People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-25

Edward and Charles Miller. aged l
and "A respectively, were killed Tues
day by an Erie engine near Hancock
New York.
Smallpox has broken out at Rush
vile, a small town not far from Atch
isOn. There are four cases, all anon:
colored people.
The American Glucose Company ha
closed its factory in Peoria, III.
throwing $50 men out of employment
inability to secure a sufficient amount
OF coal Is given as the reason.
Senator Walsh Tuesday introduced
a bill making it crime punishable
Imprisonment from one year to TWEEN,
ty years TO retard or obstruct any
train carrying the United States mails
Joseph NJ. Click, leading Schuyl.
kill county politician, and Republican
candidate for sheriff. committed tli-
eide at Ashland, Pa, Tuesday by
shooting himself with a revolver. The
deed was prompted by financial trou-
bles.
The central cable Office of the West
ern Union Telegraph company has re-
ceiyed notice that a temporary cen
sorship has been established at Lima.
Peru, by the Peruvian government.
The only traffic exempt is the official
correspondence of foreign representa-
tives.
The senate committee on territories
has authorised the reporting of the
bill for the admission of Utah. with
an amendment fixing the date for The
election OF delegates to the constitu-
tional convention at November 6. the
convention to meet the first Monday
in March, 1895.
To raise funds for the Pullman
strikers, the American Railway Union.
1t Is said. assessed each of its $4,000
members 3 cents per week. The as
sessments will be forwarded twice
month to Pullman for distribution.
The men are confident of winning the
strike, and are quiet and orderly.
Republicans senator's had a second
conference yesterday on the policy to
be pursued IN regard to the tariff bill.
No conclusion was reached, but they
showed desire to let the bill come TO
vote as soon as An opportunity had
been given for reasonable debats. Du-
bois, OF Idaho, was the leader on that
side.
A large number of American and
English visitors have arrived at Or.
leans, France, in order to.take part in
the Joan Of Arc celebrations. Manv
wreaths were placed Monday upon the
statue erected in honor of the Maid Of
Orleans Tuesday was the apnivers.
airy OF the day upon which Joan Of
Orleans. u
M,
lnree hundred men employed at tie
brick yards at Poughkeepsie, n. Y,
struck Saturday. The men who
would not quit work were attacked
and compelled to fee to the woods.
The owners of the yards have ap-
piled to the sheriff for p, otection.
Fifteen hundred men are affected bv
the strike. -
+. Captain E6ath commanding the rev.
emu cutter Walcott, has reported to
the treasury department from Port
Townsend, wash, the capture on May
l, of 200 pounds of opium, which was
being smuggled into the state of
Washington near Deception pass. The
capture was made by Jongs Ipsus,
seaman belonging to the Wolcott.
8 The front walls of what but Sunday
constituted the beautiful Tabernacle
church of which DR.. Talmage is pas,
tor, are all that remain of that edifice
Tie loss on the Tabernacle is $500, 600,
insurance Sl3O,OO0; on Hotel regent
100000, insurance 100000; on ada
cent residences So, 300; on Summer
field Methodist church $1,000.
An application for change of venue
was made in the st. Louis criminal
court Monday in the case of Arthur
Duestrow, who killed his wife and
child, and the case was sent to Frank.
lin county to be tried. The case will
come up at Union in that county Sep
TENDER II next. Union is sixty miles
from st. Louis and not on direct
railroad line.
The New York Herald's London dis.
patch says: Solicitor Harris, acting
on behalf o. the Baroness De Roques,
mother of Mrs. Maybrick, has made
the announcement of his intention to
persist in his demands for a public in
quiry into the new phase of Mrs. May
bricks case, in spite of the refusal of
Secretary Asquith to interfere.
The Democratic leaders in the SEN
ate decided Friday to call up Senator
Harris resolution for 10 o'clock ses-
sions in the future. They have
reached the conclusion that the tariff
bill is not making satisfactory pro-
gress and think the time has come
when they should extend the hours.
The resolution Is likely to lead to a
spirited debate when called up.
Attorney General olney has ruled
that Chinese merchants doing bust
ness in the United States on Novem-
Der 3, 1898, whether under their own
names or not, do not come within the
provisions os the third paragraph of
section > of the act of the date above
given. All such merchants, it is held.
as were here when the statute took
effect may return to this country
when they leave it.
The Labette county dairymen have
organized county dairy association.
Junction City Tribune During the
month something like $3.50 were paid
for milk. For abOut five months from