People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-01-07
NOTES OF INTEREST.

Shoe factory employees in New Eng
land are striking.
Frederick Ihlenfeldt of Springfield,
ILL.,, hanged himself.
The bubOnic plague in India has
caused the death of 1900 persons.
New pOstmasters have been ap-
pointed for Marling and Tilman, Mo.
Real estate men of St. Louis gave a
grand banquet at the Mercantile Club.
Frank L. Curtis, who was insane,
killed himself 10 the Jail at Macomb,
Ill.
The sinking of bog in County
Kerry, Ireland, caused the loss Of 10
lives.
Terra Archer, a so to | chance, beat
a6O to l shot by neck at New Or
leans.
Two more bodies of victims Of the
Cahawba river disaster have been
found.
The new state officers of Missouri
will be indicted into office on Janu-
airy II.
Travelling men gave a banquet at
Lincoln, Neb., in honor of William j.
Bryan.
The report that William Waldorf
AStOr has become British subject is
denied.
Hugh Robinson of Fairbury, ILL.,,
lost both eyes by al explosion of dy-
Mantle.
Newspapers in Rome announce that
Archbishop Corrigan will be made a
cardinal.
chicago is preparing to hold wind
carnival. Everybody will be expected
to put on airs.
The house ways and means commit
tee considered Tuesday the silk and
cotton schedules.
A coupon 12O years overdue was pre-.
sented to Mayor Strong of New York
City for payment.
The battleShip, Texas, seems to
have slipped off into the ocean again
and wet her stern.
The company that sailed on the
Three Friends is on barren key off
Florida in distress.
''Gas" Addicks announces that he
or no one will be United States Sena.
tor from Delaware.
A CraLk held up a priest in St.
Louis and made him deliver money at
the church's altar.
Representative R. H. CrOSsfeld of
Kentucky, narrowly escaped lynching
by tOllgate raiders.
Lieutenant Colonel H. E. Noyes will
be court martialed upon a charge of
falling to pay debt.
1t is unusually wet in Kansas this
winter but there is no immediate
danger of bog slide.
General Gomez, it is announced
officially, crossed the eastern trocha,
going west, last week.
Arthur NJ. Hunter, the gentleman
Jockey, may be made starter for the
New York Jockey CLUB.
The number of victims of the rail-
road wreck on the Cahawba river, in
Alabama, is placed at "A.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky, de.
clines to affirm or deny the report
that he intends to resign.
George S. Nixon of Nevada, has an
nounced that he is a candidate 10 sue
coed Jones in the senate.
Major G. Ewing Price says Cuba is
badly in need of volunteers. He
should have stayed there.
The application of the First Ma.
tional bank Of Paul's Valley, 1T, to
resume has been approved.
Charles Gougle, the wealthy Chica-
9O turfman, is wintering his string of
horses in st. Louis county.
Kid Mccoy defeated Bill Doherty
OF Australia for the middle-weight
championship of the world.
Kentucky officers who killed an iD-
accent man in Indiana by mistake,
narrowly escaped lynching.
The president has extended the
civil service rules to employees of the
federal penitentiary service.
The Illinois State Teachers associ.
alton is urging the passage of free
text book bill by the legislature.
Senator Dubois, backed by the
NatioCag Democratic committee. has
gone home to fight for reelection.
George W. Gilmore OF Rawlins
county, Kansas, a rich hermit. was
assasSiOated by woman he Tilted.
@sax Hanna Is said 10 be troubled
lately with insomnia. Our impression
has hnpn that Murk narar did oloao