Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-21
LATE NEWS NOTES.

LATE NEWS NOTES.
The total number OF deaths in
Greater New York from heat is esti-
mated at 1000
]. P. Scott's -four mill and large
warehouse at Fayetteville, Ark, were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000.
Harry E. Hamlin. whose body was
found in the Missouri river at st. Jo-
seph. Is supposed to have committed
suicide on account OF the actions of a
Kansas City girl with whom he was
infatuated.
Mrs. Pearl Higdon of Joplin, NO.,
has identified her lost son in the per-
son of young man who is federal
prisoner at Fort Scott charged with
breaking into and robbing the postof-
fee at Redfield. The young man left
home several months ago and his
mother has been much distressed
about him.
Z. E Fargo and Edward A. Fargo,
the big Chicago shoe dealers, who
failed, have left the city without
telling anyone their address.
Green b. Crabtree, who killed DR..
I. N. Coffee, president OF the State
board Of pharmacy at Cairo, ILL.,, re-
Gently, was admitted to bail of $1,000.
The Burling ton route will publish q
daily paper from Its trains shortly.
Five persons were drowned in the
Delaware near Philadelphia by the
capsizing Of boat
Indiana Iron works and Midland
Steel works, Muncie, Ind, have start
ed up with Leon hands employed.
Over 100000 was contributed for
church work at the Christian Alliance
meeting at Old Orchard, Maine on the
10th.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Peru, from Yokohoma and Hon
olulu, was Mrs Sanford b. Dole, wife
of the president of the Hawaiian re-
public.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American branch of the Red Cross So
ciety, has started on her return to the
United States, her mission of d,strib-
uting relief to the Armenian sufferers
having been ended.
o. II. Winthrop, who is charged
with abducting James Campbell, the
Honolulu millionaire, and combining
him in house in San Francisco for
several days in an attempt to extort
$4,000 from him, was captured by the
police in Oakland.
cloud burst visited Fort Wayne,
Ind, on the 10th and rain fell in tor
rents for a half hour, the heaviest
rainfall in twenty-one years. The
same day tornado struck Winona
park, near Warsaw, Ind, and blew
down the amphitheater, trees and
tents. Two persons were injured.
Loss will reach $4,000. Fifty build
ings were demolished at Saginaw,
Mich, by tornado. Loss 100000.
United States Judge Alonzo G. Ed
gerton of South Dakota, died at Sioux
Falls of Bright's disease; Lady Tenny-
son, widow of the late poet, at Lon
don; Federal Judge Alfred D. Thomas,
Forga, N. D.; Bishop jeremiah OSal-
livan, distinguished Catholic prelate,
Mobile. Ala; William M. Pertle,
former owner Of the Pertle Springs
park, Warrensburg, Mo-, was killed
in runaway.
The Earl of Limerick is dead.
Spain Is, 1t is said, contemplating
CONSUMPTION to raise more soldiers for
Cuba.
Dan Wright and Ed Carter broke up
a negro festival at Troy, Mo-, with
razors Carter is dead.
"Divine Healer" Schrader was
stoned and run out of Fort Worth,
Texas, as soon as he was found to be
an imposter.
The government report on the cot
ton situation, cutting prospects more
than ten per cent, has caused rise
in speculative prices.
o. Fl. Winthrop, charged with kid
naping Millionaire Campbell of Homo
lulu, and holding him for ransom, was
arrested at Oakland, CAL
Later reports Of the trolly car dis
aster at Columbia, Pa, Sunday night,
show that seven persons were killed |
and fifty more or less seriously injured.
All the business houses in Jordan,
KY, were destroyed by fire.
At Aquilla, Texas, John Doss, a
Jealous husband, killed James Barr.
Tho car is said to be suffering |
from very severe attack of nervous |
prostratlon, owing to the discovery Of
renewed nihilist plots to take his life. |
Governor Stone has pardoned Mar /
tina Wagner, convicted of stealing sos,
on condition that she return to Ger
many. There is some question |
whether the governor has the power |
to exile from the country.
AS the result of race war in Polk
county, Ark, between black and
white laborers on the Kansas City, |
Pittsburg and Gulf railroad, three
negroes are dead, others wounded and
many run out of the country.
1t is reported that Secretary Hoke
Smith will soon resign from the \
cabinet