The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-02-05
90 EvENTs o. e ~.
Some Queer ard Frsakish Aappsning
of the Past Twelve Months

Miss Frances Petit OF Galway, n.
Y, got judgment at Albany for 5000
for the ], 236 kisses given her in four
teen years BY the village blacksmith.
L. Oliphant Dodge. owner Of a Fat
building in Omaha, was granted a writ
Of injunction restraining Mrs. E
Berge, a tenant, from talking to other
occupants Of the fats.
With q courts Judgment against her
in the possession Of S10,S0o, Mrs. Nan
ME S. Bryan Of St Louis, by putting
the money under her clothing. held it
against all corners
William H. Pugsley caused the ar
rest Of his wife at Mount Vernon. n.
Y, on the ground Of cruelty in forcing
him to sleep in a chicken coop.
Persons believing in the value Of
horse meat for food gave a banquet
in Berlin, at which 500 guests feasted-
The bite Of a mosquito was charged
TO be the cause Of the death Of Carl
StrOmqufst OF Chicago.
G. ". Leadbeater, the London The
Osophist, after a visit 20 the Chicago
stockyards. declared that. instead Of
smoke darkening the city, II is the
ghost life OF the millions o. animals
slaughtered every year in the abba
tors
Prof C. Stanley Hall Of Clark uni
versity, Boston, not only proposed a
tax upon bachelors. but declared that
coeducatiOn was a bar TO matrimony.
A bill was introduced in the Mime
sofa legislature making il unlawful for
any person TO kiss another unless he
be able 70 produce a clean bill OF
health
As a consequence Of the famine
times, Stockholm legislators proposed
q tax upon all persons weighing more
than 125 pounds
Mrs ". T Richardson. \ boarding
house keeper in Detroit. was refused
coal by the clerk in a coal Office and
getting her change ready. and draw
/ ing a revolver. she held him up for a
receipted bill for a ton Of anthracite at
$3.50.
Seventy German poets in Berlin en-
tered into a union, refusing TO accept
less than ten cents a line for their
rhymes
Mrs. lafayette Taylor killed her hus-
I band at Monticello. n. Y. cut his body
IN pieces with a knife. burnt il in the
stove. and fed the ashes 10 the chick
ems
Hairpins from the heads Of women
| passengers in a Columbus CO.. trolley
car saved a carload Of belated people
a long walk in the snow after fuse
had burned out
Henry Bliss Of Chicago was arrested
and locked up because. in inviting
Miss Ida Lee to accompany him TO the
theater, ne used a revolver TO per
suade her.
Gen. Nelson A Miles dollar, which
he had deposited in Boston house
in 1850, losing the book and forgetting
the name Of the bank. was found il
the Five Cent Savings bank
A cowboy named Wilson discovered
two men floating on a cake OF ice
down the Republican river. in Nebras-
ka, and. riding close to the shore. cast
his Iariat over first one and then the
other Of the men, drawing them ashore
to safety.
The Berlin Nueste Nachrichten an
nounced the existence OF a great corn
I ed beef mine in the Yellowstone park.
| the deposits having been caused by
I the iRgulfng Of great drOves OF cattle
during the triOcene period. the natural
[ salts Of the territory contributing %
its preservation
Don Cameron St John, returned sol
der from the Philippines, fell heir 10
| SIuU, 900 from his grandmother be
/ cause Of his clever verses on the army
life in the south seas.
In the divorce suit Of Ruthven W
Pike against his wife. the court re
| fused the invitation Oh the Eife's cOun-
sci TO allow the jury to feel Mrs. Pixies
muscles in disprOving that she ever
threw ladders and cOrdwOOd az her
/ better half.
Arthur Van Meter. a prominent mer-
/ chant Of salt Lake City. suffered from
( dropsy. and. after fast Of forty days.
Z in which he took nothing but water.
/ he found himself cured
Mrs James n. Strong OF Chicago.
put $500 in bills in an openwOrk stock
I fnz and she hasn't found il yet
New York society opposed 70 street
| hfrtstions issued small buttons which
when worn By young women. we're tc
/ hold them immune from the attentions
! OF the masher-
Through a mistake on the part OF
L DOOh county 0LllAaA1 4ALE- ElELLa
Green's tax OF s1105 on a piece -Of
! Cook county land was paid By q neigh.
Dor. and under the technicalities Of
1 the law Hetty won when the neighbOr
I attempted 70 recover the amount
z C. Jones, a banker Of New York.
gave q dinner in honor Of Miss Ethel
I Barrymore, where the plates Tor
twelve cost $500
A court in Berlin decided IN favor
Of q vile suing for divorce on the
strength OF the fact that her husband
wears q wig. and that she did lot
know It at the time Of the ceremony.
Miss Mary L Rogers. o. Pawtucket
RI graduate Of wellesley. and the
new teacher in the high school knock
Cd out The captain OF the football team
win a blow on the nose ard landed
twice on the eyes Of his confederate
Who assisted * 'breEking her in
Al New York mother was given a
lease for a Tat By Representing hat
he. 1ine chHdrea. were IN the Gene
terye.-Ehere they had been playing
an morning