People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
The Japanese are going to make a.
invasion into the interior of China.

JOSeph, Mo. ITOm IN JurleS received IN
a runaway Saturday.
W. Fl. Barnes was bound over to the
Grand Jury at Centralia, Mo-, Monday
on two charges of forgery.
The cash balance in the Treasury
last week was sl23, SCOOPS, of which
SIS, 6O4, $50 was gold reserve.
Five men were killed Saturday by a
cavern in a slate quarry at Probst
leila, in Saxe-Meiningen.
Three inches of Snow is reported at
Motley, Mimi, with a fall also al
Brainard and out along the line of the
Northern Pacific.
VIM. Mitchell was killed Sunday
night by Big Four Train near Car.
bon, Indiana, while attempting to
Jump on the cars
In attempting to board a North
western freight, few miles west Of
Clinton, 10, August Schatz was run
over and instantly killed.
Artilleryman Skinner, of Battery F.
Fort Riley, Kansas, was shot and IA
tally wounded at Junction City, Kan
sas, by May Christian, a woman of the
| town.
Henry Lauge, a German, aged Is
years, was accidentally shot while
hunting near Geeenridge, Mo-, Sunday
by 16-year old companion, and died
of his wounds Monday.
John Travis, a recent Mobile and
Ohio railroad conductor, was arrested
Monday at Murphysboro, ILL.,, on an
old charge of assault to murder, pre-
ferred by Mississippi authorities.
The dwelling of B. B. Pierce, OF
Wilmot, Wis, was destroyed by fire
Saturday night. Three sons, ages
ranging from % to 80 years, and a
daughter IS years old persisted in the
flames.
Colonel'Zeb Ward, Ole of the dest
ani bestknown citizens in the state of
Arkansas, is lying dangerously i'll
at his home in Little Rock. Several
physicians from abroad were sum-
moned to his bedside, all of whom say
his case is hopeless. ..-,.
At Cisco, Eastland County, Texas,
f. Garrett and his sister-in-law, Mag
gle Norvell, are in Jail to await the
action of the grand jury, n default of
81 600 each, charged with numbering
an infant, found a few days ago at
the bottom of the well at that place.
Charley Phllpott, of Creston, want
ed atsBedford, Taylor county, Iowa,
for assaulting the young daughter Of
Sam Winslow, near Lenox, after elud-
ing the officers several weeks, surpris'
ed the authorities by walking into the
mayors Office at Bedford and surrend-
cred.
Chas. D. Parker, Past Deputy Com
mander of the G. A. R. of Minnesota,
died at Minneapolis, Saturday. De-
ceased was well known in railway cir
cles and for years has been agent fol-
the Traders Dispatch in that city.
Capt. Parker enlisted In an Ohio regi.
ment when IS years of age.
William Carr, an employee of the
Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co.,
murdered his sister, Mrs. Ellen Lucier,
aged A years Saturday afternoon.
Carr was drunk at the time of the
murder, which was the result of a
quarrel over the division Of some prop
erty left by their mother.
Penitentiary Keeper Jones Of Allan
ia, Ca, has received telegram stat.
ing that seventy-fve convicts employ
ed in sawmill near Waycross have
mutinied and refuse to work. They
are in the barracks and have secured
the keys to the provision department
A posse has been sent to suppress the
the mutiny.
James Morton, aged 90 years, an in.
mate Of he Poor Farm at Kingston,
Mo-, confirms the story of ]. Frank
Pierce, OF Rock Springs, Wyo., that
his wife was the daughter of Jay
Gould. Morton says he adopted the
child when she was two years old,
He then resided at ST. Thomas, Cana
da West.
The verdict of the coronor's jury
Monday at Chicago, in the inquest on
the body of Miss Belle White. who
died in DR.. Sophia Saunta's facial mas.
sage institute, was that the deceased
came to her death through functional
heart disease, not by the electric
sponge or the cocaine used in the
wrinkle cure.
Three men were buried by the cav.
ing in of a sewer, leading from the
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State Hospital through Goodman
street Monday. Ferdinand Ritz, A
years old, and Charles Howald, 80
years of age, were killed. John
Kick was rescued. The accident was
caused by removing braces before il
was safe to do so.
The burglars were in the acto loot.
ing the hardware store of Tillotson &
Andrews, at Table Rock, Mo, Sunday
night, when night Waterman B. F.
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