People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-24

apples.
"Hot as Hades" is the head the At
Gibson Patriot puts over its weathe.
report.
One day will be "free day" for all
children under Is years old at the
Seneca fair.
The local club at Leavenworth losi
money on the recent wheelman's meet
in that city.
The new cavalry company at Law.
renee was mustered in last week.
There are forty members.
Bert Harrison, the ffteen-year-olt
son OF Mrs. Louisa Harrison, wa.
drowned in the Missouri river at At
Gibson Thursday afternoon while
bathing.
A. NJ. Junod, a prominent grain
merchant of Larned, accidently shot
himself one day last week Death Was
instantaneous. An entire charge o!
bird shot entered his left breast.
A Jewell county farmer, who pre-.
dicted the corn failure of 1894, and
prepared for it by accommodating 1900
bushels of old corn, saying that there
will be good corn crops for the next
five years, and that 1895 will be the
best of all.
The proprietors of the Planters
house at Leavenworth recently offer.
ed small cash prize for the best new
name for that hostelrie. More than
l,5OO suggestions have already been
received and contest does not close
for few days yet.
J Baldwin people held big reception
Monday evening on the Baker Univer-
sity capums as a complimentary fare.
well to DR.. Quayle. who will move his
family to Kansas City and take up his
new work as pastor of the Indepen.
dence avenue VI. E. church.
D. j. Hanna, the wheat king OF
Graham county, has unlimited conf.
dence in that county. He has large
number Of teams atwork in different
places preparing the ground for tsis
falls work. He will SOW as much
wheat, if not more. than in ls9
/ Charley Griswold, a well-known
farmer near Watson, harvested TWEEN.
ty acres of oats that averaged fifty
bushels to the acre. S. johnson
just over the line in Douglas county
averaged forty-two bushels for II
acres.-North Topeka Mail.
The Kouns Manufacturing company
is new institution which proposes tc
manufacture windmills, towers and
troughs in Salina. For a time the
castings will be made in Leavenworth.
but it is expected that a foundry will
be put in at Salina before long.
The Pullman ear porters of Kansas
City. and other colored people of that
city, Lawrence, Topeka and inter.
vening towns, held mammoth picnic
at Bismarck Grove Friday. The picnic
was the annual one for the Pullman
porters and very large crowd was in
attendance.
j. II. Strawn and J. V. Copus thresh.
ed their eighty acre field of fax this
week. The average number of bush.
els per acre was fifteen, the largest
yield of any piece of fax threshed
here for some time. Who says il
doesn't pay to raise fax seed as well
as any other kind of seed .-Holton
, Signal,
L. E Wright, plominent citizen
and ex-Banker of Douglass, Butler
county, committed suicide sometime
Saturday by hanging. He has been
deranged some time and attempted
self destruction about a year ago by
shooting himself in the head. He was
one Of the pioneers of Butler county
and was very wealthy.
The Kansas synod of the Evangelical.
| German Southern church convened il
annual session at Leavenworth Fri.
day. At the opening there were over
100 ministers present from various
places in Kansas and Oklahoma. The
opening session was addressed by
H. c. Schwan, an eloquent divine from
Cincinnati, O. The afternoon session
was mainly devoted to the work of or.
ganization and the discussion of mis-.
sions. 1t was decided to push the
church throughout Kansas the com.
ing year, during which time many
new churches are to be built.
5. P. French, merchant and promi
nent secret order member, of McLouth
was fatally stabbed Wednesday by
Logan Hickerson. They met at tn
postoffice and after exchanging some
hot words, Hickerson drew his knife
and commenced slashing French. Be.
fore he could be taken off Hickersor
cut French several times on the left
arm, once right above the heart and
twice about the head. After being
cut, French started for doctors of.
fee, but on taking a few steps fell
and lay iusensible. Friends took hin
to his home, where physicians exam
ined his wounds and pronounced them
fatal. During the excitment over re
moving French Hickerson went to his