People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-07-07

The dock at Grand Rapids, Mich,
gave way under the Good Templar ex-
cursionists. About $50 persons were
nearly precipitated into the water, but
no one was seriously hurt.
THE liabilities ofex-Secretary Charles
Foster, of Fostoria, O., approximate
$1,000 900.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 90, showed an average de-
crease of "A compared with the CORES
ponding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 80.
JOE BIRD, Choctaw half-breed, con-
victed of wife murder, was shot by the
sheriff at Wilburton, L T.
IT is said privately that Adm. Tryon
was the cause of the sinking of his
ship, having signaled to the Camper
down to turn in too narrow waters.
YALE defeated Harvard by four
lengths in the boat race at New Lon
don, Conn, on the 30th.
The story that western Kansas is in
need of assistance for the purchase of
seed grain is denounced as false by Del
egate Milton. who is well informed
about the true situation.
The Starr gang is on deck once more,
it being reported that they robbed the
Frisco depot at Chelsea, l. T.
THOSE interested in the speedy open
ing of the Cherokee strip have decided
to make an appeal to President Cleve-
land to see if he cannot hasten matters
little.
ALL the glass plants in the country
have closed down, as is customary with
them, until September l.
IRON manufacturers and iron workers
have at last agreed upon scale of
wages upon compromise basis.
THE rumored closing of the Pullman
shops at Detroit. Mich, is denied.
A WAR of bakers has made deep cut
in the price of bread at Lebanon, ILL.,,
forty loaves being sold for a dollar
A DISPATCH from Mecca states that
$50 deaths from cholera occurred in that
city on the 2Sth.
The bullion value of a silver dollar
went down to AS cents at New York
PROMINENT citizens of Denver, Col,
condemn the silver panic as hurtful to
the state, which is not dependent en-
tirely on mining, as the silver men
would make out. The state would do
well if it had no silver-in fact, it was
doing well anterior to mining.
CANADA is seeking closer trade with
Australia.
THE duke of Saxe-Meiningen has Civ
en- $4,000 marks from his private purse
for the relief of the peasants from the
distress caused by the drought.
THE German opera artist Stagno and
his secretary have been arrested on the
charge of forging the name of CORE
spondent to a bogus dispatch
THE government has made consider
able reductions in land Office expenses.
W. A. PIyKYEY and Daniel Barber
were executed at Marlborough, Nd,
recently for the murder of Francis NJ.
Bowie, a wealthy farmer of Prince
George county, on the evening of March
% last.
The Pawnee allotments in the Indian
territory have been completed.
WHEAT took another big tumble on
the 5Oth and again the low price record
on the Chicago market was broken.
THE government has learned lesson
from the Ford theater tragedy, and is
moving clerks out of unsafe buildings.
AMONG recent appointments are the
following: Scott Wike, of Illinois, to
be assistant secretary of the treasury;
James f. Tillman, of Tennessee, to be
register of the treasury; 0verton Cade,
of Louisiana, to be superintendent of
the mint at New Orleans; Theodore S.
Wilkinson, to be collector of customs at
New Orleans; S. B. Ellis, to be surveyor
of customs at New Orleans; George p.
Finley, to be collector of customs at
Galveston, Tex.