People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
GENERAL. NrYvg

AT Hyden, Knott county, Ky, at a
political gathering Judge j. w. Parker,
a Clay county republican, attempted to
speak, when ruftians began yelling.
His friends tried to protect him and a
fight followed in which three men
were killed outright and several others
seriously wounded.
AT Eaton, o., John Monroe Smith,
aged II, escorted home his sweetheart
Gertrude Lally, and quarreled with her
on the way. Arriving at the house, he
shot and fatally wounded her in the
presence of her mother, and then sur
rendered to the county sheriff.
JOE NEsBITT, who ten years ago was
king of gamblers in the west and whose
check was then good for 100000, died
in Chicago on the 18th in penury and
want, having ran away from the poor
farm at Cunning, I'll.
Two keepers at the hospital for the
insane at Morris Plains, N. j.. have
been arrested on the charge of having
beaten pauper patient to death.
The porte has appointed a commits.
sion to inquire into the recent Arme.
MAN arrests, and has promised the
powers to deal severely with anyone
who is found to have tortured the
Armenians in prison.
Four people were fatally burned
while fighting prairie fire near Winnie
peg, Man.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Private
Secretary Thurber left Buzzard's bay,
Mass, on the 18th on the Oneida, Com
modore E. C. Benedict's steam yacht,
for Washington.
AT the Farmers National congress at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th the financial
question was discussed and resolutions
were offered calling on the president to
endeavor to bring about an information.
al monetary conference and. opposing
any congressional legislation causing
the expectation of gold or silver. The
whole matter was referred to a COM
mittee.
An Ellenville, N. Y, special on the
18th said that starvation was staring
the canal boatmen in the face. Their
AS boats were tied up all along the
line on dry land, and for seven weeks
not boat had been moved.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended October II showed an av-
erage increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of o. Q;
in New York the increase was 1919;
outside New York the increase was
liz.
THE Saranac (Mich-) Advertiser Office
and a car factory were destroyed by
fire on the 9th.
A PARIS dispatch reports that the
Catholic mission agency at Lyons has
received letters reporting aggressions
against the Europeans and Christians
of the central provinces at China. The
mission stations at Nan Ching have
been destroyed and some of the con-
verts killed aud others wounded.
THREE masked robbers entered the
house of Barney Peters, aged 50, at
Piqua, O., on the 10th and bound and
gagged him and his aged housekeeper
and at the point Of revolvers made
them give up their money and valu-
bles. The robbers then stole horse
and buggy from a neighboring stable
and escaped.
THE old New York Central railroad
station at Syracuse was destroyed BY
fire. 1t had recently been evacuated
for the new railroad building. An ex-
press car containing $500, 900, consigned
to the sub-treasury at New York, was
| in the station at the time and caught
fire, but was rescued with difficulty.