People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-05-28

which is the calling of an Information.
al bimetallic conference.
DIR. Thomas Rem, Chicago. was
fatally shot on the street by his wife
who escaped. Jealousy.
John Dillon is trying to form a
United Home Rule party in Ireland
and to end the Parnell dissensions
Omaha's waterworks were sold for
$1,000, 900 to the MORTGAGE, the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust company.
Rev. Charles A. Briggs, professor in
Union Theological seminary, has been
granted years vacation.
South McAlester reports t be haav
lest rain in its history and ia general
the Indian territory has been fairly
Geluged.
Julia Moore of Courtney, I. T.. rur.
dered her illegitimate child aud is in
jail at Paris, Texas. Hogs discovered
the dead baby.
Another Choctaw party has entered
the tield, the Equal Division party,
making four. Green McCurtain is its
candidate for chief.
Bill to pension Private Francis E.
Hoover of Ohio, was passed over the
Residents veto in the House by a
vote of 1876 to AZ.
{. II. Dow, president of the Com
mercial National, which failed in Den.
yer in 1893, is under arrest for misap.
preparation of bank funds.
Charles NJ. England of East Los
Angeles killed his wife as she slept
and then after writing some letters
and his will killed himself.
John and Brady Rutherford and Joe
Goodson were hanged at Brennan,
Tex, for killing Thomas Dwyer,
although protesting innocence.
District judges of Kansas will moi
receive their pay for June until the
Legislature makes an appropriation tc
cover deficiency of Sc, 456.
Remains of John r. Cockerill, the
dead newspaper man brought from
Egypt, were inferred in Elk's Rest
.Bellefontaine cemetery, st. Louis.
An interesting chronological con
gress is assembled at Moscow to wit.
ness the coronation of the car. There
are people from almost every known
country on earth.
Colonel Alexander Hogeland is in
st. Louis pushing his curfew ordi
nance.
The United States produced 10, 666..
$40 barrels of salt in 1855, worth 81.
423,OSG. New York leads in produc.
ton, with Michigan second and Kan.
sas third.
Thomas Dobbins, aged 81 years, q
wealthy farmer and pioneer settler OF
Grundy county, Missouri, expired sud
denly while eating breakfast.
Chairman Taubeneck, OF the Popu
list national central committee, de.
clares he knows nothing of the alleged
Populist scheme to indorse the Demo
cratic nominee and platform in case
both are for free silver.
Ex-United States Senator William
A. Wallace of Pennsylvania, died in
New York. Mr. Wallace had been
seriously i'll for several months, and
for month past he has been uncon.
scious for the greater part of the time.
Winter Wheat Millers' league, in
session at Cleveland, resolved in favor
of reciprocity legislation by Congress
In a battle with fifty drunken
tramps at Decatur, Ind, Deputy Dan
Healy was mortally wounded, ter
tramps were jailed and several
wounded.
The Tri-State Butter, Egg and Poul
TRIP Association OF Michigan, Ohio and
Indiana has voted to build an anti
trust straw-board and filler case fac,
tory, to manufacture its own cases.
Indian territory crops suffered much
damage from the late storm.
The Sultan OF Turkey is again SUI
fering from nervous attacks
Chicago butchers and grocers have
combined in a war on the ice trust.
Floods in the Red River valley have
greatly damaged the wheat crop
Eight counties which last year pro
duced 30, 900, 900 bushels will this year
yield no more than 100000
The property at Elizabeth, n. j., Of
the defunct United States Cordage
company has been sold by the sheriff
OF Union county, New Jersey, to sat
isfy a mortgage held BY the United
States Trust company of New York.
The plant. which was valued al
nearly 81 200, 0O0, was sold for $50, 900
The Gar will soon grant partial ant
complete amnesty to Russian prison
ers in Siberia in honor Of hiscorona.
ton.
The Methodist Protestant genera
conference has referred the woman
question back to the district confer
ences for settlement.
At Henderson, Ky, John Sylvester
shot and killed Edwin Garth, is year:
old, for clipping with his wife.
Central and Northwestern Missouri
suffered considerable damage from
Tuesdays ele ctrical storm.
Troops have been sent from Fort
Custer to preserve order and TO stor
the killing Of cattle by Indians from
the Tongue river reservation in Mon,
tana.
The Fraker indictments have been
knocked out because he was beino
tried in Ray county for a crime thai
was committed in Clay county. The
State has appealed. Fraker is under
bond