People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-11

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has a
silver bill which he has prepared to
introduce in the senate at the first op-
portunity.
Allotting Agent Duncan has at last
been heard from to the effect that he
will not be able to complete his task
before Sept. l.
The condition of Professor Jenney's
health is such that he will not be per-
mitted to make his looked-for report
on the zine fields Of Missouri.
Two freight trains on the Big Four
collided on bridge near Danville, H.,
and the results were loss of life and
great destruction of property.
Paid admissions to the fair for the
month OF July were 2,762, 900. and for
the first three days of August, sO,9O7,
s3,O74 and 9O,9O7, respectively.
There are indications that Mr.. Theo-
dore Thomas will yet be turned down
before the fair closes. He is an ex-
penSiye and unproductive luxury.
The wreck on the Lake Shore at
Linksey, o., was terrible one, three
persons being instantly killed and o
number fatally and seriously injured
A Steam valve on the tugboat
George H. Ray exploded Saturday
morning at st. Louis, killing fire.
man named Williams (colored.) The
damage to the boat was slight.
! The London Standards correspond
ent at Buda Pesth says that the wheat
crop in Hungary will be l,OOO,0 600 hun
dred weight in excess of the estimate
and that the quality is excellent.
General Schofeld who has been
confined to his room in Washington
for the past week with On attack Of
rheumatism, is much improved and
will probably resume his duties at the
war department on Monday.
Russell & Co. S agricultural and en-.
CINE works, at Massillion. o.. employ
ing 500 men, will close for an indefn-
lite period about August is on
account of the uncertainty of the bus
mess future.
Hon. L. S. Phelps; one of the Am r
lean counsel before the Behring sea
tribunal Of arbitration, accompanied
by Mrs. Phelps, sailed Saturday for
Southampton on the American line
steamer Paris.
The committee appointed TO exam
inc the affairs of the banking house OF
j. R. Dick g. Co., Meadville, Pa, now
in liquidation, report liabilities OF
Sll2,O75. 80, and assets $3.50, 350.23. A
dividend of 10 per cent is announced
for the 18th inst
United States Deputy Marshal Peel;
Bruner and posse had desperate bat
tie with band of outlaws few miles
west of Vinlts late Sunday evening,
in which one of the outlaws was kill.
ed and another severely wounded and
captured. The dead man lived three
hours after being shot, and stated that
he participated in the Mound Valley
bank robbery, and at present belong
ed to what is known as the Wooteu
gang of COW and horse thieves that
have been stealing west OF this
place for more than year. His name
is Ralph Holleck, alias Roxey, and his
home is at Udall, Kansas. The wound
, ed man was also brought in and the
doctors here probed his wounds and
dressed them. He is shot in the left
hip, and the ball could not be remov.
ed. 1t is thought he will recover. His
name is Sam Rogers. His father lives
on Big Creek, twenty miles west oil
Vinita. There were four OF the out.
laws together, but two Of them escap
ed. Wooten, the leader of the gang
being one Of them. The marshals
have been searching for them for two
weeks, having had them located, but
owing to the rough and thickly tim
bered hills where they have been hid
ing have until Sunday been unable tC
come up with them. For days tn,
gang have been lurking in the vicinity
y of Vinita, and on Friday Marsha
Bruner received information that al
4 attempt would be made to hold up Z
. Missouri, Kansas s. Texas passenger
train on Saturday night. Bruner ant
= two Of his men started for the outlaw,
camp. Luck seemed to be with tn,
a officers, for the robbers were no
a aware Of their presence until two o
a them who were riding in advance o
r the other three were commanded Il
! surrender. At first the robbers sup
: posed it was their companions playin.
o a joke upon them, but when Bruno
e aud his men opened fire they realized
their mistake.
, The mimic warfare between the rel
I and the blue fleets OF the British nav,
e is being carried on in Irish sea. Com
: bats between sections Of the fleets ar
q of daily occurrence, but nothing es
= pecially noteworthy has occurred.
. William Sulzbacher and Henry Git
terman, composing the firm Of Sulz
bacher, Gitterman & Wade, importer
I of woolens of Worth street, New York
made an assignment Thursday with
K out preferences to Marion II. Lehman
A table issued by the treasury de
c partment gives the investment valu
$ OF government per cent bonds dur
r ing July. The market price varie,
i from liz to los, and the average annu
al rate Of interest realized to investor
!. was 3.07 per cent.
} An unknown man was killed nea
Z, Nickerson, Kansas, by an Atchison
s Topeka & Santa Re passenger trail
/ No. 8, Thursday morning. He wa
: riding the blind baggage" and wa
+ crushed to death in the collision O
the train with freight.
l. F. 5. Moffatt, of Scranton, Pa, con
O.