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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
Iowa Patent once Report.

Dies MONIES, Feb. 2.-Ten patents
were issued last week to Iowa invent
ors by the acting commissioner. In
the Court of Appeals Judge Morris has
recently given the following: "The
fact that party does not know that a
rival has entered the field is no excuse
for delay, since the risk that rival
may appear at any time is something
which any inventor is bound to con-
template and to anticipate, and in this
lies the fundamental reason for the re-
quirement of due diligence"
The earlier an inventor can complete
his invention and get his application
for patent on record in the United
States Patent office, the better. When,
however, the invention is not complete
but shows patentable invention we can
prepare and file applications incom-
plete and add improvements within a
year from the date of fling SO that the
record evidence will afford good de-
gree of protection to the first and ear
lest part of an invention to which i'm
provements are subsequently made to
perfect it.
A number of such applications for
different subjects have been filed by
us in the U. s. Patent Office this week
and will await further actions of the
inventors to complete and prosecute
their claims.
Valuable information about obtain
ing, valuing and selling patents sent
free to any address.
THOMAS G.. ORwIG e. Co.,
Solicitors of Patents
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
BREVITIES.

The public prosecutor at Madrid de-
mands a sentence upon Lieutenant
General Weyler of two months i'm
prisonment.
After hot debate, the Kentucky
house of representatives few days ago
adopted a resolution calling on United
States Senator Lindsay to resign if he
cannot support the money plank in the
Chicago platform.
Columbus dispatch: Before the senate
committee investigating the charges Of
bribery in connection with the recent
senatorial election, Representative Otis
and his attorney, Thos. G. Campbell,
testified that General Boyce, who
claimed to represent j. Pierpont Nor.
gan, of New York, and President Nc.
Kinley, had offered $4,000 to secure
Otis's vote for Hanna, and that $1,75C
had been paid to bind the bargain,
S1,75O to be paid later, and Sc, 500 to be
forthcoming upon the election OF
Hanna. There was nothing in the
evidence to show that Hanna or any of
his managers were parties to the
bribery.
A dispatch received from Chez Foo
gives the details of the killing OF
number of German sailors by the
Chinese. A sailor named Schulz, be-
longing to the cruiser Kaiser, was
assassinated by the Chinese rabble
while on outpost duty at Tsimo, the
extreme German post at Kiao Chou
Bay. The head was severed from the
body. When the crime was discovered
by the relieving corporal and the guard
they were also attacked by hundreds
of the natives. The guards defended
themselves as best they could, but it is
reported all were killed after they had
killed twelve Chinese. The greatest
excitement prevails at Kiao Chou. 1t
is believed the incident will form the
basis of further German demands on
China.
THE majority report of the senate
committee on privileges and elections
in the Corbett case was presented to
the senate a few days ago by Senator
McCaffery. The committee recon-
mends that Mr.. Corbett be not given a
seat in the senate. The Oregon legis-
lature, the report says, deliberately
refused TO perform any of the functions
which they were charged with, one of
the most important being the election
of a successor to Senator Mitchell, and
the precedents are against the seating
of an appointee when the legislature
has had an opportunity to elect. Mr..
Hoar presented the minority report,
sustaining Mr.. Corbetts claim to seat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
AGAINST AMERICAN FRUITS.
Prussian Minister Of Finance Issues Pro
hibitory Decree.


BERLIN, Feb. 3.-The Prussian min
lister of finance has issued decree pro
hibiting the importation of every kin6
of American fresh fruit on the ground
that California and other vermir
threaten the German trees and fruit
Sixteen thousand barrels of apples
were forbidden to be unloaded at Ham
burgl and two train loads of Ameri.
can fruit were forbidden to cross the
frontier at Emerich. United States
Ambassador White has sent an ener.
getic protest to the foreign Office.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Further adj
vices have been received from Ambas.
sador White as to the nature of the de-
cree excluding American fruits from
Germany. The important facts that
were established by the last advices
were: First-That the decree of ex.
clusion uses the word American" as
descriptive of the place of origin of the
fruit, which would seem to include
Canadian fruit without question.
Second-That the decree instead OF
applying only to fresh fruit, as was at
first supposed, includes in the prohibi-
ton all dried fruits from America. 1t
is gathered that the basis of the decree,
or rather the reason officially to be set
out by the Prussian government for the
exclusion, is that some shipments of
American apples, coming from Cali
fornia, have been discovered to be
affected with the disease known
as the San Jose scale, but just
how German apples are endangered,
even if this fact should be
established, is not made plain.
State department officials have not
yet recovered from their surprise at the
method adopted by the German gov
eminent of accomplishing it's object
in this matter, and undoubtedly the
correspondence to follow will set this
out very clearly. 1t is said to be en-.
tirely without precedent, and discount.
eous toward the American ambassador
at Berlin, to make the decree and put
it into effect without the slightest
warning to him and stopping all fruit
in transit, thereby working great in.
justice to shippers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
IOWA MURDER MYSTERY.
John Brennan is Found Dead In Bed at
Dysart.

John Brennan is Found Dead In Bed at
Dysart.
CEDAR FALLS, Feb. 1.-The dead
body of John Brennan, of Dysart, has
been found in the quarters of Shorty
Sweeney, with whom Brennan was
last seen alive. The cause of his
death is indicated by marks on the
stomach, where Brennan had appar-
emily received hard blow. When
found the body was lying on bed,
life having been extinct for some time.
According to Sweeney's story he and
Brennan, in company with John Ahlers
and Jack Mathieson, had been together
at Sweeney house and at the time i'm
bibed considerable liquor. While in a
state of partial intoxication Brennan
and one other of the party engaged in
hard scuffle. Shortly after Brennan
disappeared in company with others
and was not seen again by Sweeney
until he found the dead body as des-
cribed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
DOUBLE IOWA MURDER.
Mrs. Fannie Rathburn and Daughter KILL
ed at Burlington.

BURLINGTON, Jan. 31.-The dead
bodies af Mrs. Fanny Rathburn and
her 12-year-old daughter Mary were
found frozen stiff in pools of blood at
their home just west of the city. The
woman had been struck in the head
with an AK, which was found leaning
against nearby wall. Her head was
split open. The body of the child waa
found in bedroom with her throat
cut from ear to ear. Proof of terri
BILE struggle for life was visible on all
sides. 1t is thought the crime was
committed nearly week ago, as the
woman had not been seen since that
time, the neighbors thinking they had
gone to the country. Four men have
been arrested, being men who had
visited her from the neighborhood of
Greenbay township.
BURLINGTON, Feb. Abe Stormer,
one of the parties under arrest for the
crime, confessed to Chief of Police
Grenier and the county attorney, after
a long siege in the sweat-box, that he
murdered Mrs. Fanny Rathburn and
her daughter Mary, giving the complete
details. He says he killed the mother
first, in the cellar, and then enticed
the little girl into the bedroom above,
and, after an attempt to outrage her,
cut her throat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

Good and healthy girls are almost
always cheerful. No novelist would
consider his youthful heroine complete
II ringing laugh" were omitted from
the list of her charms; and in real life
the girls who do not laugh now and
then are seldom trusted or liked by
their companions. Even beauty will
not save them. A belle who fails to
understand the jest of her admirers
and smiles in amiable bewilderment
while other people are laughing is soon
left with no consolation save to Won
der what anybody can see in her rival
"a girl with ''tip-tilted" nose perhaps,
and a large mouth and freckles, but
the happy possessor Of a pair Of merry
eyes and cheerful mind. The gift Of
gayety is indeed of great value; but
it must be gayety which originates in
a kind and CHEEKY heart, not that
which is born of mere excitement Or
gratified vanity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
SPAIN WILL BE, ASKED TO PAY
Claim of $4,000 for the Killing of DIR.
Ricardo Ruiz.

New YORK, Feb. 3.-According to the
Washington correspondent of the Her
aid another demand is to be made upon
Spain for the payment of $4,000 in
demnity to the widow of DR.. Ricardo
Ruiz for the murder of her husband in
Guanabacoa Jail. The state depart
ment is preparing an instruction to
Minister Woodford, which will be sent
to that official in few days, in which
he will be directed to call the attention
of the minister of foreign affairs to the
fact that this claim was presented last
summer; that it has not yet been paid,
nor, in fact, has detailed answer been
received to the note addressed to the
late Minister Canovas. The only reply
made has been formal acknowledge
ment of the receipt of the claim. There
is reason to believe the instructions
which the department is preparing will
be more vigorous in character than
those submitted last summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
ARE you no LIVE IN alaska
Some Requirements That VIII BE Found
Indispensable.


Indispensable.
The universal article Of diet in that
country, depended upon and indispens-
able, is bread or biscuit. And to make
the bread and biscuit, either in the
camp or upon the trail, yeast cannot be
used-it must be baking powder; and
the powder manufactured by the pro-
cesses of the Royal Baking Powder
Company, miners and prospectors have
learned, is the only one which will
stand in that peculiar climate Of cold
and dampness and raise the bread and
biscuit satisfactorily.
These facts are very important for
every one proposing to go to Alaska
and the Yukon country to know, for
should he be persuaded by some out
filter to take one Of the cheap brands
Of baking powder, it will cost just as
much to transport it, and then when
he opens it for use, after all his labor
in packing it over the long and difficult
route, he will find a solid caked mass
or lot of spoiled powder, with no
strength and useless. Such a mistake
might lead to the most serious results.
Alaska is no place in which to expert
ment in food, or try to economic with
your stomach. For use in such
climate, and under the trying and
fatiguing conditions of life and labor
in that country, everything must be
the best and most useful. and above
all it is imperative that all food sup
plies shall have perfect keeping quail
ties. 1t Is absurd to convey over such
difficult and expensive routes an arti-
that will be found when required for
use to have lost a great part of It's
value.
There is no better guide to follow in
these matters than the advice Of those
who have gone through similar expert
ence. Mr.. McQuesten, who is called
"the father of Alaska" after an expert
ence of years upon the trail, in the
camp, and in the use OF every kind of
supply, says: 1--WE find in Alaska that
the importance of a proper kind Of
baking powder cannot be overesti-
mated. A miner with a can Of bad
baking powder is almost helpless in
Alaska. We have tried all sorts. and
have been Obliged to settle down to use
nothing but the Royal. 1t is stronger
and carries further at first, but above
all things, it Is the only powder that
will endure the severe climatic changes
of the arctic region"
1t is for the same reasons that the
United States government in its RELIEF
expeditions. and Peary, the famous
arctic traveller, have carried the Royal
Baking Powder exclusively.
The Royal Baking Powder will not
cake nor lose its strength either on
board ship or in damp climates. and is
the most highly concentrated and eff
cient of leavening agents. Hence 1t Is
indispensable to every Alaskan outfit.
It can be had of any of the trading
companies in Alaska. but should the
miner procure his supplies before leav-
ing, he should resist every attempt Of
the outf1tter to palm off upon him any
of the other brands of baking pow
der, for they will spoil and prove the
cause of great disappointment and
trouble.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
SHERIFF MARTINS TRIAL.
Great Interest In the Trial OF the Onicer
Who Ordered Strikers Killed.

VINO OTOeTeu SUrlheTS hhIcus
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. 3.-Not since
the trials of the Molly McGuire,s has a
case attracted so much attention in the
coal regions as that of Sheriff Martin
and his 50 deputies, which has begun
in the Luzerne county court. The
prosecution committee, which had it's
headquarters at Hazleton, claims to
have sufficient evidence to convict if
teen of the defendants. 1t is alleged
that everyone of the fifteen made
threats on the morning of the shooting.
1t is also claimed that Sheriff Martin
had an understanding with the depn-
ties. 1t has been claimed all along
that the sheriff never gave the order to
fire. The prosecution say that this
may be true in one sense of the word,
but the sheriff gave signal which was
just as effective as a word of mouth
order. The signal was for the sheriff
to pull his revolver. The instant he
did this the posse was to fire. The
lawyers for the defense say no witness
SEES will be found to testify to such facts
but the attorneys for the prosecution
say there will be
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

Rev. Edith Booker is delivering
lecture through Kansas on What Is a
Man," A man, dear Edith, is ten
der, shrinking creature, whose wide
fawn eyes look out into the great whirl
about him with startled inquiry-an
innocent, trusting dove, nesting upon
the neck Of hard world-a sweet field
flower, lifting up its face for the sun
shine Of your womanly affection. That
is what man is, Edith. You your
self are the sturdy oak. Don't forget
that.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

The Manchester Guardian, which
has the reputation of being one of the
best informed of English journals,
gives the world to understand that
John Bull is still doing business at
the same old stand, and proposes to
protect his patents and copyrights with
his accustomed intelligence and vigor.
All he demands now is that, if China
is hanged, drawn and quartered, he
shall have slice for every slice taken
by every other power. For example,
Germany grabs, then England grabs as
much; Russian takes something, then
England takes a portion; France abb
serbs province, then England appro-
PIRATES one equally as large and pow
erful.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

The dogs in the United States kill
nearly per cent Of the sheep of the
country every year. They killed more
than 100000 sheep in the year ending
June 1, 1890, when the last statistics in
regard to the flocks were gathered.
The damage done by them is greater
than that from any other cause except
unexpected storms, in which whole
focks Of sheep are killed, and disease.
In six states more damage was done
to the fiocks of sheep by dogs than
by anything else. In Florida 1888
sheep were killed by dogs. and only
ALSO by the weather and disease. The
number killed by dogs was about 8
per cent of the total number of sheep
In the state. The Florida sheep are
not exposed to such changes In tenn
perature as those ON the farms in Ne
vada, where 128,850 died of cold and
disease. Only 1872 sheep were killed
by dogs in Nevada In the census year.
The enormous number of deaths from
changes in the weather was due to
unprecedented storms, which caught
the breeders unprepared and almost
halved their fiocks. In South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and
Arkansas dogs do moro damage to the
sheep than anything else, and more
than weather conditions and disease
combined. In Massachusetts,. Rhode
Island and Connecticut the number Of
deaths in the fiocks due to dogs is al
most the same as that due to disease
and the weather. The record is al
most as bad in all other states where
dogs and sheep are caught
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
THE NEWS IN IOWA.
PAY TAXES UNDER PROTEST.
Insurance Companies Are Paying Their
Taxes Under Protest.

Insurance Companies Are Paying Their
Taxes Under Protest.
Dies MONIES, Feb. "A short time
ago the attorney general in response
to request from the auditor of state
for an opinion as to whether, under
the new law, insurance companies are
to be taxed on their gross receipts for
The whole year of 1897 or for only that
portion of the year after October 1, the
date the code went into effect, decided
that the companies should be taxed
upon the gross receipts of the whole
year. The companies are paying their
taxes under this ruling, but many of
them are doing SO under protest and
are insisting the receipt for their taxes
be endorsed by the state treasurer
"paid under protest" AS to whether
or not the insurance companies intend
to carry the matter into the courts it
is not known, but it is clearly evident
that they intend to take some action
in the premises.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
Coroner,s Jury Censures.

MARsHALLTOwN, Feb. 4.-The coro-
ner's jury sitting on the case of Mrs.
Mary Rumbaugh, who died after being
treated by X. c. Roberts, a Christian
scientist healer, returned the following
verdict, which leaves the question open
to further prosecution, if desired:
"Said jurors, upon oath, do say that
we have taken testimony in the case of
Mrs. Mary Rumbaugh, and are satisfied
that she came to her death from heart
disease, but we censure her brother,
Gregory Granville, and DR.. X. C. Rob-
erts, for neglect of proper medical
attention"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

Rational protests against legislative
invasions of personal liberty are never
untimely. The disposition to run to
the legislature for law to cure evils
that are not to be cured in that way is
a growing thing. In vast majority
OF instances law to cure an evil af-
fecting private persons causes graver
faults than it is intended to cure. 1t
Is nonsense to say officials will never
take wrong advantage Of unwarranted
authority placed in their hands. HUI
man nature has not changed in all
the centuries and men are as ready to
abuse or usurp authority now as at
any time in this worlds history.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

Moral beauty cannot co-exist wl,n
radical defects of principle. The char
acter that is unable to resist tempt
alton, or unwilling to stick faithfully
to duty, is no more truly beautiful,
whatever be it's generous impulses or
amiable traits, than a figure which
cannot support it's own weight. Parts
or 1t may be admirable; but, as a
whole, a unity, it cannot be rightly
called a beautiful character, for it
lacks the foundation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
SUFFRAGE DISCUSSION.

Hearing on the Question Held Before the
Senate and House Committees.
DIES MONIES, Feb. AT meeting
of the house and senate committees on
woman suffrage large number of Ia
dies of prominence were in attendance.
Speeches were made in favor of suf-
frage by Mrs. Evelyn Belden, of Sioux
City; Mrs. Mary G. Coggeshall, presi-
dent of the Des Moines Equal Suffrage
Club; Mrs. Nellie Purcell, of Des
Moines; Mrs. Prof. Wright, of Cedar
Falls; Miss Hay, of San Francisco.
Speeches were made against the mea-
sure by Miss Emile Stowe, Mrs. Martin
Flynn, Mrs. II. A. Foster, of Des
MOines
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
CAN ALL HAVE A DAILY.

Farmers Should Get Mail Every Day.
Dies MONIES, Feb. by taking turns
in going to the postoffice, leaving mail
in boxes along the highways, farmers
can have daily papers and know as
much about the markets as townspeo-
pie do. The movement in this direction,
started in Van Buren, county a few
years ago, has been greatly stimulated
by the reduction of the Des Moines
Daily News to 81 year, placing it in
every farmers reach.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
Mangled by a Mining Machine.

CENTERvILLE, Feb. Tim Higgin-
botham, while running an electric
mining machine in Bakers mine, had
his right hand torn off by getting it
caught in a cog-wheel in the machine.
His arm was almost torn from his body,
so terrible was his effort to free him
self from the machine. Had he not
torn himself loose he would have been
ground to pieces in few moments.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
FADS IN FLOWERS.

Florists shops abroad are much Diff
ferent from the ones in this
country. In London. for ex-
ample. funeral freaths and en-
blems are displayed in the windows.
with their prices attached. Some are
attractive. others very hideous. Lichen
Is fashionable there for crosses and
wreaths. and from this grisly-gray
background Gala lilies and white roses
peer.
Set pieces. the gates ajar." broken
columns and floral pillows. are always
painful, for, in the first place. the nat
ural grace and beauty of the flowers IS
destroyed, and in the next there Is no
excuse for the emblems. Flowers for
the dead should be scattered in care
less handfuls-then only are they COM
forters, with their graceful beauty un-
impaired. The modern custom Of add
ing to q death notice the words,
Friends will please omit flowers, may
be traced to the reluctance of the sur
vivors to be confronted with those
CHASTITY set pieces which have ragged 30
long.
The best artists have always recog-
MID that flowers should be allowed to
arrange themselves. Basketfuls, arm
fuls or great punches of loose flowers
are justifable. but crushing their beau
ty into any systematized outline is un-
forgivable. Florists abroad have q
frightful habit of making up" bouton-
niers for mems coats. and these bunohes
Of three or four violets spray Of fern
and q branch of forget-me-nots are
seen on the lapels Of the men who do
not appreciate true fitness. A single
gardenia tuberose or a knot of mig
nonette is better than one of these hor-
rible mixtures.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09
The Bible prohibits perjury against

The Bible prohibits perjury against
God and against man and forbids SLAM
der. SANDER is defamation of charac-
ter, malicious gossip, injurious talk
against ones neighbor. 1t is the in
vention and propagation of an evil re-
port. A fool can give currency to re-
port that will villify prince. No
sword bites so fiercely as an evil
tongue. SANDER cuts honest Threats by
whispers. SANDER is the pestilence
which RACES at MONDAY, an arrow
which is shot in the dark, the revenge
Of O coward.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-02-09

Compressed air will soon replace
steam as the motive power of a wooden
mill in Almonte, Ontario.
In Wetzel county, West Virginia,
there is gas well from which the roar
of escaping gas can be heard at a dis
tance of six miles.
Elephants are transported on the
railroads of India at the rate of six
cents mile. Each elephant is allowed
to carry one trunk.
The editor of paper in Jackson, Ga,
announces that in payment of sub
scriptions he is willing to accept "Any
digestible fruit, except Goldfish and
grindstones.