Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-13
THE NEWS IN IOWA

mysterious woman in closed
hack drove up to Mercy Hospital at
Burlington, rang the bell and drove
rapidly away, leaving d bundle on the
steps, which proved to be young
baby.
Chas. Delin, an employee at the Cedar
Valley quarries. few miles south of
Cedar Rapids, fell from moving train
ana was run over and instantly killed.
He was a married man, whose home
was at Stone City.
Monti Berdinner was instantly killed
at shooting match at Beacon. The
lad was trapping and came towards
the shooters to get drink. The gun
held by Ed Davis was accidentally dis
charged, the load hitting Berdinner in
the temple. He fell in his tracks.
The lad was the son of Thos. Berdinner
and was IL years old.
Adispatch announces that Oskaloosa
College has practically ceased to be a
college for the time being. At meet
ing of the trustees it was decided to
take off the last three years of study
and confer no degrees President j.
M. Atwater has resigned. The change
was inevitable, owing to lack of funds.
1t will hereafter be a preparatory
school for Drake University.
John Sales, % years of age, was
drowned in Noah lake, Rockford
township, Pottawattamie county. In
company with two other young men
he went to the lake to fish. After
fishing while they went In swim
ming. Sales stood on the bank and
dived into the lake, remarking as he
did so that he was going to swim
across the pond. When he came to
the surface he was helpless and sank
back.
While bathing in pond en- the Bur-
chnal farm with some of his neigh
bors, Ira Vanderwand, who lived three
miles east of Monroe, was drowned.
The body was recovered thirty five
minutes after the drowning in about
eight feet of water. He was one of
Marion county's most successful farm
ers. He leaves fortune TO his wife
and four children, besides having his
life insured for $4,000 He was 80
years old.
Coroner White and a jury have found
that the babe of Mrs. Healy, which
died in Morrison township, Boone
county, recently, died as the result of
carelessness on the part of the mother.
The physicians said the child was
strangled to death. The woman came
from Dakota and stopped at the home
of Mrs. Ginder, who has just reported
the case. She gave birth to a child
soon after her arrival while alone, and
the next morning the child was found
dead. The woman has disappeared.
At Ely, near Cedar Rapids, while a
party of men were firing an anvil a
ring several inches in diameter burst.
One piece struck Mrs. Vondracek in
the hip, burying itself four inches in
the flesh. The woman is not likely to
live. In Cedar Rapids lad named
Bassett while firing toy cannon
received a charge in his mouth, tearing
away part of his check. Joseph Placell
was fatally injured by the premature
discharge of a small cannon made of
steel by blacksmith. The side of his
head was nearly torn Off
The prospects are that Marshall
county has another murder case on it's
hands Tom Jordan lies at his home,
four and half miles northeast of st.
Anthony, with terrible bruise upon
his head, an awful cash on his fore
head and three ugly wounds inflicted
with knife, and the physicians
despair of his recovery. The wounds
were inflicted at the home of Pat and
Mike Mccartney, who reside across the
road from the injured man, but it is
impossible to find out what the trouble
was about.
A few days ago local paper pub
iished an article charging one of the
Sioux City aldermen with boodling
That alderman, Joe Erickson, imme-
diately opened fire on Alderman West
colt, claiming he caused the publication
of the article. Since that time both
these city fathers have been roasting
each other in the columns of the press
Numerous charges have been preferred
by both sides, and it looks very much
as if some sensational developments
would follow now that the council
men are fighting among themselves.
Col. c. ii. Catch, one of the best
known, most prominent and highly
respected citizens of Des Moines, died
on the LIST. A few days previous the
colonel caught severe cold, which
confined him at home to bis bed, but
he rallied from this and on the day
prior to his death was about the house
all day, cheered by permission given
him by his physician that he might go
down to his Office for short time on
the following day. Retiring as usual
he fell asleep and when the morning
dawned 1T was found he had relapsed
into unconsciousness-me breath
ing family. From this condition he
never recovered, and peacefully passed
away in the early morning hour.
A boy rummaging in an old hotel