People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-19
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The international agricultural con-
gress, which mas been in session at
Brussels since September s, under the
patronage Of the Belgian government,
passed a resolution in favor of an in
ternational bimetallic agreement
A SAN FRANCISCO paper printed q
sensational story, stating that Florento
Bustamente, the Salvadorean refugee
who was surrendered TO the author
tiles at La Libertad by the captain of
the City of Sidney, was seized by the
people of La Libertad, saturated with
coal oil and roasted alive. The state
ment was made in the same paper that
Bustamente was surrendered upon the
order of the American consul agent at
! La Libertad.
The two yachts, Defender and Valky-
rie, started in for the third race onI
the 18th and a few minutes later the
British yacht dropped out of the con-
test and the American yacht went over
the course alone. Commodore Arthur
Glennie, Lord Dunraven's representa-
tive, announced that the reason the
Valkyrie did not sail was because of
noncompliance with Lord Dunraven'sI
letter to the Americas cup committee
relating to the crowding of excursion
steamers. Had we been assured that
the course would have been kept clear
for even five minutes before the start
ing time we would have sailed" The
Defender winning the three races, the
Americas cup stays in America.
A LARGE double brick tobacco ware.
house at Lancaster, Pa, occupied re-
spectively by Amos Is. Hostetter and
John +. Brimmer, was totally de-
stroyed by incendiary fire on the 18th.
The one occupied by Hostetter con-
tanned leaf tobacco valued at S65, 900.
In the other was 1,5OO cases of leaf to.
bacco valued at $4,000. Adjoining
warehouses were only saved by throw
ing immense quantities of water on
the roofs and the tobacco in them was
damaged by smoke and water to the
extent of several thousand dollars.
THE United States Association of
Veterinary Surgeons in session at Des
Moines, Ia, on the 18th elected w. II.
Hoskins, of Philadelphia, president;
5. Stewart, of Kansas City, secretary,
and J. L. Robinson, of New York,
treasurer. F. II. 0sgood, of Boston;
&. FL. Harrison, of Atchison, Kan, and
c. c. Lyford, of Minneapolis, were
made vice presidents. "a
An attempted train robbery occurred
at Curtis, Ok. At that point four
masked men crawled on to the Soutlisf
ern Kansas track, and covering the
section hands with revolvers, compelled
them to pile ties on the track and draw
the spikes from several rails The en-.
gineer of the westbound passenger
train, seeing the situation, stopped his
engine and two of the bandits covered
him with revolvers while the other
two went to the express car and COM
PEELED the messenger to open the safe.
The railroad officers assert that the
robbers got nothing. The train went
to Woodward, where an alarm was
given, and posse organized to pursue
the robbers.
PRIVATE THOMAS COFFEE, of the Fiji
tenth regiment, United States army,
was shot by Sentinel J. NJ Kress at
Fort Sheridan, Ill, on the 10th, while
attempting to escape from the guard
house. Coffee was instantly killed.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at
Flint courthouse on the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf, about IS miles south
of Sloan Springs, Ark. Contractor
Lewis, while arranging to put in
blast, drove steel rod into the hole,
striking fire from the flint and igniting
the charge. Five kegs of powder were
exploded besides the blast. Lewis was
instantly killed, his head being nearly
severed from his body.
The foresters in session at Cleveland,
O., have resolved to drop the word an
Gent from its title and it now stands
Order of Foresters-
AT Sheepshead Bay, New York,
Henry of Navarro won the big sweep
stakes race from Domino and Rey ell
Santa Anita.
THE regatta committee of the New
York Yacht club sustained the protest
entered by the Defender of the valky.
RE fouling her in the race on the 10th
and gave the race TO the Defender.
A SLIGHT shock OF earthquake was
felt on the l2th at Grenada and vslez
Malaga in Spain. The disturbance
lasted four seconds. Nodamage.
The Jacksonville fla board Of
trade adopted resolutions declaring
that the time had come for the United
States government to recognize the
Cuban revolutionists as belligerents
and requesting Florida senators and
representatives to use every means to
bring about such recognition as soon
as possible after the assembling Of
congress.
WHILE 100000 were watching tho
fireworks along the river front at
Louisville, KY, on the 18th portion
of the grand stand, on which were
seated at least 10000 people, gave way
and many were more or less severely
injured. No fatalities were reported
WALTER SCOTT, a leading druggist
and veteran business man at Des
Moines, Ia, was forced to make an as
signment on the 10th. After the pa
pers were signed he went to his room
and took prussic acid. Four hours
after he was found dead.
THERE were 10000 veterans in line at
the grand parade Of the G. A. R. en-.