Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-06-09

mature explosion of a charge of powder
while blasting boulders about six miles
from Waterloo. Fred was tamping a
charge, when the iron struck the rock
and the powder was ignited. The
explosion blew Fred Burmeister's right
arm off entirely, white the left arm
hung by shreds of the skin. Portions
into his chest. His face was terribly
mangled and both of his eyes were
blown out. julius Burmeister's right
arm was mangled and burned with
! powder. His right eye was blown out
of its socket and he was bruised over
the body. 1t is not thought that either
can recover. They are about 80 years
of age and unmarried
Captain Frank Landers, chief of the
census bureau, has just finished the
compilation of some statistics relative
! to the manufactures of Iowa. The sta
| tistics show that while several of the
| great factories have left the state the
number of smaller institutions have
greatly increased. The figures are as
| follows: Value of ablishments,
25,6OS, 1893; amount expended in ma
terial in 1894, S3s, 1855; value of raw
material produced and used, $3.50, SIT;
value of manufactured product, $685.
79S,025; value of product, including
dairy product, S73, 435, 3O4; average
number of hands employed, Is years old
and over, males 23,2OS, females 2,973;
under IS years, males arse, females
600; amount paid in wages in 1894, S1O,-
OS4, 93s,
The tramp who attempted to outrage
12-year-old school girl near Rhodes,
was traced by posse and captured
two miles east of Colo He was taken
for safe keeping to Nevada for the
night and later taken to Collins, near
where the infamous act was perpe-
trated, for trial. The prisoner was
positively identified by the little girl
His face was scratched. The prisoner
denies the act, but acknowledges
taking breakfast with a farmer near
by. He waived examination and was
bound over to the district court under
81, 500 bonds. Being unable to furnish
the same he was placed in Jail at
Nevada. There is strong feeling in
the neighborhood against the prisoner,
and had he accomplished his purpose
he would undoubtedly have been
lynched.
AT Perry few nights ago John Les
sell was shot shortly after / O clock in
the alley in the rear of his home, by
Nightwatchman George Ross. He was
shot three times. The first ball en-
tered the left cheek, SCATTERING the
bone, passed downward, breaking the
jaw bone and cutting small artery.
1t was removed from just under the
skin on his shoulder, being fiat as
dime. The second shot took effect just
above the right knee, and the ball
passed up into the muscles of the leg
and could not be located The third
shot entered in the rear and just be-
low the left shoulder, the ball passing
downward and could not be found. |
Lessell was on his way to work at the |
roundhouse and Ross thought him a |
burglar. Ross has been removed from |
the force
At Omaha the jury in the Stanley
Claycomb grave robbery case returned
verdict of guilty as charged. This
was the trial on the Helm case of |
grave robbing, Claycomb having been
acquitted in the Larsen trial. Clay |
comb is the man who was caught at
Dee Moines with two trunks in his
possession containing human bodies.
He expected to dispose of them to the
Drake Medical college for dissecting
Omaha detectives that the graves of
Mrs. Anna Larsen and Mr.. HELM, at
Mount Hope cemetery, in the outskirts
o. Omaha, had been tempered with
and the bodies removed. The bodies
shipped to Des Moines proved to be the
missing ones. Iowa authorities were
on hand to arrest Claycomb should he
escape conviction, they having cases
against him for shipping bodies irregu-
larly.
From complete reports it is estimated
that the total damage of the recent
cyclone which passed across Polk
county and into Jasper county will
reach almost 100000. There were
homes damaged by the
storm, some of them completely swept
away, while others suffered from loss
in the barn and other outbuildings.
The latest news shows that the storm
began four miles in Dallas county, so
that it's path was forty miles long, ex-
tending from four and one-half miles
northwest of Granger, IN Dallas
county, to the little town of Ira, in
Jasper county. A corrected list of the
killed is as follows: Near Bondurant,
Mrs. Robert Battle, Joseph Bailie,
Lizzie Bailie, John Bailie; near Elk
mart, James MAXWELL; at Santiago,
Peter Bollenbaugh, Mrs. Bollenbaugh,
rheopulus Milburn; at Valeria, Chas
Phelan, Mrs. Chas. Phelan, Chas. Phe-
an, Jr.; Susie Phelan, Daniel Phelan,
Michael Phelan, Nellie Phelan; near