Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-19
THE NEWS IN IOWA

Frank Mccoy is in the tolls at indie
pendence for burglary.
Send roc to News. Des Moines, Iowa,
for campaign Daily News to Dec. l, go.
Mrs. Lucretia Nelson, aged 20, of
Ottumwa, hanged herself from rafter
in the kitchen. III health was the
cause.
George Smith, 10 years old, fell in
an epileptic fit in front of moving
street car at Cedar Rapids and was
instantly killed.
Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, won the
title of champion target shot OF
America at the clay pigeon champion
ship tournament at Gutenberg, n. j.
The republicans of the First con-
grcssioual district unanimously nomi-
mated S. NJ. Clark to succeed himself
in congress.
At Muscatine Mart S. Woods, charged
with dynamiting the house of r. Nj.
Kessinger, was found guilty. Others
are under indictment.
A boy named Charles White fell off
an embankment at Fort Dodge while
riding bicycle and his skull was
fractured. He is in very low
condition.
| John Weldon, Coalville miner, died
at Fort Dodge from the effects OF
| chloroform. which had been admins
| I, m r1ndprpO
an operation for the removal of an eye
An unknown man was killed on the
| b.. C. r. & N, near Cedar Rapids,
| while stealing ride. The remains
were scattered along the line for two
miles. 1t is supposed that the dead
man was tramp.
| Miss Maude Pitzer, the missing school
teacher from Glenwood, was taken IN
| to custody at Fremont, Neb. Her
| arrest is made on the theory that her
sanity is subject to investigation. Miss
| Pitzer has been rooming on Farnham
street in Omaha since she disappeared,
| but no one in the house suspected that
| she was the missing school teacher
| until she had gone and left an envelope
addressed to herself.
A terrible accident occurred between
Anamosa and Stone City. Frank
Holler. an employee on construction
train, was riding on the back platform
of the caboose, when the train came to
halt and then suddenly started to
back up. Holler was thrown off the
| car and the wheels passed over him,
completely seyering his body, killing
| him instantly. The train was stopped
and backed TO the depot in Anamosa
with the mangled remains of the un-
| fortunate man.
| John Stewart, aged 50, member OF
| the plumbing firm of Mold & Stewart,
was crushed and instantly killed by an
| elevator on the tenth floor of the Van
| Ginkel building at Des Moines a few
| evenings since. He opened window
in the shaft and stuck his head through
lust in time to be struck by the
elevator, which was descending. His
head was frightfully crushed, the
blood running down the elevator shaft,
smearing the walls and dripping to
the floors below.
S. r. Dawson, the slayer of Walter
Scott, his son-in-law OF an hour, must
answer for the crime committed at Des
Moines December "a last. The jury
returned verdict of guilty of murder
in the second degree. After the YER
dict was read and the jurors hat
answered it was their verdict the court
announced sentence would be pro-
nounced Saturday, May 10. The ex
IRENE penalty for murder in the SECOND
degree is imprisonment for life, while
the minimum punishment is ten years
Charles Cook, of Marshalltown, los
his hair and eyebrows and narrow.
escaped blindness by powder explo
sion. He found four pounds of ole
powder around the house, and took i
out IN the yard, dug trench ant
placed the powder therein. He place'
lighted match on the powder, and j
| 1dlleQ 10 cdtcH. JoiuS hcd'Si, IA
repeated the operation, when tn
powder flashed up. His eyebrow
were taken off completely, his hal
singed and his clothes badly burned
Grains of powder was driven into tn
skin on his face, burning him severely
The doctors picked out the powder ant
report no serious results will follow
Cook will be disabled for some time.
William Harms, farmer, aged 90
living eight miles east of Council Bluffs
committed suicide by hanging. III
started to accompany his brother t.
work in the fields, but made an excus
TO return to the house. An hour late
he was found hanging in shed at
tached to the barn, dead. He had takel
a rope that had ring attached to on
end and made slip n Dose of it, places
it around his neck, and tied the othe
end to a rafter. He then climbed n
on a beam several feet above the groun
and jumped off. No cause is assigned
lie was unmarried and in good health
He attended church on the previou
| Gundav and listened to q sermon OF