The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-18

inches of rain have fallen in II days
and many people have been drowned.
CLAY q. COOPER, a convict charged
with larceny, who was shackled to
another convict, slipped his shackies
unknown to the guard and dived
through the window of a car and
escaped near South McAlester, L T,
POSTMASTER GENERAL WILSON has is
sued an order so as to provide for the
sale of stamps by letter carriers. II
viii be tried at Washington at once
and, if found practicable, extended
generally.
THOMAS STARKEY, junior member Of
the firm of starkey & Son, proprietors
of the city roller mills at North Bend,
Neb, met instant death, by being
wound around a shaft in the mill.
Sharkey was placing a belt, when his
clothing caught IN a cog-wheeL
THE secretary of the treasury has
sent to congress a statement of receipts
and expenditures of the government
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895,
including the postal service. The total
receipts as reported were S4O9, 475, 4Os,
and the expenditures S434, ,654.
G. w. BENJE and Judge Keys, of
TahIequah, I. T., have gone to WASH
ington as representatives of the In
dams on matters affecting tribal vel
fare before congress. MIR. Benje said
the five civilized tribes were not yet
ready for statehood, as a large per
cent of the Indians were too imper-
fectly advanced in civilization to un-
derstand the duties of citizenship.
A WHOLESALE raid of downtown pool
rooms at Chicago was made on the 18th
and upwards of 1000 prisoners were
taken to the central station.
GEORGE ISAAC, a scientist at Berlin,
was experimenting with acetyline gas
and he and three assistants were blown
to atoms.
THE boundary line between Missouri
and Iowa was 10 be settled by the fed
eral supreme court, it was reported, by
a formal decree sustaining the conten-
ton of Missouri and Mercer county,
No, will acquire a slice of territory
heretofore claimed by Decatur coun.
ty, Ia.
A SPECIAL from Fort Smith, Ark,
stated that the Choctaw delegates had
agreed with the Dawes commission for
the allotment of lands and abolition of
tribal government in eight years
Townsites will be set apart and sold
and the balance of the land equally di-
Vided among citizens
The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. in his report states that the re-
ceipts from ali sources for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1896, amounted to
S146, $50, $50 g. For the ensuing year
the commissioner estimates the ex-
penses of the internal revenue service
at 81, 10000. Over 1000 liquor licenses
were issued in Kansas.
The steamship Salier, with pa pas
sengers and a crew of IS men, was sunk
in a recent gale off the coast of Spain
and all on board persisted.
RUMOBs were afoat at Yuma, Ariz,
of a terrible disaster at some mines in
Hedges, San Diego, Cal. Four miners
were killed and from three to twenty
injured it was reported.
The failures for the week ended the
18th Dun's report were $50 in the
United States, against 33S last year
and IS in Canada, against 81 last year.
The German ship Rajah foundered
in the Bristol channel and II of her
crew were drowned.
MARSHALL J. MILLER was hanged at
the state prison at San Quentin, Cal,
on the 18th for the murder of Joseph
Pierre.
J. K. EMMETT, the actor, has been
granted a divorce at New York from
his wife, whom he married in 1894
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
ALEXANDER SALvINI, the well-known
actor and son of Tomasso SaIvini, the
tragedian, diel at Florence, Italy, on
the 18th.
MORRIS Pope and J. q. Keithline got
into a quarrel over family matters at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, when the former
drew a revolver a.ld shot Keithline and
then blew out his own brains.
PATRICK COUGHLIN was executed ia
Rich county, Utah, on the 18th for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Dawes and
Constable Stage. Coughlin was blind
folded and a piece of white paper was
fastened over his heart and six deputies
fred at the mark, killing him instantly.
SENATOR WARREN, of Wyoming, was
reported seriously sick at Chicago on
the 18th.
TIE French eoasting steamer Marie
Fanny has been lost in the British
channel and her crew Of IA men
drowned,
THE house ways and means commit
tee will give hearings on the tariff on
December % and continue them for
two weeks Persons who desire TO
send a written statement can forward
the same to the clerk of the committee
at any time prior to the closing Of the
hearing.
THE assistant attorney-generalo of the
pest Office has ordered all black envel-
opes addressed in white ink TO be ex-
cluded from the mails. 1t is the latest
plan to coerce the payment of money
from debtors.
FRED KRUECHENHERGER and George
Sturm, two schooiboys living near Fort
Wayne, Ind, quarreled and the former
severed the latter's jugular vein with
knife,
A MEETING Of the executive commit
tee Of the American Bimetallic union
tegau at Washington on the 18th to
consider plans for the thorough organ
ization of silver advocates.
TIE pension bill was reported to the
senate on The 18th. Afr. allen, Of Ns-
5aosks, offered & resolution asking Cor
a committee to investigate the uss OF
money 3u elections and also introduced
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