40 feet from the embankment in