People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-02
NEWS ~ BRIEF.

There is lively newspaper war on /
in Oklahoma between Sam Smalrs /
organ and other papers.
w. j. Mccoy rode horseback from
Colorado Springs. Colo, to Mount
Carmel, ILL.,, to get married.
John Robinson was fatally shot
near Little Rock while flogging his
stepdaughter by the girls brother.
Another Statehood Convention in
Oklahoma is talked of by those who
favor single statehood or none.
The Iowa legislature has decreed
that the American flag must be I'M
furled from every schoolhouse in the
state during school hours.
An anti-Chinese Sunday school
society has been organized in Chicago
to save the young girls from the
baneful influence of personal contact
with the Mongolian.
The French chamber of deputies
adopted the report of the commission
accepting the governments proposals
by which the increased duty on wheat
is fixed at seven francs instead of eight
francs as at first proposed. The vote
stood 372 to III.
Charles NJ. Patch, president of the
Colfax Manufacturing company died
at South Bend, Ind. after protracted
illness. He was widely known, es-
pecially in eastern insurance circles.
At Boonville, Mo-, Riley Evans was
found guilty of murder and given
term of 25 years in the penitentiary.
At Sedalia, Mo-, the Evening Bazoo,
edited by j. West Goodwin, suspended
publication.
The postofiice at Woodlawn, sub
urb of Birmingham, Ala, was blown
up, it is supposed by robbers.
The Paris Gaulois asserts the British
government has decided to propose to
the powers the passage of interna-
tional legislation in regard to police
supervision, ETC., with the view of
suppressing anarchy.
F. NJ. Potter, a ferryman, was
stabbed to death at Little Rock, Ark,
by Louis Morris, one-legged man.
Matthew Ashton, convicted of
murder and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the Wisconsin pen
itentiary, died in the Dane county
Jail of smallpox.
DR.. NJ. Il. Davis, whose death oc-
cured at Rosseau, Morgan county.
Ohio, Thursday evening, has left a
letter showing that he had forged
notes for large sums and committed
suicide to escape the penitentiary.
The house committee on private
pensions has been very conservative
in this session, recommending but a
few deserving cases for action. most
of them relatives of veterans of the
Revolution and war of 1912, or Mexican
war veterans.
The million dollar hotel at Middles-
boro, KY, constructed there a few
years since in the palmy days of the
Magic City," is advertised by the re-
ceiver for sale on March IS.
About 81, 100000 will be paid out in
pensions at the Topeka agency for
February.
Petitions are being signed through
out Kansas urging congress to take
action upon irrigation bills now pend
ing in that body.
The state department, after a pro-
longed effort, has succeeded in bring
ing Embezzler Fahn of Natchez, Miss,
from Guatemala for trial.
j. W. Crawford, county attorney of
Lincoln county, Oklahoma, formerly a
prominent Grand Army man of Mis-
! souri,, has been suspended from Office
on the charge of malfeasance.
An autopsy on the brain of Bud
Stone, the sextuple murderer, showed
that he was sane.
Mrs. Duestrow, who was shot by her
husband at st. Louis, died from the
effects of the wound.
James Robinson was fined $500 and
sentenced to sixty days in jail, and
Charles Williams $500 and ninety days
in jail for selling beer in Emporia,
Kan.
Thomas J. Croswhite of Sturgeon,
Mo-, committed suicide as the result of
financial embarrassment.
The union printers statue of Horace
Greeley is to be unveiled at New York
on Memorial day.
Naval circles are said to be anxious
about the report of smallpox upon the
warships Baltimore and Concord.
Frank c. Bradley, who embezzled
large amounts in Portland, Oregon,
and who has been pursued since July
l, 1892, has been arrested in Leaven-
worth.
Two poor boys Of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
have just inherited 100000.
A monster gas well exploded at
Yorktown, Ind, throwing a column
of fame into the air over twenty feet.
Congressman Cooper of Texas has
introduced a bill to repeal the law
giving the secretary Of the treasury
power to issue bonds.
Sixty-one firms and individuals con-
troll over 100000 acres of the lands
of the Creek nation.
Representative McCreary of Ken
lucky has introduced the bill prepared
at the state department for the regu-
lation of the Behring seal fisheries. 1t
consists of dozen typewriter pages,
and carries out to great extent the
recommendation of the late Paris ar
bitration commission.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Singletary of
Townsville, Ga, was shot dead with
his own pistol by Henry Spencer, a
convict murderer. The prisoners in
the Jail then escaped.
Edwardsvil!e, H., reports fourteen
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