Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-29
THE NEWS IN IOWA


killed by team running away while
retu. ing to her home, five miles
north of Abba.
Jacob Hunt, aged about 20, while at
the depot at Atlantic to see his son-in-
law, Conductor Al Stafford, of the
Rock Island, dropped dead of apop-
lexy.
Ralph B. Treadway, the famous
Yale captain, has disappeared. A
dispatch says his parents, who live in
Sioux City, have not heard of him for
three weeks.
Geo. Derrick, of Cedar Rapids, while
intoxicated, stabbed his wife in the
head with pitchfork. 1t is not be-
lieved the injury will prove fatal. He
is under arrest.
BY the will of the late President
ton will receive bequest of $4,000.
The rest of his estate is divided
among his relatives.
Advices from various portions of the
state to the Iowa Weather and Crop
Bureau indicate that the recent heavy
frosts have injured the corn crop
perhaps twenty per cent.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Knorr, of MarshalltOwn,
while playing about a barn fell and
crushed her skull so badly that fears
of her death are entertained.
The 2-year-old daughter of George
Webb, who resides in Calhoun county,
eight miles northeast of Sac City, was
drowned in stock watering tank on
the premises of her grandfather, VIM.
Webb. She was playing in the yard,
and, unobserved, went TO the tank, fell
in, and was drowned before she had
been missed.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to wreck the night express by piling
ties upon the track near Allerton
few nights ago. The engineer on the
freight preceding the passenger saw it
in time to stop his train and avert
probably a fatal accident. Blood
hounds were put on the trail, but
without success.
George Harrison, colored tramp,
fell from the top of freight train
that was switching in the yards at
Hamburg, cutting very ugly cash
under his eye, also on the side of his
face and otherwise 'bruising him up.
His wounds were dressed and the
authorities sent him to st. Joe, where
he says he has relatives.
While Miss Grace Griffin and another
young lady were returning home from
prayer meeting at Marion, a couple of
fellows ran up behind them and with
a pair of scissors clipped off Miss
Griffin's hair, which was hanging
down her back in braid. Before the
girl could give the alarm the miscreants
had disappeared in the darkness.
A passenger train on the Burlington
e. Northwestern road was helping
heavy freight up a steep grade five
and half miles north of Burlington,
when one of the freight cars jumped
the track at culvert, dozen others
instantly piling up in a confused bulk.
No one was injured, but considerable
delay in traffic was caused. Damage
will amount to $4,000.
A. Ball &c Co., bankers of West
Liberty, have made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors. Inability to
realize on assets was the cause of the
failure. The bank is fourteen years
old, private institution, and had an
extensive business. It's assets are
given as 100000. with but 5000
liabilities. 1t is said it will be able to
pay dollar for dollar in time.
The body of Polk Wells, the noted
train robber and outlaw, who died liz
the Iowa penitentiary, was taken to
medical college in st. Joseph, Mo-,
and will be dissected, according to the
will of the outlaw. He stipulated that
the heart and skeleton should go to
Al Warneeke, who married the
divorced wife of Wells, as well as all
bullets that were found in his body.
At Morning Sun few days ago
man named Mcpherson attempted to
take his daughter from his wife, from
whom he separated, but was foiled and
arrested. While being taken TO the
Jail he suddenly turned on Marshal
Finley, who had him in charge, and
shot him in the breast, dangerously
wounding him, and then escaping in
the excitement, and has not since been
found.
Mt. Vernon is infested with a gang
of robbers who have so far eluded
every effort of the authorities to effect
their capture. Three stores have been
broken into within week and nearly
$500 worth of goods carried away.
When the last robbery was committed
it is believed wagon was employed to
carry away the plumber, Charles
Bracket being the loser of $500 worth
of clothing and other goods.
The police captured man at Water
loo who gave his name as Frank Fair.
He tried to sell a pair of dividers to
Architect Smith. Smith suspected