Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Nebraska free silver democrats met
at Lincoln and selected delegates to
the Chicago convention, among them
| w. J. Bryan. Alabama democrats
adopted a 16 to platform.
1t is denied at Madrid that negotia-
tons are in progress between Spain
and the United States looking to the
| granting of home rule to Cuba.
The committee on territories decided
to report favorably the bill to admit
! Oklahoma to statehood.
The French cabinet has resigned
because of the failure of the senate to
vote confidence.
1t is said that 500, 900 members of the
American Federation of Labor will
make demand for shorter days on
May /.
Scott Jackson is on trial at Newport,
KY, for the murder of Pearl Bryan.
Advices from Bulawayo, in Matabele-
land, state that it is believed 5000
white prospectors or farmers have been
murdered by the savages.
The ambassadors at Constantinople
have demanded that the sultan keep
his promise to appoint Christian
| governor at Zeitoun.
The Canadian parliament has been
| dissolved.
Francis Rhodes, Lionel Phillips and
| George Farrar, members of the johann
nesburg reform committee, pleaded
| guilty to high treason. The other
members pleaded guilty to lcse mejeste
without hostile intention on or against
| the independence of Transvaal.
Advices from Bulawayo are TO the
effect that the English troopers at that
place went out to attack the Matabelcs,
who were encamped near there. They
were successful in killing between 400
and 200 of the enemy, but were finally
almost surrounded and were compelled
as failure, for while they lost heavily
the supply of ammunition is also greatly
depleted.
Advices from Havana indicate that
Maceo's forces have been successful
breaking through the Spanish trocha,
which Weyler declared was absolutely
impossible.
1t is rumored that Premier Salisbury
is contemplating resigning.
At Cripple Creek, Col, few days
ago courtesan threw lamp at her
lover. A conflagration was started
which burned for three hours, destroy
ing business property occupying
several blocks and valued at at least
81 900. 600. The burned district will be
at once rebuilt.
Veterans of the Union League Club,
of Brooklyn, unveiled colossal
equestrian statue of General Grant in
front of their club house few days
ago. The statue is of bronze, fifteen
feet, eight inches high, on pedestal
sixteen feet high.
A tornado which visited Clay county,
Kansas, killed six persons and injured
perhaps score. The cyclone started
about six miles south of Clifton and
went in northeasterly direction for
twelve or fifteen miles, then lost it's
force by spreading. 1t passed about
half way between Clifton and Morgan
vile. Its track varied from $50 yards
to a quarter of mile in width. 1t
tore through farming community
and left nothing standing.
Advices from India state that 100
Moolah fanatics were slaughtered in
the temple at Manjeri by the rajahs
followers. 40
Kansas orchards are being devastated
by a caterpillar of a new kind.
The jury in the case against ex-City
Treasurer Bolln, of Omaha, charged
with embezzling $4,000 of the city's
money, failed to agree.
The lawyer of man who was cleo
trocuted in New York few days ago
for killing woman, says ne is positive
his client was the notorious Jack, the
Ripper" who created SO much horror
by his bloody work in Whitechapel,
London.
Advices from the Transvaal state
that the five leaders of the reform
committee Of Johannesburg, j. II.
Hammond, an American, and Francis
Rhodes, George Farrar, Lionel Phillips
and Charles Leonard, Englishmen, have
been condemned to death by the
Transvaal government. When the
news reached the English foreign
office Chamberlain sent Kruger the
following dispatch: 1.-The government
has just learned of the sentence of
death passed on the leaders of the
reform committee, and feel no doubt
your honor will commute the sentences.
and have assured parliament of the
conviction that this is vour honor S
intention" A Johannesburg ispatch
states that in addition to the sentence
of death passed upon the leaders of
the reform committee, sixty other
me mbers have been sentenced to two
years imprisonment, Il fine of e2.O00
and three years subsequent Danish
mcnt.