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

January.
1.-Enactments relative to food, al
cohol and transportation enforceable.
sessions.
70 dealer Injured in a wreck on the
3ck Island. near Alma, Kas., in which
10 people wers killed.
Annual meeting of the Ottumwa
ommercial club.
5.--First annual session of Amerf-
can Commercial Travellers. Ottumwa
high school class of 1909 entertains.
Give different churches open a
revival campaign.
County officials recently elected
take charge of county government.
8.-C0mmercial association re,or-
ganizesSand decides to employ salarie,l
secretary. Clerk Phillips issues his
first marriage license to John ]. Nc
Kinney and Miss Katheryn Genochio.
9.--John Heenan breaks records by
re-entering reform school of his own
free will.
Jan. 10.-James Cullen is lynched
at Charles City.
n.-Grand jury begins probe of
Shd NCar Why ~ l .tss-. 80 d-I+
12,-The Hannibal Courier-Post
purchased by the Lee Syndicate, max
ing the5fourth paper, the others being
the OttumWA% Courier, Davenport
Times, and Muscatine Journal. OF
tumwa receives record of only
s908.41fof the. $1,9O8.41 sent to San
Francisco.
14.-Legislature organized.
I'll 1G-fHfy ~ Kjp ocfnp Ionoofoa ic
laid waste by earthquake. A commit
lee is appointed to 70 to Des Moines
to interest Senator Dolliver in estab-
fishing a new federal court in OF
tumwa. n
17.5Governor Cummins is inaugur-
ated governor of Iowa for the third
time.
19.-Twenty-five killed and 80 in
jured in a big railroad wreck at Fow-
Ter. Ind. Mrs. Matilda Hedrick is
plaintiff in legal action involving $780,
900. 90.
20.-Fire in B~lakesbure does SIS 900
damage. Aid Sought for famine vic
tins in China.
22.-Break In Wabash river leaves
thousands homeless in Indiana. iona.
than P.asDolliver goes back to the seu.
81 dSS WANAAoob OpPooAbASh.
23.-John Gavin is beaten to death
near his home four miles from New
London. Thaw on trial for the murder
Of Stanford White,
24.-Senator Allison writes to OF.
tumwa from Washington of new fed.
eral court district.
25.-Arnold thinner, white and Tom
Crimes, colored, confess to brutally
"a vrrHnfjn a. Tohne ~ win moor Nnu, T an
lon. Evelyn Nesbit's mother states
he will not aid prosecution n murde!
fiai against Thaw.
26.-Walter l.. Lane, publisher Of
he Muscatine Journal dies. A new
utomatic sprinkling device is beina
lstalledS at the John Morrell & Cos
lant. Governor Jas. A. S~wettenhan
Jamaisa apologies to the United
ties ana resigns his position.
7.-Auskian mine accident causes
.ath of nearly 200. Eight Thaw .jur
s secured
2s.-Burial of w. L. Lane. Bloom
I'D is swend by fire.
2s.-JackseAyile is unanimousl,
ted a menRr of tie Iowa State
ague. BodyAf Jonathan Macon Is
md in a cloAt at the home of DIR
ok in EddyvAe.
3o.-Milton q Ward, former OF
nwan, commin suicide in Abba
gene Dennis rsks his life to save
hid from beinArun over by a Bur
gton freight traS.
1.-Chicago hasN 900 cases of scar
fever. n
FebnAry.
-Thaw jury is Injected.
Fight to saveAife of White
'derer is begun ~ defense. jap
n pronosed treaty. tight begun TO
er freight rate.
-Thaw pleads insnitv Sam I
y. brother of Mrs. Zines, Smith Q
mwa. is killed in a lilroad wrecl
he Chicago & Nortwestern il
Moines. Ice famine NAare is owe
yer is black with m putting u,
lily council takes sAion in re
to the crowded stresAears.
Blackburn Seminary rear Cha,
completely destroyed w fire
n Nesbit Thaw bareso[er life
" to save her husbanGN
La Crosse Tribune Isl Ided t
lee Newspaper Syndic, \ max
ne fifth paper. House cs mite
IS on two cent fare mea, Ne.
-Cloutman Post, G. A. Sa( OF
to supervisors ousting fc.ttel