Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-05-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
jamestown elected woman mayor.

There will be G. A. X. fair at Lew
enworth on May 18th and 9Th.
Grass is ahead of time in this state
and 1t already makes good pasturage-
The mayor and council of Pittsburg
have ordered the board awning to go.
Atchison has an extra justice of the
peace and doesn't know what to do with
him.
Trego county is shipping large guam
titles of chalk and yellow ochre to
Chicago.
Farmers around Lawrence complain
that much rain has retarded spring
planting.
Ten COWS belonging to one man were
killed by lightning in Brown county ono
day last week.
Hog cholera has killed hundreds OF
swine recently in Chautauqua county,
and is still raging.
All Hee, Topeka laundryman, has
gone to Canton, China, to convert his
heather countrymen.
Henry Kirchoff, aged 70, fell head
long over stair rail at independence
and crushed his skull.
A. T. Mitchell and A. Schwager have
been appointed postmasters at Fremont
and Odin, respectively.
Charles Scott, a colored boy OF
Atchison, tried to pull a gun out of
boat by the muzzle and was shot and
killed.
Durkee & Stout, grain dealers and
shippers at Fort Scott have made. it ID
reported, $4,000 in corn during the
past year.
Ex-Congressman Peters has been
nominated for governor by the King
man Courier and Endorsed by the
Hutchinson News.
The old residence of Jim Lane at Law
renee was destroyed by fire on Saturday
last 1t was one of the historic land
marks of that historic city.
Over 100 farmers in Saline county
will cultivate an eighth of an acre OF
sugar beets this season under the in
struction of DR.. Scheidtweilder.
According 10 the Hutchinson News
Mrs. Mary A. Humphrey of Junction
City, author of "The Squatter Sover~
eign," is engaged in writing another
novel.
Burt Beck, school teacher from
Sprague, Neb., was arrested at Topeka,
KS. With him was school girl with
whom he had eloped, leaving wife aud
three children.
A big revival meeting attended
nightly by 900 to 700 people, is being
held at Emporia under the leadership
of Evangelist Frame and wife, assisted
by all the ministers of the city.
a@ A drowned team of horses belonging
to Andrew Brainerd of Eureka, have
been found in Otter creek, ten miles
from that town and it is believed that
Mr.. Brainerd. too, has been drowned.
Professor A. r. Marsh, who formerly
occupied the chair of English literature
at the Kansas state university, and who
has been in Europe for two years, will
be present at the annual commence
ment of the university at Lawrence in
June.
Thomas Johnson and Mrs. Waddle,
both married and living in the same
neighborhood in LeavenwOrth, eloped
from there but were discovered ten
days afterwards at Sedalia, Mo-, where
they were living as man and wife, and
arrested.
Topeka Lance: The state papers that
have been blaming the women of Topc-
ka for electing a democratic mayor.
will have to drop the charge. On the
female vote in Topeka, Judge Quinton,
the republican nominee, received ma
jority of PIG. =
The Bandana club of Leavenworth
was visited by Congressman Crisp of
Georgia, breckenridge of Arkansas,
Terry OF Arkansas, Bryan of Nebraska,
Hon. John G. Tarsney and wife, Mr.
and Mrs. S. z. Griffith. Mr.. and Mrs.