The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-02-22
MURDER COMMITTED.
Joint Raid at MilwOOd, Kan. Re-
salts In q Woman's Death.
Forty Farmers Entered the Place Kept b.
John Hudson and the Proprietor and
His wife Resisted-OTer 100
shots Were Fired

LeavenwOrth, Kan, Feb. SO.-l[rs.
Rose Hudson, wife Of John Hudson, a
saIoOnkeePer at 1filwood, IA miles
north Of this city, was shot and in
stantly killed Monday night during a
saloon riot Her husband had been
warned to close his saloon and he re-
fused About ten o'clock three men
entered the place and called for q
drink. When served they raped on
the counter and gave a signal Hudson
Jumped from behind the counter and
grabbed one Of the men. In the fuss
the shotgun which the man carried
was discharged, its contents entering
the stove and wall Mrs. Hudson, at
fracted by the noise, ran screaming
into the room. The mob, which had
been waiting a signal, crowded in at
the same time. There were 40 or so
of them, mostly masked. In the melee
that followed Mrs. Hudson was shot
IN the head by a shotgun, and the top
Of her head blown of William Webb
was shot in the shoulder by a revolver.
Nearly 100 shots were fired in all.
Hudson carried his dying wife into an
adjoining room and the mob retired
without wreckng the Joint.
Mrs. Nations Latest work.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 19.-Sunday
morning at six o'clock Mrs. Carrie
Nation sailed forth from the state
house grounds at the head of 500 de-
termined men and women, all armed
with axes and hatchets. They marched
down Kansas avenue to Seventh
street and moved on the fashionable
joint kept by Ed Murphy. Six Wash
burn college boys with a battering
ram came forward, and in less time
than 1t takes to tell it the big plate
glass windows were shattered into
thousands Of fragments. Dozens 0f
men rushed on the building with their
axes and soon had the doors and win
dow frames cut entirely away. At this
stage four policemen came forward
and arrested Mrs. Nation, taking her
to the police station. For a moment
the crusaders were thrown into con-
fusion by the removal of their leader,
but the crowd surged forward into
the building, and soon all the front
part of the room had given way, and
all could enter at viii. A case of beer
was found in the room and it was
soon smashed. Slot machines, cigar
cases. billiard tables, chairs, counters
and even the stoves were smashed to
smithereens. After being satisfied that
there was nothing else to destroy the
crusaders left the building.
Mrs. Nation Arrested.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 19.-Mrs. Nation
is now in the county Jail as a result
of her trial on a peace warrant be-
fore Judge Hazen yesterday. The
warrant was sworn to by the AIoeser
Cold Storage company, into whose
plant Mrs. Nation entered Sunday
morning. Mrs. Nation acted as her
own attorney in the trial Judge |
Hazen placed her under s., 900 bond
to keep the peace and ordered her to /
appear before him at the next term |
of court. Mrs. Nation refused to give !
the bond and said she would 60 to
Jail She is now detained in the hos /
PitaI room OF the county Jail, where |
she wiz probably remain for some /
time
A Saloon at Newman Kan, Raided.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 2O.-A raid was |
made on a joint at Newman, II miles /
east Of here, by 20 or 80 men and /
women and the beer and liquor was /
destroyed and short work made of the /
handsome fixtures and plate-glass !