People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-05

to care for ITO insane people.
Another stray baby has been left
on the front steps at Arkansas City.
Wellington is said to be infected
with a species of tobacco worm and
lawn tenniS.-TOpeka Journal
Emporia has employed a Chicago
expert accountant to overhaul her aC-
counts for the past three years.
Wellington hasn't had a fire since
the disbanding Of the fire department
on June 10, two and a half months
since.
The contest in singles at the Har-
per tournament was won by Mr.. Coffin
Of Winfield with Mr.. COrkrell of Pitts
burg second.
A Weir City jOintist has just been
fined $1,000 and sentenced to 4SO days
in Jail. Prohibition prohibits some
people and in some places.
In the Mcpherson Republican
county convention last Saturday it
required twenty-fOur ballots to
nominate a county clerk with six can
didateS in the field.
Jake Schaffer, the great billiardiSt,
was thrown from Chicago street car
by the conductor. His arm was brok-
en- and he has sued the company SlO.-
600 damages.
The superintendent of the ChilOccO
Indian school near Arkansas City says
he will have four hundred pupils this
year. Indian youths are taking more
kindly to school life year by year.
China has asked for the recall of
British Minister O'Conner at Pekin
He was too urgent to suit the Chinese
in his demands for thorough inyesti-
cation into the recent killings of mis-
SiOnarles.
Those Ottawa fellows who were sell
ing the Anheuser-Busch hop ale, !"
guaranteed to be Notwithstanding
have changed their business. They
have quit selling "hOp ale" and gone
into the law business.
The watermelon industry in Kansas
is great one this season. The town
Of Belle plaine alone has shipped six
teen carloads, an aggregate of $4,000
melons, at the average price of three
cents each.-Kansas Breeze.
Last week when the police of Hart
ford, Conn, poured forty kegs Of
stale confscated beer into the gut
ter, several hundred thirsty residents
were on hand with tin cans and other
vessels scOOping it out of the cutters.
There is but one successful expOn-
ent Of the female dialect German
character on the American stage to-
day, and that is jolly little Matte
Vickers, who will be seen in this city
September 20, in the old time success,
"JacQuine."
EldOradO parties got up a foot race
last week and put up 800 as stake
money. Before the race come of. the
stakeholder ran away with the money.
He was brought back, however, under
arrest and he declares if they prose-
cute him, he will send them to the
penitentiary under the Cubbison
gambling law.
Senator John Armstrong brought
into our Office on Tuesday gentle re-
minder of what the soil down at
the Hutchinson refOrmatory is doing,
says the Barton county Democrat. 1t
was two ears ofcorn, each over twelve
inches long, with sixteen rows and
sixty grains to the row. There are
80 acres fully as fine, that will 90
seventy-fve bushels per acre, and
some that will go one hundred BUSH
elsper acre. The land lies between
Cow creek and the Arkansas river.
There are 700 tomato plants loaded
down and $1,000 sweet potato. W.
Y. Armstrong, the senator's brother,
has charge.
Governor Morrill, las issued six
election proclamatiOns to I'll vacan-
cles IN the legislature. A successor
is to be elected to Senator Lucien
Baker Of Leye1worth who resigned on
his election to the United States SEN
ate. Senator Ed O'Brien has moved
out of the state aud Sedgwick county
must elect his successor. Douglas
county must elect a senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Sena-
tor Scion o; Thatcher. Senator Il.
W. DennisOn Of Butler county was
appointed an appellate Judge and his
successor in the senate must be chos-
en-. Representative John Schleyler
has been appointed postmaster at
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