Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1895-12-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

Duns review of trade says business
for the week has not improved, and
there has been a shrinkage in price,
caused by the period of inaction.
The annual report of Secretary Of
War Lamont has been made. The sec
rotary shows the Importance of changes
in the laws governing the militia, the
most of which, passed in 1892, are not
up with the present times.
1t is claimed by the committee Of
Chicago business men interested in Sc
curing the national republican conven-
tion, that the meeting is as good as Sc
cured for that city.
The Smedley company of Dubuque,
IsIowa, has failed. Its liabilities are
$51 900 and the assets $6S,000. The
company manufactured engines,
pumps, waterworks and novelties.
William S. Barnes, Matthew Simpson
and Thomas Carson were appointed ap-
praisers Of the estate of Thomas B.
Clay, assigned, of Lexington, Ky. The
estate is valued at $4,000.
A. III. Schluter & Co. of Jefferson,
| Tex, filed trust deeds. Their liabili-
ties are about $4,000, with assets un-
known. The trustees are w. L. At
| kins of Jefferson and H. w Williams
Of Greenville.
The Chattahoochie, Ca, National
bank failed to open its doors Friday.
The bank was heavily interested in the
Chattahoochie Brewing company, which
has been ordered sold, and in other To-
cal enterprises. II. H. Epping is presi-
dent.
U. G. Lewis, cashier Of the defunct
| Dan Head & Co. bank of Kenosha,
Wis, has made an assignment The
| first one was made several weeks ago.
| At that time he placed his assets at
| 500, 900; this time he puts the nominal
value of $4,000 on them and names the
same assignee, c. H. Gronnerman. His
| liabilities are unknown.
| The Masonic hall at Dawson, H., was
dedicated by the Illinois grand lodge.
| Convicts in the Joliet penitentiary
were given a Thanksgiving holiday, be-
ing treated to a theatrical performance
and dinner in which $500 pounds Of
turkey figured.
The auditor of public accounts has is
| sued certificate to the Farmers and
Merchants state bank, of Carmi, ILL.,,
to commence business. The capital
stock is $4,000.
The twenty second annual meeting of
the North Central Illinois Medical as
ISOLATION will be held in Lacon Dec. 3
and a. Seventy members are expected.
The administrator of the estate of
William Sanders, who was killed by a
Baltimore & Ohio train at Garrett, Ind,
was awarded a verdict of $4,000 dam
ages, the full amount sued for. The
case has been pending five years.
Secretary Hoke Smith has made his
annual report. He suggests changes in
present plans whereby he thinks the
Indians may be made in large meas
ure self-supporting.
The Christian Endeavorers through
out the country at noon Thursday
Joined in prayers for the conversion OF
| Col. Ingersoll.
BY vote of 1877 to so the transmits
sissippi congress at Omaha demanded
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
/ Miss Edith Rockefeller was married
to Mr.. Harold H. Mccormick in the
1 apartments of the bridegroom at New
York Tuesday afternoon.
| A report has reached Key West, Fla,
that Gen. Maceo was killed in a recent
engagement between Cuban insurgents
and Spanish troops.
] F. ID. Turner, an invalid returning
from Fresno, CAL. to Wapello, ILL.,, died
on train near Las Vegas, N. M.
Griffin Johnson, son of Albert Sid
| ney Johnson, the noted Confederate
general, died at Los Angeles from the
results of fall.
| At meeting of the stock brokers a
| committee of five was selected to ap-
point board of thirteen directors to
act as incorporators of new mining
exchange at New York.
! The Kansas congressional delegation,
as soon as possible after the fifty-fourth
congress begins, will introduce resolu-
lions in both houses looking for an in
| yestigation of the circumstances con-
| nected with the arrest and imprison-
ment Of ex-Consul Waller.