Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-19
OUR CIVILIZATION.
SOME OF ITS "BEAUTIFUL"
RESULTS IN OUR DAYS.

Social Misery, Fraud, Crime and "Ac.
cidents"-Victims Of the Moloch
of Capitalism-The Ever Return.
ing Picture of Barbarism and
Reckless Waste of Life and Lies
Resources.
John Tevenin, 10 years old, of 534
| West 45th street, while at work on
| building at 10Th street and Tenth av-
| enue, fell from the fourth story to the
ground and was instantly killed. SINH
lar accidents ere of daily occurrence.
What of the laws for the protect on of
| life and limb?
Il hope killed him. He deserved it
long ago" said Mrs. Kate Hayburn last
| Friday evening as she was locked up in
the Thirty fifth street station house for
stabbing her husband in the left side
with pair of shears. The wife, al
though but nineteen years old accord
ing to her story has led horrible life
since her marriage, eighteen months ago.
Mrs. Hayburn was considered before
her marriage to be the belle of the
neighborhood. She had little of her
beauty left yesterday. Her husband
had kicked her about the face, bruised
and tore her mouth, and loosened all
her teeth. To defend herself she seized
the shears and stabbed him. Hayburn,
when but twenty years old, was a
widower. His first wife, it is said, died
from his abuse.
"Father" hypolite Baronski, priest of
a Polish Catholic church of Brooklyn, is
accused by his former housekeeper,
Magdalen Polyene, of having outraged
her and of taking 500 of her hard earned
money. He went to Castle Garden,
looked over the girls coming fresh from
the old country and hired Magdalen.
When she had been in his house for
two days he broke into her room and
debauched her-a favorite pastime with
these sniveling professional liars and
mountebanks. When the girl was
about to become mother he threw
her into the street. The girl has now
gone to law to recover her money from
the sconndrelly priest.
John 4. III. Feeks, chief lineman Of
the Western Union Telegraph Co., was
incinerated last Friday by electric light
wires at the corner of Centre and
Chambers streets, New York, not a
thousand yards from the City Hail.
where Mayor Grant and other "digni-
taries" have been celebrating for
months how to get the capitalistic
sneak-thieves owning those murderous
wires to put them under the pavement
where they cannot kill any one. 1t was
terrible sight. A lineman stretched,
posed as though carved in marble,
smoke issuing from his nostrils, fire
flashing from his mouth, blood dropping
from his neck, electric sparks darting
like serpents' tongues from every finger
of hands swollen and redeemed to the
eyes looked on. Terror scattered the
frightened multitude, as wire after wire
was cut and fell kissing to the street.
Comrades, pale, bloodless, ran from the
sickening sight. Heroism in the person
of a detailed ineman slowly ascended
the pole at the corner of Centre and
Chambers streets, cut the wire, olsen
tangled the manged body, fastened to
his waist rope, by the aid of which
steady hands carefully lowered the
bruised and battered remnant of hu-
manity, that it might be borne to the
sorrowing home of bereaved wife and
children. Six men have died in New
York on the fatal wires since Sept.
last. On that day Darwin A. Henry
Superintendent of the East River sta
ton, merely touched the wires with his
hand and fell dead. On September ID
Giuseppe Mazza an Italian fruit dealer,
met horrible fate, similar to that of
Feeks, being terribly burned. James
Powers, lineman employed by the
Brush Company, was the next victim,
being instantly killed on September 10.
John Bell, lineman employed by the
United States Company, perished on
the wires September 25. On October s
Charles Erdman, lineman in the EN-
ploy of the Manhattan Company, was
killed, and Feeks adds the sixth victim
to the list, and there is 10 doubt but
that the list will be continued for a
good many months; for Mayor Grant
and the members of the Board of Elec-
trical Control are but the creatures of
the capitalists who own New York and
most other parts of this country and its
inhabitants; and whose money bags are
dearer to them than the lives of their
wage slaves who cost them nothing.
Republican papers are charging that
the Democrats of New Jersey have been
engaged in amassing an immense cor
ruption fund. Gottfried Kruger and
the other brewers and the liquor deal
ers in the State who could be approached
have been compelled to come down
handsomely. The Republicans assert