People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-09

ghed tuesday to Jasper ID. Nelson.
ne assets and liabilities are $40, COO
each.
Adolf Forles, chief cashier of the
Austrian state department, has alb
sconded. His defalcations amount to
100000 forms.
The bill for the consolidation of
New York and Brooklyn has passed
che New York legislature and will be
approved by Governor Flower.
Professor B'dez of Emporia, has ac-
cepted the position of musical director
at Campbell university at Holton, and
Will enter upon his duties at once.
q. T. White of New Braska CITY,
Neb', was Tuesday found guilty of
criminally llbeling J. Sterling Morton.
Inc libel consisted of hanging Morton
IN efigy in the city park.
The Missouri Pacific entered the
California rate war Tuesday. The
same rate as the other roads was
made, and it will route its passengers
via Pueblo and Ogden.
-Four hundred marines, who are sta
toned in Chatham, England, have
been ordered to in readiness to pro-
coed to Bathurst, West Africa, to take
part in the expeditions against the
slave traders.
A party of patriotic Kentuckians are
taking steps to purchase the birth
place'of Abraham Lincoln, in La Rue,
KY, and convert it into a park. Ne
EQUATIONS are about completed, and
work will begin early in the spring.
Matthew Johnson was electrocuted
at Sing Sing, n. Y, at 11:33 Monday
morning for the murder of Emil Kuck-
!ehorn on Dec. 0, 1892, while burglar
lzing store in which Kucklehorn was
employed as engineer. Johnson con-
fessed.
The Montreal Liberals claim to have
a big sensation in store for the next
session of the Dominion parliament.
and intimate that charges will be
brought against members of the cabi-
net OF a similar character to those
brought against the last postmaster
general.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison
and his party left Indianapolis Mon
DAY for California, via the Pennsvlva-
MIA, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific
roads. General Harrison goes to Palo
Alto to commence a course ofconstitu-
tonal law lectures in the Stanford
university,
While ledger in the Hotel St. Den
ms was being elected Monday a tin
box fell from his person and exploded
on the pavement, He denied being an
anarchist and said that the bomb was
thrown at him. AS the police were
unable to prove anything against him,
he was released.
Judge Bretane of Chicago, who has
been criticised for fixing the execu-
ton of Murderers Prendergast and
higgins on Good Friday, said in an in
terview Monday that no disregard for
church traditions was intended. It
was an accident, and the day of exc
cution might yet be changed.
Harry Murray and Ira Evans. two
boys IA years of age. while out coast
ing with their schoolmates, near Boul
der, Colo, wagered their sleds on the
result of prize fight between them
selves. During the mill Murray struck
Evans powerful blow under the
heart, causing death in few minutes
Two railroad men, Albert ]. New
ton and j. c. Clark, who arrived at st
Paul a week ago and stopped at the
Union Park hotel, went to the city
physician on Saturday for attention.
Their cases were pronounced to be
clear cases of smallpox. 1t is not
known how many persons have been
exposed
Officers Weigel and Falkenberg of
Arkansas arrived at Denver Saturday.
with requisition papers for penny,
weight" Powell, the Oliphant train
robber, captured at Denver on the
18th, inst. The governor signed the
requisition papers and the officers
started back with their prisoner Mon
day night.
Governor Waite has nominated Mrs
Emma &. White of Cannon CITY TO be
trustee of the state industrial school
at Golden, and Mrs. L. c. Dwinnell of
Colorado Springs to be one of the
trustees OF the state institute for the
deaf, mute and blind at Colorado
Springs. These are the first appoint
ments offered women under the eoual
suffrage law of Colorado.
Secretary G. W. Barnard of the
grand Masonic lodge of Illinois said
Tuesday; "Mrs, Lease is a deliberate
liar when she said she was a member
OF the Masonic order. The trouble
with Mrs Lease is that she is afflicted
WIN sIrohS Jaw. her story is alb
surd."
Hon. Wayde Mcvey of PHILADELPHIA.
the new United States ambassador to
Italy, took possession of the American
embassy at Rome Saturday and for
mally entered upon his official duties
a large number of visiting and resi-.
dent americans called at the embassy
during the morning to welcome the
new ambassador and present their
compliments.
Mrs. Louise Rockwell, the actress
known as Louise Kellogg, who was
shot by E. ]. McNabb, a professional
baseball pitcher, at Pittsburg, Pa
Wednesday night, will probably re-
cover. The cause of the tragedy is at.
tributed to jealousy. MeNab6 was
formerly a telegraph operator en-
ployed by the Santa Fe railroad in
Kansas. An inquest held over Nc