The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-08-18

killed by a Chicago and Great Western
train.
At Northport Wash, the Commercial
hotel was burned and George Shields, bar
tender, and Frank IngIe persisted. Others
were severely burned.
Fire caught load of hay belonging to
John Endsley at Oakland, Ills, and be-
fore the horses could be unhitched one OF
them was killed by the heat.
The Stevens brothers, charged with
grand larceny. cut through the roof of the
jail at Beloit. Kan, let them selves down
by rope made from their blankets and
escaped.
Edward Pickens, an Indian Territory
murderer, whose death sentence was COM
muted by the president, has been taken to
the Detroit House of Correction to serve
life sentence.
But for timely rescue Mrs. George
Kaiser of Smelson, Ills, would have been
gored to death by a bull. She was Sc
verely injured.
The building and stock of the Chicago
Fair store at Sydney, Neb., was damaged
by fire. J. Richards and e. J. Loudon,
the proprietors, were arrested for arson.
A black beetle has made it's appearance
in Wayne county, Indiana, of about the
same shape but far more destructive than
the Colorado potato bug, from the fact
that it attacks almost every species Of
vegetation.
Monday, Aug. Ia.
Religious riots in Bombay are extend
ing
Fire at Minneapolis destroyed s., OOO, 900
worth of property.
1t is believed the Cherokee Strip will
not be opened until October.
Five men were seriously injured by the
falling of a scaffold at Cincinnati.
The Austrian Archduke Ferdinand is
expected at San Francisco shortly. He is
now in Burmah.
Dink Wilson, the long sought Glendale
train robber, has been arrested at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, for the murder of a detective.
Chief Papin of the Kaw Indians is at
Arkansas City, Kan, arranging for the
sale of the 100000 acres of surplus land of
the tribe after allotment at $1.25 an acre.
The case of John w. Flood, charged
with the embezzlement of $164, 900 from
the Donohue- Kelly bank at San Francisco,
has been continued until the 23d inst, to
have the date set for the cashiers second
trial.
At revival meeting at Ridge Farm,
a young man named Alexander became
engaged in a quarrel with several of the
local SWANS over girl. and, in the fight
bntbO lOl1OWOOi1 <aAO@Ao14OC1 uSSSA q nA4ALCS
wounding three men, one of whom will
die
Rev. S. ]. McEIwee, whose death oc-
Cured at Indianapolis, was buried at Ko-
komo Death was due to a peculiar
cause. Three years ago Mr.. McElwee
officiated at a wedding, and at the feast
following the ceremony the entire we'd
ding party was taken violently i'll. An
| investigation showed the cream had been
poisoned Mr.. McElwee was the most
seriously affected and was an invalid until
death came.
Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Russia is said to be after the Hawaiian
Islands.
Officials of the Thornton bank at Shell
byville, Ills, were arrested.
At Portage des Sioux, Ills, safe in a
store was blown open by burglars and the
store fixtures wrecked.
Indian Territory miners decided at a
mass meeting not TO strike in sympathy
with the Kansas miners.
Mrs. Kungle of Richland, Kan, has
made sensational statements about abuses
in the Industrial school at Beloit.
"Old Hutch" who was once worth S.
! 100000, has just sold his Chicago board of
trade membership for mere pittance.
Samuel Strong, a well known farmer of
| Piqua, o., was killed by a passenger train.
| William Utlant, who lived near Green
vile, Ills, was killed by falling under the
wheels of wagon loaded with wheat
sheaves.
Commander Burlington Booth. of the
Salvation Army, with Mrs. Booth and
their two children, returned from England
on the Aurania.
Richard Lappin, switchman on the
Lake Erie and Western road at Upton,
Ind, was killed by falling underneath the
wheels of an engine.
| The Baptist Sunday school of Fairbury,
! Ills, presented to John w. Beers a gold
medal for efficient service for 25 years as
superintendent.
Two locomotives, two engine houses and
coal chutes, property of the Niagara Cen
trail Railroad company, burned at ST.
| GATHERINGS, Ont. Loss, $4,000.
! Colonel E. G. Towers of La Porte, Ind,
fled damage suit for 5000 against the
] Lake Erie and Western railroad for in
/ juries received last June at a crossing.
Mrs. George Sherman of Macon, Ga. was
fatally injured by being thrown from
! buggy.
Wednesday, Aug. 16.
Stephens Hamilton, young farmer,
tried to wade the Sangamon river near
/ Petersburg Ills, and was drowned.
| James P. Seward has reconsidered his
declination of the Craftsmanship of the
Ohio Democratic state executive COM
mittee.
Over 500 delegates and visiting members
! of the Sons Of Veterans and Ladies' Aid
society are at Cincinnati for the national
encampment.
! Search for the would-be slayers of
! Deputy Sheriff Erb, near La Grange,
Ind, has practically ended without sue
cess. Erb will recover.
! Grant Olds, who several months ago
knocked a man down at Marion, Ind,
and stamped him to death, was arrested
near Brazil, Ind.
| The Southern express Office in New Or
| leans was robbed of a bag containing
| 1000 silver dollars. There is no clew to
! the thief
| Albert, the youngest son of Mayor H.
/ A Young. at Lake City, Mimi, accidently
shot and instantly killed Christina Archi-
bald of Minneapolis
Falling asleep on the tracks OF the
/ Louisville Air Line near Mascoutah, Ills.
Matthias Kamm, farm hand, was ground
/ to pieces by train.
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