Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK

A band of Turks plundered the viii
lage of Evereck, in Asia Minor, killing
100 Armenians and setting fire to fifty
houses.
Mrs. Castle, the San francisco So
ciety woman convicted in London of
shoplifting, has been released, the
foreign office saying that her condition
entitled her to leniency.
In his address before the Iational
Farmers Congress at Indianapolis,
President Clayton, of Iowa, made a
strong address, against trusts and
combines, referring especially to the
beef combine, and urged state legisla-
ton to curb combines.
3According to Washington dispatch
a treaty has been signed between the
United States and Great Britain pro-
viding for arbitration of the Vene-
zuelan affair. Two arbitrators are to
be chosen by the lord chief justice of
England, two by the chief justice of
the United States supreme court
and the fifth arbitrator, as stipulated
in. the treaty, is to be King Oscar III of
Norway and Sweden. The essential
feature of the treaty is that fifty
years actual possession is to constitute
title. With this limitation as to the
settled districts, the entire sweep of
the Venezuelan boundary is placed in
the hands of the court of arbitration.
The treaty covers only Venezuela, and
the question of general arbitration
between the United States and Great
Britain is left to future negotiations.
The famine in India continues to
spread.
A recent tart speech of NJ. Hanotaux,
French minister of foreign affairs, in
the chamber of deputies has had the
effect of causing the sultan to promise
the immediate application. of a num-
Der of reforms.
The captain and crew of the schooner
Waukeshaw got beastly drunk during
bowling storm and the vessel went
down. But one of the sailors Lived to
tell the story.
In n recent speech at the lord may
or's banquet Lord Salisbury said that
a'solution of the dispute between Eng
land and America relative to the
arbitration of the Venezuelan affair
had been reached and that he was
confident the matter would be settled
by arbitration.
Captain General Weyler has taken
personal command of the Spanish
forces in Pinar del Rio.
The steamer Dauntless has depar ted
for Cuba with another cargo of arms,
ammunition, ETC.. for the insurgents.
Advices from st. Petersburg say
that NJ. Nelidoff has been offered the
foreign portfolio and has refused it.
The schooner Maggie and the steamer
Tiber collided at full speed in the
harbor at ST. Johns. The schooner
sank and thirteen persons were
drowned.
AT Georgetown, Md, Bernard j.
Wefers ran a hundred yards Q 3-5 sec.
onds and 300 yards in 80 2-5 seconds,
lowering record in each instance.
Mrs. w. H. Vanderbilt dropped dead
at the home of her daughter in Scars
boro, N. Y.
Much talk is being INDUCED in at
! Washington in regard to an extra
session of congress. Senator Quay is
quoted as saying that new tariff bill
would be adopted within eight months
after Mckinley's inauguration and if
this is done an extra session will be
necessary.
Chicago butchers have gone on a
strike because a raise which was
promised them after election did not
materialize.
1t is now denied that Maceo has
passed the Spanish trocha. He is said
To be still In Pinar del Rio, concen-
trating his forces for an attack on the
trocha.
Near Huntington, w. Va, Captain
Hatfield, of the Hatfield Mccoy fcud,
killed three men in a political quarrel
aud escaped. Later posse captured
Hatfield and his 14-year-old son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Castle. prom
inent society people of San Francisco,
were about To sail from London, after
a tour of Europe, when they We're
arrested on the charge of shop-lifting.
Kleptomania was the plea of Mrs.
Castle, but the court found her guilty
and sentenced her to three months
imprisonment.
President Cleveland has issued his
annual Thanksgiving proclamation set
ting Thursday. November &c, as day
of thanksgiving and prayer.