Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-08-17

Four of camping party, all daugh-
ters of prominent people, were
drowned in Skunk river near Nugent
station. They were wading down
stream and got in over their depth
Three of them were daughters of
Pierce Pample, two young ladies, and
the other l3 years old. The other
victim was Bessie, the s-year-old
daughter of Lewis Adams, of Ioha.
Council Bluffs dispatch says: A
new scale of wages goes into effect to-
morrow on the Quincy, Kansas City &
Eastern railway, OF which the Omaha
& st. Louis is part. Wages of train
men are cut from $50 to S45; freight
conductors from 500 to Sos. Nearly
all the local force of mechanics were
discharged, and new men will now
work thirty-six hours at a stretch be-
fore relieved. Engineers and firemen
are also affected by the reduction,
There is considerable i'll feeling among
the employees.
Clarence Cohen, few nights since,
shot and killed his father-in-law,
John Heironimus, at the latter's place
two miles below Eldon. The two men
had dispute over trivial matter and
the old man made at Cohen with
butcher knife. Cohen was holding a
c@ild on his lap, but reached for re-
volver near at hand and shot Heironi-
mus twice. AS he still -four shed the
knife, Cohen struck the old man twice
over the head with the butt end of the
revolver, killing him. Cohen then
vent to Eldon and gave himself up.
In Justice Patterson conrt at Des
Moines, Bert Ross, the ex-husband of
shorty Ross. one of Wnitechapel'
most notorious women, was arraigned
on the charge OF assault with intent
to commit murder, and was bound over
to the grand jury under bonds of
$1,000. The assault was made upon
the wife of the defendant, occurred
some time in June, and was the out
growth of jealousy on the part of
Ross, from whom the woman had Sc
cured divorce with the reported
intention of marrying another man.
Frank Arnold has been arrested at
Omaha on the charge of numbering
Henry Duffy, n merchant of Waukon.
Duffy slept over his store. On the
morning of April 6, last. his clerk on
coming TO work found him lying dead
at the bottom of the stairway leading
from his bed room TO the Office He
was in his night robe, and all the
chambers of a revolver in ,his hand
were loaded. Later another revolver
with one chamber empty was iden
titled as one Arnolds had recently
redeemed from pawn shop. Arnold
is % years old, and the son of well
driller at Waukon. He claims he
loaned his revolver to an unnamed
friend few days before Duffy was
killed.
Joe Seaman, of Corning, and Clar-
ence Temperly, of Irvington, Neb.,
were killed by lightning few nights
since. The men were travelling with
a party overland from Corning to
| Watertown, Mimi, and had stopped
at John Rogler's place Forth of Wiota
to escape the heavy rain and had taken
refuge in a Animation corn crib and
hog shed. A terrific stroke of light
ming FRUSTRATED three out of the four
men, but John Phalen, of Irvington,
Neb., was resuscitated after vigorous
work. Seaman, Temperly and Phalen
| h,.ath ar I'm Il l., A.,
a Corning man to drive them to Min
nesota. The men killed were not
mutilated by the lightning, but the
head of one was scorched completely
black
According TO dispatch from Du-
buque case that is exciting much in
terest among medical men in Dubuque
is that of deaf and dumb girl named
Clara Kuntz, who is the unfortunate
possessor of live lizard in her stom-
ach The girl can feel it running up
and down her throat and 1T times it
nearly suffocates her. II is partcu-
larly troublesome i'm the morning.
While she was eating piece of meat
! ~ tduC u u, tbS
dropped back again. The doctors at
tending her have decided TO starve her
for few days, and then by putting
piece of meat in her mouth induce the
creature TO come out far enough to be
! grasped by pinchers. 1t is thought
she swallowed it some time ago, when
it was very small, while eating raw
cabbage.
Carl Yates. proprietor of the Day
light barber shop, of Oskaloosa, shot
! his wife and then tried to shoot him
self. Two balls entered the woman's
oaclI, one lodging in the right lung
and the fother in the kidneys. She
cannot possibly live. After having
| shot at her three times, he put
the gun to his head and attempted
| to shoot himself. Officer Cricket
| gra bbed him and another man got the
gun. The trouble arose over family
difficulty. Mrs Yates, by her first
! husband, was left a fortune Of $1,000,
which Yates had squandered They
| had lust decided to separate and she