Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-28
THE NEWS IN IOWA


John V. Crum, the college champion,
says he has given up sprinting for
good.
Victor Carleton, 2O-year-old son of
E. ID. Carleton, of Spirit Lake, suicided
by shooting himself.
The cases against the medical
students charged with grave robbing
at Des MONIES were dismissed.
Chas. Snyder, a farmer living three
miles northeast of Grand Junction,
had his hand torn off in a corn shelter.
The little town of Numa furnishes a
$4,000 SANDER suit for the next term
of court. Papers are now on file in
which Maggie Coulter is plaintiff and
James Hibbs is defendant.
Linseed Cake Toll meaD does not only
keep your stock in good order, but is a
great flesh producer and is now as
cheap as corn. Write Des Moines
Linseed Oil Works for pamphlets and
prices.
Mrs Mary Vose, of Waterloo, has
sued Fred Stolte, a saloonkeeper, for
$4,000 for damages alleged to have
been sustained because of illegal sales
of Intoxicating liquors to the plaintiffs
husband, Louis Vose. The case will
be pushed for all there is in it.
Harry, the 7-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Graham, who reside eight
miles south of Cherokee, received a
kick in the abdomen from horse and
will die. The injuries are internal and
the physicians in attendance are unable
to give him any relief. He is in
constant agony.
Thomas j. Jones was instantly killed
in the Haworth coal mine at Oskaloosa
He was just leaving his room, going to
dinner, when he was struck by a flying
chunk of coal and slate from another
room and his head blown almost
entirely off. He was 40 years old and
leaves wife and daughter.
Amos Sickle, president of the Elk
change bank at Bloomfield, has written
to President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle offering to furnish 100000 600
in gold by February Is if given assur-
ance that he shall receive in exchange
therefor sos, 900, 900 of 'greenbacks
now lying idle in the United States
treasury"
EX-Judge E. L. Burton, of Ottumwa,
died few days ago after three years
illness of paralysis. He was SO years
of age. He was regarded as one of the
ablest attorneys in the west. He
married a sister of Gen. Marcellus
Crocker and his wife and seven
children, four of whom live in Chicago,
survive him.
Thomas Yost, aged IS, was divorced
at Burlington few days ago, and
within thirty minutes had secured a
license to marry Mrs. Willie Frost,
widow of recently deceased Methodist
minister. A forty year romance is
back of it, though all the parties con-
cerned are pretty old people and prom
inent in church work.
In the Dallas county court at Abel
J. e. Alpaugh was sentenced by Judge
Applegate to five years in the peniten-
tiary at hard labor, for forging a
note on w. S. Nash, of Perry. He was
indicted by the grand jury on three
counts and pleaded guilty to all of
them. The other indictments were for
forging a note and mortgage against
De Loss Wesley and also note on
John j. Moore.
Governor Drake has suspended the
sentence against Druggist James w.
Bagley, of Creston. Bagley and John
Needs, a druggist of Alton, were
convicted for violating the old
prohibition law and fined $50 and costs,
but were given long time to pay. They
failed to settle and the sheriff took
them in charge. Needs is in Jail and
will serve out his fine. Bagley's friends
took the matter up on the ground that
the record of his conviction was
defective, and the governor suspended
sentence.
The A. o. U. w. case has just been
reversed by the supreme court. The
celebrated case is entitled: The
Grad Lodge of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen of Iowa, appellee, VS..
w. r. Graham ct al, appellant, appealed
from decision of Judge j. S. Hustled,
Dubuque district, suit to enjoin
defendants, who are officers of an
alleged incorporated society, from
using the name of Grand Lodge
Ancient Order United Worlxmen of
Iowa." and to restrain the defendants
from conducting a mutual insurance
business on the assessment plan. In
the lower court the plaintiffs moved to
strike out portions of the defendants
answer and demurred to the remainder.
The defendant elected TO stand on it's
pleading and was defeated. Defendant
appealed and the decision of the
supreme bench is a victory for the
defendants.
Some years ago William Burns, an
old resident OF Bankston, who died a
year ago at Mercy Hospital in Dubuque,
decided his property, including 126
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