Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-09-14
THE NEWS IN IOWA

few nights since in charge of the
passenger train to st. Louis At
Belknap, few miles below, he was
missed, and the train came back as far
as Soap Creek, where he was found by
the side of the road with a cash in his
head, unconscious. He was taken to
his home in Moberly, Mo-, where he
died.
Conductor S. c. Schecl, of special
Chicago& Northwestern freight, west
bound, found the body of man lying
between two tracks east of the east
Clinton crossing. The train was stop
ped and the unfortunate man taken
on board. 1t was found that he was
still living, but very weak from the
loss of blood. His right arm was cut
off at the shoulder and his right leg
at the hip, and he had deep cash ov-
er the right eye and ear. The man
was taken to Clinton and taken to
Mercy Hospital but his recovery is
doubtful. Few particulars could be
learned, only that his name was Simp-
son and his home was Round Hill, Pa.
He is about 20 years old
In the federal court at Des Moines,
Judge Woolson refused to grant the
injunction against Freeman r. Coma
way, state printer, and A. b. Shaw,
| his partner, and Emlln McClain auth
or of the annotations of the new code
| M rpSt IN IN, than, Sro,,, ~, hI;sh;,,r ho
new code, which was brought by Gala
CHAN & Company, of Chicago, on the
ground that the annotations furnished
by Mr.. McClain were partially taken
from an old code in violation of a con-
tract existing between them and Mr.
McClain. Judge Woolson held that
public expediency demanded that the
code be published by October /, as it
would be impossible for the courts and
business interests of the state to know
what the laws of the state were if the
code is not published.
a young man took an Atlantic girl
to a theatrical performance in that
city few evenings since. This fact
alone is hardly worthy of mention,
but for the fact that the young lady
drew a bicycle offered as a prize by
the theatrical company to the person
holding the lucky ticket. The young
lady took possession of the wheel, but
after studying over the matter until
Sunday afternoon, the young man
went and borrowed the wheel and
now refuses to return it, basing his
claims to it on the fact that he paid
for the girls admission to the theater,
and that the wheel should be his
property. The case is already before
the justice court, and bids fair TO
equal the Jones county calf case in
legal technicalities.
A dispatch from Atlantic says:
John Baily, living in Washington
township, has lost several head of
cattle from Texas fever Some time
ago Wolf G. Degen shipped lot of
cattle from western Kansas to Lewis
and sold them to the farmers. Mr..
Baily was one of the purchasers. He
turned them in with the other herd
and the natives soon became sick and
many of them died. The veterinary
was sent for and pronounced the dis
ease Texas fever and quarantined the
herd. 1t is learned that the cattle
originally came from Texas and are
branded I'D" This is the twenty
fifth place that the state veterinary
has quarantined cattle of that brand.
The disease does not affect Texas
cattle. but is fatal to the natives.
1t has been stated by o. j. Taylor,
nattorey for f. p Stone, the missing
cashier of the Sioux City Savings bank
that his client has about concluded to
return to that city and answer to two
new indictments that have been re-
turned against him. Stone has been
missing from Sioux City Cor several |
months, and all efforts to capture him !
have been fruitless. Now he says he |
will come back of his own accord and /
will take his chances in the courts on |
the theory that the worst evidence
against him was destroyed when the
FIVE other indictments against him /
were dismissed. If he does come back |
he will likely demand change of ven
ne to an adjoining county, on the |
grounds of local prejudice. Stones
friends are preparing bond for him
in case he really does come.
The grand jury of Woodbury. county
has returned two indictments against !
+. Ii. Hutchens, ex-cashier of the !
defunct Iowa Savings Bank. and two
indictments against e. =. Stone, the
missing cashier Of the Sioux City /
Savings Bank, which closed its doors
last fall. Both of these indictments
came as n surprise TO the people of
Sioux City, as it had been supposed
the criminal actions arising from the
failure of the banks in Sioux City last
fall were at an end Both men are
with the crime of receiving
deposits at a time when they knew for
certain that the institutions were i'm
an insolvent condition. Hutchens is
at present at the Winnebago Indian
in Nebraska, but has sent