Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-09-04

The survey of the proposed Daven-
port q Manchester interurban has
been started.
Children may not cry for it, but
they laugh after taking ADO Family
Tea. 25c 36-l
Rev. r. Kuehne is the new German
Lutheran minister at Postville, being
transferred from Ackley.
A. Hanson and f. J. Gressler of
Oelwein will organize the First
National Bank at Strawberry Point.
John Crapser, living two miles
east of Nashua lost valuable horse
Monday morning by having it fall
into we'll and drowned.
William Dohrer of Iowa City shot
and killed himself after he had
dangerously wounded his sweetheart,
Miss Florence Fuhrmeister, on Thurs
day night. He is thought to have
been insane.
All the railroad hotels along the
line of the g., NJ. & ST. p. have been
leased by the Allanson & Murphy
Co., which compelled Thos. Pierce to
give up the depot hotel at Calmar ON
Monday.
The threshers of Palo Alto county
held a meeting recently and agreed
that they would charge two cents
per bushel for threshing oats, four
for wheat, eight for fax. and fifteen
for timothy.
j. +. Wiehe had a letter from the
Minneapolis, Rochester q Dubuque
Traction Co., wanting to contract for
20, 600 ties to be delivered by Oct 1st
at some point on their proposed line
in the state of Minnesota. -Lansing
Mirror.
Attacked by a swarm of bees. Frank
Kehm, driver for grocery firm of
Mason City, was himself seriously
injured and his horse so poisoned by
the stings of the enraged bees that the
animal died few hours later in great
agony, Saturday.
The Dan Patch surveying crew
which has been halted here for several
days awaiting instructions from head
quarters, received orders this morning
from Chief Engineer Hunt at Mime
apolis to proceed with the survey of
the line over the Ridge route to Gun
der, thence to ST. Olaf, Farmersburg
and Garnavillo. -Postyilles Review.
The longest railroad train that ever
entered Waterloo pulled into the Gen.
trail yards from Fort Dodge. 1t con-
sisted of 30 cars, IL loaded and 7S
empty. The train was nearly $500
feet in length, $50 feet more than half
mile. The longest passing track in
the Central yards was not sufficient
to accommodate the monster train
which reached from the coal chutes
to point past the east belt block
station. Eek.
The proposition to grant franchise
to the Waterloo Water Company was
defeated after the bitterest fight over
a question of the sort in the history
of Iowa. The closeness of the vote
shows how hot the contest was, the
difference being 1873. The result of
the election leaves the situation in
Waterloo rather up in the air. The
franchise of the company has expired
and it apparently can not get re-
newal In the meantime the water
company will naturally continue to
furnish service. 1t is announced that
they will stat Immediately a cam
paign for municipal ownership.
In sight of an astonished crowd,
Carl Presley, an actor. in Webster
City, Tuesday made bonfire in the
street of S25, 600 in paper money,
threw his diamond rings and stud in
the sewer, and then announced to a
group of friends in the Park Hotel
lobby that he was going to kill him.
self He drew revolver. walked
across the steet to the city park, and,
calling to passersby to watch him die,
fred bullet into his brain. He fell
dead instantly. Presley, who was
we'll known throughout this and
neighboring states. had been drinking
heavily for two weeks. lex.
Little Ralph Knight had an ex-
perience the first of last week which
will be long remembered. His mother
placed the child on the floor by the
heating stove and lay down to take a
short rest. She must have fallen into
doze for when she looked she found
Ralph was fastened to the stove.
While sitting by the heater he had
found hole in the plating just large
enough to allow him to insert his
finger. When he went to pull the
member from the hole he could not