People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-02

Suit against Thomas CurrY. news
dealer. was brought in Quiun's court
at Abilne for criminal libel 1t was on
account Of Curry's alleged selling of
copies Of the Sunday sun OF Kansas
City, containing two column write
up OF the Prather cases.
A. ]. Peed OF Lamar. Colo. and Miss
Rose Mullin Of New Castle, Indiana,
met in Dodge City, by written agree.
ment II was the first sight OF each
other. Both were satisfied. A mar
riage license was procured and they
were married bv Rev. f. II. Vaughan.
The gas str lie on the Moherman
farm on Hickory re,k, in Peoria town
ship, near Ottawa, is one OF consider.
able magnitude, if the present indica-
tionS are of value The find" was
made by sinking well, at depth Of
24O feet, the flow gas was such that
the tools of the wor imen were blown
out, and it has been impossible to re.
sumo work.
A very big fine marc, the property
OF '. Highbergcr, of Wcsphalia, jump
ed out of the lot 4 few days ago and
came tearing down the street and
back again, biting herself on the front
leg and side repeatedly. 1t was soon
known that she was mad from hydro
phobia. Men and boys followed her.
DIR. Kirkpatrick put all out of danger
by killing her with rifle.
Thomas C. Russell, chairman of the
Bourbon county Democratic county
committee, died Unexpectedly Sunday
evening at Fort Scott lie had about
recovered from an attack of pneumonia
and his wife was ont calling when the
attendant sent for Ler lie died few
minutes after her return of neuralgia
of the heart. He was 81 years old.
and was the founder of the town of
Bayard, in Allen county, naming it AZ.
ter ex-Secretary Bayard. lie was 4
native OF New York.
The Quantrell raid monument com.
mittee, at meeting to make arrange
ments for the unwilling OF the monu.
ment at Lawrence on Decoration Day.
appointed Paul l. Brooks and Gurdon
Grosvenor to confer with the members
OF the G. A. R. to arrange joint COM
memoration exercises on the day OF
the unwilling. An invitation was cx-
tended to Hon. James Horton of Kan
sas City, who was there during the
raid, to be present The monument
is to cost 1900, and is to be shipped
from Vermont on May 20.
Sheriff Glover of Johnson county ar
rested at Rosedale and took to Olathe,
Sunday, Sam Robinson, the remaining
member OF the negro gang which has
terrorized johnson county with num-
erous robberies during the last year.
The gang robbed Kefer Bros. hard.
ware of 0lathe last December Of about
81, 900 worth Of rifles, shotguns, razors
and knives, and four of the members
are now serving seven-year sentence
each in the penitentiary. Most all
the stolen property was redeemed,
having been found in possession of
each as divided.
A crowd of boys, while fishing near
Mill Creek bridge on the North
side of Fort Scott Sunday, unearthed
a number of old valuable coins, which
have evidently been buried there by
some one in an attempt to hide stolen
treasure. The boys were lounging
around on the bank when they saw
the edge of a coin protruding from
what appeared to be a mole hill, they
commenced to dig in the mound and
had soon unearthed number of old
coins, some coined by the United
States, but mostly of foreign coinage.
Some were very old and one large cop.
per bore the date of 1879, while half
penny was coined in 1906.
News has just reached Hiawatha, OF
what came near being double drovn-
ing. Mr.. Dowell, of Robinson, was at
MIR. Davis farm buying stock when he
heard faint for help Going in the
direction OF the sound he saw a small
child struggling TO get out of large
barrel CT water sunk in the ground.
Hurriedly he pulled it out, when TO
his surprise another little body arose
to the surface which he as quickly got
out. Mr.. Davis came at his call to find
his two children three and four years
old apparently iifcless. After two
hours Of hard work over them they
revived.
Scores OF excited cattlemen have
gathered at Eureka to protest against
the release Of train load OF cattle
that arrived Monday and are now held
in temporary quarantine by the sheriff
pending the action of the live stock
sanitary commission. The cattle were
taken to Eureka to be pastured. They
were shipped from San Simeon, Ark,
but the stock men fear that part of
them at least are Mexican cattle and
therefore liable to communicate splen.
etc fever to the native herds. Chair.
man johnson Of the sanitary board is
already in the city and the other two
members will arrive soon, so thats
decision is expected at once. In the
meantime members of the Cattlemen's