Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-11-04
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mia has been much improved by wide
spread rains.
Reports from Newfoundland indicate
that extreme distress exists among the
fishermen on the north and east coasts
owing to the failure of the fisheries.
After preliminary survey Of the
route of the proposed Nicaragua canal.
the engineers who have returned to
this country say that the canal can be
quickly and cheaply built.
Dispatches from San Juan state that
the Spaniards are rapidly evacuating
Porto Rico, that the shipments on two
days OF last week amounted to 5000.
American troops take possession Of the
territory as fast as evacuated.
The wage schedule between the flint
bottle manufacturers and workers was
satisfactorily arranged at Pittsburg
last week. Concessions were made by
both sides, but the workers secured an
advance in wages Of to 10 per cent.
Arkansas cotton planters are said
to be making no special effort to pick
all the cotton in their fields, alleging
that the expense Of picking and mar
keting is not justified while the staple
brings only Az cents a pound at the
gins.
The announcement is made that the
former owners of the largest tin-plate
establishment in the world have dis
posed Of their works at Swansea,
Wales, and are about to establish a
mandatory in the vicinity of Pitts
burg, Pa.
On the White Star steamship Gym
rio, which arrived on Monday of last
week from Liverpool and Queenstown,
were 23,042 crates Of Irish onions. 1t
is said that there is scarcity Of
onions in the New York market. and
that the lot on the Cymric was shipped
on speculation.
An impending consolidation of Bos-
ton banks is among the important
financial news of the week. The plan
involves the virtual consolidation Of
some dozen national banking institu-
lions in that city and the creation In
their place of one large bank with
capital of from 100000 to $1,000, 900.
The great waste and damage to a
sountry's interests involved in a great
strike is we'll shown by some lately
published statistics Of the losses caus-
ed by the strike Of the Welsh coal
miners, which ended recently. This
cost is placed at $50, O0O, 900, or $780,
900 weekly during the period the strike
lasted.
The New York state superintendent
Of public instruction, Charles R. Skin
ner. disapproves of the various move
public schools for patriotic purposes.
He recently issued statement con-
demning the raising Of money from
school children for battleships and the
La Fayette monument.
The collective note Of Great Britain,
France, Italy and Russia, demanding
the withdrawal of the Turkish troops
In the island OF Crete, was presented
to the Turkish government Oct. 5. 1t
insisted that the Turkish troops must
evacuate the island Of Crete within a
month from that day. their withdraw
al to commence within a fortnight.
Dispatches from Cincinnati state
that a patent has been allowed to Dr.
s. A. Hageman of that city on his in
yention which is designed to correct
the false information Of the tempered
scale in which all pianos now play, so
as to make the piano render music to
the true SCALE raising that instrument
tn the level of the violin and other
stringed instruments In this respect.
The American Chinese Development
company, a syndicate Of which ex-Sen-
ator Calvin s. Brice is the head, II Sc
attic dispatches are to be trusted, has
secured a concession to build a rail-
way from Hankow to Canton and the
sea opposite Hongkong, traversing one
of the richest districts OF the Chlnese
empire. The company Is capitalized
at $4O,0OO,0oe. 1t will probably Cd
tain most of its material on the Pa
cifc coast.
A had fire in Clarkvllle, Tenn, Oct'
r. destroyed the Grange tobacco ware
%ouse. the Louisville G. Nashville de-
sot. Graceys storage warehouse and
naiv tenement houses. The loss is
aver $500, 900. 1t is believed to be the
york OF incendiaries. The Grange
warehouse contained about 4,5OO hogs
heads of tobacco and Is a total loss
The loss on the tobacco alone In TINS
warehouse Is estimated at about $4oo'-
0Oo with about 100000 insurance.
Oct. S, at a. m, $4,000 acres OF
land on the Red Lake (Minn0 reserva-
tion were thrown open to settlement
upder the Nelson act, which requires
five years residence and payment OF
s125 an acre at the end Of that period
line was started the afternoon be-
fore at the land Office door and mos'
Of the filers stayed in line all night
there was no grand rush, however
as on previous occasions. .
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