Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-10-19
THE NEWS IN IOWA


town of about 1000 inhabitants, on
the Great Western road, because of
the prevalence there of diphtheria.
Fire at Maxwell destroyed a livery
barn and two other barns. The
Crawford house, occupied by Clint
Woodhouse, and several out buildings
were burned. The loss is 81, 200.
Col. C. c. Horton, of Muscatine, has
been selected to succeed ]. r. Ratekin
as commandant of the Iowa Soldiers
Home at Marshalltown. The board of
trustees took thirty ballots before
arriving at choice.
j. G. Anderson, adjustor for the
Iowa Dairy Mutual Insurance COM
pany. has made satisfactory adjust
ment of the recent loss by fire to the
Waucoma creameries and both are
rapidly being rebuilt.
j. Drew, a brakeman on a Chicago
sS Northwestern freight, which passed
through Cedar Rapids few nights
ago, disappeared at that place and not
the slightest trace of him can be
found. No one can be found who saw
him and his disappearance is mys-
terry.
Frank Douzerain, one of the brig Int
little boys, aged about 12 years, at the
Iowa College for the Blind, at Vinton,
whose parents live about two miles
north of Charles City, while at play
few days ago, in attempting to climb
a fence, fell and received a rupture,
from the effects of which he died at
the college.
w. H. Morton, the Chicago travel
ing man hurt in the electric line dis
aster on the interurban train between
Waterloo and Cedar Falls, died with
out recovering consciousness. His
two sisters and member of the firm
for which he travelled arrived in Wa
terloo just previous to mis- death. All
of the other persons injured are out of
danger
The 14-months-old daughter of S.
White, of Des Moines, was scalded
with boiling tea, so badly that she died
In few hours. The tea pot was set
ting on the edge of the table, and the
child reached up and pulled it down
upon herself. The boiling tea scalded
her back and arms in a terrible man
ner. A physician was called, but the
little one was so severely burned that
she expired.
A Creston dispatch says: l.. B. Davis,
of Greenfield, auditor of Adair coun-
ty, is missing, and his return is mat
ter of considerable concern to his
bondsmen and the tax payers of Adair
county. He has been suspected for
some time as travelling in pretty ra-
pid class. 1t is said there is deficit
in the county funds, that he has an
overdraft at Greenfield bank and
that all his property is heavily mort
gagged.
A special train, bearing some thirty
miners and their families, arrived in
Boone few days ago, ard the men
will be installed in the mines of the
Boone Valley Coal and Mining com
pany, at Frazer, ten miles north of
Boone. The men are from the mining
districts in and about Macon and
Huntsville, Mo. Another train load
arrived at the same time from Peoria,
Ill. The men are to be placed in the
company's mines instead of the strik-
ing whites, who have been out some
time.
Ole Olson, who lived near Conroy,
was the victim of an atrocious crime,
committed few nights since He is
known to have been worth 10000,
and was a miser He lived in a mis-
cradle howell in field on one of his
farms. His two sons live on farms
near him. One of his sons went to his
shack and found him unconscious. He
never rallied, and died few hours
later. The post-mortem revealed the
fact that he had been struck back of
the ear, producing insensibility and
death. There is 70 clew. Three
years ago he was bound and tortured
to extract money from him. After
that he deposited over S12, 900 in the
banks.
Two Iowa farmers, Frank Schrader
and James Todd, living on Silver
Creek, near Delaware, were buncoed
out of $50 by the shell game at Chi
cago. In Lincoln Park they ran
across William Johnson, who said he
was farmer from Sabetha, Kansas
Later they struck the shell game.
johnson won two bets of $40 and $50
and then bet 500, Schrader and Todd
furnishing $50 of the amount He
lost, raised howl. the customary man
with star appeared, and the game
sters escaped with the money. The
two farmers walked to the police
headquarters and gave description
of the men who manipulated the
game.
c. T. Dane, wealthy farmer living
about four miles east of Williamsburg,
fell head foremost into stock well
and persisted before help arrived. lie
was an upright, honorable man, about
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