Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

"A local telephone exchange OF a.
least fifty phones will be installed al
Fayette.
By a vote of SO to g Lime Springs
voted to build new school house,
last week.
Many of our exchanges report severe
damage done by the storm of week
ago Saturday night.
The corner stone of the new Odd
Fellows Orphan Home will be laid
at Mason City today, May 14th.
John Morley, station agent for the
Illinois Central at Nashua, has been
retired by the company and placed on
a pension list. He has been with the
company continuously for forty years.
Waukon has couple of damage
suits on her hands. Thos. Lusk asks
for %, 900 for injuries sustained in the
runaway mentioned couple of weeks
ago. The other is for 1900 asked by
Geo. Robertson for injuries caused by
broken sidewalk in front of the post
Office.
AS result of failure of busman
to make call to take Mrs. Whiteman
of Webster, City, to train, petition
for $15, 900 damages has been filed by
Mr.. Whitman. Failure to get to the
depot in time delayed an operation
that might have saved Mrs. Whitman s
life.
The people of Oelwein are rightly
jubilant over the announcement that
the Great Western railroad has aband-
oned the plan to build shops at
Clarion or Fort Dodge, and will en-
large the already enormous shops at
Oelwein to three times their present
size, spending quarter of a million
dollars ON the same. 1t is estimated
that when completed, 1900 men will
work in the shops They will be
the finest railroad shops in the west.
The mysterious disappearance of
Henry Bennett is reported from the
northwest part of Mt. Vernon town.
ship, Blackhawk county, just south of
GAINESVILLE He was last seen three
weeks ago Sunday and not trace of
his whereabouts since has been dis.
covered. Bennett is described as "a
man of medium height, about 40 years
of age and quite bald. A distinguish
ed mark is the mutilated condition of
one thumb, which is partly off.
There is no reason known for this
strange action. While some people
fear he has met with foul play, there
is nothing to support this theory.
Bennett has been employed on the
farm of Fred Webster. -Waverly In
dependent.
Fred Bulls, who lives west of town,
had an experience last Friday night
which he would not want to have re-
peated. He went to the barn to do
the chores and as it was dark took a
lantern with him. One stall was &C.
cupied by mare and colt and as he
was going past, the mare kicked him
with such force as to knock him down.
The lantern was thrown on the floor
and fire Immediately started which
Mr.. Bulls managed to put out before
any damage was done, but not until
he was kicked two more times. He
is considerably bruised and at present
is not able to work. Had Mr.. Bulls
been kicked senseless there is no doubt
but what the barn, stock and himself
would have burned up -Tripoli
Leader.
News comes to us this morning as
we are going to press, that farmer
near Meltonville, in Worth county, in
a scuffie with his wife, was shot in
the breast Tuesday afternoon and died
instantly. From what we can learn,
the couple had been engaged in
domestic quarrels for some time, and
she claims that he pounded her with
a bottle. When she started for a
neighbours for help, he threatened to
shoot her, and picked up 80 calibre
rife. She grappled with him and in
the scuffle the rifle was discharged,
with this sad result. He is said to
have been very quick tempered man.
They had separated twice during their
welded life. Usage News.
Just as the hour for quitting work
came near, A. M. Hunt, one OF the
carpenters employed in the erection of
Mrs. Wakefield's residence, started to
descend from the roof where he had
been at work, and passing to the
southeast corner of the staging below
the cornice, he slipped or in some
other way unknown, stumbled and
fell to the ground, distance of 81
feet, striking with terrific force ON the
hard ground. An examination showed
that Hunt had sustained compound
fracture of the left arm just above the
wrist, his left hip was badly bruised,
bad cut ON his face, and conclusion
of the brain. A cot was procured ant
the unconscious man was carried into