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


Americans were the champions, not a
single one of the eleven events being
won by a Britisher. Four worlds
records were broken by the Americans
as follows: Half-mile run, C. J. Kill
patrick, l:55 2-5; running high jump.
Nj. +. Sweeney, feet 81 inches; a2O
yard dash, b. j. Wefers, 81 S-5 seconds;
i2O yard hurdle race, Stephen Chase,
Is 2-5 seconds.
NJ. E. STIysoN, formerly agent for
the Rock Island railroad at Fairfield,
Ia, shot and killed Miss Arta Moore,
OF Panora, and then committed suicide.
The girl has for some time past been a
student at the Iowa college. She went
there from Grinnell on the night of the
2ls. and was met by Stinson. The
couple took rooms at the Astor house.
at 0skaloosa, Ia, where the tragedy
occurred. The reasons for the killing
were unknown.
THE wedding Of Miss Consuelo Van
derbilt and the duke of Marlborough,
1t was rumored, will take place No
vember IA at New York and $4,000, 900
will go as dowry with the bride, 50, OOO,-
600 of which will be given outright to
the duke to restore the family fortunes
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended September 90 showed an
average increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of 20. 8;
in New York the increase was 2s4;
outside New York the increase was
10.4.
WILLIAM f. CURTIS, well known as a
newspaper writer and executive officer
of the Pan-American congress, arrived
at San Francisco recently from China
and Japan. He described the ravages
of cholera in China as something
frightful The deaths in Pekin aver
age 1000 day.
On the third day of the dedication of
the battlefield of Chickamauga there
was grand civic and military parade
in which the visiting governors and
their stats and other notables took
part Senator Bate, Congressman
Grosvenor, and Cows. Morton, Wood
bury, Matthews and Turney made
talks, the latter creating a sensation
by saying that he could never be con-
WINGED that the south was wrong DUR
ing the war.
A SPECIAL cable from Shanghai on
the Goth reported that four British
cruisers were ascending the river
Yang-tse-Kisng in consequence of in
formation that foreigners were being
threatened with violence in the inte-
rior of China.
IN honor of the fetes commemorate
ing the entry of the Italian army into
Rome in 1870, King Humbert has
granted a pardon to all the Sicilian
rioters who were undergoing sentences
of imprisonment for less than ten
years.
The cruiser Barcastegui was wrecked
in collision with the merchant steam
er Mortera in the canal at the entrance
Of Port Barcastegui, Cuba. Marine
General Delgado Parejo and three other
officers and thirty of the crew were
drowned.
The London Sportsman announced
that Laycock, Goodfellow & Bell,
bankers, had cabled to the New York
Yacht club an offer of 81, 900 for a race
in English waters between the De-
fender and Valkyrie Ill A check to
that amount had been deposited with
the secretary of the Royal Yacht squad
ron.
The creditors of the First state bank
at Perry, Ok; which was closed short
time ago with $4,000 liabilities and
little assets, have attached the court
house of the county, claiming it was
part of the property OF the Richard
sons, who were claimed to have been
connected with the bank.
AT the session of the sovereign grand
lodge Independent Order of Odd Eel.
lows at Atlantic City, N. j., on the 18th
an amendment to the constitution was
carried that no saloonkeeper or bar
tender or gambler shall be eligible to
membership in the order. NJ. Richard
Of Philadelphia, was made
sovereign grand treasurer in place Of
Isaac C. Shepard, who resigned on &C.
count Of i'll uealth.
The London Chronicles Rome corre-
spondent said that the announcement
Of subscriptions for the ransom Of
Rome and its restoration to the pope
was received with the greatest ridicuie,
both by Italians and by the vatican.
ADyICEs have been received from
Angmagsalik on the east coast Of
Greenland that about the end of July
\ vessel believed to be the Fran, which
conveyed DIR. Nansen and his expedi-
lion from Norway in search of the
north pole, was seen hemmed in in a
rift Of ice near that place. Rumors
have been received at Norway from
lime to time that DR.. hansen had found
The pole and had planted Norways flag
here.
JOHN r. GENTRY, the fastest stallion
n the world, beat Joe Patchen in three
straight heats at Milwaukee on the
18th. The fastest mile paced was done
N 2:05A and the fastest quarter in 0:29.
PLANS, it was said, were being
for great free silver con-
7ention in Chicago. This convention,
4 the old parties refuse to place a
rec silver plank in their platforms,
will nominate candidates for president
and vice president and organize for
IN active campaign in 1896.