Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-01-29
ODD EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
some Queer and Freakish Happenings
of the Past Twelve Months.


Miss Frances Petit of Galway, N.
T., got judgment at Albany for $4,000
tor the 1886 kisses given her in four
:een years by the village blacksmith.
l.. Oliphant Dodge, owner of a fiat
building in Omaha, was granted writ
If injunction restraining Mrs. E.
Berge, tenant, from talking to other
occupants of the flats.
With courts judgment against her
N the possession of $1O,S0O, Mrs. Man.
ME S. Bryan of st. Louis, by putting
the money under her clothing, held it
against all corners.
William H. Pugsley caused the ar
rest of his wife at Mount Vernon, N.
Y, on the ground of cruelty in forcing
him to sleep in chicken coop.
Persons believing in the value OF
horse meat for food gave a banquet
in Berlin, at which 600 guests Toasted.
The bite of a mosquito was charged
to be the cause of the death Of Carl
Stromquist Of Chicago.
c. w. Leadbeater, the London The
osophist, after visit 10 the Chicago
stockyards, declared that, instead Of
smoke darkening the city, it is the
ghost life of the millions OF animals
slaughtered every year in the abba
toirs.
Prof. G. Stanley Hall Of Clark uni
versity, Boston, not only proposed a
tax upon bachelors, but declared that
coeducation was bar to matrimony.
A bill was introduced in the Mime
sofa legislature making it unlawful for
any person to kiss another unless he
be able to produce a clean bill Of
health.
AS a consequence of the famine
times, Stockholm legislators proposed
a tax upon all persons weighing more
than 1875 pounds.
Mrs. w. T. Richardson, boarding
house keeper in Detroit, was refused
coal by the clerk in coal office, and,
getting her change ready, and draw
ing a revolver, she held him up for a
receipted bill for ton of anthracite at
$3.50.
Seventy German poets in Berlin en-
tered into union, refusing to accept
less than ten cents a line for their
rhymes.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor killed her hus-
band at Monticello, N. Y, cut his body
IN pieces with a knife, burnt 1t in the
stove, and fed the ashes to the chick
ems.
Hairpins from the heads Of women
passengers in Columbus tO.) trolley
car saved a carload Of belated people
a long walk in the snow after fuse
had burned out.
Henry Bliss of Chicago was arrested
and locked up because, in inviting
Miss Ida Lee to accompany him to the
theater, he used a revolver to per-
suade her.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles dollar, which
he had deposited in Boston house
in 1860, losing the book and forgetting
the name of the bank, was bund in
the Five Cent Savings bank.
A cowboy, named Wilson discovered
two men floating on cake of ice
down the Republican river, in Nebras-
ka, and, riding close to the shore, cast
his lariat over first one and then the
other of the men, drawing them ashore
to safety.
The Berlin Nueste Nachrichten an
nounced the existence of a great corn.
ed beef mine in the Yellowstone park,
the deposits having been caused by
the ingulfing Of great droves Of cattle
during the triocene period, the natural
salts of the territory contributing to
it's preservation.
Don Cameron St. John, returned SOL
der from the Philippines, fell heir to
100000 from his grandmother be-
cause of his clever verses on the army
life in the south seas.
In the divorce suit of Ruthven w.
Pike against his wife, the court re-
fused the invitation OIL the wife's coun.
sci to allow the jury to feel Mrs. Pixies
muscles in disproving that she ever
threw ladders and cordwood at her
better half.
Arthur Van Meter, prominent mer-
chant of Salt Lake City, suffered from
dropsy. and, after fast of forty days,
in which he took nothing but water,
he found himself cured.
Mrs. James M. Strong Of Chicago,
put $500 in bills in an openwork stock
ing and she hasn't found it yet.
New York society opposed to street
flirtations issued small buttons which,
when worn by young women. were to
hold them immune from the attentions
of the masher.
Through a mistake on the part of
Cook county officials Mrs. Hetty
Green's tax of $1105 on piece of
Cook county land was paid by neigh
Dor, and under the technicalties of
the law Hetty won when the neighbor
to recover the amount.
E. G. Jones, banker of New York,
gave a dinner in honor Of Miss Ethel
barrymore, where the plates for
twelve cost $1,000.