Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-21

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| Mcfarland was shot in Mike Scery' 5
saloon by Sam Royster. Eoyster
accused Mcfarland OF Illicit relations
with his daughter. and taking out 9
32-sahbre revolver shot him FIVE times
before he could be irterfe1'ed with, one
shot taking effect in the hand, one II
the body and three in the shoulder.
Register was disarmed and placed in
| jail. Mcfarland has.been a notorious
| character here for some years, and
little sympathy is expressed for him.
| he cannot live.
Ida Fuller, the famous dancer, is
spending her winter vacation in her
home IN Forest City, and recently gave
an exhibition of her terpsichorean
abilities for the benefit of a local
society. She leaves for New York
| City next month, where she is under a
sixteen months contract with the
management of the Casino theata at
| $500 per week. She will open her
season there soon, and will dance for
| the first time in this country her new
| dance, known as the Salome dance.
AS the sister of Loie Fuller. she has
made a reputation in this country as
| well as in Europe, where she has
danced before the royalty and nobility.
A negro named Paramore, convict
in The county Jail at Burlington, gave
| information which prevented jail
| delivery. When it became known, he
was set upon and brutally beaten by
| the men he had informed on, and the
| whole story came out. Conway, a
| desperate, who had street fight last
| summer with the police and was finally
shot to prevent his killing Chief Low,
and whose picture is now in the rogues'
| gallery in Chicago, and a man named
Hogan, desperate character, had
| secured files and saws and were about
| to cut their way out when Paramore
informed on them. They would have
| killed the negro had not the keepers
| arrived quickly on the scene.
Hans Ericsson, farmer living six
miles north Of Belmond, sold load of
diseased hogs at Goodell. He was
arrested, and when the arrest was
made he became raving maniac, try
ing by all the means in his power to
Mrs. Ericsson was on the street in
Belmond when she was told Of her
| husbands arrest. The shock caused
her instant death. She had been
suffering for some time with heart
disease. Ericsson has been placed in
close confinement and a guard is
constantly near him TO see that he does
DOT infiict injuries upon himself. Both
he and his wife were among the highly
respected people of that community.
Attorney Evans filed in the supreme
court clerks Office an application for a
rehearing in the case of the State VS..
John Hamil, jointly convicted with
George Weems for the murder of Con-
ductor Ridpath at Des Moines. The
supreme court recently decided that
both of them should hang. The APP
/ 40 DdSCd oL RioGhu
the fact that Weems confessed he had
nothing to do with Hamil, as he did
not, and that the points covered in the
Weems decision-simply cited IN the
Hamil case-do not cover the same
ground. The allegation that the court
erred in not granting a change of venue
on account of the prejudice against the
defendant, is also made a part of the
application.
The grand jury of Woodbury. county
has made report which indicates that
an effort will be made to break up the
gangs which have been infesting Sioux
City. Billy Mead and his wife, who
have long been notorious, were indicted
for running house of i'll fame. 1t has
been generally believed that the
Noack- Minter murder was planned in
their resort, although committed else
where, and the murder of Nellie Patten
occurred there. Royce was indicted
for that murder, and the grand jury
also returned bill against Harry
Bloomington, the boy charged with
manslaughter by killing another boy
on New Years day. Four or five
persons connected with the Brennan
gang have been arrested. 1t is claimed
that they have been conducting a
resort of the worst kind frequented by
criminals. The grand jury returned
twelve indictments in all.
| One of the county buildings at
| Keosauqua containing the offices of the
treasurer, clerk of the county, sheriff
and county school superintendent was
| DESTROYED by fire. The tax books for
the present year and last year are yet
| ia the safe, and it is hoped they are
not destroyed. Everything else in the
treasurer's Office, including tax books
running back as far as 1871, was con-
Sumed. The court records were all in
h vault constructed some ten years age
hnd are probably safe, although the
vault has not yet been opened. Every
| thing in the other two offices, including
typewriter and part of the super
intendent's private library, is a total
loss. The fire was first discovered in
the sheriff's Office, which is in the