Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-10
THE WEEKS NEWS.
A CONDENSED REVIEW OF GENERAL
EVENTS.
General News.

In the wreck OF Cno EllZdUctH vi DOLL
Francisco 10 lives we're lost. John A.
Williams has been sentenced to 80
years. imprisonment for the Spur Switch
tram robbery. A Memphis student
who was induced to go 'sniping" got
arrested by negroes for chicken thief.
and when released started on a coon"
hunt with pistol. The Mexicans who
killed Deputy Marshal Russell near
Ration, N. NJ, have been tracked by
bloodhounds to an adobe house, where
thew are preparing to fight. Fire in
Evansville, Ind, destroyed the Peoples
opera house and other property worth
100000 Part of the ashes OF Henry
Never of New York will be thrown from
the top of the Statue of Liberty. Joe
Hewett of Sedalia, Mo-, criminally as
saulted Mrs. VIM. McCracken in the
presence of her husband. Under the
new apportionment OF Minnesota the
democrats will elect four congressman,
the republicans two and the ALLIANCE
one. Senator Blackburn of Kentucky,
is said to have written letter in which
he says that he does not believe Cleve-
land eligible as presidential candidate.
Monday at Columbus, Ohio, w. }.
Elliott, of the Sunday Capital, and A.
G. Osborn, of the Sunday World, began
hostilities with revolvers on thronged
thoroughfare. Three or four bystan-
ders were shot, man named Hughes
being killed instantly. p. j. Elliot.
brother of one of the combatants was
also hit. Osborn died of his wounds
few hours after the fight. The Elliotts
are locked up, and are said to be in dan
ger of mob violence. Scott Bishop, a
negro. accused of assault and robbery,
was taken from the officers at Black
stone, Va, Monday morning and hanged
to tree.
Butter on the Elgin board of trade
was in brisk demand Monday. Nine
thousand four hundred and eighty
pounds sold at 90 cents; $40 pounds at
29A cents, and $500 pounds at 29s cents.
A year ago prices were 263 and 27t
cents.
Fire Monday damaged the Kentucky
State A. and M. College at Lexington
$35, 900, with one hundred and
ten thousand dollars insurance. Monday
the body of Prof Bancroft, professor of
rhetoric and English literature at
Brown University at Providence, r. l.,
who disappeared Dec. s, was found in
Dyer's Pond at CranstOn.
A purse of $500 is offered for fin
ish fight between Hall and Fitzsim-
mons at San Antonio, Texas, next
October. Louis Belts was arrested at
ST. Louis Tuesday for stealing dia-
mOnds and jewelry worth several thous-
and dollars from Minneapolis Mimi
firm. Senator Wilson, of Maryland,
died at Washington Friday night. The
condition of Senator Hearst is not ma
terially changed. About 4:l5 o'clock
Monday morning a meteor apparently
the size of full moon fell near Madi-
son, Me-, bursting when near the earth
with report like heavy thunder and
shaking houses as though by an earth
quake. The meteor was visible all over
the state. Colonel Richard F. O'Blirne,
colonel of the twenty-first infantry, U.
S. A., died Tuesday in New York. A
movement is on foot at st. Louis to
erect an equestrian statue of General
Sherman on tho north steps OF the city
hall. Tuesday the Geyser oil company,
one OF the most aggressive opponents of
the Standard oil company in Ohio, went
under the complete control of the latter.
The price paid for seven-sixteenths of
the stock was 81, 100000.
Something over 200 persons left the
vicinity of Bloomington, ILL.,, Tuesday,
in search OF homes in Iowa and Nebraska
The aged mother of Della w. Norton,
the Christian Scientist, died in Min
neapolis, after having received the
Christian Science treatment. In the
suit OF Marshall, Field g. Co., question
ing the validity of the Mckinley law,
Judge Blodgett affirmed its validity so
as to get the case before the United
Cfotao S,,Droroa Court for q final deci-