Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-07-16
BUDGET of neps Items.
Interesting news and humor. cleaned
from the press OF Northeastern Iowa.
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1t is rumored that the Rock Island
will build line into Mason City
from Rockford.
The Northwestern road has complet-
ed its double track across Iowa. The
work has been carried on for 10 years
and cost 81, 500. 900.
David De France, young man "a
years of age, was drowned six miles
south of Webster city Friday night
while in swimming.
The second national picnic of the
Modern Brotherhood of America was
held at Mason City yesterday, with an
immense crowd in attendance
Arthur Wright, a bright, promising
boy, the adopted son of DR.. Sweet of
Dubuque was drowned while bath
ing in the river last week. The
body has been recovered. He was IA
years old.
A Chicago man was sent to Jail for
pawning his wife's false teeth and as
soon as she recovered them she jam
med them into her mouth and began
chewing the rag over the way the poor
dear man was being abused. Truly,
women is queer critters. ~
An unknown man was found dead 2
miles south of Hampton last Wednes-
day beside the Iowa Central track.
He was identified as having worked on
the Iowa Falls & Des Moines railroad
recently, but there is no clue to his
name or residence except the letters ].
j. F., which are tattooed on his arm.
He was about 40 years old, with a
reddish mustache, and was large
man.
Charles Klots, a lineman for the
Fort Dodge Light and Power company,
was electrocuted last week while at
work on pole twenty feet above the
J ground. The wires were crossed and
Klots grasped wire that was charg-
ed with electricity, which sent cur
rent of eleven hundred volts through
his body. Death was instantaneous.
The power was turned off Immediately
but life was extinct. The body hung
on the wires for fifteen minutes before
it could be taken down.
| Reuben Wheeless, the famous water
melon farmer of Delaware county, was
the victim of most unfortunate ac-
cident on the afternoon of the Fourth.
Mr.. Wheeless was working in field
of buck wheat ON his farm in Coffin S
Grove, driving team attached to a
heavy drag. Noticing that one of the
horses was tagging behind, Mr.. Whee-
less stepped to the animals side to ply
the whip, when the team lurched sud-
denly forward throwing him face
downward upon the ground. Before he
could arise the heavy drag passed over
his leg and back, tearing the flesh and
inflicting several bad wounds. One of
the drag teeth entered his side to the
depth of two inches and this wound
has since caused considerable trouble.
Speaking of the Gard of Thanks
nuisance, the following is said to have
recently been published by an ex-
change: Card of Thanks-I wish to
thank the dear friends who so kindly
sustained me in my hour of trial at a
recent commencement, when my
daughter, Junebelle, broke down and
forgot the lines of her grafton. Their
kindness in tanning me, passing the
salts, etc., in those dark moments OF
despair until my daughter remembered
where she was and went on, will be
remembered with emotion and graft
tude. Mrs. Yysander Appleton.
The Dubuque papers contain reports
to the effect that the Waukon Iron
Mines had been sold to the Steel Trust
There is no truth in the statement
as no negotiations whatever have beer
entered into looking to that result
MT. luRTdIu lulOTHlS us tfdU tUt
compahny has no other idea in view
than that of working the mines them
SELVES. During the past week Mr.
Bernard Green, an eminent engineer
of Cleveland, Ohio, has been here look
ing over the route for the electric rail
road, and has made most favorable
report. Further negotiations are pend
ing for the permanent survey, and IL
all probability it will only be shor
time before force is at work locating
it. Waukon Standard
The Chicago Great Western received
/ six new engines Sunday the last of tn,
, consignment of twenty-five engines
: which will be put into the fas
, freight service between Oelwein ant
Chicago. The new engines will b,
: erected as soon as possible and the olt
ores will be transferred to the new
lines recently acquired by the Grea
J Western. They are what is known
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