The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-01-20
NEWS in BRlEs.

Benjamin T. Simons, one of the largest
dry goods merchants of Lansing, Mich,
has failed.
Senator Hawley was renominated by the
caucus of Republican members of the
Connecticut legislature.
1t is reported that the San Juan gold
fields are delusion and a snare. The re-
action has already set in.
Joe Goddard and Denver Ed Smith
are matched for finish fight for 50 500
and the best purse offered.
Bill Deal, Bill Herman and Wade Stew
art have been arrested for robbing the
station at Daugherty, 1. T.
The French government has concluded
to expel some of the English and German
newspaper correspondents.
Louis Bender, a ''trusty" at the Indiana
prison south, made his escape but was re-
captured at Shippingport, Ky.
The pope has appointed the Rev. S. q.
Rocker of Albany secretary to Mgr Satolli,
papal legate to the United States.
Admiral Gervaise has declined the min
istry of marine and colonies, left vacant
by the retirement of M. Burdeau.
An italian and French steamer came in
collision in the straits of Messina and both
of them sank. Three lives were lost.
Mrs. William De Courcey was burned to
death at Baltimore while trying to rescue
her two children from burning house.
Edward Price, of Mansfield, Ohio, who
was sent to bank $500 by his employer, is
missing. The money was not deposited.
While crossing a railroad track at Con-
stantine, Mich, George Hamilton, farm
er, was struck by an engine and killed.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
road company has decided to discontinue
bo inc IF hal kat tn
men.
The board of control of the Worlds
Fair have practically decided against the
plan of judging exhibits by a single eX-
pert.
T. A. Gould has been convicted of man
slaughter in the second degree at Fort
Scott, Kan, for killing Peter Schmidt last
November.
A steamer on the Tennessee river blew
out two 1ues of her boiler injuring ten or
twelve hands and blowing two others into
the river, who were drowned.
A mob at Sheldon, Mo-, liberated Hum
phrey Shepherd, who had been confined in
the lookup for disturbing the peace, and
then destroyed the place by fire.
The Khedive has changed his ministry
without having obtained the consent of
the Bristish authorities, who therefore de-
General Horace Porter has been elected
president of the Union League club of
New York to succeed Chauncy M. Depew.
| Whitelaw Reid is first vice president.
The body of Theodore Treichel was
found on the railroad tracks at Water
town, Wis. 1t is supposed he jumped
from train and fell beneath the wheels
| A traction engine while being backed
down hill at Purcell, 1. T., toppled over.
Engineer H. G. Trip was crushed to death
and another man was probably fatally in
| jured.
There is a case of diphtheria at the Agri
cultural College of Michigan. AS a major
| ity of the students are away for the winter
vacation it is thought the disease will not
spread.
Jesse W. Brooks of Brooklyn and Joseph
| H. Cook of Boston have prepared paper
for the friends of the Sabbath which has
been placed in the hands of every member
of congress.
John Sweton, workman at the Nelson
Paper company's mill at Minneapolis,
Mimi, fell into a vat of scalding water.
He was rescued almost instantly, but is
not likely to recover.
Joseph and Mike Sporer who made the
murderous assault on Proprietor Stauber
of the Northwestern House, at Menomi-
nee, Mich, were captured at Oconto,
Mich, by a deputy sheriff.
John Fawcett, popular young Cedar
Rapids man of Green's opera house Orches-
ira, died very suddenly of blood poisoning
contracted from the mouthpiece of a cor
net. He had cold sore on his lip.
By a premature blast in the new yards
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
way at Dennison, Tex, George Hampton
and Jerry Kyly were killed and two
| other laborers seriously injured.
Mason City, Ia, officers are searching
for William Bowen, an implement dealer
of Thornton. 1t is said Bowen forged
notes to the amount of 5000 on his friends,
had them cashed and left the town.
While a number of men were engaged
| in cleaning the double bottom of the cruis-
er Medea at Chatham. England, four OF
them were overcome by foul air. Two of
them died before medical aid could reach
them.
The twenty-ffth annual session of the
Woman's National American Suffrage as
sociation opened in Washington with a re-
ligious service, the Rev, Anna +. Eastman
of New York being the preacher.
Thomas Crutchers, travelling member OF
the wholesale iron firm of George Kinney
& Co. of Cincinnati, was found dead in his
bed at the Bates house in Indianapolis.
Death was caused by heart disease.
w. w. Gundlack of Columbia, Ills,
who went to Niagara Falls to commit sui
eide by jumping over the precipice there,
changed his mind and shot himself He
was a brewer and had been missing from
home for two weeks.
Because he found his young wife in
company with strangers in a saloon in
! New York City. Robert Ross, a stevedore,
burned her clothes and was about to set
fire to his room and lock her.in when the
police arrested him.
Major J. Taylor Ellison of Richmond,
Va, president of the Jefferson Davis
Monument association, says it is probable
that the remains of Mr.. Davis will be re-
! moved from New Orleans to Richmond
Tor final interment in the early spring.
The preliminary trial Of Emmett Dalton
| Of Coffeyville took place at Independence,
Kan He was bound over to the March
term of the district court on the charge OF
| murder.
The Italian steamer San Mario. and the
I French steamer Agesian were in collision
| Sunday night in the straits of Messina.
Both vessels were so badly damaged that
they sank in short time. All hands on
board both steamers were rescued except
three men from the Agesian-
The United States supreme court has
advanced the case of Alexander f. Smith
| against Eddy B. Townsend, in the settle
ment of which is involved title to large