Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-03

was 'DuIn. AFTER une performance.
the members of the aggregation and
the friends of the marshal came
together, with disastrous results to the
former, who got away before real
riot was precipitated.
| Blood was seen coming from two
trunks which arrived at the Rock Is
land depot at Des Moines from Coun-
Gil Bluffs. The detectives were noti-
fiedrand when an eXpressman presented
the checks for the trunks they followed
him to the Drake Medical College.
There they arrested man who had
also followed the wagon, and he was
taken to Jail. The trunks were taken
to the morgue, and upon being opened
were found to contain the bodies of a
man aged about As years and woman
aged about 35. They had evidently
been taken from graves. An investi-
CATION was set on foot and after sew
eral hours a message was received from
Omaha stating that the bodies were
those of Jacob Helm and Hannah
Larsen, who died at Emanuel hospital.
Their graves were uncovered and tie
bodies We're gone.
A. r. Chamberlain, of State Center,
known by everybody in the community
as Uncle Asa committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a revolver. He had been sick for
some time, but appeared to be better
on the morning of the suicide. About
noon he went into his bed room and a
few minutes later his wife heard a
shot, and rushing in found him welter-
ing in blood, with CHASTITY bullet
wound in the right temple. He lived
half an hour but did not regain
consciousness. Mr.. Chamberlain was
IS years old and leaves wife, nearly
the same age, but no children. He
was n retired mechanic, well-to-do,
owned considerable town property,
stood high in civic and social circles,
was greatly respected by the entire
community, and no cause can be
assigned for the deed, unless it was the
result of temporary alteration of mind,
superinduced by his illness.
Prohibition people of Boone county
are Mortified at the performance at a
trial before a country justice of the
peace. A young man was charged
with stealing key of beer. The
goods were found in his possession-in
fact, he was almost caught in the act.
When arraigned before the justice the
lleg of beer was brought in. No one
seems to remember exactly how the
order of business Observation-Disclosures
the keg was first emptied and justice
and jury got tipsy and then rendered
verdict of not guilty, or if the pris-
oner was first acquitted and then the
beer destroyed as contra band goods.
At any rate, the keg was empty, the
prisoner was discharged, the officers
all half seas over and everybody happy
except the man from whom the beer
was stolen, and as he is charged with
selling liquor contrary to law, there
being no mulct saloons in the county,
sympathy for him is tempered with
merriment
The latter part of January a smooth
looking salesman giving the name of
j. r. Bowley, and representing /. Nj.
Atwater & Co., of Lynn, Mass, called
on Burlington shoe dealers, but owing
to the high prices he asked. did not
make sale. He carried two large
sample cases, and in each spread sam
plies of shoes in every direction and
seemed to have abundant time. From
Burlington he went to Fort Madison
and was there caught in the act of
stealing large number of shoes, which
he had slowed away in one of his sam
pie cases. At his trial a few days ago,
large case was brought from the
depot, which, it is charged, he intended
to ship away for sale in one of the
larger cities, and which was full of
shoes stolen from many dealers in va
rious towns. p. A. Andre and II.
Drogmeyer, of Burlington. have been
notified that the case contained nearly
$3.50 worth of shoes that Bowley SNUG
gled out of the stores in the latter city
while showing his samples to them.
The wind was blowing a gale and
the temperature about eight above
zero few days ago at Muscatine when
the fire department WIS called to fire
in the high school building, tall
structure of four stories and a high
cupola with clock and bell. The origin
of the fire was defective fiue. Before
they were discovered, the flames mad
completely enveloped the upper story,
which was used by the academy of
science and not for school purposes.
The alarm was quietly given to the
teachers, but the children became more
or less excited, and many found them
selves out on the street hatlesS and
| without books or wraps. There was
some crowding and confusion, but the
GOODNESS of the teachers prevented a
panic All got out in safety. There
was S12 900 insurance on the school
building and furniture, which were
valued at 5000. All the apparatus,
library and geologic and other col
lections of value in the building were