People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-03-04
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
J. 81. Order of Fort Scott has been
elected grand master of the A.O.U.W.

elected gra0u MASTER OF Gne Anu, W.
An Atlanta negro has invented a
machine to take the "kinkS" out OF
the hair of negroes. The invention
isa very ingenious one, being made
Of steel, in the form of a comb. A
rod fits inside the comb, by which it
is heated sufficiently to straighten
out the hair wnen it is being combed,
without danger of burning the hair or
causing it to fall out.
R. L. Netherton, tire new college
professor az Harper, was arrested al
that place last Friday on the charge
of burglarizing store at Lawrence
some time ago, and was taken on the
evening train to the scene of tn
alleged crime to answer to the charge.
The professor protests his innocence
and declares there must be some mis-
take. The affair has created a pro-
fund sensation at Harper.-Milau
Press.
"a Neodesha wheelman the Othtl
evening hung his wheel from a shelf
in the cellar. A mouse jumped from
the wall upon the front wheel, which
began to turn, land of course the mOu>t
started for the top. The wheel KEEP
turning and the mouse could not g,t
fOothOld enough to Jump upon the
shelf. The next morning the mouse
was still running and the cyclOmeter
showed he had run IS! miles in about
twelve hourS.-Neodesha Derrick.
Prof. Dyche had a harrow escape il
a Newton hotel Friday morning
A drunken mau was carOusing around
with himself in a room immediatel!
above the one occupied by the explor-
er just before dawn, when a revolver
was discharged into the floor, the bal
striking Dyche on the shoulder in the
room below. The professor was in
bed at the time, but he lost no tine
in getting out of it and having a StUl
put to the fellows unusual mode OF
target practice. Mr., DyChe secured
the bullet as "mementO." He was
unframed.
The immigration restriction bill
just adopted by both houses of COZ
gresS, and designed to exclude, afte
the first of next July, immigrants WIT
are unable to read and write, provide
q peculiar test. At each of the in
gpector'S offices of the Unlted State
there are to be paStebOard slips viii
printed extracts from the fedora
constitution in double small plea typ,
of not less than twenty nor more than
twenty-five words These slips are [,
be kept in boxes made for that pul-
pose, 50 that they shall be concealed
from view, are to be duly numbered.
and printed in different languages
The immigrant, having designated
the language ir which he claims to bt
proficient, is required to draw one Cl
said slips from the box and read. and
afterward write out in full view of the
immigration officer the words printed
thereon.
Colonel f. S. Stumbaugh, who died
in Topeka last week, was a member
of the Kansas legislature from Rush
county in 1879. He and L. F. Eggers,
the member from Ellis county, went
to Washington to push the inyestiga-
tiOn against John ]. ingalls, on the
charge of procuring his election as
senator through bribery. The Kansas
house had adopted resolution exon
Grating ingalls, aud declaring that
certain members wanted to receive
money for their votes, and did, but
not from any Of the senatorial candi-
dates This did not satisfy the anti
ingalls, crowd, however, and they
went to Washington with their case.
After the committee of the United
States senate had also generated In
gals he came home and from a hotel
porch in Atchison made a speech in
which he stripped the Quiverins hide
from StumOaugh and Eggers.
Speaking of notable social functions,
it would be rather hard to Guido the
record made at an old folks dance
that was given the other night 10
Barre, Worcester county, Mass.
That the occasion was appropriately
named may be inferred from the fact
that one of the dancing sets was
made up exclusively of persons over
eighty years old, and they not only
went through all the changes to the
tune of liveliest music, but some of
them cut pigeon wings in manner
to Indicate that age had not left any
knots in their joints. The entire
company was made up of. venerable
men and women who had outlived the
span of life which the Psalmist allots
to man, and they all danced until the
small hours o. the morning. The
oldest man at the ball was DR.. VIM.
u. Russell, aged 81, who is now the
oldest living graduate of Harvard