Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-08-31
THE NEWS IN IOWA

| slaShed his throat with razor. He
died within few hours. He leaves a
wife and four children.
George Hauser had three ribs
broken, his chest bruised and was
otherwise injured while setting a
steam thresher at Written. The
coupling broke, letting the engine
against the feeder. His injuries are
not thought to be fatal.
One of the largest deals ever made
in sheep in Marshall county was the
recent sale of 1900 lambs to Pierce
Girton, of Rhodes, by Kimball & Bur-
dick, of LaMoille. Mr.. Girton repre-
scented syndicate of farmers near
Rhodes in the transaction.
Henry Behneman, a German, aged
sc years, while hunting work in Cass
county, was sandbagged by tramps
near Marine in broad daylight. Behne-
man carried two grips and was prob
ably taken for peddler. His jaw
was fractured in two places. The
assailants have not been arrested.
AS the result of riot at a dance in
Van Horne. Benton county, Marshal
Kraft lies at the point of death. In
attempting to make arrests his
revolvers were taken from him, he
was dragged out of the room and
pounded with clubs and brass
knucl1les. The doctors think he will
die. Sheriff Metcalf has warrants for
the offenders.
While Ben Robbins and Joe Wood
were chopping fence posts on one of
II. b. McDonald's farms near Lovilla,
| they found and killed 40 rattlesnakes,
the largest being over four feet long.
near the same place few days ago.
| They are what is known as timber
rattlesnakes.
Three men of the Jesse James order
terrorized the people of Asbury and
Durango. They robbed the postotfice
at Durango and later entered the sa
loon of Mike Turley, beating him in
sensible and taking 500 They after
wards held up five young men, robbing
them of their clothes, watches and
other valuables. In all they got about
$500. The sheriff is after them with
bloodhounds.
George Bush, young colored man,
was struck by the Rock Island switch
engine at Des Moines, few nights
since, and fatally hurt. He was GO
ing north on Fifth street shortly after
the engine had left the depot. The
switching crew was at work in the
yards, and the young man started
across Vine street in advance of the
engine. He was seen by the engineer
and crew and warnings were given
him but it was too late. The wheels
of the engine passed over his legs,
grinding both of them off just above
the knees. He was also injured about
the head and death resulted within a
| few hours.
Mrs. Henrietta Jackson has com
menced suit to establish her right 10
an interest in large tract of property
in the business part of Sioux City.
She is the widow of James A. Jackson.
who was one of eight men VINO formed
a company in 1856 to buy land and
plat it, and as she has never signed
| the deeds to the property she claims
her dover interest in the property.
The city of Sioux City owns large
part of the property and the Sioux
O. De- g..
Northern railroads own the other part
of it. The value of the property her
suit involves is estimated at about
81 900, 0Oe.
In the federal court at Dubuque
Judge Shiras refused Callaghan &
Co. S application for an injunction to
restrain Emlin McClain from anno-
tatiDg the new code of Iowa. He said
they had not shown irreparable injury
would result to them nor esta blished
the legal conclusion that McClain's
copyright to "McClain's Annotated
Code" was held in trust for them
jointly. 1t was not clear that Nc
Claims contract to do no work that
Nouiu impair tilc Sdle OF mct1a1n
annotated code had been violated. On
the contrary, the damage to Callaghan
& Co.'s publication resulted from the
legislatures determination to issue
new code, and if McClain did not ammo
tate it somebody else would.
AS Mr. and Mrs. A. Green, two old
and respected persons residing in Lake
City, were on their way to the country
to spend the day with son, dog ran
out Of corn field and frightened their
horse. The horse became unmanage-
able and the buggy struck post,
throwing the occupants out, killing
Mr. Green and breaking the right
wrist, dislocating the left shoulder
and otherwise bruising Mrs. Green.
The horse broke loose from the buggy
and ran Immediately to the sons
house, who at once surmising some
thing wrong, mounted the horse and
started down the road, where he
found his father dead and his mother !
badly injured and unconscious Mrs.
Green is resting easier and il is thought |