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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

ness. Physicians were called, but the
woman never regained consciousness
and died few minutes after the first
physician arrived. Cornish himself
was taken with violent sickness and
suffered several days. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Mcintyre was informed
of the tragedy at the Adams house
and the affair was reported to the
coroner as a suicide. A few days later
the name of Roland B. Molineux was
brought into the case and General
Molineux, accompanied by his son,
went to police headquarters. General
Molineux was told that his son was not
wanted After the coroner's inquest
and an extensive examination of hand
writing, Molineux was arrested. An
Indictment was found against him,
and later dismissed. A succeeding
grand jury refused to indict him, and
Molineux was discharged, only to be
re-arrested Immediately on the charge
of assauling Cornish.
Then there followed another long
legal battle and Molineux was again
discharged and re-arrested. He waiv-
ed examination on the charge of as
sault and finally the July grand jury
found an indictment against him in
seven counts for the murder by poison
of Mrs. Adams. Between the time of
his arrest and the end of his trial near
ly year elapsed, during which time
the attendant has been in the Tombs,
while the district attorneys Office and
the police secured the country for evil
dence and for experts.
The trial of iMolineux began Nov. IA,
1899 Months had been consumed in
gathering evidence. The trial was the
longest in the history of criminal jur-
lsprudence in New York. 1t required
the examination of 504 talesmen to
secure jury. The jury was of excep-
tional intelligence, and was c6mpli-
mented by Recorder Golf, who showed
hts confidence in the jurors integrity
by granting them freedom throughout
the long trial until the arguments Of
counsel began. The examination Of
ninety-four witnesses and the placing
of 209 exhibits in evidence occupied
many weeks. No expenditure that
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

A prospect of new industry for Ire
land has bel opened up by the Irish
Agriculture Jrganizing Society, which
has shown that tobacco can be profit
ably grown at Donaghpatrick in 4 lln-
ty Meath. The experimental Crop rails
ed has been cured and manufactured,
and is now being sold by an Irish
newspaper at 4kd per ounce, through
the post. Competent judges have pro-
nounced the Irish weed an excellent
smoking tobacco, and the whole cost
of production was but 4d per pound.
Allowing fer duty at rs. 3d., this tobac-
CO, sold at 5s. per h., would show a
profit of no less than 9264 per acre.
The revenue authorities are strongly
opposed to the cultivation of tobacco in
the British Isles, and an experiment
made some years ag, On Mr.. Faunce
de Laune's estate in Kent, was most
unfavorably regarded. 1t would be 4
curious coincidence If the two chief i'm
portations of Sir Walter Raleigh
should combine for the benefit of the
distressful country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Several references are to be found
in the Scriptures relating to the laws
of the Modes and Persians. The
phrases which have become so famil-
lar to Bible and other readers regard
ing the unchangeableness of these
laws are taken from the Books of
Esther and Daniel. When the enemies
of Daniel were afraid of his popularity
they formed a conspiracy against him,
obtaining an idolatrous decree, which
Daniel was accused of breaking. They
pressed the king to sign the decree,
saying, Know, o king, that the law
of the Modes and Persians is that no
decree or statute which the king es-
tablished may be changed" 1t is not
to be understood from this, however,
that a royal decree was in every sense
irrevocable or beyond the possibility of
modification or repeal, but rather that
edicts could not be capriciously al
tered, and that the despot was bound
and regulated by past decisions and
precedents. How decree could be
neutralized, even though it could not
be reversed, is shown in the Book u
Esther.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Harry Paige's Sacandaga Park bear.
upon which money was wagered that
it would or would not come out Of its
hut on Candlemas Day and decide the
old tradition as to the length of winter
surprised it's watchers Thursday by ap-
pearing, of it's own accord, at the
mouth of its den five days after the
calendar date. For a month the bear
hes hibernated, and its only response
to repeated prods was a grunt. 1t had
not eaten anything during the thirty
days, but gladly accepted a large
quantity of cake from the owner. A
photographer on the scene took pic
lures Of Paige and the bear together,
and bruin, whether he saw his shadow
or not, returned to his hut and again
fell asleep. Those interested in the
bears exploit are hesitating between
the belief that the calendar is wrong
or that the bears have lost caste as
weather prognosticators.- York
Sun.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
Building Trades Trouble In Chica r o..

The fight between the Building
Trades Council and the Contractors
Association, of Chicago, is now on in
earnest, all overtures looking to an
amicable adjustment having been re-
jected by both sides. 1t is expected
that 10000 men will be involved. 1t
had been expected that the building
trades unions would accept the arbitra-
ton agreement submitted by the Joint
conference Committee of the contract
tors and workmen's organizations
This agreement was ratified by the
Contractors Association, but was en-
tirely ignored by the men, owing to
several of Its provisions being entirely
unsatisfactory to them.
The contractors rules, as submitted,
clash with the rules of the unions in
regard to restrictions Of materials, the
privilege of discharging men without
cause and the employment of non-un-
ion foremen. With the exceptions OF
the carpenters, who demand SO cents
per. hour, an advance from AM; and
the hodcarriers, who ask an advance
from rs to 35 cents per hour, the con-
tractors agreed to the various wage
scales. Several of the largest contract
ing firms have declined to ally them
selves with the Contractors Associa-
ton and have announced that they will
not be bound by it's action. These lat
ter claim that the present trouble is
the logical outcome of agreements be-
tween the unions and the Contractors
Association to advance prices of build
ing material by refusing to handle the
product of firms not in the material
mems combine. Seeing that it was a
wrong and an imposition the Building
TRACES Union recently receded from
this agreement, and it is asserted that
the members of the Contractors AS
ISOLATION, seeing that the profits COM
ing to them by the maintenance of
combines with the material men would
be cut of, have now forced a str
in making fight against cond''
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
Progress Made In Trade With Our New
Possessions.

Commerce of the United States with
Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian
Philippine and Samoan islands con-
tinues to show a rapid gain. The De-
cember figures of the treasury bureau
of statistics show for the single month
of December exports Of considerably
more than 81 900 900 to Cuba, and i'm
ports valued at $1.355,00O from Cuba;
to Puerto Rico, exports valued at $3l2,-
900, against $685. 900 in December, 1898;
to the Hawaiian islands, exports ex-
ceeding 81 100000 in value, against
$3.50. 900 in December, 1898, and to the
Philippine islands, $4,000, against
10000 in December. 1898. Taking the
entire year, and the five islands or
groups of islands, the total for 1899
shows an increase Of more than 100
per cent in exports to those islands
over the year 1898. while the imports
from them show an increase of nearly
so per cent over those of 1898.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Almost every .observant child 1s
aware of the fact that many plants
fold up their petals or close up their
leaves on the approach of darkness.
The difference in the appearance Of
plants under such circumstances is re-
markable. Scientists tell us that sleep
is quite as necessary to plants as to
animals, or at least periods Of repose
during which the raveled thread of ex-
ertion may be knitted up. A Norwe-
CLAN experimenter was led to investi-
gate the sleep of plants and to find out
how much repose and what sort was
most necessary for their well being.
He subjected bulbs and twigs to the
vapor of chloroform with the result
that the plants showed the most re-
markable subsequent developments. If
1t be true that chloroform takes the
place of natural sleep in plants, the
relation between plant and animal life
in this particular must be very unlike.
Sleep is supposed to be a gradual re-
storer. An anaesthetic produces a
state Stimulating death. If, as medical
science tells us, very high grade of
recuperative power Is an evidence OF
great vitality as it's absence is mark
Of deterioration, is it proper to con-
clude that the temporary trance of
bulbs and plants caused by chloroform
may indicate that their vitality is far
in advance Of that Of the human fam
lily?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Aiken, S. c., has but three non-union
carpenters.
The railway organizations Of France
now number nearly 100000 members
St. Louis, Mo-, has a negro Tobacco
| Workers union composed principally
of warehouse employees.
New York city and immediate vicin-
| ity now has forty-two local engineers
associations, the most of which are
| affiliated with the various national or
CARNATIONS.
A dozen automobile manufacturing
| companies have been incorporated in
| the past month The lowest capitaliZa-
ton of any. of these companies is $780,
600, and one is for S5,0OO,00O; another
| for $6,000,000.
AS an indication of the enormous de-
velopment of the lumber and kindred
| industries now going on In the south
ern states it may be mentioned that
no less than sixty new mills and manu-
| featuring establishments are now in
course of construction in that section.
One hundred engravers Of the Key
stone Watch Case Works, Philadelphia,
were locked out a few days ago be-
cause it was said they organized un-
ion. The men in the New York and
Riverside New Jersey branches OF
the company's works, struck in body
when the news of the Philadelphia
lockout was received.
"England's withdrawal Of vast
army of men from productive pur-
SUITS" says the Artisan, land the con-
centration of the national energies of
that country upon the prosecution OF
the war naturally lessons her indus
trial output and leaves larger pro-
portion of foreign markets to be sup
piled with American goods, giving ad-
ditional employment to labor in this
country and increased earnings to the
railways"
A general alliance Of employers to
embrace all lines of industry Is being
organized in Germany with the idea OF
opposing the work and influence of the
general union of workmen already ex-
listing in that country. 1t is proposed
that when labor troubles break out In
any one industry delegates from all
branches of the employers union shall
assemble to consider the matter OF
| Joint action. A fund will be created
| for the benefit and assistance of weak
employers in cases of strikes and lock-
outs, and blacklist of strikers is to
be drawn up with view of preventing
their obtaining employment.
The experiment of inducing en-
ployes of the Illinois Central railroad
to purchase stock in that corporation,
inaugurated by President Fish, has
been found to work successfully, and is
attracting a greater number of the
railroad men from time to time. The
figure at which the stock is disposed
of is fixed on the first of the month by
quotations on the New York Stock Ex-
change. Payment is accepted in sums
of S. or any multiple thereof, and in
terest is allowed on the partial pay
ment at per cent. If any employe
withdraws from the service Of the COM
pany he must either pay in full his
share, receiving a certificate thereof,
or take the money with interest added.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
BLONDES AND BRUNETTES.
In Germany the Former Number Nearly
One-Third Of All Women.


One-Third OF All Women.
The German Anthropological society
has been collecting statistics relative
to the comparative frequency Of the
blonde and brunette types and their
distribution through the German en-
pire. The observations were conflnei
to school children, 100000 Of whom
have been examined. For purposes Of
classification only those that had blue
eyes and fair hair and skin were count
cd as blondes, and those whose eyes
hair and skin were all dark, as bru-
nettes. All others (for example, child
rem with dark eyes and light hair or
with blue eyes and dark hair and skir)
were put in third, or mixed" class.
In the empire as a whole, the blondes
were found to number 31.S per cent,
the brunettes fourteen per cent, and
the mixed types 54.2 per cent. In some
districts the preponderance of the
blonde element was much more marked
especially in a part of the Grand
Duchy of Oldenburg. where there were
only foiur per cent. of pure brunettes.
The effect Of the brunette Roman ele-
ment was marked distinctly in the
southern and southwestern parts o.
the empire. Near Worms and Speyer
one often sees faces which strongly
suggest those of central Italy or Ro-
man statues and paintings.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
NO FEAR OF DEATH.
EVEN IN IT'S MOST AGONIZiNO
FORM.
Buddhist Bones Build Their Own Fun
eral Pyres and Are Consumed by the
Flames While Chanting Sacred Hymns
AN Awful Spectacle in India.

It is known that the Buddhistic
monks or BONES in order to move the
hearts of their coreligionists, will in
flict the severest bodily chastisement
upon themselves, and even mutilate
their members. Their fanatical zeal
and their desire to enter into the bliss
Of the Nirvana at times drives them
Is found high cliff from which those
priests and monks who are ambitious
to attain the holiness of Buddha hurl
themselves into death. Others seek to
secure the same end by ascending a
funeral pyre which they set on fire
with their own hands. The majority
Of the BONES consist of men who be-
come clerics against their will. AS
children Of poor families, they are sold
into the monasteries to be educated for
the priesthood. Sometimes, however,
Cinnamon enter the order, and these
are the ones who, as a rule, furnish
the candidates for self-cremation. Sew
eral years ago announcement was
made that on certain day young
priest from the cloister of "the mount
of the spirits" would burn himself
alive. The faithful of both sexes who
desired to attend the ceremony were
urged to be present in good time, and
were asked not to forget to bring
something along as a. gift to the zeal
GUS ecclesiast When the multitude
arrived at the cloister, another bonze,
Jealous of the attention and gifts Sc
cured by his colleague, declared that he
would burn himself alive and fastened
to make his preparations. Two piles
of wood were erected, one on each side
Of the temple, SO that those who could
not get a good view of the one cefe-
mony could do so of the second. Dur
ing the hours preceding the ceremony,
the candidates for death were sur
rounded by their relatives and friends
and curious crowd of outsiders who
had come to ask of them their influ-
ence in the world above. Magnani-
mously both promised to aid all in
their power, permitted themselves to
be venerated as true Buddhas, and
thereby increased the finances Of the
cloister materially. Finally, the first
Of the two assembled the pile, erected in
the shape of tent, and lighted 1t with
his own hands, using an ordinary
match. Until the flames and smoke
made 1t impossible any longer to be-
hold the monk, he could be seen in
the flames, singing sacred hymn and
beating the time with skull carved
out of wood. An hour later the second
candidate for death made his debut.
He had closely watched his predecessor
and cooHy entered his own tent of
death, and passed through the ordeal
as the other.
The ashes and bones Of the two were
carefully gathered and deposited in the
cloister Of Wen-Chao, where they are
preserved as sacred relics.-Milwaukee
Germania.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
LADY OF THE STONE ACE.
what Ono Looked Like After Her Coun
tenante Was Reconstructed.

what Ono Looked Like After Her Coun-
tenante Was Reconstructed.
From Germany comes the statement
that two remarkable attempts hava
been made to reconstruct the counte-
nance OF persons who lived In prehis-
toric times. Prof. Kollmann; distin-
guished surgeon and anthropologist o!
Basic. was the last who attempted this
feat. Being gallant man, he selected
lady for the purpose Of the expert
ment. She lived during the stone age,
at place near where Auvernier, near
Neufchatel, now is. Either by acct
dent or design her skull was broken
before she had reached her thirtieth
year, and her body was laid to rest at
the bottom Of lake, near her home.
This curious human fossil was discov-
cred short time ago, and Prof. Kohl
mann at once determined to reproduce.
as far as possible, the features OF this
mysterious lady of the lake. Her skull
was in an excellent state of preserva-
ton. The first act necessary was to
reconstruct the head, and this he did
by placing thin layers of clay or other
soft material around the skull until the
proper size and shape was reached.
how much flesh there was originally
on the head and face, and to this end
he experimental on the skulls OF sew
eral women who had just died. He in
serted needle here and there In the
faces, in order to ascertain the thick
ness Of the flesh in each place. He
thus obtained some idea Of the manner
in which the flesh may have clothed
the head and face of the lady of tho
lake. Among the corpses on which
Prof. Kollmann experimental was that
of young woman whose skull was
exactly like the stone one. The pro-
fessor did his work with extreme pre-
cision, making exact measurements or
the flesh on the face of various corpse.
and only reproducing in plaster on the
stone face the exact amount and thick
ness of flesh which were necessary. He
portrays the lady of the lake as rath-
er modern looking young woman, with
small face, broad forehead, nose
somewhat turned up, and lips thick
and ruddy. Soon after Prof. Kohl,
mann had completed his work, Prof.
Merkel made similar experiment on
the skull of a man which he found in
the graveyard at Rosdorf, near Goet-
tingen. This skull is not as old by
several thousand years as the one re-
constructed by Prof. Kollmann. The
face as reproduced by him Is that Of
a sturdy peasant about so years old.
The remarkable fact about it, however,
is the wonderful resemblance which Il
bears to the very faces OF the peasants
living in that district today. Those
who have seen 1t say that 1t Is exactly
the same type Of face, and that 1t is q
proof Of the permanence and purity Of
race.-New York Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
HAD THE BONES OF A GHOST
People OF Virginia Town believe He
Laid tho "Hant"

At ghost party in the old town OF
Alexandria, Va, an old man from
Quantico got the attention of his COM
panions by saying his grandfather was
the only man he ever knew who whip
ped a ghost. This is the story: For
long time the ghost ruled the old
turnpike in our country at certain sea-
sons, appearing after dark and chasing
belated travellers to bridge that SPAN
ned a sluggish stream. You couldn't
get a darby to travel on that pike In
the night. My grandfather was SCOT
fer. Whenever he heard ghost story
he uttered a guffaw which was heard
all over the town where he lived.
When his laugh was heard people
would say: old Doc Letcher has
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
An Australian Innovation.

Dispensing tea during divine service
on Sunday afternoon is being seriously
dis used in dissenting circles at Sgd
ney, N. s. w. The expenses OF the
innovation are expected to be small,
as it is calculated that members of the
congregation will take turns in provid-
ing most of the requisites.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23
Company for DlnIer.

Tommy Jones-"I didn't eat hair
enough dinner" Jimmy Brown
"Whatd you have for dinner?" Tom
my Jones-"Company."-Ohio State
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

First detective-That was a worry
neat piece of work. How did you guess
that man was a woman in dlsguisef
Second detective asked him why he
was sitting there and he said "be.
cause."-New York Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

which they themselves we're instru-
mental in creating.
Many of the largest contractors IN
the city will side with the mea In an
effort to destroy the material mems
combines.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Queen Victoria always has her new
boots worn few times by one of her
dressars. whose foot is the same size as
her majesty's.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-23

Ton Years Losses from Tornadoss.
Missouri has suffered $15.000,000 loss
by tornadoes since 1890.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-12-19
DELLA HOOKS WINS
HER ISLANDER SUIT.
Awarded $2O45 Damages Against
a Man Who Circulated Defama-
tory Stories About Her.

Green Bay, Wis. Dec. 10 Special. ]
The second trial of the somewhat cele-
brated SANDER suit of Della Hooks VS..
Gerhard Sprangers came TO close in the
circuit court in this city late yesterday,
when the jury returned Il verdict award
ing the plaintiff damages of $204o. The
jurors deliberated less than an hour be-
fore returning the decision. On the first
trial of the case the plaintiff was award
ed damages in the sum of $500.
Much interest has been evinced in the
case and the courtroom was packed all
day yesterday with people who came
from all parts Of the county to hear the
closing arguments of the attorneys. For
mer Congressman Lyman T.. Barnes Of
Appleton and Attorney Dawson OF Kau-
kauna represented the defendant and L.
II. Martin of this city appeared for the
plaintiff
Both of the parties to the suit are resi-
dents OF the town of Holland. Brown
county. Sprangers, who is 30 years old,
is wealthy farmer and merchant Miss
Hooks was formerly employed as house
keeper for a priest in that town. De
famatory statements Spranger is alleged
to have circulated formed the basis of
the SUit