Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-13


being held at Independence this week.
A 16-passenger automobile has been
put on duty in Independence as a
transfer from one station to the other
and to hotels in lieu of the late street
railway.
Otto Heinze, one of the men out on
the strike at Oelwein, committed
suicide by taking poison last Sunday.
He died Monday. He was despon-
dent over being out of work.
Mention was made last week of the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Sim
monds. of Ludlow, being kicked in
the forehead by colt. The child died
on Thursday and funeral services we
held on Sunday afternoon. -Waukon
Standad.
Joe Cabalka was shot twice Tuesday
evening near the Great Western Rock
Island crossing at Oelwein while
engaged in an alteration with man
presumed to be a-guard employed by
the Great Western. He was in COM
pany W. III Frank Harper and Frank
Jelik at the time, and was by them
conveyed to his home on Second Ave-
nue. 5. near the scene of the shooting.
Last Tuesday evening after dusk
10 Tuna. the IL year old son of Mike
Tuna, shot large eagle on the lat
ter's farm north of town. The bird
weighed 12 pounds. and measured
eight feet from tip to tip of the
wings. 1t took two charges of the
gun to bring the bird down and it
then showed considerable fight before
the boy finally dispatched it.-Calmar
Courier
Robert Williams, young man
about II years of aga, is prisoner in
the county Jail at Manchester charged
the total amount of about $50. The
name of q. M. Hanna, prominent
farmer living a mile or so west of
Manchester, was signed to the worth
less checks, and it is said that young
Williams, who has been employed on
the Hanna farm for two or three
mouths past, executed the forgeries
in very clever manner.
By overturning a can of kerosene on
hnk oh -
Hanlontown was fatally burned Friday
morning. She was ironing, and in
handling the clothes struck the can of
oil, upsetting it on the stove. She
dashed from the family apartments,
which were over store, to the street
with her clothing mass Of flames.
Attracted by screams. bystanders
came to her assistance, extinguishing
the fire, but not until her whole body
had been burned over.
The Bremen county grand jury,
which few weeks ago indicted four
teen members of the county medical
association, alleging violation of
the antitrust law, have reported ad-
ditional indictments against Dr. w.
A. Roll and DR.. o. L. Chaffee on the
general ground of conspiracy. Their
alleged offense was of forcing an in
dependent doctor from a surgical
case, in which he as well as one of
the accused doctors had been employ
ed, after he had refused to sign the
union scale.
Golmar Bros, show men, are about
TO close their circus career. The en-
tire show including tents, trains.
managerie and winter quarters at
Baraboo. are offered for sale and the
management have made public their
retirement from the business. The
show has had very successful season.
The Golmar Brothers are cousins of
the famous Ringlings and during
their comparatively short career in
the circus business have reached the
The show started with few wagons
not many years ago and by good
management it grew to larger proper
tions and two years ago was made
railroad show.
Ten people were seriously injured
and whole carload of forty or more
miraculously escaped death in cross
ing accident between Northwestern
freight train and an interurban car
on the electric line between Ames
and Iowa State college on Saturday.
Through an error, both the freight
train and the electric car were given
the right of way over the crossing,
which is at the intersection of curves
on both lines. The engine of the
freight train struck the electric car
almost amidship, throwing 1t forty
or fifty feet. where it was stopped and
almost entirely demolished by
the crossing watch tower, which was
moved from its foundation by the