Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-23
GENERAL NEWS.
4 CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF
THE OCCURRENCES OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABROAD-THE
PITH OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

was fatally hurt.
In the Sac and Fox country three
white whisky peddlers were killed by
by Indians.
A clod-burst in Hardeman county,
Texas, resulted in four men being
drowned.
VIM. Lingon, of Wichita, Kas. has
been arrested for bigamy. For twenty
years he has maintained double life.
Father Mollinger, the famous faith
cure priest OF Pittsburg, Pa. has been
summoned to Rome presumably to treat
the Pope.
Mr.. r. L. Anderson and Miss Sadie
Michael met at the St. Louis depot,
cOurted on the train and were married
at Depison, Tex.
Colonel H. Clay King, accused of
murder in Memphis, is likely to get a
new trial on account of the indiscreet
remark of juror.
Thieves got over $4,000. worth of
plumber from the dry goods firm OF Hill
ton, Hughes & Denning, A. T. Stew
arts old place in New York.
Elmer Farris stabbed Thomas Benson
to the heart near Paris, ILL.,, for making
a remark about Mrs. Farris. Both men
were farm hands.
Julio Merzbacher, Spanish-American
agent of the New York life insurance
company, has disappeared with half
million of the cOmpany's money.
A landslide struck a passenger train
near st. Joseph, Mo-, and swept 1t from
three were hurt severely.
An Italian murderer in Camden, N.
j., pleaded guilty to murder, his coun-
sci saying that after the New Orleans
lynching his client preferred to thus
avoid jury trial. 49,. :,
Chicago jewellers have been notified
by federal officials not to gold-plate
coins for use as bangles, because some
of those plated coins have been passed
as money.
President Harrison has written to
Mayor Stauart OF Philadelphia, saying
that the federal government will CO.
operate in tracing those guilty of COM
plicity in the keystone bank failure.
The government court of Private
Land Claims has been appointed.
Joseph r. Reed, of Iowa. will be chief
Justice and WILDER F. Stone, of Colora-
do, Henry c. Sluss, of Kansas, and
M. Murray, of Tennessee, will be asso
ciate justices. Matthew G. Reynolds,
of Missouri, Is to be United States at
torney for the court.
The President will order an investi-
gaton of the keystone national bank
failure at Philadelphia.
G.. a. Benson, accused of the murder
Of Mrs. Mettman, jointly with Miss
Rantzahn, daugter of Mrs. Mettman,
was tried and convicted of murder in
the first degree in the United States
district court at LeavenwOrth. The
murder was committed on the military
reservation of Fort Leavenworth, hence
the trial in an U. S. court. The jury
took but fifteen minutes to decide upon
their verdict The people OF Leaven-
worth are we'll satisfied with the YER
dict.
An overflow OF the Red river did
great damage in Texas. One stockman
lost 400 cattle and fifty-five horses.
Many persons narrowly escaped death.
At Chillicothe, Texas, four men were
drowned by a sudden freshet.
The visable supply of wheat Saturday,
rs compiled by the New York produce
exchange, was 16,477, 405 bushels, a de-
crease of 1,O15,3 1S bushels. and of corn
5,6O5, 1887 bushels, an increase OF 453, 149
bushels.
Bishop Knight, OF the Episcopal do
cese of Milwaukee, died Monday, aged
so years. The Hon. Samuel Creelman,
prominent politician of Nova Scotia,
died at Halifax, aged SO years.
The President has authorized comp
troller Lacey to appear before the Phil
adelphla council committee.
Barnard Gland, briber of the Hen
messy jury, was convicted in New Or
leans.
The annual meeting of the Missouri
Firemen's Association was held at