The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-10-06
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
THE MANY HAPPENINGS OF SEVEN
DAYS TERssLY TOLD.
Event. OOO 1rring in All Sections Re-
dueed FrOsn Columns to Lines-Every-
thing but Facts Eiiminated Tor our
Readers' convenienee.
ThursdaN. sent. IS.


Center, Mich, and was suffocated.
By a premature explosion In the Cas-
cade quarry at Burlington. Ia, Ed Los
setta and John Busch were fatally burned.
Sam McGregor was beaten nearly to
death by negro tramps at Emporia, Kan.
A state convention of the Christian
church of Missouri is in session at Mo-
berly.
Two big dImage suits growing out Of
arrests of persons char sed with the muir
der of Paul Sweetwrick, were filed at
Topeka, Kan.
Leading tanners of oak harness leather
met at Columbus, O., to form trust.
Frederick Kohler and Hugo Engel. the
two ST. Joe train robbers, were buried
from their homes with simple ceremonies.
A 12-year-old boy, the son of a farmer
near Oakland, Ills. attempted suiciIe be-
cause his father Wiped him.
There is about $40. ,O0O gold in the
New York banks, so that the Threatened
exports will not touch tine treasury de
posit, which is already below the 500, 0JO,-
90 mark.
Mrs. Barnaby Conrad, the daughter of
the murdered Mrs. Barnaby, has been
sued for ivorce at Helena, Mont, by her
wealthy husband.
Kansas farmers have been taken in by
swindlers who sell a compound alleged to
doubl4 the amount of butter from given
amount of cream.
Mollie O'Brien, a noted criminal, fin
ished a third term at the penite t1ry d
Joliet, Ills. Relatives were there TO take
her to her home in Chicago.
Nellie Gray, the horse thief who was
captured after a chase of so miles, has
been declared insane at Valparaiso Ind
She will be sent to the asylum at Logans-
port.
The people Of Clark county, Kansas,
have Withdrawn their applications for
state aid in wheat. Tney have formed an
association of their own citizens for the
purpose of subscribing and soliciting seed
wheat or money to buy it.
j. r. Russell, barber at Chicago, was
fined $25 and costs by Justice Quinn for
charging Henry Henkin, a farmer from
Salt City. Ia, S12 for a hair cut and shave
Friday. Sept. 20.
Harry Williams escaped from the coun-
ty jail at Columbus, Ind. He was CON
victed of grand larceny.
Governor AItgeld pardoned Charles H.
Davis, convicted in Cook county in 1892 of
robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary
for four years.
Thirty people were killed by the explo-
sion of steamers boiler off the coast of
Japan.
The Democrats of Maryland renomi-
mated Marion DeKalb Smith for state
comptroller
Mrs. Stephen Hollands of Lima, O., has
fallen heir to S4O0, 900 through the death of
an uncle in New York.
St. Paul lumbermen ridicule the idea of
the Mississippi Lumber company being a
trust, with only 81, 500, 600 capital.
Suit was filed at Louisville against the
German National bank to recover SO, 600
alleged to have been Illegally obtained
from the Louisville Deposit bank.
Lizzie Atwood, aged %. has disappeared
from her home near Dresden. Mo-. and it
is feared that she has committed suicide
President Cleveland has written a letter
to Governor Northen of Georgia defining
his views on the financial question.
John Kaufman. a farmer near Val
paraiso, Ind, is attracting great attention
by preaching while in an alleged trance.
The Indiana supreme court has decided
the judicial clause of the apportionment
act passed by the last legislature constitu-
tional.
John Bogue, aged 25. of Beaver. o. T.,
attempted to ride a bucking broncho on a
wager, was thrown off and instantly
killed
The Democrats of Maryland have nomi-
mated Marion d. Smith for comptroller
and Endorsed the financial stand of the
president.
Cattle sheds on the Stark county fair
grounds at Canton. o.. were burned and
80 prize. cattle, worth S25. 900. were lost.
The Worlds fair reign commissioners
have accepted an invitation to visit the
St. Louis exposition and witness the
Yelled Prophets pageant.
Disastrous forest fires are raging in the
Sierra Madre mountains in Durango,
Mex. Several villages have been destroy
ed and loss of life is feared
1t is reported from Wagner, L T., that
the noted outlaw. Bill Dalton. and part of
his band, were near there. Officers have
gone to the scene.
Mr.. W. c. Whitney in a letter to the
New York World denies that he made any
bargain with Mr. j. J. Van Allen tlat the
latter should be appointed minister to
Rome IN event of C!eveiand's election.
The nomination has been held up by the
senate.
saturday. Sept. 80.
/ A new troop Of cavalry of the Illinois
National Guaid viii soon be organized at
Springfield.
Charles Middleton and James BoIden
have been arrested at Caddo. L T., for bold
burglaries.
Nancy Hanks tried TO beat her record Of
2:04 at Terre Haute, but ceulI not do bet
ter than 200 IL
The safe In the Alliance cooperative
store at Sergeant's Bluffs, Ia, was blown
open and $500 taken
Robert Louis Stevenson is enroute to
the United States He says there is peace
IN the Samoan Islands
Frank Rochester of WelIsville. Kan.
died from the effects of injuries received
during a wrestling bout
Nearly ali the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe shOpmen at Topeka recently
laid OF have been reinstated
The heaviest ram for years fell about
Santa Fe. n H.. and all the railroads.
have been disabled by Hashouts.
City Clerk E A. Cook Of AfcComb. O..
was arEestei By the postal authorities
charged with advertising to sell Column
ban postage stamps for steel engravlngs.
The French govern zlels intends 80 s1alrs