People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-09
GENERAL NEWS.
Cleaned from tho Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

Senator John Yaryan, aged %, one
of Indiana's prominent men, died at
Richmond Sunday.
A dispatch from London announces
the death of Rosina Vokes of the IA
nous Vokes family of actors.
A private dispatch from Saxony an
nounces the death OF Explorer Fred
rick August Loewe, aged 6S.
0ne-fourth of the entire population
of Grand Forks, n. d., is sick with ty-
phoid fever. The death rate averages
ten daily.
Certain Chicago citizens whose
names are withheld, have filed an in
formation with Attorney General Mo-
loney, with the view of opening up
bitter war on the gas trust.
Three patients in the county hospital
at Chicago were found to have small
pox Saturday, and were removed to
the pest house. There are now about
ninety patieuts in the smallpox hos
pital.
]. L. Malone, one of the worlds
champion pool players, played a match
game at So Paul, Friday, with Henry
j. SAM son, the local expert, who is
credited with the run of S42 at the an
che nurse.
1t is not likely that there will be or
gained opposition against the Baily
resolution questioning the authority
OF bonds to defray the expenses Of the
government, when the resolution is
reported to the house.
The St, Paul conference of the
chiefs of the various brotherhoods
connected with the Northern Pacific,
forecast for Thursday, did not mater.
ialize, owing TO the non-arrival OF
some of the parties concerned.
? A boy and a girl, belonging to q
party of immigrants on their way tC
Texas, were found frozen to death
near Clarendon, Ark, Monday eve
ming. The father and mother are 81
badly frost-bitten that they cannot
live.
A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro say!
that the bombardment of the city con
tinues The brokers of Rio de JaneirC
have cabled to La Plata. requesting
that no cargoes be received for Bahia
The revolution is said to be gaining
ground.
The senate in executive session
made known the following confrma
tions: Lieutenant Colonel Amos Stick
ney, corps of engineers of the United
States army, and Major Charles Allen
corps of engineers of the United State
army, as members of the Mississippi
river commission.
The Latrobe Steel Works compan,
Of Latrobe, Pa, for the second time il
the past eight months has made re
duction of % per cent in the wages o
its workmen, which makes altogethe
a cut of so per cent. The various Goa
companies in that vicinity have ais
ordered cut OF from 10 to % per cen
in wages.
John J. ingalls, told en- AtchiSon
Kan, reporter Saturday that he wa
absolutely out of politics He will en-
gage in the campaign next fall if invi
ted, as he is Republican and appre
ciates the favors shown him in tn
past, but he is not a candidate fo
anything and will not be ut any tim
in the future.
Stakeholder friedrich P. Hatch {
the Nicaragua company, through tn
attorneys, filed petition in the Unite
States circuit court at New York yet
terday, asking permission to examir
the books of the company. The pet
ton sets up that fraud has been pra
ticed on the part of the former maj
agement of the company.
At Hancock, Mo-, on Monday afte
noon Jack Decker shot and Instant
killed J. NJ. Dukln. two ballots ente
ing his brain, and one piercing b
heart. Decker is a son of one of Il
wealthiest farmers in Pulaski count
and Dullin was prominent merchal
of Hancock. Former troubles and q
old grudge led to the above result.
Secretary Morton has appointed )
A. Carleton of the Kansas Agricultu
al college as a special agent of the d
partment of agriculture, attached
the division of vegetable patholog
under Professor B. t. Galloway. Pro
Carleton has made a special Study
rust in cereals, and will devote his a
tention to that branch of work.
The executive committee of the Pc
uliSt state central committee has
sued an address to the people of Ia
sas in accordance with the resolutit
passed at the last meeting Of the COZ
mittee. The document, which
signed by John w. Breidenthal
chairman, and Charles S. Davis as 81
rotary, makes about two columns a.
a half and is devoted to rehearsal
the history of the Peoples party
Kansas. ASA
1t is now reported that the exec
ton of Valiant, the condemned an;
chist, sentenced to die by the gull
tine, will not take place until the M
die of next week. The Eclaire, ref
ring to the efforts being made to {
tam q communication of Valliant's Sc
tehce, says that the government
hesitating as to what course to p1
sue, and that the hesitation is caus
by the fact that it seems that the pr
lie opinion in favor of mercy to t
condemned man seems to be increi
ing.
At Jackson, Miss, Saturday, Jud
Christman sentenced Horace Smi
and Henry Singleton to hang