Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-07-21

| pastor of the First NJ Z. church of
| Waterloo for the past two years, and
who has made host of friends by his
| conscientious and earnest endeavors
| to further the interests of his church
and the cause, is missing. He was
engaged to deliver an grafton at
Bussey, Marion county, on July 4, and
went there on the Sd to fulfill his
engagement. He was expected home
| on the 9th. but instead went to Water
| loo about o clock on the night of the
| 9Th and went to the Logan house,
where he registered and remained
until morning. During the forenoon
he strolled around town but did not
! go home, and has not been seen by his
family since that time.
Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, will
| now be known as the champion wing
| shot of the world. He won the honor
fairly and squarely from George l..
Dieter at the National park at Mil
waukee few days ago. The score at
the close of the match for 100 live
birds was 90 to SIS in favor of Gilbert.
Very little money changed hands on
the result, as the friends of Dieter
feared the steady work of Gilbert of
late. Still, it is to be said in Dieter
favor that he had a bad run of luck,
many of his birds leaving the trap
left-quarterly and heading for the
dense woods to the left of the trap,
giving Dieter a number of long shots,
which made the use of the second
barrel necessary.
Governor Drake has committed the
sentences of death passed upon George
Weems and John Hammil, of Des
Moines, to Imprisonment in the pen
itentiary for life. The Communication
was made only after careful investi-
cation of the facts connected with the
| murder Of Lucius b. Ridpath, for
| whose killing Weems and H3mmil
were sentenced to death. The supreme
court at its January term denied the
motion of the defendants for rehear-
| ing IN the supreme court, their cases
| having been afiirG1ed at "a former sit
ting of the tribunal. Nothing was left
for the governor to do but to sign the
death warrant and to fix the time of
execution, or to commute the
| sentences.
The State Fair management has
entered into contract for an exhibit
| ton over which it has been figuring
for several weeks. The people of the
state will be given the chance to see
two engines and two trains of ears
meet on railroad track in collision,
| running at the rate of twenty miles an
| hour and wrecked for the purpose of
| showing how trains are wrecked in
every day life. Joe Connolly, of Des
Moines, will put on the spectacle. He
gets 81, 900 down for it. He then
| guarantees to double the gate receipts
of the same day of any preceding fair
| since the organization of the associa-
ton. The entire outfit will cost him
about 81, 500. Worn out engines will
be used The spectacle will take
place on the north side of the race
track, as far away from the grand
stand as possible.
A dispatch from Logan says: A
terrible head-end collision occurred
here on the Chicago e Nor thwestern.
The Union Pacific Pioneer excursion
tram, on which were 1000 persons
who had been picnieking near Logan,
had just pulled out to return to
Omaha, when No. IS, fast freight,
came around a sharp curve, and before
either train could stop they crashed
together. Twenty-seven people were
killed outright and forty or more were
seriously injured. The wreck occurred
as result of Engineer Montgomery,
of the excursion train, installing
| orders. He was ordered to wait at
Logan for the passenger train and
then started out, having forgot about
the freight. The trains were going
fifty miles an hour when they met
three miles west of Logan. Engineer
Montgomery jumped and escaped with
broken arm.
There is great deal of excitement
at Dyersville, Dubuque county, over
the finding of threatening notices on
the bridge across the Maquoketa at
that place. These notices state that it
has been determined to burn the town.
One of them stated that the fire which
| destroyed Schemmelis mill was bad
| one, but that it was nothing at all
compared with what was to happen.
Another of the notices said that the
reason why a fire announced by notice
to take place few nights ago did not
| occur was because the incendiaries
want TO make it still more destructive
| Shan it would be if carried out. The
| day that Schemmel's mill was burned
notice was found on one of the
bridges stating that fire WAS to occur.
but nobody paid any attention to it.
They thought it was some kind OF a
| scare. The result of the posting of
these notices is that the people are
worked up to high degree of excite
ment, and it will be very unhealthy
for anybody caught proving about in
suspicious manner. Anyone caught
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