People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-15

The Atchison Champion calls 1t the
"Y. NJ. c. A. association.
The police court receipts at Atchi.
son during October amounted to
$780,
The Fort Scott police department
collected more than 81, 300 during o.
tober.
There are secret societies among the
pupils Of the Leavenworth high
school,.
Cord winter apples are worth only
IS cents bushel in Chautauqua
county,
Hill City, Graham county, with less
than 500 population has FIVE news
papers
There were seventy-fve conversions
at the recent United Brethren revival
at Beloit.
The Thanksgiving proclamation has
been issued setting aside the Goth
inst. as the day for giving thanks.
Wichita is happy over another re-
port that the big Whitaker packing
plant in that city is to resume opera
tons.
The Campbell University has pur-
chased $500 telescope with an object
glass Of six inches. 1t is the best in
the state.
The Crumsine family of twenty-six
persons left Geary county Thursday
for Dallas county, Texas, where they
will settle.
The State Grain Inspector at Kan
sas City, Kan, inspected 7O2 car loads
of wheat, 242 of corn, ZIG of rye dur
ing October.
Thousands of tons of timothy hay
are shipped every year from Crawford
county to Macon, Georgia. aud Mem
phis, Tennessee.
The Wamego Trotting association
will hold race meeting November :
and continuing for days. Four races
are advertised for each day.:
The Kansas Academy of Science will
meet in annual session at the Agricul-
tural college at Manhattan, December
20, 81 and 20. The program is not yet
announced.
1t is given out cold that the man
who voted in Kansas Tuesday has for.
feited all right to any claim that he
may have been holding in the Chero.
kee Strip.
An Abilene pastor preached on 1.-THE
Election of Grace" Sunday and the
Reflector thinks there was a misun.
derstanding somewhere as Grace is
not on the official BALLOT.
Mrs. E. M. Randell of Leavenworth,
returned to her home Monday to dis.
cover sixteen sticks of dynamite on
the front steps. There is no clue as
to who placed them there, nor why.
A big Mennonite conference will be
held Hillsboro, Marion county, com.
mencing next Wednesday. Promi-
nenS Mennonites from all over Kan:
sas and other states will be present.
More cattle were slaughtered by the
Kansas City, Kansas, slaughter houses
during October than during any pre-.
vious October. Nearly twice as many
hogs were killed as during October
last year.
1t turns out that Mr.. Struble, the
assistant State Superintendent, who
went out of his way to defend Pull.
mann at Salina the other day, is not
an applicant for pass, but a holder
OF Pullman pass No, L. I4l9.
NJ. H. Burt broke the worlds bicycle
record for half-mile standing start,
unpaced, at Wichita Thursday, max
ing the half in 1:O1. He also set the
state record for quarter-mile flying
start unpaced at 81 seconds.
No more cane will be received by
the Fort Scott sugar works, which
leaves large portion Of it in farmers
hands to be worked up by individual
molasses mills. More cane was work
ed up this year than ever before.
Chancellor Shows report shows that
the month just past was the warmest
October since 1856, and one of the four
warmest Octobers on the record. The
first killing frost occurred on
the both, ten days later than the aver
age.
Hal Reid, young farmer living
near Munaie Wyandotte county killed
an American eagle that measured six
and half from tip to tip, Wednesday
afternoon. 1t was shot from an oak
tree, where it was being fought by
flock of crows.
The jury in the case of the killing
OF Edward Eagan, who was killed at
Kansas City, Kansas, few days ago
by Sergeant Louis Hampton, a neph.
ew o. Governor Lewelling, has render.
ed verdict to the effect that the kill
ing was felonious.
The schwarzchild & Sulzberger
packing plant at Kansas City. Kan, is
to be Increased in extent until its ga
pacity will be 1000 cattle per day. At
present it is killing but AGO. This
sarnW $500 = L.