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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1891
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names such as Garnett and Cowan and references Russia and France. It includes a claim about the oldest inhabitant aged 12 with an invented name, and notes a 75 year old George A. Cowan who taught Emma Abbott and is in Milwaukee County poor house.
Maurice BersHaron and his bride, allied with the divine Sarah, are in New York for their honeymoon. The piece notes 6,000,000 letters reaching the dead letter office last year, with money totaling 828,042 and notes and checks valued at 1,471 dollars.
Hanoi Davis, a young militiaman, jumped for an apple and fell onto a comrade's bayonet near Frankfort Kentucky. He is dying. Jesse D Grant, son of General Grant, was involved in unrelated ranch and mining news in California and Mexico. A New Bedford reader claims to have completed the Bible once since 1808 and finishes it about every ten months.
Timad, a Bavarian figure, reportedly smokes up to 100 cigarettes daily. He uses an entire box of matches for each cigarette, striking others to watch the flames after lighting.
A Chicago man suggests a novel World Fair attraction by digging the deepest hole on record and lowering visitors to the bottom in an elevator to press the button. This unconventional idea aims to create a dramatic experiential feature rather than a tall structure.
Fragmentary report notes Tar ruins near Mavhr og lasd fail to locate Queen Shela’s palace ruins but imply Ophir’s fabled wealth arose from a once grand culture. The c imball ruins suggest a stately civilization once flourished in the region.
Boston physician Dr George Hixensky Latex aged seventy died in England a few days ago. He was reported as the person into when arms the federal General Nelson fell when shot to death at the Gulf House, Loulaville, during the late war by Self Davis of Indiana.
An eight-year-old boy named Lewis, son of J H and Sarah Lewark, living on the coast, has drawn attention for weighing 204 pounds. Born overweight, he started at fourteen pounds and showed rapid growth after age three, with extraordinary gains last year. The family has seven children, all but him male.
Mrs Rebecca Rubinatain arrives in New York from Germany with twenty four children aged 10 to 25. The Rai wan minister to Mexico heads to the United States. Secretary Proctor notes a vacancy to fill in the United States senate. A new military post is planned west of Duluth to deter Canadian timber thefts. Charleston Arkansas suffers 50 000 in losses. Moody Texas 16 000 insured 0. Grand Mound Lews 20 000. Three children suffocated in Ironton Ohio after being locked up by playmates. Wasting Baptists in South Carolina engage in feuds with deaths. A storm near Reading Pennsylvania washes away a culvert and a train plunged through. Frank Almy the highwayman reportedly visited a room in Hann over New Hampshire before his crime. Eldorado wreckers boarded a British vessel. one man attempted to replace the American flag with a British flag. Indiana to send a Blaine delegation to the national convention. Brooklyn person Roche involved in a car crash. Durant Mississippi expels McAllister for opposing the sub treasury plan. Indian lands colonization schemes and Oklahoma migration talked. Jack Jumes in Nebraska turns out to be a girl fleeing from Council Bluffs. White Squadron performs off Bar Harbor with Blaine and Alger present. Mid ind Indiana experiments move to El Paso. Liberal faction wins a church case in Chambers Pa. Emma Abbott wardrobe fetches about 1 percent of cost. Findlay Ohio wagon incident over a dangerous spray device. Spreckles and Niger trust rumors of consolidation denied. Frost damages sparse. corn and vegetables suffer. Governors warn white mutineers in Choctaw nation. General Foster denies allied claims. Luxembourg Grand Duke referenced.
A garbled dispatch reports Nicholas Gonner being honored with a knightly order, Governor Mellette planning a November Senate replacement, a disordered Ohio man accused of matricide, Shelbyville turmoil after a marshal shooting and lynching threats, and a Chicago woman group found dead by fire near Terre Haute. It notes fugitive risks, wheat and corn stocks, Kangna City rail activity, a drunken christening brawl in Chicago, a murder in Beaver Oklahoma, and a Minneapolis financier’s suicide after a default.
Four Hungarian women have been arrested for poisoning husbands in multiple cases. A Paris woman faces charges after pouring molten lead into her spouse’s ear. Postmaster General Raikes of England died by lightning. President Balm allegedly paid rebels in the Villa del Mar battle. Whole families starve in the Kasan province. The London Times questions a proposed railway linking the United States with Central and South America.
General K. Dyrenforth, in charge of the recent rain experiment, passed through Fort Worth on his way to Washington and praised the results. He claimed six rains in three weeks under adverse conditions, three of which were downpours, calling the storm the heaviest in three years. Dynamite explosions atop Socorro mountains triggered a rain shower that ended a drought in Socorro, New Mexico.
In Atchison on August 1 a reporter asked Senator Plinthat which figure might be appointed to Secretary of War after Proctor resigns. He cites ex Governor Cheney of New Hampshire as a possible guess and notes talk in Washington. He recalls President Harrison may prefer a strong administrator who avoids clashes with the army and runs the department economically.
In Mount Vernon Missouri Laariot McKensie a white man killed Joseph Godley a colored man by severing his jugular vein with a pocket knife. The two men were disputing over Godley’s brother who has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
A young colored man named Will Lowils, eighteen, was seized in the early morning and hanged from a tree by a mob. Authorities described the act as a drunken mob raid, with no grave crime proven against him.
In North Carolina a public feud rages between Democrats and the farmers alliance over President Polk and the subtreasury issue. Polk’s paper attacks Ashe and Jernigan as deceitful and cowardly while pledging to force a duel with them if needed. Alliance support grows as party lines sharpen and the People’s Party gains momentum.
A man calling himself M. L. Bevonan claiming to be a Catholic priest from Midas i D was arrested Monday night in Avawult Texas and charged with felonious assault against a woman named Gu Brennan who said she was enticed to his room after a heated dispute.
The eleventh annual Missouri State Bar association meeting will take place at Excelsior Springs on September 2, 3, and 4. J Proctor Knott of Kentucky will deliver the annual address.
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