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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13
CAPTAIN MURPHY INDICTED.
lie Is Charged with FiIibusterine on
the Laurnda.


WILMINGTON, DEL, January 12-The
grand jury I'm the United States Court
found a true bin this afternoon against
CAPTAIN Edward Murphy He is charged
with having taken a flibustering party
TO Cuba on the steamer Baurada last
summer
Murphy was recently wrecked on the
steamer Commodore off the Florida
coast.
Captain Murphy appeared in court with
his arm in a sling. the limb having been
broken when he was washed ashore on
the Florida coast. after being wrecked on
the Commodore. United States Senator
Gray and H. II. Ward. counsel for Muir
ply. asked a postponement owing to the
absence Of a material witness. The mo-
ton was granted, and March 9th fixed as
the day for the trial.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13
G. W. Fairbanks for Senator.

INDIANAPOLIS. January THE Re
publican caucus on the senatorial question
was had tonight, and after an exciting
session c. w. Fairbanks was nominated
for United States senator
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13

CINCINNATI. o.. January E-Ihe
ohio Photograph Company, capitalized at
81 .OO00Oy. has gone into the hanas o,
receiver, on petition OF the hoiuerS "a a
,,,aio,itv ~ the stock The assignment
g. Tor liouidation and dissolution, as the
liabilities are trihing
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13
prison Suicide Accomplished.

stSC SING n. Y. January 12.-Joseph
tioffman the convict IN Sing Sing prison
VINO Jumped from the fourth story Oh tno
"rison ON Friday last with the intet nl9.
~ Killing himself. died this morning from
The effects Of his injuries.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13
Perkins 10 BE Reelected.

SACRAMENTO, CAL January L.
rrnited States Senator Perkins VIII DE re-
elected at the Joint session OF the Lexis
lature tomorrow. Both houses IN sepa,
rate ballots at noon, gave him a ma'0ii''
Of IL.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13

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Dodgers exc. printed by the Dispatch
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inferior work Send us your orders ana
we win guarantee satisfaction In every
particular.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-13
ROSES AT FORTY DOLLARS.
of the Poinsettn In TINS
winters Decorations.

(New York Tribune)
Among the floral decorations OF the hoh-
Ia, season one plant has been especially
,rominent and will probably continue TO
10 used conspIcuously throughout the
xinter. This Is the poinsettia. With It's
brilliant scarlet and green, this'presents
q most cheerful appearance. and Is pax
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
CcuM$y Officers
Secret Societies.

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
4 NCHOR LODGE No y meets at <. OF P.
\ hall on Tuesday OF each week. Visiting
Orethren made welcome.
HAIRY CLATToR, &C.
W.M READY, X OF II. and 5.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

New England is much concerned
about free hides. Some OF her biggest
industries, especially that Of boots and
shoes, have been built up during our
quarter of u century of free hides. She
now sells boots and shoes in all parts of
the world. Taxed hides would cripple
this and other industries. Her leading
senators pretend to represent her and
to put up a fight for free hides. In real
ity, if necessary. they will sacrifice free
hides to obtain high duties on sugar
with plenty Of margin for trust prof
its. Just why this is SO should be a
matter for senatorial investigation, II
such investigation would only inyesti-
gate. Fortunately for the sugar trust,
but unfortunately for the rest Of us
7o,o00,00O people, the sugar trust I'M
derstands well the art Of making friends
where they will do the most good. It
has able attorneys to advise it how to
distribute its sweets to politicians and
lawmakers and at the same time to
steer clear OF jails.
In this way and in this way only can
we account for the attitude Of not few
prominent tariff makers at Washing.
ton. The situation Is interesting-de-
cidedly 30.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
Elkins on Wages.

wages must 60 down." said Senator
ElliEs in recent interview published
in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Wage
earners," continued the senator, do
not wish to see it or believe it, but II
is So" And again he said: Wages In
America stand against any revival Of
business"
He was discussing the coaltradc. He
said: I'VE do not export coal to Europe
because we have wages against us, and
that is the whole kernel of the coal
trade"
Being asked whether black labor was
settled in the mines of West Virginia,
he said:
Firmly. It is as effective as white
labor and does not combine and con,
spire, and the negro spends all h,
makes, while the Italians and Poles
send every cent out OF the country"
The senator mas just as decided Ideas
on the tariff question. He is firmly con
WINGED that protective duties, especially
those on coal, should go up. Tariff up
wages down. That is what happened
under the Mckinley bin and is wha
will happen and in fact is happening
under the Dingley bill. 1t is all don,
in the interest of labor.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
Why Dingley Rate. Are So HixH.

Afraid to open your chops about the
Mckinley bill before the election, hav.
ing won, you are out-Heroding Herod
cut-McKinleying Mckinley. because
the men who furnished the money to
carry the election are relentless task.
masters, clamorous for their remunara.
ton. They have such ravenous appe.
titles that you have been compelled &c
make the rates higher than in the Nc
Kinley bill. Let this not be forgotten
lnscribe 1t on the tablets Of your mem
ory. Be 1t known that the average tar
if tax under the Mckinley bill wa
1888 per cent. cd valorem; under tht
Wilson-Gorman bill, 1924 per cent. and
under the Dingley bill. SOB per cent
Hence the average rate Of taxation OF
something like 1000 articles Of every
day consumption II s per cent high
er snder the Dinelsy bill than undel
McKinley's law, and II per cent highe,
Than under the WIlson-Gorman bill
Hon. Champ Clark. In Congress-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
Dutch Henry Fined.

Henry Conrad, the North End
caterer and connoisseur in summer
drinks, better known as dutch
Henry" was arrested last Wednesday
afternoon on complaint made by City
Attorney H. L. Woods, charging him
with disturbing the peace.
Dave McKOwan went into Henry'S
resort Wednesday afternoon and pur-
chased a bottle Of malt. He got into
a dispute with Henry over the price
of the beverage and the two were
having a heated conversation when
the city attorney happened to pass
the place and overheard McKOwan
threaten to make complaint to him
charging Henry with selling beer
The city attorney paused a moment
and heard some very uncomplimentary
remarks from Henry, who was I'M
aware of his presence. The discus
sion on the inside became so offensive
that Woods swOre out a complaint a:
charged. Henry was arrested by CITY
Marshal Grinstead and taken before
Acting Police Judge Cox. He plead
guilty and was fined S. and costs
amounting to sl1.75, which he paid.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
The Topeka Storm.

AdditiOnalrepOrts of the hail storm
at Topeka Thursday night show it to
be one of the worst storms of the
kind that ever occurred in the state.
The damage is estimated at $4,000
More than one hundred persons were
injured by the hail, and one mans
skull was crushed. The largest bail
stone measured fifteen inches in cir
conference, fell went through the
roof of the power house of the Topeka
Railway company. The Journal gives
This description of the storm:
There was nothing unusual in the
cloudineSS and no one anticipated the
storm which was to come. But about
oo'clOck a sudden change occurred in
the atmospheric conditions. In the
northwest heavy black clouds COM
menced to form, rapidly rising from
the horizon and extending in every
direction until they hung in a dark.
threatening mass directly over the
city. Below the mass of clouds ex-
tending along the horizon, the sky
was OF a peculiar greenish color; the
general belief was that cyclone was
imminent.
People left their houses and places
OF business to view the threatening
clouds. As the minutes waned the
sky darkened and continuous flashes
OF lightning appeared in the west.
The clouds appeared to gather force
and gradually drop over the city.
They were Of inky blackness. The
still air was broken by a light breeze
and a man looking at the flag on the
state house dome saw that it was
from the northwest. Suddenly the
nag whipped around the pole, and
then unfurled in the opposite direc.
tion, with the wind blowing against
it from the southeast. At the same
time the heavy mass of clouds took on
q rotary movement, and many Of the
people who were watching the forma-
tion Of the storm rushed to their eel
lars expecting tornado. Only for 3
space Of two or three minutes was the
wind from the southeast, as the flac
on the state house dome again whip
ped around the pole and then ono,
blew out the same direction as a,
first, with the wind from the north.
west. Then the storm broke. Their,
was sound as OF brickbats falling.
For a moment the terrible Aproar O
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
By LYMAN NAUGLE.
Was in Cuba.

S. G. Oyerstreet Of Fort Worth,
Tex, was in town last Saturday on
his way to Woodward, OF, to visit
his parents. Mr.. Overstreet was in
Cuba from January last until the 10Th
OF March. He went there from New
Orleans with cOmmisSarY outfit in
the capacity Of clerk. He was in
Havana and the province Of Pinar
del Rio the greater part of his time.
Mr.. OverStreet gave the VOICE
reporter some very interesting in
formation that morning concerning
the struggles OF the Cuban patriots
for liberty. He says the Cubans have
almost undisputed possession of the
islands, and thinks it only compare
lively short time until they gain their
independence. One Of the most
plausible reasons for BELIEVING that
the Spanish will eventually be over
come, is the fact that there are a
great many French and American in
terests in Cuba. OF course these two
governments will not allow their
interests to be jeopardized by any ex-
traOrdinary Spanish war policy.
With this handicap and with the
fact that mortality among the Span
iards in Cuba is very high and rapidly
increasing, the Cubans have much the
better of the situation. They renOt
starving so badly as excitable CORE
spOndents have wired from that
country, but on the other hand, for
the most part are we'll fed and are en-
Toying good health. The "commissary
outfit" with which Mr.. OverStreet
was connected while in Cuba, enjoyed
the liberty of mingling with the
Spaniards and Cubans alike. AmeTi-
can capital backs these COmmiSSary
enterprises. Because of the war in
Cuba the merchants there seized
upon the opportunity to charge ex-
tOrtiOnate rates for provisions If all
kinds, and when American capital
came forward and sent commisSary
outfits down there the people, and es-
peCially the Cuban fighters, were
greatly benefited and furnished the
means Of resisting the policy of
Butcher Weyler in starving them to
death. So that that the CubanS are
in no danger of starvation so long as
they are within reach of provision
supply points, They owe this in a
great measure to the American COM
miSSary expeditions" which are, in a
round about way, doing much toward
helping the Cubans gain their much
loved freedom.
Cuba is unhealthy to northern
born people, and Mr.. Overstreet is
OverIoyed to be back in this country.
he was there little less than three
months, but long enough to contract
the reddish-brOwn complexion that is
peculiar to that Internally miasmatiC
climate.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
~ :, III, are the only pills to take
1000 S PlllS with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Rev. Sims at Topeka.

A special to the Kansas City World
from Topeka says that something Of
a stir has been created in society cir
Giles up there by sensational sermon
on "FrOm the Ball Room to Hell, I"
delivered by Evangelist G. H. Sims,
who is holding revival meetings at the
Christian church.
Rev. Sims asserted that the ball
room was but the ante-rOom to hell,
that dancing is pastime Of the dev-
lis creation, ard that all who indulge
in it are engaged in devoted service
to his satanic majesty.
Women, young or old, he declared,
"whO attend dancing school make
the most serious mistakes Of their
lives. Mothers who send their daugh-
tiers there start them on the road TO
hell. There they come in contact
with the vilest men on earth. Men
who are immoral in every respect;
men who have no respect for women
aud less for virtue. Seven.tenthS Of
the fallen women Of this country have
gone down in degradation from that
kind Of beginning"
The evangelist gave what he con.
sidered the six stages Of dancing:
First-A young girl in Christian
home is sent to dancing school to
attain grace.
Second-She goes away to complete
her education and incidently attends
a few parlor parties.
Third-She engages in wild revelry
at night with her companions, drink
ing wines and eating lunches after
the balls.
Fourth-The next stage is the pub
lie ball followed by more extended
Orgies. There she falls.
Fifth-Fallen, she leaves home am
takes to the dance hall.
Sixth-She is found in the streets
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

Following is the list Of books adOp-
ted by the state textbook. commits
siOners, together with the price and
number Of pages in each: Complete
grammar (HOenshel) 1874 pages, "a
cents; Rand McNally's Introductory
geography, 152 pages, 30 cents; Rand
McNally's grammar school geography
Kansas edition., ia pages, 10 cents;
student speller james s. DeGarmo),
l28 pages, 10 cents; the model arith-
metic, advanced (Belfeld), 346 pages,
IS cents; the model arithmetic, ele-
mentary (Belfeldl, 3O3 pages, Is cents;
text book on algebra (COllins), 4S5
pages, so cents; model school history,
with Kansas addendum Taylor, 432
pages, so cents; Roudebush vertical
writing, 5 cents; new mental arith.
metic CSeymourl, 154 pages, 20 cents;
TillOGsOn's elementary grammar, e
cents; StevensOn's bookkeeping, 4C
cents.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
EIcrHhndY SaHl So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the mos. won
dorful medical discovery Of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and blliousness. Please buy and try q box
Of e. c. G. to-day; 10, q, so cents. Sold and
guaranteed TO cure by all druggists.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

the great balls Of Ice beating on the
roofs and sidewalks and psyements
confused the people, and it was hard
to realize what was happening. In
the business portion Of the city ice
crashing through roofs and skylights
and rafting on the tin and slate
roofs sounded like the progress Of a
mighty battle.
For fifteen minutes the terrific fall
of hail continued. People seeking
shelter were struck by the balls Of ice
and some felled to the ground;
Others had their heads cut open, some
had the flesh on their arms split and
fingers broken, and all who were
struck by the immense hailstones
were painfully bruised.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
Don't Tobacco spi. and Smoke Your Life Away.

DON'T IoDaoc0 SPIT Anu pmOko IUul buo h"Sy'
II you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever. bemade well, strong, magnetic,
full OF new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 1900 cured. Buy No-To-Bac OF your
druggist, under guarantee to cure. SOC or
slO0. Booklet and sample mailed free. Adj.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or Mem \ ork.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01
A SAMPLE TRADE.
Republicans Swapping Free Hides
for Dutinble Sugar.

Republicans Swapping Free hides
for Dutinble Sugar.
"The senate tariff bill as a whole,
says ex-Congressman John De Wit,
Warner, lis a notice to eastern manu-
facturers of what they may hereafter
expect. Hitherto they have considered
protection as sort Of providential ar
'rangement by which they were enabled
to feed on the rest of the country. Now,
like Polonius in Hamlet they are in
vited by "a certain convocation of polite
worms to supper not where they sat
but where they are eaten The manu-
facturers of New England, New York
and Pennsylvania are to take their turn
at being mulcted for the benefit of 9TH
ers, who now control legislation. This
applies especially to the hide schedule"
Cannot the New England senators
secure favorable changes in that SEIZED
ule?"
81 think not. The bill as it stands "
satisfactory to the sugar trust, and
probably cannot be kept 80 except by
the votes controlled by the cattle trust
of the west. Were the New England sen.
ators willing to risk offending the sugar
trust, they could doubtless defeat the
duty on hides, but the fact is that Bos
ton and Providence, in proportion Il
their size, are far more thoroughly sat
urated with sugar trust influence than
is any other part of the country, and
however much Senators Aldrich, Wet
more, Hoar and Lodge may bewail The
fate of their boot and shoe manu-
facturers, there is no prospect whatever
that they will sacrifice the sugar trust
! Interests TO help them"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

Blood purifiers, though gradual, are
radical in their effect. Ayers Sarsa.
parilla is intended as a medicine only
and not stlmulant, excitants. or
beverage. Immediate results may
not always follow its use; but after a
reasonable time, permanent benefit is
certain to be realized.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

Senator Hoar-That (free) hide has
been in the family 25 years, and 1t al
most breaks my heart to part with it.
Senator Allison-You needn't SWIVEL
Keep your old hide if you want to, but
you don't get any sugar (proats). Seef
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

COOL BREEZES
are most appreciated during the
summer, when the hot sun makes
its presence felt.
MILWAUKEE
is situated right on breezy Michi-
gan's shores, aud the tempera,
ture there is usually just right
If you expect to attend the Ma
tional Educational meeting to be
held July go, 1897, you will find
the shortest and most comforta-
BILE line to be the
Santa Fe Route.
W. J. BLACK, G.P.A., Topeka, Kss.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-01

Hoods pills are the only pills to
take with Hoods Sarsaparilla. Cure
all liver ills.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-27
The Blessing of AnaesthetIcs.

With the introduction into general
use of anaesthetics the operations of
surgery have undergone a wonderful
change. People died of diseases rather
than suffer operations conducted on
the old plan. Frequently they died of
shock from the effects of suffering.
The good surgeon worked rapidly, for
dear life as one might say, and limbs
have been amputated in twenty sec
onds, forty being the limit of the eX-
pert. Even with this rapidity the
shock was frequently too great to be
borne. Now all things are done de-
Gently aud in order, There is no pain,
no terror except the apprehension felt
by many persons who dread the effect
OF the anaesthetic employed. If COM
plications arise, it is possible to cure
them. If in the course of the operation
some new discovery is made, there is
no reason why this also should not be
attended to. Indeed, between anti
septics and anaesthetics, sickness has
lost much of it's terror, especially that
form of it which necessitates the sur
geon's knife.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-27
Making the Dear to Hear.

A professor in the University Oh
Geneva has invented an apparatus
which will. it is claimed, enable almost
every deaf person to hear, even those
whose hearing seems to be entirely de-
stroyed. 1t is called the microphono-
graph and magrifies sound on the same
principle as magnlfying lens in
c-eases light. A battery is used with
more or less strength, according to the
patient to be dealt with. Absolute
deafness is said to be extremely rare;
the nerves are dull and unresponsive,
but not totally dead. save in very ex-
treme cases. The inventor OF this ap-
paratus is preparing to exhibit at the
Paris exposition machine by means
of which an audience of ten thousand
deaf persons, il so many can be got
ten together. may listen to lectures and
have the full benefits OF entertainments
of various sorts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-27
whitewash for Poultry House.

A capital whitewash Is made by mix
ing common water lime cement with
sweet, SKINNED milk to the proper
consistency. The following is the gov
eminent whitewash, and fine white
wash it is: Put two pailfuls of boiling
water in a barrel; add one-half of a
bushel OF we'll burned, fresh quicklime
put in quickly one peck of common
salt, dissolved in hot water, and cover
the barrel tightly TO keep in the steam
while the lime is shaking; when the
violent ebullition Is over, stir till we'll
mixed together, and, if necessary, add
more boiling water, so as to have the
mass like thick cream, strain through
sieve or coarse cloth. Make a thin
starch Of three pounds of rice flour and
one pound Of strong glue, having first
soaked the glue in cold water. and to
the latter mixture add two pounds Of
whiting. Add this to the lime wash,
and also sufficient hot water to dilute
to the proper consistency; keep hot
while applying. 1t will require about
six quarts of the mixture to 100 square
feet of surface, and it will last remark
ably well. 1t goes without saying, that
it may be made any color DESIRED
Poultry Keeper.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-07-27

the number to be marketed will be
short, the quality is such as to afford
competition of pretty active kind for
good native cattle in July, when the
range season opens. The feed condi-
lions on the ranges will be quite favor
able, and the rather limited number
that will run on them will have a ten
dency to send them to market in very
superior condition. The range cattle
men have been for the past two or
three years paying large and increas-
ing attention to their breeding. They
don't regard anything as too good for
them, and it would surprise most read
ers if they did but know how large has
been the number Of car loads Of pure
bred bulls that have gone West this
season. This policy is having very
decided effect upon the cattle that will
come from the ranges this season, and,
as each season passes, the impress of
pure blood will become stronger, so
that in the future, in all years when
they have feed on their ranges, they
may be expected TO be strong COMPETE
tors with the market cattle grown on
the farms.