People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-24
GENERAL NEWS
Carefully Selected News OF Current
Events.

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At Martin, Ky, John Green. aged
II years, fell out of a three-story win
dow, Sunday, and broke his neck.
Owing to the heavy fog prevailing
two unknown men were run over and I.
killed by the Pacific express near Al !
tOona, Pa, Saturday.
Emperor Francis Joseph has pre-
sented Count Ven Taffe portrait of !
himself. accompanied by hattering
letter of dedication.
At Brunswick, Ga, five new cases
of yellow fever were reported Sun
day. Eight patients were discharged.
There were no deaths.
A terrific snow storm prevailed
Thursday at Dunkirk, N. Y, assum-
ing blizzard proportions at times. |
About eight inches of snow fell
Daniel Sheedy, a gambler, of Iron
Mountain, cracked safe in Rochen
saloon, Waudedah, Thursday night,
and secured $500. He escaped.
From letter recently discovered it
is believed that the Swedish explor-
er, Bjerling, who started for the Arc
tic regions last year, has persisted.
The Western Storage and Ware
house company of Kansas City was
burned to the ground Saturday night
Loss $1,000 covered by insurance.
Ex-COngressman Culbertson, of Ash
land, Ky, is strangely missing from
his home. Cincinnati detectives have
oeen employed in the search for him.
Two men received fatal injuries in
Swartz's IRON and metal va IDS, Chi
Cago, Thursday morning. They are
Abraham Cohen and Jacob friedman.
A mass of metal fell on the men,
crushing them.
Secretary Carlisle had conference
Thursday with Secretary Carlisle with
regard to the case of the ten Russian
cOnvicts recently landed at San Fran
cisco He said no order had been
made with respect to them
A call has been issued for another
national convention of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers to be held in Pittsburg next
Thursday to revise the scale adopted
by the convention last June.
The memory of the late Justice
BlatchfOrd was honored at the session
OF the United States supreme court
Monday. A set of resolutions, read
by Attorney General Olney, was
offered by the bar of the court, and
adopted
The steamer Dripfast sank off the
Isle of Wight, laden with coal. The
sinking was due to an explosion in
the peak by which one man was killed
and three injured. The remaining
sixteen members of the crew were res.
cued.
Frank s DelanO, superintendent of
the Blade Printing company at Tole-
do, o.. committed suicide Saturday
night by shooting. He left note
saying; Life is only a disease for
which is no alienation, and death the
only reliable cure"
An FL Paso, Tex, dispatch saws the
air is full of rumOrs concerning the
disturbance on the Mexican border,
but 1t is absolutely impossible to YER
lily any reports. The revolutionists in
this town and Juarez say positively
that COrralitos has been taken, but
the Corralitos company's agent here
has heard nothing of it.
Fifteen of the lynchers of Tom Mel
son, who found death at the hands of
mob by ropei bnl cts, and fire, at
Vernon, Ark, have been arrested
NIncy Hawkins, the leader, and Steve
Hawsley are among those arrested
Hawkins resisted and was shot by the
officers, which has almost caused a
rot. Excitement is running high at
Vernon. The parties are ali colored. ..
At Cedar Rapids, Ia, arguments s
were heard by Judge Preston on the
demurrer to the indictment against
D. g. Ramsey, grand chief of the Or
der of Railway Telegraphers. 1t was
oyerruled and Ramsey will have to
stand trial The indictment charges
interfering with the telegraph wires
of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern road, at the time of the
strike last fall.
A Liverpool dispatch says the gale
continues and the reports which ar
rive here after many hours delay, ow-
ing to the breakdown of the tele-
graph wires, indicate that an i'm
mense amount of damage has been
done to shipping throughout the
country. The steamer Union was
wrecked near Dundee and four of her
crew were drowned.
Considerable excitement was caused
at the patent office building Saturday
morning by the antics of crank who
appeared at one of the entrances as a |
score or more clerks were entering
IiiC uuilulhS' liO ohOuICu luCOHCIouJ-
ly, waved piece of United States flag
aud muttered to himself unintelligi- |
bly,. Some of the women clerks were |
badly frightened and notified watch
man, but before the latter had
reached the entrance the man had |
disappeared.
Naval representatives of eight ma
tons, including our nation, have de-
cided not to permit munitions of war
to be landed at Rio. Santos still be-
ing in possession of the Brazilian gov
eminent and connected with Rio by
railway, munitions of war can be
landed at Santos Saturday insurg-
ents dressed ship and the Brazilian
government forts fred national sa-
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