People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-03-07
NEWS BREvITIES.
It is proposed to erect monument
to Fred Douglass in Washington.

advancing rapluly'
Secretary Morton has received re.
ports showing that from $4,000 to
$4,000 horses are imported annually
into the United Kingdom, most of
which have, in the past come from
the continent of Europe.
Senior Idiarte Borda, president of
Uruguay, has offered his mediation to
Brazil in order to pacifv the state of
Rio Grande do Sui, where a consid-
cradle number of insurgents are in
arms against the government.
Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Farmer and posse who captured the
leader of the Hughes gang, have sue
ceeded in capturing Harvey Carter,
another member of the gang, near
Crushy Creek, Ind. Ter, and have
Wilson and Smith. two more of the
desperadoes located and their capture
is almost certainty.
The supreme court of Independent
Order of Foresters of Canada has be-
gun mandamus proceedings in Chica-
go to compel the Illinois state insur-
ance superintendent to allow the
society to do business in Illinois.
In New Philadelphia, Ohio, the
works of the Chicago Pipe Works Co.,
manufacturers of cast iron, water and
gas mains, have burned. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, SlS,OOO
Mrs. J. II. Galloupe of Scammon,
Kan, shot herself in the left side.
No reason is known.
The Western Baseball association
held a meeting at Quincy and COM
pleted arrangements for the season.
Louise Michel, the Anarchist is
seriously i'll at Paris, and it is be-
lieved that she will die.
The bill to pension Mrs. Ida Martin
widow of Ex-Governor Martin of Kan
sas, which passed the house, was sent
to the senate for its concurrence in a
slight amendment
At Perry, Ok, Dr. NJ. V. b. Morse of
Springfield, Mass, said to be q
nephew of Samuel b. Morse, inven-
tor of the telegraph has filed suit for
divorce against his wife, Caroline
Morse.
According to official dispatches from
Cuba the rebels in the province of
Santiago de Cuba numbered about l2C
men. The town of Barre declared in
favor of the rebels, but the insurrec-
ton there was soon quelled.
The number of dead bodies taken
from the White Ash, n. NJ, Goa
mine, in which an explosion occurred
Wednesday, numbers twenty five
and the injured eighteen, some o.
whom will die.
President Cleveland has sent to the
house a message vetoing the bill fol
the relief of Catherine OFT, widow o.
Joseph OFT Although the pension
application was one rejected by the
pension office, the president says
under the rules it cannot be adiuii-
Gated there.
The destitute farmers of Nebrask;
are accepting the proposition of tn,
Chicago board of trade to furnish
seed grain to be paid for when tn
crop is sold. The board has formed
syndicate to handle the matter
Mass meetings all over the state in
dictate a disposition to accept tn,
offer.
NJ. F. Campbell of the Gunsigh
mine, near the line of Southern Ari
IONA, says the camels of the dessert
introduced many years ago by Bel
Butterworth and now grown wild
are increasing rapidly, now number
ing 300 or 800.
George D. Boyden, a well-knowl
member of the Chicago board of trade
dropped dead at the Union leagu
club. His death resulted from hear
disease.
Ernest L. Squier, the st. Louis City
and Suburban Investment compau
president, has disappeared. Numer
Gus victims are reporting losses in hi
schemes
The Indiana house has passed tn
Republican congressional reappOr
tionment bill. 1t makes three dis
tricts Democratic, four Republica
and the others doubtful.
Emanuel Binder, 25 years old, liy
ing seven miles northwest of Sterling
Kan, committed suicide by shootin
himself with shotgun, which he ha
borrowed from a neighbor.
The attorney general of New Yor
has denied the application of tn
Central Labor union of New York 70
leave to begin proceedings to dissolv
the Standard Oil company on tn
ground that it is not a monopoly
The case has been pending some time
Judge J. r. Mcbride, brother G
Senator Mcbride of Oregon, ey
presses the conviction that hi
brother will stand with silver men.
The Nicholson temperance bill ha
passed the Indiana house of repre-
sentatives by vote of 70 TO 20 1t i
a very stringent measure, although
lost some of its force by bein
amended. 1t provides for loca
option.
Charles 7. Beatty, Michigan stat
president of the American Protectiv
association and national secretary.
completing arrangements for nation
Al convention of the American Pre-
.ective as ,ociation to be held Mare
IL, Is, and IA. The prime object
he consideration OF the propositlo
'or the formation of what is to
<nOwn as the Independent America
party.
The funeral of Frederick Douglas
took place IN Rochester, n. Y, Tue,
lay. The funeral train was met b
the Douglass league. mayor an
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