Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-02
chairman Of the "ollepaw" commit,

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chairman Of the "Ollepaw" commit
tee.
September.
2.--Carpenters Ind Joiners' union
hold an all-day picnic at Caldwell park
In observance Of Labor day,
3,-Qttumwa Country club golf
team defeats the Oskalooaa Country
club golf team. City accents Leighton
park proposition.
4.-6irand jury returns nine indict-
ments. preshyterians at Sigourney
honor 10th anniversary.
6.-Twelve killed In a railroad wreck
at Cedar Falls.
Mrs. Fred NJ, Fish found MUIR
dered In her home In Evanston and Mr..
Fish found with his throat cut beside
her.
9.-After search of years, Charles
Kellogg OF Tyrone learns daughter has
been adopted into Relknap home.
10.-Efforts are made to end the
wire strike. Pennsylvania 2-cent fare
law held to he void.
1.-THE steamship Lusitania lowers
all records for liners. Coroner's In
quest charges Charles Fl. w. Eveland
with carelessness contributing to New
Sharon wreck.
I'D. M. Parry. foe of labor raps
Bryan and Beyeridse.
13.-IIome Of Major Cobb of Lovilia
Is raided by women who search tbs
house from, top to bottom and quantit,
OF booze liz, found and destroyed.
14s-Twenty-five people are killet
and many injured In a wreck on tht
Boston and Maine r. r. near Concord
n. H. Constantine Is on trial for tn,
Gentry murder in Chicago.
1e.--Cassie Chadwick is stricken
blind in the Ohio prison.
T.-Miles Morrow Is placed on tria
for the lcilling of Bonnie Farrell.
18.-OttumEa schools are closed OF
account Of oppressive heat.
20.-AhaAip arrives IN Ottumwa.
21.-Gpebel murder laid to door o
Kentucky man, Seventy-two cases ant
~ keos Of beer are spilled in Abba.
23.-The Ollapaw festival opens i
full blast. Constantine gets life sen
tence for the Gentry murder.
34.-Mayor T. j. Phillips present
the KEYS of the city to Chief Wapelle
Miss Ada Hickey is named queen O
the festival.
25.-The Onepaw parade at ia
o'clock the big feature of the festiva
Morfow's case eoes to Jury.
26.-Airship's flight and parade thri
carnival crowd,
27.-Small orders telegraph operat
ors to return to work,
2S.-Ollepaw comes to close. Mis-
Mary Mahoney assaulted by unlknow
man. and is taken to the hospital in
critical condition.
30.-Monumant to mark Mckinley
resting place Is dedicated.
October,
1.-Forty thousand people gree
President Roosevelt at Keokuk. e
mer Gillum Of Eldon falls between cal
and is killed.
president Roosevelt is greeted b
thousands at st. Louis.
3.-Henry Boozer of Waterloo, Inc
~fnterurban promoter, committed su
eide at the Ban1ngall Hotel in Ottum
wa. by taking poison. President Roose
welt visits Memphis. Tenn.
4.-Natfonal corn exhibition opens {
the Coliseum in Chicago.
h.--LeO StrohrneyeE Of Iowa City
fatally injured IN a football game.
7.-School house at Buxton burns
the ground.
Mrs. Chadwick, with her min
wrecked, Is reported to be dying. Ii
Strohmeyer dies at his home In low
City from injuries received in a foo,
ball game.
10.-Wellman boat goes down;
are drowned near Copenhagen.
11.-Cassie Chadwick died in tt
Ohio prison. Lusitania crosses tt
; Atlantic ocean in four days. Brya
opens his presidential campaign.
Likely men vote to continue tt
telegraphers' strike.
15.-Powder mill at F%ontanelle, Inc
blows up, wrecking town and causin
! heavy loss of life.
] 16.-Taft opens assembly in PhiliI
pines.
17.-Anti-saloon attorney at Dave1
, port is jeered, draws a u and Is al
rested.
lS.-President Roosevelt kills a b
: black bear at Bear Lake.
21.-Federal court is opened in o
, tumwa. Public reception of Amer
! can Home F1ndin~ society. Aerial Graf
start in unusual rage from st. Louis.
22.-Knickerbocker Trust compar
|, of New York stops paying money
depositors after withdrawing strain 8
morning.
: 28.-Operator OF air ship which ele'
:, trifed Ottumwans during the Ollepa
! has a narrow escape from death at s
Louis.
26.-Marshalltown has a bad fire.
28.-King AlphonsO and Queen vi
toria visit In Paris. France.
q 29.-Ministers appeal to the COVER
or to enforce the liquor laws at Dsyel
port.
! 30.-Flfteen thousand peop'
: of Bokharu. Russia. killed
slide.