People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-05-14
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Sou,VVV W tue families OF soldiers
killed in Africa and $4,000 to the Red
Cross for wounded.
A farmer named Welsh killed Glenn
Santee, neighbor, in a quarrel near
Ida, Neb Welch's family went with
him TO Chadron to surrender.
Ice house and cattle pens of the
Nelson, Morris & Co. packing house at
East st. Louis, Ill, were destroyed by
fire Wednesday night. Loss, $50, OOO
Crawford county, Ark, the greatest
strawberry country in the world, will
not have more than half crop. Price
OF berries is rapidly advancing all
over the North.
A cloudburst occurred at Ashland.
Wis, flooding many cellars and dam
aging a large amount OF property.
Big oil tanks of the Ashland Lighting
company were swept away.
A compromise bill for a cable to
Hawaii and Japan has been agreed on
in Senate committee by which Uncle
Sam will pay 100000 a year subsidy
to any company that will lay the
cable.
There will be no investigation of
railroad rebates to members of the
alleged beef trust by the present fed
eral grand jury in Chicago. OF eleven
witnesses wanted, three only could be
found.
House committee on pensions or
dered favorable report on the bill
introduced by Representative STALL
ings to increase the pensions of vet
Grams of the Mexican and Indian wars
and their widows from IS to sl2 a
month.
The NJ. Heller Chair company OF ST.
Louis got the contract to furnish H.
900 wood bottom chairs for use liz the
national Republican convention. En-
emies of the company charge that
convict made chairs will be used.
Floyd Willis and brother who as
sassinated Vance Perkins of Craighead
county, Arkansas, claim that Elijah
Bennett a neighbor of Planter Per.
kins, promised them s., 900 to do the
job. Willis was caught at Canton, Ga.
United States court at Fort Scott
decided that ]. w. Stats, a stockman
of Cotfeyville. had not violated the
federal quarantine law in driving cat.
tie from his pasture in the Indian
territory to another pasture on the
same ranch, but in Kansas.
The Quincy baseball club manage
ment has decided to withdraw from
the Western Association.
Congressman Motley was defeated
for denomination in the Fourteenth
Missouri district.
The sentence of the johannesburg
reformers will be reduced to imprison.
ment and small fines.
Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Belt pre-
sented their resignation as director.
of the South Africa company, but
they were not accepted.
A devotional procession at Madrid &c
invoke heaven for rain and peace was
participated in by $4,000 people.
Eight generals carried Madrid's patron
saint on silver bier.
George c. Hoag, who claimed TO be
member of the Central SUICIDE Club
of New Jersey, said his time had come
and shutfled off via the morphine
route at San Francisco.
Arthur G. Wellington and Mrs.
Fanny Speed, Chicago society people
eloped, but Wellington's wife kept ur
with them and the guilty pair were
arrested at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Chinch bugs are reported as abun.
dant in the Cherokee strip and wheat
is suffering.
Safe blowers got $1,000 cash and
$1,000 negotiable paper in Frank
Novak safe, Walker, Iowa.
John Stetson's $1,000, 100 estate has
shrunk to 100000 and Boston people
can't understand it.
Colonel T. ]. North, the nitrate
king" died suddenly in London after
eating dozen raw oysters
George T. Williams, well known oil
man of Pittsburg, Pa. has been grant.
ed divorce from his wife Emma.
Chinese emigrants are thick along
the Canadian border, watching a
chance to step into the United States.
F. j. Kieckhofer, discussing officer
of the state department at Washing.
ton, is short sl39, 100 in his accounts.
Holmes offered Mrs. Pietzel house
and lot in Chicago and $1,000 cash il
she would aid in getting him a re-
prieve.
Leading manufacturers OF America
are arranging South American tour
in the interest of reciprocal trade re.
lations.
Oscar G. Westphal, Buffalo, n Y,
barber, struck George Bischoff with
his fist, breaking his neck and killing
him.
Colorado has contributed $50, 900 fol-
Cripple Creek. The Denver Chamber
Of Commerce says no outside relief is
needed.
House committee on public lands re.
ported unfavorably the bill to donate
to the Missouri Agricultural college
1900 acres Of public land.
Theodore Z. Graham OF Young,
Smytb, Field & Co., Philadelphia, lost
$500, 900 in speculation and has disap.
peared leaving the firms affairs in
bad shape.
A gasoline explosion in Brooklyn
tenement caused the death of two
Hebrew women and two children and
the serious burning of two other chill
aren.
The Katy route ran a fast stock
train consisting of twenty stock cars