Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-14
GENERAL NEWS.
THE OCCURANCES OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABROAD-THE
PITH OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.


natl and Louisville has been reduced to
fifty cents.
A national convention of postoffice
TENDER 7, next.
. The pastors and young people OF the
Baptist churches of Missouri held a
meeting at Pertle Springs.
WalterA. Freeman, wanted at For
rest, Texas, for starting terrible riot,
was arrested at Louisville, KY.
A large meeting OF prominent Phlla-
delphia Irishmen decided to affiliate
with the new Irish federation of Ameri-
ca, which is against Parnell.
Arnold Siegfried jain, son OF the
founder of the Turner's societies of the
world, was buried in Chicago by Turn
ers. There were no religious cere-
monies.
All the last edition of the Detroit
Commercial Advertiser and Home Jour-
nal was seized for containing lottery ad-
vertisements and the officers OF the
company fined $500 and costs.
E. S. Lacey, comptroller OF the cur
rency. has written to the mayor OF
Philadelphia, requesting that he sub
nit the names of two suitable persons
to assist in an investigation of Keystone
Bank affairs.
% Receivers Eddy and Cross have turned
the Missouri, Kansas e. Texas railway
over to the stockholders. Mr.. Cross
becomes president OF the road.
The southern passenger association
has made the rate of one fare for the
round trip to the national G. A. h. en-
campment at Detroit. Mich, August
2-10 inclusive.
Bob Ross, an insane Cherokee
broke out of his cell at Talequah, |. T.,
and knocked down the mother OF Sup
erintendent Joe Campbell with hoe.
Campbell, in trying to catch the man,
was attacked and in self-defense stabbed
Ross fatally. :,
General Jubal A. Early has promised
to speak at the unwilling OF the Jack
son monument at Lexington, Va, July
q. His subject will be 'The Military
Achievements and Character of Cen
eral Jackson"
Wing Ok and his wife, Di Toy. OF
Sacramento. Cal, destitute Chinese,
cut out their tongues that they mlght
starve to death. Ok died from loss OF
blood and his wifes injuries will prob
ably prove fatal.
The finest wine crop known in years
in Alsace- Lorraine and Rhenish Prus-
STA has been almost totally destroyed by
the overflow of the Saar river.
The name of Sir William Gordon
Cumming has been stricken from the
list of deputy lieutenants of Elginshire,
Scotland, by order of the queen.
Sheriff and Collector John Warfeld,
of Desho county, Ark, is short in his
accounts about 1926, 900 and is missing.
Fred Steinman, an iron moulder OF
Chicago. shot his wife and then COM
mitted suicide while in fit OF jealousy:
President Diaz has granted General
Sturm the right of way for a circuit
railway around the City of Mexico and
suburban villages. ..
Mrs. May Dayton, OF st. Paul, LETT
S. a week to keep her dog, and S2OO,OOO
to President Arthur's private secretary.
Her husband will contest it.
Boudinot Crumpton was hanged at
Fort Smith. Ark, for the murder OF
Samuel M. Morgan November 3, 1889.
Judge Hall, OF Lincoln, Neb., has de-
cided that the marriage OF divorced
Nebraska person in Missouri becomes
invalidated on return to Nebraska
The potato crop in Prussia is doubt
full, but the yield of winter wheat will
be SO per cent of the average and the
rye 75l.
A son aged 10 years, of Mrs. Mary
Lease. was arrested at Wichita charged
with stealing gold watch and check
from H. E. Corn.
Constantine Demara. an Italian boy,
was deliberately drowned by Joe Costel-
10 at Stops ferry near Pittsburg,
Pa. He was swimming with number OF
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