Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK

recently arrived there, has been seized.
In the state election in Rhode Island
the republicans elected Governor Lip
petit and the entire ticket by pluralities
in excess of 10000
Ten persons were burned to death
in tenement house fire in Brooklyn,
n. Y.
Bismarck was 81 years old on the 1st.
T. Simon Sam, formerly minister of
war of Hayti, has been elected presi-
dent to succeed President Hippolyte,
recently deceased.
An east-bound fast express on the
st. Louis e. San Francisco road was
held up three miles east of Lebanon,
Mo. The robbers blew open the
express car door with dynamite. The
messenger declared the safe was q
through one of which he had not the
combination. The bandits then pro-
ceeded to blow open the safe and
secured the money it contained. The
Wells-Fargo officials state they secured
S1,272. A reward of $500 has been
offered for their arrest. A mounted
posse is now securing the country.
The Spanish Trans Atlantic Steam
ship Company have remodeled two of
the six vessels they are getting ready
as cruisers. A careful estimation of
the resources Of the company shows
it could furnish about thirty fairly
formidable cruisers.
King Menelik and his forces have
| retreated to Shoa.
Cuban advices announce that the
insurgents recently occupied the cities
of Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara for
several hours and left them literally
laid in ashes. The military governors
of the destroyed cities have been
ordered to return to Spain. Captain
General Weyler had supposed the
destroyed cities were impregnable.
A cloudburst on Little Sexton and
Buffalo creeks, near Bonneville, KY,
did immense damage to property and
caused the loss of life to fifteen per-
sons.
Cuban advices state that seventeen
political leaders were shot at Fortress
Cabanas, IN Havana, and twenty-five
were to be executed next day. The
court martial is in session and seventy
insurgents who have been found guilty
| will be shot.
EX-Consul Waller has arrived in
London. In an interview there he
declares that he was subjected to very
abusive and humiliating treatment by
the French authorities. He also as
serts that in his application for pardon
ne did not waive his claims for dam
ages against the French government.
1t is said that in recent battle
between the Spaniards and .Cubans in
Pinar del Rio the former lost 800 men.
The marriage OF Mrs. Mary Lord
Dimmick to Gen. Benjamin Harrison
| was solemnized at st. Thomas Church,
! New York, on the 9th. DR.. Wesley
Brown, rector, officiated at the cere-
mony. The marriage, which took place
in the presence of twenty relatives and
select friends of the bride and groom,
was very private affair. The chill
dren of Mr.. Harrison were not in at.
tendance, and it is understood they
were displeased with the marriage.
Carlos Garcia, son of Calixto Garcia,
leader of the Bermuda expedition,
sends cypher dispatch stating that
the expedition was landed safely about
fifty miles west of Havana. He also
states that they participated in the
battle in which Pinar del Rio was
destroyed, and adds: Eve captured
two pieces of heavy artillery, 1,7Oo
Mansur rifles, 200, 900 cartridges, Q. SOC
swords and stores, and burned 60C
houses, sparing the weak. The Span
ish lost $50 killed and 200 wounded.
The Cuban loss was $50 killed and
wounded
Esther, second daughter of Presiden,
Cleveland, has the measles.
The republican convention of Utah
failed TO instruct its delegates to the
st. Louis convention, but adopted res
olutions favoring protection, reciproc-
ity and free coinage of silver at 10 to /.
Col. Breckinridge will again run for
congress.
The insurgents again defeated the
Spanish troops near San Bias.
In the preliminary contests in the
Olympic games at the Stadium, in
Athens, the American contestants
have won about half of the contests
they have entered.
Third Victim of Kent (OJ Tragedy.
Akron, O., April Ira F. Stillson,
aged 33, the hired man for Mr.. and Mrs.
| Alvin N. Stone, who were murdered at