Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
THE NEWS IN IOWA


Thanksgiving proclamation on the 18th.
The Southwestern Iowa Horti
cultural Society will meet at Council
Bluffs December 10, 10 and II.
Jerry Pitman, a wealthy old settler
of jefferson, dropped dead few days
ago. Heart failure was the cause.
Emil Laham, aged IA years, son Oh
Ferdinand Laham, of Wheatland. west
of Clinton, was accidentally killed
there by the fall of "a pile driver.
An agreement has been signed which
assures to Des Moines union depot
inside of two years, and which will be
erected by +. NJ. Hubbell at cost Of
not less than 500, 900
One of Marshalltown's leading insti-
buttons which has felt the new business
impulse is the packing house OF
Britain e Co., which is now employing
over 100 men and turning out largely
increased, nearly doubled, product.
Primghar has sensation growing
out of an action for SANDER and libel
being brought by married woman
against one of O'Brien county's well
to do farmers. Both parties are high
up in church circles, and the affair
promises to be highly sensational
when the trial is reached at the
December term of court.
Frank Huber, a boy some l6 years oil
age, got into freefor-all fight al
Storm Lake with five other boys. He
pulled knife and cut Fred McLaugh.
lin cash behind the left ear. He also
stabbed Lew Showers twice in the
back. Mclaughlin was not badly
hurt. Showers was quite badly hurt
The Huber boy is under arrest.
Safe blowers tried their skill on the
safe in the Lawbaugh grain Office a,
Madrid. The safe never contains any
valuables, SO it is concluded some
tramp was practicing up for create,
efforts later on. The McFarlin grain
office was also entered, but nothing
WIS disturbed. A square of postage
stamps worth dollar was left.
The grand jury of Martin county,
Minnesota, is now in session at Fair,
mont, and will doubtless indict Lew
kellihan, the notorious Sherburna
bank robber, whose parents reside al
Rock Rapids. The sentiment of tho
people is calling for an immediate
trial and no delay in the execution OF
the severest sentence the law can i'm
pose.
Z The jewelry store of Vert Evans, OF
Linevitte.- was ssered by burglars and
watches, jewelry. etc, to the value of
between s7oo and $500 were taken.
Entrance was effected by prying the
lock off the back door. Several sus.
picious characters had been in town
all day, all of whom had left in tho
morning, and no arrests have beer
made.
The store of J. w. McCay, at Robert
son, six miles southeast of Iowa Falls,
burned recently. The building and
contents, including the postoffice fix
lures and supplies, are total loss.
The store had been robbed twice this
fall, and the supposition is that
another raid was made and fire set to
cover " any clue. The loss is est
mated at about So, 900.
Postmaster General Wilson has re,
Instated Il. NJ. Killen as postmaster
at Moulton. Kilien was suspended
for the alleged reason that he had
opened private letters which passed
through his Office. The grand jury at
Moulton, after an investigation of the
charges, ignored them, and in this way
exonerated the postmaster. Killen's
friends then placed these facts before
The largest mailing house of the
Davenport Mailing Company, located
in the western part of the city of
Davenport, together with contents,
was destroyed by fire few days ago,
incurring loss of sl2 600. The FIRE is
supposed to have been caused bya live
electric wire which penetrated the
roof of the building, coming in contact
with the wood work.
The Iowa State Epworth League, at
the convention at Cedar Rapids, elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, Frank l.. Loveland,
Cedar Rapids; secretary, Geo. w. Ladd,
Avcca; treasurer, Royal Ii. Holbrook,
Cedar Rapids; superintendent of junior
work. Mrs. Fritzchler, Mason City. |
The place for holding the next meeting |
will be settled by the state cabinet
later.
The magnificent new bridge across |
the Mississippi at Davenport has been
completed for foot passengers and will |
be wholly completed on Nov. 26. At |
ter the construction of the bridge had |
been authorized, Ralph Modjeshi was
appointed by the government as chief |
engineer of of the work. Col. Butling- |
ton, of the arsenal, received bids for |
the superstructure on August 81, 1895.
the Phoenix Bridge Company of
PhoeniXvillc, Pa, the constructors of
the old bridge, having been the sue
cessful bidders. The getting together
of the material and workmen took
some time bnt on December 1879 |