People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-06

the throne of the United Kingdom,
was safely delivered of a son Satur-
day.
At the sale of the Avondale stable
Thursday in the paddock at Washing
ton park, Chicago, Ida Pickwick was
sold for $1,000 and Fraulein for s., 700,
both to G. V. Dalgren.
George P. Healy, recognized in two
continents as one of the greatest por-
trait painters of the century, died at
his home in Chicago Sunday, at the
age of 81. He was born in Boston in
1873.
John Hanson Craig, known AS John
Powers, the Kentucky giant, died at
lis home in Dan7ille, Ind, Thursday.
de was museum attraction for TWEEN
ty years and weighed 700 pounds. He
was 46 years old.
A Creek indian recently bought u
big cooking stove. When he got home
with it he found that ii wouldn't go
into the house, so he built a shed out
In the back yard and the cooking is
now done there.
Police Captain Cole stepped into a
saloon at Clinton, Ia, to stop a fight |
and the entire company jumped OH
him. In the melee he shot William
Hener. who died from the effects. Cap
tain Cole was so badly hurt that he had
to be carried away
While the fire department of Colum.
bus, O., was drilling on Broad street,
Monday morning, the immense water
tower toppled over and crushed into a
surrey killing James II. Frederick, his
wife and gentleman named Rugby,
who were in the surray escaping.
Rev G. !. Phillips, pastor of the
Methodist church at Espanola, n. NJ,
met with fatal accident while cut
ting alfalfa. He carried Winchester
on the machine to shoot gophers with,
and by sudden jolt the gun was dis
charged, the ball passing through his
body.
Major Moore, the local chief of the
police, has been in conference with
the sergeants-at-arms of the senate
and house regarding precautions to be
taken to guard against the possibility
of any violence from cranks in the cap
itol and for watching suspicious char
acterS.
The fourth annual State Epworth
League, of Nebraska, convention
closed Sunday night at Grand Island,
under the most favorable outlook for
a prosperous future. The attendance
reached over 400, and a very large ma
Jority of these were constant attend.
ants at the various sessions
A statement from the commissioner
OF pensions shows that there are on
the pension rolls 1885 pensioners of
the Mexican war and 1911 widows; g.
100 survivors of the Indian wars and
1901 widows, while applications are
pending for 2,576 Mexican pensions and
Else Indian war pensions.
Two miners named James johnson
and Hugh Means, were killed in a
shaft on the Jacobs & Frye grounds at
Joplin, No., last week. They care
lessly stepped into the tub while the
hoistingman's attention was attracted
elsewhere, and as the brake was not
sec they fell TO the bottom of the ,
shaft
Reports have been received at the
marine capital bureau of yellow fever
in quarantine at two points, d vessel !
reached Galveston. Saturday from
Vera Cruz via Tampicu, with one case
on board, and reported that two had
died on the trip. The British brigan-
tine Albatross, from Havana, reached
quarantine at the Tortugas with one
case on board,
Henry A. Salzer, manager of the
John A. Salzer Seed company, La
crosse, Wis.,, is in Europe looking up
rare novelties in vegetables and new
things in the farm see4 line He will
visit the celebrated farming districts
of. France, Germany, England, Bel
GUM, Russia and Bohemia, and the
customers of this wide-awake firm can
congratulate themselves upon his
bringing along the cream of farm and
vegetable seeds that these foreign
countries offer
Abilene has kindergarten associ.
alton.
Casare Giovanni Santo' the man
who murdered President Carnot, is
son of Marie Broglio and Antoine Cps.
avio He joined the anarchist associ-
alton at an early age. In January,
1892, he tried, with two fellow anar-
chists, to start newspaper, but was
unable to raise the funds necessary to
float it. The police watched him un-
til the end of 1898, when he went to
Switzerland.
Five hundred visitors to the Masonic
temple roof garden on the twenty-frst
floor of the Masonic temple, were Civ.
en- fright Sunday afternoon, and a
panic was narrowly averted. A few
minutes before o'clock fire was dis
covered in a rubbish room on the
fourth floor adjoining the shafts of
freight elevators and for time looked
as though there would be serious con-
sequences. Prompt action on the part
of the firemen prevented serious dam
age to the building and the fire was
confined to the rubbish and felt wraps
of scores Of steam and gas pipes which
ran to the roof. There was no smoke
perceptible on the roof until the
flames were discovered pouring from
the doors of the freight elevators. |
The seven elevators soon landed the
people all on the ground without any
accident.
A dispatch to the London Daily