Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1895-12-13
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP
TO DATE.
Political, Religious, Social and Criminal
ooings of the Whole World Carefully
Condensed for Our Readers-The Ac-
cident Record.


ent national banks have been declared:
Ten per cent, Tacoma National, Ia
coma, Wash; 10 per cent, Merchants
National, Great Falls, Mont.
A resolution was introduced in the
house by Representative Hardy, Re-
publican, calling on the secretary of
the treasury for information as to mer-
chandise transported from the United
States through Canada in bonded cars
during the last three years.
Senator Allen has introduced bill
disfranchising any citizen of the United
States who shall solicit or accept a
title, patent of nobility or degree of
honor from foreign nation, and pun
ishing this act as a crime by both fine
and Imprisonment.
]. B. Schnauber, proprietor of jew
elry store in Creston, Iowa, suddenly
became insane.
Lillian Hughes, of Chicago, was sent
to the penitentiary for one year for
shoplifting in Joliet.
Advices from Yokohama report the
arrival of the steamer Evandale, long
overdue from San Francisco.
The trial of James Ish and wife for
the murder last winter of w. B. Chap
pie, of Kansas City, began in Omaha.
Over 1000 hogs have died of cholera
during the last three weeks in Harper,
Barber and Sumner counties, Kansas.
Fire at Wickliffe, KY, destroyed
Mansfield Hall and several residences.
The loss is about $4,000, insured for
$4,000.
Frank Porch, Lacon, H., baker, has
failed. His small assets, are more than
covered by mortgages.
A recount of the votes for county at
torney in Des Moines county, Iowa, has
been granted by the courts on the petit
ton of Clark, the republican contestant.
c. O. Downing, ex-county clerk of
Spokane county, Washington, was
found guilty of embezzlement and SEN
fenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary.
The Kirkham cold storage building at
Anderson, Ind, was wrecked by nat
ural gas explosion and Harry Gather
was severely but probably not fatally
burned.
Railroad men assert a ghost haunts
the station house at Franklin Junction,
near Columbia, Mo-, it taking the form
Of young girl who utters low agoniz-
ing means upon her appearance.
Proprietors of music halls in Mag
ara Falls, N. Y, have been arrested for
keeping their places open Sunday. Sa-
loon keepers have been ordered to close
on Sundays, but they will test the mat
ter in the courts.
Murderer Lewis Martin Miller, who
has been imprisoned in Fremont since
the recent riot in Tiffin, Ohio, has been
taken to the latter city to await his
trial Dec. 16. No further rioting is
apprehended.
Charles Tomblad murderous her
NIT living near Menominee, Mich,
whose capture has been repeatedly
sought, was finally overpowered Sunday
night and placed in the county Jail.
He is thought to be insane.
Emma Davis, the sixth victim of the
fire in a Cincinnati tenement Oct. 8,
died Monday. She made an ante-mor-
tenn statement that she was the COM
mon law wife of the late Thomas Han
ma, a millionaire, whose estate owns
the building that was burned.
Richard II. Mcdonald, at one time
vice president of the defunct Pacific
bank in San Francisco, was arraigned
for embezzlement Monday. He is
charged with abstracting $4,000 from
the vaults of the Peoples Home Saw
ings bank, of which he was a direc-
tor.
Reports from Kansas are that
the new wheat crop never looked bet
ter in any year in the states history.
The ground is thoroughly soaked with
melted snow and fields everywhere are
green.
The Marquis of Salisbury has written
to the Armenian fund to the effect that
the consul at Moosh, through the Brit
ish ambassador, Sir Philip Currie, re-
ports that the Armeniars of the Bitlis
district are in danger of starving. The
treasurer has forwarded $4,000 for
-5itlis, Karpoot, Erzeroum, Mardin and
Trebizonde.
The report Of Attorney General Har-
attention to the abuse Of habeas corpus,
and suggests remedies. He also out
lines plan for dealing with the Pa
~~ific railroads.
Jacob Vanry, of Holland, Mich, who |
shot his wife and himself, has died of |
his wounds. His wife will recover.
The Mississippi river at Dubuque.
Iowa, is frozen over, three weeks ear
lier than last year.
Robert Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher
have been matched to fight to finish.
The contest is expected TO take place
in New Mexico.
A concession from Chinese govern
ment to build line of railroad from
tidewater to Pekin has been obtained
by syndicate of American capitalists.
Secretary Smith has returned from
Georgia.
At New York there is a scarcity
Of good oranges for the holiday trade.
Plenty arrive from Jamaica, but they
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