Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-04-06
THE NEWS IN IOWA


committed suicide in the Abba jail.
1t is said President Mckinley has de-
clared his intention of appointing 4.
III. Conger, of Iowa, minister to Bra
iii.
The hand of the law has descended
upon C. II. Woodland, postmaster at
Gowrie. He is charged by the grand
jury with embezzlement.
Ed Shelly, farmer boy living eight
miles south of Independence, was
recently shot in the side while duck
hunting. The wound is a serious one.
Ex-mayor Stewart, of Dubuque, has
been granted franchise for n rival
telephone line. Rates are to be S24
and SIS. The present rates are si2
and $50.
Fire in NJ. Reigelman a. Co. s whole
sale and retail millinery store at Des
Moines did great damage. The stock
was valued at $3.50 900, with insurance
amounting to $4,000.
Gov. Drake has appointed w. L. Le-
Land of Hawarden, Sioux county, to be
his own successor as member of the
board of pharmacy commissioners for
the term of three years. beginning
April %, 1897.
Lon Gordon, a miner, was instantly
killed in the Baker mine at New
Chicago by fall of slate and rock.
He had been down into the niue,
which is a slope, before the other
miners, and evidently while at work
the roof of his room fell upon him,
burying him under tons of weight.
The body was horribly mangled.
The Waterloo Democrat, a free silver
paper, published ut the home of ex-
Governor Boies, in leading editorial
in which it fully reviews the situation,
says that after thorough canvass of
conditions and careful sounding of
political leaders, it has reached the
conclusion that Hon. Cato Sells, of
Vinton, is the man the democrats
should nominate for governor.
Dean and Albert Powers and Thomas
Ray, young men living near Prairies-
burg, were taken to the Linn county
Jail in default of bond of 5000 each,
and will await the action of the grand
jury. The charge against the young
men is highway robbery. While
returning home from Monticello in an
intoxicated condition. they overlook a
young German, whom they held up
and robbed of $50.
For some time sit has been noticed
that Lewis Halverson, a prominent
farmer living three miles south of
Thompson. has been melancholy, ow-
ing to the loss of several hundred d OIL
lars in q business transaction, but
people had no idea that it would lead
to any such thing as self destruction,
and were shocked when it became
known that his lifeless body had been
found hanging in his barn.
John Steele shot and killed Jacob
Werm near Eddyville few days ago.
A quarrel ensued over the location of
division fence on their farms. Steele
drew his revolver and fred two shots
into Werms body, killing him
instantly. Werm was young man,
recently married. and his home was at
Lacey, north of Oskaloosa. Steele is
about So, and an old resident Of the
vicinity of Eddyville.
NJ. o. Briggs, Of Clinton, through
his attorneys, Ellis g. Ellis, has
brought suit against Charles A. Moses,
contractor of the new court house, for
Sl.99990, for injuries received last
October. At the time Of the accident
Briggs was assisting In moving a large
derrick, when he was thrown from the
wall to a cellar, sustaining very severe
injuries, from which he has not re-
covered. His right limb was broken
in several places.
Judge Hatstal, of the district court
of Winneshiek county, has rendered 6
decision declaring void the petition of
consent of that county, on a techni-
cality that certain petition papers in
TWO townships did not have the dates
attached to the signatures to the pc
tition, throwing out those townships,
lie aving but 63 per cent of the vote in
the county, the law requiring 65 per
cent. The saloons of the county have
decided to close their places of bust
ness
The annual railroad assessment has
been completed by the executive
council. II shows slight increase in
the aggregate value of railroad
property in the state. There are
important decreases on the Rock
Island and Burlington system. which
secure reductions of 81, 900 per mile
each. The increases are distributed
over "A number of the smaller roads of
the state. The total assessment is
made Si4.494, 43l, against total of
$i4,3Sl,2ll the year before.
The effort to secure the mulct saloon
by petition in Mason City has failed by
tifty-siX signatures.
According toa Webster City dispatch
o. 5. Cleveland, of that city, after
experimenting with the sap of soft
maple trees, has succeeded in making