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The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-09

Aa6BoF +AONC5s
The Central Trades Assembly meets on
Thursday night. An election of officers
is TO take place.
James A. Stuart has been feeling badly
and in need of rest all the winter. He
talks of retiring from active work for
awhile and stay home mt nights to recup-
crate and get IN Oh some lost sleep. There
are many other hard workers who would
like to do what MIR. Stuart proposes.
James p Archibald is looking after la
boris interest in Albany.
Lowell painters demand that city con-
tracts be let TO city contractors.
Mayor Grant told the Central Labor
Union of New York one day this week
that the contract for building new GRIM
mai courts would have to go TO the low
est bidder, irrespective of whether ne be-
longed 10 New York or not
The London County Council, in advertis-
ing for tenders for boots Tor the London
Fire Brigade, state that each tender must
be accompanied by u declaration thai the
persons rendering pay such rate OF
wages and observe such hours OF labor as
are generally accepted as fair in their
trade.n
IL is expected that the London dock la
borers WIil 90 on strike agaiDatomorrow.
The present trouble is SAID 10 image upon
the refusal of the union laborers to de-
liver the goods they handle to non-union
laborers
Emperor William, Of Germany, wants
bismarck to arrange for an international
conference of the European powers ON
the laooF troubles.
Gas workers all over Eng land have
galned the eight hour day without any
reduction in wages.
Six hundred women have entered the
London Cigarmakcrs' Union. Their
wages range from 50 to s.. 80 a week.
knights Of Labor III Canada propose
petitionfhg the Canadian Parliament TOR
the appointment of a Board OF Arnitra-
ton TO settle disputes between capital
and labor
The mild weather is causing a great
deal OF suffering in the coa region OF
Pennsylvania. Fully 1900 miners and
their families are lii actual want.
German uuions IN the building trades
are discussing the possibility of enforcing
The elgbt-hOuf day on May l.
Ia their appeal for increased wages, the
employees OF The Custodian OF New York y
Postoflice are backed by the Knights OF
Labor, and the Orders Legislative Com
mlttee in Washington wi assist them.
The oae-tinae powerful District Assent
bly, 40 Is looming 40 again. Its
'Schccl OF Instruction" for lszbor Is at
tractlns . great nany knights.
or O.055 hsnt glNsswUrkrfA IN the United
States only 100 are NOS ia The anion.
The German Topographic, Y national
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-09

FOR upwards OF City sears 'efns. WILSON'S
SOOTHING SYsur' has heeu used by 5nliiIos ofu
mothers for tnelg children while tecfhin9 with
Ailtrx safety and suncess. ID soothea the
me bowels cures yia collie and y sns best remedy
Tor dlarrfsea- Mas. wisseow,s SoVrAfse sragse
Price tw@nty -nYe ceuH bsttle-f.s
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!. HnANcH OFFICES:

Advertisements, Subscriptions and Newsdeal-
ers' Orders received
HopoKnS-Fisst and Clinton Streets, J. D. Sin
clair
UNION HirL-H. Fischer. No. es Paiisade Avenue
Hnnsrv PolNr--T " Dobson, opposite Railway
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Avenue.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-09

THE cry is still they come.
This morning brings a new array of
to the Davis procession.
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This paper Is Democratic tlG principles
and Is independent iss its uiea0s on all
local questions.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-02-09

Cigarmakers International Union
No. 131 met in regular session at STEERS
Hall last night. There was a good at
tendance. After dispatching the routine
business before the union the following
resolution was enthusiastically received
and obtained an unanimous vote:-
Whereas, The Board of Finance on January IS
designated to publish the public notices OF the
city sheet which contriveS to exist by employ
ing cheap and unsatisfactory labor. be it
Resolved That we, the members OF Cigarmak-
ers International Mon No. l31, of Jersey City, in
session assembled. do most emphatically protest
citizens and Taxpayers against the acron of the
Board of Finance ia assisting to bolster up the
Argus, which offers terms pauperzing to Amer
lean labor and unfairly completes with those VINO
would "liye and let liVe;' and be it
Resolved. That we pledge ourselves to vote for
the candidate for Mayor at the coming spring
election who will agree to appoint as members
of city boards only those individuals who, while
complying with the terms of the city CHARTER
will undertake to award city printing to firms
employing union labor at union rates, and In
the disposition Of all other city work give the
preferences 10 contractors who employ union
meu, acting on the principle that the prosperity
of the laborer Is to be sought as absolutely
essential 10 the welfare and tranquility of the
community ct large; and be it further
Resolved, That This organization appoint a
committee of three to take action with Typo
graphical Union No. "a in bringing about the
ends sought.
H. Il. Irapper, G. Beckmeyer and John
Holman Were appointed as committee
to act With the printers
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WEEKLY PAY DAYS.
A Demand Of Organized Labor Which
Lawmakers Should Enforce.

There is much activity just now in
labor circles. While new members are
being steadily taken into all The unions
and the benevolent features are used to
the fullest extent. there is not little at
tention being devoted towards securing
legislation that win protecS the workers
and make life more comfortable for them.
The Legislative Committee of the FEEDER
alton OF Trades and the X. of l.. Legisla-
tive Committee are busy with bills which
are the expression of the toilers they rep
resent, and which they are DESTROYS that
the lawmakers at Trenton will carefully
consider with view to placing them
upon the statute books of the State. The
Weekly Payment of Wages bill approved
by the X. OF l.. was introduced
into both Houses last week. This
bill embraces the railroad corpora
tions, as well as manufacturing
and mercantile establishments. Weekly
payment OF wages is Il matter which the
workers consider OF the utmost impof-
tance. When the building trades first
organized they set about changing the
system of fortnightly and monthly pay
ments, which too often were made in
beer saloons To show the extent of this
evil it is enough to remark that one of
the laws governing the United Brother
hood OF Carpenters and Joiners provides
chat no one shall be admitted to their or
ganization who is in the saloon business
or whose wife runs liquor resort 1t has
been calculated that weekly payment of
wages would add ten to twenty per cent
to the purchasing power of the workmen.
III the case of sickness and death, it is
claimed, the effect of deferred pay day
comes to be at times in the nature of a
downright hardship
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PUBIfsHRp EVERY SUNDAY MORNING
BY
CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY.
OFFICE No. 50 MONTGOMERY STREET
WELDON EurLpISaa
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HORRIBLE SCENES.


Life Returns to the Half Executed Grim
inal.
"Ready," said Durston again and then
'sGood-bye.. He stepped 70 the door and
through the opening said TO some one in
the next room. but 70 whom will probably
never be known with certainty, "Every-
thing n ready" An almost immedia te re-
sponse, and at :l3T the electric current
was turned on. There was sudden con-
vulsion OF the frame in the chair. A spasm
went over Kemmler from head to foot
confined by the straps and springs that
held him firmly 10 that no limb or other
parts of the body stirred more than q
small fraction Of an inch from lis resting
place. A slight twitching which the mus
cles OF the face underwent gave Il for a
moment the expression OF pain, but no
cry escaped from the lips, winch were free
TO move at will. No sound came forth 20
suggest that consciousness lasted more
than an infinite small fraction of q second.
The body remained In rigid position
for IL seconds. The jury and witnesses.
who remained seated up 10 this moment,
came hurriedly forward and surrounded
the chair. There was no movement OF
the body beyond the first convulsion. II
shirt sleeves, bound hand, foot, body and
even head. with heavy framework press
ing down on the top of his skull.
DIR. Mcdonald held a stop-watch In his
hand, and as the seconds flew by he noted
their passage. Spitzka, too, looked mt a
stop-watch, and as the tenth second ex-
pired. he cried out "Stop." Stop cried other
voices about, and the warden turned to
the doorway and called out "stop" 20 the
man at the lever. A quick movement of
the arm and the electric current was
switched of. There was a relaxation OF
the body in the chair. "He's dead,r said
Spitzka. calmly.
DIR. Batch was bending over the body
looking at the exposed skin. Suddenly
he cried out sharply, "Dr. Mcdonald, see
that RUPTURE" In moment Drs. Spitzka
and Mcdonald had bent over, and look
ing where Batch was pointing Mt little
red spot on the hand that rested on the
right arm OF the chair. The index finger
Of the hand had curved backward as the
muscles contracted and scraped small
hole i'm the skin at the base of the thumb
on the back OF the hand. There was
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kEMMLE RS SPEECH.


He Thought He Was Going To Good
Place Beyond the Grave.
As the warden finished Kemmler looked
up, said In n high-keyed voice, without
any hesitation, and as though he had pre-
pared himself with a speech: "Well,
wish every one good luck in this world,
and think ! am going 70 a good place,
and the papers have been saying lot of
stuff that Is not SO; that's all l have 20
say" With the conclusion Of the speech
he turned his back 70 the jury, took of his
coat and handed II to the warden. This
disclosed the fact that hole had been
cut from the band of the trousers down.
SO as 10 expose the base Of the spine.
When his coat was of Kcmmler turned
in the direction Of the door through which
he came into the room and began 10 un-
button his vest. At the same time the war
den was drawing the interfering drapery
OF his shirt through the hole i'm his trousers
and cutting II of so as TO leave n little sur
face of flesh against which one Of the cleo
trodes was TO press, absolutely bare, and
Warden Durston called attention to the
fact that il was not necessary to remove
the vest and Kemmler carefully buttoned
IL again. arranged his tie and said "Don't
hurry about this matter" Then the war
den said. "Be perfectly cool" He was
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STORMS IN QUEBEC.
Much Damage Done by wiad Along the
~. Lawrence.

~. Lawrence.
MONTREAL. Aug. GA cyclone unpar-
alleled for violence In this locality swept
over Lake st. Louis and the 81. Lawrence,
In the vicinity of Montreal last evening,
doing great damage on land and water.
At the moment the storm burst, the prin-
cipal event OF the canoe meet AT an isle In
Cadieux lake, the association trophy for
the flrst-class yachts, was being sailed.
The competing yachts were n mile out on
the lake, when suddenly the sky grew
black and the wind swept down the lake
with terrific violence. Instantly every
yacht in the race upset and il Is not
known how many IL any were drowned.
Al various points great damage was done
TO property. Houses were uuroofed. barns
struck by lightning and many buildings
were swept completely away. At Lachine
the greatest damage was done. The inn
mense building OF the Dominion Bridge
company and the equally large structures
Of the Canadian screw and barbed wire
factory were unroofed and left in ruins.
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HOW DID HE DIE7
Doctors Disagree Upon the Manner a
Kemml ler's Death.

Doctors Disagree Upon the Manner of
Kemmier's Death.
Was Kemmler dead when the chest
moved and the lips gave forth these
strange ghastly sounds? Was he breath.
ing or was there an involuntarily and
phenomenal action of the chest muscles
Some of the eminent experts in attend
ance said 10 an Associated Press CORE
spondent while the body was still warm
in the chair that there was no doubt that
there were signs of returning animation /;
that respiration, for respiration they be-
lieved il to be, was growing stronger, and
that in time, IL the current had not been
turned on again he would have revived.
Others. among them Dr. Spitzka, stated
with equal positiveness the conviction
that the first shock killed Kemmler in
/ stantly. Doctors Daniel and Soutbwlck, 6,
the father Of the system OF electricide." /"
believed Kemmlcr dead, but they think
| the current should have been continued
longer than II seconds, which was the
official time of the first contact. There Is
no way in which the positive determine
| ton of this question can he made. II will
always remain unsolved.
The autopsy began at 0 o'clock. II was
found when the body was spread out ON
| the table that q very severe rigor mortis
had set In. There was little relaxation
and II was with difficulty that the corpse
was Strengthened out. On examination
| IL was found that the second electrode had
burned through the skin and into the
| flesh at the base of the spine, making a
scar nearly Ave inches In diameter.
| The heart, lungs and other organs were
taken out and found in q good healthy
| condition. They will be preserved for
further examination. The brain was also
taken out, and il is 10 be carefully exam
| ined.
The doctors who performed the autopsy
prepared a preliminary statement OF the
results of the execution. They agree that
| Inconsistencies was instantly produced
| and that death was apparently painless,
Notwithstanding some slight defect In the
| electriciau's apparatus which required
| contact OF current to insure death. There
was an extensive charring of the body at
the points OF contact with the electrodes
and also minute hemorrhages were found
| in the serious membranes and In the ven
| ticles of the brain. The blood fluid was
| dark in the longitudinal sinews corre-
| spending with the region Of contact In
| blood carbonixed. II was decided that
the change in the consistency and color of
| the brain corresponded with the point OF
contact. The destructive changes OF the
blood corpuscles was noted.
New YORK. Aug. 6.-The Mail and Er-
| Dress, Commercial Advertiser and Ere,iHg
| Post all strictly observed the law this af'
ternoon and published only q brief an
nouncement OF the execution OF kemm'
| lar
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Yachts were with him. They read to him
from the bible and he prayed with them.
He dresscd himself without aid, In q suit
OF gray mixed goods. His hair he combed
and brushed with great care. His
while he made kimseIf tidy,
the warden and n tall stranger who
Ia deputy masllal in Buffalo entered the
cell.
The warden explained 10 Kemmler that
he must have the top Of his head shaved.
The prisoner demurred. He had taken
great pains In dressing hts hair and be-
sides, as he explained TO the warden, he
did not want TO he disagssred. Kemmler's
s;. hair ,s dark ..ri ,, brown % and ysvy With BY;
this be was proud. In the shadow of death
hts vanity asserted itself. His hair. how.
ever, was cut, but the curl was saved, and
~ the sequel proved, with good results.
The shaven spot was 2k by I Y inches In
si.e and was not shaven bsss cropped
the witnesses examined the chair q
death: The belt was run ON the dynamo
and the incandesceut test lamps In the
ante chamber glowed family. The cur
rent was on. Niagara's strange power
was coarsing the circuit. The evidence
was there but how feehly they burned.
the only one who sos into the
ante room. while ignorant Of the
wartlen's desire 10 keep its Sc
crets inviolate, and In response 10
to DR.. MacDonald's comment Electrician
Edwards remarked: "There In some
thing wrong about the machinery there"
referring 10 the dynamo at the end of the
circuit.
This remark took place before the elet-
ricixing. IL was undoubtedly as true n
few minutes later when volt WINS ap-
piled 10 Kemmler.
Tho condemned man, after having his
hair cut ON the top of his head, listened
70 the reading Of his death warrant by the
warden.
When the current was first turned on
the least unhappy Of all In the room was
Dr. Southwick OF Buffalo, the father of
electrisinR In capital cases, who had been
working upon this subject since 1881.
There" he explained a. he strobe away
from the pair 10 knot of witnesses at
the other end Of the room, ''there is the
elimination OF 10 years of work and
study, We live In u higher civilization
from this day."
But even while he spoke o quick sharp
cry went up from those yet closely watch
ing about the silent figure in the char.
There had been movement in the breast
OF the man whom all believed had died
l minute and AZ seconds before.
The narrowing scenes attending the
second electrocution followed.
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perfectly cool. He was by all odds the
coolest man In the room.
When hts tie was arranged he eat down
In tho electric chair as quietly - though
he was sitting down 10 dinner. WartieI
DuFston stood on his right and George
Yelling Of Albany. on his left. They he
gan immediately 10 adjust the straps, tho
condemned man holding up his arms 20
- 10 give them every assistance. When
the straps had been adjusted about tho
body, the arms were fastened down and
then the warden leaned over and parted
Kemmler's fest % ~ TO bring the legs
near the leQs of the chair.
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.


Tho Mammoth Trees Protected Coast
Carrying Trade-Ths Chihes~.
WAsHINGToN. Aug. 6.-Secretary Noble
has instructed the commissioner general
of the land Office 10 renew the order stis.
pending from settlement and entry the
sections Of land In Tulare county, Cali
fornia, upon which s'the mammoth trees"
are growing.
Secretary Window to-day sent 10 the
senate a letter In answer 10 the resolution
calling upon him for information regard
ing tue shipment In bond Of merchandise
between Atlantic and Pacific ports over
Canadian railways. The secretary says
merchandise in bond Is appraised
and unappraised and goods Of
these railroads that arr common
carriers and on the arrival of such mer-
cbandise at Vancouver, transhipment Is
made under the supervision OF an United
States officer, who certifies 10 the facts
upon a manifest.
The secretary then quotes the authority
under which such transportation In per-
mitted and expresses the opinion that as
under the regulation OF the department,
American vessels only are allowed to be
employed In Transporting these goods, the
laws OF the coasting trade are not violated.
He further says he has no knowledge of
the Grand Trunk railroad having violated
the revenue or coastinR laws Of the United
States In transporting merchandise be-
tween places In the United States.
The collector Of customs at Astoria,
Ore, had been instructed by the treasury
department to cease issuing certificates
To alleged Chinese merchants or Others
leaving the United States with the inten.
tion of returning. He is ordered to de-
stroysall such documents In his possession
and refrain from issuing certificates of
such character in the future.
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Ksmmlar Took Great Iuterss& In the
uode Of killing.
While the straps were heine arranged
Kemmler said: "Tske your time; dont
be In . hurry; be sure that everything h
all right" Two o. three times he repeat
ed these phrases. Warden Durston reas-
sured him with the remark that II Would
not hurt him and that he Durston) would
be with him all through. But u was not
fear that Kemmler felt, II was rather n
certain pride In the exactness Of the ex-
pertinent. He seemed TO have greater in
terest In its success than those who had
made preparations for II and who were
watching its progress 70 It's final, fatal
conclusion.
when the strap had been adjusted the
warden placed his hand on Kemmlcr's
head and held Il against the rubber cush-
ion which ran down the back Of the chair.
Kemmler's eyes were turned toward the
opposite side of the room. Before this
they had followed the warden In his move
ments about. Then the condemned man
made one or two remarks In a perfectly
clear, composed tone of voice.
swell, wish everybody good luck, !"
was one Of them, and "Durston, see that
things are all right" was another.
nar,tv va;l;c~ "psn.tecad tho thuu,,,.
y ,,,s.s ia 49,. ,s.s,' a., sh..:-
scse~s WINCH "elu '.ie o~n ~ 'ue cusir
IN place ana began 70 lower a. SO that the
rubber cushion, which held saturated
sponge, would he pressed against the top
OF Kemmler's head. The warden assisted
In the preparation by holding Kcmmler's
head Kemmler said:
on' youu 'e'ser press Una, "o"h iur-
ther, guess press that down..
So the headpiece was unclamped and
pressed further down. While il was be-
inc done Kemmler said; "Well. I want TO
do the hest I can. can't do nnv better
a.. h..v xv..,an n,-..on 80 4, ia.
IMAM na,. ""ruen Du's'ou ,o"n u MS
hand q ieatner harness. wnch haa 10
be adjusted to hemmler's head. II
was muzzle or broad leather
strap which went across the fore
head and the chin: the ton strap
,,,,.s..tl do~,, ...;nst ,h. nos. ~ Ka,,,n,.
sr mil n aatte"ad Il down sI;gbtiv over
III. fa"a Tha harncss r,as then 1,,t IN
s,isco M Sn;s,La who was s,an.i;rn
pssr the chnir said. 1CoI hisss xo,s'
Va,,,,,ia, " ~ nd tho ccndamnai man ny
.s,ar..a ..rhsnL vo,, - '''"'' MI
oWc us.s sO