People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-15
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
Photographed CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

mile, class A, unpaced bicycle record
Monday, making in 1897 Is.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis road
has given notice of withdrawal from
the Western Passenger association.
Near bingham, ILL.,, Henry Hend-
elmeyer' aged IA years, blew off his
head while playing with a shotgun.
A postofice hGR been established at
Rural, Chase county, Kansas, and
Eleazer Martin appointed postmaster
Wainwright, the American cores.
pendent who suffered from cruelties
in Brazil, died at Monte Viedo Sun
day.
Nunson & Mcnamara, Wichita, Kan
sas, big dry goods house. have ladies
employed to answer mail order en-
quiries. Write them.
Twenty-one students and one of the
professors of Wesleyan college at Mid
dleton, Conn.,, have been victims of
the typhoid fever raging there.
At Benson, Ariz. Saturday night.
the store OF A. Guinanana was bug
larized, the thieves carrying off mer-
chandise to the value of $500.
The storm en- the New England
coast reached Portland az 9 o'clock
Monday night. At Lynn, Mass, it
was accompanied by rain and snow.
Senator Isham G. Harris was robbed
OF his gold watch and chain at Bolivar,
Tenn. The thief entered his room
and secured the valuables while he
was asleep.
Lucius s. Blake, a millionaire NAH
ufacturer and business man, one of the
early settlers of Racine, Wisconsin,
died last Sunday of heart disease,
aged so years.
Joe Pencil, alias James Jackson, I'M
der indictment in the United States
court at Dallas for the alledged pass
ing of counterfeit money, was arrested
at Fort Worth, Texas.
Stockholders of the New Mexican
Terminal company, organized at Balti-
more Thursday with NJ. Johnston as
president The capital of the enter
prise will be s5,OCO,OOO.
A severe northeast storm passed
over Atlantic City, N. j., last Monday
night, accompanied by a heavy gale
and dangerously high tide on the
ocean front. Much damage has been
done to wires. The life-saving crews
are keeping a sharp watch for wrecks.
The joint case of W. S. Richardson
and Ed Smith, charged with murder
in the lyinching of six negroes near
Wilmington, Tenn, was called in the
Criminal Court at Memphis, last Mon
day. Owing to the lack of complete
venire the case was continued until
Thursday.
A dispatch from Zanzibar saying the
the Hova Prime Minister has replied
to the ultimatum of France. forward
ed to the Government of Madasgar by
M. lie Myre de Villers, that the Hovas
will only yield to force. The French
are evacuating Antanarivo, the capital
of Madagascar.
The $4,000 damage suit of Rev.
Larrabee CAMPBELL against Banker
johnson for alternating mis- wifes af-
fections, which has been on trial in
the District Court in Omaha for. two
weeks, was concluded Monday by a
verdict for the defendant. The de-
tense was blackmail.
A telegram from Valencia, Venezu-
ella, reports that rebel sympathizers
besieged the troops in the barracks
Monday night, but finally the troops
made break in wall and sailed out
attacking the people. Six soldiers
and twenty rebels were killed and
many wounded on both sides.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg saws
the trial is impending of a number of
peasants of the Kazan district for the
killing of a peasant as sacrifice to
the idols of the Votiaks, a Finnish
race living in more or less uncivilized
condition along the River Volga. be-
tween the Vaitka and James rivers.
IA dispatch from Lima saws that the
Caceres Government has imposed du-
ties on all articles that have hereto
fore been admitted to Peru free of
duty, On iron, coal and machinery a
duty is imposed of per cent ad valor-
EN-, plus &c silver per ton of 1000 kilos.
Gen. Peirola, ex-Presidsnt, has landed
at Pisco, 100 miles south of Callao.
Near Spokane, Washington three
highway robbers successfully worked
the western part of county on last
Monday, and besides securing consid-
cradle plumber, they shot two of their
victims. They were frst heard of
near Cheyne, where they held up an d
robbed several parties who were on
the highway. A farmer who refused
to contribute was shot through the
shoulder and seriously injured. Later
in the day the trio attempted to hold
up Louis Quincia near Marshall, and
when he failed to comply with the re-
quest OF "hands up" they ali fred at
him. Quincia fell with two bullets in
his body and later was found bv the
roadside in a dying condition.
Won Bieberstein, while retaining
his present office of imperial secretary
of state for FOREIGN affa;-e bos 49,.