People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-07-15
HE SOUTH.


The loss by the burning of the Goel-
ter works at Montgomery, Ala, is $685..
600; insurance, S2S5,OOO.
WILLIAM PTTTIN, chief of police at
Pineville, Ky, was killed in a quarrel
by Lucius Smith at picnic.
A RACE trouble was reported at jack
sonville, Fla, caused by an attempt to
disarm a negro.
LESTER GALE, teller, and William E.
Turner, bookkeeper of the City Savings
bank, have fled from Nashville, Tenn.
having taken with them about $4,000
Of the banks money.
A NEGRO was lynched at Jasper, Ala.
He attempted to assault two white
women.
L. A. BENSON was killed at Blount
Springs, Ala, while trying to run the
town.
SAM FRAZIER and Rienzi Kennedy,
young men, were drowned while bath
ing in the Ouachita river, near Camden.
Ark.
The supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that H. Clay King, the well
known jurist, must be hanged for the
murder of D. H. Poston, prominent
Memphis lawyer. The murder grew
out Of the sensational case in chancerv
Of the widow of Gen. Gideon Pillow.
The town of Arcola, Miss, has been
consumed by fire.
PoCOMOKE CITY, Nd, has been burned
Loss, 100000.
w. Il. WHPPLE, eX-mayor of Little
Rock, has been nominated by the re-
publicans for governor of Arkansas.
The strike of the trainmen on the
Southern Pacific road is over.
D. B. ROBINSON, president of the San
Antonio & Arkansas Pass railroad. has
appointed B. F. Yoakum, ex-receiver,
to the office of manager of the system.
Mr.. Yoakum was general manager of
the road previous to the receivership.
REV. JOS. BARDwELL has been ap-
pointed president of the Presbyterian
Female college at Florence, Ala.
A WALL about 400 feet long fell upon
some standing railway cars at Memphis,
Tenn, caused by soddened ground ow-
ing to rain. Three persons were killed.
BERG SHORT, who shot Henderson
Denkins and Lee Simmons near Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was reported making
for the mountains armed with Win
chester.
The corn crop in the vicinity of Deni-
son, Tex, will be enormous.
STRINGENT miscegenation laws are
preparing in Louisiana. The marriage
OF Chinese and negroes will ,be among
the prohibitions.
THERE was Jail break at Morrillton.
Ark. Two prisoners escaped.
GEORGE SMITH has been hanged al
Sherman, Tex, for the murder of James
lsbell, town marshal at Bells.
HOPES are entertained of the recovery
OF Gov. Eagle, of Arkansas.
GEORGE BACHELOR, an injured hus-
band" has been acquitted at Waxa.
hachie, Tex, of the killing of W. B.
Chapman in Dallas last January
The tannery of Wedekind & Hallen.
berg, Louisville, Ky, burned recently.
Loss. 5000, 900. Three men were seri-
ously injured.
GEORGE STONE, a negro murderer.
has been executed at Lafayette. Tenn.
He killed an old man for So or SIS.
The crops in the rich alluvial Arkan-
sas counties of Crittenden, Lee, St.
Francis, Phillips and Desha have been
ruined by the heavy rains in addition
to damage already done by overflow in
some sections
THE ninety-foot bridge across the
Oktibbeha creek, on the, Alabama &
Vieksburg railroad, five miles from
Meridian, Miss, has been swept away
by a freshet, together with several miles
Of track.
HENRY BRITT, negro prisoner.
complains of being tortured by police
at Jackson, Miss