Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-02

man from the court house. The Larch-
mont, en- route from Boston to New
York, collides with a schooner and
sinks with $50 passengers on board.
l3.-Senate passes measures to COM
pei husbands to support families.
l4.-Joseph Curtis meets sudden
death in a coal mine at Hiteman.
Women march to capitol in anti
liquor crusade.
15-Mrs. Sarah Jane Madison dies
at her home.
16.-Jap quarrel ends. First str;lw-
berries reach Ottumwa market.
1S.-Club women would free Thaw
of murder. John Pollock, a Seymour
lad, is killed by the cars. Ottumwa is
assured the federal court.
19.-Explosion in a coal mine in
Mexico results in 100 deaths.
20.-Jerome digs holes in Thasp's
defense. Iowa banks show an incresse
in deposits of $2S. 100000. D. Witt
ZACH of Eddyville commits suicide by
cutting his throat.
21.-More than $50 people, dro'tn'
within sight of shore by the sinking
Of the mail steamer Berlin, off the
shore of Holland.
22.-Washington's birthday is ub-
served all over the land. Shea is TIC
quilted. K
24.-Legislature says board of health
should be abolished. 49,
25.-Between SITE. 900 and 100000
are missing from the United Stairs
~sub-treasury in Chicago. Jero1.se
forces Mrs. Thaw to repeat her LIES
story. P~ostofice department orders
county service for Wapello county.
26.-Two-cent fare bill passed by
senate.
27.-Marriage at Knoxville has
tragic end when twenty are hurled in
to the basement. N. F. Reed makes his
announcement as candidate for may
or.
%. The price of eggs drops from
80 cents to 25 cents a dozen.
March.
1T. j. Philips secures 60 instruct
ed delegates at last nights onven
ton.
2.-Tillman questions Roosevelt's
canal decision.
3.-Mrs. w. R. Daum and Mrs. Fred
erick Cloud, of this city were passeng-
gers on the i'll fated steamship Da-
korta, which went aground in the bay
of Toxic.
Roosevelt appeals for aid for
the famine victims of Russia. 59th
congress ends session at noon.
Grain elevator burns at Hedrick.
Congressman Lacey retires from con-
gress and Dan w. Hamilton takes his
seat.
Crank B. Clark is appointed Uni
ted States MARSHAL.
S.-Big ice jam in the Des Moines
river at the dams. T. j Phillips is
nominated for mayor of the city of OF
tumwa on the first ballot by an over
whelming majority.
9.-Jobn Alexander Dowie dies at
Shiloh house in Zion CITY.
11.-Arnoid thinner and Thomas
Grimes begin fight for their life at
Mt. Pleasant, being charged with the
Gavin murder. P. G. Stafford of ST.
Louis. Mo-, is selected secretary of the
Ottumwa Commercial association.
l2.-Gavin murderers admit their
guilt.
ia. odenwalder ir chosen re-
publican candidate for mayor.
14-Frank Clark attends opening of
u. S. court at Council Bluffs.
15.-Murderers of Gavin are sent to
the penitentiary for life. Flood in
P%ittshurg throws 100000 people out
of work.
19.-Frank Clark takes oath of Of.
flee.
2O.-Joint freight bill passed.
21.-Hugh Lally, one of the best
known ball players in the Iowa State
league is arrested in Waterloo for
stealing chickens.
22.-Former Senator Burton of ~
sas, ends six months in Jail.
26.-The democratic ticket in LAND
slide wins sweeping victory. Oscar
Nylen commits suicide by throwing
his body in front of the fast mail.
27.-Joint rate bill passed. Pennsyl
vania secures at 2 cent fare law.
29.-Cyclone nits Page county
farms. Ottumwa Country club holds
annual meeting and plans business fol
ensuing year. James Baggs dies al
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Chas
Richardson, 112 South Moore street
at the age of 81 years.
30.-First case for the new fedora,
court, $4,000 damage suit against the
Wabash. removed to Ottumwa divi
sion. Horace N. Marvin is found los
in Delaware woods. where the kidnap
pers had abandoned him