People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-03-07
TELEosAPHIc NEWS NOTES.

The st. Joseph Milling company is
in the hands of a receiver.
The Portland, Ore, cold storage
warehouse has burned. Loss, SIS, 900.
General John A. McClernand is
again very low. He is SO years old
and recovery is doubtful.
In Philadelphia, Lambert Deakans,
aged so years, and his wife died from
starvation.
Oh aries A. Wells has been nomi-
mated by the president for postmaster
{: Coffeyville, Kan.
Richard O'Gorman, the Irish nation
alst, scholar and orator, died at his
home in New York city aged 70.
The Belgian episcopate has received
papal brief strongly condemning the
attitude of the Christian Socialists.
The president has nominated
George H. Small of Missouri to be
assistant treasurer of the United
States at st. Louis.
In Hartford City, Ind, the refusal
of the Sheath glass works to pay
union wages to blowers resulted in a
strike by $50 men.
At Glenville, Ala, while Tom and
Dora Meadows were attending a
dance their home caught fire and
their four children were cremated.
In Macon, Ga, Waxelbaum & Son,
wholesale dry goods merchants whose
establishment was recently burned
out at loss of 5000, 900, has gone into
the hands Of a receiver.
The New Mexico legislature has ap-
propriated Sc, 800 for the relief of the
| families of the miners killed in the
explosion at Los Cerrillos.
The citizens of Lexington. Mo-, held
g mss meeting in the interest of the
proposed new bridge. The subscrip-
lions now aggregate $4,000.
An advance in Bessemer pig iron has
been made to Sl025 per ton. Eighty
thousand tons have been purchased
the past week at that figure.
Jacob Wiley and Charles Graham
tried to stop a runaway team in the
square at Marshall, Mo-, and were
trampled on and probably fatally in
| jured.
Prince Lobanoff- RostOwski, Russian
ambassador to Austria, has been APP
pointed Russian minister of foreign
affairs, in succession to the late NJ.
De Giers.
Two of the bondsmen of Sheriff
ROyse of Sedgwick county, Kan,
have retired as protest against the
war on joints. Ultra Prohibitionists
have taken their place.
The Nebraska legislature has de.
cided to reviv. the beet sugar lounty
by paying the producer s. per ton for
all beets produced. The last legisla-
ture suspended this law.
Secretary Smith has disbarred from
practice before the interior depart
ment John T. Moss of Chillicotne
Mo-, and George NJ Van Leuven, o.
Lime Springs, Iowa, for violating
pension laws
A dispatch from Odessa says thai
Madame Modjeska has been forbidden
to appear at the Warsaw theater be-
cause while at Chicago she lectureC
at the worlds fair on Russia's oppres
sion of Poland.
All hope for the steamship King
don, Captain Jojes, which left Ham
burg December Is last for Philadel
phia via Charleston, has been aban
doned. She had crew of thirty-six
The Pena, ILL.,, Coal company. oper
ating two mines and employing hun
dreds of men, has reduced miners
wages from forty-fve to forty cent
per ton, or an alternative of So pc
day. There are rumors of a strik,
March 4.
The California senate by a vot e o
% to Q refused to concur in Join
resolution from the assembly mem
orializing congress for the annexation
of the Hawaiian Islands. The senat,
is composed of % Republicans and L
Democrats.
Missionaries and others upon tn
Labrador coast report great miser
and privation among the Nascape,
Indians, numbers of whom will. it
feared, starve unless some means ar
found for giving relief to them.
In speech in Chicago Presiden
: Debs of the American Railway unio
said that he had little hope fror
strikes to help workingmen. Tn
only salvation he saw was for then
to cease their fights anG unite at tn
ballot box 10 elect good men to Office
Rector Turner of the Episcopa
church of the Good Shepherd G
Rochester, n. Y, has been forbidde
by Bishop Cox to officlate anywher
in the diocese of Western New Yor
because of his extremely high churc
practic S.
Governor Morrill, of Kansas, h
named L. B. D. Taylor of Frankfort
for quartermaster general, c.
Elliott of Topeka, for paymaster gen
eral, and Dr. j. A. Mitchell of Arkan
sas City, for surgeon general of hi
staff.
The joint library committee Of cor
gress has diSapprOved the applicatio
of the Grand Army encampment con
mittee to place the statue and pedes
tai of General U. S. Grant in the re
tunda of the capitol building, becaus
the head of the statue did not conve
: correct representation of the feG
lures of General Grant
At Silver Cliff, Col, the Geyser CON
pany has struck another rich strea
, of ore at the >, 100 foot level 1t run
from 16, 900 to 10000 ounces of silve
to the ton. The last shipment to tn
smelter consisted of 100 tons of hig
grade ore containing silver and copper
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