Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-26

Nearly 200 men employed on the Great
Northern railway docks at Duluth went
into the A. r. U.
In Australia provinces at small railway
stations the agent and postmaster are
often the same persons.
1t is estimated that there are 40, 900
women voters in Utah and 10, 900 more who
may become naturalzed.
Many thousands of Democratic and
Republican wage-slaves are still hoping for
better times-without work.
The Socialists of Glasgow, Scotland, are
holding open air meetings nearly every
evening and Sunday afternoons.
The Pope has just placed one OF the
works of the Italian Socialist Enricc Ferri
on the index Of forbidden books.
Coal miners in Indiana are on strike
against a reduction of wages to IS cents
per ton. Nearly 1000 men are out.
The strike of the Trunkmakers of the
Murphy Trunk Company in st. Louis is
still on. Forty five men are out. Cause
of strike: Reduction in wages.
NM Lucipia and Puech. successful
candidates for the Paris Municipal Council,
have just joined the Socialist party having
,aJ
The coronation Of the Car of Russia cost
$40, 900, 900, and 2, 5O4 lives of starving
slaves were trampled to death in front of
the imperial palace in the struggle for a
piece of bread.
During March nineteen new Socialist
cooperative societies were registered in
Belgium, while April yielded a better
result still, twenty four others being
started in that month.
The Socialist compositors of Viennese
journal having refused to set up reaction
airy report of the incidents of May the first,
the editor was compelled to strike out Ger
tain Objectionable passages.
''New America is book which should
be read and studied by every thinking man
and woman. One copy 10 cents. Fifteen
copies S1.2O. Address, G.. A. Hoehn,
Care of s. N. u, 515-5l7 Elm street, st.
Louis, Mo.
In Roubaix, Carmaux, Calais, Cette,
Narborne, Marssilles and La Ciotat, the
Socialists have headed the poll. This will
give France seven distinct Socialist munich
paities to follow the good lead already
given by Roubaix during the last four
years.
In Spain the Republicans voted with the
Monarchist candidate against the Socialist
in the Bilbao election, and their local organ
has since boosted of the fact. Their own
candidate, a rich banker having business
relations with the Monarchists, Withdrew
from three cornered contest and the prob
able triumph of the Socialist. Facts speak
for themselves?
Thomas Classy, leader of the Queens
land Labor party, has been reelected by
an overwhelming majority. Up to the
latest exchanges received from Australia
the Labor party in Queensland had made
net gain of two members in Parliament
and three more are expected, making
total of twenty two. Socialism was the
issue, although local questions cut some
figure.
Not half the number of buildings which
were wrecked by the st. Louis cyclone
would be in ruins to-day If they had not
been built with criminal careessness.
Every man working in the building trades
knows that most of the houses are not
built for the security of their future inhab
itants, but for profit merely. Cheap mate
rails, cheap laboy-everything cheap, no
matter what the consequences may be.
The Socialists of Spain publish the fol-
lowing weekly papers,
Ell SocialIsta Madrid
La Lucia de Glasses (The Glass Struggle),
Bilbao.
Ell Critic del Pueblo (The Cry of the Peo-
ple), Alicante.
La Voz del Obrero (The Voice of the Peo
ple), Ferrol.
La Republica Social, Mataro.
Ell Defensor del Trabajo (The Defender of
Labor, Linares.
The infant son of Mr.. George Gould, the
American millionaire, has cradle that cost
as much as one of those desirable family
residences, - with club house, greenhouse,
defective drains, draughty windows, cleo
trio bells, and all the other modern i'm
provements we so frequently see adver-
tised, but so seldom come across. This
lbaby's cot is all silk and satin, and gold
and embroidery and hand painting, and
fancy work Of the most paralyzing descrip-
ton. And the baby bowls in it as loudly
as he could in an orapg~ box from Clare
Market. -Clarion.