Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-10-13

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penitentiary for five years for attempted
train wrecking.
Granville G. Thompson was found
dead on his poarch at Macon, Mo-, with
bullet hole in his head.
David Roe was stabbed and probably
fatally wounded in sturges county, Miss
ouri, by S. P. Hopper.
Chris Buckley, who for twelve years
has been the democratic boss OF Cali
fornia, is fugitive from justice.
The trial of James Brennan for the
murder of Sam Wood will take place at
Hugoton. Kas., November 4.
A committee of the national civil
service reform league will criticise the
taking of the census in New York.
Twenty-one deaths from malignant
typhoid fever occurred in the neigh
borhood of Columbus, Ind, in eighteen
days.
A mob of fifty white caps beat wo-
man nearly to death in Dubois county,
Ind. Her morals were offensive to
them.
The Thornton "castaways" are back
at Brooklyn and their tale of woe is be-
lieved by the family, who welcomed
them with effusion.
James Gray, the convict serving a
life sentence in the Chester penitenti-
ary for murder committed by Jacob
Brown, refuses to reveal his identity.
According to the Chicago News there
is practically no corn of the old crop to
be bought by legitimate dealers in this
country on account of the manipula-
tions OF professional gamblers.
At the cabinet meeting Monday Pres
ident Harrison and his advisers are be-
lieved to have considered the state
ments of Minister Egan and Captain
Schley relative to recent occurrences in
Chill. They also discussed the riots
against foreigners in China.
| Argument is in progress in the supe-
rior court in Indianapolis, Ind. in the
case OF Philip G. Decker, president of
the German bank of Evansville, charged
with contempt of the state board OF tax
commissioners in not furnishing list
of depositors to the board.
| In the London grain market foreign
wheat is steadier, though prices are
against sellers.
Butter is in fair demand on the Elgin
board of trade; 1900 pounds sold at %
cents, against % cents one year ago.
Masked men gained entrance to the
Cheyenne, Wyo., jail by strategy, and
| liberated two convicted murderers. One
was recaptured.
John and Rube Elan, charged with
the death of Mrs Looper at Woodbury.,
Tenn, on the night of May IA, were ar
rested at HillsborO, Texas, and will be
taken back.
At Topeka, Kas., a warrant has issued
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charged with embezzling 800 while
Frank Hannah's boy was fatally man.
gled by hog al Beloit. Wis.
acting as president of the Knox Bank
ing and Investment company.
Fire destroyed the Cedar Beach hotel
at Lake Wawassee, Ind. Loss Sl2, 900;
insurance $1,000
The Central Trust company of New
York has been appointed a receiver of
the Chicago house OF S. V. White &
Co., to assist the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings bank, which had previously been
appointed.
Hon. j. A. Henneman, mayor Of Spar
tanburg, S. c., was shot and killed by
negro whom he attempted to arrest.
The negro is in Jail, but will probably
be lynched.
Drexel, Morgan & Co. of New York,
received over 81, 900. 900 in subscriptions
Monday to the new Union Pacific notes.
making the total subscription S., 200, 900,
or $4,000 more than was required.
Upon covering by shorts of Septem-
Der contracts, coffee advanced sixty
points Monday at New York, selling at
l4.05 cents, against 13. As cents Saturday
evening.
Last Saturday the visible supply of
grain was: Wheat, 26,S6I, 527 bushels;
| increase. DBL. 923 bushels. Corn. s.