People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-10

Mrs. Levi 7. Morton has leased the
house in Paris formerly occupied by
Senator Jones, of Nevada. and will re
side there to finish the education of
her daughters.
At Bunker Hill, Ind, several drunk
en- loafers poured coal oil over the
clothing Of James Mcdonald. an old
man, and ignited it. burning Melon
aid nearly to death.
Cardinal Rampolli wants te resign
his Office of secretary to the pope be-
cause he fears the future policy Of the
Vatican will be less hostile to the
Italian government
The suicide OF Honorable Charles
Howard last Thursday in London, Is
said to have been caused by his infat
uation for a Mrs. Bloss, who killed
herself last Saturday.
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.
Atthe City of Mexico the banking
house of Pedro Martina & Sons estab-
lished thirty years ago failed Thurs
day for Sl,OOO,OOO. 1t had been the
Mexican correspondent of the Bar
ings.
The empress of Austria while out
riding last week saw distractions on
the track of the railroad, and with
The help of her groom removed them
just moment before the fast express
went by
Mrs. Robert Vance of Simcoe, On
tario, who was injured in the Battle
Creek, Mich, wreck, died at the Mich,
OILS hospital Friday morning. This
makes twenty-eight victims from the
collision.
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
his last statement concerning the
Wrattan murder, and that his mind is
affected by the horrible work he per-
petrated.
The presentation of handsome sill
yer service to the cruiser New York
took place Thursday in the New York
navy yard. It.. is the giftof the citi-
liens of New York and was raised by
subscription.
John S. johnson broke the worlds
bicycle record for a quarter of mile
flying start of q seconds, held by
Zimmerman and Rhodes at Topeka
Monday, lie went the distance il
% As over a slow track.
Governor Mckinney, OF Virginia
has refused to give Doc Taylor, The
preacher murderer, a reprieve, or t
commute his sentence. He was hanged
at Wise court house Friday, preaching
his own funeral on the scaffold.
Train Nc. 7, on the Ontario & West
ern railroad from Oswego, jumped
switch when entering the freight var,
in Norwich, n. Y, Tuesday night
Several passengers were injured, bu
not fatally. The express and baggag
carS were smashed.
In Proctor, O., Tuesday night, job
Floyd was shot dead while sittin
. with his arm about Miss Lucy White
waist and the young woman receive
, enough shot to disfgure her for life
Harry Smith, rival, fred the col
tents of a shotgun into them.
Tuesday a schooner came up frol
|. Lower st. Lawrence to Quebec SUI
: posed to be loaded with peas. Whe
the cargo was being discharged, or
b of the supposed barrels of peas brok,
. and in the peas were found smallt
! barrels filed with illicit whisky.
II Major General Sir Christoph,
Charles Teesdale, V. c. R. A. K. c.
G., c. B., her majesty's master of Ger
S. monies and at one time eGuery to IL
y Prince of Wales, and who accor
> panied the latter to America, died {
Wednesday at Bangor of paralysis.
Is Sid Lee, a white boy IS years oil
st who killed an old man by the name
~ Wright near Daily Spring, twent
10 miles east of Texarkana, Tex, abo,
month ago, because the deceas,
accused him of stealing his suga
n cane, came in and surrendered to Il
sheriff last Tuesday, and on Frid;
had trial on a writ of habeas corp
before the district court, which a
in mitted him to bail in the sum
to $4,000. The accused readily gave bon
Cd wealthy narties in Texarkana al
y. New Boston, Tex, becoming secu
wv ties.
ne One of the most peculiar as well
IS. one of the most horrible accidents til
S e ever occurred in the state of Arkanst
an has inst come to light at Ada. Sew,
n. al days ago the child OF Mr.. Harkt
, es who OF crates a cotton gin at tn
no place, mysteriously disappeared. Aft
a a long search for the missing chi
-. Mr.. Harkey remembered that the |;
~ seen of the little fellow he was pl;
all ing around the gin house. He at OF
ITS began ripping the ties from bales
M; cotton in the gin yard, and found I
do child crushed to death in the cen
*. of bale which had been presse,
90 10 few days before. How the unfor
a. nate child MANAGED IN fall into