Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-08-03
The German Savings Bank at Doom,

Dora Gilbertson, a waitress employ
ed at the Hotel Lyon, at Rock Rapids,
was fatally burned by an explosion of
gasoline. The fire was extinguished
before any damage was done to the
hotel.
City Clerk Bisbee, of Keokul, a
member of the Iowa volunteers, now
in camp at Jacksonville, is charged by
Mayor Root with being short in his
accounts a trifie over $4,000. Bsbee
has denied the charge, and says that it
is likely a clerical error has caused the
mistake. According to Mayor Root
the alleged shortage became known
soon after the departure of Captain
Bisbee with his company. Bisbee was
communicated with. He replied that
he would return at the earliest pos
sible moment. Then Mayor Root
served formal notice upon Bisbee's
bondsmen. Bisbee has notified the
city officials and bondsmen that he
will start for Keokuk at once, assuring
them that he will satisfactorily explain
the matter.
President w. M. Beardshear, of the
Iowa Agricultural College, announces
that it has been definitely arranged to
run the first excursion carrying farmers
from different parts of the state to the
Iowa Agricultural College on Wednes-
day, August II. The program, which
will be arranged in detail in a few days,
will consist of speeches, the principal
one of which will be delivered by
Governor Shaw, if he can be obtained;
music, military parades by college
cadets, and athletic amusemeuts.
Seven special trains will be run to
Ames on the following routes: From
Neville. via Sac City and Jewell June
ton; from Onawa, via Maple River
Junction and Carroll; from Toledo, via
Tama and Jewell Junction; from
Mason City over Iowa Central railway
via Marshalltown; from Des Moines to
Ames over the Northwestern; from
Algona to Ames over the Northwestern;
from Manchester over the Illinois
Central and Northwestern via Webster
City.
Twelve hundred and thirty acres of
good Iowa land, located in Clay and
Palo Alto counties, is about to be open
ed for entry, which on the maps of
Iowa shows as a part of Lost Island
lake. 1t is claimed by the inhabitants
of surrounding territory that the men
who made the original survey were
drunk and several hundred acres of
land that lie high and dry were in
corporated in the boundaries of Lost
Island lake. Effort has been made for
some time past to have new survey
made, with the result that it was done
at last, and at the expiration of thirty
days notice applications will be receiv-
ed for entry. A lively competition is
expected to ensue, and squatters who
have been camping on the land since
1890 will try hard to hold it. A small
portion of the new territory extends
over into Clay County, but the major
portion of it lies in Palo Alto county.
adjoining but not a portion Lost Island
lake.
In a quarrel near Oelwein over keg
of beer, Daniel Reagan received
wound which will probably prove
fatal. Reagan was member of
party of four or five who were enjoying
a keg of beer south of town in grove
While thus engaged they were joined
by as many more, among them man
by the name of Brown, who insisted
upon having a share of the beer. An
alteration ensued, in which Brown
drew a revolver and fired, wounding
Reagan, though he was not the in
tended victim. The shot passed
through the right breast, resulting in
terrible decorations of the lung.
Brown and his companions fed down
the railroad track and disappeared in
a corn field. A posse at once started
in pursuit, but up to the last report
there had been no apprehension.
Brown is described as man of medium
height, wearing a dark suit, dark
mustache and has crooked nose. For
some time he lived at Independence.
The Credits Communication Company,
of Sioux City, has filed a suit in the
district court of Woodbury. county
against the members of the old railway
syndicate, ID. Il Hedges, A. S. Garrett
son. Ed. Haakinson and JoLn HorniclS
in the sum of 81, 500. 800. The MEM
bers of this syndicate are the men who
controlled the large interests of Sioux
City at the time of the crash in 1898,
and the property involved consisted of
the Sioux City, O'Neil & Western rail
way, the Sioux City e Northern rail-
way, Sioux City Dressed Beef and Can
ming Company, the Sioux City Stool,
Yards and the Union depot property.
The suit is to secure a judgment and
keep the notes given by these men
from running out under the statute of
limitations. No defense will likely be
made to the suits, but it will protect
the coliaterals now in the hands of the
plaintiff. The Credits Communication
Company is made up of bankers from
all parts of the country who held the
notes and securities given by these
men before the disastrous failure.