People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-23
GENERAL NEWS.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

The federal grand jury at Chicago
Saturday returned an indictment
charging Lieutenant Nancy with the
murder of Captain Hedberg, at Fort
Sheridan.
Investigation shows that the recent
blizzard totally destroyed the peach
and plum crop of. Southern Illinois,
while cherries and currants are badly
damaged.
The World says that Tom Gibson.
Hiawatha boy who studied telepraphy
went to Chicago and worked on the
board Of trade, and has made SlOO, 0OO
by lucky deals.
Attorney Seaman continued his ad-
, dress for the prosecution in the Cough
lin case Saturday He finished Mon
day. and was followed by Attorney
Donahoa for the defense.
The county commissioners of Wyan-
dotte county have adopted resolutions
for the building OF a new 500, 900
bridge across the Kansas river at Tur-
ner, few miles this side of Kansas
City.
A commercial agreement between
France and Bolivia was signed at
Paris Friday. Bolivia comedies the
most favorcel treatment 10 France,
and France comedies the minimum to
Bolivia.
1t is reported that B. II. Payne of
ST. Louis assistant general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific railway.
is soon to be made assistant general
passenger agent of the Union Pacific
& Omaha.
The Berlin Reichsanzeiger publishes
list of a commission of sixteen ap-
pointed to inquire into the silver ques-
ton. The list includes Hers Arendt,
Bar2berger, 'Kordoriff, Mirbach, Alst
and Schlorlemes.
DR.. A. Dunlap died Friday evening
at Springfield, o. lie was a delegate
to the world medical congress at
London in 1881. and one of the earliest
physicians to demonstrate the opera
ton of laparotOmy.
A lar-e wine cellar at St.-Hellenas
Ca, owned by G. Is. Crane and rented
by John Il. Pike, burned Saturday.
Two hundred thousand gallons of
wine were destroyed. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
At Monte Vista. COL, Tuesday morn
ing, Ed Smith, 90 years old stabbed
his father, K. NJ. Smith. inficting a "a
tai wound. The son, who was intoxi-
Gated, became enraged when his ia
Their reproved him for drinking.
The house committee on public
lands has approved Mr.. Kyle's bill to
supply a deficiency in the land grant
to the university of Mississippi, by
empowering the governor to give title
to the university to not more than g.
04O acres, or one township.
The attorneys of ex-Banker Reid of
Kansas City, Mo-, whose case was set
for trial in the criminal court there
Tuesday, applied for a change of
venue, and Judge Wofford sent the
case to C ay county, where he will be
tried at the April term of court. His
bond was fixed at 1000.
The fishing smack Emma. of New
London, Conn, with ten men aboard
is believed to nave founde:ed off Fire
island IN. " in Monday nights
storm. Another smack reports hav-
ing seen the Emma Tuesday strug-
cling with the heavy seas, but lost
sight of her soon afterwards. 1t is
probable that she was blown out to
sea or down the Jersey coast.
The snow storm of Sunday was gen.
eral from the Rockies to the Atlantic
The western, central and northeastern
states are all blanketed in white. In
Kansas the storm was the worst seen
in many years. Snow fell to the
depth of IL inches and was accompa-
MED by driving wind that caused it
TO drift badly. Railroad traffic was
almost entirely suspended on all
roads, while in the cities street and
electric car traffic was impossible. No
deaths are reported up to Tuesday. In
Oklahoma the storm gave vent to all
its fury and the new settlers in the
Cherokee Strip suffered greatly. At
Red Rock James, Blount and
family are aim ST frozen to death.
Mrs. Fannie Spencer, a homesteader,
IL miles from Cross, was found frozen
stiff. James Mulligan, living 4 miles
south OF Perry was frozen to death,
and his partner died Is minutes after
being found from exposure At Ponca
Mrs. Cramer and her children were
found in coyotes burrow ten yards
from the house, frozen stiff. Col. Hen
ry Melton, cowboy. was found near
Newkirk, dead under his horse. A
family named Sears, living near Wood
ward, were found frozen to death. 1t
is thought that after the snow melts
that many dead settlers along with
hundreds of dead cattle will be
found. At Cross, Sherman Stone and
family were found with their threats
cut from ear to ear, and on a table
near was found the following note:
Wood all gone; Monte frozen TO
death; the rest of US freezing; hav
killed my family and now kill myself
to prevent further suffering. God
have mercy on u.s." Stone was a
homesteader and lived in a tent. At
Galveston, Tex, the thermometer reg
istered IS degrees below zero, with ice
two inches thick and ground frozen as
hard as rock, it rained, sleeted and
showed, and Sunday night a norther
blew at the rate of forty miles an
hour. Cattle suffered severely in the
western part of the state. Chicago
suffered severely and all railway traf-
fic was stopped. Missouri, Iowa, Ne
braska, Wisconsin, New York, Michi-
gan and Kentucky, have all suffered
from the effects of the worst storm in
many years. Wires are down,and full