People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-13
GENERAL NEWS.
Nleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in short
J Paragraphs for the Convenience Of
Hurried Readers.

There was little snow at Ava last
week. 1t is not reported at any other
point
The annual meeting of the Central
Kansas Teachers association will be
held in Marion this year.
The municipal indebtedness of Par
sons amounts to about $4,000. OF
this, 100000 is in the way OF railroad
bonds.
Mrs. Gilla Cumbert. aged &C years,
died at st. Joseph, Mo. Tuesday from
extreme old age. She had been res
ldent OF st. Joseph since ls4j.
The steamer China, arriving Mon
day at San Francisco from China and
Japan, brings the interesting rumor
that a son has been born to their i'm
perial maiesties, the emperor and en-
press of China.
Rev. Oscar Mitchell, VI. A. was or
dained to the priesthood in the Epis-
copal church at Boston Monday. He
is a young colorcd man, and is the
first of his race to be ordained into
the Episcopal church of New Eng
J land.
Mr.. Theodore A. Rockfort. whose
Office is at $50 Broadway New York,
and who came to Cincinnati to be
treated for consumption, was found
by his physician sitting in his chair
dead, Monday afternoon in the Grand
hotel, supposedly from heart disease,
1t is learned at Springfeld, H., that
the appeal in the celebrated case of
Daniel Benton" alias William New
by, convicted in the United States dis
trict court there for presenting fraud
ulent pension claims and sentenced to
a term in the penitentiary, has been
dismissed in the United States SUI
preme court at Washington.
Unless Governor Waite interferes. a
triple execution will take place in
the penitentiary at Canon City some
day during the week beginning April
y, The supreme court Tuesday SEN
fenced Thomas Jordon, William Mes
bit and Santiago Torrez, murderers,
IN whose cases stays were granted but
to whom new trials were refused. to
be hanged at that time.
Katie Lally, the 3-year-old daughter
OF John Lally, of No. 73l Minnesota
avenue, Kansas City, Kan, died Mon.
day from the effects of poisoning. The
child was playing with some compan.
ions the day before. They decided to
play doctor, and one of the children
scraped particles from an electric
light carbon, and mixing it with wa
ter gave it to the Lally child, who
was taken sick soon after and died de-
spite medical aid. Shortly before her
death she said that she had not want
ed to take the medicine" but that
her playmates forced her to take it.
Mrs. Mary Antonio Castro Majors,
member of the well known Califor.
MIA Spanish family of San Francisco,
began suit for breach of promise in
J the United States circuit court against
Harry ). Cowell, son of the well
known Santa Cruz millionaire lime
king, Harry c. Cowell The woman
sues for $4,000 and will contest fer a
share OF his wealth, which she de-
elares belongs to their child. Mrs.
Majors is the widow of of Robert Ma.
jors, very well known citizen of San.
ia Cruz, who was fatally shot five
years ago. 1t was during Majors last
illness, she says, that Cowell began tC
come to her house, and after her hus
bands death paid her marked atten
ton lasting through several years.
The fOulest murder in the history o.
Pomroy, D., was committed there
about midnight. Elizabeth, the di
vorced wife of DR.. Richard Slaughter
was found dead on the next dool
neighbours porch with three bullets il
her head. She lived alone, and wa.
70 years old. Neighbor Clayton Stab
and wife, on returning from an enter
tainment, fell over her body at theii
door. She is supposed to have run t
the neighbors when attacked, and wa!
murdered while trying to get in a
their door. The body shows marks O.
kicks. The front door of the deaC
woman's house was found open ant
the lamp burning. Nothing was dis
turbed. The object of the murder i.
mystery. She was peaceable wo
man and well liked. There is no clu,
to the murdererS.
A terrible battle has been fought il
the kingdom of Bornu, Central Sou
dan. Rabah, the former slave of Fob
her Pasha, with an army numberin,
10000 men, invaded the kingdom. H,
was opposed by the sultan of Bornu a
the head of large army. During tn,
3 battle both sides sustained heav,
losses, and the sultan of Bornu ant
Rabah were killed, fighting desperate
lyat the head of their troops.
The regular spring term of the ma
uonal congress opened Monday eve
ming at the City of Mexico. Presiden
Diaz has finished his message and vii
deliver it to congress at the openinI
session. The message will discuss a
length the silver and financial situa
ton of the country. The department
OF promotion of the federal govern
ment is in receipt of quantity off
teresting statistics bearing on the cul
tivation and shipment of Mexican or
anges, These statistics show that ,
big trade is being built up in the Unit
ed States in this product. During tn,
months OF January and February o
the present year about 300 car load
OF oranges were shipped to the United
States from the state of Sonora alone
A large number Of ear loads OF til,
fruit have also been shipped from tn,
states of Nueva leon and Tar,o,,I: