Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-12-29

Freight train No. 90, on the Chicago,
| & Northwestern, was wrecked at On
tario, ten miles east of Boone, a few
days ago. Fireman James Tracey, of
| Clinton, was instantly killed, and En-
| gineer Andy Sill badly injured. Some
| one had turned a switch, accidentally
or by design, and the sysin, running
forty miles an hour, ran onto siding
and into some box cars, making bad
wreck.
An assignment was made few days
| ago by Randall, Selby & Bell, imple-
ment and vehicle dealers of Des
Moines. B. T. Ebert was made
assignee. The failure is one of the
largest that has occurred in that city
| in years. 1t was due to hard times
and bad collections. No schedule of
| assets and liabilities has been made,
but it is thought the liabilities will
amount to between 100000 and
s125,000
George Golightly, of Carbonate, was
murdered about two miles east of
Oskaloosa few nights ago. Two
! couples in a double seated buggy met
Golightly on the highway and both
shot at him. One ball pierced his
brain and he died instantly. A few
hours later George Nettlefeld, young
| farmer of Wayland, and c. C. Ernest,
q young druggist of the same place,
| drove into Oskaloosa and were arrested.
They confessed that they had had
trouble with Golightly and had fred at
| the ground as he passed, but did not
mean to and did not know that they
had killed him. Nettlefield did the
shooting. Both were Jailed.
Henry Krauel, a German farmer
| living four and one-half miles south of
| Denison, his wife and 1s-months-old
| child were in a top buggy, returning
home. When he was starting across
the Northwestern track the head
| section of train No. 10, going down
| grade at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour, struck the team, hurting
them distance of $50 feet and tearing
the buggy into kindling wood. The
| lady, being on the inside, was horribly
mangled. her skull being badly
fractured and left leg crushed to
| jelly. She was picked up and carried
to the depot and died in about thirty
minutes. Mr.. Krauel escaped with
broken leg and some bruises abo ut his
head The little child was not hurt.
The mining camp called Hickory,
| five miles north of Abba, on the Iowa
| Central, was thrown into state of
excitement by the murder of young
man named Joseph Wright. The
crime was committed near the Hickory
Nj. E. church, by William Franklin
and Ben and James Hazlett. From
the indicat ions, the deed seems to have
been premeditated. 1t seems that
Wright was engaged to a young lady
named Skinner, and as Franklin had
also been an admirer of the young
lady, it caused considerable bad feel
ing between the two men. The three
men implicated, it is alleged, met
Wright near the church, forced him
into quarrel, and Franklin struck
him in the neck with stone, breaking
his neck and causing instant death.
The three men are confined in Jail at
Abba. Their case will probably come
up at the January term of court.
The meager detail have been re-
ceived of a probable fatal shooting
affray at school house near Spring
Valley, Decatur county. Bad blood
had existed between number of
young men in that heighborhood for
some time, which eliminated in a
pitched battle at the close of literary
entertainment. 1t is alleged that as
young man named Evans was coming
out of the door of the school house he
was struck on the head with a club
and knocked down. As he fell he drew
revolver and fred. This started
general fusilade, and in the fight
Evans was shot in the side, and
young man, whose name could not be
learned, was shot through the Shout
der. 1t seems that the trouble was
of revolvers IN the crowd, and in all
about twenty shots were fired. The
lights and part of the windows were
shot out. Evans will probably die.
Jennie Ii. Harris has commenced
two suits against Des Moines druggists
to recover damages for alleged illegal
sales of liquors made to her husband.
She is the wife of William Harris, the
man sentenced to twent y-five years in
the penitentiary for the murder of
George Frank early in September.
The defendants are George Il. Mckay
& Co., druggists in the Slavery hotel
building, and Schumacher & Lopez,
orucgiats on East Locust street Both
petitions are alike, except in the
amount of damage claimed. 1t is
alleged defendants sold liquor illegally
to Harris and that as result he
became intoxicated and while under
the influence OF liquor engaged in a
Greet quarrel with Frank, stabbed
and killed him and was compelled to
stand trial COR murder. She charges
the defendants with being responsible
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