Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-16
GENERAL NEWS.
ACONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF THE
OCCURANCEs OF THE PAST WEEK
AT HOME AND ABROAD.--THE PlTu
OF THE DISPATCHES.



and Attorney G. F. Sprague. botn On
Boston. is announced. Mis- Pratt mas q
fortune of $l4, 100000.
Harris A. Smiler, James }. Siocum:
and Joseph A. Wood, all convicted OF
murder. were resentenced in the SUI
preme court to be executed at Sing sing
prison. New York, during the week De
ginning july 6.
The visible supply of wheat as com
puted by the New York produce ex-
change was 17.492, 623 bushels, a de-
crease of 800. 112 bushels, and OF corn o.,
1913 1888 bushels, an increase OF 'o9, loo
bushels. ,.h
Two children we're burned to death
near Beaver City, Neb., the house IN
which they lived having caught nre our'
ing the absence of their parents.
The Grand Lodge of the knights o.
Reoinrocitv met behind closed doors 81
Topeka, Kan. o,.;o,
was held at Des MOines.
Secretary Foster has issued q circu4a ~.
announcing the proposed redemption u
the At per cent bonds September l.
A white girl married a Chlnaman a.
Paducah, KY, the second wltnlh
short time.
The united confederate veterans met
at Jackson, Miss.
Eugene Story was hanged at Lexinig
ton, Miss. No attempt to rescue hin
was. made, as had been feared.
Three white men, one named 4. "
Greenaway and one from Joplin, were
killed by indians on the North Fork
Indian Territory.
Richard G. Oellers has been appoint
ed CITY treasurer of Philadelphia to sue
coed John Bardsley, who is now In ]al
awaiting trial for embezzlement.
Ex-Judge Murat H. Masterson has
married his type writer, and the brlda
party are now spending their honey
moon at the Sturtevant house. Inc
Judge was best man at the sensatlona
marriage of Eugene II. Cowles TO. MISS
Claire Lueneschlass only a few DAYS
ago, and resolved to follow the example
set by his friend. His bride, Miss Mary
L. Postgate, is from Chicago, and ne
met her in the courtroom during Inc
Cronin trial, where she was acting a.
stenographer for Chicago newspaper
The comptroller of currency has
authorized the Chemical National bani
of st. Louis to begin business with
capital of $500, 900 and the Citizens. Ma
tional bank of Decatur, ILL.,, capital $lOO
600.
DR.. Fordyce Baker, one of the mos
eminant physicians in the United States
died in New York, aged 70 years
Apoplexy was the cause.
Advices from sugar beet growing
districts of Germany Austria, france
and Belgium show that the planting o
beets was delayed three weeks by the
general rains. The average increase II
the acreage throughout Europe Is pei
cent. Favorable weather reports were
received and prices declined.
Harry Doxie, aged Is, intercepted
letter to his mother from lover who
had already caused the husband to leave
home. The Omaha grand jury d1dn'
indict the boy.
Elmer Foster and Ira Townsend
poisoned themselves because the glrls
parents objected 10 their marriage.
Lawrence Dow Short broke out OF the
Ohio state prison and eloped with
married woman living near the prison
She gave him her husbands clothing
and 5000 of his savings
It is reported that Bill Wyatt, alias
"Six Shooter Jack" who murdered the
telegraph operator at Horton, l: T..
last fall. has been arrested in the Ante
lope hills in the southwestern corner o
the Cherokee outlet.
Mr.. Balfour in a speech at Lon
don announced that the crimes &C
would shortly be suspended by the gov
eminent, the effect OF its operation hav
ing been so salutary that its suspension
seemed justifiable.
MaTptNch Ea,1fananf in p0m