Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-27

! Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, has is
sued challenge to Rollo o. Heikes,
of Dayton, O., to shoot for the E. c.
championship cup, emblematic of the
target championship of the world.
Mr.. Hei1es has accepted the above
challenge, naming Dayton as the
grounds.
Austin ]. Wright, of Charlton, was
run over by freight train and lost
one of his legs. He got on the train
west of CHARLTON to ride to the city,
as was his customary habit, and in
| jumping off he fell under the ears.
Wright is "a poor day laborer, and the
loss of his leg will fall severely upon
his wife and family.
officer Keelan. of Atlantic, recently
arrested colored man who is believed
to be Herb Martin, of Newton, the
colored man who shot his wife in Des
Moines June %. The officer who
made the arrest was certain that he
had the right man. The crime for
which Martin is wanted is that of
shooting his wife in a resort in White
chapel. He committed the deed
because he claimed that his wife had
deserted him and was living with
another man, Ed. Wallace. The
woman, Cora Martin, was shot through
the body, and for time lowered be-
tween life and death at Mercy hospital.
She is now on the road to recovery.
Martin escaped the police with the
assistance of friends.
a daring theft occurred in broad
daylight in business house on one of
the principal streets of Webster City.
At Mccartney e. Tuttle's meat market
Mrs Clara Henneberry, the cashier of
the market, was left for a moment in
the front room alone, while ]. +.
McCaffrey, one Of the proprietors, was
in a rear room fixing up an order. A
stranger entered and asked to see Mr..
Mccartney. While Mrs. Henneberry
went to the door to call him the
stranger reached through the window
of the cashiers office and took gold
watch and all the change in the till.
When Mrs. Henneberry and Mr.. Nc
Caffrey came into the room the
stranger was gone, and they were not
long in discovering what he took. The
police have no clue to the robbery.
Quite serious runaway accident
! happened to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Marshall and Mrs. William Henry
while they were driving into Fairfield.
The team became frightened at a
train as they approached the Burling-
ton tracks and ran away. Mr. Marshall
jumped out and seized the horses by
the bits but could not hold them.
After they had run about block Mrs.
Henry sprang out of the buggy, and
after the team had run a couple of
blocks further Mrs. Marshall jumped
out. Mrs. Henry received several cuts
in the face and had toe broken.
Mrs. Marshall fell upon the back of
her head and fractured her skull very
badly, and her injury is quite SER
ious, perhaps fatal. The team ran
straight home without ipjuring
thing.
Des Moines has at last gotten store
which has been needed in Iowa for
years. On July Mr.. w. p. Chase
opened up a wholesale and retail
sporting goods and Photographic house
which eclipses anything ever before
attempted in the state. The large
store rooms at 61s & $40 West Locust
street have been newly painted and
decorated and present the most
attractive store in Des Moines. Any
thing which could be desired in the
sporting goods line is carried right in
stock; tennis, base ball, gymnasium,
fishing goods, guns, ammunition, hunt
ing suits, decoys, powder, shot, targets,
boats, oars, oar locks, tents, campers
supplies, bicycles, bicycle sundries,
cameras, plates, films and Photographic
goods-in fact, anything one could ask
Cor in this line can be shown.
The jury in the case of the State VS..
Cater, Oh trial at West Union, found
the defendant guilty of murder in the
first degree, and fixed the punishment
at Imprisonment for life. On Sunday,
September ., 1894. the body of Mrs.
John Cater was found in her husbands
barn at Burr Oak with two gashes in
her neck-one four inches long and a
quarter of an inch deep across the
front of her throat, and the other
about an inch and n half long and two
inches deep on the right side of the
throat. Another similar cut appeared
under the right eye and the bones of
the nose were crushed as If having
been struck with blunt instrument
Later the body of George Wemett was
found in the village school house yard
with a bullet hole behind his right ear
and revolver lying close to his body.
Cater, for some time prior to the muir
der, had been on terms that were
thought altogether too friendly with
Mrs. Heth. 1t is asserted that he was
the means of causing the separation
between Mrs. Heth and her husband.