Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1895-11-29

IN ABOUT an nOur.
In the federal court at Des Moines,
the case against the Cuppy brothers, of
| Avoca, charged with conspirlng TO as
sault Pension Agent Brown at Avoca,
ended in a verdict of not guilty.
Creston dispatch: Creston has an
| obscene letter writer, who is at pre- sent
making the lives of number of prom
| inent citizens miserable. His especial
| delight seems to be in writing vile
letters to an estlmable young lady and
a young gentleman who visits the
lady's home. He has informed the
young man that he must kill him or
the woman, and it may not be long
before Creston will have a murder to
record unless this crank or idiot is
captured, which at present does not
seem probable, as the officers have not
succeeded in locating the fool. He has
been engaged in this work for ten
weeks, but the young lady did not
place the officers in possession of the
facts until few days ago. The
matter has been brought to the atten-
ton OF the postal authorities.
! Frank Curran, who has been in GUS
tody at Cedar Rapids since the murder
of Mrs. Bridget Lafly, made a state
ment to tn officers, which clears away
the mystery which surrounded the case.
He says that Tom Lally and his mother
were drinking and quarreling. Tom
called his mother all sorts of vile names
and picking up chair struck her over
the head. The woman fell to the floor,
and before Curran could interfere,
Lally dealt her three more blows, the
last one breaking the chair from it's
and laid her on her bed. Curran says
he was not intoxicated at the time,
and has clear recollection of all that
transpired. He was terrified, and
left the house and when he returned
Mrs. Lally was dead. Upon learning
that Curran had told the story, Lal:y
confessed and was bound over to the
grand jury.
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been indicted by the graud jury in the
United States court for making coun-
terfeiters tools. For the past fifteen
years Carr has lived at Webster City,
and although he never seemed TO do
any work nothing was thought of it as
he was simply classed with number
| of other "ne'er-do-wells' who lived
without work. Last July ne was dis
| covered in the cellar of drug store
and arrested for attempting robbery,
but he was acquitted of the charge.
This incident, however, put the officers
of the law on the alert, and they set a
! watch upon the man. In the course of
time ne was arrested for counterfeiting
in the cellar under the house in which
he lived. He was taken to Fort Dodge
and placed in jail to await the action
of the United States court, with the
above results. His trial will come off
at the next term of court.
Hans Allen, prosperous Swedish
Gregor, came TO town with load of
produce. He had been drinking lately
and was under it's influence when he
visited the residence of a woman
named Mrs. Mink, with whom he had
become infatuated. She is widow
and residing with her was VIM. Cross,
a fisherman and laborer, about "a years
| old. After entering the widows
house. he became engaged in a quarrel
with Cross, aud after some alterca ton
Allen drew revolver and shot Cross
dead. Ida, daughter of Mrs. Mink.
ran out of the house crying. Allen
| followed her and fired bullet into her
back, which lodged in her side. Allen
| then returned to the kitchen and
| placing the revolver to his head, fred
a bullet into his brain and sank dead
on the floor. The girl, it is thought,
is fatally injured. Mrs. Mink and her
son fed and escaped injury. Allen
leaves family, including wife and
thirteen children.
Sioux City is likely to be a party in a
few days to suit involving the title
to large tract of land on the river
front, which the city fathers have for
long time counted as one of their most
valuable assets. Thirty-tlve years ago
the Sioux City Land and Ferry Com
pany plated Sioux City East addition,
which is now the center of the business
district of the city. Except for mar
row strip along the Missouri river, on
which the addition fronted, the land
was soon disposed of and the company
practically dropped out of sight
Within the past ten years the city has.
by a system of dykes and piling,
succeeded in extending the levee far
out into the river, creating tract of
land of great value, to which IL has
always been supposed to hold undis.
puted title. The old company now,
however, suddenly put in claim to
the property on tie ground that it
belongs to it as accretion. Should it
succeed in establishing this claim it
will come into possession of tract
| many acres in extent within a few