People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-25

hereford cattle on his rancn near
Reading, Lyon county.
The state has rested in the trial OF
Warden Chase of the Kansas peniten-
tiary, and the defense has begun.
Chief Justice A. H. Horton of the
Kansas Supreme Court resigned.
David Martin OF Atchison takes his
place.
The Fort Scott public library COM
mittee has received check from Eu'
gene F. Ware, for 500 to be used in
the magazine department.
DR.. W. A. Spencer of Philadelphia
says one hundred Methodist church
buildings have been sold under mort
gage in Kansas during the past two
years.
During a performance at the opera
house at Cherokee, Tuesday night, by
local amateurs, Pike Aerriott, one OF
the actors in a duel scene in which
small swords were used, accidentally
pierced the arm of his opponent, L. l.
Paul, inficting a painful wound.
Poodle Tote, Will Plunkett and
Fritz TOfte, were arrested at an early
hour Sunday morning for holding up
farmer named Orr at Atchison and
robbing him of SIS. The money was
not found on the fOOtpads, but 1T was
subsequently learned that Poodle
Tofte had left SG5 with the night tele-
graph operator at the Union depot.
II. W. Kelley, sexton at the city
cemetery near Atchison, was held up
by strange man near Waton'S eleva-
tor and relieved of S27 in cash. The
robber confronted Mr.. Kelley with an
ugly-loobing revolver and ordered him
to hand over his cash. He complied
Immediately, giving the robber SGT,
all the cash he had on his person.
Mr.. II. P. Hoods farm residence on
his ranch West of Americas was total
ly destroyed by fire Thursday after
noon, The place was occupied ny
Charles Fiddler and family all OF
whom were away from the house at
the time the fire started and the ORR
gin is unknown. The building was
worth about $1,000 and was insured
for 81, 200.
Miss Lucy Reugsegger Of the Ever
est school at Beloit was conducting a
rehearsal for a school entertainment,
in which one of the boys was to snap
pistol. He snapped the pistol sup
posing it was empty, but it was load
ed, and the ball just grazed Miss
Reugsegger and barely missed little
girls head and buried itself in the
wall.
Information is coming in at Garden
City representing heavy losses of cat
tie and horses by the three days
storm which blew out Sunday. Loss
es of from ten to fifty head of cattle
are reported by so many small stock
men that the aggregate loss will be
very heavy. A good many range
houses also Succumed to the storm
There was high wind continuously
for over fifty hours.
Elliott S. Reynolds, a young attor
ney and member of the Bourbon
county bar, was arrested Tuesday
morning, charged with forgery. D. j
Stillwell, of Pittsburg, Hans, was the
complaining witness An officer has
taken the prisoner to Girard for trial
Reynolds belongs to an aristocrati,
family, once wealthy, and has haC
several previous experiences similar t.
the predicament he is now in.
The next annual session of the dem
Ocratic editorial fraternity of Kansa
will be hel1 at Leavenworth on Sat
urday, May II, commencing at 1
o'clock a. IN. The meeting was callet
for Saturday, but it had to be post
poned on account of the illness o
Mrs. Frank T. Lynch, of the Leaven
worth Standard. Mrs. Lynch is vic
president of the fraternity. Barne,
J. Sheridan of the Paola Spirit, is tn
president
Persons near Abilene fortunat
enough to be out of doors at o'cloc
the morning after the storm saw a re
markable phenomenon, The hal
softened by the warm temperature
developed phosphorescent qualite:
which made the ground appear as
sprinkled with balls of fire. PiclIin
up the snow it gave the appearance G
fire dripping from the fingers. TIL
exhibition is not an unusual one a
sea, but is very rare so far inland a
Kansas.
James Sampson, well known fai
mer living in the Missouri bottom
near Atchison, has been missing chicl
ems in great numbers lately, and fe'
days ago IL young pigs suddenly di.
appeared. He concluded that a pa
of foxes which had been seen in thu
locality were responsible for tn
thefts. lie tracked the animals I
their lair, and killed both, in additio
to seven young ones. All the pigs ha
been devoured. but rabbit and fot
chickens lay in the hole untouchet
Sampson dug into the hole and four
hundreds of bones,
George T. Anthony, the newly-a
pointed insurance commissioner, h;
named E. Il. Brown, of 0lathe, to