Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-17
THE NEWS IN IOWA

The Y. NJ. 4. A. OF burlington are
discussing plans for a new building.
The money is collected and everything
seems favorable to the proposed plan.
Atlantic has passed curfew ordi-
nance and hereafter a whistle will
warn children TO be at home at s
o'clock in winter and o'clock in
summer.
Two tramps, who shot William Kirk
patrick, near Oskaloosa recently,
wounding him in the right arm, have
lost received a seven-year sentence in
4Ae penitentiary.
The winter term at Highland Park
College, Des Moines, VIII open Novem-
Der oath. The present term has been
remarkably successful and a large
winter attendance is assured.
Ex-Chief Justice William f. Miller
died at the Christian Sanitarium, at
Des Moincs, on the 9th. Mr.. Miller
had been i'll for many years, having
suffered stroke of paralysis in 1887.
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Daily News, can be had for one dollar
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1897. Clip out and enclose this item.
Address The News. Des Moines, Iowa.
Advices from the Philippines give
information regarding a victory for
the Spauiards, in which the rebels lost
four hundred and the Spaniards
thirty-three, according to the official
report.
After nearly three years litigation.
things are in such shape now that the
court has ordered o. g. Steink, receiver
of the Cass County Bank, of Atlantic,
to pay on demand 10 per cent dividend
on preferred claims. There were over
seventy of them, amounting to nearly
sixty thousand dollars.
Mrs. Zenas Gurley, mother of Hon.
u. II. Gurley, of Lamont, fell from a
second-story window, crushing her
collar bone and receiving internal
injuries from which she died within a
couple of hours. 1t is thought that in
a moment of temporary insanity she
attempted to climb out of the window,
with the above result.
A stranger giving his name as Basely
was bound over to the Polk county
grand jury under bonds of $500 on a
charge of assault with intent to COM
a init murder. A few nights previous
struck a colored man, George
1ay borrower the head with coupling
pin in a quarrel in the Whitechapel
district of Des Moines. A. c. Zachary
was fined $40 for carrying concealed
weapons.
While engaged in backing heated
stove, Fred Tuppy, young man of
Shell Rocl., was considerably burned.
The gasoline he was using for thinning
purposes exploded, setting fire to his
clothing. Before help arrived, his
right shoulder and face were fright
fully burned, part of the flesh on his
face dropping off. At last reports he
was resting as easily as could be
expected.
As a Milwaul< ee passenger train was
pulling out OF Beaver going east,
man standing by the track. just as the
engine approached he threw himself
on the track and the train passed over
him. He was instantly killed and
horribly mangled. The remains were
brought TO Ogden, where Coroner Clark
held an inquest. 1t is thought ne was
"a tramp tired OF life.
James McGrew, about 10 years old,
met instant death at a Keokuk &
Western grading crossing, two miles
southeast of Centerville The engir q
struck just between the horses an the
wagon and threw McGrew, the wagon
and both horses some distance ahead
and off the track. The horses were
almost instantly killed and che wagon
totally demolished. Young McGrew
was found lying on the ground about
twenty feet from the crossing, breath
Ing his last, but not badly cut or
mangled, though one leg was broken.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Iowa Savings Bank of Sioux City.
The bank was the oldest savings bank
in the city, having been organized in
1888, with ID. 4. Hedges, one of the
big boomers, as it's president, and l..
w. VIM as cashier. When the Union
Loan and Trust Company failed, there
were runs on both the Sioux National
and Iowa Savings, and it was with
some difficulty that they were saved.
Some weeks ago the Sioux National
gave up and this affected the Iowa
Savings also. During the campaign
withdrawal of deposits was steady,
and the bank was left practi ,ally
without ready cash. Mr.. Marley, of
the Security National, has been placed
in charge as receiver. r. Il. Hutchins.
cashier, says the depositors will be
paid in full, and there will be sur
plus for stockholders.
The Davenport sehoolrooms are much
too small to accommodate the large
number Of pupils, and schoolrooms
will have to be rented until arrange
ments can be made for building.
THE new government bridge across
til