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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
A Collision iiStwSsn steamers In the Eng.
llIh Channel,

LONDON, Feb. 4.-'rho steamer NorAld
COllIdOd with tho British ship Killochun,
Captain MOnSon, from Lyttlcton, of
Dangeness Light, in the English chan.
mol, last night, and both vessels went 10
the bottom In q very short time. Twen'
ty.iouF persons were drowned, including
the captain Of tho KlllOChan, Nine
members Of the crew were rescued, one
Of whom aiterward died. The weather
Waa clear al the time Of tho collision,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
A Track walker Killed,


HTIfTTWT UTTITTWTIT TO III IWVTWIVTWVTTe
pARkRHsnyRo, W, vAo Feb. A.
Freight engine No. 400 coming into
parkersburg from Grafton, over tile
Baltimore 4 Ohio Saturday night, killed
q ttaCk.walker named JOHN Dickens al
smllhLon, and carried soine Of Ills TO.
mains as far "a this city, lie was about
% years Of age. The exact cause Of tic
fatality In not known,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
rhn Anl.i.nr lIn.rll I.,nln,lnn.

ST. Louis, Feb, ,4-Thc loss by tho
ArO and explosion at AnhOuscr Busch
Brewery yesterday will not be quite 80
heavy as was stated last night, but II
will approach 100000, Tho lnSuranCp
is 100000. As tho buildings damaged
form but small part Of tic immense
establishment, the business will not DO
Interrupted, the firm having ample iacil.
tiles for conducting the full trade. Tho
CauSe Of tho explosion has not yet been
nACafLAlnDd.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
A COWARDLY MURDER
A Logan County Man IIrutaIly stAbs An.
other In tho lack.

CHARLESTON, W. vAY Feb. 4.--At
Pigeon Greek, Logan County, Friday
night, John ChRiers and Tom Nc.
Nally, between whom a ieud had OK.
listed for some timO, had a aQuarrOl. Al.
ter some words Chaiers proposed they
lay all past differences aside and DO
friends. This McNally agreed 10, and
the two men ConverSed for some time.
As Chaiers turned 10 walk away Nc.
Nally drew o knife and treaCherously
stabbed him In tho buck, and, as tho
wounded man foil, the murderer sprang
upon him and cut his throat from car TO
ear. MCNally escaped, but posse Is In
pursuit Of him,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
prSnnrInr for sllIke.

CmSAoo, Fob. 4.-ThO various car
pentes unions Of Chicago arc now ac'
lively consolidating aud preparing to fo.
,oat their demands Of a year ago for the
eiplt hour day and tllirty.ilye cents per
hour AZ tho minimum rate oil wages,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05

Az tho evening session Of the House,
before the Senators entered, Mr. llanon
tRepubllcan), Of Maghall, offered . rcs'
Dlhtlon settling forth that whereas II aP.
peatel from the notice Of contest served
by A. u. Fleming that Nathan Colt re-
Celyed ITO majority Oh the face Of the re-
turns, therefore DO II resolved that
Nathan Coll ID duly elected Governor
and provided that this declaration shall
In no way Affect tho pending contest
The resolution lies over a day under the
rule, The SenaloB appeared and the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
4 MO DAY AHEAD.

Hc certainly can get no Republican
help, aud II the Democrats try to carry
him through the subsequent proceedings
will bO interesting, but they won't elect
President Carr. His secret has been
well kept aud Ills position is not now
generally known, but the fact is precise.
y US have stated II, including tho ab.
solute certainty Of the defeat Of his rs.
piratIons. Between the sensational ru-
mQrs concerning the further canyasSinR
OF the returns mud the Senatorial com.
pliCAtions, tomorrow bids fair to DO q
day Of almost us much interest as this
haS been, and this has far outstrippGd oil
It's fore.runners, o.D.lI.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05

We arc not responsible TO you, but 70
the people our conscience and our God
I have not heard any one say that tho
Speaker shall not open the returns, lut
that tho retnrng relating 70 uoverh9lt
shall not be published and the result
not declared, We do not mean TO take
from Tho Speaker any duty, but We say
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
NEW HAVEN NOTES.

A large crowd was present at the Iron Mouldcrs ball last Tuesday night and everyone spent most enjoyable time.
 The German and American Section, S. l.. F., have secured large and com modious hall on State St., near the corner of Chapel St., in the Garfield building and they propose to do active work the coming year The dimensions of the hall are 10Ox30 1t. They will hold spirited public agitation meetings this winter and large stage has been erected for the accommodation of speakers,
 The regular meeting of the American Section will be held at the new hall a week from Friday night. It will be an interesting one and all members should attend.
 The city election last Tuesday passed off as usual. The political wire pullers opened the gates and the people Hooked willingly in. When will the wage workers act for themselves?
 The taxpayers of this city are now awakening to the fact that they are to a great extent unjustly taxed and that the money they pay every year is being mis- appropriated. Nine hundred dollars were spent by the Police Commissioners for Sunday spotters to satisfy d few pro hibitionist cranks.
 Every man has his own particular hobby, our prosecuting attorney, MT. Daily, not excluded. He is now waging war against those terribly obscene cigaret advertisements about town. Of course, it would not pay him to disclose other greater abuses which are more detri- mental to the public welfare. But he must find something to do to kill time.
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ton in Saxony, where, despite high property qualification for voters. they gained two seats in the Dresden Parla- ment, indicate the probable correctness of this estimate, These figures, big as they are, give only an incomplete idea of the present enormous strength of the Social Democratic party in Germany, since the majority of the workingmen, among whom the doctrines of Lieb- knecht and Rebel are most popular, have not the suffrage.
 The exceptional law of 1878, passed originally with time limitation of three years, was prolonged in 1881, 1884, 1886, and 1887. At the time of the last prol. ongation Bismarck wished five-year extentlon, but got only two years, and that, too, with the understanding that at the end of the two years no request should be made by the Government for further extension. Now the Govern ment asks that the law be made perma- nent.
 The Bill before the Reichstag is slight ly different from the bill of 1878, but so slightly that, as Herr Liebknecht says, it IS wasting time to speak of the altera- tion. It has been unsparingly criticised by the Social Democrats and most of the Progressist daiIies, and it's defenders have not been able to say much in its favor. Many of the bitterest attacks upon it concern the stupidity of the po- lice in acting under it. Not long ago" " said Herr Singer in speech before the Reichstag recently, "the police dis solved meeting because the speaker quoted from Heine another because the speaker said: Only remember that we all come naked into the world. Just the other day a meeting was dissolved in consequence Of my saying, Gentle men, you will understand. "
 After the first reading of the bill, it was referred to committee for cnOsi- iteration before the second and third readings. Here the proposal to again limit the operation of 1t to two years was rejected, and, with an unimpor- tant alteration or two, it was adopted Nov. 2l.
 Just what will become of the bill in the techstag is "one thing that nobody knows One of the few advantages of the old law with the time limitation was that it could never be continued without the consent of the Parliament. The new law, however, once passed, could never be repealed without the consent of the Crown, Many members of the Govern ment coalition doubtless hesitate to thus give the Crown all the trumpcards, and their indecision is the principal cause of uncertainty as to the fate of the bill
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14

pose laws and to vote upon all measures of importance, according to the Refer endum principle,
 ?. Abolition of the Presidency, Vice Presidency and Senate of the United States. An Executive Board to be es- tablished, whose members are to be elected and may at any time be re- called, by the House of Representatives as the only legislative body. The States and Municipalities to adopt cor responding amendments to their cOnsti' tutions and statutes.
 ,. Municipal self government.
 1. Direct vote and secret ballots in all elections. Universal and equal right of suffrage without regard to color, creed or sex. Election days to be legal holi- days. The principle of minority repre-. sentation to be introduced.
 ,. All public officers to be subject to recall by their respective constituencies.
 6 Uniform civil and criminal law throughout the United States. Admin istration of justice to be free of charge. Abolition of capital punishment.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
TRADES UNION ,ALENDAR. Meetings Regularly Held at Trades Coun-
 ell Hall, 769 Chapel Street.

Delegates to the Trades Council received at the
 regular meetings, on the First and Third
 Sunday evenings in each month. A. A. of l. AND w., 2d and last Thursday evgs BREWERS, alternate Sunday mornings. BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JoINKRs, 2d
 and 4th Wednesdays, CIGARMAKERs (39), 4th Tuesday in month, 7:30 p.
 m. Executive Board every Saturday, 5 p, m. CIaARMAKERs (6), 2d Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. FURNITURE WORKERS, 2d and 4th Friday evgs. GRANITE CUTTERS, Sd Saturday evening. HORSE SHoERs 2d Tuesday evening. IRON MoULDERs (6O), lst and 3d Thursday evgs. IRON MoULDERs C7O, ist and 3d Friday evenings. JoURNEYMEN BAKERS, 2d and 4th Saturday at
 D. m.
 STONE MAsoNs 1st and 3d Wednesday evenings. TAnoRs 2d and 4th Mondays, SD, m. TRADES COUNCIL, 1st and Sd Sundays, 7:30 p. m. IYPosRAPHrcAL 4th Sunday, 3p m. WooD CARvERs. lst and Sd Tuesday evenings.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
KNIGHTS AND FARMERS,
(Continued from first page.)

gained nothing that the wave of mon- opoIy is mounting higher and higher, have grown restless and threaten to be- come uncomfortable. Many of them those especially who belonged to the Greenback party-are clamorous for in dependent political action. Taught by past experience, they see also that they can accomplish nothing without the organized labor of cities, while the large vote cast by the latter here and there three years ago gives them hopes of suc- cess if an alliance can be effected. They reason, correctly enough, that If the labor of cities was better remunerated, larger consumption of agricultural products would take place and prices would be higher. while the cost of freight wonld be lower if the means of transportation were owned by the Gov ernment. They consider the possibility of land reform-if they consider it all as a contingency so remote that they need not preoccupy themselves about it. And as they are. not employers of agricultural labor to any extent, the eight hour question and other labor demands do not affect them. They would therefore use their influence over the farm laborers and array them against their wealthy employers
 "lf the contemplated alliance was 1 consummated, the influence of the small farmers and tenants over the farm laborers employed by their wealthy neighbors might therefore be used by ! the Knights for the benefit of their own organization. In this manner a large number of wage-workers, heretofore unogranized and very hard to reach by any other means, might be made to 1 enter into the labor movement. Of 1 course. in the carrying out of such a vast scheme considerable danger was to be apprehended from the politician ele- l ment, There would be alternate waves of organization and disorganization 1 but in the end a new face would be put 1 on the labor movement by the great expansion which 1t would receive. In | that case the $. l.. F. shoulk not remain idle It should very early devise some means of advancing its principles and impregnating this great mass of raw recruits with sound fundamental ideas. l The Nationalists were also interested and might aid greatly by sending out Boston Speakers-new abolitionists from Iankeedom-among the negroes of the South. even if a few of their mission aries were to perish, the martyrs of truth, Tn the noble enterprise
 After some remarks by comrades Dela
 bar, Waldinger and others, in which the fear was expressed that Powderly and hi, associates were not actuated by such far-reaching views. the meeting ad
 journed at late hour. The discussion of this subject will probably be con
 tinued at the next meeting, when { report of the St, Louis Convention vii enable the members to form a clearer opinion of its real object.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
LOCAL NOTICES.

For dH kinds of Job Printing, go to tue StaGord Hrinting Co.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
GERMANY'S SOCIAL DEMO-
 CRAFTS.
Advancing Over the Persistent Opposition
 of the Great Bismarck.

Advancing Over the Persistent Opposition
 of the Great Bismarck.
 "What have you accomplished with this law?' asked Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist, of the Government party of the German Reichstag recently in speech against the proposal to make per manent the present temporary anti-soci- alistic law. "Have you conquered us ? No; we stand here victors after an ele- ven-year enforcement of the law. We are stronger than ever before." None of Herr Liebknechts many opponents tried to contradict. The most complete proof of the failure of the imperial Ger man law against Social Democrats to do the work Bismarck expected of it is found in the German election returns of the last eighteen years.
 In 1871 the Social Democrats boiled in the German empire l2I ,00O votes out of total of 3,900 ,000. In 1872 they almost trebled this vote. In 1877 they boiled 493, ,000 votes. In 1878 after H6del's and Nobeling's attempts to kill the Emperor in the streets of Berlin, the present severely oppressive and oppressive law was passed with the time limit aton of three years. This law forbade all organizations which sought to spread socialistic or communistic pubi- cations, and empowered the police to dissolve all meetings at which Social Democratic tendensies were apparent. Provisions were also made for placing cities especially threatened by socialistc agitation in minor state of siege" In city safeguarded by these provisions, as are now Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg and several other cities, no meeting, so- cial or otherwise, can be held without permission from the police, and no publications can be sold publicly with out special license. The offender against these and otber provisions of the law may be punished by fine, imprison- ment, or punishment.
 
 pitiless severity during the election of 1881. Newspapers were contiscated, agitators were arrested, and meetings were dissolved right and left. The SO cialists were able to bring out only 3l2, GOO votes against these odds, although they increased the number of their De- puties in the Reichstag from 9 to l2. In 1884 they cast 549,00O votes and elected 24 Deputies. Finally, in 1887. when Bismarck appealed to the country on the Army bill, their total vote was i63, GOO. more than ten per cent. of the total vote cast. In Berlin, in the first election of the same year, they cast 93.00O out oi 232 ,000 votes, and Berlin is the city ir which all the provisions of the law oi 1878 have been most rigidly enforced Since 1887, according to Herr Lieb knecht's estimate in the Reichstag three weeks ago, the number of Social Demo atic voters has been swollen to almost million. The successes of the Socia Democrats in the recent provincial cleo
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
NEW HAVEN.

CONNECTICUT STATE COMMITTEE meets V every second and fourth Thursday in the month at No. 1, Marsh Court. Secretary of State Committee, Jos. Elern; Financial Secre tarv and Treasurer Wm, Werner.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
SOCIAL DEMANDS,

SOCIAL DEMANDS.
 1. Reduction of the hours of labor in proportion to the progress of production.
 ,. The United States shall obtain pos session of the railroads, canals, tele- graphs, telephones, and all other means of public transportation and communi- cation.
 3. The municipalities to obtain posses works, gas works, electric plants, ana all industries requiring municipal fran chises.
 t. The public lands to be declared in- alenable. Revocation of all land grants to corporations or individuals the con. ditions of which have not been com piled with.
 ,. Legal incorporation by the States of local Trade Unions which have no national organization.
 6. The United States to have the ex- elusive right to issue money.
 :. Congressional legislation providing for the scientific management of forests and waterways. and prohibiting the waste of the natural resources of the country.
 s. Inventions to be free to all: the inventors to be remunerated by the nation.
 9. Progressive income tax and tax on inhertances; the smaller incomes to be exempt.
 10. School education of all children under II years of age to be compulsory, gratuitous, and accessible to all by pub lie assistance in meals, clothing, books, etc, where necessary.
 II. Repeal of all pauper, tramp, con spiracy, and sumptuary laws, Una hridged right of combination. l2 Official statistics concerning the condition of labor. Prohibition of the employment of children of school age and of the employment of female labor in occupations detrimental to health or morality. Abolition of the convict ! labor contract sy stem. l3. All wages to he paid in lawful money of the United States. Equaliza- tion of women's wages with those of men where equal service is performed. ! If. Laws for the protection of life 1 and limb in all occupations, and an eff. cient employers liability law, Po' ITICAL DEMANDS. i 1. The people to have the right to pro
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
Mestings.

taT~ Notices, lines or less, under this head in
 serted at $500 per year. payable in advance
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14

The receipts of the United States government are about one-third of the receipts of Railroad corporations. In other words, measured by the money standard, the power of the Railroad corporations is three times as great as that of the National Government.
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
PLATFORM OF THE s. l. p.
As Adopted by the Chicago Conyen.
 tion, October 12, 1889.

The Socialist Labor Party of the United States, in convention assembled, reasserts the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
 With the founders of the Ameri- can republic we hold that the pur- pose of government IS to secure ev- cry citizen in the enjoyment of this right; but in the light of our social con dtions we hold, furthermore, that no such right can be exercised under sys- tenn of economic inequality, essentially destructive of life, of liberty, and of happiness.
 With the founders of this repub- lie we hold that the true theory of politics is that the machinery of gov ernment must be owned and controlled by the whole people, but in the light of our industrial development we hold, furthermore, that the true theory of economics is that the machinery of production must likewise belong to the people in common.
 To the obvious fact that our despotic system of economics is the direct oppo- site of our democratic system of poli tics, can plainly be traced the existence of privileged class, the corruption of government by that class, the alienation of public property, public franchises and public functions to that class, and the abject dependence of the mightiest of nations upon that class.
 Again, through the perversion of de- mOCracy to the ends of plutocracy, labor is robbed of the wealth which it alone produces, is denied the means of self employment, and, by compulsory idle ness in wage-siavery, IS even deprived of the neCessaries of life. Human power and natural forces are 1 thus wasted, that the plutocracy may l rule.
 Ignorance and misery with all their concomitant evils are perpetuated, that the people may be kept in bondage.
 Science and invention are diverted from their humane purpose to the en- slavement of women and children.
 Against such a system the $. l.. F. once more enters it's protest. Once more 1t re- iterates it's fundamental declaration that private property in the natural sources of production and in the instruments of labor is the obvious cause of all eco- homie servitude and political depend ence; and
 Whereas, the time is fast coming when, in the natural course of social evolu- tion this system, through the destruc- tive action of it's failures and crises on the one hand, and the constructive ten dencies of its trusts and other capital istic combinations on the other hand, shall have worked out its own down. fall; therefore, be it
 ReSolued, that we call upon the peo pie to organize with view to the sub stitution of the cooperative common wealth for the present state of plan less production, industrial war and so cial disorder; a commonwealth in which every worker shall have the free exer- else and full benefit of his faculties, multiplied by all the modern factors of civilization.
 We call upon them to unite with us in mighty effort to gain by all prac- tiCable means the political power.
 In the meantime, and with view to immediate improvement in the condi- tion of Labor, we present the following "Demands":
Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-14
ORGANIZE!

Workingmen and women in any part of the State of Connecticut wishing to organize can have the assistance of the Federation of Labor, by addressing its President, T. J. Flood, P. o. Box 542, New Haven, Conn.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-18
ruAr ~R1r ON SATURDAY,.

The revelations made 10y the investiga-
tio1s OF Health Officer GARRISON and
Chiefof Police DELBgUGGE in their trip
among certain well known Italisn quarters
ON Saturday sIc Of no ordinary character.
This is Che season Of tbe year when all
public and private places ueediDg it must
UNDERGO De cleansing process. Tt is the
time when the suns lays get in their work
npoa tbs dlth accumulated daring the
winter months. sud, through the process OF
decomposition breed diseass snd faint
Che atmosphere with epidemic germs.
IL is TO prevent just such calam-
tiles To- large communities that
health officers are appointed and clothed
with power to make certain reators and
property owners keep their premises in
good sanitary condition But the vital
question tsring this community directly
IN tie face, Is this Has the Health Officer
Che requisite law at his command to meet
The p5esent emergelcye 1t is shown con-
cinsiVeiy that there ia a large inluN Of
people 'n our midst who have 10 disposi-
uoa or mcnnsiicn to Keep their hsbita-
uons M aa ordinary state Of cleanliness.
buy ON Che contrary are huddled together
la such numbers that even if thew wen. 90
disposed, It is impossible TO observe the
most primitive limited and essential con
diUons necessary to avoid disease and PIE
serve health Certainly the ordinances