Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-03-31
THE NEWS IN IOWA

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the murder of o. E. Pearson at Des
Moines.
o. E. Pearson, the Des Moines, pho
tographer who was injured in quarrel
with Charles and Henry Wilcox, has
since died. The Wilcox brothers are
in Jail.
Sheriff Davenport went to Kansas
City and arrested Adelbert Sulsen,
alias Bert Arnold, wanted at Creston
for stealing a team of horses in
January, 1895.
The Poweshiek county grand jury
has returned an indictment charging
Richard Rowe with being an accessory
to the embezzlement of the county
funds.
Mrs. Fred Holman, living about a
mile west of Cedar Rapids, was throwL
from her buggy by her horse running
away, and received injuries that may
prove fatal.
The coroner's jury at Council Bluffs
returned verdict of iustifiable shoot.
ing in the case of Fred Geyer, an
escaping burglar, shot by Police officer
Chas. CLAIR recently.
The Cohen brothers, who were
arrested for setting fire to their store
ut La Porte, have been indicted for
lncendiarism and attempting to defraud
the insurance companies.
Fred Ludwick, wife and daughter,
living a few miles west of Burlington,
have been arrested for infantcide. The
daughter, aged 10, gave birth to
child, which has disappeared.
A meeting of jobbers and manu-
facturers at Dubuque protested against
the adoption of the new Iowa code
prepared by the commissioners, claim
ing that it Injuries the business of
shippers.
A number of petty burglaries have
been committed recently at Cedar
Rapids. The home of w. Fl. Moulton
was entered and $40 worth of jewelry
stolen. 1t is believed TO be the work
of tramps.
Adam Vandresky, saloonkceper at
Durant, was arrested in connection with
the Muscatine dynamite outrages he
was placed in Jail at Muscatine and
later was discovered just as he was
ready to hang himself.
Relatives at Lyons have received
telegram notifying them of the death,
under suspicious circumstances, at
Victor, COL, of Lawrence Shelter,
formerly of Lyons. Orders to hold an
inquest have been given.
Articles of Incorporation of the new
ly organized railroad, the Dubuque &
Pacific, have been filed. Fred A.
Rumpf, M. M. Walker and S. ID. Ryan
have been elected directors to fill
vacancies caused by designations.
James Ma rtin, while hunting near
Jefferson, handed his shotgun, cooked,
to boy who accompanied him, and in
some way the piece was discharged,
the charge entering Mr.. Martins leg
near the thigh and passing through.
His condition is serious.
A Clinton dispatch says: Lewis
Schmidt reached Clinton from From
tenac, Wis, in search of his wife and
two children, finding them here.
Then he swore out warrant for Mrs.
Schmidt and Charles Barlow or Carl
Bertoch, both being arrested and
placed under bonds. Mr.. Schmidt says
they were married in Milwaukee
twelve years ago, but his wife had run
away from Milwaukee with Barlow
and the children while he was at
Frohtenac.
ga terrible accident occurred near
Straw berry Point which resulted in
the death of child. The two little
hildren of Robert Gratke were left
alone in the house while their mother
went to the barn to milk, and in some
manner the clothing of a little girl
gears old caught fire and before the
mother returned to the house the child
was so badly burned that she died in a
few hours. The little one displayed
rare presence of mind for one of her
years. She tore off what of her cloth
ing she could and then ran and got in
bed to smother the flames, but too
late.
The Equitable Produce e. Stock
Exchange of Chicago wired their man
ager in Waterloo, j. p. Albert, inform
ing him that their local manager at
Cedar Falls, p. Kirkpatrick, was short
in his accounts and TO have him
arrested at once. Kirkpatrick was
formerly operator in the Postal Tel
egraph office at Waite loo and has had
charge of the Equitable Office at Cedar
Falls for several months past. He had
been in Waterloo, but when searched
for could not be found. Mr.. Albert
states that the money Kirkpatrick is
supposed TO have IN his pocket amounts
to about $40, 900 and consists of margins
put on lard and pork by Cedar Falls
traders.
James Murray, indicted at Sibley
recently for the burglary of q. Quemby
81 Sons store at Ashton, was cleared