Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK

lynched. Neighbors found his IS
year-old daughter in the barn uncon-
scious. Her father, it is alleged,
ruined her, and then beat her into
insensibility. Later in the day she
died. An angry mob tried to lynch
Breckman, but the sheriff spirited
him away. Breckman was suspected
many years ago of being implicated in
| the Bender murders.
Four negroes were seriously wound
ed and five others sprinkled with buck
shot by a mob of white men at Al
toona, Kentucky. Fifteen negroes
were engaged in cutting timber S6r
the Standard Oil Company. They had
been ordered to leave. being told that
they were not allowed to stop there.
The negroes were sitting around an
| old smoke house when a mob of fifty
men swooped down upon them and
began firing. Some of the negroes
ran into the woods and others took
refuge in the house with the foreman.
The mob then started to burn the
house, but the foreman.sued for peace
aud the negroes were given twenty
five minutes in which to leave.
The London Chronicles Rome cor
RESPONDENT is assured that as a re-
suit of the Bismarckian disclosures,
Austria will propose n new clause to
! the driebund treaties to counterfeit
the effect of secret treaties.
A dispatch from Suakim says: The
dcrvishes raided the country in the vi
cinity of Kokar, killing five men and
stealing cattle. Troops were sent in
pursuit.
! Contrary to the sensational reports
about Senator Voorhees, condition, he
is in better health than at any time
since his arrival at Terre Haute some
weeks ago. His physician says he is
in no serious danger and that the
chief cause OF his trouble is nervous
prostration.
General Fitz Hugh Lee, consul gen.
eral to Cuba, says he has no know
ledge of any immediate danger of hos
tility between Spain and the United
States, although there is great feeling
among some Spaniards against this
country.
! In motor car race from London to
Brighton. AZ miles. the Duryea motor
| an American production, won in four
hours. Fifty cars or carriages started.
Twenty-four persons are reported to
have been drowned by foods in Bos-
mia Austria, while the damage TO
property is said to be immense
According to figures which are sup
posed to be definite, Mckinley will
have 272 electoral votes and Bryan IT'S.
This gives Bryan South Dakota and
Wyoming aud one vote in Kentucky.
Bryan's plurality IN Kansas is H.
97i.
Venezuela expresses satisfaction
with the arrangements made by the
United States for arbitration of her
boundary dispute with England.
Kentucky's official count shows that
Mckinley has twelve of the electors
and Bryan one.
The republicans have conceded
South Dakota to the democrats by
about 400 ma jority
Senator Allison expresses hope that
the senate viii this winter pass the
Dingley tariff bill, which was block
AIDED by the silver men in that body
last year.
Advices from Peru state that the
chamber of deputies passed resolu-
ton recognizing the belligerency of
the Cubans. Under a motion to APP
prove the action such storm of pro-
tests was raised that the session had
TO be suspended.
1t is estimated that since the election
2i0 factories have been opened and
that 124 have increased their forces,
giving work to 100, 900 men.
Dispatches state that the trunk lines
leading to Key West, New Orlea.s ;n,.
the other gulf ports have 5c.1 asked
by the war department tc furnish
information as to their ability to move
troops. supplies and heavy war
material.
At the recent election the people of
South Dakota voted to repeal the pro-
hibitory law and lawyers now hold
that there is no law regulating manu-
facture and sale of liquors.
The Farmers National Congress, in
session at indianapolis. adopted reso-
lutions urging the incoming admins
tration to speedily adopt methods to |
obtain an international agreement for |
bimetallism.
An effort will be made during the |
coming session of congress to pass the |
Dingley tariff bill, which passed the |
house last session and was held up by
the silver men in the senate.
a Bombay special says: In eleven
districts in Deccan and Concan a
million and a quarter of people are
believed to be on the verge of starva-
ton. Riots have occurred in some
places.
Voorhees, Health Improves.