Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-09-21

Hlah WIZ cSSdpeu from merry hoS pltaA
at Dubuque week ago, was captured
by searching party. He was in n
deplorable condition, having subsistcd
for week on berries and nuts. He
was sun-struck while visiting his
brother, jeweler at Hoboken, n. j.,
and was placed in the hospital to be
cured
At Des Moines during fair week,
Lee Howard, a young farmer living
near Adelphi, about eleven miles
east of Des Moines on the Wabash line
was very dangerously injured by a
knife thrust on the left side of the
neck, inflicted by a young man by the
name of Bert Low, neighbor, and
for many years an intimate friend of
the injured man, with whom and his
family he had been intimate since boy
hood. Howard and Low went to the
city together. expecting to attend the
fair together and also to witness the
scenic effects of the siege of Vic!ls-
burg. After reaching the city they
visited the saloons and became drunk,
and quarrel resulted as above stated.
While pouring molten iron at
the Pioneer stove works at Leeds.
Sioux City suburb, five men were
frightfully burned In handling the
! ,500-pound ladle John Michaelson and
William Kreig were slightly spattered.
Stung by the pain, one of them drop
ped the handles and the contents
of the ladle spilled over the floor.
Everyone in the vicinity was more or
less burned. The building blazed up,
but the fire was quickly extinguished.
The most seriously injured were:
Henry Anderson, spectator; William
Kreig, workman; John Michaelson,
workman; Charles ID. Neussle, pro-
prietor; John Neussle, proprietor.
There have been no deaths yet, but
some of the victims are critically i'll.
Mrs. Irwin Wood, of Sioux City, is
lying in bed with her head and
limbs swathed in bandages, the result
of ferocious attack by a monster st.
Bernard dog, which she had been
keeping in the honse as a pet. 1t is
feared the woman's wounds will be re-
suit seriously, and even now she is in
a very dangerous condition. 1t is only
two weeks ago that the savage animal
made an attack upon his mistress, and
at that time she was bitten badly on
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as the woman was preparing to get in
to her bed. The dog bounced upon
her almost without warning, taking
one of her ears in it's mouth. AS she
turned over to protect herself, it turn
ed on her again and bit her frightful-
ly in the neck, nearly severing the
jugular, and about the head and limbs.
She was rescued from her perilous po-
sition by a young woman who was in
the next rooms and heard her screams,
and the dog was killed by the woman S
husband.
A desperate effort was made to burn
the Cherokee Herald printing plant
owned by j. r. Crawford, a few nights
since. a three-gallon can of kerosene
oil was poured over the furniture
cases and large pile of old newspa-
pers. In fact, the Office fixtures were
all covered with oil, as can be plainly
seen. A large quantity of old papers
were carried to the attic next to the
roof. These were also soaked with
oil
are that the fire was started in four
different places. The damage to the
type and furniture is great. Mr..
Crawford was first to discover the fire
pany responded quickly and succeed
ed in saving the building. Had the
windows been down to give the fire
draft, it would have been impossible
to save the plant. Mr.. Crawford was
recently acquitted of criminal libel
and it is thought that the fire was
started by some of his enemies. The
damage cannot be fully estimated, but
the loss is covered fully by insurance.
Scott P. Hyatt and wife and Leroy
Mcqueen and Miss May Tibbetts were
drowned in the Cedar river, three
miles north of Waverly. The bodies
were recovered the next day. Those
of Hyatt, Mcqueen and Miss Tibbetts
were close together in nine feet Of
water. That of Mrs. Hyatt was found
about sixty rods down the stream.
An inquest was held on the river bank
and the verdict was accidental drown
ing. The party went Up the river in
boat for. days picnic. Not having
returned at 10 o'clock p. M, c. l..
Tibbetts, father of both the ladies', ac-
companied by McQueen's brother and
another man, went in search of them
with another boat. About midnight the
searchers found the boat tied to the
bank Two hammocks were found
swinging To- trees on the bank near by.
In the hammocks were found the
apparel of the unfortunates and part
of their lunch. Returning to town,
Tibbits and his party gave the alarm
and the bodies were found. The two
women were clothed in loose calico
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