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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
BLUE GRASS VALLEY.
Oct %. 1898.

Oct. %, 1898.
The weather has been very dry this
fall, until lately.
Election for this fall is approaching
and is very quiet.
Mrs. Harrington left recently to visit
friends at Keokuk, Iowa.
(. Nowadays daily wagers think that
there is too much dampness.
John Spriggs has refused to be can
didate for. trustee on account of his
ill health.
Corn huskers are very scarce on &C.
count of SO many going to help out the
union contest.
Thomas Carolan has secured farm
in Howard county, little over three
miles from town.
Philip Carolan is spending his leisure
hours lecturing. He says that thu
last rain was the wettest rain we eve
had.
Flowing is something that is scarc'
this fall, on account OF dry weather
It seems as if the farmers were going t.
quit farming, but guess nit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
HEsPER.

Oct "a, 1895.
From our regular correspondent.)
Mrs. II. B. Wiles is on the sick list.
J. M. Lein and family are now resi-.
dents of Mabel.
J. HI. Miller transacted business in
DecoIah the Goth.
Miss Jennie Fuller entertained hei
sister OF Cresco last Sunday.
Mrs. E. III. Weber was a Hesperite
in DEBORAH one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. III. Oren were visit
ors in DEBORAH on Thursday and Fri
day.
John and Alfred Street have returned
from Leeds, North Dakota, where each
has taken a claim.
Mrs. J. w. Daubney, of DEBORAH
spent Sunday, the 10th, with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. b. Pike.
Mrs. Clara Battey is in Chicago visit
ing her daughter Mrs. W. r.. Morgan
and attending the Peace Jubilee.
Frank Forbes, of Worth county
speaks in behalf of the republican party
on Wednesday evening at the hall.
G. l.. Potts and family have moved
from Owatonna and are at present
making their home with his mother.
Quarterly meeting at the Friends
church next Saturday and Sunday
Mrs. Louisa Painter Round is expected
to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. .. Casterton were
taken by complete surprise by over
sixty of their friends at recent date to
remind them of their twentieth ami.
versary of their welded life. They
spent very pleasant evening and left
a present to the amount of over TWEEN
ty dollars and wished them many more
happy years together.
Samuel Galusha was born in War
rem Co., New York, July Is, 1893,
and died at his late home In Hesper,
Oct. IS, 1898. When the civil war
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

TO Leonard Scott,
Edgar McAllister, Plyna McAllister, Willard
McAllister-heirs at law of Joshua Nc
Allister. deceased-Adaline Dnnning, Min
erva Coleman, Marshal Field & Co., Calu-
met State Bank, North Star Shoe Co.,
First National Bank of Monroe, Wis, and
+. G. Stearns & Co., ct al. defendants
You and each of you are hereby notified
that there Is now on file In the office of the
Clerk of the District Court of the State of
Iowa. in and for Winnesheik County, a petit
ton of Alfred j. Jewell and Almon w.
Jewell as plaintiffs, claiming the absolute
title in fee simple, to the following described
real estate to-wit: The VIZ of SCI, of section
"a; lots and 2, OF SE14 OF SW14 of said section
"a, and lots and Of the NE14 of SWZ of
said section "a, township 10, north range O.,
west of 9Th P. M. Also block No. in Burr
Oak, and block No. /, Man1ing's addition to
Burr Oak, aforesaid, in Winnesheik county,
Iowa, according to recorded plat thereof, and
asking that plaintiffs estate therein be es-
tablished, and that the above named defend
ant and others may be forever barred and
estopped from having or claiming any right
or title to said premises adverse to plaintiff
and for costs.
Now unless you appear thereto and defend
term of said court to be begun and held at
the court house, In DEBORAH, Iowa, commence
ing Nov. 2Sth, 1898, your default will be enter
ed and judgment and decree rendered as
prayed for in said petition.
GEO. w. ADAMS, Attorney for Plaintiff.
DEBORAH, Iowa, Oct. l4th, 1898.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
CORRESPONDENCE.
News Furnished us by an Excellent
Corps of Writers From Neighbor-
ing Cities and Towns.

1--WE are especially DESTROYS of secur-
ing competent, regular correspondent
from every section of the county not
already represented IN our columns.
We would be pleased to have any who
will take up the work write US, and we
will state our arrangement for cor
respondence, etc.-EDs.
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broke out he enlisted as private in
Co. L, 18th Heavy Artillery, and was
discharged Aug. 2S, 1865. He was a
comrade of Charlotte Post, No. 55, of
New York. He leaves a wife and five
children to mourn the loss of kind
father and husband. The bereaved
family have the sympathy of the COM
munity,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

Late to bed and early to rise, pre-
pares man for his home in the skies.
But early to bed and Little Early
Riser, the pill that makes life longer
and better and wiser. Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
NOTICE IN PROBATE.
To Whom ii May Concern.

To Whom ii May Concern:
You and each of you are hereby notified to
appear at the court house in Winnesheik
county, Iowa. on the 2sth day of November A.
D., 1885, at 1870 O'Clock, p. M, TO attend the pro
bate of an instrument purporting to be the
last will and testament of John w. Humphrey
ty, Iowa, deceased. at which time and place
you will appear and show cause, If any, why
said will should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof have hereunto sub
office, this 18th day of October, 1898.
~ Henry Elvidge,
SEAL Clerk of District Court,
~ By A. l.. Haakenson, Deputy.
35-4
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
For Sale.

I have some of the choicest building
lots in the city for sale. High, terraced
and fronted by mecadamized streets.
J. w. DAUBNEY.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26

The DEBORAH Library Association
will hold its annual meeting on Friday
evening, Oct. 2sth, at eight o'clock, at
the library room. All are cordially in
vited to be present.
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-10-26
A Sample Love Letter.

The following letter is accredited as
being written to one of the soldier boys
at Camp Cuba Libre:
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HOOVER AND CONVERSE.
Two Naval Experts Give Technical,
but Important, Testimony.

Naval Constructor J. B. Hoover appeared
as a witness March 8. His testimony was
very technical describing the various parts
of the ship by number of frame and section.
Summed up, It was that the bottom plates
of the ship at the point Of explosion, the
berth decks over them and the protected
deck had been turned over and forward,
revolving through an angle of 80 degrees.
The six-inch magazine was just below these
pieces of the deck as they originally stood.
Commander G. A. Converse, of the navy,
summoned as witness, testified he had
made a study of the nature and effects of
explosives. The largest quantity of explo-
sives he had ever seen used consisted of
torpedo containing 800 pounds of gunpowder
and 200 pounds of dynamite, all in separate
cases, 100 pounds in each case, securely
dashed together. Being shown blue print
of the forward magazine and shellroom of
the Maine, and asked if one or more of
those should explode or partially explode
it would lift the forward part of the ship
partly out of the water, he replied that he
did not think it would. After a long de-
scription of the effect of torpedoes, he was
asked what his experience was in the case
of the explosion of submarine mine-as to
what became Of the mine. He replied that
they are almost invariably ruptured and
lost, blown up, and pieces of them are rare
ly found. His experience did not allow him
to remember case where he saw any con-
siderable pieces remaining from a sub
marine mine or its iron case after the eX-
Dlosion. On one or two occasions small
fragments of cast iron thrown into a boat
indicated complete demolition of the case
containing the explosive.
When asked If a submarine mine exploded
under the bottom of a ship, and containing
enough explosive to completely destroy mat
part of the ship, would be similarly demol-
ished he replied that the violent explosive
would cut a hole in the ship, blowing out
the part that was cut in smaller fragments.
Being shown sketches of the forward mag
aZines, and asked If their explosion par
tial explosion would leave the bottom of the
Maine in the condition it was in, as shown
ton of the keel of the Maine was too far
forward and too remote from the magazine
to have been caused by their explosion. He
was of opinion that the bending of the
plates on the bottom of the Maine could be
produced by the explosion of a submarine
mine containing large amount of the lower
Xplosive-gunpowder or Similar-not in con-
it, perhaps on the bottom. Continuing, he
said he had never in his experience seen any
interior explosion that was possible to pro-
duce the effect upon the Maine.
do you think that necessarily there must
have been an underwater mine to produce
these explosions
indications are that underwater eXplo-
the reply, with further statements regarding
the impossibility in his opinion, of an in
ternal explosion causing the Names wreck
His testimony was closed.
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PRIVATE ANTHoNY's STORY.
The Marine Whose CaImness Won
Admiration Everywhere.

Admiration Everywhere.
Private William Anthony, of the United
States marine corps, whose calmness at the
time of the explosion in reporting TO Capt.
Sigsbee has become the theme of admira-
ton throughout the world, was the next
witness. He testified that he had the first
watch. from s to II o'clock, on the night of
the explosion. There was drill that day.
and it was not necessary to open the mag
azines. In response to questions, Private
Anthony told his story.
II was standing on the main deck, just
outside the door on the starboard side" he
said. 81 first noticed a trembling and
buckling of the decks and then this pro-
longed roar-not a short report, but pro-
longed roar. The awnings were spread
and where the wing awning and the quar-
ter-deck awning should join there was a
space of at least eighteen inches. l looked
out and saw an immense sheet of flame
and then l started in TO warn the captain. y
Did you notice any perceptible list to
the ship at the first shock?'
AT the first shock the ship instantly
that is, the quarter deck, where was
standing-dipped forward and to port like
this Qndicating), and surged forward and
then went over to port.
Witness said the upshoot of flame he saw
was well forward. 1T must have been for
ward of the superstructure. l could see the
debris going up with it. l did not know
what it was, but i saw firebrands going up
<TWas it on the port or starboard side?"
ut looked more to port than 1t did to star
board 1t looked like it covered the whole
ship. 1t was an immense glare, that
illumined the whole heavens for the moment
as much as / could see for the awnings.
Did you see any water with it,?
Il did not notice that, sir. l started in
the cabin at once.
This closed the brave marines testimony.
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CHIEF GUNNER's MATE OLSEN.
His observations While Diving i'm and
About the Wreck.

His Observations While Diving in and
About the Wreck.
/ Chief Gunner's Mate olsen of the United
States steamer Iowa, told how he had been
sent to Havana for the purpose of doing
diving duty on the wreck. He had descended
four times. making about eight or nine
hours of total examination. Olsen told how
on his first descent he went over the for
ward part of the ship. To use his own ex-
preston, he said, II found the wreck all
bowed up. 1 found lot Of CRATE bars
down there" The second time he went
down further forward and there located
lot of ten-inch shells Forward of these the
plates were bent inboard over them. Asked
if he imagined himself booking forward, he
stated that he did. Going over the plates
he struck into a lot of six-inch shells with
the sings on them. Going to the right wit
ness stated he found lot of wreckage. 1t
seemed to have been blown over the star
board. Olsen stated that he put his hand
into the cranks and brought out several six
FOUNDER shells.
The next time he went down, Olsen tes-
titled, he went outside of the ship forward
of the crane on the port side. He followed
side was blown outboard and alongside the
crane it could be walked on. AT the part
where she is blown up completely, wit
ness said, part of her bottom plates are
turned up. Then you follow the bottom
from there up and the plates are blown
cupboard. At the top and underneath the
bottom they are blown inboard and under
meath the bottom they are blown inboard
and bent in. About three feet forward of
that spot there is piece of iron laid along
the bulkhead. The skin of the inside of the
double bottoms is curled like a sheet OF
paper inboard from stem to stern. Amid
ships on the same place there is an armor
plate, one plate complete, the top of the
plate standing up. The plate is inclined
over the starboard completely. 1t stands up
with the thick part of the plate down. 1t
is inclined forward and over to starboard.
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HENRY DRAINS EVIDENCE.
He Tells About an Anonymous Letter
Received hY General Lee.


Henry Drain, clerk in the United States
consulate, Havana, was. examined as to the
receipt of an anonymous letter received by
the consul general in regard to the explosion
of the Maine. Witness produced the lette-,
the date of which was Feb. Is of the present
year. There was no signature, it being
signed IAN Admirer. Drain said it seemed
to be the document of fairly well-educated
1t was written in Spanish. The
translation was produced and was handed t
the judge advocate and read by him. Th3
letter was referred to in the record as being
marked F. but was not appended. In re-
Spouse to the question as to whether any
thing had been done to ascertain the truth
Of the statements contained i'll the letter, the
witness said that he had. He asked Gen.
Lee to look into the matter and he did not
appear to know what to do, stating he mao
no secret service money. A man by the
name of Pope Taco was mentioned in he
letter. Witness said he had discovered the
whereabouts of the man, and the one to
whom he spoke said the name was mis-
take, that the man mentioned had died
few days before the explosion of the Maine,
and the letter referred to a Pope Barquin,
that he also had died suddenly about two or
three days after the explosion of the Maine.
The witness declared his informant was Mr..
Charles CarbOnell, an American citizen.
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RICHARD WAINWRIGHT.
The Lieutenant Commanders Testi-
mOny, as Given to the Court.

Lieutenant Commander Richard Vain
wright testified that the regulations in re-
gard to paints and inflammables and all
on board ship. Every possible care was
taken to avoid accident All visitors were
scrutinized before being allowed to come on
board. Nobody was allowed TO go about
the ship unaccompanied. Special ''loOkouts''
were required at night. No unauthorized
boats were allowed to approach the ship.
There was fine discipline and obedient crew
office at time of the explosion; felt very
heavy shock and heard noise of falling OBJ
jects on deck. Thought the ship was being
fired upon. Was told by captain to see boats
were lowered. He saw few men coming.
mostly officers He saw no reason to flood
the magazine because water was coming
up. He saw fire forward. Boats began to
crowd around the wreck. He induced boats
to take the wounded to different vessels
He ordered a list taken of the saved and
wounded. There was excellent discipline at
the explosion. Orders were followed with
promptness of a drill. The only order not
obeyed was the order 10 leave the ship. He
first examined the wreck at daylight the
following morning. He took a gig with
Lieutenant Hood and few men and at
tempted to board the wreck. He was
warned off by an armed boats crew of
Spaniards and then pulled around the
wreck. There were still some burning frag-
ments.
On the sixteenth day Lieutenant Com
powder tanks show signs of having been
subjected TO outside pressures as Ii pressed
against the powder inside. and their ends
are also crushed In. ! saw two six-inch
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OTHER WITNESSES.
What Holman, Rundquist, Tarpin
and Blow Told the Court


Lieut. George +. NJ Holman, who per-
formed the duty of avigator and ordnance
officer, and was in charge of the electric
plant testified that all possible precaution
was taken to prevent accident. The temper
ature of the magazines was taken daily.
The electric wires were separated from the
magazine by double plating of glass He
noticed nothing at the time of the explosion
to indicate that anything was the matter
with the electric works. The examiner re-
ferred to Holman's large experience in mat
tiers of explosives, and asked his impression
of the whole affair. lie said My impress
sion not yet verified by divers findings. is
that a very heavy mine went off under the
Names bottom. The noise produced by a
heavy mine would be great in itself, and
adding to the second explosion would make
the two practically one and the same explo-
sion"
Gunner's Mate Carl Rundquist, one of the
divers, said he went down in the after part
Of the tsn-inch magazine and found q lot
OF empty ten-inch powder tanks dozens of
them with pieces blown in all directions.
They did not look as If ghey had been ex-
poded by charge inside. II looked as IL
a high pressure from the outside had opened
them mp. The ragged edges of the ship
We're bent inboard The bottom of the ship
was all blown up. Found ii hole I'm the
bottom OF the ship. Looked as II she was
blown up froEt the outside, because no ex-
plosive from the Inside could make a hole
like that; the pieces of arnaOr plates also
showed they were blown from the outside,
from the way they were bent"
Rundquist being recalled. testified to the
progress of his exploration He went down
March | on the port side, and found the
Continued en- sixth PaEel
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cATLIN, BOWERS, CHADWICK.
Evidence Given by a Lieutenant, En-
gineer and Chaplain.

gineer and Chaplain.
Lieutenant A. w. Catlin, who was in
charge of the marine guard, said that when
the ship went into the harbor, two extra
night sentinels were put on, one in the
forecastle and one in the poop, armed with
rifles. They had special orders to challenge
all boats which approached the ship near
enough for challenge. There was a picked
man on the port gangway. The corporars
guard inspected the ship lights below
every half hour the patrol taking his place
while gone. Mr.. Catlin said he visited the
sentries twice every night once before and
once after midnight. while in the harbor
at Havana and always found them vigilant
and attending to business. He was sitting
in his room at the time of the explosion.
He heard a dull sound, loud concussion
and felt the shaking of the ship. The
lights went out and he went on deck and
as he did so the whole heavens were full
of sparks There was no flame and he felt
but one shock.
Passed Assistant Engineer Bowers senior
assistant engineer TO the chief, was exam
ined particularly as to the precautions taxi
EN- on board the Maine against spontaneous
combustion. He said the order had been to
inspect the bunkers every day and log
them. In the case of the bunkerS that had
an escape door they had always opened
those doors. He was on duty on the day
before the explosion. The coal i'm bunker A.
he said. had been stored either in Norfolk
or Newport News There was about forty
tons of ii and IL was soft coal. The bunkers
Immediately aft were empty The door lead
ing from the bunker to the ten-inch loading
room was kept closed. The after boilers
he said, were practically banked and were
in good condition, and he did not consider
that there was any danger of their having
too much pressure in for safety on the
evening of the explosion. Mr. Bowers said
there had never been a fire from spontan-
eous combustion in the bunkers They had
once thought they had such a fire, but 1t
was from leaky exhaust pipe from the
Ice machine.
Chaplain John Chadwick. of the Maine.
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was in his room on board the night of the
occurrence. He said: Il heard a loud re-
port and everything at once became dark
The lights went out ard there was crash
ing sound of things falling. | rushed on
deck and got to the captains poop, where
| saw the captain giving his orders, After
trying to cheer up the men who were cry
ing out in the water for help. | was ordered
by Lieutenant Jungen to go into boat,
which / did. He rowed around the ship
and picked up one man. Then at the rders
of the captain we pulled for the City of
Washington Asked how many shocks he
felt. witness said he remembered only one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-29
He Heard SPaniar ds Plotting to Blow
I'm the Battle ship.

A witness was introduced whose name
was suppressed by agreement between him
and the court. He had to talk through an
interpreter This witness was crossing
about half past Z O'Clock on the morning
of the 18th, from Havana to Reglas, on
ferry boat. He was sitting near three Span
ish officers, two Of the army. one of the
navy. and citizen They were talking
said: THAT is nearly arranged" The citi-
zen asked if making explosions in thee bay
would not endanger havana. The oft1cer
said no. 1t was arranged so that it could
simply explode open the vessel and she
joyously exclaimed. Il will take plenty of
beer on that OCCASION" Some one came by
and they suddenly stopped the CONVERSE
ton. They had said it was a shame she
Che Maine) should be in the harbor, and
they would blow her up anyhow.
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AN UNKNOWN WITNESS.

tanks that were opened at the seams and
were pressed down fiat as If by exertcntof
considerable force
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had already sailed. She arrived next day.
and Lee reported her arrival to the State
Department.
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MRS. RORERS
ARTICLES

in this number are of special in
terest to mothers. Under the
title of i" Proper Cooking for the
Nursery she tells what the tiny
folks must not eat-as well as
how to prepare their proper foods,
" The Best Food for a Growing
Child" continues the story for the
babies who have grown into little
men and little women.
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