The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-03-10
NEWS in BRIEF.

The senatorial contest in Washington
| remains unsettled.
Wheat exports from San Francisco for
the week ending March 4, 100000 centals.
Public and parochial schools at Sturgeon
Bay, Wis, are closed on account Of diph-
liberia.
Evangelist Murphy is conducting re-
vival at Vandalia, Ills. He has made 200
converts.
English newspaper comment on Presi-
dent Cleveland's inaugural address is uni
| formly favorable.
Sand Gate, county Kent, England, has
suffered from a landslide, large number
| of houses being wrecked.
Columbus, Ind, had its first dry Sun
day in 10 years. Every saloon of the
% in the town was closed tight.
Charles Dorsey of FL Paso, Ills, who
fell from a train between Pamela and his
home, is in critical condition.
Herbert S. Magruder of Greenville,
Miss, who shot T. B. Slaughter on Thurs
day, was admitted to bail in s., 500.
John Tomerlin of Moore's Station Tex,
shot and mortalIy wounded Celso Malino,
a Mexican. Tomerlin was arrested.
Charles D. Kelley of Dixon, Ills, has left
his wife and five children and is in Chi
cago. No cause is assigned for the act.
Judge Gresham has taken the oath of
Office and will sign the commissions Of his
colleagues as soon as they take the pre-
scribed oath.
Governor Crounse has issued procla-
nation quarantining certain districts
against Texas fever. It goes into effect
March 10.
tween Walbrodt and VaZques was
Tef;rOff'S dafanSa and nv Wal
brodt.
James Norris of Prairie du Chen found
| several pieces of ore on his farm, eight
miles north of there. Experts pronounce
it gold streaked with silver.
Stephenson county, Illinois, has COM
pleted its public school display for the
Worlds Fair. It consists of free hand
drawings and examination work.
The case of property owners against the
city of Freeport, Ills, regarding street
paving was decided in favor of the city.
An appeal to the supreme court was taken.
George KEENAN,, the well known Sibe-
rian traveller, who has been i'll for three
weeks at his home, in Washington, of
| typho-malarial fever, is now convalescent.
Linn Campbell shot and probably fatally
wounded Fred McMathers at Broad Rip
pie, near Indianapolis. The quarrel was
| over trivial matter.
DR.. F. G. Moore of New Haven, Conn,
a graduate of Yale in the class of '86, has
accepted a position as professor in Greek
at Dartmouth college.
Henry Goodman, proprietor of the La
| Porte, Ind, Journal, will commence the
publication of a Democratic daily to be
called The Evening Star.
J. F. jackson, farmer of Bethlehem,
| Ind fslIxy I1oi1no hnInUxy Madison 6jCaOU-
cred 3-foot ledge of coal while digging a
well. It is 16 feet below the surface.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
| company is surveying a line from Ida
| Grove, Ia, via Maville, to a junction with
| the Sioux City and Pacific at Sargent's
| Bluff
Mrs. Melvin Miller of Lewistown, Ills,
| has instituted a s., 900 suit against the
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad COM
pany for the alleged killing of her hus-
band at Canton.
George w. Click of Atchison, Kan, de-
MES the report that he is candidate for
| land commissioner. He says Don M
Dickinson is urging John Irish of Califor-
MIA for the position.
The governor of the New York Stock
| Exchange has suspended Isador Wormser
and G. E. Chapman, the former for 10 days
and the latter for 30 days. for fighting on
the floor of the Exchange.
| The formal transfer of the Hopkins man
sion on Knob HILL San Francisco, to the
| State university has been made. The
house is to be used as an art school and
was the gift of Edward z. Searle.
The case of Marion G.. Hedgepeth will
come up in the circuit court at ST. Charles,
Mo- Hedgepeth is charged with being the
| leader of the gang which plundered an
Adams express car on the Frisco road last
| November.
| Silas Hubbard, a wealthy citizen of Kali
amazoo, Mich, gave $4,000 to the Unita-
rian society for the erection of new
church. An additional 5000 was sub
scribed and a lot will be purchased at
once.
Caleb Foote, almost unquestionably the
| oldest editor in the country, celebrated
| his Goth birthday last week. He entered
the Office of the Salem (Mass.) Gazette in
| 1917.
Mrs. Mollie Hambrick of Ford, KY, cut
] the throat of her 8-year-old daughter with
razor The child died in few moments,
when the mother made an attempt to cut
her own throat, but was prevented.
Miss Sadie SpeiIlman fell into a trance
while attending a revival meeting at Free
port, His, and has lain in that state for
| two days and nights She cannot be
aroused and has taken no nourishment.
Ella L. Bradford has brought suit at
/ Pittsburg, Pa, against Saloonkeeper Sam
uel G. Bailey for selling her husband hq-
uor, under the influence of which he killed
man and is now serving a 12-year SEN
tence.
Detective Will Smith and Deputy Sheriff
| George Witte captured Frank Gibson and
Ellerton Stocks, the young men who
robbed the Armania railroad station, Cal
ifornia. The men resisted arrest and Glib
son was shot and killed.
The retiring vice president, Mr.. Morton,
has had to listen to nearly 500 congress
sionaI morning prayers during his presi-
dency of the senate and to hear from ex-
ordium to peroration about 20 eulogies on
dead senators.
General Dabney II. Maury, one of Beau
regards schoolmates and fellow soldier
In the Mexican war, lives in Houston,
Tex He is one of the few confederate
major generals of renown who survive,
and is still a stout and rugged man.
Congressman-elect j. F. Stalings OF
| Greenville, Ala, who succeeds Mr.. Her
bert, is one of the youngest representatives
in the house, being but IS. He is d native
of Alabama, graduate of the university
OF that state, and is married.
Mr. Cleveland will not be the only Oresi-