Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-04
THE NEWS IN IOWA

SOBRTeSSIudn DOlllNer.
Congressman Curtis of the Second
district has been renominatcd.
During heavy storm at Derby,
Harry L. Grimes, prominent mer-
chant. was instantly killed by light
ming at his own door.
A mass convention of silver voters
met at LeMars and nominated Judge
Van Wagenen, of Sioux City, for con-
gress to contest with Congressman
Perkins.
The Iowa College OF Law, at Des
Moines, seems to be growing faster
than any other law school, and is to
have new building this year. Neat
catalogues have been prepared by the
secretary, Prof. p. S. McNutt. Get one.
The city council of Fort Dodge has
recently let the contract for the first
paving of the town. j. w. Campbell,
of Des Moines, got the job at S1.22 a
yard, and must use Fort Dodge brick.
The contract will aggregate about
$4,000.
a.
Cabel Townsend at the home of the
latter in Boone on the night of July
8, has died, and Townsend has been
held for his murder. Alleged init
macy with Townsend's wife was the
cause of the shooting.
Clark Buckston, wanted at Month
cello for participation in number of
ro5beries, was arrested in Cedar Rap
ids. A woman who was arrested in
that city previously, who had been
trifed with by Buckston, is said to
have given up important testimony.
dispatch from Waterloo says: Rev.
Geo. +. Scott and Daisy Dorian, in the
custody of Sheriff Law, have arrived.
Scott is now confined in the county
Jail. The girl was taken to her home.
She spurned her people and declared
she ''lovcd Scott ten thousand times
better than anything else, even her
life Mrs Scott will not prosecute
for adultery. p. S. Dorian, ia Their of
the girl, has commenced an action fo'
$4,000 damages.
f. j. Kise, of Iowa City, took
large dose of arse nj a few days ago
and died in great agony seven hours
later. The suicide was the outgrowth
of six weeks siege of unusual heavy
drinking. He was once leading
merchant of Iowa City, but drink
caused separation from his wife and
two sons and cost him his business,
property, and finally his life. He was
AZ years of age and had lived in John
son county thirty-five years.
While engaged in raising telephone
poles Joe Jones, Cedar Rapids line
man, came in contact with a live
electric light wire. He held to the
wire and was unable to let loose till
the works were telephoned and
stopped. While waiting for the works
to stop the spectators could see the
flesh smoke and burn from his arm.
When the current was shut off Jones
fell to the ground, distance of thirty
feet He soon regained consciousness
and rill probably recover.
federal court at ST. Paul held that s.
cent paper box containing ten cigar
cites shipped into Iowa without other
wrappers or boxing and by itself was
an original package and can be law
fully sold in this state under the inter
state commerce clause of the cOnstitu-
ton. He adds that it will not affect
the sales in the state, because there
are no cigarettes shipped in that man
ner, and from the nature of things
they cannot be.
The entire plant of the Oskaloosa
Packing company was ruined by fire
few evenings since. The buildings
and equipment originally cost about
$50, 600. A careful estimate places the
property loss at about 500, 900, with no
insurance. ii. Willard, Sons & Co
occupied one of the buildings as a
rendering establishment and ware
house. and they viii lose about $4,000
in hides, tallow and oil, with no
insurance. Several explosions occurred
and the flames leaped as it seemed,
almost to the clouds.
A storm swept over Iowa on tn.
9th, dong great damage to outbuild-
ings and crops. AT st. Anthony many
buildings were either wrecked or
badly damaged. So far as known no
one was injured. 1t is impossible to
estimate the damage at present, but it
will reach many thousands of dollars
on town property, and in the surround
ing country the damage to crops is
enormous. Corn was literally blown
out by the roots, while oats in shock
was scattered and badly injured. The
residence of William Dennis, south of
Albion, was blown TO pieces and Mrs
Dennis was fatally injured At Dyers-
vile, on the Illinois Central, 400 feet
of track was washed out.
The 5-year-old son of viii Morlan,
of jefferson, ran into a fifty-foot well
and was safely rescued. The we'll
Is but sixteen inches in diameter for "a
distance of fifty feet. below that being
drilled with smaller hole. The boy
fell the fifty feet and was not Injured