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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

! A most horrible execution took place
in Havana last week. Five Cubans were
taken into the open court in the city.
where machines had been already fixed
for choking them to death. The troops
were drawn up in hollow square and
the torture began. This consists in
making the victims sit in a chair with
a high back. From this high back a
band and screws are arranged to be
frightened till the neck of the victim is
broken or he dies Of strangulation. In
this case the event was more terrible
than usual, as the executioners bungled
and the prisoners were put to death so
slowly that their sufferings were great
ly increased. Their cries and with
ings made the spectators and even the
soldiers turn pale.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.

A red-hot iron will soften old putty
so that it can be easily removed.
Green tea will revive rusty black lace
and render it as good as new.
A soft cloth wet in alcohol is excel
lent for wiping off French plate glass
and mirrors.
The tone of the piano improves when
the instrument is moved from the wall
of the room.
A few Jumps Of beeswax, wrapped
each in a bit of old linen, and put in the
folds Of white satin gown will keep 1t
from turning yellow.
To remove sewing machine oil stains
rub the stain with sweet oil or lard and
let it stand for several hours; then wash
1t in soap and cold water.
Coarse brooms will cut carpet, and
although imperceptible at first, their
ravages will at length show themselves
in the increased number of shreds, espe-
cially if the carpet be a velvet pile.
A little kerosene oil rubbed briskly
over the spots on dark clothing will
brighten the garments and remove the
stains almost like magic. The kerosene
will evaporate quick and leave no stain.
Jewelry can be beautifully cleaned
by washing it in hot soap suds to which
a few drops of ammonia have been add
ed, and then shaking off the water and
laying the jewelry in box of jewelers.
sawdlst. This method leaves no mark
or scratches.
If daily tub bath is enervating, try
daily sponge bath and tri-weekly
tub. The 'tubbings" should be taken
at night, in water warm or hot, accord
ing to the tastes of the bather. The
sponge bath. which should be taken
in the morning, should be either cold
or lukewarm, and should be followed
by brisk rubbing down with Tur-
kish towel.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
For the Kitchen.

Auntie.-I know of nothing better to
tone up child's system and to purify
the blood than the good, old-fashioned
dose of sulphur and molasses, given in
the old way, for three successive morn
ings, then omitted for as many, and
SO on.
Stuffed beefsteak.-Cut steak from
the round of beef; spread it out; make
a stufing of teaspoonful of stale bread
crumbs pounded fine, tablespoonful of
butter, slice Of minced onions, teas
poonful of salt; one-half teaspoonful Of
pepper, with little grated nutmeg;
spread the mixture thickly over the
steak and roll in the bottom of a pan;
dredege with flour; put IN the steak.
pour in one teacupful of water, and SET
In the oven to brown. Z.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

man takes personal supervision, and
in this way the shop girls and their
relatives have come to know and love-
her. She is their confidante and friend
as we'll as benefactor, advising them I'M
their troubles and helping them I'M
many practical ways. 1t is from these
people many of the warmest notes or
congratulation on her approaching
marriage have come, and the only ad-,,
verse sentiment is born Of the fear that
wedlock may bring duties which will
force a severance of the happy rela-i
lions. =.
Miss Pullman has had numerous suit
ors for her hand and fortune. One
Of these, IL Dame Rumor is correctly in
formed, was Arthur Brisbane, the New
York journalist. Mr.. Brisbane and Miss
Pullman, 1t is said, were good friends
six years ago, and there were some
people supposed to be we'll Informed
who predicted an engagement. Moth
ing came of it, however. and In 1892
the worlds fair brought to this country
the Prince Won Isenberg Bierstein,
nephew to the emperor of Austria, and
first cousin to the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph. American heiresses fairly threw
themselves at his feet, but the prince
gave no signs Of matrimonial inten-,
lions until he met Miss Pullman. He
came to Chicago early in 1893. and was
entertained by George NJ. Pullman.
This brought him in contact with the
family, and with foreign-like eager
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

The fact that journalists differ among
themselves and from the preachers on
religion and social questions should not
surprise anybody who knows how
much the preachers differ themselves
on the same question. The preachers
seem "to want the whole earth" of
Journalism a little too soon, while the
editors, whose outlook upon the world
is wider, are obliged to be economical
with their preaching in order that their
newspapers fulfill their great distinc-
tive Observation-Disclosures. JohH
Griffiths.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

With all the mothers and older sis
tiers wearing jackets, could one expect
the little ones to do different? Hardly.
1t would be too much demand on the
jacket-ridden brains of dressmakers
and parents. Nor would we wish 1t
otherwise. For cutter than the little
box coats made with every child's cos
tune nothing could possibly be. There
are Mother Hubbard coats, 1t is true,
for the very little tots. The Dresden
silk craze has overrun them, and all the
new models are made of that material
If possible, these coats are fuller thar
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

If, as stated in the dispatches from
Constantinople, the sultan has acted
upon the advice of the Russian ambas-
sador in resembling his decree against
the missionaries, it may be taken for
granted that Russian policy will not be
unfriendly to the United States. 1t
seems almost incredible, however, that
the Russian ambassador should be the
advisor of the sultan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

revers, but where Is the girl who would
not adorn hers as our maidens Is
adorned? Certainly, in this age OF re-
vers, this model is most fetching one.
The yoke is of brown velvet, the cloth
material dull blue. Over the shoulder
q simulated double loop Of velvet forms
a rever over the sleeve. 1t Is caught
down with large buttons. Other Tea
lures Of this costume are the buckles
on the sleeves and the narrow band OF
velvet ribbon above the stock collar.
Elk.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

The latest Enoch Arden case is a
curious one, the various scenes Of
which have been played in New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, Granville Mass, and Fitz-
gerald, Ga. The lady in question be-
lieved her first husband dead and mar
ried again, but on recently discovering,
after lapse Of twelve years, that her
first husband was alive at the latter
place, she has procured divorce from
No. 2, and going to Georgia, has re-
married No. 1.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

The latest charge made against Re-
corder Golf Of New York by his enc
mics is that he overcrowds his own
court with prominent cases because ne
does not like to transfer TO any OF the
other courts star cases which are like
ly to confer glory on the man who tries
them. But certainly he should be the
best Judge of how hard he is willing TO
work himself.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

The little city of Ellis, Kan, has
chosen a woman as mayor and elected
a council every member of which Is a
woman. The issue on which the falr
sex was thus put in complete control
of the municipality was the enforce
ment of prohibition. The man who
gets tight in Ellis during the ensuing
year will have very slim show fer
his white alley.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

London has a female II. H. Holmes,
numbering six children in the most
brutal fashion. Letters were also
found from about twenty persons
with whom she was negotiating for
their children, destined to the same
fate, and the letters prove that the
parents were aware that the children
were to be killed. Degeneration!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
FLORENCE M. PULLMAN.

big stores to search out the worn and
weary working girls who were in need
of rest and recreation and fresh air,
but were unable to stand the expense
of taking a vacation. There are thou
sands of such girls in Chicago, and
every year from early in the spring I'M
til late in the fall the handsome Wild
wood hotel is full Of them. Each girl
Is given a free ticket out and back and
kept at the hotel for two weeks free of
charge. They have nice rooms. the
best meals competent cooks can pre-
pare, unrestricted use Of boats and
carryalls, and free range of woods, lakb
and plains, OF all this work Miss Pull
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
IN WOMAN'S CORNER.
CURRENT READING FOR DANES
AND DAMSELS.
Some Timely Hints About thu Modes
Gowns with Big Sleeves VIII Remain
in vogue-Summer Dresses for Bud
ding Belles-The Cooking School

PRING GOWNS
have come boldly
forth with big
sleeves, ana once
more We are at war
with our English
cousins. Once more
we have decided
that Britain shall
not rule, and have
combined with
France to defeat
her.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

A millinery establishment at Spring.
field, ILL.,, was looted the other night
Last years styles were not touched,
but everything new was taken. This
creates the suspicion that there was a
woman in the case.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

p A prominent New York law firm has
positively expressed the opinion that
the Raines law does not cover the clubs
and that If not, the whole law may be
proved SO defective that it must be
thrown out. Even If 1t does cover the
clubs other prominent lawyers claim
that 1t may be proved unconstitutional
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

A brother and his two sisters, aged
respectively 80, SO and 70 years, all
died on the same day of pneumonia at
Pompey, N. Y. All had lived their long
lives in the same house, all unmarried,
and the two sisters, despite their ad-
vanced age, had never seen a railroad
train,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

It is comforting to know that Mr..
Judge, the grand high-muck-imuck of
the theosophists, did not die, as ordi-
nary mortals die, but was killed by
Thought waves" There is no lodging
that kind Of fate, it seems.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

Higher citizenship is only anotner
name for the intelligence to know and
the courage and honesty to do the rignt
as 1t is given us to see it. Think OF this
when you stand at the ballot Dox.-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
LAWYER HER CHOICE.
FLORENCE PULLMAN SOON TO
BE MRS. FRANK LOWDEN.

An Austrian Prince Onco Sought Her
Hand-An American Prince Has Now
Won 1.-THE Approaching Nuptials at
Chicago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

John Bull is so amiable over the Ven
ezuela business that we shall have to
fight to keep him from hugging us 10
death.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

The x ray has been used to trace the
origin of that tired feeling which casts
a pail over the more timid harbingers
of spring.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

The world would be sadly disappoint-
ed in man IL it accepted him at his
wife's public estimate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
Chicago Letter.

HERE HAS BEEN
a sudden change
in the programme
for the Lowden-
Pullman wedding,
owing to the nom
arrival Of Mrs. Geo.
M. Pullman (who
has been south on
a health trip and
whose return to
Chicago is being
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

laid in tucked that are shirreG 70 make
stiff outstanding flounces; yoke to
match, a full skirt; such is the summer
gown for little maid Of 10.
While the big folks are being robed
and made ready for the coming sum-
mer chow like prize or bull fight note
that sounds) the little ones are not for
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01
Budding Bellies.

A gray-green organd!e, besprinkled
with tiny rosebuds; large puff sleeves
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-01

made BY easy stages. tt was the IN
tention of the contracting parties. at
the time formal announcement Of the
engagement was made in January last,
to have the marriage ceremony cele-
brated IN April, and all arrangements
were made to that effect. but these
have now been cancelled and no new
date will be named until Mrs. Pullman
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
LABOR TROUBLE In HAMBRUG
GRAIN WAREHOUSE EMPLOYEES RE-
FUSE TO UNLOAD VESSELS.
Appeals Made to the Government to
Send Marines to Take the Places
of Strikers-French Socialist
Deputies Assaulted.

Hamburg, Nov. 29.-The great strike here
has extended to the employees of the grain
warehouses. The dockers at Lehe, Bremen
haven, Geestemunde and Nordenham have
decided to refuse to unload vessels sent TO
be discharged at the lower Weser ports
Oh account of the strike
The Hamburger Nachrichten appeals to
the Hamburg Athletic Associations mem
presented by the strike and so prevent the
ruin OF the trade of the town.
The Norwaerts declares the ShipownerS
have appealed to the government to send
marines to take the places of the striking
dcckers. The stock lockers and warehouse
unlcns have decided to refuse TO discharge
the cargoes of Hamburg vessels which
have been loaded by non-union men.
London, Nov. 30.-A Hamburg dispatch to
the Chronicle says: The emperor is greatly
interested in the situation here and has
daily reports of the strike sent to him. DR..
Won Roetticher, the secretary of state for
the interior, is believed to be in communi-
cation with the Hamburg senate with d
view to arranging a compromise. The ship
owners, however, refuse to submit to ar
bitration.
London, Nov 30.-The Times correspond
ent in Havana dwells at length upon Cap
tain General Weylers failure to cope with
the rebellion. He adds: 1T is said that
the present issue of bank notes is to be
Withdrawn and a number issued. based on
the value of silver, is to be substituted for
$50, ,Gl0,O00, intended for the payment of
troops. As there is no metallic reserve it
is safe to predict that these notes will soon
fall to a purely nominal value"
The Times says in an editorial on the
above: The gloomy outlook in Cuba
makes it impossible to exclude the possi-
bilitT of SINE kind of United States inter-
yention"
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
HIS SITUATION DESPERATE.
MACEO'S FORCES DISEASED. POORLY
NOURISHED AND ALMOST NAKED.
WcyIer said to BE Preparing to Strike
a Decisive BIow-MiIitRry Trnin
Dynamifcd - Prisoners of
War BrutnIIy Treated.

Havana, Nov. 29-The intendant has die
tated rules to the custom house employees
designed TO prevent the expectation of any
kind Of leaf tobacco from any port in the
provinces of Matanzas, Santa Clara, Puerto
Principe and Santiago de Cuba.
Prominent merchants of Pinar del Rio
affirm that Antonio Maceo's situation is
desperate. His forces, they say, are half
naked and are compelled to wander con-
tfnualIy without rest. They are badly
nourished and many of the whites in his
command have consumption. Maceo's en-
campments are said to be like hospitals.
Many of the negroes, it is alleged, are
pale and thin with fever. Dysentery and
smallpox are causing great mortality. Ma
ceo's men are reported to be in con-
dition of great fatigue and their enthusi-
asm is dying out, the prospect of General
WeyIer's invasion causing dismay as to
the adhesion of the inhabitants to the
cause. The chiefs murmur and the hopes
OF victory are turned into the certainty
of complete destruction of the forces.
These merchants add that General Wey-
Ter is expected to deal a mortal blow to
the revolution in Pinar del Rio by the
end of the year.
Several well known insurgent leaders
have dynamited military train running
along the trocha from Jucaro to Moron in
the western portion of Puerto Principe.
Several cars were smashed and the in
surgents then attacked an ironplated car
in which was the trains escort of twenty
five men and officers, including a captain
and an official of the road. An armored
engine was sent in pursuit of the column.
Colonel Arminan arriving upon the scene,
the insurgents retreated, leaving eight
killed and carrying off their wounded. The
military escort of the train had one officer
and eight soldiers wounded and two killed.
A telegraph linemau was also wounded.
The details of the story of the youth,
Youch, who alleges that Maeeo is using
his prisoners like mules, as beasts of bur-
den, is that twelve of these prisoners were
drowned while wading a river.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
RIOT AT A SOCIALIST MEETING.
With Filth-A Free Fight. Fol-
lowed by Many Arrests.

Carmeaux, France, Nov. 29.-M. Jaures,
the Radical socialist deputy for Carmeaux,
and other socialist members of the cham
ber, attempted to address mass meet
ing at Carmeaux to-day, but the whole
party was received with mingled Kisses
and cheers and were pelted with filth. NJ.
JaureS was the champion of the glass
workers in their great strike last year,
bu. has fallen out of favor with his Car
meauX constituents by the part he took in
the opening of new cooperative glass
factory at Abb which the Carmeaux
workmen view as rival.
Troops escorted the party of deputies
from the station to the Socialist Club. AS
the time for the meeting arrived a free
fight occurred outside the hall and mount
ed gen d'armes had to clear the approach
es. Several persons were arrested includ-
ing the socialist eX-mayor, NJ. Calyinhac,
whose face was covered with blood .
The uproar continued to so great an ex-
tent inside the hall that NJ. Jaures was
unable to secure a hearing and he quilted
the platform. NJ Pellatin, the deputy for
AK, succeeded in putting to vote a dec
laration that the committee was elected.
but shouts of resign" '!out with Jaures"
prevented further business. There was a
wild tumult in the hall and the opposing
factions came to blows. Thereupon the
commissary of police dissolved the meeting.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
COUPLE. TORTURED BY ROBBERS
and Mrs. j. o. Arnold, of Bu-
chanan County.

ST. Joseph, Mo-. Nov. 29.-(Special) A
most infamous outrage was committed at
the house of j. o. Arnold. who lives on a
farm near the water works reservoir. Fri
day night, but the knowledge of the crime
has just come TO the police. Arnold and his
wife were assaulted. bound and tortured for
hours by three masked men in the hope Of
compelling them TO reveal the hiding place
of a large sum of money, which was be-
Ieved by the robbers to be buried on the
premises. Arnold gave them the money
he had. SIS in all. but this did not satisfy
the fiends, who applied many kinds of tor
ture to compel their victims to satisfy their
demands. Not succeeding, the robbers
left. threatening the old couple with death
should they dare to reveal the crime. The
injuries to Arnold were dangerous, and he
finally told a friend, who gave the story to
the police.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
HEAVY SNOW IN The NORTH.
REPORTS OF BLoCkADED TRAINS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Live stock Frozen to Death on the
Cars-15 Deg. Below Zero at Du-
luth "A Coal Famine ut
Bismarck, n. ID.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Nov. 29.-The weather
here continues cold. The lowest point
reached last night was below. The
Northern Pacific west of the Dakota divi-
sion was open last night and trains were
running as usual
Bismarck, n. D., Nov. 29-The Northern
Pacific is still blockaded in this state and
no prospect that trains will move before
Tomorrow. The Pacific coast train which
should have reached st. Paul Thursday is
stuck in a snowdrift at New Salem, forty
miles west of here, and cannot move until
rotary snow plows clear the tracks. In
some deep cuts snow is drifted on the
track to depth of fifty feet. A coal
famine prevails here and there will be
much suffering unless relief is afforded at
once. No services were held in the diff
ferent churches to-day and the fuel on
hand was distributed among the poor.
Mandan, n. D., Nov, 29.-The first pas
senger train to reach Mandan from the
west since last Thursday arrived tonight.
Railroad officials expect to start trains
East Monday morning. At present, no
casualties have been reported, but stock
men expect to hear of great losses to cat
tie, as the storm must have caught many
ranches unprepared.
DEVILS Lake, N D., Nov. 29.-weather
continues extremely cold, the thermometer
indicating from 10 to 20 deg. below zero.
The first train from the East since last
Wednesday arrived this ev-ning. \ train
load of sheep, thirteen cars. was caught in
the blizzard at Grand Harbor, six miles
west of here and the animals were on the
track in open double-decked cars during
the entire blizzard. Out of 900 sheep, about
500 persisted.
Williston, n. D., Nov. 29.-East bound
passenger trains were snowbound here
two days. The road was opened to MInot
last night. West bound passenger train.
due here Thursday, will not arrive until
tomorrow. No reports of loss of life or
stock.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov. 29.-The coolest wealth
er of the season was experienced here this
morning. when Is deg. below zero was re-
ported from the weather bureau.
New York Nov. ga slight snowfall oc-
CURED in this vicinity tonight. The tenn
peraaIre is rising. however, and there are
no indications of a severe storm.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
RAYS TRIED ON A BLIND MAN.
PATIENT ABLE TO DESCRIBE Oh
JECTS WITH FAIR ACCURACY.
Got n "SensatiOn." hut Didn't Know
What 1t Was-Had Never Seen
Light-ResuIt of "A Remark
able Experiment.

Boston, Nov. 29.-Ar experiment to
determine the value of X rays in aiding the
blind to see was made to-day upon DR..
James Richard Cooke, of Boston, a well
known scientist. DR.. Cooke has been blind
since birth. When the electric current was
turned on DR.. Cooke said: 'Ah, 1 get some
thing; there is certainly a sensation. 1t is
indescribable''
WAS it Hght?" was asked.
II do not know what light is" replied
DR.. Cooke. 81 never saw it,
A number of tests were made with OBJ
jects being passed before the light and in
every case DIR. Cooke was able to describe
them with some degree of accuracy.
DR.. Cooke said the impression made by
the rays was vibratory. like general
cerebral sense, and almost like the per-
ception of space. ...
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-30
MRS. JAMISON HIT THE MARK.
Killed n Large Gray Wolf and Is Now
the Heroine of the Neigh
borhOod.

Pawnee. o. T, Nov. 29.-CSpecfal) On
Thanksgiving night Mrs. A. p. Jamison,
living west of town, heard a disturbance
at her henhouse. Her husband was away
on business. and, being alone, she took
down his rifle and went to investigate
Near the barn she saw a dark object NOV
ing around, and, though she had never
fired a gun in her life, she drew up and
fired both barrels in rapid succession and
then ran hurriedIy into the house. In the
morning she found a large gray wolf ly-
ing dead where she had killed him and
now she is the heroine of the entire neigh
borhood. The animal had been commit
ting depredations for months and the men
had organized numerous expeditions to
capture or kill him, but always failed.