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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
ALASKAN SEA HORROR.
Bark Helen w. Almy Goes Down With
Forty Persons Aboard.

BARK helen W. Amy GOeb DOWn Win
Forty Persons Aboard.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 27.-No news
has been received of another horrible
accident, indirectly attributed to the
Alaskan gold excitement, which is be-
lieved to have cost the lives of forty
passengers and sailors. Captain Alex
ander, of the Santa Rosa, reported that
while nine miles off Point Bonita, at
the mouth of the golden Gate, he
sighted a direlict, bottom upwards.
The tug, Sea Witch, was Immediately
dispatched to the point indicated and
found the direlict to be Helen w. AL
my, Captain Hogan, which sailed hence
for Copper river points with twenty
seven passengers and crew of thir-
teen on the Goth. The bark lay upon
her starboard with her stern low down
in the water, her deck hamper badly
wrecked and several planks of her hull
washed loose by the seas which broke
over her. While there were no signs
of boats among the wrecl1age, it is not
believed that her passengers and crew
escaped by putting off from. heavy sea
for several uays.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
ALL OVER THE WORLD
LAND NOW DISPOSED OF.
Second and Final Decision in the OBrien
County Land Case.

County Land Case.
Washington dispatch: Secretary
Bliss rendered the second opinion on
contests over the lands within the
limits of the Sioux City e. Pacific rail-
road grant in O'Brien county, Iowa.
This case was that of Schneider VS..
Linkswiller ct al. Schneider pur-
chased the land in controversy from the
railroad company in 1888, and in Janu-
airy, 1896, filed notice of his intention to
purchase the land in accordance with
the notice of the department after the
decision of the supreme court holding
the land 10 be forfeited to the govern
ment. He claimed the land under the
act of March 3, 1887. as purchaser in
good faith from the company. Link
swiller and others made homestead en-
try on the land in February, at the
the time of the opening under depart
mental instructions. The local regis
trar decided in favor of Schneider.
This decision was reversed by the land
commissioner. The secretary of the
interior overruled the latter and
awarded the land to Schneider, as
an innocent purchaser under the for
fixture act of 1897. This decision in
favor of the purchaser and the former
decision in favor of the settler will de-
termine the disposition of a number of
contests involving about $4,000 acres
of land declared forfeited by the SUI
preme court.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
IOWA CONDENSED.

At Scranton recently fire broke out
in Cresser's elevator at midnight. The
building and contents of lumber and
grain were entirely consumed. The
loss was partially covered by insur-
ance. Prompt action by the fire de-
partment stopped the spread of the
flames to adjoining buildings and lum-
Der yards.
John +. Hahn, a farmer who resid-
ed mile north of Anthem, was chop
ped to death few nights ago with an
AK. His wife is under arrest charged
with the crime. Before justice she
was placed under $1,000 bonds. 1t
seems that while Hahn was asleep in
bed some one took an ak and struck
him three times in the head and once
in the arm, terribly mutilating the
victim. No evidence of struggle was
found, and it is thought that the first
blow was fatal. Immediately after
the commission of the crime became
known Mrs. Hahn was arrested. She
duu IldlH WcIt iiIuTTlcU StNtTdl months
ago, and it is said they have quarreled
continuously.
S25, 900 to loan at once upon improved
town properties. Good agents wanted.
Iowa Deposit & Loan Co., Des Mones, Ia
Dubuque dispatch; The verdict of
the coroners jury was to the effect
that VIM. O. Layal<e came TO his death
from shock and hemorrhage produced
by gunshot wounds feloniously infict-
ed, and recommend that John McGear-
ey be held to appear before the grand
jury. The father of the murdered
man appeared at the Jail and asked to
see the alleged murderer of his son.
The request was granted and the old
man looked long and fixedly at Me-
Gearey. His face paled, but he made
no outward demonstration, as he
promised the sheriff he would not.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
CORRUPTION IN QUAKER CITY.
Councilman Confesses Bribery and I'm
plicates Others.

Councilman Confesses Bribery and I'm
plicates Others.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-What
promises to develop into the ugliest
political scandal ever inflicted upon
the city of Philadelphia was revealed
in court, when one member of the
council confessed the acceptance of a
bride; another was accused of a like
offense, and two others were charged
with offering the brides. The whole
affair grows out of the ordinance
offered in councils to lease the city
water works to the Schuylkill Valley
Water Company, and the alleged
attempt by Nelson G Green, of New
York, representing the company, to
obtain favorable report from the
water committee by the payment of
between SIS, 900 and $2O,O
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
SPAIN'S TORPEDO FLOTILLA.
1t Has Left the Canary Islands for
Porto Rico.


Porto Rico.
WASHINGTON. March est is said
President Mckinley still has hopes of
avoiding hostilities. He is inclined to
regard the Mains l rs, affair If as an incident,
to secure peace in Cuba by L "i.a ''e
negotiations with Spain. Despite the
presidents pacific utterances, as report
ed by senators who have talked with
him, unusual preparations for war are
being made. The Spanish torpedo
boat fiotilla has started from the Can
airy islands to Cuba and the American
navy is being placed on a war footing.
Admiral Sicard has been retired on ac-
count of disability. He is succeeded
by Captain Sampson of the Iowa and
Fighting Bob" Evans succeeds to the
command of the Iowa. Commodore
Schley will command the flying squad
ron at Hampton roads.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Whoever thinks art an easy mistress
let him study biography. One OF the
foremost of American actors recently
told an audience of young men that
for something like seven years he was
almost on the verge Of starvation.
Night after night, after the play he
would invest one of his few pennies in
hot baked potatoes. put them In his
pockets. and after warming his hands
on them would swallow them. Sargent
and l." said famous painter and
sculptor to an art student. as he cor
rected her drawing, spent some
months in Spain when We were young
artists. We were very, very poor. Sar-
gent could talk better Spanish than /,
SO he went out and bought the beans.
and I cooked them. Beans were all we
had to eat" Yet Mansfield and Sar-
gent and Duveneck, like thousands OF
other brave and successful men, have
persisted against terrible odds, until
success was assured.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Sir Robert Peel of England, who re-
fuses to fight an American who calls
him liar and swindler, because the
American is not his equal socially, is
not such a stickler for the proprieties
as he assumes to be. One surmises
that, anyhow, because he refuses to
return borrowed money, steals pictures
that belong to the estate Of his prede-
cessors, and has written bad book
wherein he is chiefly successful in con-
Tossing himself a scoundrel and ped
dler of other peoples condolences.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

A young woman went into a large
goods store not long ago and began
counter. On being arrested, she said
quietly that having no home but the
streets, she preferred to spend the
night in prison. The incident empha-
sizes President Eliot's recent caution
to would-be philanthropists. Hospitals
and asylums and reformatories are but
necessary palliatives of developed evil;
whereas churches, schools, museums,
gardens, gymnasia are instruments Of
moral construction, and to train a
child to avoid evil and pauperism is
better than to help the adult out OF
those conditions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

The experience of the fifth century
is to repeated on more extended
scale. The outer barbarians were 1ali-
ing upon the Chinese empire as they
did upon it's Roman predecessor. An
unwarlike civilization is succumbing 10
assailants whom it despises, but whom
it cannot resist. And as at least Tour
Roman empires could be cut out OF
China, the collapse that we are W.T.
messing is one whose like the world
has never seen before.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Fire at Barnum.

FORT DODGE, March 23.-Barnuln, a
small town west of here, was visited
by disastrous fire. About a. IN. a
building which is owned by P. Il. Con-
nors and occupied by the drug firm of
John H. Dean & Co., was discovered in
flames. The fire spread to the adjoin-
ing building, owned by John Dwyer
and occupied by millinery stock.
Both buildings and stocks We're totally
destroyed. The loss will amount to
over S.. 900.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
MUCH RELIEF is NEEDED.
Spasmodic Efforts to Help the Cubans
Are Useless.

SpasmOuic EnOrts to Help the Cubans
Are Useless.
New YORK, March 23.-Dr. Louis
Klopsch, now in Cuba in charge of the
American relief work, cables from
Havana to the Christian Herald: 1.-The
situation is simply this: Two hundred
and five thousand reconcentradoes in
over 400 accessible towns are helplessly
destitute. Unless we can get regularly,
without a break, 300 tons of corn meal
and fifty tons of lard or bacon every
week, we cannot effectively relieve the
suffering. Spasmodic and unsystematic
efforts defeat all good intentions.
Canned goods are useless and con-
densed milk should be substituted.
Fifteen thousand dollars weekly will
feed every man, woman and child in
Cuba. Small, irregular shipments are
only tantalizing."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

The opposition to the press brought
out by the press-gag bill at Albany is
astonishing. But for the press very
few of these opponents of legitimate
business would ever have been heard
of; and their impatience at the right
of fair as we'll as unfair criticism shows
the press in politics is perhaps NO. as
great as has been claimed; but there
ought to be some results from this in
Justice.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Farmer BADLY Injured.

ROLAND, March 23.-John p. Harm
don, a well known farmer living south
of Roland, was thrown from his milk
wagon while his team was running
and seriously injured. An ugly scalp
wound was inflicted and two of the
fingers on his left hand were broken
and the flesh torn from third. 1t is
thought that the scalp wound, in which
about four square inches of the scalp is
torn from the skull, will not prove
fatal
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
REPORT IN WASHINGTON.
Lieutenant Commander Mark Arrives
With the Important Document.

Lieutenant Commander Mark Arrives
With the Important Document.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The report
of the naval board of inquiry into the
Maine disaster was received in Wash
ington at 9:35 o'clock last night. The
four naval officers who have guarded
it watch and watch since its departure
from Key West were hustled at once
into carriage by an attache of the
navy department and driven to the
Ebbitt House. The party consisted of
Lieutenant Commander Mark, Lieu
tenant John Hood, Lieutenant Carl
Jungen, Past Assistant Engineer Bow
ers, A. L. Bowers, a nephew of the
judge advocate, and Ship Carpenter
Helms, of the Names Inflated crew.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

One duty of ministers is to say:
Come" Don't come" is the message
OF missionary at Dawson City, and II
is given5to warn away the multitude
dreaming that there is wealth for them
In tie Yukon district. He is thus
preSching physical salvation, for tine
country is already overcrowded. ana
Che supply Of labor is greater than the
demand" Do not forget those two
words, Don't come!"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

In our southern brethren We have as
true patriots, as cool and determined
and sincere champions of the republic
as are to be found anywhere within the
borders of the land. We know that IL
trouble comes to us they will be among
the first to spring TO arms, and that, in
the cause of the union, they will dis
play the same impetuous valor and
brilliant dash that. thirty-fve years
ago. immortalized the paladins who
followed Lee and Jackson, Johnston
and Longstreet, with equal zeal to VIC
tory or defeat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Col. Palmer ia Named.

DIES MONIES, March Ex-Governor
Shaw has announced the appointment
of Senator ID. j. Palmer, of Washing
ton county, as railroad commissioner to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of commissioner C. L. Davidson.
The appointment is good till after the
next general election.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Express Company to Fight Prohibitionist

CHEROKEE, March ga short time
ago the prohibitionIsts seized two kegs
of beer at the American Express COM
pany's Office at this place. The beer
was tried and condemned under the
old prohibition law and action brought
against the express company for car
rying the beer into Cherokee, contrary
to a provision of the mulct law. An
injunction was also served on the
company restraining it from carrying
any more Intoxicating liquors into the
state except to parties having permits
to sell under the requirements of the
mulct law. The company has given
notice that it will make test case of
it and will fight to the bitter end.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
THE NEGOTIATIONS FAILED.
Insurgents Will Not Treat for Peace
PandO's Blunder.

HAVANA, March eat is known
positively that negotiations between
General Pando's emissaries and General
Garcia and other prominent insurgents,
in which the offers of practical indie
pendence are said to have been made,
have proved an absolute failure.
Pando's command is again moving
eastward. The fact that the insurgent
general, Gomez, remains inside the
Jucaro-Moron trocha, in Pando's rear,
makes the latter subject of criticism
by military men in Havana.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Denies the External Theory.

Madrid, March 25.-Premier Sapast,
is quoted in an interview as saying
that the government entirely approves
Blanco's conduct in denying that the
Names magazines were blown up with
dynamite, as the Americans have
ALLEGED
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Whittlesy Sentenced.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, March 24.-Judge
Woolson sentenced Russell N. Whittle-
sy, the embezzling collector of the
port OF Council Bluffs, to four years in
the penitentiary and to pay a fine of
So. 600. WhittlesY pleaded guilty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

The Lingo" congressman. who try to
make the most of every provocation to
war, remind one of the little girl who,
when lightning struck the house, and
partly destroyed it, clapped her hands
and cried, do it again." But she
knew no better.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Ohio River ON a Rampage.

CINCINNATI, March 25.-The Ohio
river is on rampage and immense
damage has been done in the cities and
towns along it's banks. A dozen or
more fatalities are reported. Rail-
roads are the heaviest losers finan.
cially
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Governor Shaw to Remove Trustee.

Governor Shaw to Remove trustee.
DIES MONIES, March ia sensation
was caused by the announcement that
Governor Shaw has practically decided
to remove j. E. Wickham, trustee of
the Glenwood institution for feeble
,pin.aed, children. from his position on
having used MS position as treasurer
of the board to fill his own purse at the
expense of the state.
DIES MONIES, March 22.-The resigna-
ton of J. E. Wickham as local trustee
of the Glenwood institution for feeble
minded children was laid before the
governor and accepted. Governor
Shaw at once announced the name of
DR.. +. M. Shriver to succeed him.
Before rendering his resignation Mr..
Wickham made a settlement in full
for all funds wrongfully withheld by
him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

81 look out for my own intuition"
says a lady, ''and then do exactly the
opposite" Which shows faith in the
system through constant insult of the
author of it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

If Spanish war should result not
only in the freedom of Cuba, but in
the freedom of the Philippines as well.
Uncle Sam could congratulate himself
on having done a great stroke of bust
ness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
BARTLETT'S FATAL SHOT.
Merry Henborne Fatally Wounded by an
Oficer at OsceOla.

Officer at OsceOIa.
OsCEoLA, March 23.-Merry Hen
borne, a young man from the country,
became intoxicated and on being
arrested attempted to run. he was
ordered to halt, but not needing it,
Night Waterman Bartlett shot after
him, the ball striking his back, rang
ing along the spine. Henborne still
lives, but the lower part of his body is
helpless and the physicians think he
will die. Public opinion is somewhat
divided, but few harshly cr'ticise
Bartlett, as Henborne was a fellow
who usually made trouble for the
officers when in town. Henborne is
unmarried
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Calls 1t the ALBANY.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Secretarv
Long has rechristened the cruiser
Abreualli, recently purchased from
Brazil, naming her Albany" in honor
of the New York state capital.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Dorland IL Guilty.

WEST UNION, March sa.-The jury IN
the Frank Dorland murder trial re-
turned verdict of guilty of assault
with intent to commit great bodily
injury.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

A North Dakota evangelist says he
can see the dove of universal peace
towering in the air. That settles it,;
there will be no war.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
Fatal Accident at Ottumwa.

OTrUMwA, March 23.-Thos. Hamp-
ton was instantly killed here in clay
pit by being caught under falling
Shale
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Republican State Convention in Dubuque.
Dies MONIES, March 25.-Therepubli-
can state central committee decided to
hold the state convention in Dubuque
on September
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
AKERs q GREEN, Pubs.
DEBORAH,

Skaguay is said to be healthy place
provided one has no entanglements
with the vigilance committee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
LOST ON THE HELEN ALMY.
Three Iowa Men Among the Victims of
the Sunken Vessel.

Three Iowa Men Among the Sictims Oh
the Sunken Vessel.
Ottumwa, March 23.-August Ander-
son, M r. Lemley and E. II. Currier,
the three Melrose, Iowa, men who
were drowned on the bark Helen Almy
off the Golden Gate, left Melrose for
the Klondike together March 10.
They took 81, 500 with them. All are
prominent in the town and the grief
over their untimely end is widespread.
Lemley is the proprietor of livery
stable. Currier was postmaster OF the
city and owned a meat market and An
derson had a wagon shop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

Promoter Cradle is one of those
financiers who make two dollars grow
where no dollar ever grew before.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
THE BOARD OF CONTROL.

Gov. Shaw Appoints Larrabee, Kline and
COwnie.
DIES MONIES, March 25.-Gov. Shaw
has appointed Ex-Governor Larrabee,
ex-Judge Kline and John Cownie as
members of the board of control. The
friends of the board of control bill are
well pleased with the selections.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

A whistling eel has been discovered
in the Fiji islands. 1t only whistles
when excited.
Berlin has 2,022 millionaires, and
about one-fifth of them have dyspep-
STA, caused by laziness and inactivity.
The flying frog of Borneo has long
toes, which are webbed to the tips.
Its feet thus acts as little parachutes,
and enable the frog to leap from lofty
trees and descend gradually.
A ShalSespearian garden is one of
the attractions of Warwick Castle,
England. 1t is superintendent by Lady
Brooke, and it grows all the flowers
and shrubs named by the great poet.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
APPROPRIATIONS.
Senate and House Committees Have
Agreed on Amounts to BE Allowed.


Agreed on Amounts to Be Allowed.
Dies MONIES, March 24.-The senate
and house committees on appropria-
tions have agreed on all of the appro-
priation bills introduced by the state
institutions asking for extraordinary
appropriations. The bills agreed on
total S252,6S5. The list does not in
clude all of the special appropriation
bills of the session, but it does include
all of the institution bills and one or
two others. Senator Garst, chairman
of the senate committee, said that he
thought the extraordinary appropri-
atoms would total 100000. But there
are several bills which have not been
introduced in both houses and these
remain for the committees to act on
separately. The bills that the two
committees have agreed upon, and
which will no doubt go through both
houses, are as follows:
Anamosa penitentiar-y $40 Sol
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30
SPANS CAUSE is HOPELESS.
So Says ex-Minister Pi MargalI, of
Spain.

SO Says ex-Minister ri Margall, OF
Spain.
BRUSSELS, March ga dispatch to
lie Soir from Madrid describes an in
terview with Senior ri Margall, at
one time president of the Spanish fed
eral republic and chief of the ministry,
in which he is reported as declaring
that Cuba is practically lost to Spain.
'Spain is exhausted" he is reported as
saying. "She must withdraw her
troops and recognize Cuban independ-
ence before it is too late. BY an i'm
mediate recognition she would obtain
payment for a portion of the war debt
and commercial advantages"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30

committee has taken no action on it,
This is one of the bills which the COM
mittees will not get together on. The
Cherokee asylum bill has not been
passed. 1t seems most probable that
nothing will be given the Cherokee
asylum this session, and that the work
on it will be delayed two years for the
sake of clearing up the state debt.
The house has also passed the bill
giving the historical building 100000.
and this has not passed the senate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-03-30


Council Bluffs Deaf and Dumb
Institute. 1850
Glenwood Home for Feeble Minded. 5000
Knoxville Home for Blind .... $4,000
Benedict Home Des Moines. ....... 5000
Mt. Pleasant Insane Hospital. $3.50. 10000
Independence Insane Hospital. 49,. 14,S75
Clarinda Insane Hospital. .......... 2O,5l5
State University. Iowa City. ....... 81 900
Soldiers Home Marshalltown 49,. 1000
Davenport Orphans Home. ......... $500
Fish commission. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
Agricultural College, Ames. ........ 5000
Girls. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1900
Eldora Industrial School for Boys. $500
Vinton College for Blind. ........... 1000
FIT. Madison penitentiary.. .......... 14,120
State Normal School. ............... $4,000
Challenging state library. .......... 5000
Total. $3.50 ,6S5
Tho honco M ccaI hill niutn0 the