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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
c. NJ. 4 ST. p. Ry. Settlers Rates I
Pacific Coast,

On Feb. 12-l9-26. On Mch. 5-l2-l9-
26. On April 2-9-l6-25-SO. One way
tickets to Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco will be S3l.9O. To Montana
points via st. Paul Omaha or Kansas
City, $500.
TO Spokane and North Pacific coast
points via st. Paul, $25, and via Coun-
ell Bluffs or Kansas City, S2S.
For particulars see s. V. Potter, Agt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
THE LOCAL MARKETS.
Following are the DEBORAH markets at the
time of going to press:
Business opportunities ON the lin

Business opportunities on the line
of the Chicago Great Western R'y in
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri.
First class openings in growing towns
for all kinds Of business and for manu-
featuring. Our list includes locations
for blacksmiths, doctors, dressmakers,
furniture, grain and livestock buyers,
general merchandise, hardware, har-
ness, tailors, cold storage, creameries
and canning factories. Write fully in
regard to your requirements so that we
may advise you intelligently. Address
w. j. Reed, Industrial Agent, c. G..
w. Ry, 6Ol Endicott Bldg, st. Paul,
MINI. 1875
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
DEBORAH, IOWA, NIGH. 20, 1901
At The Churches.

BAPTIsT-The morning subject will
be: "Give we them to eat" Evening
subject: "True Freedom"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Advertised Letters.

Advertised Letters.
Mr.. Jerome Bartlett.
Miss Loretta Burke.
Miss Maria Halvorson.
Miss Lulvine Kingsley.
Mr.. Ed Thune.
G. A. Weber.
C.. N. GODDARD, z. M.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
A German Economists Views.

DR.. Vosburg- Rekow, an eminent Ger
man economist, who has been making
an extended and exhaustive investiga-
ton Of the industrial conditions Of va
rious countries, including the United
States, has just published a brochure
giving the results of his Investigations.
His findings are attracting deserved
attention not only on account Of the
high reputation of the writer, but be-
cause of the favorable comment he
makes upon American industrial
growth and development. DR.. Rekow
holds that there are but four great ma
lions in the world so far as its indus
trial and commercial future are con-
cerned-Germany England, Russia and
the United States.
OF this country DR.. RekOw speaks In
the most enthusiastic terms. Rarely
If ever, he says, will there be met in
connection with natural riches like
those Of the United States a people
like the Americans. Few have high
refinement, but all possess a certain
amount of world knowledge, and even
the most uncultivated Of them are en-
dowed with adaptability to cope with
life's vicissitudes. Germany's chief
danger lies in the probable eventuality
that Americas wholesale production Of
manufactured articles will drive it out
of the foreign markets by undertaking
its merchants in price. In short, the
Americans are the sole commercial pO-
litical opponents whom the Germans
most earnestly dread. Russia will re-
main a profitable customer in the fu-
ture. With Great Britain Germany is
united by bonds of common interests.
The United States Is in an economical
sense it's enemy. What must we, the
Germans, do, he asks, in order to keep
Russia tributary to us, to retain the
status quo with England and to sue
cessfully fight America? Europe, with
her old established industries, is so
hard pushed by the young American
competition that the necessity of unit
ing in common customs league
against the bold intruder has become a
matter OF serious consideration. Y.
Such comment from so eminent a
European economist and writer is, of
course. very fiattering to American
progress, but it points to growth OF
sentiment on the other side of the At
lantic which we would be exceedingly
shortsighted to ignore.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

No. STA 5000 stock OF groceries, notions,
ETC., and two story double store building, all
for $500, in Winnesheik county. Will trade
for land In this county.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

No. W-A very fine improved farm, 240
acres, room house, large barn, granary, and
all necessary outbuildings, grove, orchard;
about midway between Austin and Lyle,
Mimi. A very desirable farm, price includ.
ing chattels, farm machinery, etc., 1880.
easy terms. 81.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

No 80 B-A fine residence lot in the town Of
Calmar, Iowa, for S225.
No 3O-A room house, with lots, good
well, in Camar, Iowa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
MAJOR uoNGER SAILS.
Returning to His Post of Duty as Minis
N China.

ter to China.
San Francisco, July 19.-Edwin II.
Conger, United States minister to
China, sailed for his. post in the
Orient on the Japanese liner Nippon
Maru.
Speaking of the political situation
in Iowa, Minister Conger said:
II must confess that I'm a little
sorry at what has happened. Things
were not exactly what l had ina
gined them to be at home.
you know l have never been
candidate for the office of governor
of Iowa, but tentatively allowed my
friends to use my name. / said when
l arrived that If the nomination was
rendered me would not refuse it,
but l would make no fight for the
place.
II meant 1 would accept the place
if it came unanimously; if the party
or state wanted or needed me-. L
have never been a candidate on ac-
count of the personal honors. There
is not the unanimous desire that was
represented to me, and L am sorry
that even tentatively / have allowed
my name to be used so much. i have
many strong and good friends in
Iowa, but the field is full of good
men, and 1 have never wished to
make fight against any of them.
Il hope that in allowing my name
to be used as it has l have not sacri-
feed any principle or lost any
friends. Iowa does not need me, and
there is not the unanimous desire
that would have been the only reason
for my accepting the nomination, if
it was made"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
NEWS In GENERAL
RUSSELL GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
Sentenced to Three Months in jail, b.
Jailors WIN Make It Easy.

Sentenced to Three Months In jail, But
Jaiiors VIII Make 1t Easy.
London, July 19.-Earl Russell was
arranged at the bar of the House of
Lords yesterday for trial on the
charge of bigarny and pleaded guilty.
The trial was carried on with all
1.-THE quaint middleage ceremonies.
Both the Earl and Countess Russell
Mrs. Somerville), through their
counsel, pleaded they did not know
they were doing wrong, but had
acted on the best legal advice obtain
able in Nevada. The peers re-
ported their decision after considera-
ton of the case, lasting twenty
minutes. Earl Russell was sentenced
to three months imprisonment as
a first class misdemeanant.
In anticipation of the arrival of
Lord Russell the officials at Holloway
prison have prepared for his recep-
ton one of the rooms formerly occu-
pied by William L. Stead, the editor,
and member of the Jameson raiders.
1t is commodious apartment, in
which his lordship can be supplied
with his own food and wines.
hIlCT bCpdl dlihS Ills "hNs
Mabel, Countess Russell, more than a
year and half ago, Earl Russell dis
appeared from England and the next
heard from him was that he had
obtained a divorce in America and
had .here married Mrs. Mollie Som
erville, the daughter of the late
George Cooke of Combernauld, Scot
land. Mrs. Somerville had also been
divorced in Nevada. Her husband
was George j. Somerville. Earl Rus
sell obtained the license to marry
Molly Cooke April IA, 1900, and a
judge in Nevada performed the cere-
mony the following day. The .earl
and his new countess returned not
long ago to England despite the fact
that the first countess was still in
London.
Earl Russell's first wife was Mabel
Scott, from whom he separated
just before disappearing from Eng
land. Countess Russell threatened
prosecution when it was learned that
Earl Russell and Mrs. Somerville
were living together in Reno, Nevada.
The charge that was brought against
him was that he feloniously mar
ried Molly Cooke in America when
his first life was still living. 1t was,
on the other hand, contended by
counsel for Earl Russell that the
prosecution failed to consider the di-
vorce proceedings begun by his lord
ship in America.
Ihe woman to whom he was mar
ried in America has been with Earl
Russell during his trial and both
have seemed in good spirits. 1t was
on June II upon his return from the
country that Earl Russell was form
ally charged. He was met at the
station by detectives after an out
ing with his new wife and arrested
on the charge of having contracted
bigamous marriage in the United
States.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
pRoUrn AND HEAT CONTINUE.
Much Suffering From Protracted Condi-
tions In Southwest.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 22.--For
thirty-one successive days the tenn
perature in Kansas City has risen
above 80 degrees each afternoon. On
most of these days the temperature
has reached or, exceeded 100 degrees,
and during the past twelve days the
100 degree mark has been reached
regularly. Since April S, there has
been but one heavy shower, on June
%. Most of the thermometers reg
lister 10 in the shade early in the
day, and if exposed to the sun would
record 100. There have been few
heat prostrations and not many
deaths directly ascribed to the heat,
but the mortality among feeble old
persons and young children has been
unusually large. The same condi-
tions of heat and rainfall have pre-
vailed all over the drouth stricken
region of the southwest KanAs,
west Missouri, Indian Territory ana
Oklahoma. Prayers for rain were Of
fered yesterday in nearly all the
churches in Missouri and Kansas, in
the former state in obedience to the
governors proclamation. In some of
the churches in this city special SER
vices were held.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Farmer Near Glenwood Thought to Have
Killed and Burned Family.

Glenwood, July 1s.-Three charred
bodies, shotgun and razor found in
the ruins of the residence of Fred
Fourheim by neighbors mutely de-
scrlbed the tragedy enacted there.
Fourheim, young farmer residing
twelve miles south of this place, had
cut the threats of his wife and her g.
year-old child, set the house on fire
and then taken his own life with a
shotgun.
The true story of the tragedy will
never be known, as no one was left to
tell the tale. The coroner is investi-
eating in the possible hope that it
may be found robbery was COM
mitted and that the robbers murdered
the family and burned the house for
the purpose of concealing the crime,
but this theory is exceedingly far
fetched and everything points to the
theory first outlined.
1t was 2 o'clock a. m. when flames
were seen to shoot up from the Four
helm home. A half dozen neighbors
were summoned and arrived on the
scene while the flames were at their
height and could have rendered assist
ance mad any living thing been found
in the burning structure.
The fact that there were no cries
for help, the position of the bodies
and other circumstances all point to
deliberate murder and suicide. The
house was low and small, so that es-
cape would lave been easy. Four
helms body showed a bad bullet
wound, though badly charred. The
trunks of his wife and child We're
burned 10 crisp and it was impossi-
BILE to tell if they showed any marks
of violence. Their heads were not so
badly burned, however, and their
necks had the appearance of having
been hacked with a razor.
No motive for the crime is known
to have existed, though there have
been some rumors of domestic infelic-
ity. 1t has been suggested that Four
helm was suddenly driven insane by
the excessive heat and committed the
crime while irrational. One neighbor
says he had heard Fourhelm remark
that the heat made him feel dizzy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
THE NEWS In IOWA
AUTo-MOwER AT WORK.
Exhibition Given ON the Farm of senat
Dolliyer, Near Fort Dodge.

Exhibition Given on the Farm of Senator
Dolliver, Near Fort Dodge.
Fort Dodge, July ia demonstra-
ton that attracted large crowd of
people was given on the large farm
of Senator j. z. Dolliver, just west
of the city, yesterday, where an auto
mower demonstrated its coming use
fulness on farm to the entire salts
faction of those who witnessed its
work. The machine is the property
of the Deering Harvester company
of Chicago and the exhibition was the
first that has been given in Iowa.
The machine consists of hand-built
gasonne engine, which is saddled on
TO common field moving machine.
The power is connected in such
manner that the machine can be TIA
ken anywhere that team could pull
it. At the farm when the field of
forty acres of wild grass was reached
the cutting fixtures of the mower
were attached and the machine was
put at work on the field. The east
ness of motion, the ease with which
corners were turned and the quick
work and speed of the machine called
forth many declarations of its future
usefulness and the practical theory
of attaching cheap motive power
to farm implements. Its field of pos
sibilities is large and varied. Twen-
ty-two acres of grass cut in nine
hours with five-foot sickle is the
record so. far made. The engine is
of four-horse power and will furnish
ample power to propel it and cut
with an eight-foot sickle bar if want
ed. The machine is not for sale, but
the company hopes to have them on
the market next season. The price
will be from 5000 to 5000 complete.
Many practical farmers viewed the
work and all united in pronouncing
it grand success. The fact that the
same power can be utilized for so
many purposes on farm makes it
very valuable. Six gallons of gaso-
line will operate it for a day. With
pulley wheel attached it can be
used to pump water, grind feed, shell
corn, clean grain, run a creamery
separator, churn and many other
uses on n common farm. Senator
Dolliver was highly pleased.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
CIVIL RULE A FAILURE.
Military to Control Three Provinces In
the Philippines.

Manila, July 19.-The United States
civil commission has announced that
after three months trial of a provin-
cial form of government in the ISL
ands of Cebu and Bohol and the pro-
vinces of Batangas, Luzon, control of
those districts, owing to their incom-
plete pacification, has been returned
to the military authorities, it having
been proved that the communities in
Dictated are backward and undeserv-
ing of civil administration. The pro-
vincial and civil officials of these des-
ignation districts will continue their
functions, but are now under the au-
thority of General Chaffee instead of
that of the civil government as here
tofore. General Chaffee has the pow
err arbitrarily to remove from office
any or all provincial or civil officials
and to abrogate any section of the
laws promulgated in these three
provinces.
The residents of the island of Cebu
have protested, but without success,
against the return of that island to
military control. Several towns on
Cebu are still besieged by insurgents.
The insurrection on the island of Bo-
hol has been renewed, and insurgents
in the province of Batangas are
strong.
General Chaffee has ordered bat
talon of the Thirtieth infantry to be-
gin the occupation of the island of
Mindoro. The province of Batangas
will be occupied by the entire Twen-
tieth infantry.
II. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor Of
Benguet province, who was recently
ordered to Manila for investigation of
certain charges against him, present
ed his case to the United States Phil
ippine commission at their executive
session today. Mr.. Whitmarsh denied
every charge made against him.
The result of the commissions ac-
ton in the matter will be made
known Saturday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

A case was recently before Judge
Case Of Hartford. in which a bicycle
rider brought suit to recover damages
for injuries sustained by being thrown
from his machine by the attack Of the
defendants dog. Judge Case found for
the plaintiff, but as the latter had
been riding on the sidewalk at the
time of the injury, he had this to say
in his memorandum: "The question
here is whether the dog was really re-
sponsible for the mischief and directly
caused It. l think he was and did,
and that under our statute, which
throws a considerable responsibility
upon dog owners. the defendant is liza
BILE. My personal sympathies are with
ANY self-respecting dog in his efforts
to keep bicycle riders where they be-
Ilong, in the street, and l believe he
should be accorded some latitude in his
methods, but Mr.. Hulburt's dog went
too far"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

Jewelry stealing under cover of &C.
,complished skill in dentistry is the lat
est device OF Partisan rascaldom. Its
practitioner is an ingenious and ele-
CANT young man Of rs named Pasteur,
who operated by preference among
ladies of a certain class. One OF these
whom he met some weeks ago com
planned of toothache, which he under
took to cure, and did so effectually.
This cure obtained him many patients,
upon whom he operated at their own
residences. After his visits articles OF
jewelry were missed, and complaints
were made to the police, but they were
quite unable to obtain any clue to the
culprit, until the other day one of his
victims accidentally saw him in cafe
and promptly gave information which
secured his arrest.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

According to Cairo correspondent
the directors Of the great French COM
pany enjoying the practical monopoly
of the Egyptian sugar and molasses
industry have just completed arrange
ments by which they become conces-
sionaires for a number of years Of
some 10000 acres of land in the vicin-
ity of their great works at Nag
Hamadi, in upper Egypt. These lands
will be devoted principally to the cul-
ture of beetroot. The company al
ready possesses extensive fields of
canes. Egypt is now not only able to
cater for herself as far as sugar is
concerned, but has begun to success
fully compete with French and Aus
trian sugar in the Levant markets.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

Captain Smiley, of the Fifteenth
regiment, U. S. A., returned recently
from the Philippines, where he was on
the staff of General J. C. Bates, was
recently telling of his visit to the sui
tan of the Sulus at his island capital.
"The sultan, the day saw him." said
the captain, wore a dress suit with
out collar or cuffs. For headgear, he
had a skull cap, on the front of which
was set an enormous diamond. He
is little man, with no more strik-
ing personality than is given him by
his costume. When standing he hard
ly comes above the elbow of the aver
age American"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
Bad Collision at Ona wa.

Onawa, July 20.-A collision oc-
Cured at the Illinois Central cross
ing of the Northwestern, two blocks
north of Hotel Monona, in Onawa.
Train No. 2, under Conductor Rounds
and Engineer Kirkoff, bound south,
struck the incoming freight of the
Illinois Central, hitting the fourth car
from the way car, smashing two cars
of lumber into kindling wood and
throwing the Sioux City & Pacific en-
CINE off the track on the west side.
There was no loss of life and the pas
sengers were not injured. Both par
ties claimed right of way. The Hi
nois Central freight only lacked four
cars of being safely across when
struck and had whistled first for the
crossing.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
SUES FOR GREAT FORTUNE.
e. w. AppIeman Has a Large Claim
Against kaiIroads.


Fort Dodge, July 20.-E. w. Apple
man, postal clerk running out of
McGregor on the Milwaukee is about
to bring suit against the principal
railways of the United States for the
infringement of the rights of a patent
which he claims to possess which con-
troll what is known as the standard
vestibulc door used on passenger
coaches and Pullman cars. Mr.. APP
pleman applied for these patents in
1891 and the next year they were
granted to him. They are familiar to
all who have travelled and are for
the purpose of widening the plat
form. These doors have been in use
for ten years and during the latter
part of the time have been turned out
in great numbers and are now used
on nearly all cars manufactured.
They are proved practical beyond a
doubt. By some means their manu-
facture has been going on without
the payment of royalties to Mr.. APP
pleman, who now brings suit to re-
cover his rights. The case will be
one of the most celebrated in the
country and the amount of royalties
involved will amount to hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Mr.. Appleman
is a brother-in-law of Governor Lar
rabee and is understood to be receiv-
ing powerful backing. Mr.. Appleman
is an inventor of considerable ver-
satility, and has invented an airship
for which he has applied for pat
ent. The case will be brought soon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25

The loss to the country by forest
fires, largely preventable, has been es-
timated at s5O,OOO,OO0 every year. In
regions where wood and water are
abundant the tendency is to take them
for granted and forget all about them.
But without cheap lumber our indus
trial development would have been Sc
riously retarded. And agriculture de-
mands water. All through great parts
of the West the people are coming to
see that on forestry and irrigation to-
gether depends their future prosperity.
Vice President Roosevelt has called
this the greatest internal question Of
the day.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-25
FIRE AT GRAND JUNCTION.
The nina Hotel and Other Bu.lIings Are
Destroyed.

Grand Junctin, July 2O.-one of the
severest fires in the history of Grand
Junction occurred yesterday. Fire
was first discovered in the rear of
the Nina hotel. This building and
the Grand Junction Wagon Works ad-
joining on the west, with the X. p.
building, were burned. The Nina was
a fine three-story building, one of the
finest hotels in this part of the state,
and was owned by Geo. c. Hillman.
The Grand Junction Wagon Works
was a fine two-story double brick
building, owned by L. j. Matteson.
The X. p. building was two-story
frame. The loss on buildings and
goods is between $4,000 and 100000.
with but little insurance.