The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-02-04
Miscellaneous.

Eight kegs of beer in the National
Hotel at Leavenworth were recently
seized by the police.
Judge PETER, recently elected United
States Senator, will continue his edito
rial control of the Kansas Farmer.
Judge Houk, of Hutchinson. has ruled
that original notes and mortgages, no,
copies, must be produced in court in all
foreclosure cases
The Savings Bank of Wichita has
failed. There had been more or less OF
q run on the bank for a week, and $40,
600 had been withdrawn.
Bishop Fink's reported removal and
the removal of the diocesan headquar-
tiers from Leavenworth to Kansas City,
Kan, has been confirmed by Vicar
General j. c. Cunningham. The change
will not be made Immediately.
The State Central Committee of the
Peoples party held a meeting at Topeka
the other night and elected w. l..
Brown, of Emporia, chairman. Mr.
Chase, who was deposed. will pay no
attention to the order. He holds that
the meeting was irregular.
James O'Leary, foreman of Aber-
nathy's furniture factory at Leaven-
worth, committed suicide the other day
by shooting himself in the head. No
cause known. He was about % years
old. sober and Industrious, and was ap-
parently very prosperous.
A late fire at Osawkee destroyed five
business houses and a residence. The
hardware store and residence of Sam
uel Stephenson, grocery of d. d. Bram-
nell, drug store of j. A. Stotler & Co.,
the Office of DR.. Tucker and general
store Of r. Z. Haberlein were burned.
The remains of mas todon were found
by q $. o'ol up, of anthony, while
on a recent hunting trip on the Canadian
river, in the Indian Territory. The
skeleton was complete and measured 81
feet in length and is feet in height.
The horns measured feet on the inside
and 10 feet on the outside and the jaw
bone over 3 feet. Some of the teeth
were 12 inches across on the surface.
The National conference Of the repre-
sentatives of the Peoples party. which
was called to meet in Cincinnati Febru-
airy %, has been changed to May 10.
The day was agreed upon through a
conference at Topeka of P. ?. Elder,
chairman of the Union Labor party: S.
w. Chase. chairman of the Peoples
party of Kansas; W. F. Rightmire. sec
rotary of the Citizens alliance. and rep
resentative of the Indiana State ALI
ance.
The lifeless body of William Horne
man. a hermit and miser, was discovered
the other afternoon in miserable little
hut. which he called his home. near Ar
gentine. A hole in the top of his head
and the disarranged condition of the
bedding and furniture told the story of
what is supposed to have been a muir
vanced decomposition and the indica-
ton were that he had been dead at
least ten days.
S. A. Hoy, night operator of the Santa
Fe road at Holloway, station about
miles west of Kansas City,
and his young wife were struck by an
engine the other morning and Mrs. Hoy
was instantly killed and the young man
supposed to be fatally injured. They
were going to breakfast and stepped
upon the track to avoid a mud hole
when an engine that was backing struck
them. Both were less than 90 years Of
age and had been married but few
weeks.
A stock train on the Kansas City, Wy
andotte & Northwestern road was
wrecked the other afternoon at
Calorifc. a small station nine miles
northeast of Kansas City, Kan.
A stOckman, whose name was
not learned. was reported to have
been SO badly frightened by the acct
dent that he dropped dead after walk
ing about half a mile from the scene of
the wreck to farm house. This was
the same train that went through
bridge some weeks ago by which the
fireman and another man were killed.
Charles Goble, an iron worker. shot
and MORALLY wounded Anna Louther, at
Rosedale. the other night, and then
blew his brains out. Goble was an old
of Miss Louther's. He offered
in marriage two years ago and
was rejected. Since that time he had
not called upon her. On the night Of
the tragedy he entered the house by
stealth and went to her room and told
her he had come to kill her He drew
a revolver and fred two shots at the
young woman. One hit her in the arm
and the other in the breast, inflicting
probably a mortal wound He then
placed the revolver to his head and
killed himself. Miss Louther resided
with her widowed mother and sister.
They are highly respected people.
William Swigard and wife had quar-
rel at Hutchison recently, and he at
tackled her with butcher knife. The
son cut his father in the leg
with a pocket knife. and then mother
and son fed. This so enraged Swigard
that he beat the six-months-old baby SO
severely that it could not recover.
Threats Of lynching were freely ex-
pressed.
Boys playing with matches recently
caused three fires at Wichita in one day.