Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-06-29
THE NEWS IN IOWA

was killed by lightning, which struck
his house during a severe storm The
bolt struck him IN the temple and
passed down his entire body.
w. C Mullin, chairman of the state
central committee of the national dem
ocratic party, has issued a call for the
state convention. 1t will be held in
Des MoineS Jnly :.
Thomas L. Conley, an engineer long
employed on the Milwaukee road com
mitted suicide at Sioux City, by hang
ing himself to the door of his house,
after cutting his throat. He was a
man of good habits, was not in finan-
cial trouble and there is no known
reason for the deed. He leaves seven
children, their mother having died
several years ago.
Twenty-Five guests at the Becker
Wise wedding at Sioux City recently
were injured by the overturning CT n
tallyho, 10 which they were riding
about the city. The most seriously in
jured are: Miss Hellman, of Cincinnati,
serious internal injuries; Miss Carrie
Eisman, of Sioux City, many bad
bruises and injuries to the skull A. Z.
Schulein, of Chicago. both wrists
sprained; Miss Minnie Levy, of Sioux
City, injuries to the spine. The rest
of the party escaped with minor cuts
and bruises.
About one hundred editors of dem
ocratic newspapers met in Des Mones
few days ago and effected perma-
nent organization, elected Frank Q.
Stuart, editor of the Charlton Dem
ocrat, as president, and selected him
to remain in Des Moines during the
coming campaign and edit the liter
ature which is to be furnished demo
cratic papers The name selected was
the Iowa Bimetallic Press Association.
l.. E. Fay, of the Clinton County
Advertiser, was made vice president,
Ed. Meredith, of the Farmers Tribune,
secretary, and $. w. Mercer, of the
Iowa State Press, treasurer
Henry Batson, a farmer near Bur-
lington, while boring well struck
tremendous flow of pure water almost
ice cold at the depth of only forty-nine
feet The flow is so strong that the
well throws stream of water six
inches in diameter to a height of five
feet and is gradually growing stronger
as the sand and gravel is forced out of
the iron pipe. Local geological au-
thorities have examined the well, but
cannot explain its great power, nor
have they yet been able to estimate
its flow per minute. A channel has
been hastily constructed for the big
body of water to prevent its damaging
the farm land and buildings close at
hand.
The body of an infant, evidently but
few days old, was found in the
pasture of William Rapps, two miles
north of Cedar Rapids. Mr. Rapps
saw two women who he did not know
digging in his pasture about dusk.
When he went for the cows he
approached the spot where he had
seen the women digging and noticed a
pile of fresh dirt. About two feet
beneath the surface was found sod,
newspapers and shoebox. On open
ing the body of an infant fully de-
veloped, but not more than few DAYS |
old, was disclosed The neck of the |
infant was black and blue and there |
are indications that it met its death by |
strangulation.
For the third time in her history |
Boone county suffers loss by the |
defalcation of county treasurer. |
Treasurer w. d. Moore has resigned |
his position and turned over three or
four thousand dollars worth of prop
erty to his bondsmen. The super
visors had been investigating his |
records and the result showed him TO
be short to the probable amount of
$1,000 Moore was in debt and had
been using the county's funds, but
had been able to hide his shortage
from the supervisors. They finally
became suspicious and the examination
followed. They found that there was
Sl7, 25775 in cash in the treasury.
whereas there should be somewhere
in the Deighborhood of SIS, 900 to $40
900. Moore's bondsmen are good.
Mrs. ID. D. Myers and Mrs. Mary
Jones Hay, of Dubuque, and Mrs.
Henry Scott, of Chicago, were return
ing from a funeral at Dubuque "a few
days ago, when the horse attached to
the carriage ran away down a steep
hill. Mrs Myers was driving, and
when the horse became unmanageable
was thrown in such way as to be
seriously injured. Mrs Hay, daugh-
ter of the late Gen. George w. Jones.
was thrown from the carriage almost
Immediately and struck on her head.
Her skull was fractured at the base
and death resulted instantly. A short
distance farther on the horse made a
sharp turn and Mrs. Scott was thrown I
out and up in the air several feet. 5
She struck on her side. Her head was
crushed in and she was instantly {
killed.
Joseph Mcnamara, a farmer residing I
near Monticello, Jones county, has
disappeared. He went !