Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1892 — Page 6

©he Iknuuxat DECATUK, IND. ML BfcAOEBUIIN, ’ ■ ■ ■ PußLTmHtn. 1892 SEPTEMBER. 1592 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa • • 9 • 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ® •9®9 ® ® ® EVENTS OF INTEREST THAT HAVE OCCURRED DURING THE PAST WEEK. Flrx* Inlanders Reulst the Landing of Cholera Huapeeta—Burned to Death—A Dangerous Trip—Wreck Near Lincoln, 11l— The Maine Election — Mrs. Harrison Worse. FIKE ISLANDERS Arc Up liu, Arms—They Will Burn the Hotel If Cholera Suspects Are Landed. A New York special, dated the 13th insu, says: The people of Long Island arc greatly excited over the plan to invade their neighborhood with cholera suspects, and the wildest threats are made. It is quite evident that the residents arc determined to prevent by extreme measures the landing of the steamboat Cepheus should the injunction be dissolved. Justice of the I’eaco James H Cooper says that the hotel and all its surroundings will bo burned to the ground if a landing is attempted. ' Ex-Proprietor ’ Sammis, of the Surf Hotel, left for New York on the 8 o’clock train and liad to be escorted to the railroad depot by a body-guard, the mob being determined to make an example of him for disposing of his property. Fire Island is a sandy peninsula about forty miles from New York, near the Long Island coast. Gov. Flower had commanded Dr. Jenkins to transport the Normaun , s passengers there and hold them until their period of detention is over. This was in the face of the protest of the Lond Islanders and was followed by their rebellious action. The people of Fire Island appear to .have lost all sense of humanity. They have been appealed to in the name of God to permit the oldest women and youngest children to be taken to the hotel for the night that their lives might be saved, and have refused with brutal jeers. They display a degree of cruelty well nigh inconceivable. Senator McPherson appealed to the mob from the steamer Sephus in impassioned tones, but he was hooted and the steamer could not land a soul. The stcajncr with its half starved ano almost distracted load of human freight had to turn away. Later Governor Flower sent an appeal to the people of Fire Island but it met deaf ears. Burned to Death. Fire broke out in the Chamley Hotel, situated on Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal. The boarders in the third floor had to jump from the windows and in so doing several, among them Maxime Fitiahault, aged 35; Baptiste Charbonneau and Jules Conmery, sustained, injuries more or less severe. When the fire ■was got under control, which was not before the whole building had been gutted, a search was made, when the charred remains ot two men were found. One was a sewing machine agent, named Turcott, and the other a stableman. A medical student named Cidale was found so badly burned that he died on reaching the hospital. The loss on building and contents is about $10,1)00. Garfield Park Gets a Black Eye. The Garfield Park race track received a black eye In the Chicago City Council. The ordinance licensing the track, which was vetoed by the Mayor, was tabled. It was thought that the Council would try to pass the ordinance over the Mayor’s veto, but this proved not to be the case. Resolutions which were introduced ordering an investigation into the charges that the police were actuated by a $50,000 bribe from the Hawthorne people in their raid on Garfied Park were also tabled, as were also a set of resolutions to investigate the conduct of the police at Garfield Park. The Maine Election. The following dispatch explains itself: Augusta, Me., Sept. 14, 1892. To Hon. Thomas H. Carter, Chairman Republican Committee, 518 Fifth Avenne, N. Y. The total vote will be 12,000 less than in 1888. We elect all four Congressmen carry fourteen of the sixteen counties, have two-thirds of the memliers of the Legislature and elect our Governor by 10,000 majority over the Democratic candidate. J. H. Manley, In 1888 the Republicans had a plurality in the State of 18,053 for Governor, and in 1890 their plurality was 18,899. Mrs. Harrison Worse. Loon Lake House (N. Y.) special: An unexpected complication has added itself to Mrs. Harrison's illness and her »ondition now is so grave that it will prevent the President from being absent from the sickroom. In consequence the trip through northern and central New York, which the President had anticipated making, has been given up. Chairman Hackett of the Republican Committee, vas apprised of the facts by telegraph. The Largest American Ship Afloat. Thegreat four-master Roanoke, which Was built recently in Bath, Me., has ar* rived at Now York. She is the largest ’”*• American ship afloat, registering 3,400 tons, with a carrying capacity of nearly 5,000 tons. A *400,000 Blaze. The entire block occupied by a number of manufacturing concerns between Twelfth and Thirteenth and Catharine and Temple streets, Philadelphia, was "lestroved bv lira. Many Injured. Part of air accommodation train on the Champaign and Havana railroad was thrown from the track near Lincoln, 111. Twelve passengers, mostly from Lincoln, were injured, several of whom may die. Heavy Ilalns in Mexico. The rainy Season in Mexico han been • „ more severe, than for many years. Over sixty miles of the Tehauntepec railway has been washed away. e Victims of the Clearfield Wreck, Johnstown, Pa., dispatch: Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the Clearfield branch wreck. All were Italians. The accident was within a short distance of the place where the phantoni tra!n was Mid to have boon seen several weeks ago, and this Is exciting much Interest amon; , the superstitious. * Actor Thomas H. Hadaway Dead. Thomas H. Hadaway, who was known to the theatrical profession as the oldest actor in this country, died of valvular disease ot the heart on Wednesday at the home ot its ioa-ln-iaw, William A. Senior, In Montgomery, N. Y., aged 91 years.

GOOD WORDS ■•OK WHITTIER. London Press Comment on the Death of the American Quaker Poet. The London Tibies unys regarding the death of Whittier: “It may almost be said that what Scott did for Scotland Whittier did for Now England. The most salient features of his verso were those also observable In bls personal character—sincerity, simplicity, earnestness and manliness.” The News says: “Whittier sang of a distinctive Now England life ns no one ever sang It before and, since It Is going the way of all things, as no one will ever sing it again.” The Chronicle says: “Whittier was the nearest approach to our conception of an American Robert Burns that the new world has given. The world has lost ono of the sweetest lyrists ot Its saddest wrongs” The Telegraph says: “Whittier possessed no small portion of Wordsworth's genius. Although inferior to the best work of Bryant and Poe it is probable that his •Mogg Megone’ and ‘Maud Muller’ will live as long as ‘Thanatopsls’ and ‘The Raven.’ ’’ The Standard suggests that It was good fortune rather than pre-eminent merit that secured Whittier an attentive and sympathetic hearing on that side of the Atlantic, and adds that In America Itself his claims to distinction will be more energetically questioned than in England, TWO LIVES WIPED OUT. Dole Judah Kills His Father-In-Law at Payne, Ind. A double tragedy was enacted at Payne, ten miles east of Bloomington, Ind., on Wednesday morning, in which two men were killed Shortly after midnight Richard Wright and his daughter wore awakened by a shout a short distance from the house, and the old gentleman recognize 1 the voice as that of his son-in-law. Dole Judah. He went to the door and started for the fence, when a shot was fired by Judah. Wright ran back into the house, secured an ax and again started toward Judah. The men came together and there was a scuffle In which the old man was shot three times. During the struggle, and while was on topof Wright, the old man called to his daughter to knock Judah off with the ax. Just as Judah shot the last time she struck Judah on the back of the bead, killing him Instantly. Both men lay dead on the ground. Judah had had trouble with wife, and it is supposed he went to his father-in-law’s house determined upon killing the old man and also his wife. Mrs. Judah was not ihere. however, having gone to neighbor's to remain for the night Wright was about 60 years old and his son-in-law was 35. Judah’s reputation was bad FEARS FOR LIEUT. PEARY. The Relief Steamer Kite Believed to Be Caught in the Ice. Secretary E. J. Nolan, of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia, says: “If the reports of Ice extending hundreds of miles south of McCormick Bay are true, God help Peary and the Kite relief party.” Considerable fear is felt in Ohiladelphla as to the fate of the Arctic explorers owing to the delayed arrival of the cryolite bark Ivigtut from the Greenland port of the same name. Most serious fears arc entertained that the Kite has never reached McCormick Bay, but is stuck in the ice. As she took no extra supplies, and It Is believed she will be forced to spend the winter In the ice, it is feared that her provisions will become exhausted before Jan. 1. TWO BITE THE DUST. Chicago Police Raid on Garfield Park Driving Club Results in Murder. For a week, up to Tuesday, Chicago police have made daily raids upon the Garfield Park driving course, in an attempt to stop racing and betting. The officers of the club had been repeatedly arrested, but CoL James M. Brown, a horseman and noted character from Texas, always refused to be arrested without a warrant. Tuesday, in a running fight, he killed Officer Henry McDowell, mortally wounded Officer John Powell, and was himself killed. EIGHTEEN PRISONERS BREAK JAIL. They Saw Off the Bars of a Window and Crawl Out A wholesale jail delivery occurred at Chattanooga, Tenn., eighteen prisoners escaping. Among them were three condemned murderers. The bars in a window had been sawed until they could be pushed out and when darkness fell the work of making an exit was completed. 2:07 ON AN OVAL TRACK. Nancy Hanks Lowers the Martt Made at Washington Park. Thirty- five thousand people saw that extraordinary little mare, Nancy Hanks, beat her world’s record for the regulation track at Hamline track, St Paul, Tuesday. She went the distance over a cuppy track and In the teeth of a stiff west wind all down the stretch In 2:07 flat Reparation from Turkey. The Department of State is advised by the United States charge d’affaires at Constantinople that the Turkish Government has acquiesced in the claim of the United States for protection to the American missionaries at Bourdour, in the province of Konla, Asia Minor, and reparation for the injuries to the person and property of Dr. Bartlett. The Bourdour incident Is regarded as practically settled, removing the occasion for the dispatch ot wq.r vessels to Smyrna to investigate the affair. Shot Their Captain. The bark Windermere, owned in Swansea znd now on a voyage from Glasgow to Fremantle, Western Australia, signaled In midoepan to a passing vessel that the crew had mutinied and shot the captain. No further particulars are known, but it is supposed from the fact of the signaling that the mutiny was probably subdued. Fremantle Is at the mouth of Swan River and twelve milovfrom Perth. There Is a convict station kt Fremantle. Folchi to Be Restored. In Vatican circles It Is reported that Mgr. Folchf will soon be fully restored to bls former position, which he lost by reason of his unfortunate speculations with St Peter’s pence. The friends of Mgr. Folehl have always claimed that he had the written authority ot the Pope for engaging In the speculations and that the Vatican treasury shared In them so long as they were successful German Military Bill. At Berlin It Is announced that the military bill will provide for doubling the strength of military companies, and that the consequent Increase of expenditure for military purposes will exceed 100,000,000 marks. Every Dog Has His Day. John L. Sullivan, for ten years the mighty champion of the world, was at New Orleans knocked out completely in twentyone rounds Wednesday night by James J. Corbett, the young California pugilist Ordered to Venezuela. The North Atlantic squadron has been: ordered to proceed to Venezuela, and In pursuance of these orders , the flagship •Philadelphia, Admiral Gherardl In command, sailed from New York. Have the Scourge In Japan. At Victoria, B. C., the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of China reports ono bad case of cholera In Toklo. Japan, and that the authorities are taking no preventive measures. Appointed Secretary of Legation. A special from Bloomington, Ind., announces that Ernest Huffeutt, of that place, has been appointed Secretary of Legation at St Petersburg by United States Minister White. Railroads Swamped with Traffic. The shippers of United States corn into Mexico are rushing the grain into Mexico

in unprecedented quantities It Is estimated that 5,500.»>0i> bushels have been shipped during the past »ovou months. The Mexican railroads are blockaded with the Increased traffic, and there nro several hundred cur loads of the grain in the yards of the International and Groat Northern Railroad at Laredo, Toxas, awaiting transportation to Monterey. Corn Is still selling for J 4 a bushel In many parts of the republic, but the suffering of the poorest class has boon greatly relieved by the free donations made them by the government. CAPTURED BY BANDITS. A Cuban Planter Kidnaped and Bent Home to Secure •1,000 Ransom. Dispatches from Matansas say that on Aug. 30, Benor Vega, colonist of the “Nona" estate, was kidnapped by five mounted and armed men, who led him to the woods and demanded that he should pay fl.ooo for his liberty. The prisoner under throats of vengeance in the event of his playing them false, was released on bis promise t > procure the sum demanded and to rtturn with It to the bandits. Vega informed the authorities of his adventure, and ho was Instructed to go back whore the bandits were Availing and to allay their suspicions so that a force of soldiers who would bo secretly dispatched to the sceno~ could surprise and capture the outlaws. He provided himself with tlio money required, and arriving at the bandits' rendezvous was engaged In counting out the ransom when the outlaws discovered the approaching guards and fled. The guards fired on them and pursued them for some distance, but all succeeded in making their escape. MOKE PEST SHIPS. The Wieland and Scandia with Cholera Aboard. Arrive from Hamburg. At New York three more cholera-afflicted steamships are held In quarantine The Wieland, of the Hamburg Line, arrived at daybreak Friday eiththe dreaded yellow and black signal flying at her peak, and the steamship Wyoming, from Liverpool, which has been anchored at quarantine since Tuesday', sent Up the plague flag at 7 o'clock. There were two deaths on the Wyoming, both children, and four or five other persons are sick with the cholera. The Scandia arrived later, llterlly full of the plague, having had 32 deaths. All parts of the ship are affected. Yellow fla s also fluttered from the peaks of the Nortnannia and Rugia, showing that there were either deaths or new cases, or both, on board those vessels during night. The death flag also floated over Swinburne Island.

BOTH COMBATANTS WILL DIE. Bloody Duel In Dadeville. Ala.. Growlnj Out of a Political Quarrel. A Woody duel took place at Dadeville. Tallapoosa County. Alabama, which will result in the death of both of the combatants. Scott Pearson, a Kolb man, and Daniel White, a Jones follower, are leaders of their respective factions, both men of iron nerve, met at Dadeville and became engaged in a'hot political discussion. The lie was passed and both men agreed to tight it out with pistols. The regulation distance was measured oiT on the public square and the battle commenced. 1 hey fired simultaneously, both of the shots taking effect The shooting was kept up until every chamber in their pistols bad bo n discharged, when both Pearson and White sank to the earth from exhaustion. The alm of each man was true, and both men will die. WINTER IN AUSTRIA. Remarkable Change in Temperature Within a Few Hours. A great and sudden change in the weather has occurred throughout Austria. It was only a few days ago that Vienna was suffering from tropical heit. Now tbe highlands around Ausze, In Moravia, are covered with snow. At Ischl the mercury dropped from 90 to 38 degrees in fortyeight hours. Snow has fallen throu.hout Styria. A railroad train was delayel in the tunnel near Bischofshofen owing to the rails being so heavily coated with ice that it was Impossible for it to proceed. KILLED BY A SHOCK. Light Tender at Pittsburg Electrocuted and Thrown from a Pole. At Pittsburg Police Officer Bowly found the lifeless body of John Hoxwlnter lying against the base of an electric light pole at the corner of Fifth avenue and Stevenson street. Hoxwlnter was a light' tender in the employ of the Allegheny County Light Company. He had ascefided the pole to trim the light and had evidently been electrocuted. His father, who was also a light, inspector, was electrocuted about a year ago. Shot His Young Bride. Frank Garvin, the artist employed by the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, shot and killed his bride of a few days at tlielr residence on Avery street. Allegheny City. Mrs Garvin, formerly Com Redpath, was for a number of years a trapeze actress with Barnum’s show and was widely known. She was about 20 years of age. Elopers Not Allowed to Marry. At Wichita, Kan., Miss Rachel Arnold and Charles Blake were taken in custody on reque-t of the young woman’s father while seeking the probate judge in quest of a marriage license. Jfi-s Arnold's home Is in Richlawn, Mo., and Blake's is in Kansas City. Miss Arnold's father objected to their marriage and they eloped. Values His Brother at 95,000. Thomas Harrington, of Brooklyn, has begun suit against the President of Nyack Village, claiming 85,000 damage< fcg> the death of his brother John J , who was burned to death ,n the Nyack lock-up a few months ago. MARKET QUOTATIONS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Primes3.so @ 5.50 Roos—Shipping Grades 3.50 & 51% Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 ® 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 .74 Corn—No. 2 46)4® .47)4 Oats—No. 233 ® .34 Rye—No.-2 50 @ .57 Butteb—Choice Creamery 2.l & .25 Eggs—Fresh 18 @ .19 Potatoes—New. per bu .60 ® .70 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 & 5.25 Hogs—Choice Light 3.50 ® 5.50 t> Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 ® 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red7o ® .71 Cobn—No. 1 White 49 & .51 Oats—No. 2 White, new3s & .36 8® LOUIS. Cattle.. 3.00 @5.00 Hogs S.so & 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red6B @ ,69 GpBS—No. 2-. .43 iti .44 Wats—No. 2 .29 ® .30 Rye—No. 2 so gt .02 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 ® 4.75 Hogs... 3.00 @5.50 Sheep: 3.00 & 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red ...72!*® .7314 COBN—Nd. 250 ® .61 Oats—No. 2 Mixed34'4® .3514 Rye-no. 2. ;~.T. .55 & xs a DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 fit 4.60 Hogs 3.00 & 6.25 Sheep 3.0 b @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red7s & .76 Corn—No. 2 Yellow4B)4® .49)4 Oats—No. 2 White 35 ® ,36 TOLEDO. “ Wheat—No. 2 75)4@ .76'4 Coen—No. 2 White 47)4® .48)4 Oats—No. 2 White32)4® .33)4 Rye 58 @ .co BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3.00 ® 4.50 Hous—Best Grades 4.00 ® 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard.... .85 ® .86 Cobs—No. 2.. . ..t;.-.*.-; .-. . — .51)4®-.5214 MILWAUKEE Wheat—No. 2 Spring 69 @ .71 Coax—No. 346 ® .47 Oats—No. 2 White3s ® .36 Rye—No. 1........ so ® .m BableY—No. 2......'62 ® .64 POBk—Mees.,.. > 10.00 ®10.60 NEW YORK. Cattle ....I s.to ® 5.00 Hmh 3.00 8,5.75 "HEEP 3.60 ® 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.... 80 8 .81COBS—No. 2.56 ® .58 Oats—Mixed Western3B ® .40 butteb—Creamery.. .is @ .25 Pobk—Old Mess 11.25 811.76

■ ■■■l BOGUS WAGE ADVANCE M'KINLEYISM 13 COMPLETELY BROKEN DOWN. History of the Small List of Alleged Wage Advances That Now Supplies Two Parties with Campaign Material — Paets in Regard to KaoL Case. Facts That Are Facta. The Hon. John DeWitt Warner, of the Reform Club, has completed his investigation of tho twenty-eight casts where, acoordlnn to the American Economist and other high tariff authorities, wages have been advanced in protected industries since October, 1890. Trustworthy examiners were sent to each place to get the facte. Their reports were of such a nature that tho Reform Club has published them as a number of Tariff Reform, and the New York Weekly World ot August 25 gave them a full page. It will be remembered that tho Reform Club had prepare:! and published in the World and in Tariff Reform a list of nearly 500 wage-reductions and lockouts in proteoted Industries since the McKinley aet took effect. The protectionists who had promised higher wages with the McKinley bill and had been shouting higher wages ever since, began to get uneasy because they could not tell anxious inquirers exactly where wage advances had occurred. They began to search, feeling confident that wages must have advanced in many of the thousands of protected mills in this country. They sent out circulars to manufacturers asking them to report the per cent, that wages had been advanced in their mills since October,

1890. In this way and in other ways they got together what purported to be a list of wage advances. Apparently it did not occur to the American Economist editor (or if he did he was so anxious to publish the list that he did not consider the consequence of an exposure) that the manufacturers might misstate facta—perhaps to get free advertising, or, it may be, to attract laborers to their mills. The twenty-eight cases of “wage advances” were published with a flourish in the American Economist. Republican papers were not slow in copying the list. At last McKinley had been vindicated, and the “free-trade liars” silenced. Rut tho one great fault with the ifst was that it was short; indeed, it was its brevity that betrayed it in more ways than one. It

not only exposed the meager results of great promises, but It offered Inducements to investigation which a formidable list would have precluded. If the protectionists were attempting a game of bluff they should have made a list of several hundred advances —so many that it would be a very big and very expensive piece of work to make inquiry In regard to all. But twenty-eight cases were just enough to challenge investigation. If a few of them could be shown to be incorrect the already small list would be diminished so that even Republican editors would be ashamed to publish it. It was not expected by Mr. Warner, when he began the investigation, that the whole list was a fraud and that he would in the majority of cases get wage reductions for his already long list. The following are the briefest possible summaries of the list, the quotations being froaV the American Economist’s list of “examples of wages advanced under the McKinley tariff, showing increased per cent:” “Haskell 4 Baker Car Company, Michigan City, Ind., 5 per cent.” Wages were reduced from 12$ to 25 cents per day in 1889 and restored 12$ cents in May, 1890. No change since the McKinley act took effect. “2. Wooster & Stoddard, Walden, N. Y., 5 per cent.” Strike in May, 1892. caused a readjustment ot wages by which some got more and others got less—total effect not certain. *3. Camden Woolen Company, Camden, Me., 10 per cent.” Four looms got a raise because they changed to heavier work — weavers’ earnings were not increased. *4. Rider Engine Company, Walden, N. Y., 5 per cent. ” No advances in ten years—but reductions 1 f 10 and 12$ per cent since 1884. “Hawthorne Mills Company, Glennvillo, Conn., 15 pef cent” One man advanced from $1.15 to $1.25 in July, 1892, and nearly all of the 200 employes reduced from 10 to 20 per cent, since 1890. "6. Alfred Doige, Dolgeville, N. Y., 20 per cent.” Alfred Doige has for years had a system of encouraging employes to work for little and expect more, by advancing the. wages of twenty or twenty-five of his more industrious workmen a shilling at the end of the year. In February, 1891, forty or-fifty received this advance, but in February, 1892, no advance whatever occurred, and many employes were disappointed. Numerous reductions each year fullv offset these bunched and widely heralded advances. “7. Lake Superior Lumber Company, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 15 per cent." No advance at all was made in this planing mill—report was purely for political reasons. “8. J. C. Bass, Roxboro, N. C., 25 per cent.” The two or three employes of this grist and saw mill never got less wages than now. The report furnished amusement for neighbors. “9. H. L. Chapman, White Pigeon, Mich., 15 per cent.” Ono of the two employes here is an apprentice and had his wages advanced to 50 cents per day from 25 cents. “10. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, Grafton, W. Va., 20 per cent.” No advances here, but the few that have not bcen-dischargcd by closing of foundries, etc., have had their wages reduced in the last year from $2.25 to $1.57. "11. Wilkins <t Close, Mayfield, N. Y., 15 to 25 per cent ” Mr. Wilkins says the report is false, as only the usual advances to new hands have occurred. “12. Close Christie, Mayfield, N. Y., 15 to 25 per cent." Same situation as No. 11. “13. Canastota Knife Company, Canastota, N. Y., 10 per cent. In 1891, by threatening!*) strike the employes got back about 10 per cent, of the 20 per cent, reduction made four or five years ago. “14. New York Knife Company, Walden, N. Y., 10 per cent.” In April and in June, 1892, about twothirds of the workers, by having a union and by threatening to strike, received advances of from 7 to 10 per cent. A general reduction of 10 per cent, occurred in 1885, which the company promised to replace if Harrison wits elected. “15. Thomaston Knife Company, Thomaston, Conn., 10 per cent.” Same situation as at No. 13. 16. W. F. Epperson, Ladoga, Ind., 10 per cent.” Mr. Epperson’s reply to the Republican letter sent him M being widely circulated by Demorats. Instead of advancing wages, he has had to shut down his heading factory part of the time. “17. Pittsburg Reduction Company, Pittsburg, Pa., 10 percent" The proprietor knew of no advances, and was surprised that such a report was made. “18. Sultan Buggy and Carriage Company, White Pigeon, Mich., 10 per cent. No advances, but more work for the same pay.

“ID. B. Howltxer, Chaseburg, Wls., 10 per cent." Chaseburg has 00 inhabitants. No Howitzer there. "20. Enterprise Manufacturing Company, Manhelm, Pa., 30 per cent." The girls making socks and overalls at $2.50 to $3 a week became dissatisfied and were irregular at work. Tho firm advanded prices from 35 to 45 cents and from 11 to 15 cents per doxon. "21. Bhaw Stocking Company, Lowell, Mass., 10 per oent” Tho reduction by law of working hours from sixty to fifty-eight caused no reduction of wages ot day laborers but piece workers may earn loss. “22. King's County Knitting Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., 5 per cent." The ten or fifteen employes knew ot no ad venom "23. Western Knitting Mills, Rochester, Mich., 15 per cent* Four apprentices were advanood. Many others of the 100 employes received reductions of from 15 to 12} cents per dozen. “24. Western Knitting Mills, Detroit, Mich., 15 per cent.” Wages have not changed for eight years. “25. Langley 4 David, Oriskany Falls, N. Y., 25 to 50 cents a day." Two foremen and one apprentice advanced slightly; six weavers and one finisher reduced from 11 to 16 per cent.; wages ot other fire employes unchanged. “26. William Carter 4 Co., HighlandsVille, Mass., 15 to 50 cents a day.” Five of ninety employes were advanced to prevent them from returning to England. A few other changes in the mills were mode because new machines were introduced. “27. McCormick 4 Co., Harrisburg,

I THE INFANT INDUSTRY AND THE WORKINGMAN. —New York World.

Pa., 15 to 50 cents a day.” Forty laborers whoso wages were reduced from $1.20 to sl.lo’last fall had the ten cents restored in June. Forty i puddlers on Feb. 15, 1892, were reduced j from $4 to $3.50 per ton. Eighty-five were thrown out in March, 18J2, by the closing of one furnace. ,“28. He (John DeWitt Warner) should ’ not forget the 25,000 employee in the j Fall River cotton mills who had their wages increased on July 11." •, The legal change ot hours from 60 to 58 per week caused no reduction of wages, because the employes were contemplating a strike to get back a reduction of 10 per cent, in 1884. TIIO Tin Plate Infant. According to the report of Special Agent Ira Ayer for the fiscal year ending Jqne 30 last, just published by the Treasury Department, the number of works in operation and the production by quarters have been as follows: , Production. Works. pounds. First quarter 6 826,922 Second quarter 11 1,400,821 Third quarter...9o 3,209,225 Fourth quarter 26 8,200,761 T0ta113,640,719 Os these twenty-six works nine produce their own black plates, while seventeen do the tinning only. The nine produced 5,197,028 pounds of tin and terne plates during the last quarter, and the seventeen produced 3,003,723 pounds. Protectionists everywhere arc crowing loudly and think this the brightest ini ant yet born by the aid of protection; and some are making almost as glowing promises for its future as did McKinley and Allison, who prophesied in 1890 that it would be born in six months and that in a year or two It would have its growth i and be producing all of our tin plate. It ; is to be expected that the Republicans will crow about something during a Presidential campaign, but If there is nothing better lor them to crow over than this tin-plate Industry in its present condition, the party is indeed lacking for campaign material. Not only is the infant, as yet, very small but It is feeble. At present we are manufacturing only about five per cent, of our total consumption, and the New York Daily Commercial Bulletin, which has made an analysis of the establishments making tin plate, comes to the conclusion that “As long as prices remain high, such works as do the tinning, merely buying the black plates ready for this process, may get along, but the industry can never be firmly established here on this basis. The large manufacturers of sheet Iron and steel, whose works are situated and who are In the best position to make the tin plate industry a success, have not yet shown any inclination to take up the new industry. The tin plate industry can be established only when work shall be established on a large scale which will make a specialty of tin plates and carry on the production from the steel and Iron in the form of billets or bars. As yet but few such works arc in operation or are projected." Grant that in a few years we shall be making all of our own tin and terne plates. What then? The industry would probably be more of a curse than a blessing to us. Saying nothing about expecting or hoping to get back the $30,000,600 during the last three years, or the more than $100,00Q,000 during the last twenty years, which the attempt to establish this industry has cost us, this artificially supported industry, like that of the manufacture of steel rails, of refined sugar, and of hundreds of others, would continue in .its old age to take dollars from consumers that it might restore cents to wage earners. If prices of tin should remain about two cents per pound above the foreign price, as it undoubtedly will, as long as the manufacturers of steel sheets, of galvanized iron and steel and of tin plate maintain their combine and are protected by a duty of 2 2-5 cents per pound, this industry will take $lO from the consumer, not $5 of which will be paid to the wage earners and not 50 cents ; ' of which will represent a gain to wage earners, over what they could have earned In other industries. By virtue of the duty, which the American Economist says should be retained "forever,"the tin-plate trust would continue to rob us of $12,000,000 or $15,000,000 a year, that $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 might go as wages to 10,000 or 12,000 men, who could earn almost as much In a self-supporting industry. This is on the supposition that American laborers will get the benefit of wages paid in this industry. As a matter of fast, a large proportion of the workmen In this, as In most other industries brought here by protection, are foreign-

born—brought hero to reduce wages by competing w.th American workmen. Bo long as this Infant must have piotaction |>ap to keep it alive here so long will It boa curse to us—yes, and if it should ever become so hardy that it could live without this pap and it should not bo woaned by radical free-traders, it would still curse us as does the 50year old and still un weaned Industries of making steel rails and sugar, which take millions from us every year, though we could make as many tons of steel rails and pounds of eugar and pay just as high wages as if there wore no duty at all. . Effects of Tariff Agitation. There Is nothing ambiguous or twofaced In the tariff plank adopted by the Chicago convention. It says: “We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for tho benefit of the few. Wo declare it to be a fundamental principle ot the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue only, and demand that the collection of such taxes shall bo limited to the necessities ot the Government honestly and economically administered." In commenting upon the adoption ot this plank and the rejection ot tho one reported by tho Committee on Platform, in the Noith American Review for September, tho Hon. William L. Wilson says: "There is need for little comment upon the paragraphs of the report of tho committee which were stricken out in convention. They wore no longer aids, but incumbrances in tho fight. The

temper and the courage of the party are mightily different in 1892 from what they were in 1884; what was necessary prudence then would be cowardice now. The convention responded fully and heartily to the feeling ot the party it represented. It showed its confidence in tariff reform as the great and winning issue by its nomination of Mr. Cleveland in the face of warnings that would have driven it from a man who did not also stand for a cause. It meant that there should be nothing ambiguous about the party’s attitude to that cause, and that the statement of its fundamental principle should not be overlaid with cumulative limitations. And In all this the convention was right. We have passed that stage in the great tariff controversy where it is necessary or proper to cumber party platforms with limitations and promises and protests. After the Mills bill and the special bills passed by the present House, it is superfluous to assure the people that the Democratic party will proceed carefully and conservatively in reducing the tariff. In dealing with this, as with every other long-standing abuse Interwoven with our social or industrial system. the statesman will always remember that In the beginning temperate reform is safest, having In It the principle of growth. ’’ Reciprocity. Reciprocity is Christian. It is a golden rule. But a treaty of reciprocity between nations is a public confession that the people have been deprived of the benefit of practicing the golden rule, and it is now proposed to give some the opportunity, though withholding it from others. Freedom hod first to be taken from the colored man to be restored to the slave. Before restoring to man his right to trade, that right has to be first taken from him. A treaty of reciprocity gives to some the right which has been first taken from them, while it leaves others begging for their right. In the abstract, therefore, a treaty of reciprocity must necessarily be an injustice; yet, inasmuch as it does not cause the injury, but relieves some from the injury, we can welcome it until we are able to remove the cause. If, In the year 1840, Maryland had given freedom to all her slaves, Garrison might have rejoiced, but he would not have been satisfied till all other sufferers were freed; and, in like manner, giving some the right to buy and sell wheat, pork, coffee, and hides is a cause ot rejoicing, yet we arc not satisfied "till others can buy and sell potatoes, butter, wool, iron and everything. We love a treaty of reciprocity for the good it does, but we have to first injure everybody before the good can be done.—Brackett's Cobden Pellets. The Sin of Protection. “Protection. Is not protection a sin? It involves more sin, and a greater variety of it, that any system I know of except slavery. It would astonish some folks not a little to loaj-n what relation the system (in any form or degree) bears to sin. “As to the protectionist matter, I need only say that we see more and more plainly that the subject is not understood, which is quite natural among a flourishing new people. I wish they knew how the degradation of our peasantry (who aro rising hourly), the crime of our cities, the brigandage of our coasts, the deprivation of our poorlaw system, and the demoralization of our whole classes have been occasioned by the protective system, which they seem to consider an optional matter, with only some considerations of expediency, pro and con. Protection has ruined more of our people, body and soul, than drink.”—Harriet Martineau's Letters. Protecting Metal Wortcer». Mr. Henry G. Marquand Imported from England, not long ago, a bronze statue of Eros, eleven inches high, for which he paid $l,lOO. The collector imposed a duty of 45 per cent, on it, classing it as a manufacture of metal. Mr. Marquand appealed to the Board of Appraisers, and they decided to admit the statue free as an antiqlty, as It was made about 250 B. B. The collector appealed from this ruling to the United States Circuit Court, and Judge Lacombe has decided that tire object Is dutiable at 15 per cent., as a piece of metal statuaiy. So Mr. Marquand must pay |165 for the protection of American metal-workers against competition from rivals dead 2,000 years.—Exchange. To BUT what you need in a dear market and sell your labor in the cheap world's market is indorsed every time a ballot Is cast for the tariff. Stop voting that way and grumble less.—St. Louie Courier 'i.

PAYIN.G THE PENALTY. Hamburg Doso'a'.etl by the Scourge— Unused by Her Apathy. The thriving, prosperous city ot Hamburg has paid a fearful penalty for its reckless neglect of ordinary sanitary precautions and Its violation ot all laws of health when the toirlble pest of cholera was right at Its gates. Dispatches in the dally press give a vivid and graphic picture ot the condition of tho plague-stricken city. Its usual gavoty Is turned to mourning. Its palatial houses are empty and Its streets are filled with coffins and hearses. Its ' vast commerce is at n standstill. Its wharves are lined with idle vessels. Its hotels are empty. Its schools, thdaters, opera houses and concert hall are closed. Tho hospitals ore overcrowded. The undertakers are taxed to their utmost to bury tho dead, finder this overhanging cloud the people are naturally depressed. Those who could do so have fled elsewhere. Those who remain wait and wonder whose turn It will be next, and meanwhile the poor are suffering from a combination of miseries, in addition to their own poverty. And all this camo upon the devoted olty In loss than a month, for it was Aug. 18 that the first case was reported. In tho brief period of twenty-two days probably over (1,000 persons had fallen victims to tho disease. The official returns of the Board of Health up to Monday reported 6,124 cases and . 2,676 deaths, but on tho fame day tho director of one of the cemeteries stated ho had burled 4,032 cholera victims in that period, and tills was but ono cemetery. All this Buffering and death clearly are tho outcome of criminal neglect. The first case brought to tho attention of the medical Inspector of the Board of Health was on Aug. 18, but he made no report upon it until five days later. Meanwhile nothing was done to *ard off the ravages of tho pestilence already at work in the city. No effott was made to stop the exportation of immigrants to other countries who were suflering with the disease. Hamburg freely admitted the disease, and as freely sent it broadcast to Paris, Havre, London and New York. No precautions of any kind wore taken until it xvas too late and it had spread from the loxv river sections of tho city to the new and residence quarter. For a week or two it was confined to tho lower classes who live in the suburbs of Hamm and Hammersbrook and la fipitaler, Stein, and other streets along the Elbe, reeking with decaying filth, garbage, and cholera-producing material, and adding their stenches to that from the poisonous waters of tho river, daily made more so by the refuse from the Idle vessels. Then the disease made its way into the better parte ot the city, as might have been expected, for no effort was made to clean up and properly disinfect. Tho impure water, which is utterly unfit for drinking, helped to spread tho plague. It was a terrible present which Russia sent to Hamburg aud the world never will cease to wonder at the complacency with which Hamburg accepted it. But Hamburg is now paying the penalty which always follows the violation of sanitary laws in time of danger. If frosts do not set in scon the mortality list must swell to frightful proportions. Its business already is destroyed for the present. It is a city of suffering and death instead of the city of gayety and commercial enterprise it was four weeks ago. It stands as a conspicuous warning to all other cities. Its lesson is to clean up, to do it at once and thoroughly, and then to keep clean. Remove the filth. Purify the water. Burn the garbage. Make the streets and alleys and back yards clean. Destroy the cholera-producing material. That is the lesson of Hamburg, whose cholera victims are now quarantined in the waters of New York Bay and whose peet ships are threatening our own ports. ___________ The Sloggers. Not James Corbett, but John Barleycorn, knocked out Sullivan.—Buffalo Express. At last Bully Sullivan received a dose of his own medicine—but it must be said to his credit that he always fought fair. —Milwaukee Sentinel. It is doubtful if a more unspeakable ruffian than Sullivan ever entered the ring, and as long as.l»« was “champion" it was dominated by toughs.—St. Louis Republic. Ij was a sad blow to the dramatic profession. Booth Is getting old, and who is there left to take the place of the uncrowned John L.? — Louisville Courier-Journal. The glory of Sullivan has departed. The spell which attached to his name so long has been destroyed. Reputation, money, and friends are gone. On this broad planet there is no person or thing so dead and discredited as a defeated pugilist.—St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. If, now, we must have prize fights and devotees of the ring, then it is a pleasure to chronicle the final defoat of the brute and bully who has worn his honors brazenly for so many years. When Corbett knocked out Sullivan, it came as near to being a triumph of decency as such an event could be.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. All Sorto. The Gulf stream flows at the rate of four miles an hour. Banner County, Nebraska, boasts of a new born baby who weighs 2'J} pounds. Michigan has nearly 87,000 Methodists, wllh church property valued at over $3,750,000. An Bisect In the ear may bo drowned out with tepid water, or killed by a few drops of sweet oil. Perhaps the most happily named man in England is Thankful Joy, a Hampshire cricketer. The first elevated road In Great Britain will be in Liverpool. The road is already in the course of construction. Catholic congregations in Prussia are increasing in much greater proportion than the increase of the population. A hunting-horn in Limoges enamel, made in 1530, and believed to have formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, was sold recently, for $31,500. Beginning hi October Russian will be taught ln two of the Paris colleges and perhaps be put on the same footing as German and English. Small electric lamps are being tried by the London police in place of the oldfashioned oil bull’s-eyes. The experiments have proved highly satisfactory thus far. In speaking of tho solidification of a body by cooling, Professor Dewar says that Water can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of its weight. . » A blue crane, a rare bird in that region, was shot the other day near Manistee, Mich. It measured six feet from tip to tip of wings and five feet from head to feet. A Florida silver half dollar of 1760 Is worth $lO, while the Virginia silver half dollar of 1773 ts valued at $2. The pewter Continental dollar of 1776 is worth $3. Invhstioationb of rain drops lead to the conclusion that some of the large drops must be more or less hollow, as they fail when striking to wet the whole surface inclosed within the drop.