People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-11

An Oklahoma City man has patent.
ed device for moving sick people
from one room to another.
Attorney General Malonev has filed
bill to prevent the tobacco trust
from doing business in the state OF
Illinois.
Senator Henderson introduced
bill to allow the 0toe and Missouri In.
dians in Kansas and Nebraska to take
their lands in severalty within two
years, and also providing 1000 to en-
able the interior to carry on the work
Major Joseph Kirkland died at his
home in Chicago Sunday from an at
tack of angina pectoris. He was best
known as writer, although he had
an honorable record as soldier dur
ing the late war, and as soldier
since.
A very severe hail and wind storm
in Weber county, Iowa, Sunday eve
ming broke nearly all the windows in
the town of Ellsworth. George Han.
sen and wife were blinded by tie
storm at railroad crossing and run
down and killed.
The Spanish medical delegation
sent to look into the epidemic at Lis
bon reports that the cholera has
spread to the right bank of the Iagus
Some cases are reported at Costello
BrancO, in the province of BeirC, close
to the Spanish frontier.
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Berne says that Switzerland has
represented to DR., Claperde, the Swiss
minister to Washington, that it has
decided in regard to the arbitration
between Chilli and America to award
S?4O,5O4 instead OF the $4,000, 900 de-
manded.
The rush of Chinese merchants, g
intent on reaching America before
registration ceases on May 3, has
caused an appeal to the courts of San
Francisco to define the word mer.
chants. Judge Morrow listened to the
extensive arguments and has taken
the case under advisement.
The village of Davidson, Mich. was
visited by confagration early Mon
day morning that practically wiped
out the business portion of the town.
Twenty-three business buildings were
destroyed. The Gre was controlled by
the aid of the Flint fire department.
Loss about $50 900; insurance $4,000.
There was grand double hallelu.
jah wedding in the Salvation army at
Clifton last week. Major F. E. Day Of
Washington and Miss Eva Steinhelb,
and Mr. Lee and Miss Barbara Wy.
man of Hanover, were the contracting
parties. Twenty-Five cents admission
was charged to witness the perform
ance.
Joseph A Mack pleaded guilty to
embezzlement from the American
National Bank at Kansas City Sqtur-
day and was sentenced to the peniien.
tiary for five years. The prisoner was
bookkeeper at the bank and was short
$40, 400, but he paid back the amount
dollar for dollar earned by hard work
in a small business he had established,
being allowed his liberty while dong
so. Mack ran away after indemnify
ing his bondsmen when his defalca.
ton was first discovered in Septem.
Der, 1892, but was recognized in Cleve-
land, Ohio. by Kansas City "fr end
VINO sold him to the police for $3.50.
The Owen Glendower oak, nea!
Shrewsbury, is forty-four feet in di.
Rmeter at the ground. 1t owes its
name to the fact that in 14O1 Owen
Glendower, the Welsh leader, climbed
into its topmost branches to recon
hotter an approaching English army.
The banyan tree is grove of it.
self. It's branches send out stringy
filaments which finally reach the
ground, take root and become trunks.
One such tree in India has 400 main
trunks and over 5000 smaller. An.
English army of 1000 man has been
sheltered at one time under it;
branches.