Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-03-31
GENERAL NEWS.
THE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEh
GATHERED, CONDENSED AND All
RANGED FOR READING HASTILY.
The Recent Occurrences.

SIluS .AuOUIcI Wv CtOoO LII oiAS 49,
near New Orleans adds to the danger
of flood. One hundred Thousand
tons of rock were torn out OF ledge OF
Lookout mountain by a blast. For the
first time in eight years the govern
ment refused to allow gold bars to be
taken Cor export The jury at Liberty
Mo-, returned a verdict for the delen-
dants il. the suits against the Lathrop
crusaders. Judge Mari OF New
Orleans charged the grand jury to IN
yes igate the killing of the Italian prls-
olers. -. Chicago police made the Anar-
chists haul down the red flag. while
thew were celebrating the Paris Com
mune Sunday :. Tennyson has written
the world S fair officials that he cannon
promise them song, as they request
ed. to be read at the opening OF the 1alr.
The ColOred Press association as
,embled in Cincinnati. The president,
in his annual address, deplored the de-
feat of the Lodge and Blair bills.
Editor DeYoung has Withdrawn from
the race for senator in California III
favor of eX-COngressman FELTON,. sen
sational charges of bribery in Feltons
interest have been made, "A motion
for a new trial for Patrick OSulllvan,
now serving a life sentence In the JOllel
penitentiary for the murder OF Or.
Crouin, was submitted to the Illinois
supreme court. The governor OF All
IONA signed bill exempting from taxa
ton for twenty years all railroads built
within three years. The director OF
the mint refused Heidelback, lckle.
heimer 81 Co.. and Lazard Freres, OF
New York, 81, 100000 in gold bars Tor
export. This is the first time in eight
years that the government has refused
TO allow gold bars to be taken for eX-
port :. I. Ex-Secretary Bayard has eX,
pressed the opinion that the United
States is not liable for indemnity. or
PREPARATION in the case OF the Italians
lvnched at New Orleans. .Comman-
der-in-C Chief Veasey issued orders for
the observation of the silver annlver,
5ary of the organization OF the Grand
Army of the Republic. 1t was an,
nOunced that the Sherman statute luna
at New York ammounted to S3S, $50.
The California Athletic club will
give Mitchell. the pugilist, $1,000 for
his defeat of La Blanche. Two men
we're blown to atoms and one was fatally
and others seriously hurt by mine eX-
Dlosion near Ashland. Pa. AT New
York 81 100000 in gold bars was
ordered for shipment to Europe.
Proceedings TO forfeit the charter oil
the Standard Oil Company have been
begun in New York. The Nebraska
supreme court has decided that studies
are elective with the parent and not the
teacher . Rich ancient mines. togeth'
en- with interesting archaeological re-
mains. have been discovered 70 miles
from Albuquerque. n. NJ. Several
labor leaders have be9n arrested on
charge of conspiracy to eXtOrt money
from Rochester IN Y clothing manu-
facturers. the California legislature
has appointed COMMITTEES to investigate
the runors of bribe"y in connection
with the senatorial contest. The peo-
pie whose friends are buried in the Gem
etery where the remains OfCrawfOrd, the
murderer, are inferred, near Decatur.
Ill. have compelled the removal OF his
body. Rhode Island democrats nomi-
mated the old state ticket. The levee
at Sundower Landing, Miss, broke. and
the crevasse is widening Gen. Miles
has been granted 30 days leave OF
absence and is going TO Mexico. Gen.
John w. Fuller, who distinguished
himself at Atlanta on the federal side,
died in Toledo. . . In the King-Poston
affray at Memphis the coroner rendered
a verict holding King for premeditated
murder.
BY King Kalakaua's will, Princess
Liliokalani is declared successor to the
Hawaiian tn one. :. Colonel James
Rody Sneed a noted southern leader.
died in Chic,.,o, aged 10. 1t is stated
that Cong e sman Payson will succeed
Judge Groh as commissioner of the gen
eral land office. ID. Congressman Spring