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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25
Mine EMYLOYE
KILLED BY CARS
THOMAS WIGNALL, CIVIL ENGl
NEER AT HYNES FOUND ON
BURLINGTON TRACK.

The body of Thomas Wignall of
Hynes was picked up by an east
bound freight train in charge of Con-
ductor Arthur Hickey at an early hour
Sunday morning, a mile and a quarter
east Of Dudley station on the tracks
of the Burlington railroad, with both
legs severed from the trunk.
A bottle of liquor was found on the
person. Just how the accident occur
red is not known, although Wignall
was seen boarding No 4, Burlins-
ton train bound for Ottumwa, and la
ter returned on No. II from here to
Dudley, where he left the train and
walked east along the tracks. This
was the last seen of the decedent
alive.
Thomas Wignall was a practical
mining man and has lived about Avery
and Hynes all of his life. He was
employed by the Smoky Hollow Coal
Cos. as civil engineer and was well
known in the vicinity of home. Cor.
oner A. w. Slaught went to the scene
of the accident yesterday and the in
quest was held this morning at DId
ley, Coroner Slaught and Constable
Derby driving there and returning
about noon. The verdict of the cor
oner's inquest exonerates the railroad
from responsibility for the accident
which it states was due to Wignall be
ing run over by the cars.
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DEATH CAUSEDBY
PASSING train

In the death of Brakeman C. e.
Lanyon who was killed Friday even
ing near Tower No. 3O7, between AL
bia and Tyrone and was thought to
have been the victim of a thug, inves-
tigation by the railroad special agent
James Harrison has revealed the fact
that the death was caused by train
instead of thug. No. 13 was I'M
doubtedly the train that caused the
death Of the brakeman and the likell-
hood of being struck by hobo at the
hour Of $50 p. M, is highly improb.
able. 1t was determined by the in
vestigation that the unfortunate man
must have fallen asleep along side
the track as he was seen by pass
ing freight train crew, sitting along
side the right Of way with green
flag in his hand before No Is was
due From the manner in which he
was struck it is very evident that his
head lay close to the rail for the
wound on his skull, which was badly
fractured, points to the small iron
step that is attached to the pilot OF
the engine on No. 13 having struck his
head.
The theory of hobo having struck
Lanyon was caused by the statement
of his father that the watch he us
ually carried was missing, but as he
had seventy-ave cents in. his pocket
when found and it being known that
a dollar was all of the money he hat
on his person when at Charlton where
he paid twenty-five cents for his din
ner the motive of robbery was elimin
ated. Also by further investigation i
was found that his watch had beer
left home and was found there by his
family Saturday. 1t is said that h,
had attended fireman's banquet ant
social function the night previous ant
this is thought to account for his be
ing tired, and being without his water
made miscalculation of the time an;
fell asleep causing him to be strucl
lby NO. IL.
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MURDER AND SUICIDE
IN SMOKY ROW.
Continued from page /

in the Havenor home. When Mrs.
Edwards visited the King home last
night, Edwards followed, and with the
remark to King that he was going
away and wanted to see his wife first,
King allowed him and his victim to
go into the bedroom, where shortly
after the awful tragedy occurred.
Room Saturated With Blood.
The two rooms in the King house
were saturated with blood from the
tragic murder and suicide of last
night. The floor of the room in which
Edwards murdered his wife was prac-
tically covered with the life blood of
the two victims. The instrument used
was a pocket knife with a rough
wooden handle, and the blade was two
and one-half inches long. Chief Gal
lagher has the weapon. Immediately
after King broke the door which sep
arated the two from the other mem
bers of the household, the woman stag.
gered out. bleeding profusely from the
throat. Edwards who followed close,
ly, too was covered with blood, and
with the aid of King was assisted tC
the front Of the house. Falling beside
his wife, whom Mrs. King helped
through the front room to the open
air, the life of the suicide went out
Chief Gallagher, Captain Mier and
officer William Black, were called tc
the scene and mad arrived before
Edwards died. Coroner Slaught ant
S. A. Crowley were notified and the
| bodies were taken to the latter's un
| dertaking parlors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25
iowa CITY Gets
ANENCAMP MENT'
COMPANY G AND BAND WILL VS.
1T UNIVERSITY CITY. AT AN
NUAL MEETING OF MILITIA.

Iowa City, the home of Colonel
Howell, will entertain the guardsmen
Of the Fifty-fourth regiment in their
annual encampment this year. Com.
pany G and the band will go from this
city. The university city was selected
Saturday, the Johnson county capital
having offered several sites that will
prove excellent grounds for the hous-
ing of the numerous tents and other.
paraphernalia of the Iowa gudrtssmese
The dates of the big meeting OF
Iowa's soldiery have not yet been an.
nounced The members of Company @
and the band will begin active work on
drilling, rehearsing Of the necessary
maneuvers incident to camp life, and,
as heretofore, will endeavor to carry
away at least portion of the high
honors the guardsmen merit at the an-
nual encampment.
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Tri- Weekly Courier

CHANGING ADDRESSES.
Subscribers wishing their address
the Postoffice to which the paper has
been sent as well as the Postofflce
where they desire 1t to be changed to
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strike whom it may. Meanwhile, the
only person who can unlock this SO,
cret, if such exists. is Leroy Ware
and from the start he has persistently
shut up as tight as a clam, after max.
ing certain vague hints as to what he
could do in throwing the blame on 9TH
er parties.
sit was this refusal on his part to
aid in any way the investigation OF the
banks affairs that turned his former
friends and business associates against
him. perhaps as much as his crooked,
ness itself
when County Attorney Sallman as
certained that Ware had been granted
parole. he sent a warrant for his ar.
rest to Lee county, which was served
by the sheriff of that county. Ware i'm.
mediately sued for a writ of habeas
corpus, during the hearing of which II
will be decided what the law is in re.
gard to arresting a paroled prisoner on
old indictments"
Governor Carroll DlscIaims Parole.
Governor B. F. Carroll has written
to people at Seymour disclaiming any
responsibility for the parole of Cash
Ter Leroy Ware either one way or the
other. Ware was paroled by action Of
the state board Of parole and the gov
ernor was not consulted on the ques.
ton, so he has written in answer to
letters from Seymour citizens.
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BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BRU-
TAI JUNklN CRIME
Continued From Page L.

and family saw of her alive. Eight
o'clock came, and she had not ar
rived at the Nelson home. A hurried
telephone call bv Mrs. Nelson to her
mother brought forth the information
that Clara had left home at $50
o'clock, and terrified that some mis-
hap had overtaken her. the long, per-
sistent search was immediately be-
gun. The progress of the dead girl
was retraced, all her girl friends had
been communicated with In the hope
that she had changed her mind about
accompanying her sister and had
gone visiting. Nothing was left I'M
done to fathom the mysterious dis
appearance of Miss Rosen. The night
hours grew into morning. Two o'clock
came, and the fruitlessness of the
search prompted some of the one hun
dred searchers to repair to their
homes, but not so with Fred Rosen
and his companion. Otto Johnson.
They with Officer Charles Peterson,
| searched on and on, and after scour-
| ing the hills in the vicinity of the
crime, they returned to the spot where
the awful deed was committed. Pro-
ceeding up the slight incline to the
vacant lot. corner Dare and Cara
streets, the horrifying sight of the
mutilated body of his sister was first
seen by her brother, Fred Rosen.
| Tenderly the body was lifted from
the excavation in which 1t was
secreted and laid upon the grass
above. The rock with which her
death was inflicted lay beside the
body, and near by were found hair
pins, fragments of clothes and other
evidences that a terrific death struggle
| had ensued
Immediately following the murder,
| T,,,H -, 1r,tft al 70
were placed under arrest by the OF
tumwa police, but failure to tighten
the coils around him resulted in his
release. On February Is, Junkin sold
a diamond stone to K. Redman, an
Ottumwe pawnbroker. and when the
police were notified of this Officer
Joseph Beeman placed the negro under
Gallagher. Officer Frank Harris and
H. c. Williams had, through persist
ent sweating of the suspect, gained
several admissions, and when the re-
port that AIRS. c. M. Johnston was
assaulted by a negro had gained pub
l,city upon the following day, Feb
ruary 81, he was hustled to Abba for
tumwa being such that the officials
feared mob violence. Two Pinkertor
detectives, B. D. Way and J. O.
Smith, the latter a negro were Sc
cured to assist the Ottumwa police by
the American Commercial Travellers
One week in the Abba Jail, where 8
series of sweating was administered
the negro, resulted in his sworn con-
fession, which was made public or
Sunday, February IS. Fearful thai
an Ottumwa mob would visit the
Abba jail, Junkin was removed tc
nes Moines and held there unit
Sheriff Jackson removed him to Sig
Journey and thence to the prison a
Fort Madison. At Sigourney 1t wa.
found that the prisoner was no
safe from harm, and he was taken t.
the penitentiary A misconnection o
trains made half days stay in Bur
llington necessary, and at this place the
4 negro was nearly lynched before h,
could be hustled away from the mob.
Through a keen stroke of strategy
Sheriff w. w. Jackson and Chief Gal
Ilagher last Thursday removed thu
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25
LEAVE FOR COAST.

After long residence in Ottumwa.
where their family has been reared
and grown from childhood to young
manhood and womanhood, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Epps, 5S7 West Second
street contemplate leaving Ottumwa
for new home in the state of Ore
destination of the party and there Mr..
Epps will continue in the practice of
law in which he has been eminently
successful in Ottumwa. Thursday IL
the time set for making the trip and
all of the family will then take their
departure except one son. Earl who
left Ottumwa with a car of household
goods during the past week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25

of the condition of the Citizens Savings Bank
organized under the laws of Iowa, located at
Ottufiwa. In the county OF Wapeio, at the
close OF business on the 18th day OF May
D. 1909, made to the auditor of state as re-
quired by law.
ASSETS.
Amount OF bills, bonds and other
evidences Of debt discounted or pur-
chased, actually owned by the bank sls6, 316 "a
Amount of cash on hand
described as follows,
silver ,a ro cola ana bullion. $3.50
Legal tender and national
bank notes and subssdi-
Drafts sand and checks ii;; on other
solvent banks and other
cash Items not dlshonored
on hand aud belonging to
the bank .............. 1,ool'oZ Sf,s,o.o'
Amount subject to be
drawn at sight on deposit
with solvent banks or
bankers:
Bankers Natl. Blk, Chicago, s4,o3l.26
Iowa National Bank, Des
Moines:..... ........... i,o'6'0a H' .os ~
value = Of + real properly property ~
(owned by the bank -. 1000
Value of personal property
owned by the bank 80. 2.950.00 3,T26.o0
Total assets. ....... s21o,o2,ss
LIABILITIES.
Amount of capital stock
actually paid up in cash. $4,000. 90
| Total mount due deposit
as follows
Amount sight deposits sub
ject to check. ...........S IS, S951I
Amount time deposits -. 24,959.16
Amount deposited by
Amount savings deposits. s6,S74.2O l5sosl.61
| Indebtedness of every kind,
| due banks, bankers or
! persons other than regu-
! lar depositors:
| Bills paya Bile. ............. None.
| Re-DiSCounts. .............. None,
| Due clearing house ,........ None. None.
| Amount of undivided prof.
| its. ......... l,9I1.27
Total liabilities. ......... s2lo,oo2.s IS
| Mount of all liabilities to
the bank ON part ofits di-
rectorS:
| AS OoTTOWcrS. .NolIc
| AS endorSers .......... None None
State of Iowa, Wapello County. SIS.
We, L. A. Andrew, President, Walter T.
Hall, Vic . Priest dent and III nj
Anderson, Assistant Cashier of the bank
foregoing statement is full, true and
correct. to the best of our knowledge
and belief tb lat the asseta therein set forth
bona ide the property Of said bank in its cor
| rorate capacity; aud that no part of the
same has been loaned or advanced to said
bank for the purpose of being exhibited as a
portion of its assets.
| L. A. Andrew, President,
Walter T. Hall, Vice President
| Emma Anderson. Assistant Cashier.
| Sworn to before Inc aud subscribed in my
and Emma Anderson this 22nd day of May
| airy, 1903:
[SEAL1 Ed. l.. Roth.
| Notary Public i'll and for Wapello County
| Attested by: VIII. Heating, w. S. Vinson,
J. F. Herrick, Directors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25

Miss L. MCGEE of Muscatine passed
through the city this morning On her
way to Osceola. Y
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
From Saturdays Daily.
Neasham sells the best watches.
Mrs. Van Marshall of Ollie spent

NedSnam sells the 0eSt WatcneS.
Mrs. Van Marshall of Ollie spent
yesterday in the city on business.
Whale oil soap kills insects. Sar-
gents.
Mrs. r. G. Smith Of Linby was in
the city yesterday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Stubs of Pekay
were business visitors in the city yes
terday.
Mrs. G. A: Spilman of Packwood re-
turned home yesterday.
Miss Nellie Vandever of Selma was
a business visitor in the city yester-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G.. Galloway and
daughter, Mrs. L. Harden Of Eldon
nave returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Sexton of
Douds-Leando spent yesterday in the
city.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Thompson and
children, Orville and Grant, of Eldon,
were business visitors in the city yes
terday.
Sulphur sc pound in 10 ID lots. sar.
gents.
Mrs. B. Dreamer Of Farson spent
yesterday in the city on business.
Mrs. e. Ellar of Linby, who has
been visiting her brother, A. w. Peck
211 Mabel street, has returned home
Mr.. and Mrs. James Greenly Of
in, ott rIo1
on business.
Mrs. r. D. Callister of Richland
spent yesterday in the city on bust
ness.
Copperas, sc pound at Sargent's.
Mrs. q. T. Davis of Ollie has re
turned home.
Mrs. E. Culbertson of Chillicothe
spent the day in the city on business
Mrs. M. c.. Perry of New London
passed through the city today en-
route to Keosauqua.
Miss Ruth Allison of Avery visited
in the city today, being on her way tc
visit friends in Eddyville.
Bordeau mixture for spraying trees
Sargent's.
From Mondays Daily
Miss Eta Kitchen, 1874 North stree,
Is visiting friends in Batavia.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Sullivan ant
Mrs. N. A. Farson, 449 North Jeffer
son street. left the city this morning
tor keosauqua.
Mrs. G. L.. Jaeger and daughters
Vera and Irma Of Charlton, have re
turned home.
Blue vitriol, 15c pound in ID lots
sargent's.
Mrs. S. w. Reaves of DrakevilIe ha.
returned home after a visit with Mrs
Alvin Bryant, 1877 Hancock street
Miss Clara Anderson of Dudley, wht
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Id;
Hill, on Hancock street, has returned
home.
Our new styles in colored oxford
and shoes and the easy comfort shce
and the easy price we make keep tn
people coming Watch us. Churcl
Shoe Co.
". w. Luke of Keosauqua was
visitor with his cousin John Luke,
rnoulder in the foundry, at SIS Wabasl
avenue, over Sunday, enroute hom
from Denver, Colo.
Stock and poultry foods, all makes
Sargent's.
Mrs. e. A. Burton of Des Moines
who has been visiting Mrs. Armand
Burton, 706 East Second street, lief
this morning for Moulton.
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STATEMENT.

of the condition of the Citizens Savings Bank
organized under the laws of Iowa, located at
close OF business on the 18th day OF May
D. 1909, made to the auditor of state as re-
Quired BY law.
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Other Hospital Notes.

DR.. F. j. GRADER Of Stockport Is a
professional visitor at the hospital to.
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-25
MATCH CAUSES
SERIOUS BURNS
LITTLE EDWARD SLATER SET
FIRE TO CLOTHING AND is
NOW IN HOSPITAL.

While playing with matches at his
home, 327 Mabel street Saturday, Ed.
ward, the 3-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. w. Slater, was severely
burned and has been an inmate of the
hospital since shortly after the acct
dent occurred. The little chap had
the morning, and his mother took them
from him, which caused the child to
raise an infantile fuss because of being
disturbed in his playing. Finally to
quiet the little chap, the mother allow
ed him to have one of the matches.
Shortly afterward she was Mortified to
hear the screams Of the child and see
his clothing a sheet of flame. She
hastily extinguished the fire but not
until her young son was quite severe.
ly burned about the limbs, abdomen
and arms His condition at the hos
pital today was said to be favorable,
the burns while covering a large ex-
tent of the person Of the child, were
not very deep and his recovery is not
doubted.
Other Hospital Notes.
Special Nurse Miss Deitrick of, Des
Moines, who has been assisting the
regular staff on special duty for few
days past, returned this morning to
Des Moines.
Dr. F. ]. GRADER Of Stockport Is a
professional visitor at the hospital to-
day.
Miss L. MCGEE of Muscatine passed
through the city this morning on her
| way To 0ScaOla "a
The Montana plaindealer., 1909-08-27

bundle OF incoherent bandages by a
woman. Later she puts him into cute
httie dresses so that the neighbors
can't tell him from his little sister.
Still later she cuts off his curls and
puts him into knickerbockers. and he
puts on long pants" when she gives
the word and not before That is all
that man has to do or ever had to do
with wearing trousers. Woman forced
MIN into them in the first place, and
now he is afraid to wear anything else
Tor fear Of making a sensation.
The Montana plaindealer., 1909-08-27
WN< ana Wncle/
saR.nar<rI

For the princess dresses one should
have princess slips.
In yokes the sun-ray plaitings are
the thing Just now.
Jet bracelets seemingly cannot be
too wide nor too heavy.
Frocks of silks, crepe and other un-
lined materials are weighted down by
broadcloth facings.
A gay Beau Brummel frill at the
throat transforms the tailored suit
into something dainty and feminine.
The Shantung suit IL promising as
much popularity as ever as soon as
the summer weather actually sets In.
The ugly little FISH tail train has
gone out. In its place is a short
square train copied from medieval
days.
Some Of the skirts are actually
shirred upon the waistband. On the
The Montana plaindealer., 1909-08-27

other hand. gowns equally smart are
being turned out with the straightest
of lines from bust to knee.
With sleeveless evening frocks
scarfs of tulle or chiffon are often
worn, tied about the arm halfway be.
tween the shoulder and elbow.
The individual linen pockets or bags
worn with the summer gown are fire.
quently fastened with cords drawn
through embroidered eyelets.
Black and white Syrian scarfs or
Egyptian wells riveted with silver or
gold are the most popular draperies
worn afternoons and evenings.
At one Of the smartest church wed.
dings of the season the bridal gown
OF white satin, made in scant direc-
toire style, had side slashes in the
skirt filled with fiounces Of old lace.
The Montana plaindealer., 1909-08-27

saying great deal, for she does not co,n. =,
gwen 10 raising quiver-full. Dr. Smiths conr.S,
~ oCse women with their noncollege relatives wan,
10 SHOW that neither had average OF ouIts -. | @
ing chiiureh with the college woman trihe below IN
average OF the other, account Of her later r,.
Emerging from the thicket of figures ana on~
lions which surrounds the marriage of the yirI ~1
ate there arises another difficulty but bannIIv ~,
perplexing one. II she decides not to enter tho .,. "
niatriinony and rear small but admirable family vh,
happens to her? How does she earn a livinop ~
In the old days well-bred and well-educated wo,,
could teach, and she could do nothing else Now,a.~
while many professions open to her she stiu cbO
this career in preference to any other altbouvh ~
proportion OF graduates II claims is not 30 lares a, M
merly. The lines of work opened up by modern so.I
ogy are attracting great many Such professon, vr
doubtless soon begin to rival teaching and nro,..
OF economics in women's colleges bear this in MIND
Turning again to the admirable statistics O, prvn
Mawr one finds that 145 students are teaching nsauA
Ing the number OF graduates without occupation tbs,
are left about 460 who a living OF this numb,
146 is a high percentage The percentage is not ho
ever, keeping up to quite this level Fortyhv. r,r,
are put down as paid philanthropists" As one o,
this number obaerved, this is dreadful uame To call
anybody but 1t indicates the tendency of college WON
en- to turn toward social OF one kind or another
Physicians come next with 12, and the profession Of
private secretary counts IL. This latter work A.
tracing more girls than formerly Lawyers are four
number On the side Of art II girls have taken M
music as career and three chose art Other occup,
tions include photography. inn-keeplng managing
shop, bookbinding illustrating, hand weaving trained
nursing. wood carving millinery, jewelry work four
nalism and library work Several are deans of colleges
there Is an agent In government Office and q title
searcher in a law Office
The census Of 1900 showed among women Work,,
so astronomers 100 architects 40 civil engineers and
30 mechanical and electrical engineers These cannot
be traced to their respective colleges no doubt they
have degrees to their account as have also the 5000
women clergymen.
1t would seem that the college woman married or
gets good deal out OF life Unmarried
she has an interesting profession Married she has
healthy child and statistical fraction Of another
healthy one Three-fths of this child and fraction d
1 BOY What more could the heart of a woman desrel
u course she marres late but civilization brings that
% pass all the world The world has wagged con-
Ideraby since the days of Romeo and Juliet
The Montana plaindealer., 1909-08-27
ksln&n Science
: Ns@fhveSStion n

1t takes 1882 cubic feet of air tc
weigh a pound.
Electric power is used on 2,2s6 miles
of street railways in Great Britain to
l4S miles operated by other means.
Probably the worlds swifest battle.
ship is the British Bellerophon, which
recently made 25k knots in an oficial
trial
The total pig iron production OF the
United States last year was 1896. .O1g
long tons as against 25,7s1, 1851 tons in
1907.
Recent additions to the French
army's field equipment were several
automobile refrigerators for the trans
portation Of fresh meat.
Up to a certain point exposure to
radium rays stimulates the germina-
tion OF seeds, but If that point be pass
ed the growth is stopped.
Ivory which has become yellow NAV
be bleached by dipping It in soapy
water several times and exposing It to
sunlight after each dipping.
A new instrument for use when
stropping razors includes a guide
which prevents the blade slipping and
inturing itself or the strop.
A match box containing a cigar cut
ter. which clips OF the end of a cigar
when the box is closed, is the recent
Invention Of New York man.
The clock of ne tower of Column
Dia University. New York. is said to
oe one Of the most accurate in the
world. varying but six seconds a year.
Pref C. Davidson points out that the |
Ireas ksssina earthquake had three