The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-09-08
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.
News Condensed and Brief Bits of
Geographic Intelligence Reduced
from Columns to Lines for the
Convenience of Readers.
Thursday. Aug. 81.

Mazzadonia AZala, at San Angelo, Tex.
murdered Antonio Monterez, and com
mitted suicide
Five hundred old soldiers are attending
the Fifth district Grand Army of the Re
public reunion at Dalton, Kan.
Rev. DR.. F. Clatworthy of Evanston, has
accepted the temporary passionate of the
First Baptist church of Canton, Ills.
Mike Kerwin. who stabbed John Mari
at dance at Dubuque, Ia. has been held
for willful murder by a corOner's jury.
J. T. Mitchell, Tacoma, has been ap-
pointed receiver for a portion of the Point
Defiance, Tacoma and Edison Belt line.
Andrew Jensen, clothing, Great Falls,
Mont, assigned, with Columbia National
Bank of Minneapolis as a preferred cred
itor.
The trial of John Wagner at San Fran
cisco, charged with the murder of Trobert
Ojilvie, ended in the acquittal of the de-
PENDANT.
James Skidmore shot Marion Spriggs
with an old army musket at Waverly, O.,
and he will die. Family trouble was the
cause.
Democrats of the First senatorial dis
trict of Ohio, in convention at Canton,
nominated r. G.. Williams of Alliance, on
the fifth ballot.
The local land Office at Beaver, o. T.,
has been discontinued. and its business
transferred to the Woodward land Office,
in the Cherokee outlet
The Methodist camp meeting of the
Freeport district closed at Lena, Ills.
Over 100 accessions to the church were
dgaine during the session.
Friday, Sept. L.
Antitax riots are in progress about Raus
and Tarragona, Spain.
Judge George Short of the superior
court of Chicago, died of consumption.
Ten thousands descendants of John
Smith met at Peapac, n. j., in annual re-
union.
The lower Wabash conference of the
United Brethren church is in session at
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Kansas state bank commissioner
closed the bank of Jennings, Decatur
county. Its capital stock was $50, 000
The Merchants Life association of the
United States, located at St. Louis, has
been admitted to do business in Illinois as
an assessment life insurance company.
John Brennan notorious thief of Wis
consin, was captured at Rhinelander and
placed in Jail at Green Bay. Indignant
farmers offered a reward of $500 for his
arrest
The Ninth District Missionary conven-
ton of the Christian church began q
three days session in Saunemin, Ills.
Michigan's total tax levy for 1898, as de-
clared by the auditor general, is 81, 631 ,214,
the rate being II mills on the dollar.
Mrs James Harlan of Ottumwa, Ia,
committed suicide by taking carbolic acid
on account of her husbands illtreatment
of her.
Mrs William Nelson of Paxton, Ills.
L., all Il
lighting her pipe, and was burned to
death.
Governor Altgeld has appointed w. E.
r. Kell of Decatur, Ills, a commissioner
of the bureau of labor statistics.
Lee Wilmington of Ohio Falls, Ind, 5
years of age, while playing with matches,
was so badly burned that he died.
Twelve thousand people attended the
annual reunion of the Fox River Valley
Association of Odd Fellows at Oshkosh,
Wis.
John jackson of Wabash, Ind, 10 years
old, while suffering an epileptic fit, fell in
the Salomic river and was drowned
Professor Joseph V. Denney of the
Columbus, O., university, and Miss Jen-
ME Hawks of Aurora, Ills, were married
in the latter city.
DR.. q. II. Madison, who was reported to
have committed suicide in Quincy hotel,
died from an overdose of laudanum taken
for cramp collie.
The Pacific mail steamer Barracuda
has arrived in San Francisco in a badly
shattered condition. Monday terrific
explosion occurred in the vessels hold,
and the captain thinks it was dynamite.
Jack Renfrow, John Bidey and William
Lawson, Indian Territory desperadoes
have been arrested and are in Jail at
Andover.
G. A Wilson, farmer living near Gar
nett, Kan, was stabbed to death with a
corn knife by boy, in a quarrel over %
cents.
Ed McSperritt, a farm hand of Macomb.
His, has sued farmer for $4,000 The
latter told the neighbors that McSperritt
was thief.
Saturday, Sept. 2.
St. Genevieve, Mo-, had its first fire in
several years.
New York Republicans will hold their
state convention at Syracuse, Oct. G.
William a. McIlroy and Miss Cora Sal
lee of Paris, Ills, elOped to Terre Haute
and were married.
The third annual convention of the Iowa
Public Health association is in session at
Davenport.
Michael Gleason. one of the best known
sporting men of Boston, died at the South
Boston insane asylum.
John Rutherford of Manhattan, His,
has been placed in the Joliet Jail for fatal
assault on Frederick Ingraham.
Patrick J. MaIoney, while engaged in q
drunken fight in St. Louis. was shot and
killed by Officer John J. Lyons.
Footpads intercepted George Miller, a
farmer of Elkhart, Ind, robbed him of 81,
and beat him into insensibility
The comptroller of indianapolis has gone
east to make one more attempt to sell
100000 of city refunding bonds.
Rival electric powerand light companies
at Findlay, o., have consolidated. and
consumers expect increased rates.
A 5-yeaF-old child of H o. Rice was
burned to death by the explosion of a can
of oil near East Liverpool, o.
BY the accidental discharge of a gun in
the hands of his cousin, John Sterig of
Pulaski, Ia, was Instantly killed.
While undergoing surgical operation
at Norwalk. o., Mrs. B. +. Zaiber, aged so,
died from the effects of anaesthetics
Thomas BurfoEd. who eat the throat Of