Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-07-14
THE NEWS IN IOWA


of Minnie Kiel, OF Bellevue.
Schemmel's Touring mill, the city
Jail and several warehouses were
burned at Dyersville at loss of
$4,000
Joseph c. Stoddard, fof twenty years
CITY treasurer of Cedar Rapids, will be
prosecuted for embezzling ST. 500 of
the city funds.
On account of money that he owed Il
son, who is shortly 80 be married and
wanted to start in !ife for himself,
August Korth, n 60-year-old farmer
near Republic, hanged himself.
A boy named Earl Darling, living at
Leeds, suburb of Sioux City, held
too long to a big fire cracker on the
4th, and his hand was torn To shreds.
The hand had to be cut off
A store at Oxford Junction was brok-
en- into by four young fellows and a
hundred dollars worth of goods stolen.
George Mclaughlin, one of the burg
lars, was captured at Cedar Rapids but
the others are still at large.
The sheriff has served injunc tions
closing all of the saloons in Oelweiu,
1t is claimed that the saloon men had
not the 65 per cent of the voters of the
county on their petition, which, accord
ing to the mulct law, they had to have.
! A young lady got acquainted with n
young man on a train on the Illinois
Central and handed him her purse, at
Dubuque, to get her sandwich. 1t
had $235 in it, He Disappeared but
was arrested later with most of the
money on his person.
AT Cedar Rapids few days ago,
William Shuell, of Parnell railroad
track hand, was dangerously stabbed
in Il saloon by n tramp. Shuell inter
fered to protect stranger who had
been set upon by tramps and was i'm
mediately attacked by the gang. They
were all arrested. The injured man is
well-lInown phys clan.
John Myers and his brother-in-law,
Ed Supplee, got into a drunken row at
Winfield, resulting in Myers shooting
Supplee three times The
wounded man has since died The
tragedy is the final outcome of series
of drunken rows that have disgraced
the little village for some months.
Myers will put up plea of self
defense, claiming his brother-in-iaw
was about to brain him with hammer.
Mrs. ida Russell, formerly of Fay
cite, but for the past year first cook at
little 9-year-old daughter in the back
of the head with revolver, few days
ago, and then killed herself. When
the door of her room was broken open
she was found to be dead, but the lit
tie girl was alive, but unconscious, and
the attending physicians think that
with careful treatment the child will
recover. Mrs. Fussell's husband died
about three years ago and since that
time she had been Respondent.
Fire broke out in Lampman's livery
barn on the west side of the main
business block of New Hartford. The
barn, together with five other build
ings, mostly business houses: were
entirely consumed. The burned stock
consisted of, besides the livery barn, a
drug store, furniture store, two
doctors offices and harness shop.
The loss is estimated at from S25, 900
nd &c 70 hn
town. The buildings and contents
were only partially insured. 1t is not
yet known whether they will be
rebuilt.
A dynamite bomb was discovered
under sidewalk on jefferson street
near the Grand opera house, at
Ottumwa, by workman employed in
laying paving. The internal machine
was turned over to the police. 1t CON
sisted of can made of sheet iron
about the size of a one-pound baking
powder can. 1t weighed all together
about two pounds. Experts pro
nounced the bomb unquestionably a
dynamite cartridge of the most danger
Gus cHdTdcbcT. IL WAS ldERc SHouSl,
if exploded, to destroy two or three
prick buildings The whole affair is a
mystery, the police having no clew &c
the perpetrator.
A Des Moines dispatch says: E. f.
Carpenter, general manager of the
Manitoba d Gulf road, which the
populists propose TO build from Canada
to the gulf of Mexico through the
trans Mississippi states, has just re
turned from the north part of tho
state, where he was having trouble
with men engaged in grading piece
of road from Ruthven To Jackson
Mimi, distance of about fifty miles,
which it is hoped will eventually form
link in the great north and south
line 1t was reported the worbmen
who had not been paid, nearly mobbed
Carpenter. To this he makes reply
that the trouble has been adjusted and
she men have returned 10 work.
Ira Reeves, living in Sweetlanc
township, near Sweetland creek, in
Muscatine county, found cow ano
,b,aa ba;farc 1uin0 dead in his stock