Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-11


winter. The body was thrown into an
old well, where it was recently dis
covered. Teuscher has confessed that
he killed Krekel because of quarrel
over trivial matter.
Moses Aronowich, 2l-year-old
Polish student, committed suicide at
Des Moines by jumping into the Des
Moines river from the Court avenue
bridge. He fell in water about five
feet deep, but Immediately plunged in
where it was deeper and drowned him
self He was the nephew of $. Silber-
man, a Jewish merchant, who was
| educating him. Six months ago he
became demented from overstudy and
was placed in the asylum. He was
| dismissed three weeks ago as cured.
Anton Lahman and wife, ,of Williams
| township, Pocahontas county, are
| grief-strlcken over the terrible condi-
tion of their 10-months-old baby, as
! the result of fatal INJURIES inflicted by
vicious COW The baby was left in
| its cab by the mother while she was
engaged in driving the cows out of the
| corn. When the mother returned she
found the little one being devoured by
one of the cows. After a hard fight
the mother managed to drive the cow
away, but too late to save the child,
whose feet had both been eaten off.
Just west of Clinton a few miles,
| Ga. l,tC
year-old son, Willie, a loaded shotgun
and told him to carry it to the house.
Upon reaching the house the boy tried
to raise the hammer of the gun. 1t
slipped, the weapon was discharged
and younger brother, Freddie, aged
5, lay stretched on the ground with
the top of his head blown off, while
the boys little sister, Augusta, was
also badly wounded. The coroner's
jury returned verdict of accidental
death.
Waliace's Farmer, Henry Wallace's
weekly agricultural paper published
at Des Moines, announces that it will
next week begin a thorough discussion
of the silver question from the stand
point of the farmer. No western man
is more thoroughly competent to han
die this question than Henry Wallace,
and as he will discnss it in a fair and
non-partisan manner, his articles will
be widely read by men of all parties
and shades of opinion. He announces
that he will send Wallace's Farmer to
Jan. !, 1897, for 40 cents.
According to Sioux City dispatch,
the sum of $500, 900 will not cover the
loss on crops in the hail-stricken dis
trict of Woodbury. county The
estimate is careful one, made by the
county authorities from complete
reports received from farmers in
Union, Rutland, Concord, Banner and
Arlington townships, where the dam
age was greatest. Many tenants lost
every cent they possessed and will be
compelled, in all proba bility, to apply
to the county for aid during the com
| ing winter. Barns and outbuildings
were blown to pieces in many places
! and the owners will be at a heavy
expense to replace them. Storm in
surance in the county amounted to
about S20,0 900.
Z. n. Chaplin died at Marshalltown a
few days ago, and the man Henshaw
who brutally attacked him will
probably be indicted by the grand jury
for murder. Friday, June 26, Chaplin
was attacked while on his farm by a
tenant, Henshaw, and brutally
assaulted. Henshaw was arrested and
| charged with assault and battery, but
the case was postponed from time to
time on account of Chapin's condition.
About week ago the doctors admitted
that he could never get well. Then
the charge of assault and battery
against Henshaw was dropped and he
was bound over to the grand jury
charged with assault and attempt to
commit great bodily injury. Henshaw
is now in Jail and acts as though out
of his head, although everybody
believes he is trying TO play the in
sanity dodge.
A Sioux City dispatch says: The
Iowa supreme court will have an
opportunity within the next few
months to decide question touching
the statute fixing the time within
which minors may, after reaching
their majorities, commence actions,
the grounds for which were given
before the plaintiff reached the age of
81. ID. c. Hilton. at whose instance
the case is brought, was injured
several years ago in an accident on
the Sioux City * Pacific road. He was
tnen under age, and having, under the
state law, one year after attaining his
ma iority within which to sue for
damages, did not file his claim until
his twenty-second birthday was
reached The road demanded the dis
missal of the suit on the ground that
it was barred by the statute of limita'
tions, the year having expired on the
day preceding that on which it was
filed. The Woodbury. county district
court sustained this demurrer. and
Hilton's case was non-suited. An
appeal has now been taken to the