People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-01-21
NOTES OF INTEREST.


is in session at Indianapolis.
At Ward, Colo, an explosion Of
giant powder killed four men.
The st. Jaseph, Mo-, nail mills will
bereopened after seven years idleneSs
A dangerous counterfeit Of the $40
silver certificate has been discovered
New postmasterS have been ap'
pointed for Bentonyille and Moab,
No.
Clearance papers for trip to Cuba
will not be granted to the tug Daunt.
less.
Senator Hill introduced bill max.
ing tine term of pOstmasters foul
years.
The American liner st. Louis broke
her Eastwood record across the At
lantiC.
Governor Leedy scored the eastern
press in his first message to the legis-
lature.
Senator Lodge visited Mckinley.
He says he is not a candidate fol the
cabinet.
1t is repOrtedsthat Emilio Calleia
will succeed Weyler in Cuba before
March |.
Serious charges have been brought
against the supreme court of MasSa-
ChusSettS.
Reed has suggested changes in the
Nicaraguan Canal bill, and it will be
amended.
All the gamblingihOuses in St, Jos.
eph, Mo-, were closed by the police
Thursday,
Senator HOar has introduced a bill
providing for another judge in Indian
Territory.
Mr.. Craig appointed the committee
on rights of the minority in the Hi.
nOis house.
Senator BOgardus of Illinois, will
introduce a bill providing for a board
of pardOnS.
The portrait Of Cyrus Mccormick
will not appear on the new $40 silver
certificates.
The carriage in anime at POttsville,
Pa, broke, hurting five occupants OF
it to death.
James Wilson of Iowa, is said to be
MCKinley's choice for secretary Of
agriculture.
At Sedalia, Ben BufOrd, an uncle,
was awarded the custody of little
Naomi Tyree,
The explosion of a dynamite mag.
azine blew four persons to atoms at
ShamOkin, Pa.
Speaker Reed decided that the Pa.
Cltic railroads funding bill could not
be reCOmmitted.
W. E. MaSon'S partisans held eau
Gus at Springfield, ILL.,, and declded to
remain with him.
Senator Chandler has prepared d
report or armor plate, fixing $500 a
ton as fair price.
Louis SOmeillan, a United States
citizen, was sentenced in Havana to
life Imprisonment.
First Sergeant Schlaker of the Sixth
cavalry, deserter and thief, was
captured recently.
The house passed the bill transfer
ring Audrain county, Missouri, to the
Eastern judicial district.
Pennsylvania's electoral vote was
the first handed to the vice president.
Virginia's followed soon.
The president vetoed the bill max
Ing a new division of the Eastern
Judicial district of Texas.
The Republican senatorial caucus
discussed international bimetallism.
but reached no conclusion.
The nomination of William Far.
rlgton to be postmaster at Memphis
Tenn, has been confirmed.
hlng oscar of Sweden has accepted
the position of deciding arbitrator on
the British-American board.
An attack by Mr.. Mcguire on Mr..
johnson in the house brought about
sensational speech by the latter,
a messenger boy at Lancaster, Pa,
through series of forged checks, Sc.
cured $1,000. He is under arrest.
The monetary conference concluded
It's labors by appointing a commission
TO prosecute the financial inquiry.
The report on White River, Ark.
between BateSville and Buffalo
Shoals, has been sent to congress.
Governor CulbersOn laid particular
stress upon the necessity of repeating
the Texas general assignment law.
A noted cereal writer declares that
the farmer is destined to become the