People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-23


twenty miles from Princeton, Ky.
Mr.. Gladstone gave a dinner party
Monday, the first social function he
has attended since the recent opera
ton on one of his eyes.
At Hanover, Ind, Monday afternoon
George Snyder shot Phillip Stollham-
er twice through the lungs, inficting
a fatal wound. The men had been
gambling and quarrelled.
Officials of the world S columbian ex-
position sent to the stockholders Sat-
urday the 10 per cent. dividend declar-
ell last May. aggregating $4,000. Of
this sum Chicago received about $3.50
900.
The private banking house Of Gould
& Bro, at Bridge, Ont, was. entered
by burglars Friday night and cash and
securities to the value of $4,000 stol-
en-. No description of the thieves can
be given.
The commence nent exercises of the
University of Virginia followed with
a joint celebration of the jefferson
and Washington Literary Societies
Chauncy NJ. Depew was the orator of
the occasion.
William Tomlins, who for nineteen
years has been director of the Apollo
Musical Club, of Chicago, has resign
ed. The resignation is the result of a
disagreement with the club managers
over his salary.
The whaleback steamer, Christopher
Columbus, will sail for Chicago, where
she will go into the excursion business
between that city and Milwaukee. On
an excursion few days ago $500 peo-
pie were carried.
The report that Nellie Grant Sa-tOr-
is was engaged to General Henry X.
Douglas, of Maryland, has been denied
by the family. Mrs Sartoris is now in
New York with her mother at the
home of Colonel Fred Grant.
The local fuel supply at Ashland,
Ky, both household and industrial, is
now effectually shut off The men of
all the local coal banks that have here
tofore furnished this have enlisted
with the United Mine Workers.
The trial OF the fourteen strikers,
charged with the murder of Engineer
Barr, last Tuesday, was called Wed
nesdav at Brazil, Ind. All the accus
ed gave bail, and over $500 has been
raised by subscription for their de
Tense,
At Breeder, w. Va, FIVE young
women got into fight and in the me
lee knives and pistols were used anC
Mrs. Lizzie Maynard was killed aus
Jennie Morris mortaly wounded. II
is thought that the affair originated
from jealousy.
Dispatches announcing q local out
break of cholera IN Russia are not re
garded at the marine hospital bureau
as dangerous to this country. Surgeon
General Wyman says cholera turks
constantly in Russia and such out.
breaks are not surprising.
Unknown parties ditched an engiD6
and eight cars of coal train on the
Mississippi Valley road at Central City
Ky. A brakeman was fatally hurt.
Fireman Mcdowell and the engineer
were injured. The engine was badly
damaged.
Forest fires are raging in all direc.
tiOns in the vicinity of Iron Mountain,
Mich. Across the rives in Wisconsin
the flames are doing great damage
At Sagola, Mich, the flames swept
away McCormick's hotel, Rasher's sa-
loon and boarding house and several
dwellings.
The fourteenth triennial convention
of the Reformed Episcopal church at
Chicago, closed Tuesday after a brief
session. Matters concerning the con-
stitutiOn of the church occupied the
greater part of the day. The next
general conference will meet in New
York city.
Thursday night last Tratte Key, who
lived near Ennis, Texas, was called
out to his gate and shot dead. The
case is mysterious. Key had no known
enemies. He was the husband of LIZ
zle Key, who was shot and killed in
wagon last Christmas by Ed Brown
who has been indicted and is in the
Ellis comfy Jail awaiting trial.
The body of Henry Uhlinger, who
disappeared from st. Joe, Mo-, several
weeks ago, was dragged from the Mis-
souri, river at Atkinson Saturday
morning. The body had wound, pre-.
sumably made by a bullet, and Mr..
Uhlinger was probably murdered and
his body thrown in the river. When
he disappeared he had 5000 in his pos.
session, none of which was found or
the body.
Inc incident growing out OF the
tearing down OF the United States flag
from the United States consulate al
St. Thomas, Ont, on the queens birth
day, has been satisfactorily closed by
an explanation to the department Oh
state that the perpetrators OF the out
rage were drunk and irresponsible and
would be properly death with.
A committee appointed by the citi
zens of McKeesport to effect com
promise between the strikers and tn,
National tube works called upon Gen.
eral Manager Converse and were in
formed that the company had no prop
osition to make The management
he said, were satisfied to keep the
works closed for the present.
All the manuscript materials of The
eleventh census, with the exception o!
three final volumes, have been com
pleted and are in readiness for tn,