Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-21
GENERAL NEWS.
1 CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF
THE OCCURANCES OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABROAD-THE
PITa OF TIE DISPATCHES.
Dom stic.

Trustees of the will of tho late Will
liam Ogden. of Chicago, in accordance
with his last wish, have decided to de-
vote ! million dollars to educational
purposes. Chicago university will re-
ceive that amount for the establishment
of graduate scientific school.
| The Paris chamber of commerce
strongly recommends manufacturers to
exhibit goods at the Worlds fair.
The clause in the new constitution of
Mississippi requiring voters to register
four months before election is giving
satisfaction.
The pope has decided to create in
Mexico three archbishoprics to be
called Linars, Oxaca and Durango, and
five bishoprics, Cuernavaca, Saltillo,
Tehuantepec and chihuahua.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
pointed as trustees for town site entries
OF lands in Oklahoma John Foster, W..
S. Robertson end A. G. Smell all of
Guthrie, to be known as board No. 6.
Ex-senator Blair, as United States
minister to Chira, has drawn but one
month sa airy since his appointment. He
is not now drawing salary as minister.
Senior Romero, the minister from
Mexico, denies that Mexico is ripe for
revolt against the present govern
ment.
A. L. Donthett. cashier of the Porter
Donthett company, buttermakers at
Pittsburg, has been arrested on the
charge of embezzling $50, 900 from the
company and falsifying the books.
Complaints have been made of cattle
trespasses on the Cherokee strip.
Advices from Hayti report indications
of an uprising against President Hip
polyte.
Min Shepherd has escaped from the
Bentonville, Ark, jail. He was await
ing trial for killing policeman Ed.
Bright, of Pierce City, Mo-, and con-
stable Dallen of Arkansas.
John G. Robinson of Kingston, Ind,
and David S. Wright, of Salem, Ind,
have been appointed special agents by
the president to allott lands in severalty
to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians,
Governor Russell has appointed as
the board of Worlds fair managers Of
Massachusetts,, Alice Freeman Palmer,
Anna l.. DAVIS, John w. Corcoran, Ed
ward Burnett and E. Clarence HOvey.
George McFarlane, halt owner OF the
Waikapee plantation, has brought suit
against the Hawaiian Commercial COM
pany, of which Claus Spreckles is presi-
dent, for 81, 900, 900 damages for taking
forcible and illegal possession of the
plantation.
The Harvey Peak tin mining COM
pany is now sinking five shafts near
Rapid City, S. D.
United States treasurer Nebecker
denies a report that he is to resign.
The Egyptian cotton crop is in a
fiourishing condition. Plenty of rain
has fallen.
American missionaries are alleged to
have been driven from Ponope, on the
Caroline Islands, by Spanish forces.
Gophers and squirrels are seriously
damaging the wheat crop in Washing
ton.
p. w. Ryan. elected to succeed Con-
gresham Wade, of Missouri, was Sc
verely hurt by fall on a defective
sidewalk at Springfield, Mo.
AT Baton Rouge. La, cyclone de-
molished one OF the penitentiary build
ing, killing ten convicts and injuring
thirty-five, five fatally. In the city tif-
tv houses were unroofed and a number
of people hurt Eleven persons have
died from injuries received and more
deaths are expected.
The right of the woman to vote will
be passed upon by the Supreme Court
of the United States in October.