Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-07-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Nine lives were lost as the result of
fearful floods near Frankfort, KY, so
far as heard from. The dead are
James Bradley, wife and four children.
and Jas. Bryan, a widower, and two
children. They lived in a fat along
Benson creek, which rose so rapidly
that the house was washed away be-
fore the occupants knew of their dan
ger. Railway traffic is suspended. A
half dozen or more country bridges
were washed away. Hundreds of
acres of crops are totally ruined and it
is impossible TO estimate the damage.
DR.. Jameson and his leading com
panions in the Transvaal raid were
arraigned before Lord Chief Justice
Russell, Baron Pollock and Justin
Hawkins at London. After an ar
| gument was heard on the motion to
quash the Indictment the court
adjourned.
The deadly effects of the cholera are
growing more apparent in Egypt every
week. The Egyptian troops are now
suffering with the plague and hun
dreds of deaths are reported
The gold reserve has gone below
$90,000,O0O and talk of another bond
issue has begun.
Senator Teller and the men who
walked out of the st. Louis convention
with him have issued an address
endorsing Bryan and Sewall and urg-
ing all of the silver forces to unite
upon the democratic nominees.
The car barns of the Chicago City
Railway company were burned and
the contents, 554 cars, 100 of them grip
cars, and IA horses. were wiped out.
The loss will be nearly $500, 900.
Malvern, Ark, was completely wiped
out by fire which broke out in four
places few nights ago at midnight
Three men have been arrested upon
the charge of setting the fire. The
place was town of So, 600 inha bltants
and only three business houses were left
standing. The loss will probably
reach $500. 600.
An ore steamer which had just been
loaded at the Cleveland and Pittsbur
railroad docks at Cleveland, Ohio,
turned over by the shifting of her car
60 1t is believed that twenty-five
men were drowned. The bodies of
fourteen men have been recovered.
The steamer, which was overloaded,
was small one. and the wash of
large one caused the trouble.
Twenty thousand people met VIM. j. |
Bryan at the depot when he returned |
to his home at Lincoln. Republicans |
and democrats Wed with each other in |
doing honor to the candidate from |
Nebraska. He was escorted to the [
state house, where reception was
held
The republican national committee
will have headquarters both in Chicago
and New York.
Ex-Gov. VIM. Russell, of Massa-
chusetts, who was prominent oppo-
nent OF the silver forces at the Chicago
convention, was found dead in his tent
at st. Adelaide de Pados, Quebec,
where he had been camping. Heart /.
disease is supposed to have been the
cause.
At Brevard, N. c., the eldest daugh-
ter of Senator Tillman, and two other
persons were killed by lightning.
A dispatch from Constantinople
states that Egin, in the district of
Diarbekir, has been pillaged by Turks
md 400 Christians massacred 1t is
ilso stated that massacre at Aintab
S imminent, and will begin upon the
'eceipt of orders from the sultan's
,alace.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was stricken
With paralysis few days ago. 1t was
It first thought that death would
esult, but the doctors afterwards
ssued statement that the multi
would probably recover.