People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-06-11
LATE NEWS NOTES.


Illinois state board of health has
begun war on public spitters
Three Friends, a flibusterinp
steamer, has returned from success.
full Cuban exdedition.
A favorable report has been made
on the bill providing for a public
building at Fulton, Mo.
President Cleveland's family is dom.
iciled at Gray Gables, near Buzzard's
Bay, Mass, for the summer.
Egypt has over 100000 acres in
cotton this year and the crop is ex-
pected to break the record of the Nile
valley.
General Campos was prevented by
the military authorities at Madrid
from fighting a duel with General
Barrero.
The Swiss council is sore at its fail
ure TO receive a response from the
United States to proposal for an ar
bitration treaty.
Z. M. Arthur has been reelected
chief OF the Engineers brotherhood.
William Sydon's and James Kinsel-
las houses W re destroyed and many
head of cattle killed BY . hurricane
near Fender, Neb.
The Moscow disaster was due TO the
refusal of the perfect of police to ac-
cept offers Of assistance. Many peas.
ants were drowned in the beer watts.
Kate Field was given an honorable
funeral in Hawaii and her body placed
in temporary vault President Dole
and his cabinet attended the obsequies
Over 300 petitions from 2s3 Kansas
towns, containing 1900 names, have
been filed with the state board OF rail-
road commissioners, protesting against
existing grain rates.
The House ways and meaus commit
tee is STRONGLY adverse to the anti
bond bill, which means its defeat.
Kansas State university law class
was examined by the supreme court
and forty-two new lawyers were given
permission to expound the law.
Phillip Oppenheim of San Francisco
robbed his mother of 100000 and
skipped to Canada.
The color line has caused q lockout
at the Illinois Steel company's works,
Chicago, and 800 men are idle.
Thomas Dawley, Harper's Weekly
correspondent, is under arrest at
Havana for taking photographs of the
country.
Persimmon, the Prince of Wales
colt, won the Derby at EPSON, Eng.
land, making the best record in the
past thirty years This is the first
time in l0S years that Prince Of
Wales has won the blue ribbon Of the
turf.
Over million spindles have beer
added to Japans cotton spinning facil
tiles in the last year.
The Home secretary announced in
the Commons that the government,
sees no reason for further clemency
in the case of Mrs. Maybrick.
Meteor, Emperor Williams new
yacht, won her first race, defeating
Britannia and Satanita.
The next general assembly OF tn,
United Presbyterian Church will b,
held at Rock Island, III.
Two men started from New York L
row across the Atlantic in an eighteeI
foot boat.
Alexander H. McGuffy, author of /:
series of readers and spoilers, so wei
known to school children, is dead.
David Belasco is suing n. X. Fair
bank for $50, 900 Cor making Mrs. Les
lie Carter an actress at Fairbank'
expense and order.
The fortune left TO Arthur Dues
trow, the st. Louis murderer, by hi
father, has been expended and moth
ing is left The jailer gives the pris
oner cigarettes.
Lady Henry Somerset was reelected
president of the British Wcmen'
Temperance Association.
Chicago is still back $4,000 on Il,
National convention guarantee fund
Minneapolis, Mimi. is loading up
car Of -four to send to needy st
Louisians.
Massia, renegade Apache chief, wa,
slain by Indian scouts in Southern
Utah.
Edison has invented new lightini
apparatus which he calls the fiuor
escent lamp.
June Sd was the tenth anniversar,
OF the marriage OF the Clevelands il
the White house.
Louise Waters of Little Rock wa
killed by lightning while running he
sewing machine.
School Superintendent Kiock o
Leavenworth has resigned and accept
ed an offer at Helena, Mont.
John Hays Hammond, the Pretori,
prisoner, has been permitted to visi
his sick wife at Johannesburg.
Seven persons were poisoned, foul
fatally, by drinking wine in Ev;
Titles South Clark street house
Chicago.
Topeka preachers protest agains
the almost nude figures which appea
on advertising bills posted in publ
places.
Governor Bradley Of Kentucky ha
withdrawn from the presidential race
and thinks all favorite sons should d
likewise.
Professor L. L. Dyche OF the Kansa
university has left for Seattle, Wash.
where he will join an expedition
being fitted out 10 go TO Alaska.
The bodies of James q. Blaine, hi
son Walker, and possibly his dauOb