People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-24

Arrangements have been completed
for the first public test of electricity
for the propulsion of boats on the Erie
canal, which will be made at Pitts
aeld, n. y.
R. NJ Patterson, postmaster at
Enid, fell dead on the Main street OF
that city about II DC ock Thursday
morning. Heart disease is supposed
to have been the cause.
At Frankfort, KY, William NJ. Cable
was shot and instantly killed by a
man named DAVIS Sunday afternoon.
Davis was arrested and placed in Jail.
A family affair was the cause.
At conference of the miners dele
gates at Manchester Thursday, the
latter appointed fourteen of their
number to attend the conference AT
the foreign office which is to be pre-.
sided over by Lord ROseberry,
The business of the Thurber- Whyte
company went on just a. usual Thurs
day, excepting it was being conducted
under the authority of the court and
in the name of the receivers Kirkpat-
rick and Reid.
A young man of the genus crank on
Thursday entered the office of the
Ames estate in Boston and attempt
ed to negotiate a loan on his personal
! security. He acted so strangely that
he was turned over to the police.
Right Hon. Sir. John Gorst, member
for Cambridge university. has b, en-
elected rector of GLASGOW university
by vote of GIG to COS defeating Right
Hon. Henry Asquith, the present sec
rotary of state for home affairs.
The sheriff took possession of the
Washington building at the world ,
fair grounds Monday. He acted on a {.
tachment proceedings brought in the
superior court by the Union National
Bank of Chicago to enforce claims Of
Sl,32j.
Members of the Duckworth club,
the leading Democratic organization
of Cincinnati are excited over the dis
covery that President Lewis has
failed to account for moneys receive d
by him as the proceeds of an ente Z.
tainment
The wife of Adam Bright, the Mi
anna county, O., farmer, who was
fleeced out of 81, 800 Saturday by bun
co men, died Monday afternoon from
the shock caused by the loss. She
had worked ali her life to help earn
the money.
3 The entire hill country of Tonkin,
Siam, is in revolt The French forces
there are impOtent and confined TO
their posts. The native soldiery are
demoralized aud rebeliouS, and the
railway and road works have been
abandoned.
George NJ. Rose, of st. Paul, chem
it and consulting engineer, well
known in Europe and the United
States, died Monday at Chicago from
an attack, of pneumonia. He, with
his wife, had been stopping at the
Grand Pacific, where he died.
The sheik in command of the be.
seiging forces at Melilla was killed by
shell from the Spanish cruiser Gonde
de Venadito on November6. The
Riffans are reported to be discour-
aged. Several thousand Of them are
thought to have withdrawn.
L. F. Menage, president of the
wrecked Guarantee Loan company of
Minneapolis. who fled the country af-
the failure, has been located in Guate-
mala, and Secretary Gresham has
wired Minister Young to have him
placed under arrest at once.
An epidemic of infuenza that counts
at least as many victims as could la
grippe in its palmiest days, prevails in
Cleveland. 1t is not nearly as severe
as was the Russian importation. Per-
SOUS in robust health succeed in re-
sisting the disease without difficulty.
Sheriff Painter Wednesday night
captured Henry Nichols and Frank
Sharp, Cattle thieves, and jailed them
at Guthrie Thursday, with John Iron-
ton, farmer with whom they were
staying, and who helped them resist
the officers. Thursday he captured
Henry Fessendeu a notorious horse
thief, in the strip. Deputy Marshal
Pentecost also brought in Samuel Col
Inns, alias KidsHogan, well known as a
pugilist and wrestler, on a charge of
horse stealing.
Thursday at Wichita Charlie Mos
bacher received BEAUTIFUL pink pearl
weighing twenty-seven grams. 1t was
sent to him fiom the strip where is
was taken from the internal regions
of fish caught in that country. 1t is
as uniformly round as billiard ball,
and is the largest ever found in this
section of the country. A few years
ago a pearl weighing about ten grains
was found in the Little river above
Wichita, of the same quality, and
Charlie sold it for $40. 1t can be seen
that fishing sometimes pays big. The
pearl that came from the territory
was the property of small boy, who
caught the fish that contained it.
About two weeks ago the Nashville
coal company formed and a majority
of the wholesale and retail dealers in
the city either joined or entered into
an agreement to buy coal only from
this company or mines represented IN
it. This action on the part of the
dealers, especially those belonging tC
what is now called the combine
bound themselves to sell only for cash
Public meetings we're held, and the
ma ter WI S brought before the attor
Ny general and the graud jury now
in sssS'on. the result is that indict-
ments have been returned in courl