People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-28

Herman Reinkle, st. Joseph, Mo-,
newspaper man. pleaded guilty Thurs
day to blackmail Sentence was re-
vised.
Joseph Foster, postmaster at POme-
roy To-, is found to be short in his ac-
counts about S3OOO His books are in
bad condition.
In drunken row Thursday night
at Valley View, Ky, Jesse Howard
shot Robert Jones with a shotgun,
killing him instantly.
Frank Lord was arrested at Du-
buque, To-, and bound over in the sum
of $1,000 for passing gilded quarters on
the unsophistcated tradesmen of
Lloyd as $40 gold pieces.
Ollie Lunn and J. w. Howard were
each sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary by the district court at
Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, the
FIRST for theft and the latter for
forgery.
George Loughton, OF Lafayette, Ind,
aged %, employed in the construction
of the new Mononarailroad shops, was
Saturday crushed to death by the fall
Of derrick, which had IN hoist a
large piece of stone.
A dispatch received in London from
Seoul, Corea, dated September 10, says
that the japanese force moving from
Gensen has completely routed the
Chinese at Sing Chuen. Both sides
are reported to have lost heavily.
Fire Monday night destroyed the
large stables of Dr. Egloff, of Mason
City, Iowa, with property valued at
$500; D. NJ. McMorrow's barn and
residence and F. NJ. Rogers barn.
Total loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The trial of Fred Rogers, on the
charge of killing Louis Kernodle, at
GAINESVILLE, Ark. several months ago
came to a close Saturday, He was
found guilty of manslaughter, and
given five years in the penitentiary.
A forged check on the Merchants
National Bank, bearing D. T. Tuttle's
name, payable to VIM. BALTIC, was
passed at Rooms IS Manock last week
by forger in the guise of a farmer
boy, at Muncie, Ind. The check was
for SIS.
Gov. Altgeld last week pardoned
William Cone, who was convicted at
Rockford, ILL.,, April last for burglary,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year, The Governor thinks there
were mitigating circumstances which
Justify executive clemency.
Burglars broke into the residence of
Alexander Hartford. a wealthy con-
tractor, at Ingram, Pa, last week,
carrying off all the silverware and
jewellery and set fire to the house.
Hartford, who was the only occupant,
narrowly escaped with his life.
Mrs. Frederick Thies, the wife of a
stockman, living near Elwood, Mo-.
was gored to death by bull week
as she was crossing a pasture to visit
a neighbor. The brute stood over her
PROSTATE form when life was gone and
was shot and killed by the husband
of the dead woman before the body
could be removed.
The British cruiser Ringarooma,
which went ashore September on a
reef off Mallicolla Island, New He.
brides, and it is feared would become
total wreck, has been foated, thanks
to the assistance rendered by the
British war-ships, Dart, Lizard and
Wallaroo and the French cruisers
Scorff and Louante, The Ringarooma
now at Port Sandwich.
L. Cooper a wealthy farmer living
fourteen miles north of Tuscaloosa,
Fla, was assassinated Saturday night
two miles from his home, while re-
turning from trip to the city. He
was found Sunday morning with his
head aud body filed with bullets.
Cooper went to town Saturday and
sold two bales of cotton. He was
shot from ambush on his way home
and robbed.
Joseph Fletcher, check weighman
at Monarch mine, owned by the Teller
Coal Company, was cut to pieces Sat-
urday morning while trying to pre-
vent Q wreck. Fifteen fat cars had
broken loose from the engine and
were running down grade on the mine
switch at fearful speed, and Fetch
er fearing wreck, attempted to
jump the train to set the brakes, when
he fell under the wheels, fifteen cars
passing over his body.
Six survivors of the persons aboard
the Chinese transport Chean, which
stranded in the Che Tung Pass recent.
ly with 400 troops aboard, while on
the way to the Island of Formosa,
have arrived at Shanghai. 1t was an.
nounced that, in spite OF the panic
that prevailed on the transport after
she went ashore, all the troops and
crew were saved in the ships boats
but the six persons who reached
Shanghai say that they estimate that
about 200 soldiers were drowned in
the Che Tung Pass
Just after noon Monday, Ada Jones
ayoung woman of Seymour, after :
short intaruiau with ba,- lo.o