Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-09-22
GENERAL NEWS.
The Happenings Of a Week
DOMESTIC.

1T St. Louis has not been sold to an
English or any other syndicate.
A water spout at sea was seen by the
visitors at Aubury Park, N. j. It
formed close into land.
Mrs. r. II. Gaines is under arrest at
Vincennes, Ind, charged with beating
her adopted baby to death.
Near Echo Lake, Mich, bald eagle
caught up an Indian babe. It was too
heavy, but when dropped the fall killed
it.
Soldiers are driving all white men
from the Sac and Fox and Iowa reserva-
tions in the Indian Territory.
"Big Ed" Hennessey, the notorious
confidence man, escaped by walking
bodily out of a Chicago court room.
Deacon Morgan, with Winchester,
put gang OF White Cappers to flight
at Granville. Ill.
Nine. Keifer fell 500 feet from her
balloon into lake at Peoria, Ill. She
will probably die.
Dennis O'Flaherty, wealthy Ne
braska ranch owner, is under arrest at
Harrington, Neb., charged with poison
ing three neigEbors.
Minneapolis rejected st. Pauls pro-
position to consolidate into one city.
Melbourne's last attempt to produce
rain at Cheyenne was failure.
F. L. Carroll committed suicide in
San Francisco hotel by exploding dy-
Mantle bomb The windows were shat
tered, and portions of CarOli's remains
we're blown into the street.
Officer Kelly fatally shot James
~ fCr oh
the pOliccman's attack on cripple.
The peoples party OF Massachusetts
nominated the following state ticket:
Henry Vim of Maiden, governor:
William ]. Shields of Boston, lieuten-
ent governor; Joseph D. Gable OF West
field, secretary of state; Thomas "A.
Watson of Baintree, treasurer and re-
ceiver general; William O.. Wakefield
of Lynn, auditor, Israel d. Andrews OF
Danvers. attorney general.
Chris Magee, the Pittsburg politician,
announces in an INSPIRED" interview
that Blaine will not reject unanimous
nomination.
Gustave Berger, who was a German
count of property in Topeka KS. was
asked for 81 by his wife to buy clothing
for the children. "A few minutes after
ward Mr.. Berger shot his wife and
then killed himself.
G. N. Armistead was shot at Bolton,
Miss, by Tom Davis, brother OF ayoung
lady whom Armisted seduced.
Secretary Proctor has accepted Gov
ernor Pages appointment to the Uni
ted States senate to succeed Edmunds.
The Worlds Fair commission, which
has been in session at Chicago, has adj
journed to meet next April.
Tom BrittOn was split in two by a
saw while at work in a saw mill in
Paris, Texas.
The steamer City of New York ar
rived at Queenstown Tuesday, making
the best record for the eastern trip
across the Atlantic in five days, twenty
two hours and fifty minutes.
The visible supply statement of Sat-
urday, as reported by the New York
Produce Exchange, shows: Wheat, ~,
S62, 435 bushels; increase, 1877 ,593 BUSH
els. Corn, 6,967, 9S1 bushels; increase,
| 1855, 1913 bushels.
Bishop Foss has sustained DIR. Thorne
in his refusal of membership in the Nj:
E. church of Asbury, Iowa, to colored
barber named McCracken.
The Hon. Redfield Proctor, secretary
of war, has sent a letter to Governor
Page of Vermont, accepting the ap-
pointment to the seat in the senate
made vacant by the resignation OF Sena-
tor Edmunds.
There was grain blockade at Kan
sas City.
An academy to teach the process OF
brewing beer is about to begin work in
Chicago.
Massachusetts prohibitionists placed
a negro on the state ticket for the first
time in the history of the state.
Two mora killings have occurred in