The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-05-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Tucker well in the Camden oil field,
near Portland, Ind, completed Monday
night, has flow of 5000 barrels day.
The Bank of Wisconsin has been organ
lied at Madison, with Senator w. F. Villas
as president. Its capital stock is 800, 090
Harmon Marsh was granted divorce
from his wife at jackson, Mich, on the
ground of desertion. She was his sixth
wife
The British house of commons spent
Monday considering the Irish home rule
bill. The amendments offered were voted
down.
Ben Fisher is under arrest at Wabash,
Ind, for assault with intent to kill. He
cut a young companion three times with a
razor.
Saloonkeepers of Beloit, Wis, object to
paying $500 license fee until July 1, and
have carried the matter to the circuit
court.
The Northern Indiana Oil company has
sold its interests in Wells county, Ind, to
Pennsylvania and Ohio capitalists for
$225, 900.
The safe in the hardware store of Frank
Mcclure, at Hane, ILL.,, was blown open
Monday night and nearly $500 in cash and
checks taken.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Galesburg, Ill, with the end of lessening
it 20 per cent.
Frank Sutton of Topeka, Kan, has sued
the Rock Island road to recover S25, 900
damages. He was injured in collision
in October. 1892.
Governor Altgeld has ordered special
election in Crawford county, H., June 5,
to elect a county judge to succeed J. H.
Crowley, resigned.
The Epworth league of the Joliet Qlls.)
district closed its semiannual convention
in Aurora The next convention will be
held in Batavia, Ills.
Indian Agent Dixon, at Lower Brule, S.
D., has received orders to remove the
agency west of the Missouri river, opposite
Grow Creek agency.
Mrs. A. j. Downs was thrown to the
ground by Jack the Tripper" at India
napolis, Ind, with such violence that her
shoulder was dislocated.
James Hardy, charged with train rob
berry, who escaped from officers recently
by jumping from train, was recaptured
at the home of his father, near Spencer,
Ind.
Joseph jefferson was unable to appear
at the Walnut Street theater, Cincinnati,
owing to a sudden attack of gas tritis after
the performance in the afternoon. It was
not serious.
The lower house of the Prussian diet
has passed the supplementary taxation
bill by a vote of 215 to %. A number of
Clerical and Polish deputies abstained
from voting.
Michael O'Reilly, an old soldier who re-
Gently went from Chicago to the soldiers
home, was found dead at Marion, Ind. He
had been run over by a Pan Handle
freight train
In the circuit court at Grand Rapids,
Mich, the election inspectors who had re-
fused the votes of the inmates of the State
Soldiers Home at the last city election,
were acquitted.
Professor J. A. Chapman of St. Johns
bury, VT, has been elected professor of
Oratory and DR.. r. j. Cunningham asso-
ciaSe professor of philosophy in Wabash
college, Indiana.
Ella Day, 16 years of age, who was sup
posed to have been abducted from her
home in Kansas City, has written letter
from Salida, Cal, stating that she left
home voluntarily.
Mr.. Edwin Dun of Ohio, recently ap-
pointed minister to Japan, called on Sec
rotary Gresham at the state department.
and took the oath of office He will sail
for Japan in about month.
The unsecured creditors of the Lady
Ensley Coal and Iron and Railroad COM
pany have brought suit at Memphis,
Tenn, to have $500, 900 OF bonds, alleged to
be fraudulent, declared void.
Mrs. Matte Schann of Princeton, n. J.,
who is so years of age, is under arrest,
charged with poisoning her son in order
to secure his life insurance. Her husband
died under similar circumstances.
The steamer Miowera will leave Sydney
NToxy fort hp tPi tn
c., over the new line established by the
Canadian Pacific railroad. The announce
ment was made at San Francisco.
The house of Andrew Rabies, at Brazil,
Ind, was struck by lightning and near y
tor0 to pieces. His young son, who h d
been confined to his bed for months, after
the shock could walk with ease
Hopkins, who claims to be the Indian
Messiah, has been trying to holl confer
ences with the Indians on the Sioux reser.
walton, but each time he has been discov-
cred and escorted off the reservation.
Signora Eleonora Duse, the Italian
actress, was too i'll to appear at the matt
nee she was to have given at the Fifth
Avenue theater, New York. An immense
crowd was present and all money was re-
funded.
The j. j. Hill celebration at St Paul,
MIMI, IS assuming larger proportions
than originally contemplated. the towns
along the line of the Grea Northern rail
way having expressed pr .,5se TO be rep
resented.
Mrs. Rachel Crane of. Alexander, Kan,
has commenced suit against the Western
Union Telegraph comptuy for $4,000 dam
ages. She alleges ctrrleSsuesS H. deliver
ing a telegram calling physician during
her husbands fatal illness.
The Dowagiac Men. Manufacturing
company is not in the han.ls of receiver.
as has been reporte L 1t is shut down for
the present but for the purpase merely, so
a stockholder of thc Company states, of
taking the annual inventory.
Four Russian Poles. who with other i'm
migrants from the German cholera dis
tricts landed in Quebec May ), succeeded
in getting into Buffalo, Friday, on bogus
certificates. They were detected aad sent
back to Canada
w. T. Sewers, a prominent farmer of
Wichita, Kan, who had been missing
since Wednesday, was found dead Friday
on an island in the Arkansas river He
had taken morphine, and left letter for
his wife. telling her of his deed.
Mrs. Nancy Sanders has brought suit
for 5000 against the saloonkeepers OF