Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-06-18
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

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aire, has been arrested for wife de.
sertion. He says he will spend his
entire fortune rather than return to
her.
President Mckinley favors Hawaiian
annexation.
Democratic senators favor an in
heritance tax.
A German inventor has put self
loading fire arms on the market.
John Longs three children were IA
tally poisoned by chewing jimson weed
at Tecumseh, Ok.
Miss Zoa Dunlap, a teacher of Edi-
ma, No., committed suicide in fit of
temporary insanity.
Indiana's supreme court has pro-
nounced the Scent street car fare law
constitutional.
! Matt Adams, clerk of the district
conrt at Denver, has been convicted Of
embezzling StO,0
A dozen lives were lost and $500, 900
worth of property destroyed by floods
in New England last week.
A company of the National Guard of
Missouri has been organized at Jeffer-
son City to be known as the Govern
or's Guard.
The Reformed Episcopal church is
divided on the question of color. Be-
cause the Episcopalian council decided
on black surplice Bishop Cheney of
Chicago has resigned and others will
follow his lead.
Harvesting is in full blast all over
n re 1,t,ch hal Sc
being offered for this years crop, and
in some cases it has brought 70 cents.
Broker E. p Chapman released from
the District Jail at Washington.
The Senate committee on contingent
expenses has decided to report ad-
versely Tlllman's resolution ordering
an investigation of the sugar scandal.
President Mckinley made an ad-
dress at the Tennessee Centennial Ex-
position.
The dancing masters, in session at
New York, have adopted three new
dances.
President Barrios of Guatemala has
confirmed the report that he had de-
clared himself Dictator.
Mayor Graves and Alderman DAILY of
Nevada, Mo-, came to blows during an
argument over street improvements
Durrant has been reprived to July Q.
The Czarina has green birth to Sec
ond daughter.
A $50, 900, 900 gas trust is being
formed in New York.
Lyle, Mimi, was struck by cyclone
and one man killed.
A jury has knocked out Sunday base
ball in Cleveland, Ohio.
A anatical war against Catholic
missionaries has broken out in China.
A lightophone, that will not only
record sound but reproduce it, is the
latest
President Mckinley was greeted
with enthusiastic crowds in the South.
President Mckinley will have to ask
Congress for about S1,OOO,000 on &C.
count of deficiency in the pension
fund, made since March 4.
New York is to have mammoth
mausoleum of capacity of 100000 to
~, 900 bodies, each of which will be
incased in cement.
Newberry Library of Chicago has a
plan to obtain the history of every
family in Chicago. Pupils of the
schools will be asked to prepare the
genealogies.
Hawaiian annexation negotiations
are taking definite form. The pro-
posed treaty is almost complete.
The New York Herald has started
fund for Mark Twain, the celebrated
American humorist, opening the list
with subscription of 1000.
The Standard Oil company threatens
to go into the meat packing business
If Phil Armour goes extensively into
the oil business.
General Miles is to be given a not
jubilee parade.
"Owney," the postal dog, becoming
vicious was killed on the order of the
Toledo, Ohio, postmaster
The King of Siam is said to be plan
ming an extended visit to America.
An Irish girls singing of the 1.-The
Wearing of the Green" in Windsor
castle moved Queen Victoria to tears.
The Cheyenne Indian uprising ends
WIN Cne drreSt Oh UHc murueTerS Oh
the sheep herder, Hoover.
Roman Catholic Arch bishop Janssens
Of New Orleans, La, died at sea.
Buffalo" Jones of Oklahoma will
60 to Alaska to corral musk oxen and
drive them to America
The government crop report makes
the condition of winter wheat 70. S and
spring wheat 1915.
A base ball game was played at
Princeton in which a pitching gun
was used successfully.
The recently enacted direct inher-
itance tax in Pennsylvania has been
decided unconstitutional.
Over a hundred drilled men from
Boston have just slipped away to join
the Cuban insurgents.
Cuban train wreckers blew up two
Spanish railway trains with dynamite,
killing several train men and soldiers.
DIR. Angel is still waiting for word
that Turkey will receive him before
sailing for that benighted land in an
official capacity.
The grandest wedding of the CEN
fury was that of Miss Isabella Per-
kins. 20 times millionaire and Larz
Anderson in Boston.