Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Page 2

STRIKE AND LOCKOUT

THE LABOR COMMISSIONER’S ANNUAL REFORT IBion-a that Employes Have Lost More than Twice a* Mach as Employers from Labor Troubles During the Past Seven Years. Kin ploy era i Los t $04,825,837. -4 Ib his tenth aauual report, just coni'! pleted Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, computes that the loss to cm-

CARROLL D. WRIGHT.

ployers, on account of strikes, $82,590,386. and on account of lockouts, $12,involved in strikes in this period was 69,167 and the number of persons thrown out of employment by reason of strikes 3,714,406, making an average loss to the employes of each establishment of $2,36S and to each person of $44. The number of establishments involved in lockouts was 6,067 and the number of persons locked ‘ out 366,600. These persons lost an average of $73 each. The assistance given to strikers and the subjects of lockouts during the period amounted, as far aa aseertamable, to $13,438,704, or a little over 7 per cent, of the total loss to employes. ~ ) One of the most important tables related to the cause of strikes. This statement shows that more'than a fourth of them were caused by a refusal to accede to a demand for increase of wages, over 13 per cenf. for a refusal to concede a reduction of hours and more than 8 *per cent, by the determination of employers •to reduce wages. Three thousand six hundred and twenty-, or almost 8 per cent., of the strikes were caused bysyrn-f>ftfkette-aeti»n with- oHter-S4Fikea, and 1,688 were occasioned by the employment of non-union men. The industries most affected by strikes in the last seven and a half years were the building trades, with 20,785 establishments igyplved. After these in the order of importance came coal and coke, clothing, tobacco, food preparations and stone quarries. Out of a total of 10,488 striked in the entire country for this period 5,909, or to exceed 56 per cent., occurred in twenty-six of the principal cities, while of the estab- ’ lishments involved in lockouts over 61 per cent, occurred in these cities.- Fifty-nine per cent, of the establishments engaged in strikes were closed on an average of twenty-two days, and 64 per cent, of those engaged in lockouts for an aver'age of thirty-five days, the loss of time in other cases being only temporary. * In each case there were a few establishments closed permanently. Success was gained by the employes in over 43 per cent, of the strikes, partial success in oyer 10 per cent., while the remaining 46 per cent, were failures. Over 48<tper cent, of the lockouts succeeded completely and over 10 per cent, partially. The others were failures.: In the successful strikes 669,992. persons were thrown out of employment. -318.801 in those partially successful and 1,400,988 in those which failed. Of the total number of persons (brown out of employment by strikes in the. period of thirteen and a half years 8.78 per cent, were females, and by lockouts 22.53. Of the 10,482 strikes which occurred in the seven and a half years, especially covered by the present report. 7,295 were or- , dered by labor organizations, while of the 442Jockouts o,f this period only eighty-one were ordered hr organizations of miployers. Sixty-nine per cent, of all the strikes and 76 per cent, of all the lock-outs-of the seven-arfd-a-ha 1 f-year period treated of occurred in the five States of Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Massach asetts, Illinois taking the lead of all the States of the Union.

PERSONAL Tidbirs

The great-grandson of Robert Burns, the poet, is living in poverty in Edinburg. The only game tl&t the Pope ihdulges in is that of chess. / He is said to be a very skillful player. - Gen. Cassius M. Clay has concluded tp •end his young wife to school instead of having a governess for her. Lady Randolph Churchill, according to gossip, is tattooed with a snake around one arm. The operation took place during her visit to India. In spite of cold weather Queen Victoria takes many drives about ■Balmoral, much - to the surprise of those who imagine that her Majesty is in feeble health. Benreaud/the French artist, makes the sketches for his famous genre paintings "of Parisian .life from the windows of a cab drawn up by the (curbstone. Henry Irvingjias commissioned Thomas Nast to paint nil oil of Shakspeare's bust now in the room of the old house at Strat-ford-on-Avon in which the poet was born. Francisco Bazaine, a sou of the groat Marshal, died in Cuba recently of illness contracted in the campaign against the patriotic He was a young officer in the Spanish expeditionary army. Elisha I*. Ferry, the first Governor of k the State of Washington, died at Seattle on Monday. He had also been twice Governor of Washington Territory l)3 - appointment of President Grant. Some of the friends of Gov, Atkinaon, of Georgia, have presented a handsome gold watch eachjof Miss Sawyer and Miss Burton, thetwwyoung women who nursed him through his recent dangerous illness. The British Medical Journal says that the lines inscribed on Huxley’s tprnbstone, and quoted in the last number of Science, are part of a poem by Mrs. Huxley, and were used as Huxley’s epitaph at bin own request. Joseph Jefferson never talks politics. What his party bias may be is not generally known. He is very diplomatic in dodging all questions that tend to entrap him into an expression of opinion regarding national issues.

ployes in establishments in which lockouts and strikes occurred during the thirteen and a half years ending June 30, 1594, amounted to $190,493,382, and to employers to $94,825,837 r The loss ter employes on account of strikes was $163,-. 807,866T0kU count of lockouts $26,685,516; to em-

THE CLAIMS OF ENGLAND AND VENEZUELA.

f I tjHE disagreement between Eng-, land and Venezuela with reference JL to the line which divides" British from Venezuela has existed many years. It is contented by the South Anrericamr +haU the Essequibo River forms the line, while the English claim considerable territory beyond. If the English claim is unjust its enforcement would involve a violation of the Monroe doctrine. As Secretary of State Olnoy views the matter there is at least sufficient reason in the claims of to create a doubt and justify Can Investigation. Accordingly he proposed -an arbitration, to which England replied that " while willing to submit her pretenses to one part of the territory to arbitration she was unwilling to yield that much with regard to another part. In reply to this Secretary Olney lays down the propositi oa:—; —“

COLT AFFAIRS WELL AIRED.

Wife Forestalls Her Husband in Bringing Legal Action. A Providence, It. 1., social descended with double force when Mrs. Sampel P. Colt filed her petition for di-

vorce with the Supreme Court and 1 almost immediately after a writ for the arrest of .Tames J. Van Alen was issued on the affidavit of Mr. Colt, charging him with the alienation of Mrs. Colt’s a ff e c t i ons and placing the damages at $200,000. These two acts

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in the Colt domestic tragedy followed so closely one after the other that Rhode Island society stood dazed at the lightning changes in the early in the afternoon when Mrs. Colt’s petition was filed, but in less than three hours after that the writ for the arrest of Mr. Van Alen had been issued and was on its way to Newport in the hands of a dephty sheriff, who was instructed to ac.■eopr not leas thkn.s4oo.ooo in bail. Mrs. Colt’s petition was signed “Elizabeth B. Colt,” and it represents that sjie was married to Co!. Colt Feb. 12, 1881. Since that time-she has, the petition says. “Demeaned herself as a faithful wife and performed all the obligations of the marriage covenant, but that the said Samuel P. Colt ka,th violated the same.” The petition prays that a decree of divorce may be granted and that she may bo granted a separate maintenance and the custody of her two minor children, Russell G. Qolt, 13 years old, and Roswell O: Colt, 6 years of age. As soon as Col. Colt learned that his wife had filed her petition making him defendant in her divorce suit he hurried to the court house,’accompanied'by his attorney, and a writ was issued charging James J. Van Alen with the alienation of Mrs. Colt’s affections. The writ was immediately placed in the hands of the Sheriff, with instructions' to serve it at once and to require Mr. Van Alen to furnish bail. It was stated by Col. Colt’s attorney that if the case ever comes to trial the Country will be shaken by a sensation that has had no equal within the annals of society history, and that the names of some of the wealthiest and most prominent society people of New England, as well as State officials and one man who’ has occupied a high position in national affairs, may be given a publicity that will place them in a most unenviable light and* that will surprise their most intimate friends.

FROM FOREICN LANDS.

The United States cruiser Alert has arrived at Lima, Peru. Nothing has appeared to indicate the foundation of a new Cabinet in Chile. London celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar for the first time. Ten children were killed by the burning of the Home at Starford in Polish Prussia. An order has been issoed for the opening of the Canadian canals on Sundays during the remainder of the season. The Marquis of Salisbury has b&n, appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports iu place of the Marquis of Dnfferin, resigned. The Emperor Frederick Memorial Church was consecrated in Berlin In the presence of the Emperor and Empress, who subsequently attended the unveiling

1. If the quarrel with Venezuela is an ordinary boundary dispute, having its origiu in faulty desrriptimis, imperfect surveys or other misunderstandings, a refusal to arbitrate tlie same is contrary to the precedents set by Great Britain herself and-contrary to the practice of all civilized nations. -2. If, on the other hand, as appears to be the case, and as is the belief of the President; of the United States, .the dispute as to the location pf a boundary line is a mere disguise under which Great Britain is attempting by superior force to extend her territorial possessions in America, this is directly violative of the Monroe~3octrine and will never be submitted Id by the United States. This attitude plainly commits the United States Government to a resistance against .a,.forcible entry -on the part of England upon the disputed territory.

of the mdnumont erected to the memory of the late Empress Augusta. John Dillon, member of Parliament for East Mayo, will bo married at the end o' November to a daughter of Justice Matthew. Mrs. Katharine Ivilso Johnson, daughter of the late Alexander Johnson, of Pittsburg, died in France. She was 89 years old. A dispatch from Brussels says that M, Bioque, chief inspector of the water supply of that city, was murdered by a sub ordinate. Sir Charles Tuppor anticipates no difficulty in arranging the question of tho sale of the Canadian salmon in favor of the Canadian exporters. Field Marshal Dunst-Adelshelm and his wife killed Themselves at Vienna. He was 72 %orfrs old; she was 50. Money troubles caused the crimes. Many were in attendance upon tho Mormon conference in London. N. H. Ires,, of .Salt Lake, announced the success of missionary -work in Wales. The British steamer Indrani, Tehio to Port Kembla, ran into the Alameda, of Mdodyvilie, Cal., near Sydpey, N. S. W. TJie Alameda was grounded, badly damaged. —Nicaragua’s recent attempt to boycott British goods, the newspapers of Colon, Colombia say, was not genuine, in view of tlie more recent endeavor to borrow British gold. The heart of Kosciusko, the Polish patriot and general under Washington, was transferred from Vezia and will bo deposited in the Folish museum in the Chateau Rnporswijl, near Zurich. The eleventh congress of Americanists, composed of scientists interested in alj questions relating to the history of the new world and the character of aboriginal races, opened in the City of Mexico.

News of Minor Note.

Chili is anxious on account of the suspicious movements in Buenos Ayres of ex-President Gaeeres of Peru. o At Winona, Minn., a sale of 15,000,000 feet of cut lumber has been made to the Jay Lumber Company of St. Louis. At St. Joe, Mo., a little daughter of Mrs. Carrie J|nnn was killed and a son had both legs broken by being thrown from a buggy. v Expert accountants have discovered that Jerome Coulter, deputy treasurer of Omaha, who was deposed last May, stole nearly $20,000. Facts which have just come to ligh raise the presumption that Alex. Gray ton, wife and ffliilHa of Indianapolis, perished in the Hotel Guiury tire at Denver. While eating supper in a shanty at Jerome Turk, New York, Robert Scott, a colored laborer, was probably fatally mangled by a dog supposed to be mad. O. L. Miller and wife were murdered in cold blood by unknown parties at Lawson, O. T., and Will Miller, their son, was so badly wounded that lie cannot live. Four bridge carpenters, working on th* Northern Pacific Road near Butte, Mout., were knocked off the top of a high trestle by a falling timber and were killed on the rocks below. The trial of Mrs. Samuel Smith, of Detroit, alleged to have aided her husband iu swindling Mrs. May Cameron out of $3,000 after be eloped with the woman from Detroit, began at Duluth. ’The remaining Hnytian exiles who were invited to return home have sailed from Jamaica for Hayti. President Hyppollte pays their expenses. Only two of the conspirators are left, Gen. Manigat and ex-President Boisron Caual. W. A. Baker, a young man employed aa-a. stenographer by the Paragon Refining Company at Toledo, is lying at Clyde, Ohio, totally paralyzed and in an almost hopless condition. Baker formerly lived at Clyde, and he rode there on hia wheel, it being a distance of forty-fiva miles. Upon dismounting he was stricken with paralysis and found himself unable to move one side of his body.

EAST WAY TO DIVORCE

INDIANA- LEADS AND DECREES ARE VALID. Hoosiers Were the to Recognize A the Utility of Flexible Laws and to Make Escape from Marriage a Matter of Little Difficulty. Statistics of Several Counties. A recent issue of the Chicago Tribune had the following to say about the divorce industry in this State: While certain well-defined rules govern >.ll other trades, fixing their locations and Establishing their centers, those of the divorce industry seem to be as migratory as a strong-legged tramp and as uncertain as the marble in a roulette wheel. Indiana was*the first,.State whietoexer recognized the possibilities bf mutual profit between suitors and residents in lax divorce laws and for n long time had a monopoly of the business. Then the laws of Illinois were so aniended that tlie- marriage bonds could be more easily untied and Uhlcago had quite a boom. It?rH(T- - vantages as a piaoe of residence during the year of waiting were quickly recognized. But lately the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Oklahoma- offered inducements ho person seeking a divorce could resist. But it is one thing to secure trade and another to hold it, and so much fault has been found with the divorce goods offered on Western bargain counters that their custom is deserting them and now Indiana’s trade is looking up again, with every prospect of an increasing and wellmaintained boom. On the September docket of the Parke County, Ind., Circuit Court, just ended, the divorce cases were one-eighth the entire number of-cases set for trial. In Clay County there were thirty-eight divorce cases tried during the September term, while in Vigo County there were four times as many as iii Parke. There are already five cases filed for the November docket in Parke County. For the February term of this year there were seven, while six divorce suits found places on the"’ April docket, making a total of twenty-nine in the Parke County courts thus far this year. Forty—Count ’Enii —ff The records in the clerk’s office for Noveinbcf show forty divorces during theyear. In the 1893 docket this record sinksinto insignificance. ■ out of the 155 cases tried there being forty-nine of them foi divorce. o,r nearly one-third of the entire list. Of these (he February term put up six of them. April eleven. September brought in r.eventeen. while by November fourteen more dissatisfied couples wanted to be released. The divorce busi- ' ness in Parke County was only in its infancy in 1891. and in 1892 it only brought up sixteen cases during the year, September, with seven petitions, being "the heaviest month. With twenty-nine divorces on record in Parke County at the present date, the year 1895 will outstrip nil its predecessors before it gives up the fight on Dec. 31. From every other county in the State, where the September term of court has. dosed, comes the report of an amaz-ing-number of divorces on trial. The population of the county is equal (to one one-lmndredth of the population of the State bf Indiana. Taking the eleven divorces in the September court as an average: which is a fair and conservative estimate for the State as a whole, it means dial there were 1.100 divorce suits oil trial in the Indiana September courts jus I closed. They represent 2,2oo’parties to the suit. An army big enough to defend the State from any military intrusion. If this great company of disappointed mortals eould be got together in a ikijnd of refitting school, with sly little Cupid as the chief instructor. it is believed fully 800 new couples could be made from the old 1,100 disunions and misfits. " Hoosierdom's Way of Divorcing. Upon investigation it is found that the common method of procuring a divofte in Western Indiana is to have the clerk of the court make out a notice of non-resi-dence. The fee for this process belongs to the clerk, but it happens that three times but of five he never gets it, and it is also a fact that nearly all divorce cases are worried along through the courts on a dead-beat process. Then when the complainant, or attorney-, asks the clerk for the papers, he has no choice but to give them, and place the Case on the docket ready for'fi hearing. Next a notice is taken to the printing office of a paper of general circulation, and the editor is asked 'to print it four successive times. When court convenes the attorney asks this same editor for a statement showing the notice to have been printed four times, whicli statement: is given the court. Here the dead-beating procesk comes in again, and the Parke County papers have inaugurated a crusade against the practice. claiming that not one of four of these divorce complainants ever pay for the publication of the notice. They say that hereafter all notices must be paid for before they will testify to their having appeared, which testimony is absolutely essential to every granting of a divorce. The attorneys are also steering shy of these manifold divorce cases, stating that of the ten to twenty in eydry term of the Circuit Court uot more than half of them are good pay. Anti still further the court officials are getting a little weary of this divorce business on the ground that it is largely due to these divorce suits that so mist-h important court matter must be subjected to sundry docketings, and, in many eases, hold over from term to term owing to a lack of time to hear it. Thus the moral reformers, the editors, the court clerks, the lawyers, the court officials in Indiana have at last struck a sympathetic chord and it will bind them all together on this divorce question. The average time of these divorces is found to be within three years after mariage. Minor State News. Aaron F. Shimer, of Spencer County, is wearing a medal ns the tallest soldier in the Union army during the late war. He is 56 years old and 6 feet 6 inehef lligi). jry Dr. D. M. Shively, of Yorktown, whi. attending a patient, accidentally ; fell am: broke his leg. While the Pearsons were playing at Lebanon Miss Alice Louise Perine, the soubrette. attached the company property for S6O unpaid salary. She also filed against Charles Phillips, the comedian, for assault amkbattery, and Phillips was fined $17.25. 'T’he manager had funds, but .he declined to pay under duress. EVentunlly, however, a compromise was reached, the company agreeing to retain the soubrette until Kalamazoo, Mich, was reached.

HARDENING OF THE LIVER.

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THE EVILS OF OVER-EATING.

Unless Neutralized by Exercise High Feeding Is Extremely Harmful. I assert that it is the duty of the good housewife to keep down the appetite of her husband, writes the Rev. F. S. Root in the Ladies' Home Journal. Particularly is this ueeessary in the cases of well-to-do professional and business’* men. In the families of meehanics earning low wages such a warning is almost wholly unnecessary, but it may be said of most men in good circumstances that'they eat too freely of rich food. If men would begin careful and systematical physical culture in early youth and contiuue the practice through life, good health would be the result. Beyond the, ago of 40—at a period when so many are physically lazy—the suporior value of exercise is apparent; but ordinarily, this is just the time when the hygiene of athletics is neglected. There is no reason why a punching hag. rowing machine, pulley weights and other apparatus should he relegated t 6 college hoys and clerks. But having done a good deal of work in his time it is almost Impossible to persuade a business or professional man, turning forty, to give any sort of attention to physical culture if such training has been previously neglected. Hence, I say it la the duty of a woman to keep from her husbaud all rich cotnpounds that will ultimately ruin his digestion. High feeding is occasionally neutralized by hard exercise; but In the absence of the latter it is mischievous in the extreme. If your husband will stand the treatment, begin by switching off from the heavy breakfast of steak, hot rolls, potatoes, etc., and set before him eggs on toast, oatmeal and coffee.

The Press Boys.

she boys that write for the papers— They’re the best of ’em all, I guess; 'For most of ’em come from the country, Where they’re pullin’ the old baud press! An’ they never forget the raisin’. An’ they’re livin’ the world to bless; For most of ’em come from the country. Where they’re pullin’ the old hand press! —Atlanta Conatitution. The word scold was formerly applied to a quarrelsome person of cither sex, but as women are notoriously more given to scolding than men, it hrfc? come to he limited to the fairer and more linguistically gifted half of tho human race. •

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Recipe for a Quarrel with a Wife. Wan until site is at her toilet preparatory to going ont.[ She. will*be sure to ask you if her bonnet Is straight Remark that the lives of nine-tenths of the women area 'passed in thinking whether their bonnets are straight, and -wind up/ the remark never knew but one who had any common sense about her. Wife will ask you who that was. You, with a sigh, reply, “Ah! you never mind.” Wife will ask you why you did not marry her, then. You'say, abstractedly, “Ah! why indeed?”. The climax Is reached by this time, and a regular row Is sure to follow. All for His Whiskers. A Minnesota man has sued a barber for SSOO damages for ruining his beard.

• A CRY IFOR HELP BESBIT OP A PROMPT REPLY. Two Open Letters that Should Suggest to Thousands of American Women V go and do Likewise. [SPECIAL TO OUB LADY BEADEBB.I Little; Falls, Minn., May 11,1804. “I am suffering, and need your aid. I pains in both-Sides of my womb, extending down the front of my limbs and lower part of my back, attended by backache and pains in the back of the neck and ears. tor says I must keep in bed. Now I place myself under your care. I am only twenty-one years old, and too young to suffer so much.” Mrs. Chas. Parker. The above letter was received by Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., May 15, 1894, which received a prompt reply. The following letter reached Mrs. Pinkham about fivo months later. Note the result. Little Falls, Minn., Sept. 21,1804. “ I deem it my duty to announce the fact to my fellow-sufferers of all female complaints, that Lydia E, Pinkham'a treatment and Vegetable Compound have entirely cured ine of all the pains and suffering I was enduring when I wrote you last May. I followed your advice to the letter, and the result is simply wonderful. May Heaven bless you and the good work you are doing for your sex I” Mrs. Chas. Parker. All the druggists in town say there is a tremendous demand for Lydia E. Pinkham'a Compound; and it is doing lots of good among the women. If you lire sick and in trouble write to Mrs. Pinkham. Relief await; you.