People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-10

Mrs. Elizabeth Alderman, aged So,
died Monday at Quincy, III.
Brakeman Snodgrass was killed by
work train at Festus, Mo-. Friday.
Sarah Ray, colored, was acquitted
Monday at Meridian, Miss, of the
murder of her infant !
William Sanford, a United States
regular, was killed in a runaway at
Rock Island, H., Friday.
W. E. Setzy, wanted at Webb City,
Mo. for horse stealing and burglary,
has been arrested at Moberly, Mo.
Allen Fife, aged 70, was found
dead Friday in his cellar at Mo-
berly, Mo-, where ne had evil
IDENTIFY fallen the night before and
broken his neck.
c. A Irving, telegraph operator, of
Butte, Mont. was arrested Tuesday for
impersonating another man and draw
ing money from the First National
Bank, which was telegraphed from
Waterloo, Ia.
DR.. j. Early dropped dead from
apoplexy Monday at Lockhart, Tex,
He was cousin of General Jubal A
Early, the Confederate General. and
during the war lost a leg. He came
to Texas after the surrender.
Mrs. Francis Coquillard, aged eigh-
ty-four, died at South Bend, Ind,
Friday morning. She was the last of
the family of fourteen, all of whom
lived to be over so years old. She was
the mother of thirteen children.
Governor Flower, of New York, has
Cancelled the warrant issued in 1892
for the extradition of Moritz Daur,
wanted in Peoria, ILL.,, on charge of
swindling, and arrested Monday.
Harry Nichols, aged 10, was arrested
at Marshall, Mo-, Saturday night by
United States Marshal and taken to
Kansas City to be tried for cashing a
United States money order that be-
longed to man of the same name.
Wednesday night about seven miles
northwest OF Athens, Tex, Richard
Thompson and Sam Smith, both
negroes, in fight, were shot. The
weapons were shotguns. Thompson
is in Jail. Smith is too badly hurt to
be moved, and will probably die.
To-morrow's outgoing steamers
from New York will carry S., 300, 900
in gold, which was yesterday and to-
day drawn from the New York sub
treasury for export, This leaves the
gold reserve at the close of business
to-day S55,323,526.
The Chinese official account of the
recent engagement between Chinese
and japanese warships says that the
Chinese ironclad Chen Yuenm, which
is one of the largest vessels of her
class belonging to the Northern feet,
retreated to KOtze, and escaped cap
ture by the japanese. The latter. the
report adds, captured dispatch boat
and sank transport. Six other trans
ports escaped.
At Greenville, Texas, VIII Sockwel,
accompanied Will Little out to Nat.
Parkers residence Monday afternoon
and when they drove up to the gate
Parker shot at Sockwell with double
barreled shotgun. He received a
Craze on the head, and before Parker,
who is a father-in-law of Sockwell's
could fire again, Little grabbed the
gun. The origin of the difficulty
dates back several months.
The o. E. Stockwell, with a barge
in tow, brought an excursion of color
ed people to Cape Girardeau, Sunday
from Cairo at II p. m. While lying at
the wharf and dancing was IN progress
on the barge, Joe Schlen, white boy
aged Is years, drowned. He was not
seen after striking the water. The
boy was the oldest son of Mrs. John
Schlen. All means have been used to
raise the body, but so far unsuccess.
fully.
Perhaps the oldest living person in
the state of Arkansas, if not in the
United States, is Chloe Wright. a col.
ored woman, who lives on the proper.
ty Of Judge j. D. Kimbell, in Hot
Springs. A few days ago she cele.
brated her Hath birthday. She was
born in Halifax county, n. c., in july
1850. She is physically feeble, yet re.
teins remarkable memory, and car
discourse quite intelligently about
events that occurred nearly a century
ago.
The Spanish consul at Marseilles
having telegraphed that cholera is en-
idemic there, that the number of death.
daily is very large and that the author
tiles are concealing the actual situa
ton, the government has ordered
stringent precaution to be taken a.
all Spanish ports on the frontier. 4
medical commission will be sent t,
Barseilles with instruction to repor
the facts. The governor of Warsaw
has forbidden the usual pilgrimage t,
Czenstochau on account of the prevail
ence of Cholera.
An eight-year-old son of Frank ROC
ers, Of Nashville, H., attempted Sun
day afternoon to commit suicide h,
hanging. He was found and takeI
L. L.