The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-09-22

George Clark escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Richmond, Va. He escaped from
tie penitentiary at Joliet. Ills, two years
] sgo.
| 1he sixth annual reunion of the Forty
| sixth Illinois volunteer infantry closed at
Freeport, Ills. The annual address was
delivered by the Hon. Isaac Clements of
Chicago.
The annual celebration picnic of the La
Sale County Alliance and the County
Grange was held at Ottawa, Ills. The
speakers were Mayor Schoch, A e. Bald
win of Deer Park, and David w. Wood,
editor of The Voice.
Monday, Sept. Is.
Treasurer of Knights of Honor, Lehigh.
L T., was robbed of lodge funds by maskek
men.
Coast survey steamer Hessler has ar
rived in Tacoma, Wash, from Alaska and
will winter there
John G. Mcbride of Tacoma CT inns to
have discovered gold on school land near
that city, and is contesting for title.
Trial of Is Coal Greek, Tenn, soldiers,
charged with lynching Richard Drum
mond, a miner. began at Nashville.
Anti-Chinese Law and Order league,
San Francisco, requests appointment of 90
men to arrest unregistered Chinese.
Chinese government has filed all vacan-
cies at San Francisco. Writs Of habeas
corpus will be asked in all cases of ar
rested Chinese.
The commission of bishops and laymen
appointed by the Protestant Episcopal
church to revise the constitution and the
canons postponed it's meeting until No
vember, in Newport, r. L
The stage which carries mail between
Tahlequah. I. T., and Fort Gibson was
held up. Two men robbed the passengers
and carried off the registered mail and
letters.
Captain Thomas of the British schooner
Pearl, now at Halifax, says thft in the bay
| off New York the United States Kearsarge
ran and dropped anchor almost on board
his vessel. The two vessels collided, the
Pearl sustaining many injuries.
w. c. Swinburne, who is wanted in
Colorado for alleged crooked work in rail-
road ticket selling, has gone to Denver to
meet the charges.
Two burglars attacked Mrs. G. w.
Nicodemus in her home at Newton, Kan,
and would have burned her to death if
her husband had not returned home and
driven them away.
Frederik Getchell is dying at Oakland,
Cal. Two weeks ago he fell from a street
car and blood poisoning followed his in
juries. Mr.. Getchel's first wife was a
daughter of Justice Miller of the United
States supreme court.
Tuesday, Sept. 1e.
The Grand Lodge Independent Order Of
Odd Fellows met at Milwaukee.
The Adventists are holding an interest
ing camp meeting at Sedalia.
John @. Adams shot and killed John
Thornton at Greenville, Ills, in drunken
row.
Canton, S. D., is agitated over thu dis
covery there of what is supposed to be a
case Of leprosy.
A missionary festival of German Luth-
eran churches was held at Mascoutah,
Ills.
A Mexican and his wife and daughter
have been arrested for counterfeiting at
San Antonio, Tex.
A wild and woody animal, that attacks
and eats only dogs. is terrorizing the
country about Danville. KY.
Costa RIGA celebrated her SEVENTEEN in
dependence day by granting amnesty to
political exiles.
A gang of crooks is infesting Fargo, N.
D. Two murders and hold-up of 20 men
by three is one days record.
An iron bridge on the Southern Pacific
railroad, six miles above New Orleans,
went down with a train.
Of the three negroes who murdered the
old man Hall, near Rome, Ga, one was
killed and two landed in Jail.
Secretary Hoke Smith has settled the
Atlanta postmastershi fight by deciding
to have Renfro, the former incumbent,
appointed.
An Ohio hunter sleeping in the woods
awoke with a rattlesnake coiled on his
breast He was saved by his dog, who
seized the reptile before it could strike.
Rev. DR. Talmage. in his sermon at the
Brooklyn tabernacle offered a reward of
500 to any infidel who had read the bible
through twice in course.
The ghost of Robert Rankin is said to
make its appearance frequently about
Big Island, Ia. where the body is supposed
to have been buried by the murderers.
Ike Benier, an old Colorado guide and
hunter, once arrested for the murder of
Detective Martin Casey. committed sui
| eide in a cabin 20 miles from Leadville.
"Wednesday, Sept. 90.
j. K. Stratton, the noted mail box rob
Der, has escaped from the Colorado pen.
Pickpockets have been reaping harvest
at the worlds parliament of religion at
| Chicago.
A heavy rain, hail and thunder storm
struck St. Paul Two men were killed by
lightning
Coal was discovered at a depth of q
feet on the farm of T. ]. Clauson, near
Murdoch, Ills.
Rain broke the drouth at Woodstock.
Ills It Will help fall feed and late plant
ing of cucumbers.
A prominent stock buyer of Atterberry,
Ills, was robbed of 81, 900 in a negro dive
at Springfield, Ills.
The sixty-ninth annual session of the
Sovereign Grand lodge, /. O. o. f., is in
session at Milwaukee.
The case vi II j. O'Brien. ex-treasurer
of the Catholic Knights of America. was
continued at Chattanooga
An unknown passenger on the ferryboat
Fawn committed suicide by jumping into
the river at St. Charles, Mo.
The Nevada state fair opened at Carson.
Fast horses and fine live stock from all
over the coast are on exhi bition-
Two suits, involving about $780, 900, have
been brought against James R. Keene, the
well known Wall street operator.
w o. Thomas. a merchant Of Green
vile, Ills, disappeared with his family
from that town between two days.
George Lucas and Ed Buschman fought
with shotguns at St Charles. 40. Both
were wounded. Lucas probably fatally.