People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

IL SeemS GlldG Une present. days are
fraught with ice cream socials and
many picnicS.
Wichita proposes to get along next
year with twelve less school teachers
than heretofore.
Kind kicker, just stop to think that
Kansas is not the worst place or
earth by any means.
Harvesting is getting well under
Roadway. There is more of it to dc
than many are inclined to think.
As we understand him, ingalls,
favors the free coinage Of silver and a
seat in the Uuited States Senate.
Forest fires are raging all over the
oil fields of Pennsylvania. Many lives
and much property have been lost.
The republic proclaimed short
time since in the island of FOrmosa
has collapsed and its projectors have
fled.
Prof. J. A. McClain has been elect
ed superintendent of the Oklahoma
City, o. T., schools at a salary of
$1,000.
"Where are you going and when do
you start" has come to be the regular
SalutatiOn among Jewell county
farmers.
The important news is telegraphe d
around the world that the COrbett-
FitzSimmODs prize fight is to come off
70 Texas.
Abilene has discontinued one OF her
schools for the ensuing year. The
wages Of grade teachers range from
S35 to $40, the highest, per month.
The Topeka Journal says that John
T. Showalter, who was deputy bank
commissioner under G. F. Johnson,
has turned his attention from politics
to raising chickens.
Tell W. Walton who started the
Caldwell Post about fifteen years ago
and has been Kansas editor ever
since has left the state and gone TO
Round Pond, O. T.
1t has been definitely settled that
the Santa Fe is to be sold under fore
closure to the bondhOlders and that it
will start OUT anew unGer a new char
ter. The end of the receivership is
in view
1t is reported that Oscar Wilde who
was sentenced to two years imprison.
ment at hard labor, after having been
convicted of gross indecenCieS, has
become insane and is confined in a
Iadded room.
Salina has fallen into line and prac-
tiCallY abolished the Office of superin-
tendent of her public schools by ad-
ding the duties of that position to
those of the principal of her largest
school building.
Hoke Smith, as secretary of the in
terror has finally decided that those
who made the run for Cherokee out
let lands from the Indian reServera-
tions, thereby forfeited all rights to
enter lands. This is the final decision
upon this perplexing question.
DR.. c. S, Newlin of Labette county
has been elected to succeed the notO-
IiouS DR.. Pitcher as superintendent of
the Winfield imbecile asylum. DR..
L. L. UhlS of Geuda Springs and DR..
D. f. Janeway of ArgOnia were ap-
plicantS for this position, but they
lived in Sumner county and that set
tied it, as this county has net yet
bowed down to worship at Cy Le-
lands shrine.-Mail.
On December 6, 1868, John Ward
and Hanna Lewellen were married at
her fathers ranch on the present
site of Wichita. Sedgwick county
had not been organized at that time
and they had to secure their license
from Butler county. They were the
first couple ever married within the
present boundaries of Wichita. Well,
Mrs. Ward has just commenced di.
vOrce suit against her husband and
the superstituous Wichitans are dis
turbed.
Senator Hill has been heard from
on the silver issue, and, as on every
other public question in the last two
years, he agrees with Mr.. Cleveland
absolutely in the matter. Both these
candidates for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination express them
selves as unequivocally against free
and independent coinage of silver by
the United States, and Senator Hill
goes farther and states that he would
neither buy nor coin an ounce of sill.
yer until other nations can be Undue
edlo 60 in with US for bimetalllsm.
This is more lucid than Mr.. Hills
talks on silver have been hitherto.
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