Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-11-23
BREVITiES.

1t is stated that owing to the fact
that the Carlists are known to bc i'm
porting arms into SPAN, Premier
Sagasta and Minister of War Correa
are considering the adoption of re-
pressive measures.
Three Thousand sheep and 10000
cattle were burned to death in Cros
by county, Texas. few days ago by
fire which is sweeping over Panhandle
country ranges. The damage To
ranches is enormous. Fall crops are
being badly damaged.
Three men blew open the safe
in Heine's bank, at Silver Creek,
y. Y, securing $4,000 in mon
ey and $4,000 in jewelry. They after
wards tried 20 crack safe in a neigh.
boring mill, but were frightened
away. The watchman was badly
beaten.
Consul de Castro, at Rome, in n
report says that if business men of the
United States would give attention to
Italy they would largely increase their
trade. Italy's wheat harvest this year
has been estimated at Sc. $40, roo
bushels, or about 60 per cent of last
years production.
The Mississippi state board of
health has issued an ordinance to
the effect that hereafter all railway
trains entering the state OF Mississippi
will be allowed to stop ut their depots
in all towns. and the inspection of
passenger trains by local authorities is
ordered discontinued.
Princeton collegians were badly dis
appointed when it became known that
Grover Cleveland's son is to be Richard
Folsomc Cleveland. They had given
the young man the name of Grover
Cleveland, Jr.. on the day Of his birth
and hoped it would stick to him. The
name decided upon is given in honor
of Mrs Cleveland's father.
Otto Helbig. the expert who has
been engaged at Lincoln, Neb.,
for several months in examining the
books and accounts of ey-State Treas
urer BARLEY, submitted his report TO
the Legislative investigating commit
SS7O.OOO The amount of the defalca-
ton had been variously estimated ut
from 500, 900 to 81 600, 900. hartley is
now in Douglas county jail under a
twenty-year sentence To- the pcniten-
tiarv. An appeal has been taken to
the supreme court and argument on a
motion for new trial will soon be
made.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works,
located at Philadelphia, have within
the past few days booked orders for
fifty-six locomotives. The orders in
ciude twenty-one locomotives for the
government state railway of Finland,
the first order of any magnitude that
has ever been placed in this country
from that place. Another order is for
twenty four heavy broad gauge loco
motives from the government of Brazil,
while the third order is from the
Grand Trunk railway of Canada and is
for ten locomotives. All of these
orders call for the completion and
delivery of the locomotives by January,
1898.
A Topeka dispatch says: After an
investigation State Superintendent of
Instruction Stryker states there are
7sl district schools i'm Kansas where
the average daily attendance is less
than five pupils. Hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars are wasted in this
way. In many cases schools are I'M
der the control OF one family The
parents, son or daughter compose the
school board, and they employ anoth-
err member of the family as schoo!
teacher at $50 To $40 month. the only
pupils being other children of the
same family.