The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-01

AT -Helenwood, Tenn, Lewis PEN
bertons g saloonksepeT, appeared on
tbs streets drunk and began firing OF
his Winchester rife. Town Marshal
Hugetts attempted 70 arrest him, when
Penberton's son tried to shoot the mar
shall and was shot dead By the latter.
Old Pemterton then inflicted a flesh
wound on the marshal, but was killed
by the latter.
THE Windsor hotel, four saloons, two
clothing stores, three restaurants, one
grocery store, two livery stables and
two barber shops, composing g large
portion Of the business section Of Potts
dam, n Y, were destroyed by FIRE.
The damage was estimated at s1O0, 600;
partially insured.
GREeOR KREIcHBAUM and his aged
wife were burned to death by fire IN
q grocery store under their rooms at
Providence, R. I.
THREE masked men held up Mrs.
Mary Bsrnhardt in her saloon at 19l
West Twelfth street, Chicago, and took
$3.50 from the cash drawer There
were two customers in the place at the
time playing dominoes. The robbers
escaped.
WILLIAM WALKER attempted to board
moving train near Pekin, H., and
fell under the wheels and was killed,
A LANDSLIDE occurred at Ratsmore
Eng, on the night of the 9Th and a
laborer's house was overwhelmed and
the man, his wife and seven children
were buried.
FORTY families were burned out on
the 28th by a fire in an apartment
house on West Fifteenth street, New
York
A LANDSLIDE destroyed the village
of Santa Ana de Pelago, Italy, demol
ishing lis houses and rendering Isl
families homeless.
THE large furniture house of Julius
Lansburg and some adjacent struc
lures at Washington were destroyed BY
fire on the 28th. Loss, 500, 600.
DONALD MCLEAN, protector of thu
Pacific Short Line, stated at SiouI
City, Ia, that he had absolutely Sc
cured all the capital necessary for tn,
completion of a railway from Sioul
City to San Francisco. The road will
cost S32, OOO, 600, which is advanced b.
English capitalists.
Two tramps were frozen to death a
Eastport, n. Y, on the 2Sth. At Kings
ston, n Y, the thermometer market
16 degrees below zero.
The double-decked ferryboat New
Brunswick, owned by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., was burned to the water
edge at New York on the 28th. Tn
loss was abOVtsl2O,O 900.
| A TERRIFIC explosion of fire damp OC
CURED in the mine of the Maule Goa
Co. at Princeton, Ind, on the 26th an
| six miners were killed, one was reporte
missing and eight others were rescue
almost lifeless. The scenes around tn
mine were most pathetic, wives, moth
ers and children stood weeping bitterl
and with bianched faces, waiting 70
the bodies to be brought up.
| A PASSENGER train on the Birming
ham Mineral railroad went through
bridge 27 miles from Birmingham
| Ala. and 20 people were killed, fv
fatally injured and two badly wounded
The entire wreck then took fire an
most of those killed were burne
| beyond recognition. The accident wa
thought to have been caused by the IT
moval of a rail on the bridge. a n
lief train sent to the scene was ru
4 into by q construction train and on
man was crushed to death and sewers
others were more or less hurt.
CHRISTIAN CHRISTENSEN has bee
convicted of wife murder at Clarke,
D., and sentenced to the penitentiaI
for life.
GEORGE WHITToN, the marshal {
Stamping Ground, KY, was shot an
fatally wounded by Tom BFunne
: Whisky was the cause.