People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — The County News. [ARTICLE]

The County News.

GOODLAND. Butter 30c. Oats 23@26c. Corn 32@35c. Rev. J. P. Henderson returned home Monday. Ex-sheriff Hugh Parker talks of moving to Goodland. Sheriff Graves took in the excursion to Chicago Friday. Our public schools never did better, so says everybody. The residence of John L. Cook is receiving a new coat of paint. Link Reed's residence has received a handsome coat of paint. M. L. Humston and wife were at Chicago the fore part of this week. Elmer Bringham did not make a trip to the Cherokee strip last week as was contemplated. 11. A. Slater went to Buck Creek Friday to look after his farming interest at that place. John Swaim, of Union township. was shaking hands with 1 is many fiiends in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Babcock returned from the city of astonishment last Friday after an absence of live or six days.

Mrs. John Carver, a former resident of Goodland, but now of Nebraska, is visiting relatives here this week. The two Misses Thomas, of Fowler, in company with young .gentlemen, drove over to this place. Sunday afternoon. There was one thousand and ten persons on the excursion t rain that run over the C. A I. C. when it arrived at Momence last Friday. There seems to be some talk' of Little vs. Longwell having the supreme court of Indiana settle their gravel street improvement case. Of course the longest way around, in some cases, is the shortest way home. We are told that the new social club, on which we believe a patent was recently issued at Goodland, is now in a muddle over what name to give the club. We would suggest that a very appropriate name would be ‘’Jack of Clubs.” Ld Hall, county commissioner at Garden City. Kansas, quietly ■slipped in on his many friends at this place last Thursday evening. Mr. H. was for a number < f years township assessor here but for the past eight years has resided at Garden City. Prof. Dickerson is, at this writing, making an effort to get up an excursion for all the school children of this place. Remington and Kentland to the World s Fair. If he is successful the trip will be made about Friday of this week. At this writing everything on Midway is quiet. We don't know if there is any arrangements being made to close this peculiar village after Oct. 30. or not. We presume there will be entertainments given at intervals after that tune however so long as the weather admits. Word reached this place Saturday that Dolf Ganyon, the Goodland desperado, had made a raid on a store in Fairbury, 111. Dolf had been hanging round the place for some time and traveling under the name of Cunningham. He succeeded in making his escape after committing the theft.

A young man, living southeast, whose name we did not learn,, had a hand terribly mangled last Saturday in a corn husking machine. He was brought to Goodland late in the evening where Drs. Pratt and Cronk attended the wounded man. The thumb was severed Foin ils membrane and the hand otherwise cut and bruised. Never, perhaps, in the history of our thriving little village lias some of oar people been called upon to look on so sad a scene as occurred here lust Friday. For two or three weeks little Jacxey Oich had been lingering with typhoid fever. Suddenly Thursday night or Friday he grew dangerously worse and died about 3p. in. Friday. For t hree or four hours previous to Lis death the father of the little fellow had been almost beastly drunk, so much so that any care that was offered for the little fellow was spurned by Hie father and the women word driven from the bed-side and almost from the house. So contemptible did he act that one of the lady attendants had to call City Marshal Apger, who, after an ugly tussel with him called the patrol wagon and landed him in the cooler. While the drunken

father was behind the bars little J.icrey'seyes were closed in death. Oft, while the little fellow lay upon his bed, his little frame racked with pain, and cheeks scorched with fever did he see the burning stare and reeling form of a drunken father. The brush of an artist can never delineate or the tongue of an orator cannot tell the suffering he endured. Let us hope he is better off. After a brief funeral service at the Presbyterian church the remains were taken to Remington and laid to rest. All of this cold and hunger in a little city that boasts of its two great charitable organizations, the W. C. T. U. and the W. R. C. Their charity seems to be for themselves and an unsusjxjcting public pays the expense.

Good land has n t last had a sensation, the result of the World’s Fair. It appears the circumstances surrounding the case are about these: Mr. and Mrs. Baker purchased, tickets to Chicago last Tuesday and had secured rooms in that city with a private family, but being somewhat cramped for bed room Mrs. B. and the landlady slept together while Mr. B. was given a bed with a man who was sick. After sleeping two or three nights with the fellow who was very restless and did not let him sleep but little he told his wife Thursday morning that he had grown tired of his boarding place and would go out into the city and see if he could not secure a new boarding place. Mrs. B. waited until 2:10 o'clock Friday and he did not return. She borrowed a little money with which to pay her street car fare and returned to Goodland Before leaving he had given back her return ticket, saying he might lose it, but carried with him about *FO in cash. After Mrs. B. returned to this place she telegraphed the chief of police a full description of her husband, but up to this time (Monday evening) she has heard nothing from the supposed unfortunate man. Mr. Baker formerly lived near Monticello and was for a long time employed as section foreman on the Pau Handel at that place. Was transferred from that section to one at this place about the first of last April when he became acquainted with Mrs. Nut with whom he boarded and after a few weeks' acquaintance they werennarried. Of late he has worked on the C. &I. C. as a section hand; is about 38 years of age; dark hair; brown mustache; fair complection and weighs about one hundred and seventy pounds. It is generally believed that he has been foully dealt with in the windy city. J ack the Ripper.