Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-01-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK


| Wales.
The joint caucus of the republican
members of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture nominated A. Boies Penrose for
| United States senator, to succeed
Cameron. on the first ballot. The
vote was: Penrose, 1873; Wanamaker,
| rs: Cameron, /; Congressman j. b.
Robinson, L; Judge Charles E. Rice, !;
absent or not voting, 4.
A storm is raging throughout the
northwestern and central western
! states and great damage is being done.
| Railroads are blockaded and cattle on
| the ranges and elsewhere are suffering.
! The Germania, Allemania and West
Side banks, of st. Paul, were compelled
TO suspend payment a few days ago
because of the withdrawal of deposits.
| The Minnesota Savings bank took
advantage of the rule requiring sixty
days notice before withdrawal.
Two men are under arrest at Kansas
City for committing the Blue Cut rob-
berries and one of them has confessed.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons have signed
articles for finish fight to take place
on March II at a place to be announced
later
The steamer Commodore, which had
sailed for Cuba with cargo of guns
and ammunition, is reported to have
| foundered, on account of her leaky
condition, off New Smyrna. Twenty
eight men were on board, but dozen
of them managed to escape by boat.
Novelist Stephen Crane was on board
and is among those believed to have
been lost.
Telegraphic advices disclose the fact
that southern Missouri Arkansas ar d
Louisiana have been visited by death
dealing tornado. The force of the
wind was not great in Missouri, but
the country is storm swept. In
Arkansas 1t is reported that twenty five
houses were blown down at Benton
and great destruction is reported from
Cameron, with one fatality. At Moor
ingsport, La, the greater portion of
the town was destroyed and several
lives were lost, with many persons
injured. The wires are Frustrated and
authentic details cannot be obtained.
w. A. Hammond, wee president of
the National Bank of Illinois, of Chi
cago, which recently failed, committed
su icide few nights ago by throwing
himself into the lake. Hammond had
been charged with deceiving the Off
Gals of the bank and the banks de-
positors and with violating the nation
al banking laws and an investigation
of the banks affairs by the bank eX-
aminer was proceeding at the time Of
his death.
The steamer Three Friends has been
released from custody. 49,,
McKinley's popular vote was 7,101,
4O1; Bryan's 6,47O,6 Palmer's 1876, $50;
Levering's 13o,56o
The commercial failures of 1896 ex-
coed that of any previous year except
1899. They were 1880 as compared
with 1877 in 1895.
Spanish advices say that the queen
regent has signed the decree inaug-
urating governmental reforms in
Porto Rico.
Advices from Havana state that
Gen. Rivera, who succeeded Macco in
command of the Cuban forces, was
wounded few days ago. Another
report says the wound was fatal.
On the lst Hazen S. Pingree was
inaugurated governor of Michigan and
Frank s. Black was inaugurated as
governor of New York.
The editors of the Impartial and the
, Heralda, published at Madrid, few
days ago issued editions charging
: Weyler and the chiefs of the com
missary and hospital departments in
Cuba with crookedness and demanding
their recall. The Spanish authorities
seized the editions aud the editors will
be prosecuted. The public is indig.
nant at the exposures and the result
ing prosecutions aud cabinet crisis is
looked for.
Joseph Il. McCullagh, editor of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat, was found
/ dead on the pavement in the rear OF
, his residence in st. Louis few morn
ings since. He had evidently jumped
from the window of his bedroom on
the third floor of the house, some time
between Midnight and day break and
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tagging of the yard. McCull gh
physician says the editor had be, n
worn out during the recent campa IN
and being unable to get rest was
, driven to suicide.
Mrs. Castle, the American woman
, recently convicted of shoplifting IN
, England, has just been released from g
hospital at Philapelpha, where, it is
said, her malady has been cured