People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-12
A claim five miles from Perkins re-

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10, 1893.
A claim five miles from Perkins re-
Gently sold for 81, 200.
Ex-Vice President Morton has un-
dergone successful surgical opera
ton on his left foot in Paris His
cure is only question of time.
The secretary of state and the Brit
ish embassy are pursuing negotiations
for an agreemen. upon regulations 20
police Behring sea. 1t is important
that these regulations should bc
agreed upon before the opening of the
sealing season.
1t is reported that the Brazilian
warships Aquidahan and Republica
are UOund for Montevideo where
they will attack President Peixoto's
fleet which is fitting out there.
The American Association of Breed
ers of Jacks and Jennets met Friday
at the Maxwell house, Nashville.
President Leonard of Missouri. was re-
elected president, and J. Il. Fulton,
secretary.
At Southampton while a cylinder
was being sunk at the wharf to be
used by the American line of steam
ships, it exploded and is said to have
caused the death of several workmen
who arc missing.
At Martins Ferry. O., the Etna.
Standard and Laughlin iron and steel
mills, and Spence & Sons foundry
have all resumed, giving employ ment
to 1,jOO men. The prospects for
long and steady run are considered
good.
, Francis Theodore Walton. known as
"Plunger" Walton, lessee of the Grand
hotel, 1894, b oadway, New York. has
made an assignment to Charles L. Wal.
ton, with preferences amounting TO
S2OO,00O Poor business caused the
failure.
The National Switch and Signal
company announces that it is forced
TO reorganize on account of financial
embarrassnents alleged TO be due to
mismanagement. The liabilities are
$3.50, 900, with assets well in excess OF
| that sum.
At Omaha, Neb., Bernard McGinn,
| the slayer of Edward McKenna. was
Saturday afternoon sentenced by
Judge Scott to hang April G, The
murder was the outgrowth of relig-
ious fight McKenna was an A. p. A.
and McGinn was Catholic.
The manager of Midway Plaisance
dancers who are engaged at st. Louis,
has skipped out and left them without
funds. Thursday some of the troupe
became engaged in general fight at
the hotel where they were stopping
and number of them were badly cut
and bruised
The Blackstone Building and Loan
association of st. Louis has assigned
to Henry 0. Seigmunt. Inability to
find the books or Secretary Lindborn
puts sensational phase upon the
affair. 1t is impossible to learn the
assets and liabilities, though esti-
mates place each at about $4,000.
Lindborn was bonded for $4,000.
The Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha
vestibule limited dashed through the
small town of Fairchild, Wis, and
struck broken rail on curve at that
place. The engine and two coaches
left the track and smashed into a
liile house and broke off two tele-
graph poles, but no person was seri-
ously injured. Traffic was delayed
ten hours.
Mr.. Wilson, one OF the best known
authorities on finance, and editor of
the Investors Review published in
London, says, in an article published
in his paper, that if the affairs of the
Bank of England are allowed to drift
as heretofore since the act of 1916. it
will end with a crisis, compared with
which the Barring collapse will dwin-
die into insignifcance. Little is
known, he says, of tie banks true
condition, and the directors are re-
sponsible for the lnishandling Of
the State Provident fund,
]. D. McDermott, murderer of G. n.
Brooks was, found hanging in his cell
in the Pine Bluff, Ark, Jail Monday
morning, he having suicided, using
rome made of his bed clothes.
1t is said that Emperor William is
trying to purchase the new Cape dia-
mond, said to be the largest in the
world and more valuable than the
Kohinoor, weighing OIL karats.
Four miners named Faulkner, Lois,
Savage and Tuttle were drowned Sat
urday in Symonds-Kaye gold mine,
ten miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A blast broke down the wall and let
| in the water.