Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-08-18

homeward bound. The Thetis so far
has warned forty schooners to leave the
sea-
Walter Ellis, young clerk of the
Alabama IL Southern railway was ar
aested at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday,
charged with burning the freight depot
last Thursday. The depot blew up with
fifty kegs of powder. Ellis is supposed
to be short in his accounts.
The secretary of the treasury has
asked the attorney general for an opin-
ion in the claim of Mrs. Booke for sala-
ry as secretary of the board of lady man.
ayers of the worlds fair, with view of
determining the question as to whether
Miss Phoebe COuzins has been legally
deposed from the Office in question, and
also whether the matter of compensation
shall be kept open until Miss Couzin's
appeal shall have been judicially de-
cided.
The United States treasury continues
the daily shipment of small notes to the
west tor use in moving the crops. The
total amount so far sent is 40 million
dollars.
Hamilton Fish. one of the three sur
four surviving governors, as well as one
of the five surviving United Senators
from New York, celebrated the SID an
niversary of his birth at Glenclitf, New
York.
John Grayson, who died at La
Grange, Ark, a few days ago, confessed
before his death to having murdered
three men during his lifetime.
Daniel Boone Linville, grandson of
Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer and
Indian fighter, died at Wheeling, Mo-,
Tuesday night. He was SO years old.
1t is reported that Prince Ferdinand
of Bulgaria. will marry Archduchess
Stephanie, the widow Of Crown Prince
Rudolph OF Austria who committed
suicide.
In the Davis will case at Butte,
Mont, argument on the admission of
expert testimony on handwriting has
closed, and Judge Mediation has de-
cided to exclude expert testimony.
Young King Alexander of Servia,
aged ID, is said to have made favora-
BILE impression upon the czar, and there
is a possibility that he will in the future
become the cars son-in-law.
While taking his seat at breakfast at
Mrs. Guthrie's boarding house at
Passaic. N. j.. Tuesday morning,
William Anderson remarked that he
felt dali He had hardly spoken when
he fell from his chair dead.
Miss Nellie Boise. daughter OF the
circuit Judge of Salem, Wash, and
William Steel. son of Postmaster Steel,
of Portland were drowned while bath
ing at Long BeacN, Wash, yesterday.
They got beyond their depth and were
carried out by the undertOw. The
bodies were recovered.
H. E. Simpson, a clever swindler, was
arrested Tuesday night at Brooklyn.
Simpsons scheme was to order goods
which he disposed OF in some unknown
way. He is said to have swindled John
F. Douglass & Co. of New Haven out OF
q $1,000 worth of goods. Several New
York firms are also losers.
The council of Concord. n. H Tues
day night authorized the governor to
issue a proclamation officially recon-
mcnding that the Legislature pay $500
for the arrest of the murderer OF Chris
tie Warden and $1,000 for the capture
OF Murderer Macarthur, who escaped
recently from the Dover jail
Congressman John Davis of Junction
City. Kansas. has received a letter from
his son, Walter w. Davis, assistant
astronomer in the McGrath party, en-
gagged in the survey of the Alaskan
boundary on the upper Yukon river for
the United States coast and gcodetic.
survey. This is the first letter received
from the party since September, 1890.