Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-16


of 20 years.
Ralph Matthews, aged Il, was
drowned near Orient. He was taken
with cramps and drowned before his
companions could reach him.
Dr. Il. w. Keller, one of the most
prominent men in Iowa Method
ism, lies dangerously i'll at his cottage
at Clear Lake. where he went few
days ago for brief outing. He is
suffering from paralysis. He has been
Methodist preacher for fifty years,
was presiding elder of the Charles City
district and dean of the Central Ten
nessee University at Nashville for sew
eral years. He was connected with
the Freemen's Aid society of the
church, and is professor of Biblical
literature at the Fayette University.
NJ. J. Atkinson. of Clear Lake; Roy
C.. Slosson, of Northwood, and Vernon
Gait, of Albert Lea, Mimi, were
drowned at Nora Springs few days
ago. They were all members of the
seminary, and were out with one of
the professors, rehearsing their grad
uating orations. With two or three
other young men they decided to go in
bathing. The professor admonished
| them against 1t, as they were not good
swimmers. The water was shallow
where they went in, but ohe of them,
| by accident, stepped off into a deep
| hole, and the others, in trying to
rescue him. were drawn down and they
all persisted together. The same day
| two sons of r. W. Wilson and a son of
| VIM. Fry were drowned at Marengo,
| Arthur Turner was drowned at Winter
set and Ezra Mckinley was drowned
near Gowrie.
The New York Times prints answers
| from its correspondents in all states
where silver delegates have been elect
ed stating their presidential prefer
ences The Times in commenting upon
the replies says: THE replies from
| the correspondents of the Times show
but little of a spirit of compromise
among the silver men of the west and
south. They apparently care more
for populist support than for the sup
port of eastern gold democrats. The
general sentiment among them is ia
| vorable to some man who has shown
by his past record that he is for free
silver. Therefore Campbell. Steven
| Il hos
little following and sentiment is CEN
tering upon the extremists. Governor
Boies of Iowa seems to be the favorite
silver candidate. In the states where
opinion has been formed he apparently
leads all the rest in strength. Next to
Boies Bland seems to have the greatest
strength.
Some time ago c. L. Jackson, a
neighbor of Horace Weisz, of Sioux
City, owned Jersey cow strongly
resembling in appearance the latter S
animal. Both men sent their property
! to pasture in the same herd. One day
! the Jackson heifer is alleged TO have
| died. The owner was notified, but
took no steps toward investigating the
matter until few days ago. when he
learned that cow strongly resembling
his late favorite had been seen in
| Weisz's possession. Suspecting that
deceased was Weisz's. Jackson inn
mediately procured his neighbor' S
arrest. Weisz maintained that his
cow was purchased five years ago from
Fred Goewey. Jackson's would be
only years and months old at the
| present time. Every veterinary in the
city was summoned to settle the con-
troversy. The concensus of opinion
was that Weisz's cow was years old,
and his release was accordingly
| ordered.
In a recent letter to the State
Register, John ii. Southwick. of
Atlantic, speaks as follows of the
army worm: These pests move in n
certain direction and, according to our
observations taken years ago, begin
their work of destruction about s
o'clock a. m. and discontinue opera
tions by o clock p. m. each day. To
destroy them, first find the direction
in which they are moving, then make
a ditch in the advance Of them by
| blowing three, four or five times in the
same furrow, making as deep a ditch
as possible by blowing. Then hitch a
horse to a log of wood, not too large
to fit the bottom Of the ditch, and haul
the log along in the ditch once in
every thirty minutes, from o'clock
a. IL. to o'clock p m, and within n
few days the army is destroyed and
the crop saved. AS the worms move
in one direction, the ditch need be
made on the one side of the field only
IL past observations hold good, about
the Goth to the 2jth of the present
month these worms will end their
existence in the following queer way:
About that time the vegetation on
which they subsist will seem to dis
agree with them after they have eaten
it and will foment within them, caus-
ing them to puff up, like an overgrown
politician, to such an extent as to
cause them to burst open, and thus