Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-06-10


three troopers Of the Seventh Hussars.
The wedding of M. Papot was be-
ing celebrated at the house of a rela-
tive, when the soldiers, who were In
toxicated, burst into the dining room,
and demanded to be served with IL
quor. When 1t was pointed out 10
them that they had invaded private
house two Of the men drew their ga
bers and attacked the wedding party,
who naturally defended themselves.
Eventually, after five guests had been
wounded, the soldiers were obliged to
flee, leaving their weapons and shakos,
and one OF their number on the Held.
The wounded soldier had subsequently
to be removed to barracks In an ambu-
lance. The members Of the wedding
party who were wounded were the
bride, who was struck thrice ON The
head with a saber and also received
thrust in the leg, the bridegroom, whose
face was cut, and two relatives who
received blows on the arms. The best
man was also injured, but not seri-
ously.
Last December an elegantly dressed
woman was caught in Paris in the act
of shop-lifting. Being conducted to
the neighboring police commissary's
office, she at once confessed that she
had stolen the piece of silk, which she
had tried to conceal under her skirt.
When questioned as to her identity she
declared she had entirely forgotten her
name and the name of the street In
which she had been living. She per-
severed in that assertion, not only 20
the police commissary, but to the ex-
aiming magistrate, and at the st. La
zare prison, where she was incarcer-
ated. Being brought up for trial on
Friday, she swore solemnly she had
entirely forgotten her own name. She
was condemned to two months impris-
onment, but as she had already under
gone four months Imprisonment, while
awaiting trial, she was at once liber-
ated. It would be curious to know
whether she found her way home, as
she pretended she had forgotten her
address.
Turks and Jews. as well as Chris
tians, according to the Koinische Volks-
zeitung, have been much excited by the
sound of the three bells of the new
Protestant church in Jerusalem. For
several centuries the use of bells by
the Christians - Palestine, or else
where within the Ottoman empire, had
been prohibited by the Great Turk,
who has conceded 1t now, however, to
his friend and ally, the Evangelical
Turquie, published in 1858, it is said:
THE Turks hate bells, as symbol Of
christianity, and do not permit even
the Christians to use them. Only In a
few remote mountain converts, or In
lonely islands, where there are no resi-
dent Mohammedans, is the use Of a bell
tolerated"
A hawker, maserably clad, succumbed
in the street the other d<y in Paris to
the rupture of blood vessel, brought
on by starvatiol Papers found upon
the body showed It to be that of Comte
,Auguste de la Tremblaye, 36 years Of
age. A marriage certificate and copy
Of divorce decree were found In his
pocket. The count was at one time a
well-known man about town. but after
his divorce, eight years ago, he gave
way to drink and gambling, and dissi-
pated all his fortune. He gradually
sank lower and lower in the social scale
until he was reduced to earn precari-
GUS living by hawking articles in the
street.
Vesuvius presented rare sight re-
Gently, real flames issuing from the
summit. Part of the south wall of the
crater fell in, blocking up the vents
from which the gases had escaped. A
fow days later, on April Is, this mass
heving become red hot, squirt of fame
200 feet high was sent out, accompan
led by a tremendous roar The col
umn of fire was yellow, with flashes Of
red, violet, and intense blue. Prof.
Mattencci, who saw it, says 1t was the
only Jet Of incandescent gas ever OBJ
served on Vesuvius, the light which
people usually mistake for flames be-
ing merely the reflection of the lava
below on the smoke that rises from the
crater.
!. A Northampton nohconformist min
lister, on being elected vice president
Of local cricket club, forwarded to the
secretary the following epistle. which
has created considerable amusement in
the town my dear friend-I received
your letter this morning informing me
that you had nominated me as a vice
president of your cricket club, and
kindly requesting me to accept the po-
sition. I shall be delighted to do so
upon the following conditions list,
that the club be true to its name, and
include as members only such as at
bend - chapel; I'd, that no matches
10 arranged or played with unholy
worldly clubs-by this I mean clubs
Mat are under the patronage Of some
y 4 II L. 1Nka