Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-14
GENERAL NEWS.
THE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
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Domestic.

AT Falkland, Ind, a man named
Baker was whipped py Whitecaps be-
cause he had been logging the foot
steps of men by whose testimony he had
been convicted of murder two years ago
He was ordered to leave the county. -.
The supreme court of the United States
refused to grant the application for q
writ of habeas corpus in the case OF
Dick Duncan, sentenced to be hanged
for murder in Texas. Duncan's plea
was that the penal code of Texas had
never been legally enacted. If this
hypothesis had beer sustained by the
court it would have resulted in the re-
lease of every prisoner in the state.
Butter was dull and declined 2 cents
on the Elgin board of trade Monday.
Sales were at q and % cents, against
% and % cents ayear ago.
The visible supply of grain Saturday,
as reported by the New York Produce
Exchange. was: Wheat, %, 745, 269
bushels decrease of 266,976 bushels:
and corn, 1888, O42 bushels, an increase
Of 18, 1853 bushels.
Last week news reached body oil
Italians, working in remote region OF
West Virginia, of the New Orleans
lynching. When their foreman, a
Scotchman named McCauley. commend
ed the work of the Crescent City regu
lators the Italians killed him and mutt
lated the body. . "A reward OF So, 1000 is
offered for the conviction OF the persons
who started the report that the Me-
chanics and Traders bank of New York
city was insolvent. Coke strikers in
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania,
raided the H. G. Prick plant and did
considerable damage. Gov. Pattison
has refused to send troops. Silver has
been found near Peoria, Ill. kansas
City is seriously affected by la grippe.
80. The allotment of Sac, and Fox
lands in severalty has begun. .Reve-
nue., Agent Randall and his posse had a
lively, but Intellectual, battle with moon
sinners in Laurel county, Kentucky. -.
A saloon that had been doing business
uninterruptedly for nearly eight years
was raided opposite the post office in
Topeka, Kansas. The report that
Stanley was compelled to cancel Texas
dates because of prejudice against him
as confederate deserter is untrue. :.
A ST. Paul policeman committed sui,
eide on being served with warrant Of
arrest for theft. -. All the living ltal'
ians charged with completely in the
Hennessy murder at New Orleans have
been released on bond. The Amerl'
can National bank of Kansas City re,
sumed business after a suspension OF
two months and IA days. Col. A. S.
Follansbee, who commanded the Slxtn
Massachusetts regiment in the streets
of Baltimore, died in Chicago. -.
Chauncy M. Depew and other directors
of the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad company were indicted in
New York for misdemeanor in connec'
ton with the collision in the tunnel. :.
Eugene Dunuivant, Chicago newsboy.
accuses Millionaire Grin W. Potter
with conspiracy to imprison him on
false charges in order to break up an
acquaintance between POtter's daughter
and Dunnivant .Atchison, Kansas,
officers have begun crusade against
the Kansas City Sun. The pontoon
bridge at ST. Charles, Mo-, was again
swept down the river by ice. Memo
rial services in honor of Gen. Joseph e.
johnson were held at several points in
Texas. The United States steamship
Galena, was floated and has arrived al
VINEYARD Haven, Mass. Through
federal instructions Texas stockmen
have been prevented from sending any
more cattle to Indian reservations for
grazing purposes. AN investigation
of the conduct of the life-saving crew at
Sea Island is to be made in connection
with their work at the wreck of the
bark Dictator.
Ed Grimes of Crothersville, Ind,
robbed his wife of her gold watch and
chain, and eloped with another woman
after an exciting triangular fight on q
train Engineer D. F. Burke of the