Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-09-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK

| The conference of labor leaders at
st. Louis, after adopting resolutions
denouncing government by injunction
and instructing it's president to request
President Mckinley to call a special
session Of congress for the purpose of
| defining the authority of judges in the
matter of injunctions, adjourned to
meet at Chicago, September -.
| Quintin Banderas, the Cuban leader,
has just completed march the entire
length of the island at the head of r.
| 600 troops His forces entered the
provinces of Mantanzas, Havana and
Pima del Rio, and his troops were
scarcely molested by the Spanish
troops.
Spain has decided to call out more
troops, and $1,000 of them will be sent
out to Cuba and $4,000 to the Philli-
pines.
Lord Salisburys proposal for
| joint guarantee of indemnity to be
paid Turkey by Greece has fallen
through. Greece offers to set apart
5000, 900 drachmas yearly for the pay
ment of the indemnity.
An earthquake and tidal wave in
Japan during August swept away
! 5000 houses. Between 200 and 300
| people are known to have been
drowned.
|
| The trial of A. L. Leutgert for the
murder of his wife and the subsequent
destruction of her body in soap tank
| is now on in Chicago.
A riot occurred at Merido, Yucatan,
because of the opposition of the peo-
pie to the candidacy of the governor
for second term. The police charg-
ed the people, and during the riot
twelve persons were killed and large
number wounded.
In a hurricane which visited Laurel
| Wood Park, near Chicago, one woman
was killed and a dozen injured by the
collapsing of a pavilion. .
Bolivian troops to the number of
600 have invaded Peru and it is sup
! posed another war is on.
A dispatch from Nanimo says:
Prince Luigi of Savoy, and party of
| Italians reached the summit of Mt.
st. Elias July 81. The altitude by the
mercurial barometer is 100 feet. 1t
| is the most successful expedition ever
undertaken. The party was fifty-one
| days on snow and ice without sickness
or accidents. The Italians are return
ing on the Topeka.
Lord Salisbury has proposed to the
powers that England, France and
| Russia guarantee the indemnity loan
| necessary to secure the evacuation of
| Thessaly by the Turkish troops and
| that they control the revenues set
apart for the purposes of meeting this
obligation.
| At the National encampment of the
G. A. r. at Buffalo, forty-five thous-
and veterans took part in the grand
parade. j. p. Goblin, of Pennsylvania,
was selected as commander-in-chief
and Cincinnati was selected as the
| place for holding the encampment in
| 1898.
| During the national fete at Monte
video, Uruguay, President j. Idiarte
Borda was shot and killed by an
assassin. The assassination of the
president occurred just as he was
leaving the cathedral, where a tie
deum had been sung The assassin
was arrested. He is youth named
| Arredondo. President Borda died
almost Immediately after be was shot.
| Senior Cuestas, president of the senate,
has assumed the presidency of the
republic ad interim.
! The question of the peace settlement
between Greece and Turkey has now
! passed out of the hands of the ambas-
sailors of the powers and become the
! subject of negotiations direct between
| the European cabinets. Germany
| objects to the Marquis of Salisbury's
! proposal that Greece should be asked
| to state precisely the means she pos
sesses for paying the idemnity, and
insists upon the signing of the peace
preliminaries as already determined.
Austria partly shares Germany's
views, and Italy will agree to Ger
many's policy if the powers agree
upon it. Russia and France are in
/ clined to support the Marquis of
Salisbury.
Arnhushad nv Mnouahlners