People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-24
D. Case now has possession Of thu
Bellvue postoffee,

clothing Of James Mcdonald, an old
man, and ignited it, burning Melon.
aid nearly to death.
At Frankfort, KY, William NJ. Cable
was shot and instantly killed by q
man named Davis Sunday afternoon.
Davis was arrested and placed in Jail.
A family affair was the cause.
Just after the explosion IN SAINT An
der the other daY many people hur.
ried to the railroad station to leave
town as fast as possible. In the rush
to enter the trains large numbers
were injured.
1t is reported that Colonel North,
the nitrate king" supported by Lord
Randolph Churchill and Mr.. Ashmead
Bartlett, will contest West Leeds in
opposition to Mr. Herbert Gladstone at
the next election.
Brown-0ver hall, near Rugby, Eng,
which the dover Duchess of Souther-
land has taken for the winter, was en-
tered by burglars Wednesday evening
and valuable jewelry belonging to
visitors was stolen.
The assistant secretary Of the treas
ury Wednesday advised Mrs. Potter
Palmer, in reply to a question as to
how best settle the wrangling of the
board Of lady managers, to try har-
monious settlement.
LAWYER Francis S. Weeks, the self
confessed embezzlcr, whose extradi-
ton from Costa Rica caused so much
talk, was Wednesday taken to Sing
Sing to serve out his sentence of ten
years Imprisonment.
The death on Wednesday, of Mrs.
Toole and daughter, from drinking
poisoned liquor, is laid to one of the
two Toole boys, for the reason that
the iather was about to die and had
willed all his property to Mrs. Toole.
The sheriff took possession Of the
Washington building at The worlds
fair grounds Monday. He acted on .
tachment proceedings brought in the
superior court by the Union National
Bank Of Chicago to enforce claims Of
Sl,325.
R. NJ. Hall, of Georgia, D. f. Stacy,
of Minnesota, and Peter Yelling, Of
Wisconsin, appointed last spring To
examine the pine on the coded Chippe'
wa lands, in Minnesota, have been
dismissed for intemperance and neg
lect of duty.
The wife of Adam Bright, the Mi.
anna county, o., farmer, who wal
fleeced out of 81, 500 Saturday by bun
co men, died Monday afternoon from
the shock caused by the loss. She
had worked all her life to help carr
the money.
Miles Baird, IA years old, Of Sar
Francisco, wanted to see how well hi
fellow pupils would act in case of {
real fire and so set the Clement schoo
there on fire. The 700 pupils al
marched without panic and he is un
der arrest.
} The entire hill country of Tonkin
Siam, is in revolt. The French forces
there are impotent and confined I,
their posts. The native soldiery ar,
demoralized and rebelious, and thu
railway and road works have beer
abandoned.
| The five Russian convicts who wert
picked up by the whaler, Nor
gan, in 0khotsk sea and brought Il
San Francisco, prove not to be politi
cal offenders but felons. The whale
bearing the other five refugees is nov
due at Frisco.
Now that Schieg, the abscondinI
teller of the bank of Minneapolis is Il
be brought back, it is rumored tina
some new light may be thrown on tn,
suicide of Cashier Bofferding, which
took place the day after Scheigs de
falcation became known.
The firing upon the American flal
at the port of Amapala on Monday
was done by President Vasquez's di
rect orders. shch was his keen desir,
to get hold of his old enemy, Barilla
but he now throws the entire blam,
on the commander of the port.
George NJ. Rose. of St. Paul, chem
ist and consulting engineer, wei
known in Europe and the United
States, died Monday at Chicago from
an attackIof pneumonia. He, will
his wife, had been stopping at IT.,
Grand Pacific, where he died.
| A detachment OF Troop E, Fourth
cavalry, has left Vancouver, Wash, fol
the Bitter Root mountains, Montana
to search for General Carlin's son anC
a party Of FIVE, who left Spokane on (;
hunting expedition six weeks ago anC
are now two weeks overdue,
The sheik in command OF the be
seiging forces at Melilla was killed b,
shell from the Spanish cruiser Gond
de Venadito on November6. TIL
Riffans are reported to be dscour
aged. Several thousand Of them ar
thought to have withdrawn
LIZ. Menage, president Of tn
wrecked Guarantee Loan company O
Minneapolis, who fed the country al
the failure, has been located in Guate
mala, and Secretary Gresham ha
wired Minister Young TO have hir
placed under arrest at once.
An epidemic ofinfuenza that count
at least as many victims as could /
grippe in its palmiest days, prevails i
Cleveland. 1t is not nearly as sever
as was the Russian importation. Pei
sons in robust health succeed in re
sisting the disease without difficulty
Hon Geo W. Reed of Topeka in hi
speech at Concordia said: There a.
325 600 members of the A. 0. u. w. i