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

Oi0d NiNN oh l. dlios
Mckinley is working on his inaug.
ural address at Hanna's home.
Governor-elect Leedy has decided
not 10 abolish the police boards.
A Texas editor has had a man ar.
rested on charge of buncoing him.
The building of the Rich Hill MO-
Mining Review was destroyed by fire.
Senator Plltt will present a minor.
ity report opposing Pettigrew's free
homes bill.
The tilibustering steamer, "Commo-
dore," is said to be lost off the coast
Of Florida.
Heavy snow and sleet storms accom-
panied by a severe cold wave are rag
ing in Iowa.
Sherman, it now seems probable,
will be secretary of state in McKin.
ley's cabinet.
General Daniel E. SickIes is report
ed no better. lie is suffering with
neurasthenia.
Nashville, Tenn, had a big fire Sat-
urday, destroying millions of dollars
worth of property.
The GaSconade river is rising II
inches an hour. Much property has
been washed away.
Senator WOlcOtt's trip to Europe in
the interest Of bimetallism hasn't
caused any noticeable appreciation in
the price of silver.
Miss Emma Spreckles, daughter of
the sugar king, eloped and was
secretly married at San Jose, CAL,
last weeF, to a broker.
The Chicago footpads who held up
man in an elevator, secured several
hundred dollars. We had suspected
that they got quite a lift.
An instance of bank cashier com.
hitting suicide before he succeed in
wrecking his institution, would be a
pleasing innovation in financial
circles.
As against the Three Friends of
Cuba, and Cleveland, Olrey and Car.
Isle, the three friends" of Spain,
we'll load our ammunition on the
former.
The Cereal Miller'S association has
just been organized in Chicago. This
is the polite English for Dat Meal
Trust, and besides it evades the ban
OF the law.
The death of the leap year does not
concern the Kansas girl. No true
Kansas maiden will allow an almanac
to stand in her way when she wants t
get married.
The theory that the human race il
advancing in intelligence received a
terrible setback by the news that an
Illinois white girl ran away to marry
a negro prize fighter.
The "Hindoo" and "Creole" steam
ers cOllided at the entrance to TIE
main ship canal at New York, Satur'
day evening, Both steamers were
considerably damaged.
The London Globe refers to oul
senators as amusing lunatics." The
Globe is probably correct, but we are
not In humor to have Englishmen
talk that way about US.
The Kansas City newspapers still
record street car accidents as news.
An instance where a street car uD
there failed, to kill somebody would
be of far newsier import.
1t may be true that congress has no
power to recognize Cuba, but the
United States certainly has the power
to send few men-of-war down there
and wipe out Moro castle.
A Kentucky man has come forward
with a scheme for increasing the
number of congressman. The vigil
lance committee over there seems to
have caught the wrong man.
A special dispatch from Warsaw,
England, says painful sensation has
been caused there by the alleged bur
ial alive of prominent society WON.
an, the Countess Helen Potocka.
The news that there is a big row on
between the Republican National
committee and the Kansas politicians,
cannot but be of deep interest to the
pretenders to the Wellington post
Office.
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