People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-12-31


made quarintinable disease.
New postmasters have been ap-
pointed for Bagnell, Fleming, Gravel
Hill, Kennedy and ThOrn6eld, Mo.
The Cherokee Freedmen Commits
siOn's report shows $500 persons en-
titled to participation in the fund.
Two of the factories of the state re-
format0ry at Elmira, MY, were des-
truyed by fire, causing 100000 loss.
The remains of Hermann. the ma
gician, were inferred at WOOdlawn
cemetery, New York, with Masonic
rites.
A motion to strike from the apprO-
priation bill all provision for the
civil service was defeated in the
house.
Memphis statute OF marble
woman is not altogether new in statu-
airy. Many live women have marble
heart.
NegrOs Of Louisville, KY, have
nominated city officers of their own
race, leaving but one vacancy on the
ticket.
Senator Allison of Iowa, denies that
he has been offered any place what
ever in President-elect McKinley'S
cabinet.
England has been shaken by an
earthquake. 1t was expected that
the recent election would stop all
agitation.
The receipts of the treasury for p
days of December we're Sl,l32, 1870
greater than for the same time il
November.
From the way congress is acting the
saloon in the administration building
has evidently been succeeded Ey the
bOOtlegger.
Emperor William has requested
that the case of Lieutenant Won
BruSewitz, convicted of killing a civ
ilian, be reOpened.
1t has not been pointed out to the
ministers OF Kansas City that the
fountain in the Helm eXhedra will
flow with cold water.
Pearl Bryan's murderers, jackson
and Walling, will be hanged on the
same day. The date has not been SET
by Governor Bradley.
Major Miller reports that the eros
ion at Galveston Island. Tex, ha
been practically stopped by the ex
tension of the jetties.
At WilkeSbarre, Pa, a gas explO
sion imprisoned twenty men in
mine. They were rescued just il
time to save their lives.
While the rest Of the country j
ClamOring for good roads, the KanSa
highway continues to be the bes
bicycle track in the union.
The first official cruise of the neI
cruiser Brooklyn will be taken thi
week. She will join the Atlanti
squadron at Hampton Roads,
1t is great wonder that the fir
in some of our congressional orator
does not touch off canon or two i
behalf of the Cuban insurgents.
The newspapers say that Jay Gould
fortune is slowly slipping awav Thi
is only a grammatical error. 1t SaileC
away on flrst-clasS ocean liner,
Chairman Scranton of the commit
tee on territories, says that the New
Mexico and Oklahoma statehood bill
will not be called up this session.
Jacob Heter, One.of the oldest set
tiers of Rice county, Kas., died at th
home of his son, Frank, in Sterling
! Tuesday afternoon, aged IS years.
Two hundred fought looking fol
eignerS are being detained at Eli
island by order of the immigration
bureau. They sailed from MarSeilles
At Mayfeld, KY, Monday, the mo
that hanged Jim Stone, cOlOred, sho
up number of other negros' house
and ordered them to leave the town
The whole gamut of national issue
will be presented to the NatiOna
Board of Trade by the Cincinnati
chamber Of commerce for discussion
Jerry Burke, a negro youth VIII
tried to kill two women with an AK a
Clio, La, Sunday night, was caugh
Tuesday aud riddled with bullets b
a mob.
The wOman's Society for the UL
lifting Of Mankind should turn i,
attention to Illinois. where the pen
l Tertiary for wOmankind has had to b
enlarged.
The man who invented dynamit
+ died recently in Italy. We do nc
: know much of the history Of the maj