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

Miss Julia Stevenson, daughter of
the vice-president, was married to DR..
Martin Hardin few days ago.
Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, an
nounces his withdrawal from the race
for the pres idential nomination on the
republican ticket.
Secretary Morton, of the agricultural
department, having just returned from
a 10000 mile trip through the west,
gives it as his opinion that the silver
men will have majority of 100 in the
Chicago convention, and that they will
adopt platform which will be direct
ly contrary to the policy of the admin
istration.
According to late advices from st.
Louis the known dead in st. Louis
reaches 141, while there are IS others
whose names are unknown. In East
st. Louis the dead number exactly 100
identified with 2 unidentified. In
addition to this, one man is missing
and eight are SO badly injured they
will probably die. In Illinois east of
East st. Louis al were killed and 22S
injured; in Indiana were killed and
5 injured; and in Pennsylvania were
killed and injured
Later reports from Moscow show that
already ,22O bodies of those killed in
the awful panic have been buried and
that several hundred are fatally in
jured. An estimate fixes the total
number killed at nearly three thou
sand.
Bernard j. Wefers ran eco yards at
New York in 81 1-5 seconds, two Sec
onds better than the previous record.
Quay comedies the nomination of
Mckinley on the first ballot and gives
out figures which give him 10 votes
more than the necessary majority.
Ex-SpealSer Crisp says he believes
that the chances of Horace Boies for
securing the democratic nomination
are the best.
Advices from Honolulu state that
Kate Field died in that city on the 10Th
of May, of pneumonia. She was act
ing as special correspondent for the
Chicago Times-Herald at the time of
her death.
The pomp and pageantry of the cor
onation festivities at Moscow have
been followed by harvest of death.
While thousands were assembled on
the plain of Khodijnskoje to partake
of free dinner, the crush of the peo-
pie resulted In a terrible panic, and as
result the morgues, hospitals and
churches in the old Muscovite capital
were filled with dead and dying.
Latest reports from the scene of the
awful calamity give the number of the
killed as lbs. At least ten times
that number were wounded more or
less severely, and the deaths yet to
result cannot be estimated.
Mark M. ('Bricll'') Pomeroy died at
his home near Brooklyn on the 30th.
A Pittsburg dispatch is as follows:
The prohibitionists nominated Joshua
lowering, of Baltimore, for president
by reclamation. Hale johnson, of
was nominated for vice-pres-
ident on the first ballot. Helen M.
Cougar, of Indiana, and Mrs. L. A.
Poole, of New York, struggled in vain
for woman suffrage, but the narrow
gauge people controlled the convention
and took everything. The new plat
form excluded everything but prohi-
bition, even woman suffrage, and was
the narrowest kind of a narrow gauge
declaration. st. Johns silver platform
was defeated, 3S7 to 427.
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, has
been indicted for failure to file a
descriptive list of the property owned
by him in Laurel county.
The Methodist general conference
voted to organize an immense church |
insurance company to compete with |
the great companies of the world
Later reports from Victoria, Il. c.,
indicate that the fatalities resulting |
from the awful bridge horror will |
probably reach nearly hundred.