People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-16
GENERAL NEWS.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the world and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.


skipped out.
The work of preparing for publica-
ton data relating to the naval war
records is about completed
A dispatch to the London Times
from Odessa says that severe earth
quakes have occurred in the southern
part OF Russia.
Comptroller Eckels has issued call
for statements of the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
on February 20.
Senator Stewart on Tuesday intro
duced an amendment to the Bland
seigniorage bill providing for the free
coinage Of silver.
Rev. John A. Paddock, bishop of Ia
coma, died Sunday night at Miramar,
Cal, after an illness of several days
caused by paralysis.
The De Soto, Mo-, postoffice was
burglarized Monday night. The safe
was blown open and $3.50 in money
and 81, 700 in stamps were taken.
The Dolphin Manufacturing compa-
ny's Jute mills in Patterson, n. j.,
have closed down indefinitely, throw
ing 800 people out Of employment.
Mrs. Alice S. Ireland OF Cincinnati,
a bride of six weeks, because her
mother, Mrs Sellew had not treated
her well, committed suicide.
A treaty between Spain and Morocco
was signed Tuesday. General Mar
tinez Campos, the Spanish commander
in Morocco started for Mazagan to-
day.
A suit for foreclosure for $4,000
and interest, for the appointment of a
receiver and for the sale of Amos
Whitley & Co.'S big wheat reaper
plant at Springfield, o.. has been fled
in court by mortgage holders.
Joshua G. Brady, wealthy young
farmer living four miles from YER
sales, Ky, while digging a posthole
the other day, dug up an old earthern
kettle containing several thousand
dollars in Mexican and French silver
coins, bearing dates in the POS and 3OS
of this century. The Versailles bank
ers testified to the genuineness of the
coins.
The president has approved the res
olution authorizing o o. Howard to
accept the decoration of the legion of
Honor from the president of the
French republic, and the act appro-
priating $4,000 for the rescue of the
armament and wreck of the United
States steamer KearSage, and the act
establishing a port of entry at Bon
ner's Ferry, Idaho.
1 Mrs. Eggleston, aged &c years, was
horribly murdered in Antelope Val.
ley, New. Her frightfully mutilated
body was found last Thursday morn;
ing by lady who called to visit her
The body of the murdered woman was
found lying over the edge of a wood
box, with her head stuffed into q
large pail and her skull crushed and
her body gashed in many places. II
is supposed that the deed was done by
7 drunken Indians. several having beer
seen in that neighborhood recently.
, There was n fire Thursday Afternoon
on the American line steamer. Paris
: which is lying in the repairing docl
in Birkinhead, Eng. 1t started in tn
shaft covering, and spread to the sec
a ond saloon. The work of the fremel
8 was slow, the fact that the head o
Q the bulkhead was closed making j
|. difficult for them to get az the flames
4 A great deal of damage was done t
. the saloon and fittings before the fir
: was quenched.
l. A man acting suspiciously was al
a rested as he was entering the CALLER
- of the chamber of deputies at Rome
- Saturday. His pockets were file
with stones, which the attendants &
3 first thought were bombs. The ma
3 said he was a school master, and e.
ID plaineu that he picked up the stone
,r at the base of Trajanz column f
ii souvenirs, but there is suspicion tn;
m he is demented and that he intende
"a throwing them from the galleries
- the deputies. The upolice finally a
" rived at the conclusion that he was
harmless lunatic and 1t was ordert
that he be released from custody.
The reports of the departments
agriculture in Kansas in regard to t
ng wheat crop are all encouraging.
At Greeley, Col. Alvin Robinso
OF while riding a race in the driving pa
be Saturday was thrown by his hor:
uo His head was so badly injured that
:. is not expected to live.
No. The green flag of Ireland will flo
-, over the city hall in New York on
'et Patricks day. A resolution to tn
'us effect was passed by the board of
'er dermen Thursday. 1t will be approx
OF by Acting Mayor Mcclellan, althou
On Sucn approval IS not necessary. L
at friends of Mayor Gilroy scout the id
rr. that he left the city because he
,re not wish to provoke criticism one W
,au or the other. The story was first t
q q as joke and afterwards found
'H' way into PRINT.
a At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday,
,so thurians and Polanders to the nu
49, Der of several thousand, held a ne
OIr ing to protest against the murder
'on their countrymen in Russia so
ear months ago by Cossack soldiers. ]
ike American flag which they carried
the parade was draped in mourning. So
of people didn't think it proper to h;
ere "0ld Glory" in mourning, and P
,nv test was entered before the autht
mo ties. A squad of policemen reques
- the marshal of the parade to take
loI Grape off the flags, and the order '
'rai obeyed.