Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK


the defaulting city treasurer of Omaha,
returned a verdict of guilty on every
count The penalty prescribed is from
one to twenty-one years and fine of
double the amount stolen. The amount
of defalcation in the finding is an
aggregate of Sl05,O0O.
Dispatches from Havana report the
men captured on board the flibuster
ing schooner Competitor, who were
tried by court martial, have been
sentenced to death. They are: Alfredo
Laborde, born in New Orles rs; Owen
Milton, of Kansas; William Kinle, an
Englishman, and Elias Bcdia and
Theodore De La Maza, both Cubans.
The United States consul general
made written protest against the
trial.
Murderer Holmes feared the dissect-
ing ia bic, and in accordance with his
request, his body was buried beneath
several tons of cement and rock.
At the Methodist general conference
at Cleveland, o., the report of the
committee providing for compromise
on the woman question was adopted.
1t allows the women to retain their
seats, on the understanding that it
snail not establish precedent.
Indiana republicans instructed for
Mckinley and bi-metallism on an inter
national basis. In Michigan the ma
tional money plank was endorsed and
the delegates were instructed for
Mckinley. In New Jersey the demo
Gratis declared for sound money and
the adjustment of greenbacls. Ten
nessce democrats declared for free
silver
ii. III. Holmes, the multi-murderer.
was hanged in the Moyamensing
prison at Philadelphia on the 18th.
The drop fell at 1912 a. IN. Not until
half an hour later was he pronounced
| dead. His neck was broken. The
marvellous nerve of the man never
deserted him. Even on the scaffold he
was probably the coolest person in the
assembly. In few well chosen words,
he proclaimed his innocence of murder,
including that for which he was con-
victed. He declared the only wrong
doing in taking human life for which
he could be held responsible consisted
in the death of two women, as the
result of criminal operations at his
hands, but he did not name the victims.
In recent battle at Carcarpiara,
Cuba. the insurgents defeated the
! Spaniards, who lost 200 killed and 300
wounded.
Chairman Carter, of the republican
national committee, will call that body
to meet in ST. Louis early in June to
determine what delegates will be enti-
tied to seats on temporary roll call.
Relative to the house adjournment
resolution, it is stated the senate will
not be ready to adjourn before June /.
The California republican state con-
vention adopted a platform declaring
for free silver at ratio of 16 to 1, and
instructed delegates to st. Louis for
Mckinley
The president has extended the pro-
visions of the civil service law to 80, OOC
government employees, increasing the
number of positions on the list from
,736 to s5,135, and with few minor
exceptions between the extremes OF
the official whose confirmation by the
senate is constitutionally requisite
down to mere laborers and workmen
governmental appointments are with.
drawn as far as possible from political
influence and protected in their tenure
of Office by the merit system.
Havana advices state that Hamilton
the American newspaper man captured
on the schooner Competitor, will be
released, but the others captured al
the some time will be shot despite the
protests from Washington.
A correspondent in Salvador wires
that the congress has approved tho
treaty of Amalapa, which unites the
republics of San Salvador, Nicaragua
and Honduras, which will henceforth
be called by the name of Republica
Mayor de Centre America.
General Grosvenor now claims that
Mckinley has 54s votes, while Con
gresham Aldrich, Reed supporter
says Mckinley has, exclusive of con,
tested cases, 361 votes, and that hs
will have to rely upon those contested
votes for nomination.
Governor Morton has signed the
Greater New York bill
Henry Cuyler Bunner, editor of Puck
died on the 18th at his home in Nutley,
n. j., from tubercular consumption.
The tow boat Harry Brown exploded
at Berliss, twenty-five miles below
Vicksburg, a few nights ago and sanl
Immediately. Eleven lives at leas'
were lost.
A dispatch from Shanghai says
1.-The Russians, through an American
agent named Smith, have taken pos
session of the disputed territory q
Chez Foo, over which the British claim
rights. Six Russian warships are there
and four United States warships. In
tense excitement prevails at Chez Foo. y
The London Globe says: The serious
ness OF the news from Chez Foo caI
not be over estimated. The action car
not be viewed by Great Britain a!
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