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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1891
Page
2
A garbled Kansan page mixes political chatter from Kaiser Wilhelm to Italian cabinet hopes, with reports of Senator Allison and Mr. Cleveland as Democratic presidential prospects. Notes on UK and France politics, a Paris court ruling on Baroness Pabnes, and church matters including Rev. Howard Macquedry’s suspension surface alongside scattered local items and obituary fragments.
The readable lines describe an attorney showing a wound with a razor to imply intent or accident in a murder case. It mentions a lawyer and a defendant, with details about the evidence and alleged actions during trial.
The tragedian Lawrks Garkert died in New York on Pri day night at 1045 from heart failure after a troubled performance with Edwin Booth. He had once warned the audience that Nistonfriesel's race was run, and later departed from the stage. In a separate incident, Triste Cina of the Anchor Line collided with the British warship Roduny off Gibraltar on the 7th Inst. The vessel sank quickly, with about 700 lives lost including 407 passengers and 700 immigrants aboard, while only two cabin passengers, 290 steerage passengers, and 25 crew were saved.
A crowded, fragmentary survey of late 19th century events reports landslides burying houses on Terrace Street in Kansas City, levee breaches near New Orleans risking flood, gold export worries, trials in Liberty and New Orleans, mining stocks rallies in San Francisco, and various political, legal, and social happenings across the United States including elite figures and infrastructure failures.
Italian Premier Crispi faced a bar member of deputies during a heated exchange. The incident involved threats and tense remarks as the political clash escalated.
A recent blizzard across England has left seventy dead and ten people freezing. Reports note warily that Kaiser Wilhelm may revert to Bismarckian governance methods after Von Walder’s visit to Bismarck and Waldersee’s talk with the Kaiser. Welsh option bill advances. steamship Utopia sinks with heavy loss. many other scattered items reflect a turbulent period.
Joseph Perrion, half a million-dollar touring tins owner in Detroit, was abducted by a stranger posing as an intimate friend. He boarded a coach with the man and vanished. A demand enclosed in a forged envelope offered 15 000 to release him or a property loan for a museum. Investigators searched for clues while Perrion, a 50-year-old bachelor connected to city industries, faced trouble over a threatened payoff.
A man named Mack Middleton, described as ambler by a Neb special, was shot during a brawl at a Covington gambling den. Police say two others were involved and the fracas began when a gun was drawn. Middleton reportedly faced severe injuries. Authorities fear fatalities as the prison fight escalated.
March 2 report from central Kansas notes Dr. Sweltwiler of Germany organizing 50 experimental tests in various woods to study the beet Cougar industry. The effort is part of a broader investment push by AniLear and Ke in agricultural development.
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