Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-08-25
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings of a Week
DOMESTIC.

William Armstrong, who it is said is
the Oldest living Odd Fellow, died at
Salem, Oregon, aged 80 years. He was
initiated into the order at Buffalo, n.
Y, in 1884.
Heavy rains in Kansas have improved
the outlook for large corn crop.
1t is reported that 10000 negroes are
to cOlOnize in California with the assist
ance of Senator Stanford.
Sixty days after the next national
democratic convention is the time
agreed upon by the executive committee
OF the national association OF democrat
ic clubs, for that organization to meet.
Creditors of Howell, Jewett & Co., at
Atchison, have organized the Western
Lumber Company. and absorbed GER
tain western yards for their claims TAX
ing stock pro rata.
BY collision on the Grand Rapids
and Indiana railway Tuesday the engin-
eer OF a passenger train was crushed to
death and his fireman fatally injured.
jealousy caused a woman to attempt
the destruction of the family and resi-
dence of DR.. r. M. Juvenal, in Kansas
City, Kan, with dynamite, but beyond
slight injury to the doctors wife, no
one was injured though the building
was greatly damaged.
Reports of the hay crop from the
counties of twelve states show that
while in some states it is large. in others
the yield is light. The best yield is in
the states of Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska.
Several citizens of Morgantown, Ia,
have been arrested for destroying sa-
10 loo fo11
1t is probable that the Peoples Saw
ings bank, OF Atchison, Kans., which
failed last winter will pay its creditors
in full.
Secretary of State William Higgins,
of Kansas, Tuesday, wrote a letter to
the New York Voice, in which he ad-
vocated the removal OF prohibition in
Kansas from politics, as he considers
prohibition fixture" in Kansas.
Senator Palmer addressed a great
crowd at Moberly, Mo.
The Chickasaw nation is said to be
literally overrun with horse thieves.
The first government experiment with
explosions produced rain in Texas.
Sedgwick county, Kansas, offers to
help the grasshopper sufferers in Ohio.
Chas. P. Windus of Minneapolis, ran
away with two married women at once.
A report on the Texas cotton crop
prepared by the Galvastan-D Dallas News
shows the acreage to be 10 per cent.
larger and the condition 10 per cent.
better than last season.
The body of Miss Lulu Bowling of
Nashville was found in the woods near
Bradyville. Tenn. The young woman
had been bitten in several places by
rattle snake as was shown by discolored
places on her body. Coled by the side
of the body was the reptile.
Colored people held picnic at Hunts
grove near Cincinnati. There was
plenty of whisky and numerous razors
and pistols. Two colored women
fought about man until both fell ex
hausted from loss of blood. A ring of
of spectators witnessed the fight The
men then became excited and INDUCED
in a free-for-all fight and three were
seriously injured.
Mauris Tabaschneider, 5 years old,
fell from the fifth floor of New York
tenement, but his name struck the
ground first and he received only
slight bruises.
Fourteen persons were crushed to
death on an excursion barge in Cold
Spring Harbor, Long Island. by the
hurricane deck, which was blown in
during Thunder storm.
James Russell Lowell, poet and dip
Tomato, died at Cambridge, Mass.
George Jones. ediror of the New York
Times. died at Poland Springs, Me-,
aged 80.
President Harrison has instructed the
secretary of state and the secretary OF
the navy to keep him informed as to de-
velopements in the seizure of the Pa
cific Mail steamship, City OF Panama,