People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-10-20

Vincent Tyler, worthless fellow
shot and killed his wife and then COM
,litted suicide at Minneapolis, MINI.
Noah King, leader of a gang who
wrecked Vandalia train in Indiana,
has been sentenced to thirteen years
in the pen.
A section of land a quarter of mile
in diameter has sunk and formed
lake near Reelfoot lake, Tennessee,
John Fisher, a United States COM
missioner and mayor of Tryon, S. c.,
has been arrested as a member of a
gang of robbers.
Bill Dalton and two pals walked
through the streets of Saltwater, Ok,
and the officers did not dare to arrest
them.
Several hundred men have been
added to the shop force Of the Santa
Fe at Topeka during the past two
weeks.
John Cummins, an old-time
swindler, has been released from i'm
prisonment by a Colorado court of
appeals.
The venerable historian, Henry
Howe, died at Columbus, Ohio, from a
stroke of paralysis.
Diptheria and scarlet fever is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent at Ateh-
ison, Kan.
A block of buildings at Medicine
Lodge, Kan, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
The chief and three men of the
Council Bluffs Fire department have
been arrested on charge of arson.
The safe in the bank at Orange City,
Iowa, was blown open with dynamite
and $1,000 In cash stolen.
The treasurer of Audubon county,
Iowa, has gone to parts unknown, as
have some of the county's funds.
Richard Lowry, prominent farmer
living near Sabetha, Kan, hanged
himself in his barn.
Chairman Taubeneck of the Nation
al Executive committee of the Peo-
pies party is to stump Kansas for the
Populists.
Colonel W. H. Taylor, state librari-
an of Minnesota, is dying. He was
the son-in-law and private secretary of
President William Henry Harrison.
Sixty-fve miners from California
and New Mexico captured a freight
train at Del Rio, Texas, and run it to
their destination.
Deputy United States marshals and
the Woodland gang of outlaws had a
fight near Fifty-two spring, l. T., and
one outlaw was killed
A young lady giving Gle name Of
Brown and from Chicago made prob
ably successful attempt at svicide in a
hotel at Madrid, Spain.
A Denver firm has contracted to de-
liver 5000 tons of hay in Liverpool by
way of Galveston. 1t expects the
total cost per ton to be Sl275.
1t is reported that William Waldorf
Astor is preparing to spend $1,000, OOO
in London for the largest and costliest
hotel in the world
Suit for s.. ono damages has been
brought at Quincy, ILL.,, against white.
caps who killed Jacob Bradshaw, by
the father of the dead man.
In a collision between freight train.
at Dayton, Iowa, Conductor william
Erb was killed and his body burned
Three other men were injured
Mrs. s. T. Criss was possibly fatally
injured and her husband, commando
of the G. A. r., was praised by the
overturning of their buggy in Law
renee, Kas.
The election Of a well-dresseC
woman from a train because she re
fused to enter special car for col
ored people has precipitated test o
the new law in Kentucky.
The attendance at the Kansas agri
cultural college at Manhattan
smaller than last year. There are 26
young men and l6l young women en-
rolled.
Peter Pearson, postmaster of Lewis
ton, S. D., shot his wife and then com
mitted suicide. Family difficultie
and jealousy are believed to have bee
the causes.
| mn,
The entire chain of the great lake
: was swept Saturday by a northwes
gale whose severity has not been ex
celled during the season @
: navigation for the past ten years
Benjamin Lawell, who started tn
, first newspaper in Texas and Wrigh
| counties, Mo-, died in Wright county
aged 70 years. He had been a printe
: tifty-four years.
The rooms of the late Edwin Boot
; at the Players Club are to be kept a
he left them In compliance with Nj
Booths wish, Joe jefferson has bee
. chosen president of the club.
: An assignment has been made b
$ the Ketcham lumber company of Oh
r cago, with confessed Judgment fC
n $4,000. The liabilities are estimate
/ at S2aO,O0O with assets $3.50, 1000.
? Carl Rouke, resident of Trai
e county, South Dakota, the largest ma
e in the state, if not in the countr-
e died at his home in Belmont. H
d weight before death was 500 pounds
IS The naked body of a large. heav
o set man was discovered floating in Il
n Rio Grande on Sunday last abo,
three miles south of Socorro. y. J
The hands and feet were tied wit
bands of cloth, and the head was mis-
st ing. The body is as yet unidentife
Il Louisville, coal mining town
lie zoo inhabitants, situated twenty fl,
IS miles north of Denver, Col, is sin
If ing. The town is built over Il
= Welsh coal mines, and its destructic
is being caused by the sinking of Il