People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-15
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
Photographed CURRENT EVENTS
OF The WEEK.
cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

Oregon held her state election Mon
day.
The dismissal 0. Stambuloff, the
Bulgarian minister, Will not disturb
the peace of Europe.
Richard Croker, accompanied by his
sons, Richard J. and Herbert, sailed
Saturday on the steamship Umbria for
Liverpool. Mr. CrocKer expects to re-
main abroad nearly all summer.
The German legation denied Satur-
day the story that the German minis
ter has notified the United States that
Germany will place a retaliatory duty
on pork if this government imposes
discriminating duty On sugar.
The navy department has been in
formed of the sailing of the Baltimore
from Nagasahi, Japan, for Chemulpo,
Corea, to look after American inter-
ests there which are reported to be
threatened.
John Kane of Palatka. Fla, was
shot and killed by Ernest Wolfe Mon
day afternoon. Wolfe is a German
and a member of the A. P. A., while
Kane was an Irish Catholic Wolfe is
under arrest.
Admiral Erben, of the United States
cruiser Chicago, will entertain his
personal friends and many of the ar
my ana naval officers and their fair
relatives on board the American ship
on the 18th, inst
The surgeon general of the marine
hospital service has received a dis
patch from Brennan confirming the in
formation that there have been no
cases of cholera along the river Obery,
as had been reported.
At Portland, Ore, the river has fal.
len about four inches since Friday In
Eastern Oregon and Washington low
er temperance is prevailing and the
Columbia and the Umatilla and the
Snake river, at Riparia, are said to be
slowl y subsiding
Captain E. C. Beaman, of Lafayette,
Ind, an old conductor on the Monon
road, was found dead, with his head
cut and his pockets turned out, Satur-
day about three miles out of town,
alongside the railroad track. 1t is
thought he was murdered and robbed.
Secretary Carlisle late Saturday af-
ternoon received a telegram from Cap
tain Hooper, commanding the revenue
cutter Rush. now at San Francisco,
stating that there was no truth in the
report that the Bear had been wreck
ed at the entrance TO Sitka harbor.
The publishers of the P. J. Tynans
book The Irish National Invincibles
and Their Times" have informed the
st. James Gazette, London, that, con-
trary to the statement of that news
paper Saturday, lyman Is very much
alive and the publishers are prepared
to prove the fact.
The efforts of the authorities of Jop-
lin, Mo, to apprehend the frebugs
who have been burning mining plants
in that district are meeting with sue
cess. Charles Freeman was arrested
Sunday at Webb City, and George
Gordon, Monday, at Galena, Kansas.
Other arrests will fOllOw
Rev. W. A. PaSsavent the founder
OF Passavent hospital, and veteran
in charitable work, died at 10 o'clock
Sunday night at his residence in Pitts
burg, Pa, aged IS years. He has
been resident of Pittsburg 4S
years. His last great work was the
founding of the Chicago Lutheran
seminary.
Illuminating oil sold by the Stand
ard Oil Company has touched the low
est point ever reached in Chicago
centS-the result of a fight against out
side dealers. Firms, which are run
ming oil wagons Independent of the
Standard company, have declared that
they will meet the cut and a merry
war is expected
The celebrated case of the state Of
Tennessee VS.. E. B. Turpin, charged
with the murder of William Carter
twoyears ago, has resulted in the ac-
quital Of Turpin. The case, which
has been tried four times, was ended
at Lebanon, Tenn. Saturday. Turpin
who is wealthy man, shot Carter over
a difficulty at Gallatin.
l A strike of the lumber fleet, to 90 in.
to effect Monday morning, has been
declared against the lumber shippers
in Chicago. The object of the
vessel owners is to raise freights, and
the vessel owners will be backed in
their fight by the Seamen'S union,
which has declared that It's men shall
not ship on any boats during the
strike.
Representative D. NJ. Mercer of Ne.
braSka and Miss Birdie NJ. Abbott of
Minnesota, were married at St. Johns
Episcopal church, Washington, Thurs
day afternoon, the Rev. DR.. Randolph
McKim performing the ceremony. The
bride is sister-in-law of Judge Loeb.
rem, the commissioner of pensions,
who escorted her to the altar and
gave her hand in marriage.
For several days, unemployed men
who are drifting about the country
have been congregating BIZ twos and
threes in a sheltered grove near Slate
Creek in toe west end of the city, and
fully thirty men are at present
camped-without anything in the ma.
ture of camp effects, however-on the
spot. The men for the greater part
appear to be of an industrious charac-
ter and they state an intention of
scattering about the country and
seeking work in the harvest fields
Wellington Mail
A dispatch from Buenos Ayers saws