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

| signation as president of Brown Uni
versity and the university has reopen
ed with renewed activity and vigor.
1t is said that the governments has
already considered and agreed upon
| plan of action in case of war with
! Spain.
Lorin M. Thurston, Hawaiian charge
d'affairs at Washington, says the
Hawaiian senate has, in all proba bility.
by this time ratified the treaty of
annexation with the United States.
The senate was called to meet on the
Sth, and as it was pledged to annex
alton the action has probably already
been taken.
Several additional cases of yellow
fever have developed at New Orleans,
Berkeley and Mobile, Ala. A strict
quarantine has been established in
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama,
but the officials seem to feel that there
is great danger that the disease will
spread.
A tornado visited Sabine Pass and
Port Arthur, Texas, few days ago,
doing considerable damage to shipping
and causing eight deaths. Fifteen
others were injured.
John l.. Sullivan has announced
himself as candidate for mayor of
Boston. His platform will be to IL
cense gambling places and houses of
i'll fame.
The miners strike has been settled
so far as western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and West Virginia are con-
cerned, by the acceptance by the min
ers of proposition by the operators
to pay 65 per cent
The steamer Polypcmus was damag-
ed by collision in the Red Sea and
twenty-seven of the crew were drown
ed.
1t is announced that the Bank of
England will hereafter hold One-fifth
of its bank reserve in silver. The
announcement is received with some
doubt by the treasury officials in
Washington, and cannot be anthem
ticated in London. Neither is it
denied.
Two trains on the Denver e. Rio
Grande road collided near Newcastle.
Col, wrecking both engines and
several cars of each train. Fire broke
out in the ruins and the mail, baggage
and express cars, smoker, day coach
and tourist sleeper were destroyed.
There were two hundred passengers
on the passenger train and of this
number it is certain almost thirty are
deao, while from forty to fifty are
seriously injured, and some of these
may die. Many of the victims were
burned alive. Blame is laid on the
conductor of the stock train, who. it is
believed, tried to steal station from
the time of the passenger
At Hazleton, Pa, a few days ago,
the striking miners gathered and start
ed to march to Latimer for the pur-
pose of trying to get the miners at
work there to come out. Sheriff Mar
tin and seventy deputies headed them
off and ordered them to proceed no
further. The sheriff says that he was
assaulted upon attempting to arrest
one recalcitrant miner, but he bears
no marks and the miners denv that
he was assaulted, claiming that they
merely attempted to pass the deputies.
However, the order was given to fire
and the miners were swept down by
the volley. 1t is certain that twelve
were killed and about forty wounded,
but the list of killed may reach high
err figure. Citizens of Hazleton de-
nounce the hasty action of the sheriff
Troops were ordered to Hazleton and
it is believed no further trouble will
occur.
In an article on Spain and the
United States the London Daily Mail
warns Americans that they had better
content themselves with writing war
like articles and firing Fourth of July
fireworks instead of running into
battle with stupid Europeans who
mean business and fire real bullets"
Washington advices say that the
franchise heretofore held by the
French company for the construction
of a canal across the Isthmus of Pana-
ina has passed into the control of eth
er the English government or an Eng
lish syndicate. If this be true the
building of the Ncaraguan canal will
be circumvented