The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-02-10
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

Brakeman G. D. Barnes was killed at
Wichita, Kan. by a Missouri Pacific
train.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois, who went
south in search of health, is very much i'm
proved.
A case of smallpox has been discovered
at the county infirmary two miles from
Akron, 0.
The SPRING .A~e tue hotel at Conway,
Springs, Kama eseraed for the second time
in a year.
Joseph Leonard of MilIerstown, Pa,
persisted in burning dwelling at Oak
dale, Pa
Work of recounting the ballots IN the
Marshall-Hall contest at Charleston, ILL.,
has been begun.
John Black, of Pulaski, ILL.,. jumped
from a moving train and had his head cut
off by the wheels.
The leaders of the Mexican bandits re-
Gently captured are undergoing trial at
San Antonio. Tex.
The Wabash, Chester and Western rail-
road will increase its capital stock from
$3.50, 600 to 81, $4,000.
The New York Medical society will Pc
tition congress for the establishment OF a
national quarantine.
The Empress Frederick, of Germany,
has arrived at Osborne on visit to queen
Victoria, her mother.
The annual meeting of the Missouri
State Bar association will be held at Pertle
Springs, June %, % and 90.
A dynamite explosion at Richmond,
Ind, injured John Snyder SO that he will
die. B. c. Smith was seriously hurt.
John W. Burns, a travelling salesman of
Detroit, is in Jail on the charge of forgery
and fleeing merchant out OF money.
A committee of the Pennsylvania legis
lature is to visit points along the Atlantic
coast suitable for quarantine station.
Members of Fairbury Post, 6. A. R.,
and the woman's relief corps have held
their annual encampment at Fairbury, Ill.
Rush Morgan, one of the most noted
outlaws and desperadoes in the mountains,
was shot and killed near Hubbard Springs,
Va.
Joseph P. Conveys, ex-chief justice of
Delaware, died at his residence in Dover
last evening. He was born near Dover in
1872.
Fifty-four persons Joined the church
during a revival meeting just closed at
Virginia, Ill, by Evangelist Moore, of
Ohio.
The lower house of Illinois has passed
the senate bill memoralizing congress to
repeal the Worlds Fair Sunday closing
clause.
Manager Fred D. Simmerman, of the
Western Union telegraph Office at West
Superior, Wis, is missing. 1t is said he is
a defaulter.
Senior class election at Williams college
has taken place. Irwin M. Garfield, son
of ex-President Garfield, was chosen pres
ident of the day.
William Pfafflin, wholesale notion
dealer at IS and 81 Sonth Meridian street,
Indianapolis, made an assignment for the
benefit of creditors.
Judge Thomas E. Withrow, for many
years general solicitor of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railway COM
pany, died insChicago.
Hugh Boyle has been appointed mem
ber of the staff of Governor Altgeld, Of
Illinois, with the rank of colonel and as
sistant adjutant general.
Every department in the big Westing
house air brake works at Wilmerding has
been put on full time. The $500 employees
are correspondingly elated.
Thomas D. and w. r. Woodward of Sc
dalia, Mo, two young men who had here
tofore borne unblemished characters, were
arrested for stealing $50 sheep.
A disastrous coal gas explosion has oc:
CURED in the Skalis pit near Gratz, in
Syria. Five miners were killed and ten
are reported to have been injured.
John S. Duss, senior trustee of the Econ
emite society. near Pittsburg, is confined
to his bed, where he has been nearly a
week, suffering from paralYtic stroke.
The police Wednesday night arrested
Bert Brewer, Bert Freshwater and Henry
Atwen at Bloomington, Ills, and it is be-
ieved an important gang has been cap
tured.
Hon. Howell E. Jackson, of Nashville,
Tenn, recently appointed to the vacancy
on the supreme bench, is the recipient OF
many congraUulatory letters and tele-
grams
Rev. DR.. Dean Richmond Babbitt, rector
of st. Johns Episcopal church of Sagi-
He succeeds DR.. Wells, the new bishop of
Spokane.
The Students Journal, published at the
University of Kansas, at Lawrence,
charges Hall Riddle with plagiarism in
the address with which he won the ora
torical contest.
The 1O-year-old son of Henry Lichtmark,
farmer near Winamac, Ind, while out
hunting, carelessly pointed gun at his
elder brother and pulled the trigger, fatally
Wounding him.
The Chicago Trust and Savings bank
has fled suit to foreclose chattel mort
gage against John j. Clause and the Clause
Printing Press company, recently moved
to EIkhart from Chicago.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad stockholders have voted
unanimously to ratify the lease Of the
Providence and Worcester railroad for
term of ninety-nine years.
The main supply pipe of the natural gas
system at Peru, Ind, burst in the middle
Of the river, making fountain ten feet
high. The gas had to be shut of until
new main could be constructed.
The supreme court of Minnesota has de-
cided that patent medicine manufac51reE
has no right to appropriate the name of 8
medicine made by another to his own ex-
elusive use as a proprietary trademark -.
Mr.. J. B. Wathen was unanimously
elected president; j. II. Hobbs, of CleVe-
land, O., was made first vice-president
and w. r. Lee, OF St. Louis, second vice
president of the new Corporation organ
lied at Louisville, KY. to fight the whisky
trust.
Herman Zimmerman, Of Kansas City,
aged 10, in trying to arouse his brother
Peter, surprising 3 gun to Be empty,
placed cap on it, pointed it at Peters
head and said: ''Get up, or I'll shoot
you" The gun was discharged and Peter