People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-03
GENERAL NEWS
Carefully Selected News Of Current
Events.

association will hold a hall dozen
meetings in the county this week.
Charley Coghlan, the actor, was
married Wednesday night to Kuehne
Beveridge, actress and sculptures, also
a member Of the company.
A panic was caused in the Garnett
school house at Washington Friday |
by one of the pupils having fit, and
in the STAMPEDE which followed a
number of pupils were injured.
The arrest of Editor Gradseur, o |
the Saxon Arbiter Zeitung, at Berlin !
was due to a statement in his pape |
that he propagated Socialist doctrine
among his comrades In the army.
The first annual meeting of the
Southwestern Association of Railway
Surgeons convened at st. Louis Thurs
day morning for a two days session
with nearly 300 delegates in attend
ance.
Attic City of Mexico the banking
house of Pedro Martina & Sons, estab-
lished thirty years ago failed Thurs
day for s1,OOO,OOO. 1t had been the
Mexican correspondent of the Bar
ingS.
Superintendent Stump, of the bu-
reau of immigration, has gone to Chi
cago to settle the questions apt to
arise there on the occasion of the
numerous foreigners leaving the
grounds.
The three men killed in the wreck
on the Pennsylvania road near Law
renee station, n. j., have as yet not
been identified. 1t was one of the
worst wrecks that ever occurred on
that line.
1t is now generally believed that
Stone has confessed to the truth in
ms last statement concerning the
Wrattan murder, and that his mind is
affected by the horrible work he per-
petrated.
Three hundred miners at the mines
OF the Union Coal company, at Lafay-
cite colliery, near Denver, are out of
strike, The trouble grew out of a
manner in which the company pays
the men.
After stormy passage of 1856 days
the ship Undaunted has arrived at
Frisco from Philadelphia. The I'm
daunted had a terrible time rounding
Cape Horn and for days could make
no Roadway.
Edward S. Hart, secretary of the
Bank of California, died at San Fran
cisco Friday, after an illness of two
months. He was IS years of age and
mad been in the service of the bank
several years.
The officials of the American Elk.
press Company now admit that large
sum OF money was stolen in transit
between New York and st. Louis. and
say that they are on the track of the
guilty parties.
The presentation of handsome sill
yer service to the cruiser New Yorl
took place Thursday in the New Yorl
navy yard. 1t is the gift of the citi
zens of New York and was raised b,
subscription.
Governor Mckinney, of Virginia
has refused to give Doc TAYLOR, tn
preacher murderer, a reprieve, or +
commute his sentence. He was hange,
at Wise court house Friday, preachin
his own funeral on the scaffold.
The remains of Gonnod were re
moved Thursday from the house at 81
Cloud where he breathed his last. TIL
body was taken to the Gounod res
dence in Paris, where it now lies i
state in the great composers study.
The interstate commerce COMM.
sion Thursday in an opinion by Con
missioner Knapp announced its de
decision of the case of Phelps & CO
against the Texas & Pacific railroa
company in favor of the complainant.
Men to the number of 600. at wor
on two big New York building,
struck Thursday on account of sui
contractor employing non-union mel
An effort is being made to have tn
Boston building trade men cooperate
A cotton gin belonging to j. H. Mec
lock, i've miles south of Stephens
Ark, together with small uuantit
OF cotton, was burned to the groun
Wednesday night. The fire is SUI
posed to be the work of White Caps.
William Gibson and Paul Hutchil
son were arrested at Salt Lake Cit
Friday for safecracking job commit
ted in Grand Island, Neb., last SUI
day. They are believed to be expert
wanted in dozen cities for simils
: jobs.
At Brunswick, Ga. there were of
cially reported Friday thirty-one ne
1 cases of yellow fever and one dealt
Unless the backbone of the wealth,
that has prevailed for six days pa.
soon changes the result is e. pected
be bad.
; Mr.. Savers, of Texas, chairman
T the house committee on appropri
lions, says that he presumes that
d will earn the title of the meanest ma
in congress because he intends to i
! sist on rigid economy in all expen1
Q lures. 81 - t q
L The Illinois supreme court Thur
day reversed the decision of the low
= court in the case of the people again
the Braceyille Coal Company, and d
clared the weekly pay law passed
the Illinois legislature unconstit
tional. . ..tf
The senate committee on foreign r
latiOns met Thursday morninr tn On