Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1892 — Page 6

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yk wraoormM, • - - Framtw*. 1802 SEPTEMBER. l sr) ‘’ Bn IMo Tu We Th Fr Sa • • • • 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 ® • • • e ® ® I * THE FLEETING NEWS IS CAUGHT ON THE WINC FOR OUR READERS.

The Grand Army Encampment — Danger of the Spread of Cholera Is Over — Indiana (Jerrymander Case—Frick's Assassin Gets Twenty-one Years — Fatal Accident. GREAT gathering. Grizzled Heroes of the Rebellion at W ashington. A Washington special, dated the 20th Inst, says: With public and private buildings profusely decorated, the streets crowded with both citizens and ex-sol-diers, the constant strains of martial music and the continual inarching of arriving veterans, the twenty-sixth national encampment of G. A. R. is assuming substantial shape and proportions. In conversation Gen. Palmer said that all arrangements were completed and everything gave promise of ono of the most successful encampments ever held. Ho expressed himself as being delighted with the work of the citizens’ committee and the indications of hospitable welcome on the part of citizens. “Everything has been planned with so much skill,” Gen. Palmer said, “that there was nothing now to be done except to carry out the program.” A good many have come out in advocacy of Chicago for the next encampment and not a few are heard to favor San Francisco and New York. There is no doubt, however, that Indianapolis is at this time far in the lead for the encampment prize, and the citizens of that enterprising town are becoming mere confident every hour. They say the Hoosier metropolis can accommodate the crowd as well as almost any city in the land. Danger of the Spread of Cholera is Over. New York special: The Board of Health issued a bulletin in which it was stated that no cases of suspected cholera had appeared since the last bulletin and no deaths from cholera had occurred. They report that there is no reason to believe the diagnosis of the attending physician in the case of Peter Callahan, a suspected case, to be correct, in that the death was due to diarrhea and exhaustion. The report of the bacteriologists as to the case of Mary Connarty, a suspected cholera case, is to the effect that no spirilliumof cholera has been discovered. Secretary of the Treasury Foster sent President Harrison a telegram saying that the cholora crisis was practically past and that there appeared to be no longer any danger of the spread of the disease. Papal Dispensation. Official information has been received - from Rome that the Pope, in honor of the Columbus celebration, has dispensed the Catholics of the United States from the precept of abstinence Friday, October 91. This is a signal and very unusual favor. It is only on rare occasions that church allows her children to eat meat Friday. The dispensation now granted by the Pope for the National festival in honor of the great discoverer Is therefore notable in a canonical sense and as affording another mark of the interest he takes in the celebration of the Pan-American day of the jubilee. Increase of Immigration During Angnst. The chief of the Buieau of Statistics reports that 47,472 immigrants arrived in the United States during the month of August, against 47,172 for the same month last year. J During the eight months ending August 31, 1892, the total number of immigrants was 448,619, against 416,570 for the corresponding period in 1891. Crounse’s Successor. It is reported on good authority that ex-Representative Dorsey of Nebraska, has been offered’the appointment of Assistant Secretary of the resigned by Mr. Crounse to accept the nomination for Governor. Mr. Dorsey was chairman of the banking and currency committee in the last House. a •-- ta Indiana Gerrymander Case. A special from New Castle, Ind., says: Judge Bundy has rendered bis decision in the gerrymander case. The suit was brought to have the apportionment law of 1891, roferriugTo legislative districts, declareo unconstitutional. The reason alleged were its unfairness and prejudices. Frick’s Assailant Sent to the Penitentiary. Pittsburgh special: Alexander BCrkman, the would-be assassin of Chairman H. C. Frick Os the Carnegie Company, has been convicted by the jury and sentenced to twenty-two years’ imprisonment in the penltentflry. Jumped to Her Death. Mrs. Catherine Schoeller, a patient at the St. Mary’s Hospital, Philadelphia, jumped from one of the fourth-story windows and was instantly killed. (Mrs. Harrison Better. Dr. Gardner, Mrs. Harrison’s physician, reports Wednesday morning that she passed a comfortable night, and shows still further improvement. Fire Destroys a Planing Mill. „ The large planing mill of Fatout & Sons, Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire. The building, machinery and contents were burned, entailing a loss of 8100,000, with 825,000 insurance. An Overdue Steamer. Boston special: Npthing has been heard of the overdue steamship Carroll from Halifax. She had on board 100 passengers. The steamship is old and not considered seaworthy. Little Hope of Mrs. Harrison’s. Recovery. Loon Lake special: While some persons here think that Mrs. Harrison has a chance of recovery, -the majority are inclined to the belief that she will never leave this place alive. The President and members of his household affect to be encouraged at Mrs. Harrison's present condition, but it is evident to their intimate friends that they have little or no hope of her complete recovery. The physicians no longer conceal their anxiety and practically admit that the ! case has gone beyond the point where medical or human skill can avail much. The words of one of the physicians Is that while there » life (here is hope, bus

t it Is k rare oxcentanco when a person affected with consumption, as Mrs. Harrison now is. recovers from the disease. I Loon Lago special: Mrs. Harrison had ■ another bad turn. An examination by J the doctors showed an increase of fluid . ' in chest cavity, and the attendant symptoms were so alarming It was found necessary to perform another operation to relieve her sufferings. Washington special: A Cabinet officer has just received a dispatch from Loon Lake, saying: “Mrs. Harrison’s condition has changed for the worse. The end is ______ BOILER EXPLOSION Kills Seven Persons Outright ami Badly Injures Twenty. A terrible boiler explosion occurred in Force & Dickinson's stave mill at Staples, a village on the Leamington & St. Clair Railway, four miles from Toronto, Ont, by which seven men were instantly killed, ono fatally injured and about twenty hurt. The dead are John Ewing, Michael Dupuis, Joseph Papineau, Isaiah Chauvin, Jerome Chauvin (last two being brothers), W. P. Daust, and Maiso Ouiette. J. Boone is fatally scalded. Thecause of the explosion Is not definitely known. Some contend the exploded boiler was old and unfit for use. The boiler was carried fully 200 feet passing in its flight between two residences. Bricks and other debris were carried in all directions, but houses in the neighborhood escaped with few broken windows. The two Chauvins and Daust were single men, all the others were married with families depending upon them for support Gen. Mlles Makes a Very Vigorous Report. Gen. Nelson A. Miles’ annual report of the condition of affairs in the department of the Missouri has been forwarded to Washington. One of the most important features of the report is said to be a lengthy statement regarding the swindling operations of a ring of lawyers who are said to have gotten 567.000 from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians on a pretense that they had settled certain Indian claims against the Government. Gen. Miles, ever since he sent Captain Lee tp investigate these alleged steals, has steadfastly adhered to the belief that the deal was a barefaced robbery, and it is understood that he has said so in very vigorous language in his report Captain Lee made his investigation and found that there had been many suspicious transactions in the negotiations with the Indians. He sent a lengthy statement to Washington. Four Days on a Halifax (N. S.) special: Three members of the crew of the British bark Hope, wrecked in a gale on August 22, were brought to this port having been rescued from a raft off the Grand Banks, after floating four days. Their captain, David Jenkins, the mate and four of the crew were drowned. The vessel was turned completely over in the gale and the crew made a raft of the lumber with which the vessel was laden. One by one they were washed off until the boatswain, William Reese, and Seamen Arthur Jolliffe and John Nichols remained. They floated four days without food or drink and their sufferings were intense. The Louisiana Lottery. Honolulu is greatly wrought up over the proposal to transfer the Louisiana lottery to that place. A bill has been introduced in the legislature gran ting the lottery company a twenty-five year franchise for $500,000 a year, this money to be applied to certain specified public purposes, the first of which is to cable to America. The applicants are D. H. Cross of Chicago, W. B. Davenport of St. Louis, and three Honolulu capitaiits. The missionaries and ndarly all reputable foreigners oppose the project, ' and large mass meetings have been held to protest against it. but the measure will probably become a l>w. His Bowels Torn from His Abdomen. Mr. John Poinsette, a well-known j farmer, was returning to his home, j three miles east of Fort Wayne, in com- | pany with a neighbor, John McCormick. ( The two men were walking along the , road when Charles Dunn drove up be- , hind them and tried to pass. His horses became frightened and becoming unmanageable, ran away, running down Poinsette and McCormick, injuring both I men terribly. McCormick’s injuries are , not fatal, but Poinsette's abdomen was ( torn open, disemboweling him. When . picked up his entrails and liver were ex- . posed to view. He cannot recover. Ground to Pieces. F. J. Nichols, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Newark, N. J., and Wllliafn Stevens, of No. 34 Lum street, were 1 almost instantly killed by a train on the I Newark and New York branch of the < Central Railroad of New Jersey. Both i were old men. They had started to walk i to the Passaic River to spend the day 1 crabbing. To take a more direct route thev used the elevated railroad track. When the train came along the men could not get off the elevatca bridge, 1 and the engine struck and crushed them into a shapeless mass. The bodies were 1 taken to the Morgue. ' Five Children Cremated. 1 At Missouri Valley, lowa, the house of Mrs. Ekeuaeh, a widow, was discovered on fire and before aid could be secured the house was destroyed and in it four . small children were cremated. Two , families oecflpied the house, one living upstairs. The fire originated on the second floor from a gasoline stove which was being filled. Before giving an alarm the stove was thrown down stairsand started the fire below, which made it impossible to reach the room where the children slept Prompt assistance of the fire company saved adjoining buildings. | A Colored Fiend Hung by a Mob. A negro named James Thompson made I t brutal attempt to outrage Miss Mabel ■ Welch at her boarding house, Larned, Kas. The brute entered her room and with a knife in his mouth fought for two hours to accomplish his purpose, but failed. The skin was peeled off her arms, neck and face,- and her hands were badly cut by grasping the blade of the knife. Thompson was arrested in the swamps about seven miles west of the city. He was taken from the j*fi bv a mob of 200 men and hanged to a telegraph pole one mile north of the city. Hi ought to Have Gone Down. Alpena (Mich,) special: The propeller Josephine IL has arrived here and reports loss of the schooner Thomas Parker, which was the Josephine's tow. The Parker parted her line In Saginaw bay about twenty-five miles up from point An Bartues. The last seen, of the Parker she was standing on the port tack. She had on 1,400 tons of coal and was bound for Chicago, AU ports have been wired, but she has not been heard from and it is feared that, she went down I in the gale and that all on board have been lost. Child Murder by the Wholesale. London special: A wholesale system of.chlld murder has been uncovered. In the house of Mary Ann Hall, the police found a trunk in which were the remains of several bodies. Lime and chemicals sufficient for the disposal of hundreds of bodies was also found. Mary Ann, who is a midwife, was arrested while throwing the body of aa iufant In v the river. b

■ There seems to bo but little doubt that ■ many more crimes have been committed In the house. . RuMlan Town Burned. [ Warsaw special: A dispatch received . here from Olkusse, a town of about 2,500 . inhabitants, situated twenty-throe miles , northwest of Irucow, status that a most disastrous conflagration has occurred . there, destroying the greater part of the. town. The people whose houses were , not burned are affording shelter to the unfortunates who have lost all their possessions, but outside assistance will be necessary to prevent great suffering. Freight Train* Collide, A wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad near Princeton Junction, N. J., by which thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed or damaged and four men so badly injured that it is thought they will die. Two freight trains, running at a high rate of speed, collided, demolishing both engines and many cars, and piling the tracks high with wreckage. All the injured men are employes of the railroad. ' Terrific Collision. A terrific collision occurred five miles north of Hamilton, Ohio, between two freights on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. They were fast trains and met with full force. The trains took fire and the conflagration was seen for miles. It was reported that both engineers and one fireman were cremated in the wreck but a later report states that no one was killed. Tho property loss will be very heavy. Murderer Arrested. f Kalamazoo (Mich.) special: Detective L. D. Hart 2 veldt, of the United States Secret Service, has just arrested George Morgan with several aliases, wanted for the murder of his wife and sister on June 21, 1889, at De Fnniak Springs, Fla. Big rewards were offered and Hartzxeldt will retire rich. Ho has followed Morgan all over the United States, and located him in tho guise of a farm hand near this city. The Peary Exploring Party. The Kite, with Lieutenant Peary’s party on board, has left St John, N. F., for New York and Philadelphia. The plans of the party as to their future movements have not yet been settled. Peary says he would not object to making another Artic exploring trip. Ho believes there is no permanent open sea between Greenland and Pole, but there are several detached bodies of land. Thought It Was Death and His Scythe. A balloon passing over Passenheim, Austria, terrified the peasants, who believed it was an embodiment of tho plague. The people in tho fields fell on their knees groaning, “Tho cholera is coming.” When the aeronauts landed near the village the people fled to their houses, crossing themselves and shouting that thev had seen death with his scythe in the car. Garfield Park Cases Dismissed. Justice Glennon discharged the 171 prisoners arrested in the Garfield raid at Chicago. The justice held that the city’s case rested on the unconstitutionality of the law of 1887 permitting betting in race track enclosures, and as he could not undertake to pass upon constitutionalquestions there was no other course tor him to adopt but to discharge the prisoners. Both Shot to Death. Two farmers named Peter Richardson and Hiram Featherstone, who had had a long standing grndge against each other, met in the little town of Terre Bonne, Mo., and after some angry words, pulled pistols and began firing at each other. Richardson was shot in the head and died in his tracks, and Featherstone received a mortal wound. The Work of Cracksmen. Masked men robbed the safe at the Duiany Clock Works, Valparaiso. Ind. The night watchman was gagged and bound with ropes and the safe was broken into in a manner that indicated the work of professionals. The plunder consisted of about SIOO In money and many valuable papers. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Brigands Bob a Priest. A dispatch from Cagliari, Sardinia, says that thirty armed brigands attacked the residence of the Parish priest of Zeddax and stole all the money and valuables they could find. The priest and a Servant were badly wounded, and a villager who came to their assistance was shot dead. Beheaded by an Elevator. James Holland, an elevator boy employed at the Pacific Hotel, St. Joseph, Mo., had his head cut off by the falling of a passenger elevator. The youth was attempting to repair the machine when it dropped and caught his body between its side and the floor. ■p ■ —————— Over Niagara .Falls In a Barrel. Bridge Jumper Meredith Stanley of Cincinnati, proposes to float over Niagara Falls in a barrel of strong oak well hooped and covered with copper. It Is eight feet long and six feet in diameter, the Inside being padded, and is now ready for use. Yellow Fever at New Orleans. A telegram from New Orleans announces that the British steamer, May, from Vera Cruz had arrived at quarantine with four cases of yellow fever on board. THE MARKETS. ’ 0 CHICAGO. Cattle—Corpmon to Prime,,... fa.so @5.75 Hous—.Shipping Grades 3.50 @575 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4.00 ©6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 73 © .7* Cobn-No. 2 ...... 46Jo@ .47’4 Oats—No. 1 .34'i Rye—No. 2 50 © .57 BuTTEß—Choice Creamery 23 © .26 Egos—Fbbsh is @ .19 Potatoes—New, per bu 55 @ .60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 5.25 HOOS— CBolce Light 3.50 © 5.50 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 © .71 Cobn—No. 1 White 40 © .51 Oats—No. 2 White, new 35 & .36 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Roos 3.50 © 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 6» © .62 Cobn—No. 2 43 © .44 Oats—No. 2 2s © .30 Bye—No. 2.. 51 © .53 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 ©4.75 Hoos 3.00 @ 5.50 SHEEP 3.00 © 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 7214© .7314 COBN—No. 2 60 © .61 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 3454© .:«>)£ Rye—No. 2 .56 © .56!, DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 © 4.50 Hogs 3.00 © e.26 Sheep 3.00 © 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 73 @ .76 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 48)4© .49!4 Oats—No. 2 White 35 © .36 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 76 © .77 Cobn—No. 2 White 47!4© .48)4 Oats—No. 2 White 32)4© .33’3 Rye oo & .61 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 8.00 ©4.50 Hoos—Best Grades 4.00 © 6.73 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 85 © .86 Cobs—No. 2.. 31)4© .52)4 MILWAUKEE Wheat—No.2 Spring 09 © .71 Cobn-No. 8 U <S .47 Oats—No. 2 White 33 © .30 Bye—No. 1 59 © .60 Babley—No. 2 >. 03 © .64 POBK-Meu 9.73 ©10.23 NEW YORK. Cattle ..... s.so ©5.13 Hoos . 8.00 © «.« Sheep...., (.so ©5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Bed 80 © .81 Cobn—No. 2.. 57 © .58 QAW-Mtosd We5tern........... M © M

■ | PECK PUNCTURED Hl3 .BOOMERANG REPORT Ol> WAGES. 1 , 1 “Preconceived Theories." Grave Mlacnn oeptlona, Childlah Credulity, Fallaolou Reasoning and Illogical ConclualonaProteoted Manehtclnrora’ Statlatlca Ueo< 1 to Provo What Dvinoerala Neither Al , firm nor Deny. AbenrdlUea ul *l «ok'» Report. What is this report of Labor Commie sloner Charles F. I’eok of New Yorl Which President Harrison Is quoting and . about which tho Republicans an making as much fuss us if it were thi , only really valuable piece of campaigt material that they have gotten hold o this year? 1. What did Mr. Peck at tempt to show? 2. What did ho thin) would show (his? 3. How did ho obtUli the required Information? 4. What fig. ures or facts did he obtain? 5. What d< and do not these figures prove? 1. Mr. Peck attempted t*> show “th< effect of ths tariff on labor and wages in order that voters might know whethei a “protective tariff” or a "tariff for revenue only" is to be preferred. 2. He evidently assun.od and thought that increased production and earnings would show that the effects of the higi protective tariff act of 1890 was beneficial to labor. This was a violent assumption on the part of Mr. Peck, and is not creditable to him as a statistician, a logician or a Democrat. There might be a dozen different causes for eithoi high or low production or earnings, the most important of which might have no connection directly or indirectly with tariffs. For example, bountiful rains and favorable weather in 1891 produced good crops here when there was a scarcity abroad. T' is caused unusual returns for our crops and a boom in business in no way due to any tariff act. Tho low price of cotton made cotton mills prosperous, and made more hours, days, find nights ’ work for spinners, weavers, etc. Such causes as these may, and probably do, account for most of the increased production and earnings—which are by no means synonomous with increased wages and may mean more work for more pay, the rate of wages being the same or even lower, but Mr. Peck sees nothing except the tariff in all this. He had a “preconceived theory" which makes the tariff responsible for prosperity or depression in business; and though he pretends to be a Democrat, yet it is evident that he is neither a Democrat nor does he understand Democratic doctrine on the tariff question. Democrats do not claim (as his report assumes) that “protection” will entirely prevent Increased production and earnings or that it will raise or lower nominal wages. They simply claim that it has little or nothing to do witli high or low wages, but that it does have much to do with the amount of goods that can be purchased with wages. But on this most important phase of the subjeetMr. Peck is silent—except that he mentions the omission in a manner that would indicate that It is comparatively unimportant. That his "preconceived theories" were in favor of “protection" is obvious from his statement in the New York Tribune of Sept. 3, in which he says: “I see that protection is a good thing for the manufacturers, and I know also that the manufacturers would not pay higher prices for their labor if it were not for the unions. By means of protection labor is able to enforce the demands that it makes upon the manufacturers." Os course there is but little connection—except in the minds of Mr. Peck and other protectionists—between a duty’ on manufactured goods and wages. This report that has “knocked the Chicago platform silly" and “raised the hopes of the Republicans 10 per cent." is then but the halffledged and illogical conception of a protectionist. In the name of Democracy it seeks to prove or disprove the Republican claim that prosperity is impossible without “protection,” whereas Democrats do not deny that in a country like this—the biggest free trade country in the world when territory is considered —considerable prosperity may accompany even McKinley protection. 3. Notice, now, how Mr. Peck went to work to obtain the data which was to settle this tariff discussion. “Some 'B,OOO blanks,” he,says, “were addressed and mailed to as many separate establishments throughout tho State.” A circular letter informed thi 1 manufacturers that “the information received would be used only in a general way, so that the business of any individual firms would not be recognized. ” Thus guaranteed against detection, 6,000 of these protected manufacturers and zealous Republicans did their duty to. their country and themselves by fixing the figures which should leave no doubt as to the effects of McKinleyism, and sent them to Mr. Peck, the gentleman who possesses a medal for his ability to display figures, and who deserves one for his methods of collecting them. But what of the 2,000 who did not reply toT’eck’s circular, “How do you do, beneficiaries of McKinley?" Why did they not reply? Could they not make figures expressive of their gratitude to McKinley, or did they not have faith in Peck, and believe that he would keep his promise to shield them from exposure by withholdingall names from the public? It would be interesting to learn why they did not reply, and what their replies would have-been. But perhaps they would have spoiled the report for Republican purposes, ip which case this campaign would have been tame and uninteresting. Credulous Mr. Peck! He has tho same Implicit confidence in the unverified figures of these interested manufacturers that the American Economist had when it obtained, by the same methods, its list of twenty-eight McKinley wage advances. But unfortunately for it, tho Economist gave names arid locations so that an investigation was possible. The Reform Club at once got the facts in each case and proved that there had been far more wage reductions in those mills than advances, and that instead of supplying reliable information the manufacturers had treated the Economist to a collection of falsehoods. Senator Aldrich is another over-cred-ulous protectionist statistician. When he wished to annihilate Hon. John DeWitt Warner’s list of “100 tariff trusts" ho sent out blanks to protected manufacturers asking them to state whethei or not they were members of trusts. Os course, in the face of criminal statutes and public opinion, the manufacturers strenuously denied that they were in a trust—Jn many cases where they were dodging from ono State to appther. under > aliases, to escape prosecution, or where the courts had declared that they had a trust. But Aldrich paraded their denials in the Congressional Record, and apparently believes these millionaire monopolists incapable of coloring facts. As the New Yolk World puts It, Mr. Peck’s report was made, like the McKinley tariff law, by the manufacturers —by the people who expect to reap the benefits. They first prepared the bill, and are now reporting on its effect in the State of New York. In aid of this pretty scheme Mr. Peck refuses to make public tho letters on which h«. bases his assertion. 4. Mr. Peck’S figures show a net Increase of production of $31,315,130, and of wages of MJ177.925 in 1891 over 1890—523.11 to eMh of the 285,000 em-

■ i ployes, or $43.90 to each employe In the • 61 trades showing Increased wages, there being 89,717 instances of indl4 vldual increases. 5. Supposing that these statistics are correct, they show that from some cause, or causes, perhape good crops, or it may • bis, increased prices for manufactured • goods, tho value of manufactured prod- - uots has Increased $31,000,000, about ;• one-fifth of which has gone to labor, ’■ probably work done, and four-fnths rests snugly in tho pookota of protected manufacturers. That Mr. Pock should jump at the conclusion that this increase in earnings meant Increased rates of c wages, and that these were due to a • tariff law, is unbecoming to him as a 1 statistician and inconsistent with his past 9 records. In 1888, 1989, and 1890 he at- ! trlbutad wage increases to labor organr izatlona, strikes, and national prosperity. c These statistics also contradict those 1 of the Benate Committee—obtained with ’ considerable ears—which show that ’ wages have advanced somewhat in fifteen unprotected industries, but have ’ fallen slightly in fifteen highly protected ! Industries. In many industries the statistics appear to be entirely inconsistent with previous and with contemporaneous statisties and to depend largely upon tho elasticity of the consciences of tho 1 makers. ’ Thus tho average yearly wages in the agricultural implements in- . dustry for 1890 is $654.30 in New York and $419.10 in Massachusetts —a difference greater than usually exists between wages in this and in European countries —and yet these two States have the 1 same tariff law. In the second Industry ’ mentioned (arms and ammunition) the average yearly wages in 1890 were $561.45 in Massachusetts and $492.42 in New York. Tho third (artificial teeth) ’ shows yearly wages of $554.48 in Massachusetts and $192 in New York, but . notwithstanding this tremendous difference the high-priced labor of Massachusetts competes with the pauper labor of New York. But by 1891 wages in this industry had inereased to $254,45— that is, from about 65 to 80 cents a day. Analysis of othei industries shows the same glaring inconsistencies and demonstrates the utter worthlessness of such statistics, except for Republican campaign purposes. But there are, as Mr. J. Schoenhof had shown, important and significant omissions in Peek’s list of protected industries. Three of these are the highly protected and exceedingly important industries of cotton goods, hats and caps, etc., and iron and steel products. In these, both the number of employes and their annual earnings had declined heavily from 1870 to 1880. Here are the census tables (in thousands): 1879. 1880. No. of No. of Wages, bauds. Wages, hands. Cotton goods t2,ffl» V,U4 $2,218 9,900 Hats, caps. etc... 2,630 3,870 2,153 5,213 Iron and steel products 9.900 18,684 4,991 13,567 Totals $15,150 33.689 9.3 M 28,680 The average per hand employed is as follows: 1870. 1880. Doc. Cotton goods ...$287 $224 $63 Hats, capts. etc 446 41s 33 Iron and steel products SUB 370 153 The increase in the valu,o of the products is no greater, in fact less, than the United States statistics would indicate. If space would permit, many other surface inconsistencies and incongruities could be pointed out, but the one thing most desired by critics is the names and locations of firms where wage increases have occurred. Let these be given and the falsity of the whole list will soon be exposed, for the alleged advances are contrary to the experience and knowledge of the employes. Mr. Peck invites the closest scrutiny of the figures in his office, but he declares he will permit no one to see the names attached. Hence it is probable that his tables will be quoted by Republicans until the November elections. They may give Republicans something to talk about and to buoy up their hopes, but, as individual experiences are that it is more difficult to earn a living now than before 1890, this crude and garbled report of Mr. Peck is likely to prove a failure as a vote getter for the Republicans. The Pauper Labor Germ. If the Republican party—that Is, the protected manufacturers —really want to legislate to protect American workmen against the pauper labor of Europe, it will ask its president to continue indefinitely the twenty days’ quarantine now placed on passengers from Europe. The immigrants have nothing to sell when they land here, but labor, and the continual stream of this commodity pouring into this country tends to keep wages down to the European level, just as certainly as several connected bodies of water will tend to a common level. Break the connection and it is possible for one body of water to become and remain higher than the others. Stop immigration and it is possible for wages—piece wages—to become and remain higher here than in Europe. There is some dpubt, however, jf this is the intention of the n anufacturers. The last thing they would think of doing would bo to put up the barriers between their mills and the cheap labor of ropean labor is cheaper than American they want free access to it, and they have it and use it to displace American iab'or. “Don’t stop immigration,” says Andrew Carnegie, “there is room here and work for all immigrants.” And the laborers have been thirty years in getting their eyes open so that they could see this farce! Steel Rails. The thirty-six steel-rail makers in the United States produced in 18»9 1,513,045 tons, on which they had protection to pay the “difference in wages” of sl7 to $20,16 per ton. This at sl7 was equal to $25,721,765 to pay the “difference in wages.” But the actual total wages paid per ton in in 1890 was $5.30, and tho total wages for 1889 was less than $8,019,138, enabling the thirty-six rail-makers to steal from the trust fund for wages $17,702,627, and get their labor free of cost. The McKinley bill has reduced their protec- f tlon to $13.44 per ton. reducing their' stealings from their workmen, but the wages paid per ton t has also been reduced. What Is true of the protected steelrail maker is true of every other really protected employer. He has absolute pauper labor,-supported by public contributions, an 1 his profit conies mainly from what he steals from his woikmen. For them to resibt the robbery of them is “against the law.”—T. E. Wilson. Harrluon’n Pett.l fogging: Lottor. Mr. Harrison seems to Ihink that it is at onoe cunning and fair for want of sufficient argu nent to make wry faces at the opposing counsel. A couple of instances will suffice to show his temper, and we refer our readers to the | letter for tho rest, He deliberately : talks about “the nllianeo between the i Welsh producers uni tho Democratic I party for the destruction" of t n-plate I industry. He knows that buc'i an'"ulii- 1 ance” does not exist, t'.igt it has never . been thought Off, and that it would be impracticable. That does not hie charging it upon the ma ority of h s ! feilow-eitlseae, who by every jjo#»ibie ~ test areas patriotic and as incapable

of plotting injury to their country, at least, at ho la. In tho second place h« accuses the Demoeratlo party of advocating the repeal of the tax on State bank note*, “with a view" of causing “• flood of local bank issue*” of the kind that we had thirty-five years ago. Mr, Harrison knows very little about banking, as he has sometimes confessed, but he can hardly be so densely Ignorant al to think that the bank Issues of 1859 can ever be revived In this country, and he knows that tbelr revival was never within the “view" of the Democratic party.—Nuw York. Times. Sugar-Trust Fronts. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter of Sent 1 save: “Tho American Sugar Refining Company is at present making a profit 61 sso,(Kill a day. It Is working on raw sugar bought at considerably loss than the present quotation, and until It gets on to its stock recently acquired its profits will continue at the rate mentioned above. In addition to the low price of the raw which it is now refining, the company is getting the highest price for refined sugar in eighteen months, or since April, 1891. At that time it was getting 4j| cents per pound, the quotation to-aay. The course pursued by refined sugar since April, 1891, hue been interesting. That was the time when the duty went off of raw sugar, and the wholesale grocers throughout the country made it a point to be out of refined sugar Maron 31, The demand after April 1 therefore was very heavy, and the American Company, by holding the umbrella over its competitors, as it could well afford to do, kept the price of, refined at a Idgh figure. When, however, the immediate demand was ratisfied, competition began to get in its work, and the price went down to 4 cents, when the outside refineries could stand the strain no longer and sold out to the American Company. Freed from competition, the latter has worked the price up to the old figure. Until . new competition springs up, the American Company is likely to have everything its own way.” It then mentions the fact that “the proposed McCahn refinery in Philadelphia has been given up," and that the Mollenhauer refinery, soon to be started up, is the only new competitor. This will have a capacity of 1,500 barrels a day; the Revere refinery, with only 1,000 barrels capacity (less than 2 per cent, of our consumption), is the only refinery now even suspected of being outside the trust. The sugar trust, by depressing the price of raw and elevating the price of refined sugar, is leaving Itself a big margin for profit. Tho actual cost of refining is lees than j of a cent per pound, .and this was about the difference in the prices of raw and refined sugars when the refiners were so foolish as to actually compete with each other before 1887. Now, however, they are soiling refined sugar at 4$ cents that cost them raw but 3 1-16 cents, leaving a margin of over 1 cent per pound as clear profit. This, instead of . being $50,000 a day, is over SIOO,OOO or at the rate- of about $40,000,000 a year, fully 150 per cent, on the actual capital invested in plants not held idle. Without the duty of J cent on refined sugar, which curses all except the holders of sugar-trust stock, the profits could not for any length of time exceed J cent per pound. The removal of this inexcusable duty is one of the urgent necessities of the hour. Wool. Congress pushes the button; the trust does the rest. Wh< n domestic production makes the market price, 'tne duty does not protect and the trust must collect the plunder. The 2,000,000 farmers producing wool cannot form a trust and collect their “nroteotlon boodle* of 11 cents per pound from their customers, the manufacturers,' but the manufacturers can and do collect from their customers, the people, not only tho 11 cents per pound on the wool In their cloth, but 11 cents on each pound of shoddy as well. This Is their compensatory protection, and they have 45 per cent, additional to pay “difference in ■wages." They rob the farmer of every cent. He must sell to them at the foreign value of his wool to save himself the cost of foreign freight. Some send their Wool abroad to get a better price. Here are our exports of wool for six years past: 1836..... 2,138,080 1887 257,940 1888 22,164 1889 141,376 1890 231.042 1891 291,922 Would our American farmers have sent this wool abroad for sale in foreign markets if the price here had not been under the price abroad? No American farmer ever received 1 cent more per ton for his wool because of a duty on foreign wool, because the price here was made by his own competition, and he had no trust to fix prices and collect boodle; but the woolen-mill owner has collected and pocketed every penny of the farmer’s protection, because he had a trust to fix prices and I collect the money.— T. E. Wilson. Great Wreck—2B3,ooo Mon Lout! Immediately upon the appearance of the Report of Labor Commissioner Pock, announcing that 285,000 workingmen in New York State had had their wages increased an average of $23 year by tho McKinley bill, the Utica Observer began a search for a Utica man whojiad fallen heir to $23 worth of McKinley stock. It left plenty of space in its columns and invited workingmen to come forward and announce their good luck. No one came. The Lockport Union followed the example and issued the same invitation. No answer. The Rochester Union and Advertiser searched Rochester and found no one of the 285,000 men in that city. The Oswego Palladium turned the search light on the workingmen in Oswego, and no man with $33 of McKinley tariff money is discovered. The Albany Argus invited every one of Peck’s army of happy workingmen residing in Albany to come forward and tell of it No ono came. Then it sent reporters to the big protected manufactories in Albany and found no one. Other papers in New York are prosecuting the search with vigor, but with no better success. It is now feared that Mr. Peck’s renort is a total wreck and that all of the 285,000 men supposed to have been on board are lost —to the Republican party. . Shooting Hoth Way*. Next to the report on production and wages in New York which is compiled from the replies of protected manufacturers in Peck’s Implied question: “How are you and your employes getting on under McKinleyism?” President Harsison’s letter of acceptance is just now attracting more attention from Republicans than any other document. With such ammunition as this the double-bar-reled “protection and reciprocity” guns —loaded to shoot in opposite directions —will have no trouble in dispersing any free trade mob that can collect on protected American soil. “Os 297 Popes, 4 were strangled in prisdn, 18 were known to have been poisoned, and 42 met with other forms of-violent death. The disposition to give a cup. of cold W’ltiTr tv nu’Sviplßina fai uuvjvf erty than the finest intellect.—Howells.

NEW YORK IS INFECTED BIX DEATHS FROM CHOLERA INOOTHAM. Flnt Cm* Dl»cov«r«<1 Two Wook* Ag»~ Health Offiolal* I’rof.M HurprlM and Claim That tho Port Did Not Qua» antlne—Ofllolal Anuounoomoufc No Doubt Now. It has developed that, despite th» stringent quarantine, the heroic efforts of the National and State Govornmentw end the Oft repeated declarations of the ' Board of Health to the contrary, the much-dreaded plague has found a foothold in New York City, and has already many victims. Not only did it develop that tho cholera had effected a landing, but that tho landing was effected at least two weeks ago, the fact having j been kept from the public. That the fact was mode public was due to an accident—a slip of the tongue of an attache of the health office, while notifying his superiors of tho discovery of a new ease. Daily representatives of the press have asked tho officers of the Board of Health if tho disease had showed any signs of breaking out in.the city, and even up to tho morning of tho above reported discovery were answered In the negative. When pressed, however, and presented with evidence that their secret was a secret no longer, they reluctantly admitted that they were “investigating tho cases of a number of persons who had died under circumstances which led them to fear that choleraic germs might be present." They could give no definite reply to ths question, "Is there cholera in New York?" however, until they had received the report of the bacteriologists making the tost examinations. Ntaine* of the Victim*. The names of the victims, so far as could be learned, are as follows: Chables MoAvoy, plasterers’ assistant, 35 years old. ' - Mbs. Sophia Wigman, died at No. 768 Eleventh avenue. William Wigman, husband of Sophia Wigman, died at tho same address. Minnie Levingeb, 20 months old, died at No. 411 East Forty-sixth street. Chablotta Beck, 30 years old, died at No. 1764 Second avenue. Peter Callahan, an unmarried stableman, who boarded with his sister at No. 318 East Forty-seventh street, died after an illness of four days; 30 years of age. It was admitted that there were a number of suspected cases now under investigation, but tho names or locations of the victims would not be divulged. Tho reason ussigned by tho officers for their reticence was that they had no desire whatever to create a panic until they were absolutely certain that Cholera Asiatica really was the cause of death in the cases under Investigation. Whatever donbt may have existed In - the minds of tho health officers as to the presence of cholera in the city was dispelled when tho following reports from the bacteriologists who hod made examinations of the cases were handed in. llactorlologUU’ Report.. Cabnegie Labobatoby. 388 East 24th street. To Charles G. Wilson, President of the Board of Health. Sib—We would respectfully report that very careful biological examinations of the intestinal contents from the body of Charles MoAvoy. who died Sept. 6, have been completed. Autopsy showed anatomical lesion of aporadio cholera, but the biological examination proves that the splritum of Asiatic cholera wm present In the intestines. We, therefore, declare tho case one of Asiatic cholera. Respectfully submitted, HBbmann Biggs, _ Edwabd K. DvnHaM. To Charles G. Wilson, President of the Health Department: Sib—Mrs. Sophia Wigman. whose body was referred to us to determine the esnse of death, died of Cholera Asiatica, as has been shown by the biological examination of the intestinal discharges taken before death. No reliable conclusions could be drawn from tho postmortem or biological examination jnade after death in this case, or of her husband. Wm. Wig-. man. and both bodies have been embalmed. Wc have no doubt, however, that the cause Os death in both cases was the same. Tho biological examination in the case of the child. Minnie Levlnger, also shows that the cause of death was Cholera Asiatica. Respectfully submitted. Hsbbmann Biggs Edwabd K. Dunham. On receipt of these reports bulletins were issued setting forth the fact* regarding the presence of the scourge and its work, as given above. The physi- | clans say that they have been unable to | account for the presence of cholera I germs in the cases mentioned, as none I of the'dead persons had been infected I in any known way. Every precaution I had been taken in each instance to pre- I vent the further spread of the disease. I The clothing and bedding of each pa- 1 tient had been burned, and the houses I in each case placed under strict quaran- I tine. Thus far no secondary case* I have been discovered in the premises I occupied by the victims. In the official I bulletin it was stated that the body of I a woman who had died under suspicious- I circumstances was being investigated, I and that but ono now case had been re- I ported. Tho bulletin further said that I all suspected cases of cholera reported I wore being very carefully watched. j Fear* Excllotl Ra’hcr Tlinn Allwyed. H The fact that the board admits that I other cases exist and refuses to publish I their location has an effect contrary to I that which tho secrecy is intended to Ij produce. Instead of allaying, it tends I to excite, tho fears of the people, and I keeps them in a condition bordering on I a panic. 1 The question uppermost in the minds H of tho people who are alivo to the situa- I tion is, “How did the disease effect a H landing if not through quarantine?" The fact that the victims had in no way I been brought in contact with persons or H things which might have communicated E the Rerms makes the question hard to- I answer. Dr. Jenkins was interviewed I at quarantine. He betrayed the I greatest surprise when told of the || ravages of the plague in the city, but I expressed the greatest confidence that 9 It had not gone in through the cordon 9 he had established to keep it out. He I said, however, that the best authorities. I m the world had set it down as an I axiom that the most stringent and com- H plete quarantine regulations could claim 9 to prevent but .70 per cent, of the possl-' 9 billtlos of the introduction of a disease ■ Into a country, quarantine having no- 9 control over the other 30 per Cent. He II said it was possible for a person who 9 had been contaminated to infect others ■ without himself feeling any bad effects. I from his contamination. | CHUlloned to Keep Cool. W The health officers are very fearful B that the knowledge of the presence of B the plague in the city will cause a gen- B eral exodus of those who can afford to. B leave the city, and a panic of fear B among those who must, perforce, re* B main, and said that there was very lit- II tie danger of an epidemic if people B would only keep cool and think more- B of carefully regulating their manner of B living and less of the cholera. Presi- II dent Wilson said that there was no B occasion for excitement In the cHy, as B the cholera would not become'epl- B demic. There was a possibility that It. A would exist in sporadic form for sixty H days or such a matter, until cool if weather sets in and stamps out the dis- H ease altogether. a The New York World breathlessly H asks: “Who is the most remarkable ■ woman in this country?” A million | husbands out West could answer if/ H they were not too modest. B —— — diet always talk whomever think,—■ ■ Prior. ■