People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-29

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Near Summerville, Tennessee, Tues
day, DIR. Harris was thrown from his
horse and killed.
Willis Ellis, a pioneer citizen OF Yer
non county, NO.. died at his home
near Nevada, last week.
The cars proclamation has salts
fed the Polanders and they have
sworn allegiance to him.
At 1:3O o'clock Friday morning the
residence of Charles Shaw on Fifth
street, Beardstown, H., was destroyed
by fire.
Munson & Mcnamara, Wichita, Kan
sas, big dry goods house, have ladies
employed to answer mail order en-
quiries. Write them.
The Salmon Milling company's
plant at Beloit, the largest Touring
mill in Wisconsin, burned Thursday.
Loss, $50, 900; well insured.
State Senator OMalley is in luck.
The Greek waiter, Varalosy. whom
the Senator shot election night, failed
to prosecute and the case was dismiss
ed.
Gov. Stone, of Missouri, has offered
a reward of $500 for the arrest of Lane
Britton, charged with the murder of
Aaron and Gideon Davis in Jasper
county.
In the United States court Saturday
the injunctions of the West India
Steamship company VS. the Screwmen's
association was continued until next
Saturday.
The loss of the Dauntless has not
been posted in the Maritime Exchange
at New York, and members seem to
know nothing of it. There is no rec
ord of ship Dauntless.
Col. A. c. Wildrick, aged IS, who re-
tired from his station three months
ago, died at his home at Clifton, Stat
en- Island Saturday. Colonel Wildrick
was last Stationed at Fort Wadsworth.
George Fudge, a farm hand, was
found in an unconscious condition a
few miles north of Charleston, ILL.,,
last week. He had about $500 on his
person which is missing. He seems to
have been struck with a sandbag
The case is shrouded in mystery:
Saturdays Withdrawals Of gold
from the sub-treasury in New York,
presumably to buy bonds from the
United States, amounted to S427, 900,
as against 1915, COO withdrawn Friday.
The total amount of gold withdrawn
from the several sub treasures since
the bond call was S2,O5s,O OPS.
The fourth biennial report of the
state board of horticulture states that
owing to the railway strike, California
fruit growers lost millions Of dollars,
Had it not been for the railway tie up
this season would have been the most
profitable for the horticulturists in
the history of the state.
Gen" ]. Sanders, originator and
commander of the Commonweal army,
which went east last summer from
Cripple Creek, and who was arrested
in Pueblo November 10, on a charge
of stealing a Denver and Rio Grande
locomotive, was discharged, the CON-
pany Withdrawing the complaint.
The official vote complete of the
state of Missouri shows that the legis-
lature will stand as follows: Senate
nineteen Democrats, fifteen Republi-
cans. House-eighty Republicans,
ffty-eight Democrats aud two Popu-
lists. This gives the Republicans a
majority OF sixteen on joint ballot.
The secretary of the Nebraska re-
lief commission Saturday issued an
appeal to the Omaha people for aid
for the Nebraska drouth sufferers.
The report declared that in the coun-
ties of Boyd, Custer, Lincoln, Chase,
Hitchcock, Frontier, Sherman and
others, great restitution prevails and
in some instances starvation is avoid
ed with difficulty.
James Reed Rights will was opened
Tuesday. The bulk of his fortune,
about $50, 900, 900, goes to his wife
3Mr E. R. Newman appointed assis-
tant general freight agent for the Wa
bash vice Sumner Hopkins resigned.
The majority of the large Touring
) mills in st. Louis closed down for an
indefinite period. This course is made
necessary, the millers claim, because
of the congestion of the market, and
more especially by the advance of the
freight rate to the eastern seabord of
about twenty-five cents barrel. This
action Of the st. Louis millers is indie
: pendent of the action of the north
western millers held at Chicago Sstur-
day.
The Daily Drovers' Telegram COM
piles figures showing that $4,000
head of cattle hogs and sheep were
received at the four great western
live stock markets-Kansas City, Chi
csgo, Omaha and St. Louis. While
there have been weeks in which more
than 166, 900 head of cattle have been
received at the four points, and while
the $4,000 hogs and l21, 900 sheep have
been exceeded twice previously, the
combined receipts have never been
paral.eled.