Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-12

COVeTcu from dis SichhSSS anu icLe ioA
Washington a few days ago.
The First City bank of Nora Springs
has failed. 1t was q state bank, and
the business conducted by the institu-
ton was small, and therefore not
much Importance is attached to the
failure. Ex-Rcpresentative Better
man, Samuel SPOTS and L. +. Bryan
were the owners of the bank. The
assignment was made to Bryan Cam
nudge, of Mason City.
Judge Blair has dismissed at the re-
quest of fifty leading business men of
Cedar Falls six indictments against
Charles j. Fields for fraudulent bank
inc. Seven indictments still stand,
but it is believed they will also be
quashed. Many of the men who asked
for dismissal of the indictments were
depositors in the bank when it failed.
Fields is broken down in health.
The Commercial Hotel in Mediapolis
was totally destroyed by fire few
| nights ago, occasioning "a loss of about
originated in defective fiue. and the
building was consumed so rapidly that
no attempt could be made to save any
| thing. None of the guests of the hotel
were injured. The adjoining building,
the Turtle drug store, also caught fire
| and was burned down.
a passenger train on the keokuk IL
| Western road was wrecked near Nor
| walk few days ago on account of the
roadbed sliding from beneath the train
while it was going thirty miles an
hour. The engine, baggage car, smok-
| er and one day coach, containing for
| ty-eight passengers, went from the
rails. Good fortune accompanied the
disaster, for almost as if by a miracle,
no one was killed and but a few in
| jured, none seriously.
| The widow of VIM. Kinney, .who was
| found drowned in the Maquoketa at
| Cascade short time ago, has sued sew
eral Cascade saloon keepers, who are
charged with selling livuor to her
husband, for SIS, 900. Mrs. George Green,
| whose husband set fire to the Cascade
Jail recently, and was burned to death
before the fire was discovered, has be-
gun suit against the town of Cascade
for S., 900. alleging that it was through
the negligence of the marshal that her
husband lost his life.
| James, the 6-year-old son of Joshua
Foster, living at Union Mills, four
miles east of New Sharon, was shot by
his 13-year-old brother, Charlie. The
ball was 3a-calibre and entered just
above the left eye and ranging down
behind the nose. The ball has not
been found and his recovery is doubt
full. The older boy had the revolver
in his hand and was attempting to cut
an apple, holding the knife and
revolver in the same hand, while the
younger was looking on.
Coal Dealer NJ. l. Mead, of Lyons,
together with his wife, three children
and the hired girl, were poisoned by
eating bread containing phosphorus,
| which was mixed with some flour for
| killing rats and was accidentally
mixed with other flour into bread
which the family ate. They were
taken sick shortly after dinner, a
doctor was called, and upon investiga-
tion found that the -four with phos-
phorus had been used. The family is
getting along nicely, however.
L ha G, ID
arrived at Davenport a few mornings
since with deserted infant on board
The child was not over twenty-four
hours old when found and was in a
pasteboard box, first being wrapped in
blanket. A hackman named Man
waring took charge of the baby and
has agreed to keep it until it's mother
can be found, or adopt it if necessary.
j. A. Stafford, the conductor of the
train, says the baby was put aboard at
Newton by woman about As years
old.
The Farmers Trust Company, OF
Sioux City, failed, with estimated
assets and liabilities of $23s,O0O and
$135, 200 respectively. The firm had a
large amount of debentures outstand-
ing. and when default was made in
payment by makers of notes on which
it secured it found itself unable To
meet its liabilities. Its credit was also
injured by litigation in which it has
recently become involved. Vice.
President w. 4. Honesinger applied
for receiver, and q. ii. Hollister was
appointed.
A man giving his name as j. Il. Dean
is wanted by the Odd Fellows lodge
of Iowa Falls, but his present where
abouts are indefinite. Dean borrowed
sum of money from firm in ST.
Paul, Mimi, representing that he was
member of the lodge of Odd Fellows
in Iowa Falls and that if he Dean
would not repay the amount the lodge
would. Dean failed to meet the obi
CATION and the firm took recourse Il
the lodge, which would very much like
TO locate Dean. The lodge officer.
think that he is not an Odd Fellow
and are certain no such man ever held