Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK

General Weyler will ask for 10000
more troops with which to conquer the
eastern provinces of Cuba.
Talk of war with the United States
has been renewed in Spain.
An Indian governmhnt steamer sent
out to look for the missing steamer
Alden has returned and reports the
Alden wrecked and seventy-eight of
her passengers drowned or missing.
BY the last city directory it is esti-
mated that Chicago's population is
/ ,s23,OO0.
Four masked men entered the Butte
County Bank at Belle Fourche, 8. d.,
and started TO rob the concern. The
cashier did not get his hands up
promptly and his right ear was shot
off. The robbers then took all in
sight and skipped, followed by posse
OF citizens. One of the quartette
surrendered, but the others escaped.
Only SIS was secured.
Prof. Aarporath, of the Coroba OBJ
servatory, of Peru, asserts that the
| moon is planet.
An express on the Wabash railway
plunged into gorge near Missouri
City few nights ago, carrying with it
several cars and their load of human
| freight. Nine are known to be dead
and the number may reach twenty
five. A dozen are badly injured. A
farmer tried to flag the train, but
ewing to the great downpour the
engineer did not see him. Another
train was tagged abont 800 feet from
the rear coach of the wrecked train.
Advices from Havana say reports
are in circulation that Gomez, the in
| surgent commander-in-ch was SER
iously wounded in battle near the
military line in the province of Puerto
Principe, but the reports cannot be
confirmed.
Senator Pettigrew was overcome in
the midst of speech on the tariff
few days ago. He sat down and ply
stefan was called. An examination
disclosed the fact that he had suffered
a slight stroke of apoplexy. He
walked to a carriage and seemed all
right with the exception that he
talked with difficulty. The doctor
says there is no immediate danger.
The Cornell college crew won the
great triangular intercollegiate boat
J. H,,1e Nal1
and Harvard was third. Cornell ended
five lengths ahead of Yale and Yale
four lengths ahead of Harvard.
Speaker Reed has selected the COM
mittees for the regular session of
congress and they will be named the
last day of the special session. Among
the chairmen are the following:
Enrolled bills, A. L. Hager, Iowa;
interstate and foreign commerce, w.
p. Hepburn, Iowa; judiciary, D. b.
Henderson, Iowa; military, j. A. T.
Hull, Iowa; mines and mining, r. q.
Cousins, Iowa; public lands, j. +.
Lacey, Iowa; appropriations, j. &.
Cannon, Illinois; foreign affairs, r. Il.
Hit, Illinois; naval affairs, c. A.
Boutelle, Maine.
John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsim-
mons are to meet in brooklyn on the
9Th in Surround bout for the purpose
of giving Sullivan a chance to demon
strate whether he is fit tor a finish
fight. If he is match will be ar
ranged at once.
1t is reported that the entire Dhanis
expedition to the headwaters of the
Nile, consisting of G, 600 men. including
Baron Dhanis himself, has been mas
sacred.
Minister Woodford will not leave for
Spain until the latter part of July.
Serious rioting has occurred in the
province of Oviedo, Spain, supposed to
be due to the increased taxes on food.
Eight thousand miners engaged the
troops. and four were killed and many
! wounded.
Crops in Hungary are far below the
average.
Gov Bushnell and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Jones, of Ohio, have been re-
nominated by Ohio Republicans. Dick
Hannas candidate for chairman of the
state central committee was elected
President Mckinley has nominated
Thomas &. Dawson, of Council Bluffs.
as secretary of the legation at Rio De
Janeiro; Albert W. Swain, of Oska-
loosa, as consul to Montevideo,
Uruguay, and Edward McKitterick, of
Iowa, deputy auditor of the treasury
department.
DIR. LIcGiiI Declines.
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