Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 December 1894 — Page 2

Chcfike County Ijemorrat M. X«0. 8TOOP8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. ... INDIANA. Thk house of repfesentatives, on the 11th, {tossed the railroad pooling bill bj a vote of yeas 166, nays 110. Further withdrawals of gold, from the New York sub-treasury^ an the 13th, reduced the gold reserve to \ slightly above 8101,138,032. Thk government of Uruguay proposes to issue an edict against the admission of undesirable immigrants. The law will be similar to that of the United States. Thk gold reserve on the evening of the 14th stood at 886,341,881. The day’s withdrawals amounted to 84.873,000, of which amount 81,630,000 was known to be for export ! Telegrams received at Sandusky, O., on the 12th, indicate the loss of the schooner Mary Amelia and her crew, which left Port Huron November 27 for that port with a cargo of lath. The failures in the United States' for the week ended on the 14th were 349, against 339 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures were 40, against 42 last year. , Miss Mary Stewart Sherman, daughter of Senator John Sherman, was married, on the 12th, in W ashington city, to John Iver McCallum, an attache of the United States supreme court. __ The old Jumel mansion in New York city, occupied during the revolutionary war by Gen. Washington as headquarters, was damaged to the extent of $1,000 by fire on the night of the 13th. [ The Brazilian government has lately acknowledged the claims of French, Italian and German citizens, but can not arrive at any definite settlement at present, owing to the critical state of the treasury._ _ A dispatch from Hiroshima says a detachment of the Japanese second army occupied Foo-Chow, on the 5th, without meeting any opposition, the Chinese garrison, 5,p<>0 strong, retreating to New Chwang. A warrant was sworn out, on -the 12th, against the officers of the Pocahontas Cotton Mill Co., of Petersburg, "®^Va., charging them with violating the laws of the state, in working women and children more than ten hours a day. __ The marriage of Prince Adolphus of Teck, brother of the duchess of York, to Lady Margaret Grosvenor, daughter of the duke of Westminster, the richest peer in Great Britain, took plaqa^in the chapel at Eaton Hill, Chester, on the 12th. Ira Ward, born in Connecticut, t April *9, 1796, and his wife, Hannah Graves Crumpton Ward, born in Vermont, October 11, 1798, are living on a farm near New Hudson, Vt. They were married November 16, 1817, sev-j enty-seven years ago. Ex-Presideij# Vincent Cuapra, of Nicaragua, died on the 13th. lie was an able statesman, his admin^a*ution being noted for the progress tfee country made and the reforms instituted by him. He retained office until^ he was 75 years old, when he was succeeded by Pedro Chamorro.

Tiie ex-parte examination in the William Plankinton bank tease in Milwaukee, on the 14th, disclosed the fact that the bank, in the opinion of ex-Na-tiopal Bank Examiner Sturgis, was hopelessly insolvent from the first day of January, 1898, to the day it closed its doors. May 31, 1898. Miss Virginia Stuart Mosby, the Virginia authoress, and daughter of Col. John Singleton Mosby, the famous confederate guerrilla, was married at Fairfax, Va., on the 11th, to Mr. Watson Coleman, private secretary of Representative Lafe Pence, member of congress from Colorado. The Manchester (England) Guardian said, on the 11th, that as the result of a conference between Lord Rosebery and Lord Kimberley the British government demanded absolute freedom in the matter of reporting upon the situation in Armenia, and that the demand wasatonce conceeded by Turkey. It was announced, on the 12th, that one set of the shops of the Michigan Peninsular Car Co. at Detroit ifrould start up January 1, probably, or before February 1 at the latest. The 6hops will be run to their average capacity, but it was yet uncertain whether they could be kept running all through next year. Mrs. Minnie Jefferson, or “Granny” Jefferson, as she is familiarly called, was reported dying at the residence of her grandson, Charles Davis, in New l^ork'city, on the 11th. “Granny” was born on the plantation owned by * Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, at Shad well, Albemarle county,'Va., on March 20,1785. Workmen engaged in digging a canal from the city of New Orleans to Lake Ponehartrain excavated two stumps, on the 10th, at a depth of nine feet from the surface, in each of which was imbedded a 0-pound cannon ball, fired from Packenham’s cannon during the battle of New Orleans in 1815. The identity of the balls is proven by the stamp of the maker, still visible. Comprehensive plans for the immediate reorganization of the police department of Chicago on a civil service basis, were submitted to Mayor Hopkins, on the 11th, by Jghn W. Ela, John H. Hamline and Harry Reubens, the members of the commission appointed by the mayor. It was expected that within a week the department would be under the administration of the new board •

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS 19 BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. tSecond Session.] IK the senate, on the loth, the main feature of interest was Mr. Morgan's speech favoring the Nicaragua canal hill. Mr. Mitchell (Ore.) also favored the bill, but expressed doubts as to the extent to whioh the United States should become involved. Resolutions were offered by Mr. Call (Fla.) looking to the independence of Cuba and to the settlement of the Japanese-Chinese war.In the house the day's session was devoted to consideration of business pertaining to the district of Columbia, but nothing was accomplished. In the senate, on the 11th, Mr. Morrill (Vt.) delivered a witty speech on the subject of populistic panaceas for financial troubles. Messrs. Dolph and Sherman spoke in favor of the Nicaragua canal bill. Mr. Call (Fla.) delivered his usual tirade against newspaper correspondents. A message was received from the president on the subject of the alleged Armenian atrocities and referred to the committee on foreign relations..In the house the bill to permit railroads to pool their earning was passed. 1M to 110. A resolution was adopted ordering the printing of 80.000 copies of the report of the secretary of the treasury for the use of the house. , ■. In the senate, on the 18th. a motion to take up house bill making sugar free with the finance committee's amendment. Imposing a flat duty of 40 per cent, was defeated. The attempt to take up Mr. Vest's cloture bill was also defeated. The Nicaragua canal bill was discussed for a couple of hours, and the bill to organize the territory of Indianola was referred to the committee on territories. Bills were passed giving pensions of 8100 a month to the widows of Generals Banks and Crittenden and to MaJ.-Gen. J. C. McClernand.In the house the motion to strike from the urgent deficiency bill the Item of $245,095 to enforce the collection of the income tax provision of the tariff law, was defeated. 127 to 55. Dates were fixed for the exercises in connection with the erection of statues to Gen. John Stark and Daniel Webster, and the delivery of eulogies upon the late Representative Wright, of Pennsylvania. In the senate, on the 18th. the bill to establish the university of the United States and the Nicaragua canal bill were taken up and several speeches were made on each measure, but action was taken on neither. An amendment to the latter bill was sent to the clerk's desk by Mr. Call (Fla.), but no one there could decipher it and it was not read.In the house bills appropriating $2,006,595 to meet urgent defietences for the current fiscal vear, $1,879,057 for fortifications and coast defenses for the year ending June SO, 1890, and $457,076 for expenditures at the West Point military academy in the same year, were passed as they came from the committees. Action cn the contested-election case of Williams vs. Settle, from the Fifth North Carolina distriot, was further postponed. The senate was not in session on the 14th— In the house the pension appropriation btll was taken up, discussed for four hours and passed without amendment. The army appropriation bill for the year ending June 30.1896, was placed on the calendar. A resolution asking the secretary of state for the correspondence relating to the promise of this government to pay Great Britain $425,000 on account of claims made by Canadian sealers growing out of the Behring sea seal controversy was adopted. A night session was held for the consideration of private pension bills, and the house adjourned until the 17th.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Aix foreign diplomatic action at Constantinople has been suspended in consequence of the exchange of views which on the initiative of Great Britain, is proceeding between the Berlin treaty signatory powers with the view of taking joint action on the Armenian question. The building of the Consolidated Coffee Co. at Omaha, Neb., was gutted by fire on the 10th, entailing a loss of about $10,000 on stock and structure. Guests of several large hotels in the same block were frightened from their quarters. The damage was covered by insurance. The case of Two Sticks will not be appealed, and the old Indian will be hanged at Pine Ridge, S. D., December 28. It is feared that his followers at the agency will make some trouble at that time. The senate, on the 11th, confirmed the nomination of Gen. John C. Black to be United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois. The Ontario Malleable works at Oshawa, Ont., were burned on the 11th. Loss, $120,000; insurance, $29,000. The establishment was the oldest of its kind in Canada, and gave employment to 800 men. The newly replenished gold reserve is again steadily melting away. John Burns, the Euglish labor representative, spoke to the miners of Georgetown, Col., on the night of the 13th. . « . Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro, the well-known American actress, was recently delivered of a son at her Residence in Lexham Gardens, London. The child died the same day. Birge’b wall-paper factory, coveri ng half a square in Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, on the 11th, causing a loss of $500,000, and throwing from 500 to 700 employes out of work. It was the largest individual plant of its kind in the United States and perhaps in the world. -JkhUBS Kitchen of Okeene, Okla., while repairing the cross on top of a church steeple there, on the 10th, fell to the ground, a distance of 60 feet, and was intantly killed. George Smith, who was injured by the Australian pugilist Winters in a bout at Holborn hall, London, off the 7th, died on the 11th. His death resulted in several arrests. The reported robbery, on the night of the 10th, of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank at Ilennessy, Okla., by members of the Cook gang, proves to have been without foundation. In a collision between cable cars in the Washington street (Chicago) tunnel, on the evening of the 11th, one man was fatally hurt, fifteen more people were seriously injured, and a score of others more or less bruised. The cars were set on fire by the stoves, and for a time there was a fearful panio around the wieck. On the 11th Harry Stoner and Mary Breuster, William D. Casswell and Katie May Griffith, Charles S. McClelland and Sallie JSustis, G. L. Markham and Mattie Middleton, George F. Cook and Lottie B. Smith, of Lpuisville, and Alvin Fry and Vinnie Warfield, of Grayson, were among those who eloped to Jeffersonville. Ind., from Kentucky. Lizzie Mayster, aged 8, was playing on the roof of a shed at her parents' house, near Edmund, Okla., on the 11th. Slipping between two planks, the girl struck on her chin, and was literally hanged to death . .. .___ -- .. .. _.<■*...

This secretary of the nary, on the 11th, made the last payment but one on account of the Chilian indemnity claims, being that of Joseph Quigley, a fireman on the Baltimore, who was re* leased from confinement at Mare island, Cal., for being absent without leave, and discharged with a check for 81,000. Robert Webster, an aged farmer living near South Haven, Mich., on the 11th, set fire to his barn, shot and fearfully wounded Eugene Keasy, a Height bor, and then attempted to commit suicide. The annual convention of the National Civil-Service Reform league convened at the rooms of the Chicago Commerce club in the Auditorium building on the 12th. An Englishman giving the name of M. Horst, who is wanted for swindling banks in various parts of this country, was arrested in Philadelphia on the 12th. M. Auguste Burdeau, president of the French chamber of deputies, died in Paris on the 12th. Frau Louise Rothschild, widow of the banker Carl Rothschild, of Berlin, died on the 12th. Earl Davis. Ed Singer, Fleming Jackson, John Bunnell, John Brown.^ Buck Taylor, James Parke, Mrs. Van Rhooden, Willie Wolf, aged 5; Gorden Wolfe and Sherman Chase, all of whom were bitten by a rabid dog at Mount Vernon, O., were, on the 13th, sent to the Lagario Pasteur institute at Chicago, the city council of Mount Vernon appropriating 81,500 to defray the expenses. A dispatch from Tien-Tsin, on the 13th, said the report of the capture of Kin-Chow by the Japanese lacked confirmation. Japanese cruisers continued to reconnoiter along the coast. Jean Mace, the French litterateur, died in Paris on the 13th. He was born April 22, 1815. Light shocks of earthquake were felt at Cape Town, South, Africa, on the 12th. The St. Petersburg ^Bourse Gazette of the 12th said the new Russian Inn had been subscribed forty times in excess of the sum required. The steamer Elliott, which arrived at Savannah, Ga., on the 14th, from Bluefields, brought no information of the situation in the Mosquito reservation, except that everything was quiet when the vessel left. The Mosquitos had another chief in place of Clarence, but he was regarded as a tool in the hands of the Nicaraguans. Eugene Weir, night clerk in the St. Nicholas drug store in San Francisco, was found dead at the foot of the basement stair, early on the morning of the 14th, with twenty-eight stab wounds in his body. The deed was committed by burglars, who only got a small amount of money for their pains. The plant of the Meyer United States Standard Scale Co. in New York was burned on the 14th. A large amount of stock and much valuable and special machinery was burned. The loss is estimated at 865,000; partially insured. Father DEnza, director of the Vatican observatory at Rome, died, on the 14th, from apoplexy, with which henvas stricken as he was leaving the presence of thepope after an audience with his holiness, on the 13th. Joseph Von Robby, supposed to be a fugitive from Germany, was arrested in Brooklyn, on the 14th, and a large number of valuable diamonds were recovered. Adjt.-Gen. Porter, of the New York state national guard, was stricken with apoplexy, on the 13th, and his physicians pronounced his case hopeless.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. On the ittth John Huntington, remittance clerk in the Citizens’ state bank of Council Bluffs, la., shot and seriously wounded F. N. Hayden, of Chicago, and A. Cromwell, of Minneapolis, respectively superintendent and inspector of the Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York city, and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. An investigation of some of Huntington's crooked work was in progress at the time. A dispatch from Ottawa, OnL, on the 16th, said: “The report that there would be a dissolution of parliament after the cabinet was reorganized is altogether premature. Until Mr. Bowell has formed his cabinet nothing can be done in this connection. The chances are that if he succeeds he will call a session before parliament dissolves.” The weekly statement of the associated banks of New York city, issued on the 15th, showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, 8443,175; loaqs, decrease, 8962,200; specie, increase, 86,375,900; legal tenders, decrease, 86,244,300; deposits, decrease, 81,346,300; circulation, dcrease, 829,900 The Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Co. has received the whole contract for the armor for Russia’s two new war vessels. The contract calls for over 12,000 tons, and means a full year's work in the armor department. The German reichstag, on the 15th, rejected the government’s proposal to prosecute Herr Liebkneclit for lese majesty by a vote of 168 to 58. The debate on the anti-socialist bill began on the 17th. The governor of the Wickau district in Prussia has dissolved the social democratic organization within his jurisdiction on the ground that it is a society without the rights of a corporation. A duel with swords was fought, on the 15th, between M. Paul Bluysen, of Le Jour, and M. Tourot, of Le Petite Republique. M. Bluysen was wounded in the arm, and M. Tourot received a wound in the stomach. On the 15th the associated banks of New York city held 838,245,825 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule. \Ym. L. Bradley, the millionaire president of the Bradley Fertilizer Co., died at Hingham, Mass., on the 15 th. Dr. John Lord, historian and leetnrer, died at his home in Stamford, Conn., on the 15th. ... l. ■ -.- ■ '■ .. j

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Andorson Edmund Lester was go* lug to his work. While crossing the White river bridge the Cincinnati accommodation train struck him and crushed his skull. George Stone, an aged tinner of Elwood, fell down an elevator shaft, sustaining injuries of a very serious nature. but he will recover. Pendleton has secured a new glass plant employing 100 men. Warsaw is thinking about paving her main thoroughfares with brick. As A result of a natural gas explosion at the old Darnall iron works, Muncie, now owned by the Findlay Bolling Mill Co., the other afternoon, two big furnaces were wrecked at a loss of several hundred dollars. It is the custom at the works to fire the furnaces every Sunday afternoon. The explosion occurred an hour after the gas had been lighted. The cause is not vet known. No one was in the building at the time. Dr. Anna Davidson, aged 23, was appointed by the county commissioners of Fayette county as physician of the poor of Connersville township, being the first lady in the state.. known to occupy such a position. 1 La Porte county commissioners have learned that they were being systematically defrauded by persons in Michigan who were sending hundreds of woodchuck scalps to La Porte to receive the fifteen cents bounty on each scalp. The commissioners withdrew the bounty entirely. Carl Kern and Carl McDaniels, two 12-year-old youths of Frankfort, went to the country, the other afternoon, for a drive, and took with them a revolver. On their return home they supposed they had fired all the cartridges, and young Kern was in the act of cleaning the shells from the chamber when there was a report and McDaniels fell over in the buggy, shot through the side. While the wound is dangerous the physicians have hopes of McDaniels’ recovery. Laporte business men fill their show windows with live animals and fowls. A very highly accomplished Goshen young lady threatens to go on the stage. William Fleming, aged 50, a prosperous and well to do farmer, hanged himself in his barn, near Noblesville, at an early hour the other morning. No cause assigned for the rash act. He recently purchased another farm and was preparing to move on it in a faw days. Johnson county school teachers are talking of a professional library. Warash merchants are working against the establishment of free mail delivery.

South Bend fair stockholders have elected new directors. The present debt will be paid and a fair will be held next year. Ghoui.8 were frightened away from the Shelby ville cemetery. It is thought that they were after the body of Herman Tornelia, who died in Shelbyville of elephantisis. A chicken at Michigan City was J6st months ago. It was found under some hay the other day almost starved to death. Vern Carpenter, who recently had a foot cut off by a Big Four train, was going upstairs on crutches, at Anderson, when he lost his balance and fell backward to the bottom. He is, perhaps, fatally hurt. Richmond’s hew street cars will Be vestibuled and have gates on the sides of the cars. Richmond and ft. Wayne consume more pretzels than any other two cities in the state. » Cattle thieves are at work in Delaware county. At Prescott, Ferd Orsehel wagered that he could cross the track ahead of an express. The usual result Asa Orcutt and family, on a farm on the Mississinewa, ten miles northeast of Farmland, the other night, while sitting near a pleasant fire, heard a scratching at the door, which they attributed to the family cat. They paid no attention to the cat, and there came a wild yell that greatly frightened them. All jumped to their feet and started for the door. In the dim glare of the moon they distinguished the outline of what they believe was a panther or lynx leaping down the bank and across the shallow into a thicket on the opposite side of the river. The animal is supposed to be the panther that escaped from a gang of gypsies that camped in that neighborhood several weeks ago. A hunting party is being organized at Ridgeville and the necessary steps will be taken to capture the “crittur.” Travel in that locality after night has been abandoned since then. Evangelist E. F. Goff and J. P. Quinn, the reformed gambler, are conducting a crusade against vice in Terre Haute. A Butler young woman swore out a warrant against her father for assault and battery in “firing” her beau from the house. - Several Franklin college boys have been suspended for jollifying over a football victory. Laporte county is suffering greatly from the scarcity of water. Marsh fires have burned over thousands of acres. The corner-stone of the new courtnouse at Winamac has been laid. Edinburg is losing much of its oldtime prestige as a grain market. At Seymour, John Himler accidentally shot his 6-year-old daughter, Rosa, with a flobert gun. Mr. Himler was shooting at English sparrows, and fired towards the grape arbor, in which his daughter was at play. The ball was cut out of the calf of the leg by Dr. Casey. At the annual meeting of the ext iutive committee of the Universalist church, at Pendleton, the other day, it was decided to hold the next annual state convention in Munqje, in August of next year. There are 10,000 pensioners in Clark county and thev receive annually about *144,000. ^ « _ --

THE WAGE QUESTION. Striking Figure*. *orr«*»a«Iowlnc *n InveMtgatloit by the Senate—Labor** P«*rw«Uj« Gradually Dwrnwinc nud Capttal'i I'errcntatfc Iucr«-«»liif-A Census Secret Let Oat—Th« UlBertot Methods or 1880 nud 1890. An investigation of the wage question is in contemplation by the census committee of the United States senate. Frederick C. Waite, the statistical expert of the department of agriculture, has been making an exhaustive study j of the census -returns on wages in preparation for this senate investigation. Of the questions which confront the American statistician and statesman." he says, “there is one which towers above all the rest In Importance. It is the wage qnestioo. As for the great mass of working women, with the age of marriage increasing and their style of living rising, there is a necessity tor a rise in wages sufficient to insure their independence. For this and many other reasons, too well known to need mentioning in this year of widespread distress, the question of wages is the one great question of our time. Upon it depends nearly all legislation, and upon a favorable answer depends our hope tor widening the influence of Christianity and the perpetuity of our institutions. The question is not simply as to whether laborers are receiving more dollars than formerly. It is a double question. First, does labor receive a larger or a smaller share of the product? And, second, does labor receive more of the necessaries and comforts of life than fqrmerly? The following table, which shows what percentage of the manufactured products goes to lubor as wages, tells the story as to whether his share is increasing or decreasing. Percentage of product paid as wages (not inclusive of salaries of officers, firm members md salesmen): Ls per census volume (Uncorrected) 850.23 percent. 800.20 per cent. 870....18 per cent. 880.18 per cent. 890.20 per cent. For industries fairly well returned at each census. * 23 per cent. 20 per cent. 18 per cent. 18 per cent. 18 per cent. •Three industries are left out for the followtg reasons: Lumber, sawed, because in edittg the schedules the amount of wages was [ten cut down to one-half or even less; oolens, because of the great reduction in the >st of raw wool; and leather, because in 1870 ad in 1880 the product was counted both when jrried and again when tanned, although there ere no duplications in the amount of wages. Whether we look at the figures in the first or tcond column, we are impressed bv the fact tat in 1880 labor was receiving a much smaller tare of the product than in 1850. The increase i the first column from 18 to 20 per cent., in 90. was due chiefly to the very much fuller retrns of the hand trades in 1890 than in 1880. hat labor received even less in 1890 than in 80 is made clear in the next table, which shows what percentage of the “produced value." or “net product." goes to the laborers as wages and what percentage to the capitalist as a return for his investment and pay for superintendence. DIVISION OF THE “ PRODUCED VALUE ” BETWEEN LABOR AND CAPITAL. Labor's Percentage as per census Fairly well (ufcccr- returned rectsd). industries. 1850.51 68 1881*.48 48 1890.44 43 Capital Percentage as per census Fairly well (uncor- returned reeled), industries. 49 47 62 52 66 57

r rum wit? tun cvicu vuuuuuov « w «uwv *«* the fairly well returned Industries the laborer’s share has fallen flora 68 per cent, in 1850 to 48 per cent, in 1880, and to 43 per cent, in 1890: and that the capitalists have taken and added to their share the one-flfth which labor has lost. In other words, the laborer is now (retting but four-fifths as much as formerly, while the capitalist is getting six-fifths. The second pa*"t of the question is. ‘Does labor receive more of the necessaries and of the comforts of life than formerly?’ /'’'‘According to the ninth investgation into farm wages made by Mr. J. R. Dodge, as statistician of the department of agriculture, the average monthly for farm labor was $11.54 in 1893. As Mr. Dodge's estimate for 1861 was $11.63, the increase during the thirty-one years was just about 8 per cent. Again, the census of I860 put the average yearly wages paid in manufacturing establishments located in places of less than 26.000 inhabitants of $2.9q per hand. The census of 1*80 was worked up on methods which -resulted in about the same percentage of error as that of I860. It placed the average at $301. in towns which had less than 20.000 inhabitants. This was an increase of only 2 per cent, for the twenty years. In marked contrast to these modest increases are the statements in the tables of manufacturing statistics, found on page 106 of the Abstract of the Eleventh Census. This table is entitled “Comparative Summary of Totals for the United States, with Percentage of Increase, 1880 and 1690.” It places the increase in the average number of hands at 68.77 per cent., and the increase in the amount ot wages at 131.17 per cent. The verv fact that the percentages in this table, entitled “Comparative Summary,” are figured out to the one-hundredth part of J per cent, is proof to the reader that the writer considered the ligures accurate mid comparable. These percentages of increase indicate an average increase in wages per hand of 39H per cent. This is an incredible increase for one decade. Hence let us examine the parts which go to make up the total obtained from our manufacturing censuses, and we will discover increases which prove the reductlo absurdum. For instance. the breweries with a product of $182,731 ,632 are accredited on page 120 with an increase of 75 per cent, in average wages per man. The establishments producing men's clothing in New York city, which turn out an annual product of $87,236,884, are accredited with an increase of 111 per cent. In other words, the average wages of the hands employed is said to have increased from $294 in 1880, to $621 in 1890. In the boot and shoe factories of Richmond, Va., which turned out an annual product running into the millions, the average wages are reported to have increased from $74 per year in 1880 to $67ii in 1890, or an increase of 811 per cent, in a decade. By the way, the largest of these factories is accredited with raising its wages for men from $29 per year of twelve months, or 10c per day, in 1880, to over $6W. or !3 per dav, in 1890. Is it possible that any establishment in the United States, which in 1880 oaid its men 10c per day, was in 1890 paying $2 per day for the same grade of work, and the same amount of efficiency? So much for single industries, turning out from a few to $100,000,000 worth of product per annm& Lot us combine the industries which show these enormous increases. Taking all Ihe establishments in the states south of Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Iowa, and those wage* of the Missouri and Red River of the North^exccpting California, and adding selected industries which wero accredited with large increases from the other nineteen states, we have an ajrray of establishments turning out produce' of $2,000,OJO.OOO worth per annum, whose average wages iu 18S0. was $181, and in 1890 $491, or an increase of 75 per cent, in ten years. Everybody knows that there has been no such increase in wages throughout the great south country and the broad west. This great increase is due chiefly to the fact that the census of manufactures for 1880 was worked up on an entirely different basis from that of 1890. Jn the former census the officers and firm members were reckoned among the number of hands^employed, but were not accredited any wages, except in exceedingly few cases. In 1890 the hundreds of thousands of officers, Arm members and salesmen were each accredited with largo salaries, aggregating upwards of $3 0,000.001. Some salaries were equal to that paid tho president of the United States. On the other hand, in the census of 1880 tho ligures purporting to represent the “average number of hands were for about half tho establishment identical with tho ‘greatest number of hands employed during the year.'” In the other half they represent for each establishment the average number employed during the few months when tho establishment was running a full force. As a result there were almost always more than the average, and often several times the average, as figured out by the methods employed in compiling the oensus of 188?. Hence oomfarisons involving the number of hands employed are very deceiving, especially when the enormous salaries of 1890 are includeded- _

THORNE CONFESSES. A Hew York l'nliwnuui Held Under IUH fer Perjury. M||n « bturillii* Coiifes»ton. (iltliis « ( um|itet« Slutement KoITurdliic IUucIsbmU end Corruption In tit* t Police Urp<trUirut—Work for thetinai Jury. New York, Dec. It.—Policeman August E. Thorne, formerly of cx-Capt, Stephenson's Leonard-street squad, has confessed. He was held in ST.f'OO bail Friday for perjury and kept in the Tombs all night. Saturday morning he expressed a desire to sec Assistant - District Attorney Lindsay. To him he made a full confession of all he knew about the police bribery. The revelations made by Thorne are of an astounding character. Assistant District Attorney McIntyre, who left Mr. Lindsay’s office about 2 o’clock in the afternoon said to a group of waiting reporters thathe never heard anything like whatThorne had made 'known. The indicted policeman has made a clean breast of the Steyensou story. In addition to this he gave a complete statement regarding blackmail and corruption in the police department. He told of the system, it is said, that has been in vogue of making collections from every source where tribute hasbeen levied and will, far as he knows, tell where the money has gone. Thorne has been on the force six years. At 2:30 o’clock Thorne left Mr. Lindsay’s office and was taken back to theTombs. Mr. House, who was present, seemed very much disturbed. Mr. House is counsel for several of the indicted police officials yet untried. Mr. Lindsay said that Thorne made a full statement concerning the nets charged against Stephenson. He says Stephenson endeavored to persuade him to go on the stand during his t?Lal last week atvd re-perjure himself, buthe absolutely refused to do so, although he was in the criminal courtbuilding during the trial. Thornewent far beyond this, and it is understood implicated many police officials in the confession he made. Mr. Lindsay said the information given was of such a character that he could not possibly say anthing about, it at this time. Thorne was connected with the Lconard-streetstation during the terms of Captains Eakins, Siobert, Stephenson, (.YcsssSck™*’b?’*ger, Dofierty, ancT acting vapt. 0 Toole. A report vims current immediately after Thorne left the building that the matters he confessed to will be brought to the attention of the grand jurj’ at once, as soon as the stenographer’s minutes are ready. It is also reported that a number of poliee officials who have not yet been smirched will be kept under strict surveillance until action is taken. It is said the confession is the most important that has yetbeen brought out Policeman Thorne was admitted to bail in $’7,31*.) shortly before 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. His bondsman was Ludwig Meyer, of' No. 184 Franklin stx*eet, wh» gave that property as his security.

ALLEGED JAPANESE CRUELTY At the Capture of l*ort Arthur living Investigated by that Governt.'ient. Washington, Dec.. 17.—A telegram, has been received at the Japanese legation from the minister of foreign affairs at Tokio in relation to the atrocities alleged to have been committed by 'Japanese troops at the capture of Port Arthur. The government at Tokio is not in possession of full details of the nft'air, but the'information already at hand shows conclusively that some of the reports circulated concerning the conduct of the Japanese troops were both exaggerated and misleading. If there was any unnecessary bloodshed, tho telegram states, the Japanese government cannot but believe that there must have been some cause, for the behavior of tho Japanese troops . in the enemy's country has heretofore been most exemplary, at times under circumstances tending to excite feeling of the deepest resentment and animosity. It is known to be a fact that the .great majority of those Chinese who were killed at Port Arthur were not peaceful inhabitants, but Chinese soldiers disguised iu civilian dress. Most of the inhabitants lied from the place several days before its capture, aud at the ^present time have returned and are pursuing their ordinary vocations without molestation or restraint. The Japanese government has no disposition to conceal any of the facts, but, on the contrary.' has ordered a strict investigation, the result of which, it is stated, will be promptly made public. WILL NOT HANG. The Self-Confessed Murderer 111 lx t Will be Given a Life Sentence. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 17-*—H is not likely that C. A. lilixt, the selfconfessed murderer of Catherine Ging, will be hanged. He will be brought before Judge Hides, of the district, today, where he will enter a plea of guilty. Sentence will not be passed, however, until he has been used as a witness for * the state in the ease of Harry Hayward, and then it is expected that he will be given a life sentence. » The court Saturday appointed Judge' J. M. Shaw, W. J. llahu and F. H. Carleton, three very able criminal lawyers, to defend him, but when they attempted to hold a consultation with, him yesterday Blixt refused to have anything to do with them. PUGILIST BOWEN'S DEATH Due to Coucnsslon and Caused by Ills Head Striking tbe Hard J loor. New Orleans, Dec. 15.—Coroner Lawrason,.assisted by Doctors Denegre, Martin and John Laurens and by a jury of five men, held an autopsy on Bowen’s body at 1 o’clock. . “ Verdictwas death resulted from concussion of the brain.” Coroner Lawrason, said the death ot Bowen was probably caused by his. aead striking the hard door, for if it was caused by the blow his neck would. lave broken