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Show Wanted to Fight Wildcats. William M. Knight addressed a urowd of negroes on the circus grounds at Louisville. He described himself as an "an-nihllator" "an-nihllator" and a "killer," and offered to do combat with all the wildcats in the circus menagerie, predicting a direful outcome for the wildcats. Furthermore, he challenged anyone In his audience to gainsay that he tvas the "gamest gamecock" on those grounds. Copious draughts of witch hazel, he said, had made hlra what he was, and he was about to expound further on the rejuvenating effects of that beverage when a policeman took him away on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Louisville Courier-Journal. |