Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-17
THE NEWS IN IOWA


Mart Woods, charged, with causing
the Muscatine dynamite outrages, il
on trial in that city.
Foreman Powers ,,of the new govern
ment building being constructed at
Burlington, has mysteriously dis
appeared.
The plate glass front,of Weeks shoe
store at Cedar Rapids was broken open
and prize box containing S25 in gold
was taken.
The county treasurer uof Dubuque
county recently received "a check for.
500 from an unknown party as con-
science money.
Reel & Souter, druggists OF Oskaloosa,
have been closed by the sheriff. Their
liabilities were only 81 600, while their
assets were double that amount. Poor
collections and shrinkage OF business
caused,the failure.
James johnson, an expert bridge
builder of the Phoenix company, was
billed while at work on the government
bridge at Davenport by a swinging
timber, lie lived at Council Blnffs,and
has wife and child,
At the bench show of the Maseoutah
Kennel Club at Chicago in the Great
Dane challenge class, Osceola NezerzeD,
tae property of the Osceola Kennel
Club, won first prize against Imperator
and Major Mckinley.
George Burmeister, aged so, insane.
and his wife, aged 70, were found by
the Cedar Rapids authorities in howell
in the outskirts of the city. They had
nothing to eat and slept in a bed OF
leaves. Their condition was relieved.
Mrs. George Smith, of Lyons, has
asked for description Of Stanley Clay
clom, alias George Smith. under arrest
at Omaha for grave robbing, claiming
that he is the man who married her
three years ago at Dubuque and lived
with her three months and then de-
serted her.
Joe Trimmer. a prosperous young
farmer living three miles south of
Anita, had leg crushed by being run
over by well drilling machine. He
was driving four horses. when pass
ing team frightened the leaders, caus-
ing them to give quick jerk throwing
Trimmer under the wheels.
: In the district court at Boone two
suits for SIS, 900 each have been begun
against the estate of Z. w. Mcfarland,
who was recently killed by Stanhope
Register for the murder of his daughter,
Annie. One is by Register for the
seduction of his daughter and the other
is by Register as administrator of his
daughter estate.
Willie Meet, a boy about IS years
old, was run over by a freight train on
the b., c. r. &c N. railway at Reinbcck.
Both legs were horribly mangled and
will have to be amputated. The
doctors say there is no hope I'D his
recovery. He was standing on the
platform of caboose, and a sudden
jar of the train while switching threw
him off with both legs on the rail. The
cars were backed over him.
Judge Ryan of Oskaloosa held differ
emily from Judge Eichelberger in a
recent decision, in that debt for
whisky or any other spirit is as
collectable in Iowa as is a debt for any
other article f. p. Gluck e. Company
brought suit against the Star Bottling
works for a whisky bill. Judge
Eichelberger's decision was cited to
dismiss the case, but Judge Ryan said
the debt was perfectly legal and must
be paid.
Fire was discovered in the rear Of
the Clark House hotel at Elllader few
mornings since. When discovered the
flames had already reached the main
part of the building and all hopes of
saving the hotel were soon abandoned.
The wind was blowing from the north
and in few minutes the flames had
communicated with the wooden range
on the south, consisting of four large
two-story frame business houses, which
were entirely destroyed. Loss esti-
mated at about Sl5,o0o. Insurance
will amount to about $4,000.
The case against Henry Roddis, of
Cherokee, who, it is charged, left
wife in Milwaukee during the war and
has since lived with another woman
by whom he has several children, will
soon come up for trial at Cherokee
While Roddis and his family deny the
charge, it is asserted that Roddis made
trip TO South Dakota about a year
previous to the time of the fra expos
ure and there obtained dive. from
the Milwaukee woman. 1t is further
asserted that thereupon the woman
recognized as his wife took trip north
and that they were then married. The
Roddis family assert it is case of
bls.ckmail and declare their readiness
20 meet the charges.
Mrs L. W. Wyman, Of Mitchellvillc,
aged about so years, took a dose of
strychninc, from the effects of which
she died an hour later. Her mind had
been somew hat unbalanced for num-
Der of years.
A dispatch from New Hampton says:
Tho ;,,cu In tbo Van TasSpl wife mur,