Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-30

with an accident.
The senate OF the National Union met
at Milwaukee. A membership of 90.
425 was reported, the increase for the
past wear reaching 1921. The years
disbursements from the benefit fund ag.
gregated $4,000.
Fire broke out in the city hospital
at Cincinnati. The promptness and
haroism Of the nurses prevented loss
OF life. The flames were soon subdued.
Lightning struck an outbuilding in
which ~ picnic party had taken refuge
near ST. Louis, killing a girl aged Il
and injuring three others.
Secretary Mohler. of the agricultural
bureau, said that the reports abouta big
wheat crop in Kansas has been greatly
exaggerated. He says there will be
threefourths of an average crop.
Cogar, Pas & Co.'S hemp haclling es
tablishment at Danville, KY, burned.
The loss is $4,000, and the insurance
$34. 900. 80
State Comptroller Colgan of Califor-
MIA. denies the rrmor that he would
refuse to sigr the warrant for the $500,
60 appropriated for the worlds fair.
Father Mollinger, the priest'physi
clan, treated SOC individuals at Mount
Troy, Pa, in one day last week.
A rumOr is in circulation in London
to the effect that Lord Brooke has sued
for divorce, naming the prince of. Wales
Us correspondent
Washington G. Wolfe, the oldest
type setter in the country, drowned
hiins in the Muskingum river neal
Coshocton, O. He was s. years old.
The nineteenth annual meeting of the
Supreme Lodge A. O. U. w. met al
Detroit, Mich.
Owing to public opposition to the
measure the senate of the Argentine
Republic has decided to reconsider the
passage of the bill to suspend gold pay
ments for the period of six months.
Tho secretary of the treasury has
amended the general regulations o.
1884 relative to the executions Of bonds
so as TO provide that "a corporation
other than trust company can in nc
event be accepted as q security" ae
The brig Sea Wait left Apia, Samoa
April IS with cargo of wreckage from
the vessels sunk in the hurricane Of
March. 1899, and the bodies of twenty
American sailors. drowned at that time
Their remains will be inferred at Mare
Island, Cal.
Geronimo. the Mexican bandit, was
killed near Tucson, Ariz., by a sheriff's
posse.
Fire was discovered among cotton in
he hold of the City of Richmond while
1t sea in time to eXtinguish it.
One hundred and sixty Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias contributed
their flesh to save A. G. Fulkerson, of
Kansas City.
The Ohio republicans met at Column
bus. and nominated Hon. William Nc
Hinley. jr., for governor, on Mckinley
tariff platform.
Twenty-Five thousand mill operatives
in Fall River, Mass, may be asked to
accept a 10 per cent. reduction.
Eight men were injured by an eX-
piosion OF gas in Yonkers, N. Y, caused
by drunken laborer dropping large
stone on a gas main.
A tie placed ON the bridge over Coon
River, To-, caused a wreck in which two
persons were killed and a score injured.
A discharged employe is suspected.
Robert Marley, collector for David
Dudley Field, the New York lawyer,
disappeared Monday and found two days
afterward, deaf and dumb, having, as
he says, been drugged and robbed.
The Westmorelands are under arrest
at Fort Smith, Ark, for wholesale MUIR
ders on the Bender plan.
r. w. Durham & Co., Chicago COM
mission merchants, failed for 5000, 600.
A customer has sued them for $500, 600
damages, alleging fraud
Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia is en-
deavoring to bring about a reorganiza-
ton of Philadelphia's financial methods
so as to make dedication imnOSsihle