Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Roger McPoland, Dubuque school
boy. traded a slate pencil for a stick

struck with hammer. 1t exploded,
causing lockjaw, and death resulted.
Mayor Duffy, of Dubuque, few
days ago presented the council his
| veto of a resolution ordering that
| warrants be drawn for the salaries of
| aldermen as fixed last year. The veto
message states that the aldermen who
raised the salaries last year were in
| dicted for it, and that the present
| aldermen would also be subject to
indictment should the supreme court
reverse Judge Waterman, who held
the indicted aldermen were not Grim
inally liable. The mayor suggested
that the aldermen take $500 apiece. the
old salary, and leave the remaining
5000 in the treasury until the supreme
court decides the appeal. This sug-
gestion was adopted.
Stanley Claycomb, the man convicted
OF robbing two graves in Mount Hope
cemetery at Omaha, and sentenced to
the full limit of the law by Judge
Baker, was taken into court a few days
ago and turned over to the sheriff
from Des Moines, to be taken there for
trial on the charge of disposing of the
bodies to the Drake medical institute
of that city. Claycomb's sentence
would have expired December Is, but
requisition papers were ready for
bringing him to Iowa, and the sheriff
was anxious to get his man before the
first of the year, so the balance of the
sentence was RENTED and he was
turned over to the Iowa sheriff. who
took him at once to the depot and
started for Des Moines.
The Miners Union at Fraser, min
ing town eight miles from Boone, gave
benefit dance for Hiram Brown, one
of their members, who lost leg by
accident short time ago. During
the dance, miner, Ed Boyle, began
using indecent language, and was told
by the floor manager, Archie Knox, to
stop or leave the hall. Not desisting,
he was put out. He then got his
brother, John A. Boyle, and returning
to the hall, threatened to clean out
the dance. Finally the two went out
on the street, followed by number
from the hall. The talk was kept up
and at last number of shots were
fired, resulting in Ed Boyle receiving
two shots in the head and two in the
stomach. He will die. John BOYLE
was also shot SO that he will not
recover, and two others received flesh
wounds. 1t is not known who did the
shooting, though the Boyles claim it
was Archie Knox. No arrests have
yet been made.
peculiar disease has made it's
appearance in Cedar Rapids, one that
is harmless if taken in time and
treated properly, but which proves
fatal ii allowed to run without atten-
ton. 1t appeared first last spring,
and at first was supposed to be COM
municated by BARRIERS 1t first APP
pears as little blister on the face
which quickly turns to an ulcer,
spreading very rapidly. Ifnot treated
properly at once it spreads to other
parts of the face, which is soon covered
with these ulcers. Later it developed
that it was not communicated by
BARRIERS, as women and children with
out number have been afflicted with
the strange malady, one little child
having died from the effects of it,
After time last spring it disappeared,
but lately it has broken out again and
more than hundred men. women and
children are suffering from it. Ply
sicians are puzzled. They know it is
parasite, and that it is easily killed,
but what causes it or where they come
If allowed to run long enough, all the
skin on the body would be eaten off
and the afflicted person would be
thrown into spasms only to die.
A sensation has been sprung In the
Krekcl murder case, of Des Moincs
county. Henry Teuscher, aged 81,
and his uncle, Henry Krekel, grandson
and son respectively of Louis Krekel,
the old man whose body was found in
well on his farm, west of Burlington.
have been in Jail since August on
suspicion of having connection with
the old mans death. Teuscher had
confessed that he murdered the old !
man, and it was not thought that his
uncle had anything to do with it. 1t |
has now leaked out that Teuscher has
made full confession to the effect 1
that he and his grandfather got into
row over money affairs, that he /
knocked the old man down, jumped on /
him, breaking three ribs, and then cut !
his throat. In doing this blood was
smeared all over the room. Just then
his uncle, Henry Krekel, came in, and, |
seeing the situation, helped his
nephew load the body into wagon
and convey it to the old well in which
il was found. The wagon was smeared
with blood, and it took Krekel and
Teuscher three days to get it and the
house cleaned up. This confession
duplicates Krekel as accessory after
the deed, and IL proven, means hang
ing for the boy and fifteen years in the
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