The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-22

the ground and died at once. She was starv-
ing. Her son had had no work for five
months, there were three children and moth
ing for them to eat Birdcage Walk is in
st. jams Park. and Is one of the historical
spots of London. 1t is the center of rich
and populous section, under the shadow of
ducal mansions, within a few moments
walk of the queens premises. Here
English mothers fall and die of hunger.
THE MIDLAND RAILWAY
announces that it will reduce the wages OF
its employees shilling a week. The Midland
Railway can build hotels which the magnifi-
cence of Fisk could not equal. 1t can not
pay its lahorers an honest and square price,
and its officers forget that that shilling a week
will come out OF many a poor souls New
Years dinner. In Northampton a few
days sgo, hard working and honest me-
chanic, 35 years of age, tried to cut his
throat. His wife had just given birth to
child. He had no work, no food or money.
Suicide was the welcome he gave his new
born child. An honest laborer named King
was arrested for stealing fragment OF cheese.
In the police court he told the following
story: He had been out of employment
six weeks; had applied for aid
asked a policeman to lock him up
that he might obtain nights lodging He
was sentenced to fourteen days imprson
ment. In Gloster Wagon Works the men
are reduced four shillings week, and COM
PEELED to work ten hours day. In Burnley
the work house is filed to OVERLOOKING and
the applications for relief have increased
during the past year fifty per cent. In the
Berwick country, people attack butchers
wagons and vans carrying provisions, TO OBJ
tain food. Houses have been broken into
and entered for the sole purposes of obtain
ing food to keep life in the wan and starved
bodies Think of burglars breaking into
houses for bread In Northampton the
other day number of applications tor pau
per relief were two-thirds in excess of ordi-
nary times, over fifteen hundred of an in
crease.
IN ONE WEEK.
"The great majority OF these says the
journal from which 1 am quoting, "were
able bodied men, VINO said that they had
been out of work for many weeks, and their
wives and children were starving at hone.
In Marylebone district, few minutes walk
from the Langham Hotel, near the great es-
tate of the Russells, the Grosvenors and the
Cecils, William Sullivan died the other day.
The doctors said at the inquest that the
cause of his death was starvation. William
was the son of laborer, and his father could
not obtain employment wherewith to earn
food for his family. The coroner who sat at
the inquest was a practical man. He ad-
vised the father and the mother to apply to
the Work House and get some food, else
they would not be able to do any work.
These stories come from all over England.
In Manchester the times are worse than they
were during the cotton famine.
The distress of the laborer means distress
in other circles. If poor men can not buy
articles. small shopmen can not sell them,
and SO trade is at an end. All of the money
goes for food, and the manifold industries
outside of the sale of food are at standstill,
and so the circle of distress goes around and
around. Men and women of energy and benev-
Oence are doing all In their pOwer to remedy
the suffering. The queen has sent $4,000 10
one fund, but if she gave a whole years sal
airy as queen AID lived on her income, it
would not be too large contribution. The
Radical papers are beginning to talk in
strange voices; they even talk of revolution,
which is an ominious word to be heard in
England at time when her flag has won
new glories in India, but then patriotic
fervor cools when one Thinks if they only
had bread for themselves and their families.