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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
STORM STILL
HOLDS MIDDLE
WEST IN GRIP
CONDITIONS SHOW IMPROVE
MENT TODAY BUT SEVERE BLlz-
Yards coNTiNuE-2 KILLED IN
LAKE WRECK.

Chicago. Feb. 10. - After battling
blizzard the fishing tug Anstach was
crushed by the ice off Waukegan har.
Dor at o'clock last night and sank
beneath the waves with two men OF
her crew, Harry Bellinghausen. first
mate, and Jacob Jacobson, engineer
The master of the tug, Captain Oliver
Rubber, and the other members OF the
crew, Charles Lavender, o. Ingersoll
and John Linberg. escaped death by
leaping to life raft and walking to
the shore over a field Of crunching
ice.
The wreck of the Anstach came
suddenly and after heroic efforts had
been made to save her.
Heavy Snow In Michigan.
Detroit, Feb. 19. - The blizzard
which swept down upon the lower
part OF Michigan from the west yes
terday, still prevails with great sever
ity Already the snowfall ranges from
8 inches in Detroit to 18 inches in the
southwestern section of the state,
Trains are late everywhere The
storm was most severe in that part
of the state below a line drawn from
Saginaw Bay across to Lake Michi-
gan.
Colder In st. Louis.
st. Louis. Feb. 19. = The tempera-
ture dropped to 20 degrees above
zero today. A stinging snowstorm pre-
walls. driven by fierce northwest
wind
Flood Situation Serious
Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 19. The
| floor situation in southern Indiana Is
more serious today. Swollen rivers
have increased their depth during the
night and thousands of additional
acres OF lowlands have been sub
merged. 80
Milwaukee Still in Storms Grasp.
Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. 19.-The
blizzard which started yesterday con-
tinues with but slightly abated fierce
ness today. About foot of snow has
fallen in Milwaukee and vicinity
which drifted badly in many instances
as 1t was driven by high wind.
Traffic Is more or less interrupted,
some Of the interurban and electric
lines being entirely out of commits
sion.
Trains Late in Chicago.
Chicago, Feb. 19.-The blizzard
which began here yesterday is stilljn
progress today, although the greatest
fury Of the storm has passed. The
light snow in the early part of the
day was piled into deep drifts by 4
strong wind. Rail traffic Is greatly
delayed and trains from the west were
from one to eight hours late.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
ELDoN.

Eldon.-Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Woods
of Malcom spent Tuesday with their
son. Harve Woods.
Mrs. Dorothy Phillips of Duluth.
Minnesota, left today for Ottumwa for
short visit on her way home.
Miss Nellie Vos of Pella visited a
few days with her sister, Mrs. Jake
Boayen
A. L. Hand spent Sunday with his
family in Centerville.
Mrs. j. w. Ferguson Of Mokane, Mo-,
is visiting this week at the home of
her son, E. Ferguson.
Miss Anna Odean of Ottumwa spent
Tuesday and Wednesday with her par
ents. She will leave for Lockridge,
where she will visit relatives
Harry Palmer of New York City
was in Eldon Tuesday on business
Mrs. Frank Legg went to Muscatine
for p visit with relatives.
Frank Sham was in Ottumwa today
on business.
Miss Ida Wise is on the sick list
today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
TRAGIC DEATH
FOR z WOMEN
At W|NTERSEI |
AGED LADY BURNS TO DEATH
AND FRIEND DROPS DEAD
WHEN TOLD THE NEWs-THlRD
VICTIM BADLY BURNED.

Winterset. Feb. 19.-Mrs. Stinson,
aged 90 years, was burned to death
in fire which DESTROYED the home of
Roe Deeter last night. Mrs. Albert
Mills, neighbor, dropped dead, in an
excited crowd while watching the fire.
Mrs. Deeter, daughter Of Mrs Stin-
son. was badly burned. Deeter was
Slightly injured
Mr.. and Mrs. Deeter and Mrs. Stin-
son were asleep in their home when
the fire started. 1t had made great
headway, and enveloped the entire
structure when they awoke and dis
covered their danger. Mrs. Stinson,
who was 95 years old, slept alone in
front room. Mr.. and Mrs. Deeter oc-
cupied another room some distance
away. Evidently, Mrs. Stinson made
an effort to escape, but she failed to
open the front door of the house to-
ward which she made her way her
body was found lying in a position to
indicate that she tried to get out Mr..
and Mrs. Deeter barely had time to
get out of the burning house. Flames
surrounded them on every side. and
1t was only by the barest chance that
they made their way through them il
safety. Mrs. Deeter was severely
burned but not fatally. Mr.. Deeter
suffered only slighter burns.
The death Of Mrs. Albert Mills came
while the fire was at its height, and
as the news went through the crowd
that Mrs. Stinson had been burned to
death. She collapsed suddenly and
expired in the arms of friends near
her Heart failure was the cause Of
her death.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
KNOX FATHERS
new BANK TX. BILL }!
SEEKS TO ESTABLISH SYSTEM
OF POSTAL SAVINGS INsT1-
TUTIoNs.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 10. Sen
ator Knox today introduced a bill to
establish system of postal savings
banks The bill embodies the plan out.
lined by Postmaster General Meyer in
his annual report and which he has
advocated in public addresses as be-
ing calculated to encourage economy
and thrift and afford place of depos-
it free from any possibility of doubt
or suspicion for vast sums of money
which might otherwise be boarded
and kept out of circulation, through
ignorance or lack of confidence. The
bill lauthorizes the postmaster general
to establish a system of postal saw
ings banks comprised of such money
order offices as he may designate
for that purpose.
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STOESSEL TO
WH|SFATE
IN FEW HOURS
coURTMARrIAL TRYING RUSSIAN
GENERAL FOR SURRENDER OF
PORT ARTHUR RETIREs TO DE-
LlBERATE ON CASE.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 10. The
court martial which has been trying
Lieutenant General Stoessel for the
surrender of Port Arthur to the jap
anese, retired for deliberation at noon
today, ordering Stoessel and the other
defendants III the court-marital pro-
ceedings, Generals F'ock and Reiss,
to appear Feb 20, when sentence is
expected to be pronounced.
The trial reached its last act yes
terday, the prosecution waving the
privilege of putting in rebuttal to
the defense. The last word was given
to the accused general who uttered
only few sentences in firm voice
and shouldering the entire responsible
.ty for the surrender of Port Arthur.
.'If the court decides the surrender
was crime" he concluded, II ask
for the death sentence"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
POUNDS A TACK
IN BOYS TONGUE
ASSISTANT MATRoN IN OHIO
HOME ADMITS GREAT BRU-
TALITY AND IS FINED.

Canal Dover, o., Feb. 19.-In order
to secure a confession of the theft of
pencil from Sampson Fowler, 7
years DID, Assistant Matron Clara
Sterling of the County Children's
home confessed to having driven a
tack through the end of the boys
tongue.
The case was reported to Humane
Officer Jackson by r. W. Chapman, an
employe at the home, and the former
caused the arrest of the woman on a
charge Of cruelty.
She was taken before Mayor Defeu-
bacher Of New Philadelphia, and after
confessing was punished with light
fine. The matter has been brought to
the attention OF the board Of directors
of the institution and the girl probab-
ly will be dismissed.
Boy Tackled to Chair Back.
+ In her confession, Miss Sterling,
who is only "a years old, declared tho
child had stolen a pencil and refused
to admit he was guilty or show any
remorse for the act The woman, an
gered by his stubbornness, forced the
boy to place his tongue on the back
of chair and then, with the aid of a
hammer, she drove the tack complete.
.ly through his tongue and into the
wood on the chair
This brutality, she admitted, was
committed on Saturday, and was kept
secret until today, when 1t was no.
ticed by other attendants at the house
that the boy could not eat because Of
the condition of his tongue.
With the disclosure of this mis-.
treatment Of the patients at the insti-
tuition the board Of directors decided
to make thorough investigation Of
the other charges which have been
made from time to time against the
teachers and nurses. it being claimed
that others Of the children were beat
en- horribly by the instructors in their
efforts at maintaining discipline
One Hundred Children in Home.
There are about 100 children at the
home, the institution having inmates
from Tuscarawa, Musklngum, Coshoc-
ton and Carroll counties. The boy
was sent to the home from Uhricis-
vile.
Miss Sterling is niece of Matron
Hortense Nugent, the head of the in
stitution, who now is touring CaIifor.
MIA.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
"PREAcHERs' BUTTERFLY"
Mrs. Hamilton Of the Smell Case Fams
in Retreat Near
Iuscola

Tuscola. ILL.,, Feb, 19.--Mrs. e.. g.
Wolverton, one of the best known
Presbyterian workers in Tuscola, is
quoted today as saying that if Mrs. e.
A. Hamilton really wrote the II love
you-send me 500 series of letters to
Col. Thomas Smell. she did SO while
in condition Of nervous collapse.
Mrs. Hamilton, who was known dur
ing her residence in Tuscola as "Tha
Preachers Butterfly Is said to be-:
within few miles Of Tuscola, in a.
private retreat, and in a condition OF:
complete nervous collapse. While at
the Beardsley hotel, in Champaign.
Mrs. Hamilton is said TO have secured
two newspapers containing the letters
signed by herself and her daughter,
fell unconscious, and was revived with
difficulty.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
WEST TPO|NT BANK
CLOSE ITS DOORS
PRIVATE INSTITUTION IN HANDS
OF RECEIVER - CASHIER
is MISSING.

West Point, Feb. 19.-The bank of
West Point, private institution,
closed it's doors yesterday. Cashier
Lawrence Smith has left the city. His
present whereabouts is unknown.
Riley Smith, the president of the
bank, who is the father of the cashier,
states that the depositors will be paid
in full.
The cause of the failure is probably
due to the, financial stringency and to
poor loans
Herman Schroeder of Ft. Madison
has been appointed receiver by the
court.
Smith, the cashier, is mayor of the
city, his term expiring in March. He
Is also treasurer Of the school board.
He is thirty-one years old, is married
and has one child. He has lived in
West Point for the past fifteen years.
No statement could be obtained re-
garding the amount Of liabilities and
assets.
Excitement at West Point.
West Point was thrown into no lit
tie amount of excitement by the an
nouncement that the bank had closed
Its doors to the public. Riley Smith,
the owner and president of the insti-
tuition, is resident of Colusa, Ill. He
is well-to-do, owning large amount
of farm property in Illinois.
Lawrence Smith has been cashier of
the institution ever since the property
was purchased Of F. Kreikenbaum.
The family, who are almost prostrat-
ed over the situation, do not know
the cashiers whereabouts. It is
thought by his friends that there is
nothing serious connected with his alb
sence; that being in poor health and
besieged by worry over the affairs of
the bank he has gone away for rest
of mind and body.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
. ROCK ISLAND
PAIR HELDFOR
KILLING BABE
SAYS CHILD WAS MUIR
DERED By UNKNOWN MAN;
MoTHERicLAIMs TO HAVE HAD
DREAMS IN WHICH SHE FoUeH
SNAKE.

Rock Island. Ill. Feb. 19.-Ensign
and Mrs. Robert Booth, in charge of
the Salvation Army post here were
held by the coroner today accused Of
numbering their two weeks old son
who was found dead in bedroom this
morning There was a fearful cash
in the childs neck. Booth contends
the child was murdered by an un-
known person who left the door open
and a bloody razor on the table. Th.,
wife tells Of dream during the night
that she was attacked by a snake
which she killed with knife. The
police have a theory that the woman
killed the babe in a fit of puerperal
insanity. The mother is 18 years old.
The couple came here recently from
Monmouth.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
KEPT GIRL FROM SCHOOL.
DR.. A. Oliver Of Des Moines Fined
for not Giving Daughter
Education

Des Moines, Feb. 10. = That in
Des Moines; the educational center Of
Iowa, a 13-year-old girl has only been
allowed to go to school ten days in
three years has been revealed in po.
lice court case in which DR.. A. Oliver
was given hearing charged with
keeping his daughter Aleta out of
school. The girl had been in good
health, yet for three years she only
received ten days schooling. She is
now in the second grade, when she
should be in the seventh or eighth.
DIR. Oliver was fined 500.
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AGED MAN is ACCUSED.
D. Larkin, Cedar Falls Bachelor
6s Years Old. Charged With Mis-.
treating Little Girls.

Cedar Falls. Feb. 10. - John d.
Larkin. bachelor, aged 68 years. is
in the city jail on charge of criminal
assault upon two young daughters of
Gilbert Rexstrew, aged nine and
eleven years The Rexstrew children
were left motherless two years ago.
The daughters refuse to reveal any.
thing. as they claim that both Larkin
and their father threatened to pun
ish them severely If they should re-
veal any OF the events transpirin. at
the home
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
NIGHT RIDERS
IN new Raid
KENTUCKY TOWN VISITED BY
BAND OF DETECTIVES
is FLOGGED.

Hopkinsville, KY, Feb, 19.-The
town of Gracey in West Christian
county was visited last night bv a
band OF twenty-five masked night
riders. After taking possession of
the telephone exchange and making
the town marshal a prisoner, they tre-
rorized the inhabitants by firing guns,
and pistols They forcibIy took
James Wooten who is suspected as be-
ing detective, from a room at a
hotel to the outskirts of the town.
whipped him and ordered him to leave
town by morning.
After leaving warning for the
negroes to go to work the hand rode
off.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
FINDS BODY IN DIssEcTING ROOM
Ohio Girl Discovers Remains Of Lost
Father In Des Moines Medical
CoIleoe

Des Moines, Feb 19-Horrified by
the thought of her fathers body being
cut up by grinning medical students
in a Des Moines college, Mary Harnk
of Cliftville, O., took her last cent
from the savings bank and dispatched
it to friends in this city with an ap-
peal to them to regain possession of
her fathers body and give it decent
burial before the dissecting room
habttues got in their work.
Undertaken Harry Gray was pressed
into service by the Des Moines at
torney of the Ohio daughter and yes
terday the undertaken took the body
and inferred it in a west side Gene
terry.
Searches for Father.
Miss Harnk is the only living rela-
tive and mad been searching for sew.
eral years for her father, who disap-
peared from Ohio years ago. He died
in Des Moines several weeks ago
without any means of Identification.
Undertaken Gray held the body for 3
week. and as the relatives could not
be located, reported the case to the
state board of health. He was direct
ed to turn the body over to medical
college, as is provided by law in such
cases.
The college must hold the remains
for sixty days before making use of
it for dissecting purposes Miss Harnk
who had been tracing her father,
learned of his death in Des Moines
and what had been done with the
body.
She was unable to sleep, so persist
emily did the ghost Of her ancestor
fit about in her dreams, always pur-
sued by grinning, heartless medic"
brandishing scalpel. Finally Miss
Harnk could stand 1t no longer, and
rushed one dark night to telegraph
office and forwarded her small earn
ings to Des Moines to save her faith
er,s body from the horrible fate that
awaited it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
GAGE CHAMPIONS BILL
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Speaks Before House Committee
on FoWIer's Measure.

Washington D. c., Feb, 19.-The
principles of the Fowler financial bill
was defended today by Former Secre.
tary OF the Treasury Lyman j. Gage,
Charles A. Conant, of New York, and
Prof. Joseph French Johnson, of New
York university before the house COM
mittee on banking and currency. Gage
said we had reached most import
ant period in the financial history of
the country for the past forty or fifty
years and that the solution of the pro.
blem depended largely upon the men
who are making UP the banking and
currency committee"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
PLEAsEs ITALY's KING
Roosevelt Sends consratu'arory Let.
ter Upon Birth of
Princess.

Rome, Feb. 49, ~ Ambassador
Griscom has sent officially to King
Victor Emanuel. through the foreign
minister, a letter from President
Roosevelt congratulating his majesty
ufon the birth Nov. 13. 1907, of a
daughter. the Princess Giovanna The
king expressed his pleasure at the re-
ceipt OF this communication, particu-
larly as the observance is new de-
parture for the American government.
In the past the United States took no
notice of such events.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
FISH OR HARRIMAf.?
Judge Ball viii Render Decision
Thursday in Illinois Central
Railroad Case

Chicago, Feb. 19. - Judge Ball in
the superior court will tomorrow
morning render a decision in the fa-
nous Illinois Central railroad case
The chief legal point involved is
whether or not it is lawful for corpora
tions outside of Illinois to control and
vote stock in Illinois corporations. In
cidentally the decision will settle
whether Stuyvesant Fish or E. H. Har-
riman is to control the Illinois Cen
tral railroad during the ensuing year
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
Hot Competition
In Boone Propes
an Aid to Cupids

=
Boone, Feb. 19.-A free we'd
ding ceremony and dinner,
years subscription to local pa
per, and wedding outfit at
half price to any bridegroom is
the offer Boone holds out to the
ratrimonially inclined.
All this is the result Of the
cut rate war between Judges
lockard and McBirnie. Last Fri
day Judge Loekard offered to
marry free all who called during
the day. Judge McBirnie came
back, offering free ceremonies
and embossed certificates during
the entire week. To those get
ting married on Saturday he will
give wedding banquet.
Then local paper and cloth.
ing house came out with their
offers.
:.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
AL LBIA FEARS SMALLPOX
Close Schools to vacinate Pupils
One Teacher

Abba, Feb, 19.-The Abba schools
were closed today to give the scholars
the opportunity to get vacinated, the
fear being that smallpox had entered
the buildings. One of the teachers.
Mrs. Alice Nye, is confined and under
quarantine at her home in Lovilia with
the disease. There is no general fear
that the disease will become an cpl
demic, but there is enough of it in the
city to cause the authorities to take
the steps they have. :
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
WAPELLo WOMAN ELoPEs.
Mrs. Macy Williams Runs Away With
Charles Wilson - The Latter
is Arrested

Muscatine, Feb. 10. Mrs Macy
Williams of Wapello found her affin-
ity yesterday in the person of Charles
Wilson and e,oped with him 10 Musca.
tine, with the husband of the woman
hot on the trail. Wilson was arrested
on warrant sworn out by Mr.. Will
llans charging him with adultery.
The woman made her escape.
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UNDER SERIOUS CHARGE.
Seventeen Year-oId Aledo Boy is Ar
rested Accused of a Re-
voItinn Crime

Aledo, ILL.,, Feb. 10. - Charged
with being the father Of twins, born
on Friday to Miss Myrtle Swan, the
fifteen-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Collins, Clair Willis, a
lad seventeen years of age, is await
ing the action Of the grand jury un-
der bond of $1,000. Both of the
babes died almost Immediately after
birth and the young mother passed
away at 1870 o'clock on the following
morning. Both of the children attend
ed the Aledo public school until 8
months ago when they discontinued
their studies.
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Aged Des Moines
Man Killed While
Shoveling Snow

.**ss s.sS*sss ss*ass a@+4
Des Moines, Feb. 1e.-chas.
w. Chapman, aged 70 years, was
struck by street car in front
j of his Clark street home and
killed today. He was shoveIing
snow from a crossing and did
not hear the car.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
NEWS FROM FLEET
Wireless From Sea Says Speed Has
Been Reduced-Evans' Health
Still Poor

Lima, Feb. ia wireless dispatch
dated Wednesday at 1915 a. M, from
the American battleship fleet says the
squadron was then 224 miles from
Cailao: The speed has been reduced
to eight miles an hour, the message
says; also that Evans has not yet re-.
covered his health. 1t is believed the
vessels will enter Callao harbor 80
Thursday morniny.
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Memorandum Given to o,Brien.

Toxic, Feb, 19.-The memorandum
of the Japanese government in reply
to that of the United States on the
subject Of emigration was handed to
Ambassador O'Brien today. 1t is un-
derstood it agrees in general terms
with number Of suggestions made by
the American government an requires
further restriction of emigration by
the practical prohibition of laborers.
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Gould Denies Recelvershin stor,

Gould Denies Receivership Story
New York, Feb, 19.-Reports to
the effect that a receivership was
about to be asked for the Missouri Pac-
ific railroad was given positive denia!
today by George J. Gould, president Of
the road.
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Aged Woman on Search,

Boone, Feb, 19-Mrs Frank Martin
aged eighty, has come here from Ohio
in search Of her long lost son. Oscar
Martin. He is now sixty years old.
having been tramp for twenty-eigh
years.
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Dubouchet Released: Must Leave

Odessa, Feb, 19.-Dr. Dubouchet, an
American citizen who was arrested re-
Gently in Odessa on the charge of be-
ing connected with a revolutionary or
ganizaticn was released today but or
dered to leave Russia in ten days.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
HER FORTUNE TO CHURCH.
Mrs. Mary Weed of Muscatine, Leaves
Much of Property to Episcopal


Muscatine. Feb. 19. - Mrs. Mary
Weed, the oldest pioneer in the city,
who dropped dead here last Sunday,
left almost her entire estate to Trim
ity Episcopal church of this city. She
leaves her beautiful Gothic residence
overlooking the city, for a rectory to
the church.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-20
Grand Chief Ranger Of Foressers Dead

Rochester, N. Y, Feb, 19.-Chas. A.
Young, grand chief ranger of Foresters
OF America died today at his home OF
typhoid pneumonia. He was i'll only
a few days.
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