People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
PAREGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

was crushed TO death by the ears Sun
day, while stealing a ride.
John Lamb, Saint Joseph, Mo-,
bookkeeper, fell beneath wheels of a
wagon Saturday, and was fatally In
jured.
Andrew Gibbons, a small boy, was
smothered to death near Ennis, Texas,
while playing with some children in a
eotton-seed bin.
j. S. Wimberly, a prominent young
merchant of Ringgold, Texas, died
Sunday FROM the effects of fall from
a second-story window.
The body OF. Prof. Geo. T. Ellis, who
was shot at Texarkana, Ark, on the
evening of September 21st, by Bryant
arrived at Nevada, Mo, Friday and
was buried Saturday near his old home
In Vernon county.
Rev. E. G. Brainerd, of Wyanet, Ill,
was Sunday rendered a call by the
First Congregational Church, of
Spring Valley, to fill the vacancy oc-
casoned by the death of Rev. j. P.
johnson. He will accept.
Gov. Altgeld last week issued requi-
sitions on the Governor of Missouri
for the extraditiOn of Minnie Jackson,
alias Minnie Allen and Belle Curtis,
both under arrest at St. Louis, and
wanted at Chicago for larceny.
David Hudson, a 15-year-old boy,
pleaded guilty at TT. Worth in the
Seventh District Court last week and
was sentenced to five years in the re-
formatory. Charles Mitchell, for for
cry, was sentenced to two years.
Within two months, when more
horses shall have been inocculated,
Pasteur Institute will send out an
anti-diphtheria serum to the provinces.
This serum will also be supplied to
druggists in the form of powder.
lit has just become known that a
$3.50 Wells-Fargo package mysterious
ly disappeared from the Adams ex-
press Office at Atchison, Kansas, last
Sunday. The officials are investigat-
ing. but there is:no clue yet.
The exports of specie from the New
York port during the week were:
Gold, $1,000; silver, S73O,675. The i'm
ports of the week were: Gold, $780,
9S5; silver, SIC, 1872; dry goods, $685.
569; general merchandise, S7,963, 666.
At meeting of the congregation of
the Presbyterian church Sunday after
noon, Rev. T. W. Raymond, President
Of the North Mississippi Presbyterian
College at Holly Springs, Miss, was
called to be pastor of that church.
The house of Crawford Hedges, of
Circleville, O., wealthy, aged bach
elor, was entered by masked men and
robbed. In attempting to protect his
property he was shot, and now lies at
the point of death from his injuries.
Grave robbers have been operating
in the cemeteries near Union Hill, n.
Y. Wednesday night two vaults were
found to have been opened in Grove
Church Cemetery and the bodies re-
moved. The authorities are inve:tigat-
ing.
George Jacobs, of Muncie, has sued
Daniel 7. Fox, OF Albany for $4,000,
the amount of damages he claims to
have received by the defendant alien
ating his wife's affections. The suit
is big surprise here, and its an
nouncement at Albany will be a sur
prise.
The Will County, H., Grand Jury
returned thirty-two indictments.
Among them were eleven against VIM.
F. Moore for forgery. Moore was
prosperous farmer in Wills county,
and in 1891 he sold out at an auction
sale and took notes. Before these
notes became due he duplicated all Of
them and sold them.
The stock markets of London, after
latness, closed better Tuesday. We'd
nesday's settlements disclosed a very
mall speculative account. American;
were lower, but closed above the low.
est point, except for Reading, which
was fat at the close, as was New York
Central on the talk of reduction of the
dividend. There is a steady CONT
mental demand for gold.
At Chaska, twenty miles south Of
Minneapolis Saturday evening, Loui:
Sharp and his family of five children
drove upon the ferry to cross the
river. 1t being dark, he drove too fal
and the pile knocked down the apron
and the team and family drove over
board into the river. Sharp saved
himself, but his wife and FIVE children
and team were drowned.
When Fitzsimmons was told tina
Colonel Hopkins and Dan Creedon haG
claimed that he had fouled CreedoI
by hitting with the wrist and bacl
heeling, Fitzsimmons replied: "Col
Hopkins does not tell the truth. H,
is wind bag and fake, and to tel
the truth, l think he won money OF
me. have right to hit a man Will
any pat of my fist, and so long as
follow the rules in this respect, n,
man can say fight FOUL.
Sixty houses in the city of Blasseki
in the district of Kalish, Russia, an,
where the cholera is making fearful