Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-06

House breakers and safe blowers
have been at work at Des Moines for
some time past and a large number of
eases of the former offense have been
| reported.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
| fast mail crashed into Dennis kief's
team about three miles east of Oxford.
| Both horses were killed, the entire
train passing over them. kief was
| thrown about twenty feet into the air,
but came down in mud puddle,
somewhat shaken up, but practically
uninjured.
A. Simmer, of Waverly, and James
| Callahan, of Des Moines, have united
in giving the Des Moines Home for the
Aged and Infirm 100000, conditioned
upon the management of the home
raising $4,000 inside of six months.
More than $4,000 of the additional
$4,000 has been pledged already. BY
the donation of Mr.. Simmer and Mr..
Callahan the home becomes a state
institution in scope instead of a local
one.
months-old girl baby was left at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Newt. Grind
staff. The child was very poorly clad.
Nothing was left 20 identify the
parentage of the child, 1t evidently
being the intention of the deserving
parents to conceal this fact. This is
the fourth child that has been left in
this manner at the doorstep of citizens
within the past year. The desertion
of infants seems to be getting a pro-
life industry.
John Belt, eyed 16, pleaded guilty
before Commissioner Mason in federal
court at Dies Moines to robbing the
postoffice boxes at Boone. He was
bound over in the sum of 81 900. The
bonds were furnished by his father.
He was an employe of the Boone Coun-
ty Democrat, published at Boone.
For some time the renters of mail
boxes complained to the postmaster
of their mail being tempered with. A
trap was set and Belt was captured.
He broke down and confessed when
arrested.
At Burlington few nights ago cries
for help foated in from off the river
and caught the ear of young Fred
Bouvia, who Immediately started out
with Officer Lane in skiff to investi-
gate. A wild storm was flashing the
waves into white caps and inky clouds
completely obsaured the moon, but the
searchers, directed by the cries, soon
found an upturned skiff with two half
frozen men clinging to it. They were
Rudolph West and Henry Popp. who
had been out fishing with Dan O. Brien
that day north of the city. The storm
came up in the evening and capsized
their boat, drowning O'Brien. The
survivors chung to the skiff for two
hours, till it float ed down to the city.
Papers have been filed at Grundy
Center bringing suit against the b., c.
r. e. N. for $4,000 by William Meet.
The accident occurred at Reinbeck on
the morning of the 9th of last March
and the result was that Willie Meet
lost one leg just below the knee and
the other just above the knee. For a
long time he was in a critical condition
but finally began to mend, and is now
as well as ever aside from the loss of
his limbs. The boy was standing on
the rear platform of caboose when
the train began to move, and, losing
his balance, he fell beneath the wheels
with the results above stated. He is
the son of Arthur Meet, a section boss
on the b., c. r. 81 n. at Relnbeck.
The case will come up in the November
term of court.
About two months ago at Cedar
Rapids dumpg the hearing of Conrad
Loose for violation of the mulct law,
Edward ID. Berry gave testimony in
conflict with that given by others. He
was arrested for perjury, and after an
exciting preliminary hearing lasting
week was dismissed. Since that time
John w. Felix and Conrad Loose, two
of the men whose testimony was in
conflict with that of Berry, have been
arrested for perjury. Berry has now
commenced suit in the district court
against j. II. Crosby, jeff Phillips,
Thomas Lansing, George Haegel, Peter
Blitsch, j. c. Fuller and William
Smith, asking of each the sum of
$40, 900 damages for malicious prosecu-
ton and false arrest and imprison-
ment. The fight will be bitter one
to the end.
The famous Cascade lumber, sningle
and lath mill, located near Burlington,
took fire few nights ago, and in a
few hours the big buildings and
several acres of valuable lumber were
destroyed. The mills were among the
most extensive on the Mississippi.
They had just finished heavy season S
work and the product of the summer
was piled in immense stacks some sixty
and seventy feet high in the sample
yards of the company. Much of this
was of heavy Observation-Disclosures for
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