Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-08-03
THE NEWS IN IOWA

MRS. 1OQu, the WIG OF LIT. lOuu, VI
Oskaloosa, committed suicide with
shotgun.
Burglars entered the office of the
Burlington street car company and
secured 500.
Men at work in the burlington shops
at Burlington and Creston are now
working full time.
Two hundred miners of the White
Breast Coal Company, of Forhush, have
gone on strike for an advance of 90
cents per ton.
Alonzo Robbins, OF Keokuk, shot
and killed his wife few days ago.
They quarreled three weeks previous,
and had been living apart since.
During a terrific electric storm,
Joseph Linton. well-to-do farmer,
living three miles southwest of
Humestop, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
The Palo Alto Dairy Company, of
Reasnor, recently made shipment of
seven thousand pounds of butter,
packed in boxes of fifty-six pounds
each, going to New York for export.
Floyd Marshall, aged 20, was arrested
In Denver and held awaiting requisi-
tion papers from Iowa. He is wanted
in Marshalltown on a charge of muir
dering a boy. He processes to be
entirely innocent of any crime
whatever.
Mrs. Annie Turlle, living few miles
north of Webster City, wandered away
from home and for siXty-six hours she
was lying under a wagon bridge across
small creek. She is so years of age.
and when she fell from the bridge her
leg was broken. She will die.
Harry Jeffreys, a Cedar Rapids
barber, left his shop few days ago
and has not been seen since. He was
in poor health, and it is feared he
jumped into the river. He was pros
porous, and no reason can be assigned
why he should leave SO suddenly if in
his right mind.
Frank Ashbury, aged IA, son of John
Ashbury. a railroad man, and Lambern
Edwards, aged Is, son of H. b.
Edwards, dairyman, both of Belle
PLANE, ran away from home. They
were held by Marshalltown officers
and Deputy Marshal Warnock, of Belle
PLANE, went after them. The boys
were trying to beat their way to
y Nebraska.
W. r. Miner, the well known
marksman, who has charge of the gun
and ammunition depar tment of w. p.
Chase's big sporting goods house at
Des Moines, made a trip to Clear Lake
recently to attend the "Iowa Indian
Shoot and won about everything in
sight Mr.. Miner and Mr.. Charles
Budd both hail from Des Moines and
rank as two of the best shots in the
country.
Emma Timme, an 1s-year-old girl of
Dubuque, was seized with pangs of
maternity, and was driven from her
home by her inhuman parents, bare
footed and in her night-dress. She
was found in doorway by a police
man and was taken to the Matrons'
Home, where she gave birth TO a
child. She is very low. Her betrayer,
Joseph Welter, has been arrested.
There is talk of arrestirg her parents.
Mrs. Il. j. Rick, of Alden, was ar
rested by Sheriff Mitterer and taken
TO Eldora an a charge of attempting
murder and has been released on $500
bail. j. w. Parks, farmer living near
Alden, charges the defendant with
shooting at him with revolver, sew
ering one of the arteries of his leg,
from which he came near 'bleeding to
death. Defendant admits the shoot
ing, but alleges plaintiff was trying to
gain admittance to her house during
the night, in the absence of her hus-
baud.
Harry, the l2-year-old son of J. f.
Glass, of Atlantic, was accidental
shot by Ted Brown, the son of prom
inent citizen, and a director Of the
Atlantic National bank. They were
out hunting birds with 22-calibcr
target rife and Ted SAYS that without
warning the gun was discharged.
The ball entered at the hip, passed
downward and DETECTED so that after
three hours probing the physicians
gave up without being able to locate
the bullet The wound may prove
fatal.
Mrs. Claus Behrens, of Davenport,
charged with poisoning her husband
with paris green. has confessed and
duplicates her lover, sIIenry Bendt,
who was brought from his home in
Rock Island, H., and is locked up in
the county Jail, charged with being
an accomplice in the fiendish crime
Mrs. Behrens is determined looking
German woman, and it was only after
two hours of close questioning by the
chief of police that she broke down
and told the story to him and the POI
lice matron.
Fred Evans and S. p. Larkin, the
two young burglars who broke into
and robbed the store of J. =. Wilson