Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-10-20

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The Roger murder case is before the
court at Jerseyville, Ill.
Rev. Mr.. Brady, Sedalia's athletic
preacher. has resigned his pastorate.
A movement is said to be on foot in
western Colorado to divide the state.
A monument to the late Samuel N.
Wood of Woodsdale, Kas., is to be
erected.
Incendiaries destroyed the records Of
Daviess county, Ind, and the court
house.
The society of the Army of the Ten
nessee will erect monument to Gen.
| Sherman.
The tin plate consumers of the coun-
try have organized to secure q change
in the tariff act.
Deputy United States Marshal W. L.
Taylor was killed by ex-senator w. G.
Rogers at Skiatook, l. T.
A letter relating to the Burlington,
a., public building site, has been dis
covered to have been tempered with.
A big robbery of sealskins and i'm
ported shawls. valued at thousands Of
dollars, is reported as occurring on the
st. Paul road, while in transit between
Red Wing and Lake City, Wis, Satur-
day.
A dispatch from Guthrie, o. IT,, says
| information has been received there
from Washington that the Nez Perces
reservation in the heart Of the Chero-
kee strip, will be thrown open to settle
ment shortly.
Despite the efforts of the government
to suppress them, band of Turkish
brigands attempted to wreck a passen-
ger train on the Haider Pasha railway,
but their plot was discovered in time to
prevent accident or robbery.
The New York police raided the pool
rooms of the city while the Jerome park
races were in progress, securing thirty
five persons and So, 1856 in cash.
| A movement is reported to be on foot
looking to the purchase OF all the rice
mills in the south. The Standard Oil
company is said to. be behind the
scheme.
J. w. Bell, festive drummer, was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary for having plurality of wives. by
the district court at Fort Worth, Tex.
The story cabled from Paris that Bal
maceda did not commit suicide, but is
cOntradicted at Washington on the best
authority.
A jury at Hiawasee, Ca, found John
B. Wood guilty of murder for the kill
ing of Alexander S. Brown in a duel
last May. The verdict was surprise,
as it sends Wood to state prison for life
At Washington German day was Gel
ebrated with great enthusiasm by citi-
zens of that city, of German birth and
descent. The principle features OF the
celebration was the Industrial parade
The president reviewed the parade.
Edwin Drestell of Altoona, Iowa, was
killed while riding in funeral process
sion by team running away ard over
turning his carriage, together with sew
eral others. Four other persons were
fatally injured, and many were more or
less hurt.
An effort is to be made to have the
location of the Mississippi RIVER COM
mission changed and its powers en-
larged.
Assistant Treasurer Trumbour, who
is in Jail at Kingston, N. Y, for swim
ding bank, has confessed, implicat-
ing others. He says the bank had been
robbed for forty years.
A Paris paper says: Owing to the
recent exhibition OF popular feeling
aroused in Rome by the offensive act of
a French pilgrim who recently visited
the tomb of the late King Victor Eman-
,iel in the Pantheon, the questions of
the pope leaving Rome and holding the
next papal conclave abroad have been
reopened.
Off Newburg. Scotland, vessel was
seen to be on fire. An explosion re-
suited, and vessel and crew were blown
to atoms, it is believed.