Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-05-25

The Corn Belt Editorial Association
will hold its annual meeting aC Cor
rectionville June 10 and IL. A COM
plete program has been prepared and
the papers and discussions will be of
value TO editors and publishers
generally.
The Harrah e Stewart Mfg. Co.. OF
Des Moipcs, Ia, have solved the
problem of making a strictly high
grade, up-to-date bicycle for nominal
price, and the wheels they now have
on the market are unexcelled in every
respect. See them.
The railroad employees of the state
arc organizing for the purpose of
taking part in the campaign this fall,
i'll order to assist in electing men to
the legislature who will favor tho
immediate enactment into law of the
Temple amendment, or Il similar act
embodying its principles. Mason City
has club with more than 700 MEM
bers. Clubs are also being formed at
Dubuque. Council Bluffs, Iowa Falls,
Clinton, Boone, Waterloo, and in other
towns where railroad men reside in
considerable numbers. The c.. Il. q q.
road will not be represented III the
organization. 1t is to be u n"1-
partisan organization, with the sole
object of electing friends of the Temple
amendment, and good speakers will
be sent into the various districts TO
help accomplish this.
Dick Dodd, of Ottumwa. has con-
fessed to completely in the robbery of
the Eldon bank. In searching Dodd,
the chief OF police found a fancy
pocket knife with the name of JAS. H.
Aylesworth on it. Aylcsworth was a
travelling man, who came to Ottumwa
about April 1G, got on a drunk and was
sluggcd in an alley and robbed of 8
diamond valued at SlG5 and number
of other valua bles. He was badly
slugged, and died ut his home III
Chicago few days after, though his
death is said to have been caused by
typhoid pneumonia. Dodd told the
officers that he got the knife from a
well known young man. The police
learned that this young man, with two
Others was seen with Aylesworth in
several saloons, and the arrest of two
of them followed. Those arrested
were Fred CRUDE and Gerry Devol.
CRUDE and the other one not yet
arrested are from prominent families
The depositors in at least one of the
Sioux City failed banks will soon
receive their money in full, with
interest. This is the Sioux National
Bank. Some time ago the receiver,
ny direction of the comptroller of the
currency, ordered a - per cent assess
ment ON the stock to pay off the
creditors Of the institution. This
would yield $2a5, 900, which, with the
good assets, would nearly pay all
claims. The deposits amounted to
5000, 900. Nearly all the stock is held
in New England, and at first the
eastern stockholders determined on
resisting the assessment. A few days
ago Representatives of 80 per cent Of
the stock arrived in Sioux City to sec
what could be done. They decided
that resistance was useless, and com
pleted arrangements for the stock
holders to purchase all the assets OF
the bank and pay all liabilities at
once. BY turning the assets into the
Tra1ifC f.ti A,, thnN.
can be handled SO as to bring substan
tial returns after q few years.
5Thc men who on February / com
mitted the daring robbery of the
bradley bank at Eldon have been APP
pretended by Pinkerton men. Two of
them are in Jail at Ottumwa and Off
GERS have doubtless captured three
others in Chicago by this time. The
evidence against them is conclusive,
the instigator having confessed before
the grand jury, making clean breast
of the whole matter. The men in Jail
for the crime are City Marshal Stevens.
of Eidon, and Dick Dodd, a gambler
of Ottumwa. Stevens was the insti-
gator OF the crime and is the man who
confessed. Stevens bore an excellent
reputation at Eldon, where he has
been city marshal for years. He says
in his confession that he first thought
of robbing the bank in 1895. He ar
ranged with Dodd to secure the cracks
men, who were Chicago experts. They
visited Eldon twice before they were
successful. The third time they were
met at Eldon by the marshal, who
watched the bank while they robbed IT.
Dodd returned to Ottumwa to prove
an alibi. He then met the robbers the
next forenoon east of the city, where
the team and buggy which they stole
to cart away their stuff was found.
All went to Dodd's house, his wife
having been sent away on some pre-
text. There they divided the money,
some $4,000 Dodd got 5000 and the
marshal was To have received his
share through Dodd, but the Chicago
people were too foxy for the Eldon
man and they left him nothing. They
staid at Dodd' house for two days and
nights, and then left for Chicago.
Stevens went to Ottumwa after his