The Goodland republic., 1898-11-04

Robert Hoar, q 12-year-oId Wichita
boy, was run over and badly mangled
while jumping on and OF freight
trains
/ It is said that man at Hanover has
paid s., 600 in fines within 15 years, his
last COntri button being So for whip
ping his wife
The St Louis. Kansas & Southwest
ern railroad, line GO miles long be-
tween Arkansas City and Anthony,
was sold for $50, OOO-
John l. Kennedy, Of Washington
/ city, who was made a member OF the
industrial commission, formerly lived
at OswegO, this state.
Gov. Leedy named W. s Glass, cOun-
| ty attorney Of Marshall county, to be
judge Of the Tweuty-frst district vice
r. B. Spillman, deceased
After years stay in the Klondike
Miss Emma Kelly, daughter of ex-Sen-
atOr II. B. Kelly, Of Topeka, has re-
turned home with $50, 600.
An explosion Of gas at the home Of
Thomas Oyster, in PaOla, almost caused
the death of Miss Nellie Edwards as
it is, she may lose her eyesight.
The Santa Fe will run a special train
from EmpOria to St. Joseph, No, to
accommodate stOckmen. The train
leaves EmpOria at 1O:5O p m daily.
While prospecting within a mile Of
\ Fort Scott drillers struck a flow Of
! gas that shot out with such force that
/ the drilIers dared not remove the cap
from the we'll
Mrs Nancy Floyd. Of Newton, who
\ has been an inmate Of an insane asy-
/ lum several months, was recently
| granted a pension Of IS a month with
back pay aggregating STA
! C. T. Brown, a One-armed stOckman
Of Conway, was held up in Kansas
City, No, recently by two negroes,
/ and after being chOked and beaten in
to insensibiIity was robbed of S35-
While on a wheat stack c. w. Sig
/ nan, Of Sherman county, lost his bal
I ance, falling upon pitchfork he had
| placed against the stack with prOngs
/ upward. One prong entered his heart
! killing him instantly.
Texas fezer has infected several
| drOves of cattle in southwestern Craw-
/ ford county. Strange cattle from the
/ Indian territory introduced it In
Montgomery county, also, there are
| several cases Of the disease.
c. E. Parkhurst, a Wichita grocery
man who sued Otto Weiss for dam
! ages, alleging that Weiss was in
/ -four trust because he had refused to
| sell Parkhurst -four at contract price,
| secured Judgment after a hard-fought
trial
District Judge Bland, of Atchison,
/ holds that where Il mortgage was given
prior to the recent tIy-enacted 1S-mOnths
/ redemption law, and an extension was
I granted after the passage of the law,
/ the mortgage is fOreclOsable under the
old law.
Gov. Leedv commissioned o. J. Bur
! ton as second lieutenant of company
/ D, TweD tieth Kansas, vice Thomas
/ Richey, resigned. In this appoint
ment the governor ignored the recon-
mendatiOns Of both Col Funston and
Lieut.. Col Little.
Lewis Rowe, Fort Scott merchant
who died recently, left a will which
! disinherits his wife. His entire estate
| goes to his daughter and to Ada Moore,
| a nurse who attended him in his last
! sickness Family troubles were the
/ cause Of the disinheritance.
The following members of the Twen-
tieth Kansas were discharged previous
| to the starting Of q part Of the regi-
ment to Manila: Privates Henry Nc
| Kennay, Frank Mccoy, Edward Lew
| rance, William z. Sexton and E. J.
/ Miller and Corporal R E Elder.
S r Nelson, an old and prominent
/ citizen Of Lawrence, was arrested for
sending an obscene and threatening
/ letter through the mails to Rev. C. NJ
Sharpe, pa stOr Of the Christian church
| at Lawrence The arrest grows out
of a church fight Of long standing.
Bank Commissioner BreideDthaI ex-
| poets to get his bank guarantee fund
/ law passed by the legislature this win
| ter, regardless of the political com
/ plexiOn Of the house He says that it
/ is a non-political measure. and is one
that the general public as well as a
majority of the banks will favor.
The enlisted men Of the Twenty-frst
and Twenty second Kansas regiments,
/ in camp at Fort Leavenworth, were
recently given = banquetin Chiekering
| hall at LeavenwOrth- Music was fur
nishcd BY the Twenty-second regiment
band Three thousand pounds Of meat
and 80 barrels OF beer were consumed
The latest statement Of the condi-
tiOn Of Kansas national banks show
individual deposits Of So. los. ZIG; sur
plus, 81, ,4S9, 334: undivided profits. $780,
961; average reserve held, 34O9 per
cent
John Lemon, aged 50, a wealthy
/ farmer near PaOla, made over his real
and personal property to his wife,
then drew g, 600 from the bank and
left town, mailing his wife a letter
that he was going TO the KlOndike-
The coal companies Of southeastern
Kansas were doing a great business
but were greatly handicapped by the
ineapacity Of the railroads to furnish
SzOugh cars
A petition was being circulated at
Independence asking Gov. Leedy to
pardon Rudolph BrOekman, now serv-
ing a life sentence for numbering his
| only daughter two years ago
Several weeks ago a hired man Of
William WilmOth, a farmer near Inde-
pendence, placed several sticks Of giant
powder in the stove for safe keeping.
When q FIRE was started Ia the stove
recently a terrific explosion occurred.
totally wrecking the house and badly