Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-09-01

terville, committed suicide Saturday
by cutting her throat.
Postmaster George Muegge died at
Clayton of injuries received in a run
away. A bicyclist frightened his team,
which jumped over an embankment.
His brother, Professor Muegge, of ST.
Louis, escaped injury. Deceased was
postmaster and turn teacher at Com
munia, Clayton county, and was well
known to the German turning and
singing societies of the northwest.
The Aborn House. Des Moines, Ia,
is taking rank among the best 81 and
$3.50 per day hotels in the state. 1t is
Supplied with elevators, electric light
and call bells, and about $4,000 is
being expended in remodelling the
Office and reading room, putting in a
new lavatory and placing steam heat
in every room. Frank ii. Connell, the
new proprietor, is striving to make
''The Aborn" comfortable and home
like place for travellers while in Des
Moines.
The State Fair attraction at the
Grand Opera house, Des Moines, Iowa,
will be the effervescent fountain of
mirth, ''McSorlev's Twins which
leaves only pleasant memories of pref
ty girls, cavorting comedians, sweet
singers and dainty dancers, who APP
pear in swirl of merrimcnt, that
provokes laughter from the most ex-
acting critic. Remember that the date
is week of Sept. Z, fair week. and
when in the city do not fail to go to
Stream & McCammon's drug store, 5a3
Walnut street. and secure tickets
which will enable you and your friends
to see these famous Twins"
The Office of the Green Bay Lumber
company at Maquoketa was entered
by burglars and several hundred dol
lars worth of notes secured. Entrance
was effected by the side door of the
Office. The safe. which is never locked,
was plundered of books, and the cash
drawer, which contained the notes.
was taken out and broken open. The
desk of the manager, b. c. Busby, was
broken open, as was also the cash
drawer to the cashier desk, but
neither contained any money except a
few pennies in the cash drawer. The
burglars left nothing unturned where
money might be kept. There is no
clue to the burglars.
After an investigation extending
over ten days it has developed that
Jim Paul, of Webster City, arrested
upon suspicion of poisoning Mrs.
Bulin, his grandmother-in-law must
stand trial upon the terrible charge of
murder in the first degree. Prof. 5.
r. Macy, of the faculty of Highland
Park College, of Des Moines, received
the stomach of Mrs. Bulin for analysis.
The essential part of his evidence con-
sisted in his testimony that he found
strychnine in the stomach in quantities
sufficient to produce death. He dem
onstrated that it was strychnine by
administering small quantity taken
from the stomach to two live frogs.
In both cases it produced death within
Eve minutes.
liver Iverson. postal clerk in the
post-ofiice at Clinton was arrested and
arraigned before United States In
spector Gould of Rock Island for en-
beZzlement. He confessed to the theft
of $500 in a statement to the local
authorities and the inspector. The
accounts in the Office have been short
for the last year and half, but it was
impossible to locate the trouble. 1t
seems that Iverson had been putting
money received from the sale of stamps
at the stamp window in his pocket in
stead of in the drawer, therefore
marked letters or coins could not catch
him. He has been bound over and re-
lased to appear before the United
States court in $500 bonds. Iverson
5 mere boy and of excellent
family.
Mrs. BENJAMIN McCue of Green
county was struck by Northwestern
freight train near jefferson and died
within two hours With her sister,
Mrs. Hogan. she had been visiting in
Illinois. They were to have arrived
the previous night, but were carried
by Grand Junction, .their destination,
as the fast train does not stop there,
and the women were put off at the
crossing east of town. They started
walk back to Grand Junction,
distance of eight miles
When half way they were overtaken
by the fast freight. When a quarter
of a mile away. the engineer whis tied,
just as the women reached Buttrick's
creek bridge. They kept on the track,
and when near the bridge the engineer
W histled and reversed his engine.
The women were near the opposite
end of the bridge, but lost their
senses. and turned, facing the coming
train, and stood like statues. Just as
the locomotive struck them, Mrs. Me-
Cue recovered enough to push her sis
ter off the bridge. The latter was not
seriously injured. Mrs. McCue was
thrown violently upon the ties and in