Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-07
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF
THE OCCURRENCES OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABROAD-THE
PITH OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

Earthquake shocks were felt at Pasa-
dena and San Fernando, Cal.
The Ohio democratic convention will
be held in Cleveland July IA and Is.
A statue in honor of Henry Ward
Beecher was unveiled in City Hall
Park, Brooklyn.
A lump of metal weighing two pounds
resembling gold was found by farm
hand near huntsville. Ind.
j. w. Hood of Frankfort, Ind. has
turned blue from the effects of medi-
cines taken for epileptic fits.
The Parnelite ENJOYS now in this
country will stick to their leader. Par
nell is coming over in August.
An attempt to rob Burlington, Cedar
by letter being wrongly addressed.
Joseph Feys, an insane Swiss, threw
his child overheard from La Bretagne
in midocean. The little one was lost
John Mazne aged Is, is under arrest
at Montrose, Mimi, for outraging and
numbering 13-year-old Annie Brunder.
The Michigan senate refused to
reduce the appropriation for the
worlds fair from $125,0O0 to 100000.
The Kickapoo Indians have again re-
peated their refusal to take lands in
severalty..
Colonel j. j. Coppinger, Twenty
third Infantry, Secretary Blaine's SON.
in-law, took out final citizenship pa
pers.
An investigation of the affairs of the
New York life insurance company by
the state insurance department was be-
gun in New York.
A tornado in southern Kentucky de-
stroyed about fifty farm houses and did
great damage to crops.
William Pinkerton of st. Joe, Tex,
made improper proposals to his aunt
and then shot his uncle dead when she
told OF it,
Helen Bartlett of Peoria, ILL.,, went to
Atchison to marry Hiram J. Ward, but
found that he had married another
woman the day before.
At Troy, Wis, Mrs John Larson,
during ct of insanity, drowned her
three children. The woman imagines
that devils are pursuing her.
The Indiana supreme court decided
that German must be taught in the pub
lie schools whenever the requisite num-
Der of residents petition.
Mrs. John Freeman of New York was
operated on in laundering way by
young hospital surgeons and hurried off
to another hospital to die.
William Albright and Winslow Car
Isle have found the famous "lost vein"
near Boulder, Colo. 1t runs as high as
$25, 900 per ton in silver glace.
A constable with $3.50 Judgment
against the Missouri Pacific railroad
held an express train two hours until
the debt was paid in Colorado.
john Cross, in iiail at Macon, Mo-. for
the murder of Peter Matson, with three
others, has confessed the killing, but
says it was done in self-defence.
The Harvard Annex, the society for
the collegiate instruction OF women, had
its commencement Friday. Nine
young women received diplomas.
Governor Boies of Iowa was renomi-
mated by the democratic state conven-
ton at Ottumwa. Prohibition was de-
nounced and free silver demanded.
Conductor Irish and brakeman Tew-
ant, of the freight train in Illinois Cen
trail collision in Mississippi, have been
held for manslaghter by the coroner's
jury.
Bishop Chartard of New Albany, Ind,
communicated Catholic society for
giving a Sunday excursion where beer
and dancing were among the attrac-
tions.
Lieutenant Brett, now in Arizona,
has telegraphed to army headquarters
at Los Angels. CAL, for strong force
to suppress threatened Indian out
break.
The Cook county treasurer has been
requested to turn over to the city of
Chicago all the city's funds in his pos
session. A dispute exists as to the