Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-24
THE NEWS in IOWA

that effect having been signed.
VIII Uric has been found guilty in
Judge Tedford's court at Corning of
assault with intent to commit rape.
Frederick J. Croft, an old soldier and
citizen of Burlingt N for many years,
died after undergoing surgical
operation in a hospital in that city.
w. II. Bradley, painter, while com
down hill on street at Dubuque was
thrown from his wagon and fatally
injured. His skull was fractured.
j. M. Burbridge, prominent
resident of Greedy, Delaware county,
was killed near Concord, Mass, on the
railway. He left his home with load
of live stock few days ago.
Fred Geyer, a suspicious character,
was shot at Council Bluffs by officers.
He died few hours later. He was
running away from a building which
had been robbed when he was shot.
A man aged 25, supposed to be
Thomas Monaghan, of Davenport, was
dragged from the river at the foot of
Southeast Sixth street, Des Moines, by
passers-by at 10 o'clock at night. He
was intoxicated and half frozen and
had either fallen into the river or been
assaulted The police think the former
theory is correct.
The judiciary committee of the old
g l-1l Mt 6
the apparent shortage in Mayor
Pierce's accounts of about 81 ,000at the
end of the first year, March 9, but that
$500 had been turned in since, besides
$500 collected in advance from the
saloons for the next quarter. No
action was taken by the newly installed
council.
Charles Altmansperger, until recent
ly agent at Minden of the Seiffert Il
Else Lumber Company, of Avoca, and
arrested for forgery, has pleaded guilty
to two out of seven counts and been
sentenced to seven years Imprisonment
by Judge Thorncll. Altmansperger's
forgery aggregated several thousand
dollars. He stood well with the Ger
man element in and surrounding Min
den, and was known as hale fellow
well met.
Miss Allie Douglas, of Akron, Ply
mouth county, was outraged by an
unknown tramp. She was waylaid
while going horseback to give music
- La ha
prisoner all day and repeatedly ravish-
ed. She was then bound to her horse
and released. The horse came back to
Akron dragging the unconscious girl,
as she had slipped off, Large posses
are securing the country for he raw
Usher.
A Jefferson dispatch says: The Odd
Fellows lodge at Jefferson has unan-
imously voted instructing their attor-
ney TO take steps restraining the grand
lodge committee from further action in
the location of the Orphans Home.
The grand lodge located the home in
Jefferson, but the committee imposed
unreasonable requirements and Jeffer-
son would not sign the contract. Then
the committee made contract with
Indianola.
At Dubuque few mornings since
Michael Kiley, a teamster, entered the
Diamond House saloon, sank into a
chair and became at once stupid and
very ill. The patrol was summoned
and Kiley was removed to the hospital.
Investigation showed wound on the
head and fracture of the skull.
There is no hope of recovery. 1t is
believed he is the victim Of murderous
assault, as he had told his children
that man threatened TO lay him out.
Quite a sensation was precipitated
upon the people of Primghar when a
procession of ladies, headed by Mrs. +.
ID. Mitchell, started about town with |
petitions to secure the signatures of
voters for the purpose of closing the
saloon. While there is only one saloon
IN town, yet it is claimed it has been
run in open violation of the mulct law. |
The women say the war is now on and |
on to stay until the saloon is closed,
and until every drug store is run
strictly in accordance with the law.
Bradley's bank, at Moulton, was
broken into by burglars, who cut |
through the walls of the vault, and
once inside, used dynamite to blow
open the outer door of seven-ton safe |
made by the Chicago Safe company.
The force of the explosion shook the !
town and demolished the entire vault |
and safe. The two men were seen to |
hurry away from the building, but |
they escaped, leaving no clue behind. |
They made no effort to return to the |
vault for booty. The damage will |
each $4,000.
After being out all night, the jury in !
the Woods case at uscatine, in which |
the defendant was on trial for blowing |
up Kessinger's home in 1893, failed to |
agree and were discharged. Rumor
has it the jury stood TO s for acquittal. |
Perry Butler, an s-year-old boy, dis |
from the home of his parents |
at Oskaloosa. The parents and the |
police searched in vain for him and |