Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04

| governor Drake mas appointed OOeQ
| Caswell Judge of the Seventeenth
| judicial district. Mr.. Caswell is res
ident of Marshall county and the re-
publican nominee for the Office.
State Veterinary Surgeon Gibson, of
| Denison, has just concluded an inves-
| tigation of reported CHAMBERS in horses
on the premises of two farmers near
| Marion, and he pronounces four head
| affected with the disease. They
| belong to two farmers who exchange
work and who have no other horses.
| 1t is not known how the disease
| started. The horses were shot by the
township trustees without an order
| from the state board of health.
The crop report bulletin just ISSUED
| by the Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
| shows that because of rust in oats the
yield this year, which a few weeks ago
| promised to exceed the tremendous
yield of 1895, will not amount to more
| than thirty-five per cent of the crop of
| year ago. The southern part of the
| state has suffered worst from rust in
oats, while the middle portions have
| been greatly injured. In the extreme
north portions the damage has been
scarcely noticeable. Copious showers
have been reported from all portions
of the state that have made splendid
| crop of corn and assured an immense
yield. Practically all small grain has
been harvested and great deal of it
threshed.
Deputy United States Marshal Rich.
ards went to Winterset and arrested
Claud l.. Chase, Cliff Clanton and John
| Clark on a warrant charging them
with being the parties who burglarized
and robbed the Winterset postoffice
May &c. 1895, of $500 dollars worth of
postage stamps. They were taken to
Des Moines. The men are young but
reputed quite tough. 1t is claimed the
stamps were taken to Kansas City and
sold. The federal officers have been
quietly working on the case for more
than year, and claim they are sure
the men under arrest are the right
parties. The evidence against the trio
can be no doubt about being able to
induce the commissioner to bind them
over to the federal grand jury.
A recent dispatch from Atlantic
says: Messrs. Johnson and Carpenter,
representing the Manitoba & Gulf
railway, have been in the city the
past few days to see what Atlantic
and vicinity would do toward having
At citizens meeting F. p. Whitney
personally offered right of way with
Sl5, 900 and roadbed to Griswold as a
partial inducement, and also offered
to pay the expenses for survey from
Angus to Atlantic. The latter offer
was accepted, and a survey of the
proposed route will be begun at once.
Panora, Guthrie Center and possibly
Casey will be on the line of the road
The road will be run about on the line
of the ninetyffth degree of longitude.
A township tax will undoubtedly be
voted for the road in the sections
through which it runs
Frank Pierson, Of Iowa Falls, in
fit of insanity, cut the threats of
father and mother and then his own.
Before beginning the work the maniac
started fire in trunk filled with
combustibles in room upstairs, with
the evident intention of cremating
the bodies of his intended victims.
The weapon was razor, with which
he first cut his father, but only sue
ceeded in inflcting slight flesh
wound. He then attacked his mother,
and with his left hand drew the razor
across her neck, cutting the flesh from
her to the middle of her neck. The
lunatic then cut his own throat from
pipe, but is still living, though the
surgeon considers his recovery doubt
full. The mother is in a precarious
condition from the loss of blood and
the nervous shock, but slight hopes
are entertained of her recovery.
Frank Person, the would-be murderer,
was but recently discharged from the
asylum at Independence. Albert, the
brother of Frank, committed suicide
in Chicago last spring.
Gen. Geo. w. Jones died at Dubuque
at o'clock on the evening of the
22d, in the 9od year of his age. He was
taken sick in June while visiting the
family of the late Ben Campbell in
Chicago and was hurried home and to
bed he rallied after some weeks and
for some days was about town discuss
ing the probability of the Chicago
convention with keen interest. This
activity precipitated his final sickness.
On the Goth his condition deepened
into an unconscious state, in which he
remained until death. except that he
rallied at intervals to pray that death
would come. His children, Mrs Linn
Duess, Mrs Maria j. Hay and William
and George Jones, were with him at
death, his wife having died after their
golden wedding celebration. The
generals sight and general health
began to fail early last year and be-
came so moor towards fall that he WAC