Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-05
A WEEKS HISTORY
BARBARlSM IN THE HEART OF
CIVILIZATION.

Street-P0lice Outrages-Life in
Crime and Death in Shame.
Her0ism and C0wardice - The
Courts Busy Filling the Prisons
And Supplying the Gallows.
The Earl of Galloway, who bears the
proud name of Alan Plantagenet Stu
art, anu sits in the House of Lords
as Baron Stuart of Garbes, was
brought before the courts in Dumfries
to answer the infamous charge of as
saulting little girl of 10 or IL years.
He is 81 years old, and his wife is sis
ter of the Marquis of Salisbury. 1t is
doubtful if he will be punished
Another aristocratic scandal of a ma
ture SO revolving as to preclude descrlp-
tion has come to light, involving the
heir of duke and the younger son of
another duke, as well as an officer in
high command. Prosecution has been
deferred to give the noblemen an OPP
portunity to leave the country, which
they have done.
A Morrisania lad who had been play
ing tramp was captured in Stamford
and restored to his parents. The New
York Sun is authority for the state
ment that latter the lad has had inter-
views with grown-up members of his
family he will not feel much like re-
ceiving calls for day or two" Perhaps
it was just such treatment that made
him tramp.
Ten of Mr. Gerry's men and two squads
OF cops descended on a subterranean
pool and poker room in the Bowery and
gathered in one hundred men and bows.
tifty-three were boys whose ages ranged
from 13 to 90.
In fit of jealousy George G. Ofer,
5O years old, shot his wife, who was five
years his elder. He drank a good deal
and had spent all her money.
The salary of every police sergeant
in this city was raised last week from
$1,000 to 81, 400 per year. The salaries
OF telegraph operators at police head
quarters were also increased.
Fourteen-year-ol Flora McNott ran
away from her home in Elmira to be-
come an actress.
Lizzie Stokes, IA years old, was taken
to Governeurs Hospital from the big
five-story tenement house at 39l Madison
street, and died from typhoid fever. The
child had been sick for two weeks. Her
mother locked her in dirty room every
day while she went out to do her work,
that of a scrllb woman
The Tombs prison is full of wretches
awaiting trial.
Two hunters were lynched near the
Wyoming line some time ago for having
slaughtered deer in order to get their
hides. 1tnow appears that the lynchers
were murderous thieves, who, under
this f1imsy pretext, hanged the hunters
and ritled their pockets
In Union, w. Va, a negro named
Samuel Gurner was lynched for crime
which he had not committed. He was
charged with an assault on nne-year.
old girl.
''lrregularities" to the amount of ST..
200, 900 have been discovered in New Or
leans in what are known as Baby bonds.
Betsy Gerson, a young, unmarried
woman, abandoned her newborn child
in an excavation on Suffolk street,
where Police Justice Patterson is build
ing a house. The baby was found
naked and nearly dead from exposure.
Incendiarism combined with burglary
has broken loose in Berks and Lancas-
ter Counties, Pa A number of desper-
ADDE'S are plundering houses by the
dozen, after which they burn them.
Gen. Martin T. Mcmahon, counsel for
Mrs Marie Blaine, will begin divorce
proceedings in her name against James
q. Blaine, Jr., as soon as she is suffi-
GENTLY recovered from her present ILL
ness.
The Providence CAL reports a most
disgusting affair. A little fellow ten
years of age going home from school
was enticed into a grocery barroom by
party OF loafers and made so drunk
that he could not walk.
r. p. Halliday, the defauIting cashier
of the First National Bank of Mount
Gilead, Ohio, has surrendered to the
United States Marshal in Columbus.
a boy named Egan shot and instantly
killed a colored man named Joseph
Rose, at Greenbrier, White Sulphur
Springs, West Va. Rose was intoxi-
Gated, and catching boy named Ashby,
he held his back against hot stove
Egan tried to release Ashby, but failing,
ran out, procured a revolver, and shot
Rose through the breast.
Mrs. Lizzie Brennan was arrested for
murder in Springfield, Mass. She is ac-
cused of poisoning her husband and two
sons with arsenic in order to obtain the