Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-14

special train and tagging sheriff along
with new warrants. Pitcher Tim
Keefe signed with the New York club
at $4,000 year. :. . During March 1924
immigrants from Italy landed at New
York, nearly double the number that
landed in February. :. Mrs. Jane
Chambers Grayton, a noted anti
slavery worker, died at Indianapolis.
Ind, aged 80 years. ). 1T was announced
that Edwin Booth will be seen on the
stage no more after the end of the cur
rent week. The passenger steamer
City of Detroit sank in Lake Erie near
Limekiln Crossing. Mrs. Phoebe
Campbell died at Dexter, Me-, aged 1O2
wears. . Secretary Blaine has recover
ed from his recent illness. ;. "A tele-
gram to Secretary Blame from Fort
Scott. Kas., reads: IA hundred thOus-
and Kansas cowboys would like to spend
the summer in Rome. Can you furnish
transportation?". Five cases OF trich-
iniasia, the result of eating raw ham,
are reported near Platteville, Wis.
Three of the patients will die. Judge
Paul A. We'll killed himself at West
Bend. Wis. He was suffering with la
grippe. g. :. The farmers alliance of the
south has accepted the proposition. OF
the jute bagging trust relating to prices
for the season. The bill authorizing
the sale OF 100000 acres OF swamp land,
sold by the railroad companies, and now
claimed by the state, was passed by the
Arkansas house.
Colored boys at Jeffersonville, Ind,
none over II years of age, took posses
sion of Pennsylvania Central engine
and ran it off the tracks across Court
avenue, startling the neighborhood
One of the lads was captured. >. Major
Mckinley was banquetted by the Tippe-
canoe republican club of Cleveland, 0.
The affair practically opened the ma
ior's gubernatorial campaign. In
speech Mckinley talked high tariff and
was heartily applauded. The jury in
the case of William Sprague, on trial
at Ava, Mo-, for the murder OF L. M.
Cornelius, has found the prisoner guilty
of murder in the second degree and
assessed his punishment at confinement
in the state penitentiary for ninety-nine
wears. Census statistics show that the
receipts of New York city during the
wear ending April 30, 1889, were S1O2,-
572.O47. The expenditures deducted
leave balance of SO, 719, 76l. Per capita
expenditure 1884 BOston's receipts
during the same period were $29, 427,-
l12. and the balance S., 228, 1876. Per
capita expenditure $2l. 80. Clayton b.
Tampler, prominent lawyer OF Muncle
Ind, who took leading part in pveng-
inc the murder of his former partner,
Jay Blount. patient in the East lndl-
ana hospital. is under arrest charged
with forgery. 1t is claimed that Tenn
pier altered an old legal liquor notice
to enable him to secure license for
John Hartler, Muncie saloOn-keeper.
-. Prof. David Swan, of the chair OF
mathematics and astronomy of Indiana
university, has been invited to fill the
same place in the Stanford university
under Dr. David S. Jordan as president.
DR.. Charles Gilkert is also to go, but
not for another year. DR.. John w.
Coulter of Wabash college has been in
vited to accompany DR.. Jordan and will
accept unless he be elected president
of Indiana University, as is probable.
.Anent the announcement a few days
ago that Dr. Gentry of Chicago had dis
covered grip microbes, DR.. Myers OF
Rochester, N Y, says that he discover
ed them last December.
The Joliet, ILL.,, rod aill has seoa
shut down, thus entirely closing tho en-
tire rolling mill, leaving $500 or more
men out of employment. The jOurn-
eymen carpenters and joiners of st:
Louis are preparing to make demand
on the bosses for 40 cents an hour, COM
mencing May l.. =. "A delegation of Win
nebago Indians has gone from Wiscon-
sin to Washington to plead for par
tial payment of the 5000, 600 due the tribe
under various treaties. What is be-
ing done for young men throughout the
world by the Young Mems Christian