People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience Of Hur-
ried Readers.

Wy" "' Az "lVtoh, DEL, tuesday al
ternoon.
Premier CTispi has announced that
the report that Italy is negotiate :
4 new loan is unfounded.
President Andrews of Brown uni
versity has received a call from Chica
go university. He has not yet decid-
ed whether or not he will accept,
Professor Marshall of Owens col
lege, Manchester, fell from a preci-
pice at Seas We'll mountain, in Cumbc..
land, IN was killed.
L motion has been made in the
chancery court to sell The Memphis
Appeal-Avalanche by the trustees.
Mes5rs. A. D. Gwyun and Il. J. Mo--
gan.
Mrs. Sarah A. Cleveland was
burned to death in LaGrange, Ga.
Friday night. She fell asleep beforc
the fire and the flames caught her
dress.
Florence Mulahy, aged . years, and
Martin Moore, aged GO years. were
suifocated by smoke during fire that
broke ont at No. II Pearl street, New
York City, Thursday night.
David Londen. a jurtice of the peace,
aged 81, cut his throat at Shelbyville.
Ind, Thursday night. Failure to Sc
cure political appointment is said to
have driven Londen to take his life.
At Bunola, Pa, the miners are still
out but there has been no further
rloting. A reward is offered for the
arrest and conviction of the parties
who attempted to burn the tipple
Monday.
Governor BOies of Iowa has granted
an unconditional pardon to b. NJ. Bel
vel, the newspaper correspondent con-
vic;ed of libeling the character of
Senator George I. Finn, of Taylor
county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Green. one of the
oidest persons in Biddeford. Me-, died
Thursday night, aged %. She was
sister of Captain John +. Hartley, ex-
assistant secretary of the United
States treasury.
Burglars blew open the large safe
in theFranklin Grove, III, bank Thurs
day night and made away with every
thing of value in the vault. The loss
in cash and papers is estimated by the
bank officials to he $4,000.
The official inquiry into the cause
of the Louisville & Jacksonville
bridge disaster will begin next Mon
day morning at 10 o'clock. The cOro-
ner has impaneled his jury and sum-
moned about forty witnesses.
The resignation of Captain Thrash
er, who has been for four years Unit
ed States revenue agent, lately in
charge Of Tennessee and Kentucky,
has been accepted to take effect Janu-
airy 5. His successor is Major Clark,
st. Louis man.
The Red Star steamship Rhynlard
which arrived at New York late Sat-
urday night after "a fourteen days
voyage from Antwerp brought in ten
OF its crew injured from being thrown
around the decks during the success
sion of gales which pounded the ship
for eleven days.
Tuesday morning at the Cincinnati
Southern railway shops, Chattanooga,
Charles. Beckert, white, and Jessie
Lang, colored, were instantly killed
ny an explosion of the boiler of an
engine. They were repairing the en-
CINE, when Beckert struck bolt by
mistake, causing the explosion of a
steam fue.
Every man in the employ of the
Chicago City Railway company from
the president down. 5000 in all, have
been vaccinated, all in bunch. Be-
cause of the smallpox scare now on,
orders for general vaccination were is
sued, and for five days three doctors
were kept busy.
At White Pine, Tex, +. NJ. Fain was
shot and instantly killed Tuesday af-
ternoon by Policeman Smith. Fain
was married last Tuesday. The day
following he had bitter quarrel with
Smith. They met Tuesday in the de-
pot and Fain drawings knife started
toward Smith. who drew his revolver
and fired one shot,
jackson park was thrown open to
the public at Chicago New Years day,
and, beginning Monday, Colonel Rice
will police only the buildings and ex-
posed property. The fire department
controlled by the worlds fair will dis
band Monday, and the Columbian
guard, which now numbers but 200
men, will be reduced from day to day
until the organization is thing of the
past.
A terrible punishment acc ording to
report, has been inflicted upon a wo-
man in Pondeland, who was accused
of causing the death of her child by
witchcraft. The woman was bound
to stake planted in the middle of an
ant hill and her body stripped of all
clothing, was smeared from head to
foot with grease. The ants attracted
by the grease swarmed all over the
unfortunate creature and eventually
devoured her.
The Pueblo Coll Daily Journal
publishes its first issue tomorrow az
ternoon. 1t will appear as an after
noon paper until about March /, and
issue Sunday morning edition with q
full report. After March lst it will
come out both morning and evening.
The Journal plant includes large job
printing department and bindery, in
addition to the only lithographing