Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-05
THE NEWS IN IOWA

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Freight No. ia ran into extra No
237 near the switch yards at Leon,
completely demolishing the engines.
The engineers jumped. No one was
hurt.
The employees of the Rand-Leopold
Desk Company of Burlington, have
struck for an increase ofwages. They
claim they are scarcely getting enough
money to pay living expenses.
McElewain & Browns livery barn
at Washington was burned few
nights since. 1t was the largest
livery and sale stable in western Iowa.
The horses were all gotten out.
While Stevenson & Gray We're
threshing on the Hartshorn farm,
about six miles north of Clarion, a
young man by the name of Cooke in
some way got into the cylinder. Both
feet and one hand were taken off. He
is still alive and may recover.
An east-bound freight on the Chicago
81 Northwestern broke in two near
Beverly. A stop was made at the
station for water, and the rear end
ran into the front. Fireman Adams,
of Clinton, was badly injured about
the hips and arms, and brakeman
was slightly injured. Six cars of
grain were wrecked, and two are a
total loss.
While leading horse home from
the blacksmith shop, V. o. Bell, of Ida
Grove, met with an accident which
may yet prove fatal. The horse
became frisky, kicked him in the face
breaking his jaw bone twice, crushing
the frontal bone and terribly mangling
his face. He was removed to doctor S
Office. where his wounds were cared
for At present he is improving nicely.
While an old gentleman named
Remmes, living near Dunlap, was en-
gagged in burning stubble and damaged
hay in a field near his house his cloth
ing caught fire and he was burned to
death. The remains were not discov-
cred until several hours later, when
an inquest was held, deciding that he
came to his death by accident, as
described above. The body was in a
terrible condition.
At Atlantic few days ago the jury
in the bicycle case of Blanche Kramer
VS.. Ray Stowe, settled the same by
giving the girl possession of the wheel.
Stowe took the young lady to the
Jheater and one of the numbers given
her by friend drew the wheel, and
Stowe claimed the lucky number was
the one purchased for the evening.
He borrowed the wheel and refused
to return it, and hence the suit. The
wheel was valued at SIS.
terrific explosion of dynamite
occurred in w. A. Downs machine
shop at Montour. A pound of the
deadly explosive fell from a shelf and
in the crash which followed almost the
entire interior of the shop was wrecked.
Pumps and pipes and machinery were
broken into fragments and the build
ing itself, a structure 20x60 feet, badly
damaged. Windows in adjoining
buildings were broken and the whole
town shaken. Fortunately no one
was badly injured, though one man in
small building near by was shaken
up, but escaped practically without
injury, though the place was pretty
badly wrecked. A strange thing in
connection with the accident is the
fact that there were eighteen pounds
of dynamite within few feet of the
accident, which failed, fortunately, to
explode. Had it done so, the whole
neighborhood would have been shaken
up and possibly several lives lost. 1t
is thought that the deadly explosive
was Jared from the shelf by a passing
train.
Miss Emma Oliphant has begun
suit against C. f. Clark. of Liddle &
Carter, of Cedar Rapids, for $4,000
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned by reason OF Clark having tried
to eject her from the FIRMS overall
factory. The plaintiff is colored
girl, and recently when the factory
needed additional help the firm hired
her to secure for them table of col
ored girls to work in the establishment.
Miss Oliphant secured the girls and
they were put to work. The white
girls of the factory then threatened to
strike if the colored girls were per-
United TO work, and the firm could not
discharge or lose seventy skilled en-
ployes to hire seven unskilled, and
was compelled to let the colored girls
go. Miss Oliphant then put in a bill
for S. for services in securing the col
ored girls for the firm, and the firm
refused TO pay it. In an alteration
she alleges the foreman pushed her
out of the building with force. She
sued for the s., and justice jury
rendered Judgment in her favor for the
sum. She nov sues for damages
In the district court at Marshall
town tbs jury in the case Of the state
VS.. Michael and Patrick Mccarthy, re-
turned verdict of guilty to the charge
of manslaughter Accompanying the
verdict was written document sign