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

jected by the house of lords by vote
of 249 to 30.
Tuesday was the hottest day in
eight years in st. Louis. Thermome-
ter 100 5-lOO.
1t has been determined not to re-
move all the militia from South 0ma.
ha just at present.
The cash balance in the treasury
Tuesday was SIG, 792, 500, of which
$50, pa, 1914 was gold reserve.
Secretary Herbert has ordered the
cruiser Charleston to repair to the Ash.
attic station at once.
Mrs Forster, widow of John Fors-
ter, the English Historian and Biog-
rapher of Charles Dickens, is dead.
Prohibitionist of the Fourth con.
gressional district, Missouri, nominal
ed Rev. ]. ]. Bentley, of Maryville, for
congress Tuesday.
President C. H. ]. Taylor delivered
the annual address at the National
Colored Democratic League at Mime
apolis Tuesday.
The startling rumor from Bridge
vile, Del, that twenty persons were
drowned by the capslzing of sail boat
near Deales island cannot be confirm
ed.
3Comptroller of the Currency Eckles
Tuesday appointed W. L. Rutledge, re-
ceiver of the First National Bank of
Grant, Neb., which closed its doors to
business on the Goth ult.
5Walbrodt, the chess player, last We'd
nesday, played against fifty-one COM
petitorS together at Muremburg. He
won forty-two games, lost five and
four were drawn.
Governor Flower, Of New York, has
Cancelled the warrant issued in 1892
for the extradition of Moritz Daur,
wanted in Peoria, ILL.,, on a charge of
swindling, and arrested Monday.
NJ. Beresford-Hope, of London, has
sold the Saturday Review, which has
been almost forty years in the Hope
family, to L. H. Edmunds. Walter
Pollock retires from the editorship.
At 9 o'clock Wednesday, a strike of
motormen on all lines of the San An.
tonic street railway was inaugurated
for higher pay and the discharge of
two conductors. Twenty-seven miles
of road are tied up.
Millions of grasshoppers have taken
the fields of east Tennessee by storm
and are working destruction upon the
crops. Residents of the mountains
have ceased all other work in their
effort to exterminate them.
The cyclone which swept over the
Province of Ciudad Real Spain, Tues.
day, was accompanied by a terrific
Storm of hail. Over 200 persons were
injured and several thousand domes.
tic ANIMALS were killed. The damage
to crops in the province is estima ted
at $780,
The Bethlehem Steel company be-
gan delivering in Cramps ship yard at
Philadelphia Tuesday, the $50 tons of
eighteen-inch side armor for the bat
tleship Indiana. The work of putting
the plates in place will begin at once,
but it will be six months before this
! delicate operatic. is finished
:, The government of Honduras has
offered 5000 troops to Nicaragua, in
order to aid the latter country in its
operations against the rebels in the
Mosquito country. In addition to
sen. Barrillas, the Nicaragua Envoy
TO Great Britain, Constantine Zelaya,
a relative of the President, is on board
the City of Pals, bound for Nicaragua,
and due there August 10. The cruis.
er Columbia is expected there.
The fear OF anarchy outrages is
breeding restriction of the right to
hold public meetings, and it is official
ly announced that Count Botho Won
Gutenberg, Prusslan Minister of the
Interior, is preparing bill to be in
troduced in the Diet which will mater.
tally curtail the present privileges
The bill is so drafted as to enable
Prussia to suppress every aggitation
not pleasing to the government Con.
sequently, the opposition party in the
Diet feels that its existence is threat.
ened, and will vehemently oppose the
bill. There is no doubt, however, that
the measure will pass.
Cholera is slowly but steadily
spreading westward. The disease ha.
obtained foothold in nineteen Rus
sian provinces, where deaths by hun
dreds are recorded daily. Cholera ex
lists in seventeen districts of Galicia
and scores of deaths from the diseas,
takes place every day in that section
In east Prussia, especially in Dantzic
the situation grows worse, in spite O
the closing of the frontier at Golub
on the River Drewens, opposite Dob
} rozin, Poland. According to oficia
report, cholera bacilli have been iount
l floating in the River Vistula, and
number of fatal cases are also report
: ed privately from Holm and Golub
: The rest of Germany appears to b
D free from cholera, although a few
! sporadic cases have occurred here an,
there.