Iowa Old Press
Ottumwa Evening Democrat
November 3, 1904
THE CITY.
~An election will be held on the Row soon to elect a “queen of the sirens” to succeed the late Mary Chesser, who died with her boots on recently. Mary Judson, Maud Mitchell, Catherine Mitchell, Sallie Burton and Kittie Meely are the candidates, Sallie Burton owing to her color, being a dark horse. This is the absorbing topic at present on Smoky.
~A blind horse owned by Wm H. Woodin, a junk peddler from Unionville, broke loose this morning and broke its neck by falling into an open sewer at the corner of Second and Vine streets. The cover to the manhole was carried away by boys hallowe’en night. The horse was valued at about $20. Sidewalk Commissioner, Eber Dixon, had the lifeless body of the animal removed from the sewer.
~The trial of the case of Mrs. Anna Mier vs. The Phillips Fuel Co., is on trial before Judge Vermillion in district court. The case is one in which the plaintiff is suing for $13,000 damages on the grounds that the plaintiff company tunneled under her property and removed valuable coal deposits. The case will probably continue during the week.
[transcribed by L.Z., Dec 2019]