Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-06-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK

The provisional committee of the
national silver republican party met
at Chicago with thirty-two states rep
resented. A national executive com
mittee of seven was appointed to have
general control of the conduct of the
party. Resolutions were adopted IA
voring ''the immediate establishment
of bimetallism by !indedendent action
Of the United States through the free
coinage of both gold and silver at the
ratio of lG to L.
Officers of the steamer Hupeb, which
arrived at Vancouver recently from
the orient, state that when in the
Philippine islands on their last trip.
it was learned that the Spanish gov
eminent had captured twenty-five
Roman Catholic priests supposed to be
in sympathy with the rebels and
roasted them.
In his report on the Ruiz case,
Consul General Lee says Ruiz was
arrested on false charge, was placed
under improper jurisdiction and died
before the proper tribunal considered
his case. He was kept "incommuni-
cado" 3l5 hours in violation of treaty
rights, and died from congestion of
the brain, produced by blow on the
top of the head. Whether this blow
was inflicted by some one else or
whether he became mad and butted
his head against the stone wall, the
consul general says will never be
known.
The queen regent of Spain has de-
cided to reinstate the old cabinet, and
has confi timed Senior Canovas, the
premier, in his ministerial powers, and
the cabinet will remain in office with
personnel and policy unchanged.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria
was recently stricken, tor second
time, with apoplexy, and it is said
that despite the fact that he soon
rallied from the attack, he is fast
| failing and his death may result at
| any time without warning.
Francis Schlatter, the ''divine
healer who created such a sensation
in Denver last year, is dead. His
remains were recently found In the
foothills of the Sierre Madras, in the
state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
| o1o,1b,ret q, eo,+baoetaro E.on mr.
caused loss of property amounting to
about 10, 900, 900 francs Four thousand
factory operatives are thrown out o.
employment.
At the annual meet of the Western
intercollegiate Amateur Athletic
Association at Chicago, ]. II. Maybury
of Wisconsin, broke the record for 22t
yards around turn, making the dis
lance in u 2-J seconds. The records
for 120 yards and 22O yards ove1
hurdles and the mile walk were ais,
broken.
Advices from Madrid indicate tina
| whatever the. outcome of the presen
ministerial crisis may be, the recall o
Weyler as captain general of Cuba il
certain.
President Barrios, Of Guatemala, ha
declared himself dictator of tina
country.
1t is believed that President Nc
Kinley will appoint ex-Congressmal
Aldrich, of Illinois, to succeed Genera
Lee as consul general at Havana.
At Winchester, Ind, Charles Bliss
aged II, ran 50 yards in IA seconds
breaking the worlds amateur recort
and tying the professional record.
BY the action of the attorney gen
eral of California, stay has beer
granted Theodore Durrrant pepdin,
the action of the United State
supreme court, which does not NEE
for six months.
At Urbana, Ohio. "Cliclx" Mitchell
a negro, criminally assaulted Mrs
Eliza Gaumer, widow of the late edito
of the Urbana Democrat. He wa
tried almost Immediately and sen
fenced to twenty years in the peniten
tiary. But the people had became
aroused and an effort was made I,
lynch the brute. The militia wa
placed on guard, and when the mol
advanced they fred, killing two
fatally injuring two others ant
seriously injuring eight or nine
Later the governor ordered out addi
tional militia, but during the tenn
porary absence of the soldiers from
the Jail the mob captured Mitchell ant
hanged him to tree
France threatens to retaliate i
America places a prohibitive duty OF
French products.
Advices from Havana state that
Special Commissioner Calhoun will
unqualifedly endorse the position o.
Consul General Lee on the Ruiz cast
and that he wilt recommend that the
Cuban war be stopped at all hazards
! The steamer Dauntless, which has
several times been in trouble because
of filibustering expeditions which she
was alleged TO have carried to Cuba,
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