Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-16
IOWA CONDENSED.

Fire at Ottumwa recently completely
| destroyed the stock of the Hub Cloth
| ing Company, causing loss of SO, 900.
PAllister Bros, cigar manufacturers,
| who occupied the second floor, sustain.
ed loss of $1,000, and the building
| owned by B. Hoffman was damaged
| $1,000. The loss is covered by insur-
| ance. The cause is unknown
Des Moines dispatch: Henry Wal
lace has begun suit for $50, 900 damages
for alleged libel against James Pierce
and the Homestead. Mr.. Pierce, who
is editor of the Homestead. on two
occasions, Octobers, 1897, and February
IS, 1898, charged Mr.. Wallace, who is
editor of Wallaces Farmer. with hav-
ing been bribed for 81 900 to advocate
the gold standard during the national
campaign of 1896.
Charles Gerber, refined and edu-
Gated German, is in Jail at Council
Bluffs for obtaining money on worth
less drafts. He has secured cash inf
small amounts from many tradesmen
the city Jail he broke down. He said
between sobs that he was 62 years old.
his home address is 314 Fulton street
Brooklyn, N. Y; that he is connected
with the firm of Gerber e Co. of that
city and that his sons are well to do.
At Cedar Rapids recently Alfred S.
Healey, stenographer in the general
Offices of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
81 Northern road, shot Miss Libbie
Brauschand twice, once over the heart
and again in the breast, killing her
instantly, and then, turning the re-
volver on himself, sent bullet through
his head just above the temple. There
is no cause known for the tragedy.
Healey has been boarding and rooming
at the Brauschand home since last
September, but so far as known he and
the girl were not lovers and had not
been known to have had any trouble.
The girl was not yet Is years old. She
and Healey had just returned from
church, whittier they had been accom-
panied by the girls mother and "a
young woman friend. Healey is dead.
Judge Holmes, of the district court
of Polk county. has sustained the
motion of Attorney General Remley to
strike from the answer OF ex-Secretary
of State w. M. Mcfarland those por-
tions which refer to the executive
council of the state. The suit of the
attorney general was against Mr.. Nc
Farland to recover for misdoings
alleged in the petition to have been
done by Mcfarland in his capacity as
secretary of state. Mcfarland, in his
answer, set up that the executive
council had directed him to pay census
clerks such salaries and to do things of
which the attorney general complained
and that only as member of the
executive council was he responsible
for his acts as secretary of state. The
attorney general thereupon moved to
strike out the parts of the answer
which related to the executive council.
Judge Holmes has sustained the
motion. 1t is victory for the state.
S25, 200 to loan at once upon improved
town properties. Good agents wanted.
Iowa Deposit & Loan Co.. Des Mones, la
At Osceola recently Fred Sizecoad
was convicted by jury in Judge
Towner's court of an attempt to wreck
passenger train No. on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad on the
night of December last, and sentenc-
ed to the penitentiary for life. Frank
Jackman, arrested for completely in
the crime entered a plea of guilty aft
err Sizecoad's conviction, and received
the same sentence. The attempt to
wreck the train was made two and one
half miles west of Murray and endan-
gered the lives of EGO persons. The
motive for the crime was robbery.