Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-23
THE NEWS IN IOWA

EU walker, a cOlOreu LnlutT, was
killed by a Milwaukee train near
Ottumwa. His head was severed from
his body. He was drunk. r
At Manson the night watch will
ring the fire bell when a dangerous
storm is thought to be approaching
during the hours he is on duty.
In the republican congressional con-
vention of the Eighth district, at Leon,
there was no opposition to Congress
man Hepburn and he was renominated
by reclamation.
Governor Drake has appointed W. S.
Withrow, of Henry county, judge OF
the Twentieth judicial district, which
was created by the Twenty-sixth gen
eral assembly.
The Iowa College of Law, at Des
Moines, seems to be growing faster
than any other law school, and is to
have new building this year. Neat
catalogues have been prepared by the
secretary, Prof. p. S. McNutt.
At Eddyville, a few days ago, the
large implement store belonging to
Mr.. Black was destroyed by fire. The
''City Saloon and True's barbershop
were also burned and it was with great
difficulty that adjoining property was
saved. Loss will be 81 900; no insur-
ance.
The large barn and two granaries
on the farm of j. j. Else, a represen-
tative farmer living five miles west of
Oskaloosa, was burned. There were
1000 bushels corn, 400 bushels oats,
$50 bushels wheat, several tons of hay
and farm implements burned. Loss,
$1,000; no insurance.
At Muscatine few nights ago
Policeman Jacob Neidret, one of the
Oldest on the force, was shot and killed
by tramps while trying to arrest them
at Hershy's lumber yard. Deceased
was So years old and member of the
Thirty-fifth Iowa infantry. Blood
hounds have been put on the tracks,
as one of the tramps is known to have
been shot by the dead officer.
Col Joseph Eiboeck, the well-l1nown
German leader and editor of the Iowa
Stats Anzeiger, has announced that he
will not support Horace Boies or any
other democrat nominated at the Chi
cago convention on an unlimied free
coinage 16 to platform. If the con-
vention takes this step he says he will
take his paper out OF politics and make
it non-partisan.
Lucy Kistner, age "a, a daughter of
George Kistner of Eagle Center, left
home two weeks ago, saying that she
was going to Waterloo to learn dress
making. Nothing has been heard of
her since and her father is unable to
find her. A brothcr-in-law, Willett
Peveril1, left rather suddenly about
six weeks ago and it is suspected by
some that the girl has joined him.
A Denver dispatch says: Sheriff
Davis, of RawlinS, Wyoming, came t.
Denver to take charge of Rev. c. NJ.
Thorp, evangelist, wanted in Wyoming
TO answer to the charge of bigamy.
Thorp, who admits he has wife living
in Iowa, married young girl at
Evanston. Wyo., May 30, and deserted
her in three days. Charges of perjury
and swindling are also made against
him.
A suit OF considerable interest to the
tax payers of Dubuque was decided a
few days ago in Judge Husted's court.
bf.oI1nht IN raonUat, or, bond
issued to General Hodgson forty years
ago for $500, amounting with interest,
to about 81 200 The decision was in
favor of plaintiff. This decision will
probably bring in lot of similar bonds
issued in 1857 for improvements, and
which were supposed to have been out
lawed
Governor Morton, of New York, has
granted the requisition of the govern
or of Iowa for the custody of Henry
Failing, alias Walter Morton, a noted
crook arrested at Troy, May %, for an
attempt TO pass a forged check. Fail
ing escaped eighteen months ago from
the KeollulS county Jail, where he was
SohAhSA AYE III XVI y ~ 'i'iNS hi III
successful attempt TO break Jail at
Troy Many indictments are hanging
over him in the west.
The men employed in repairing
damage on the Illinois Central railway
between Dubuquque and Peosta were
notified few days ago that their
wages had been cut down from S1.25
10 lilo per day. They were also in
formed that a strike would be useless.
There were a hundred or more men
employed, and they all quit. One of
them remarked that Sl.25 per day was
starvation, anyhow, and below that
was worse.
At a special election held in Clinton
county it was decided by majority of
twelve hundred To issue sew en- ty-vt
thousand dollars bonds for the purpose
of finishing the Clinton county court
house.
Herman Kibbs, II years old, was
drowned i'm the Skunk river near
Osllaloosa. He was attending picnic,
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