People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-26
GENERAL NEWS.

the 2lst to organize the proposed a..
100000 combination of theatrical man.
ayers of the country proved failure.
A HANDSOME monument is to be
erected to jefferson Davis at Rich.
mond, Va, the corner stone of which
will be laid next May during the meet.
ing of the Grand Confederate camp in
that city.
WHITECAPs recently burned a toll
house near Connorsville, Ind. Citizens
were strongly opposed to paying toll.
Those engaged IN the burning of the
house were masked and watched the
flames until the house was entirely
consumed.
AT New York on the 21st Henry OF
Navarro was beaten by Clifford in the
great handicap race. Clifford ran the
IL mile in 2:O7A.
AT demonstration by 5000 work.
men in favor of universal suffrage held
at Vienna on the 22d serious collisions
occurred with the police and twenty.
six arrests were made.
THREE men and two boys were
drowned while bathing in Lake Mich.
gan at Chicago on the 22d
A DISPATCH from New York stated
that the engagement of the duke OF
Marlborough to Miss Consuelo Wander.
bilt, which has been repeatedly af.
frmed and denied during the past
month, was formally announced on
the Goth. The duke himself was
authority for the statement
PRAIRIE fires were raging south OF
Perry, Ok, on the Goth and great dam
age had been done. Thousands Of
acres had been burned over and much
hay had been burned.
MILE MERIT, aged 9, endeavored to
kindle fire by using kerosene in the
kitchen stove. The can of oil exploded
and she and her 2-year-old brother
were burned to death. They were the
children of dairy;nan living near
Denver, Col.
1T was reported at Milwaukee on the
Goth that the schooner Penokee had
gone down with seven men. She left
Buffalo for Milwaukee with 564 tons
of coal month ago. Since then moth
had been heard of her. From the de-
scription of the schooner which was
struck by water spout off Point aux
Barques, in Saginaw bay, it was
thought it may have been the Peno.
kee.
NEWS reached Little Rock, Ark, on
the 10Th of the destruction of court
records at Hamburg. The next term
Of court in Ashley county was to try
lO2 persons, large portion of them
under indictment for running blind
tigers" Some person having the com.
bination Of the safe containing the in.
dictments and evidence. stole the writ.
ten evidence and burned it.
A RECENT dispatch from Hong Kong
said that the Basic mission at Noble,
west of Swatean, has been wrecked.
The foreigners had evacuated it owing
to the warnings received from other
stations that thousands OF rebels were
gathering and looting the property Of
the wealthy Chinese.
An employee OF the National Bank OF
Chicago has disappeared with sl9, 500 Of
the banks funds.
THE Cotton States and international
exposition was formally opened at At
lanta, Ca, on the 18th, President
Cleveland touching the button at Gray
~ables which started the machinery.
''She big electric fountain played and
100 bombs were exploded as salute,
notifying the public of the opening.
A dispatch was sent to President Cleve.
land thanking him for the interest he
had taken in the exposition and he
sent an appropriate reply.
THERE was an immense attendance
at the reunion of the Army of the Cum
berland at Chattanooga on the 18th, q
large number of members of the Army
of the Tennessee being present as
guests. Gen. ]. D. Morgan, vice presi.
dent of the society, was chairman, Gen.
Rosecrans, the president, being absent
Senator Henderson, of Nebraska, made
the address OF the occasion.
THE Silver Lake worsted mills al
Pascoag, R. l., were destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000: insurance, SIS, 900
A BARN owned by John D. Rookie.
Teller, valued at $1,000, at larry.
town, n. Y, was destroyed BY fire.
The fire was probably of ineendiary
origin. This was the second fire on
the place within a month and Rocka-
Teller has offered $1,000 reward for the
detection of the guilty parties.
A MOB of 400 men held up the Cotton
Belt passenger train at Danceville and
took negro prisoner from the sheriff
of Bosier parish, La, and made of
through the woods with him. The
negro was charged with criminally as
saulting a white woman at Benton.
There was little doubt that the negro
was lynched.
A DISASTROUS fire visited Indian
apolis, Ind, on the 18th. several fine
buildings in the center of the business
section being destroyed. The total
loss was about s454,0O0.
THE Norwegian bark Codian has
been totally wrecked off Una and her
entire crew lost.