Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-08-25
The Iowa State Christian ASSOCIATION
is in session at Des Moines.

| his 4O0-acre farm in johnson county,
have decamped, leaving their crop
unharvested.
A dispatch from Jonesboro. Ark,
says J. McNlanus shot and killed j. G..
| Cornwall in that city. Cornwall was
all over the state of Iowa recently,
searching for his wife, who, he said,
had eloped with McManus from
Arkansas. McManus is in Jail. He
shot Cornwall after few minutes
conversation with him.
tn state board of health has given
permission, for the removal of
the remains of ex-governor Kirk
| wood into another lot in the Iowa
City cemetery. The new lot is in a
much more desirable location and will
afford much better opportunity for
the erection OF handsome although
transformations monument.
Rev. Scott, the Waterloo eloper, is
said to be having an easy time at the
independence insane asylum. He gets
daily paper, has one of the best
wards in the asylum and is visited by
his wife every day. 1t is believed he
will soon be discharged as cured"
| He still maintains that he loves Daisy
| Dorian and says he cannot help it.
At Des Moines. Inez Enslow, girl
lG years of age, was found by Captain
Cook in the Whitechapel district and
| taken to the central station. The
| girl, who also passes by the name of
| IneZ LYMAN, came to Des Moines a
few days ago, having left her home in
| Owasco, Mo. She will probably De re :
turned to her parents as soon as they
| can be heard from.
A family named Blanchard has been
| found living in n house near Cedar
| Rapids bare of all furniture and
| without window pane intact
and on the point of starvation.
Blanchard is almost blind. and is un-
able to work, while Mrs. Blanchard
has been i'll for several weeks and
when found was almost dead. They
have four children. The woman has
been taken to the hospital and the
| childre n cared for.
When Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern train reached Ely, the first
station south of Cedar Rapids, a few
nights ago. tramp who was on the
train was ordered off He refused to
| L.
razor, but the latter succeeded in
| knocking him down with a club. After
| the train started he was again found
| in a car, and again assaulted the train
| turn ed over to an officer. He will be
prosecuted.
Henry Reinhart. the aged Sioux City
capitalist. who recently applied to the
| district court for the discharge of the
guardian appointed for him several
months ago, has filed a supplementary
should never have consented to the
| appointment had it not been for
| threats made by his wife and son
John that unless he submitted to their
dictation they would proceed against
him criminally on charges of adultery,
and, if possible. send him to the peni-
Tertiary, and if they failed in that,
ruin his standing in the city, His son
was the guardian appointed, the value
of the property being over S100,o00.
dispatch from Omaha says: Mrs.
Joe Seldom, of Persia, Iowa, who, her
husband alleges. has deserted him and
took along more of the proceeds of the
| cash drawer than he could well spare,
| together with Miss Maud Thomas of
the same place, have been arrested.
| She says that he often beats her and
has attempted to shoot her: that he
| also at one time tried to kill himself
with shotgun and has badly SCARED
| face as a consequence; that he has also
tried to poison himself; that he is
| dangerous man and that she fears for
| her life. She denies that she is guilty
of adultery as charged by her husband.
| Mrs. Seldom is handsome little wo-
man and impresses one with the idea
| that she is much abused individual.
| Miss Thomas stated that she has done
nothing to be arrested for, but merely
came away from Persia with the in
tention of getting work.
The temperance people of Center
Vile are up in arms, and the home of
Iowas governor is likely toexperience
such an array of legal contests as it
had never seen before. For more than
a year outside wholesale liquor houses
have been trying TO get foot-hold in
the city, but have utterly failed until
few days ago, when the doors of the
first mulct saloon were thrown open.
The first evening at least LOCO people
had congregated about the building,
and as many as could crowded into the
room. and for two hours, until 10 p.
| m, five white-coated bartendsrs stood
behind the plain, unvarnished bar, and
with dexterity born of long practice in
Ottumwa and other places, served up
beer and mixed and fancy drinks to
the thirsty populace. The liquor deal
ers expect to make test case OF this
one. and if decided in their favor will