People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-02
GENERAL NEWS.
dleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

The French chamber of deputies has
decided that wheat embarked before
November 81 will be subject to the
old duty.
Count Posadowsky, the German i'm
Perlal secretary of the treasury, has
been appointed president of the silver
committee.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
Saturday returned an indictment
charging Lieutenant Nancy with the
murder of Captain Hedterg, at Fort
Sheridan.
Investigation shows that the recent
blizzard totally destroyed the peach
and plum crop of Southern Illinois,
while cherries and currants are badly
damaged.
DR.. A. Dunlap died Friday evening
at Springfield, o. He was a delegate
to the world medical congress at
London in 1881, and one of the earliest
physicians to demonstrate the opera
ton of Iaparotomy.
A large wine cellar at St.-Hellena
Ga, owned by G. b. Crane and rented
by John B. Pike, burned Saturday.
Two hundred thousand gallons of
wine were destroyed. The loss is es-
timated at $40 600
The available cash balance in the
treasury Monday was Sl3S, 2l1, SAG; ma
uonal bank notes received for redemp-
ton, S39S, SOL; government receipts, in
ternal revenve, S762, 4S7; customs, $780,
OS3; miscellaneous, S74,954.
DR.. NJ. B Davis, whose death oc-
Cured at Rousseau, Morgan county. O.,
Thursday evening, has left a letter
showing that he had forged notes for
large sums, and had committed sui
eide to escape the penitentiary.
The j. I. Case threshing machine
factory, which was closed five months
at Racine, Wis, started up Monday
with a null force of 600 men. Enough
orders have been received to keep the
works in operation several months.
The large brick block occupied by
the tinware establishment of Norton
Bros, on River street, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire at midnight Sunday
night. 1t was one of the largest es-
adjustments OF the kind in the coun.
try. The loss is Sl5O,OOO.
Mathew Ashton, convicted of the
murder of MIS- Daniel Stone and sen
fenced to life Imprisonment, died Of
smallpox in the Dane county, Wis.
Jail Monday. Ashton was awaiting a
second trial, the supreme court hav
ing granted him a rehearing.
An accident occurred at Colfax Cal.
Monday, resulting in the drowning Of
Mrs. +. j. Adge and Mr.. McDonaldson
They were fOrding a swollen stream
on the Iowa hill road, and as they
were crossing the wagon was over
turned and they were drowned.
Joseph Irwin, who pretends to be al
agent of the Hawaiian government
was Thursday arralgned before Jus
tice Worthen of Kansas City for tria
on the chlrge of swindling. He wa,
not ready for trial and the case wa.
continued until next Wednesday.
Stanton, Chiffon county, Ala, is il
state of great excitement over tn,
murder of Mrs. Jessie Rucker and it
avenging, the dead body of negr,
being found riddled with bullets lvint
near the scene of the dastardly crime
while another negro is under arrest.
At Rio de Janeiro the deaths from
yellow fever average sixty daily. Tn
government cruiser Nictheroy, whicl
was reported outside the harbor. ha
sailed south. The United State
steamer Detroit has returned {
the harbor The United States steam
er Charleston and the New York ar
cruising outside the harbor.
Charles Ker, on behalf of the Morn
ing transcript and Leslie Combs, o.
behalf of Mayor Duncan of Lexington
KY, arbitrated the differences be
tween the editor of the Transcript an
the mayor. Each side withdraws tn
objectionable statements made, an
what promised to be bloody TRACED
has been amicably settled.
Rumors gained currency ct Los An
gelos, Cal, Saturday morning that tn
Roscoe train robbers had been car
tured out in Hollywood county. nea
Cayhunga Pass. This proved to b
untrue and the report may have orig
mated from the fact that several of
GERS have gone out to that region i
search of the fugitives.
Jesse Kapar, employed as carriag
trimmer at Savers & Scovill's carriag
mandatory at Cincinnati went t
works Thursday drunk, and began
quarrel with Frank Geisser, a 16.yea
old boy. Kapar started toward tn
boy, who seized pair of long shear
and plunged the blade into Kapar
body, killing him.
A well known citizen, John Monda,
of Yellow Springs, Tenn. yer
strangely disappeared recently, and
now develops that he was murdere
for his money and his body burned, g
human bones and ashes have bee
found near where he was last see
alive. He had 500 in his pocket
which he had just received from h
fathers estate.
At Jackson, Miss, Monday the SUI
rogate court denied the motion of A
torney General johnson to resentenc
the white cap. VIII Purvls. who faile
of execution in Marion county ON tn
seventh of this month. Under II
law Purvis cannot be resentenced III
til the June term of the circuit coul
at Columbia, unless Judge Terrell Sc,