Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
but what the senate Will do with it Is
the question.
General.

adjacent parts of Now York state and
.ensylvania and throughout New Eng
and breaking down trees and telegraph
noies and blOckading traffic. Wires in
the large cities falling over each other
made travel very dangerous and a num-
Der of persons were killed by contact
with broken ends of electric wires.
Some slight fires resulted. All travel
was stopped for some time and principal
streets were impossible. Harris A.
Smiler, the New York wife murderer,
was sentenced to death by electricution
in March.
Tuesday Jan. Collision between a
passenger and special train occurred at
Florence, Kansas. The special was fill
ed NTH soldiers returning from the
seat of the indian troubles. Two sol
diers were killed and II wounded. One
woman accompanying the soldiers was
also wounded. William f. Villas (Dem.)
was elected by Wisconsin legislature to
succeed John G. Spooner in the U. >.
senate. BY an explosion OF fire damp
in the Mammoth Mine Scottdale, Penn.
ITO miners were killed, only one man
escaped unhurt. The Rock Falls pa
per mills Sterling, Illinois, were blown
up by an explosion and five or six men
killed. Charles Miller a lad of 16 was
seutencod to be hanged on March 20,
BY the Cheyenne, WyO. court, for the
murder of two fellow tramps in box
car. Warrants were issued for the ar
rest of Frank Smallwood and Charles
Potter for conspiracy to murder Franks
father. The Illinois legislature is in
dead lock over the election of U. S. sem
ator, the three alliance members hold
ing the balance of power.
Wednesday, JAM, 28-The Farmers
alliance convention met in Omaha to
consider the revision of the alliance con-
stitution. An amendment to make la
borers eligible to membership was de-
feated. B. F. Lean, eX-trustee OF COT
fee county Tenn. is short $4,000 in his
accounts. Exl Gov. A. Crawford OF
Kansas died at Grand Junction, Colo.
James Horton, tramp arrested at
Tama, Iowa. Tuesday, confessed the
murder OF Conductor James O'Neil at
Long Point few days ago. A fifty
foot vein OF bituminous coal OF good
quality was struck 200 feet below the
surface eight miles northwest OF Le-
Mars, Iowa, Tuesday. Two men were
burned to death in lodging house at
San Jose, Cal, Tuesday. morning.
The international convention of Press
Club delegates began it's session at
Pittsburg Tuesday, and OF the sixty del,
egates present twelve represented
women's clubs; Mr.. Foster Coates, OF
New York, was elected president. The
wife of ex-Sheriff Flack, of New York
City, died Tuesday, aged 60. She be-
came sick on the discovery that her
husband had entered into a conspiracy
to secure divorce. The supreme
court of Missouri has fixed March 9th
as the date of the execution of John
Oscar burlington, the murderer OF
Sheriff Cranmer at Boonville, Mo.
Bruce Douglas aged %, who claimed to
be the nephew of Robert Percy Douglas.
the fourth earl of that name, died at
San Francisco Tuesday, the result OF
destination. The eleventh annual
meeting of the National Farmers ALI
ance convened at Omaha. Neb.. Tues,
day;
Thursday, Jan. 29-The National
Farmers Alliance elected officers at
Omaha. F. A. Mann, of Dinden Neb.
in a fit of passion, sawed off the leg OF a
COW. The total number of deaths in the
Mammoth mine explosion in Pennsylva-
mia was 1870. The first public test of the
Mount Carmel I'll. air ship was some
what of fizzle at Chicago. A rousing
meeting was held at Arkansas City, Kas.,
in the interest of opening the Cherokee
Outlet TO settlement. At Russeilvllle
ILL.,. James Graham killed Doane John.
son, the latter having won and married.
the girl Graham wa&n :,.o3. IN, 1s: sneeoH
her paramour and negro murderer, were