The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-08-07
NUMBER 50.
NUGGETS or NEWS

emerson Il FISHER, buggy and car
Tiage makers Of Cincinnati, nave iaiiod.
Liabilities, $500 500.
Sauey Chief was elected chief Of The
Usage Indians By majority Of Y. II
was q victory for the haii-bTeeds
In Iowa free silver democrats, popgs
lists and bimetaliists have sgreed on
fusion on state and electoral tickets.
On ranch near Canyon City, One,
sheepmen and osttlemen engaged Ia 8
bloody fight, resulting in the death Of
five men.
Popuhsts Of Indiana nominated 6
middle-of-the-road state ticket and re-
jeeted all proposals OF fusion with
democrats
William j. Bryan, democratic Romi.
nee for president, contemnlRtes q visit
to every state in the union before eiee.
ton day.
Ex-senator Hearst, the millionaire
publisher Of the san Francisco Exam
liner, will soon start a silver daily pape
at Chicago.
Calvin Fletcher Burnes, president
the National Bank of St. Joseph, No.
is dead. He was one Of the richest m
in Missouri
Two passenger trains eolHded nc
Birkbeek, H., wrecking the engines
three ears. Two persons were Kill
and II injured.
A Washington dispatch said congress
would likely be called in special
sion in September to consider tts
Cuban question.
Sixteen lives were lost and propsri
valued at over 81, COG, 900 was destro
by recent floods in the vicinity 81
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Mrs, Ellen Plowmsn, aged 4s, WE
found in a box car at Kansas City, 81,
She was beating her way from Lift
Rock, Ark, TO Chicago.
There were many deaths from he
in st. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, L,gi
vile, KY, Nashville, Tenn, and oti,
large cities on the 29th.
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, "
open the republican campaign in IT
sas with a speech before the state &c
vention at Topeka, August 70,
The republican state committed
Colorado by g vote Of 4s TO IS, indorscd
/ Mckinley and Hobart and refused
follow Senator Teller's course.
The rumor that Queen Victoria "
soon Rbdicate the British throne, -l
account Of advanced age, in favor
the prince of Wales, has been revive
The Missouri state university ct
lumbis is making interesting expe
ments with tx" rays for consumptic
with encouraging prospects Of sueces
It is stated semi-oficially that Go
Stone, Of Missouri, and J. G. Johnso.
Of Kansas, will be made members G
the democratic national executive con
mittse.
There was a cash balance in the Mis
souri, state treasury August 1 of 81
249, AS. The state penitentiary earned
500 4O2 during the month and disburss'l
SIG, 347
Arthur Sewall, candidate of the de-
mocrscy for vice president in a recent
interview said money was the leading
issue and tariff only Of secondary Inn
/ pOFtanee.
The Southwestern Football league
was organized at Yates Center, Kan,
composed of Eureka, Neodesha and
Yates Center, with the fourth team yet
to be named.
Hon. Jehu Baker. an ex-republican
congressman, was nominated by the
populists of the Twenty-First Illinois
district for congress Democrats re-
fused TO indOrse him.
6. C. Richardson, of Kansas, was
/ chosen vice president of the National
Apple Growers association, in session
at Chicago. NJ. A. Richardson, of Mis-
souri,, was made treasurer
A hailstorm at Ashland, Neb., shat
! tered windows and damaged roofs,
stripped orchards, ruined corn and
killed swine and poultry. One faTiasr
claims to have lost 90 young pigs
Over 200 delegates are yet to be
elected 20 the repu blican state coavens
ton in Kansas, but Gov. Morrills
friends claim he has already GO more
votes than he needs for a nomination
The Columbus Buggy CO.. Of Colum-
/ bus. o., the largest in the world, has
failed for a large amount, owing to
business depression. The branch
house at Kansas City, So, was closed.
Kansas gold democrats met IN To
peza recently and organized TO 6gbt
Bryan and sewal Sam Kimble was
chosen national committeeman and
Eugene Hagan was named IS delegate
/ to the national conference Of gold
| democrats.
Ex-CoRgFessman BCurke CochrEn, Of
/ New York. who has tustreturned from
/ Europe, bolts the nomination of Bryan
and says he will support Mckinley in
order TO defeat ''an attempt to paraiyze
industry by using all the powers Of
government 20 take property from the
hands Of those who created &c and
place it in the hands Of those who
coVes Il"
ILLINOIS SPLIT WIDsREU.