Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-10-20
Of the Worlds Happenings for
Week, in Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In
divIduaIs-The General Course of
Events-The Condition of FL
nances and Crops.

being Killed OuJrlSnI, duu Ih-oo i"o''A
ly injured.
The dead body of a newly born infant
was found Saturday at the door OF Dr.
H. Newland. ST. Louis.
Jerry johnson, a 15-year-old safe
blower has escaped from the southern
Illinois penitentiary.
Benjamin johnson was ground 10
pieces at the Central dlstlllery. ST.
Louis, where he worked.
Parnell's physicians refuse, for the
present, to make public the cause OF
his death.
Duluth, Mimi, still reports almost
unprecedented receipts of wheat.
Luther Darcy, the we'll known sprint
err. has retired
Prairie fires are reported as raging in
some portions of South Dakota, doing
great damage.
Sir John Pope Hennessey, member OF
parliament from Kilkenny, is dead he
defeated Scully, the Parnell candidate.
for the position.
Henry M. Stanley has arrived in Lon
don.
Grand Rapids, Mich, suffered aSloo,-
600 fire.
A daring Jail escape occurred at Gar
rolton, Texas. Seven prisoners, con-
victed of various crimes, gained their
liberty, and have not yet been recap
tured.
Forty per cent of the wheat crop IN
North Dakota is said to be in the shock
and large proportion is sprouting, so
that it will be worthless
William Cansfeld confessed at New
h n
ed the train at New Palestine, ONO, d
few days ago In which three men were
killed.
Governor Campbell of Ohio is indig-
nant over an article copied by the GIN
cinnati Commercial Gazette from the
New York Recorder, relative his finan-
cial condition. The governor tele-
graphed his attorneys in New York TO
demand retraction from the Recorder.
and if it is refused to bring suit Tor
libel. A retraction was also demanded
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazett
The trial of DR.. Briggs on the charge
of heresy is set for Tuesday, Nov. q, IN
the Scotch Pres oy terian church, at New
York. -,
Rivers in Oklahoma, swollen by the
heavy rains, have destroyed the prop
ertv of ''boomers" and washed out rail-
roads.
Fire at Ottawa Ont, Tuesday de-
stroyed Barkerville Brothers wholesale
grocery house and Kennedy Mcdonald
agricultural warehouse. The loss. $780,
GOO, is covered by insurance.
More than so per cent of the claim OF
the Union Pacific creditors have been
e., 4 u hnndS
Charles F. Emerson died at Oregon,
ILL.,, Tuesday, aged 73 years. -,
Nine. Zazel, a performer wlth acir-
Gus, fell from wire, distance OF nlty
feet at Las Vegas, NM. NO pones
we're broken, but she was badly shaken
A heroic equestrian statue OF General
U. S. Grant was unveiled in Lincoln
park. Chicago, Thursday.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, the heroine
of an around-the-worl trip, was we'd
ded in New York.
James G.. Blaine, jr.. pleads poverty
in answer TO his wife's petition Tor d.
vorce in Sioux Falls, S. d.
Hogs are dying of a strange disease IN
the country northwest of Goshen, Ind.
The animals are usually sick two or
three weeks before dying.
At Durango, Col, Baron Nordensk,,
iold, the Swedish nobleman charged
with Decorating ancient Indian graves,
was dismissed.
General Franz Sigel delivered an ad-
dress at the German day celebration al
Fort Madison, Iowa.
Charges of defamation of character
were made in the Brotherhood of Train
men convention at Galesburg, Ill,
against Secretary Sheahan by Editor
Rogers of the Trainmen's Journal.
Bishops Esher and Bowman OF the