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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Col. Smith Nominated.

Fort WORTH, Tex, July 29-The city
Democratic convention met tonight and
with the calmness that comes from unan-
unity nominated Col John Peter Smith for
Democratic candidate for mayor. Hon
w. ] Baily rendered his resignation as
chairman Of the city executive Committee.
and Hon. r. N. Wynne was elected in his
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Railway Shop Burned.

AToHIsoN, Kan, July 29.-The carpenter
shop Of the Missouri Pacific, with all the
tools, machinery and other contents, was
destroyed by fire at o'clock this morning.
The loss is about $4,000. The Missouri
Pacific freight depot at Downs was burned
at $3.50 O'clock yesterday evening, the
greater part of the contents Of the building
were destroyed. Loss unknown.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Brutally Beaten.

GALVESTON, Tex, July 29.-Philip Son
encis, a worthless dago, horribly beat his
9-year-old little boy this morning The
childs back, when exposed at the police
station, presented a sickening appearance,
being bruised and cut from the shoulders
down. A warrant was issued for the brutal
father, but he is in hiding and has not been
captured.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Railway Dividends .

New York, July 29.-The directors Of
the st. Louis and San Francisco railroad
meet today to take action on the dividend
on first preferred stock. They decided to
pay nothing. One of the directors states
the reason for suspending the dividend is
simply there was nothing TO pay 1t with.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31

gust2. Also that the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and Southern Pacific will
meet the New Orleans cut rates of the same
road on August 4. Rumors that further
decentralization of rates will take place in
the near future are plentiful, but nothing
definite concerning their correctness can
be learned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
CANADA.
FIRE IN A HOTDL.

MONTREAL, July 29.-At an early hour
this morning fire broke out in the attic
of the Balmoral hotel. The 150 guests
were quickly aroused and all got out
safely. The fire was confined to the top
of the building. Loss heavy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Railway Building.

LANCASTER, Tex, July 20.-Work wasre-
sumed on the Hutchins tap of the Central
railway yesterday morning. They have
about one mile of track laid and the entire
distance, four miles, is graded. Thirty
convicts are at work laying the track.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Car Repairer Killed.

HousToN, Tex, July pa car repairer
named Martin in employe of the Southern
Pacific company was killed between two
cars while at work this evening about 2:30
o'clock.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Two Women Murdered.

BALTIMORE, Md, July 29.-Mrs. Chas.
York and her aged mother, living at Pea
gies, were murdered this evening A man
named Meeks is accused of committing the
crime,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
RenOminated.

SCoTTsvILLE, Pa, July 29.-Jas. B. Reilly
was Yesterday renominated for congress
by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Dis
trict.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
San Sahn.

SAN SABA, Tex, July 29.-San Saba
county instructs for Hogg fer governor,
sayers for congress and Allison for district
Judge.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
TURKEY,
MARTIAL LAW.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, July 29.-The Kroom
Kapo quar- er of this city, in which martial
law has been proclaimed by the Turkish
authorities is that part of Constantinople
in which is situated the Armenian cathedral
the scene of the attack Sunday by mob
on the Armenian patriarch because of his
alleged weak attitude toward the porte, re-
garding the outrages perpetrated by the
Turks in Armenian.
RIOTERS ARRESTED.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, July 29,-Four hundred
of the Armenians who took part in the
riotous demonstrations against the patri-
arch in the Armenian cathedral Sunday
have been arrested.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31
Meeting Cut Rates.

DALLAS, Tex, July 29.-The Santa Fe an
nounces that it will meet the cut rates of
the Texas and Pacific to st. Louis on Au-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31

few days he would be at liberty to make
nublic some correspondence on the matter.
The captain declined to say whether
he wasconnected with the matter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-31

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, July pa New York
dispatch states that an ex-coionel in the
Seventh Missouri infantry has offered to
the Republic of Guatemala TO raise and
eonip 5000 recruits within two weeks if
$500 can be placed in bank in New York
10 the credit oftr1stees to be he'd as guar
antee Two ex officers of the Seventh Mis-
souri infantry live here. One of them is
Cant. Thos. H. Phelan. When asked if he
had made the offer TO recruit 5000 men for a
Central American Republic. Capt. Phelan
said the persons connected with the matter
were now in the city. but would give no
information about them. He thought IN a
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SECTIONS

Misunderstanding every Sunday at o'clock
p m, at Turner Hail. 416 Il. Baltimore street;
free discussion every meeting. Ira Dean,
llOi Il. Preston street Organizer, g. Fleisch'
man, 1422 Bank street
BosToN, MASS Public agitation meetings at G.
a. X Hail. GIG Washington street, every Sun
day evening at 7W o'clock. Free to all
Business meetings, first Monday evenings In
each month, at Nassau ST. Organizer
7. f. ONeil, Is Everett street. Charlestown.
Rec Secretary, Il. T. Miller, Adams street,
Cambridge.
BRooKLYN-American Section meets every Tues
day evening at the Labor Lyceum Organ.
izer, Leonard Burplcr 25l Wallabout st.
CHlcAao-Business meeting every sunday af'
ternoon, o'clock, AT Grefs Hall, 81 Lake
street. Public agitation meetings every
Sunday at lungs Hall. 10G Randolph street
Organizer Bernhard nerlyn, eoaG Green ST.,
Englewood, Cook Co, Ill,
LYNN, MAss-Organizer, George r. Peare, 81
Jefferson street.
| MINNEAPoLIs,-Scandin Section, Agitation
Meetings every second and fourth Mon.
days In each month. Business Meetings,
every first and third Monday Organizer,
p. Petersen Z. o, Box 1884.
NEW YORK American section: Agitation meet
ings every Monday evening at 25 East Fourth
street; Organizer, August Delabar, % East
Fourth street,
New HAVEN, CoNN.-Meetings at the New Hall,
second house from corner State and Chapel
SITS. Entrance from State st. M. Ruther,
Sd Broad St, Organizer
NEw ORLEANs-Meeting every first Sunday In
month in the house of Comrade Beck, 1906
Bordeaux ST.
PHLADELPHIA, PA. - Agitation meetings every
Tuesday evening at Morning star Hall,
northeast corner Of Ninth and Callowhll
streets Secretary Jul, Necker All Vine
street. Organizer, W. II. Bishop, 919 Sar.
tain street
PHILADELPHIA, PA-Flemish Section meets First
Sunday In each month at the Labor Lyceum,
AL N. 9Th ST. De Bruyn, 1915 Warnock st.
| PHILADELPHIA, PA-French Branch meets every
second Sunday at $3.50 a, m. at Aschba"hers
Hall, corn Oriana and Somerset sts.-Isidor
Cnockaert, Sec'y, BlS 4th st
PROVIDENCE. r. Injecting first Sunday OF each
month, O'Clock p m, SHADES Building,
Room 22 Organizer, Franklin Burton,
Sampson av.
SACRAMENTO, CAL.--Meets every Tuesday even.
ing at 7D O'Clock at Humboldt Hall, cor.
Ninth and l. streets. Organizer l.. c. Fry,
5l5 street
WALTBAM, Mass, Public meeting every week.
N. X. Varney, Organizer. 20 High st. Mrs.
Mary Cunning, Rec Secy, % Liberty st.
| WEst SUPERIOR Wisc,-Meetings every week
organizer p. o. Box 254,
The Directory Of sixty German American Sec
lions will be found In DER SozIAIIsr.
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nuts, lead, Bessemer steel, zinc, borax,
oatmeal, pearl barley, straw boards,
castor OIL quinine, tin. mica, CONNER,
cial fertilizers, wine, silver-plated ware
rubber sleeping cars, gums, honey, gutta
percha, posphate, straw wrapping pa
per, -four racks, blank books sail cloth
and tarpaulins.
Here are very few specimens of
local trusts One which has four-hfths of
the timber lands of Michigan; the street
car lines of Philadelphia; also some
surface lines of New York City, Boston,
Chicago, Pittsburg and st, Louis; in
Chicago gas is monopolized by the Gas
Trust Co. and the beef-slaughtering by
five men; the four elevated roads of
New York City are under one control;
beer is monopolized in Syracuse and
other places; in Brooklyn there is
warehousemen's trust; the sale and
Strengthening of mutton and lamb in
New York City is in the hands of two
rings; in many places there are local
trusts in gas, lumber, beef, wood bund-
ling, lead pencils, collins and undertake
ers' supplies, lagerbier, flour, butter,
eggs, milk and other accessories.
so far but few international trusts are
known. These are in salt, copper, steel
rails, Bells telephone, quicksilver and
south African diamonds.
There are movements on foot to organ
ize into trusts the wire manufacturers,
the milk producers, the street Car lines,
| the Cuban tobacco growers, the vinegar
manufacturers, the New York State
hotel men the flower gardeners near
| New York and the dealers in Florida
oranges. Woollen merchants represent
ing a capital of $4,000, 900 have deter
mined to combine and so have the farm
ers of the Mississippi Valley. The latter
| formed the Federated Farmers Co. with
capital stock of $4,000, 900 to establish
uniform, i. e., higher prices of wheat and
pork and to protect themselves against
the determinations of the railroads.
EDWARD THIMME.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
THE FARMERS.
Their Organs Are Firing Volleys of Hot
Shot into the Doodle Parties.

Their organs Are FIRING tolleys OF Hot
Shot into the Doodle Parties.
Congress will play out in time to ask
us to help play the fool in the fall by re-
turning the members. -Indianapolts
Globe,
All the powers of the mind, the pen,
and the printing press must be used by
the toiling masses to protect them from
the money sharks of this country
Lurdy, Va, Union.
An exchange remarks that Senator
Ingalls, is interested in the financial
question. Certainly he is. As president
of a bank at Atchison, director of bank
at Hayes City and director of the Sou
thern Kansas Mortgage Company, he
couldn't well be acknowledgement
Republican
The Fifty -frst Congress has now been
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classification.

The first trust in this country was the
Standard Oil Co., which was formed in
1869 with the express purpose of crush
ing out its competitors. 1t was in pos
session of the most important patent
for refining OIL 1t began with 100000
capital but controls now over $3.50, 000,-
00O There are three kinds of trusts:
the local, the national and the lnterna-
tional. Most of them prefer to be known
by some other name; yet in so far as they
have driven competition out of their in
dustry, manufacture, trade or occupa-
ton, they must be classed among trusts.
The principal national trusts as far as
known are the follo~in The six great
railroad trusts which are still further
icing concentrated. Their total value
is estimated atabout $4,000 600 600, Coal
is monopolized almost everywhere,
either by coal barons or by railroad cor
porations. About two thirds of the
Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields are
owned by seven railway corporations
Last years output was about 1870 million
tons of coal.
The sugar trust was called into being
by 16 retineries. 1t was capitalized at
$50, 900. 900. of which at least $40, 900, 900
is water, and their profits during the two
years of its existence were $3.50, 600, 900
in spite of Judge Barrett and his con-
tirmed judgment. Of the other natio-
nal trusts the following deserve special
mention: The Western Union Telegraph
Company; the Linseed Oil Trust with
$11, 900, 900 capital: the Paper Bag Trust
with S2,000,0O0; the Distillers' Trust
with S31, 900, 900; the American Cotton
Oil Trust with S42 .000,0 900; the National
Lead Trust with SS,O00,000; the Rubber
Trust with S35, 900, 900; the Rope and
Irvine Trust with 100000. All the
following articles or commodities are
also trustihed: Clothes-w ringers, felt,
cartridges and cartridge shells, dental
tools, patent leather. wall paper, sand
stone, marble, envelopes, paving pitch,
coke, white lead, jute bagging, friction
matches, glass, reaplng, binding and
moving machines, ploughs, threshing
machines. lard, school states, oil cloth,
s.eel, steel rails, steel and iron beams,
nails. wrought iron pipes, stoves, iron
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
Socialism in the Far West.

Editor WoRKMEN'S ADvOCATE:-Dear
Comrode: Please allow space for the
following, as deem it of interest to our
Comrades in general.
shall begin by briefly reviewing the
labor movement of Tacoma for the past
year
When | first came here ON June 8,
1889, every thing was dead, SO to speak, in
labor circles.
The Trades Council which was then
in existence was of the most cOnserv
alive type. 1t held regular meetings but
once a month and when the time of
meeting came the delegates seemed to
have forgotten all about it. No interest
whatever was manifest At last this
Council died natural death as all con-
sentative bodies are bound to do, and
the progressive element came to the
front. The result is a new Trades
Council, organized on purely socialist
basis, and interesting meetings are
held every week. With but few excep-
tons every trade and labor organization
is represented. regret to say, however,
that the br:cklayers are the same here
as in most other places in that they
absolutely refuse to join hands with
their fellow wage-slaves. But as we
are moving along we hope in time to be
able to show them the error of their
ways. Now for the main object of this
communication, which | hope will
encourage our comrades elsewhere to
greater efforts.
1t is needless for me to say that the
socialist element is in the vanguard of
the movement here, for that is where
they always are, and where it is per,
fectly natural that they should be, since
they are the only ones capable of lead
ing the movement to a successful issue.
Since | came here | have loaned and
distributed what socialist literature
had and preached socialism on every
opportunity. Ny labors are now about
to bear fruit in the form of Section of
the S. l.. P. Our meeting for the pur-
pose of organizing will be held Wednes-
day evening" July 9, 1890.
| may also add that, through my
constant agitation, I lost my situation
last Tuesday. My employer remarked
last week: IF Drees does not keep his
mouth shut, I'll fire him out of the
shop" | did not keep my mouth shut,
and he kept his word.
So hurrah for the Tacoma Section
of the S. l.. P.
CHAs. DREES.
TACOMA, Washington, June 2S, 1890.
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in session for nearly six months, and yet
no relief has come for debt.ridden and
poverty-cursed people. How these re.
creant public servants can have the te.
merity to show their faces among their
constituents the coming fall is more
than we can comprehend iord ni-
Dune.
What claim has any politician upon
the farmers None, none whatever. What
has any politician ever done to benefit
the farmer? Nothing, nothing whatever.
What has the politician done to injure
the farmer? He has made all laws to
benefit thel rich few at the expense
of the poor toiling many Alliance
Farmer.
The farmers are studying and talking
political reform to such an extent they
have come to the conclusion that far
mer is capable of making laws for far.
mers, and under the present order of
things, farmers may occupy the majority
of the seats of the new legislature to be
elected next fall. DeEter, Kansas
Free Press.
Farmers, you should not complain too
much about the unwholesome laws now
enforced upon you. Remember you have
been instrumental in the election of all
your lawmakers. 1t lies in your power
to have such laws enacted as will please
you. Will you exercise that power? Or
will you continue to allow moneyed
aristocracy to press you to the wall2-
Southern Mercury.
The farmers lot is hard indeed to bear
The politicians have saddled the farmer
with trusts, national banks and mort
cages, and now the republican bosses in
Polk county tell him his misfortunes
are caused by his idleness and failure to
keep abreast with the times. If the far
mers should go to the State Legislature,
or to Congress, and then sell out to the
cattle combine, or to some railroad cor
poration, then, the presumption is that
the farmers would be considered abreast
of the times LINTON Bee.
A great many of the farmers about
here have been SETTLING up with the
holders of their mortgages. They deed
their property for the face of their debt,
and receive a contract from the mort
gage holder to redeed to them within a
given time on payment of the original
debt, with cost and interest added
provided the property has not been sold
before the expiration of the time named
in the contract. We know of eleven
farms in one township which have
been decided in this way OttaWay
Journal.
Will the judges, members of the State
Senate and members of the Lower House
who have refused to accept free passes
from the different railroad corporations
in the State be SO kind as to drop us a
postal card to that effect? We would
appreciate this little act of kindness very
much. Raleigh Progressive Farmer
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conditions which We believe will some
day make these horrors impossible,
might we not have even now a system
of arbitration which would prevent the
necessity of strikes:
Does not every intelligent working
man see that if the women, who are
the sharers and the rivals of his work,
could add their votes to his it would
speed the day when legislation shall
protect the laborers of all classes in their
righteous earnings.
LILLE DEvEREUX BLAKE.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
THE BiNGHAMTON CIGAR
MAKERS.

The Whole Craft of the Town, Number
ing Three Thousand, Up and out for
Justice and Fair Wages-They Need
support and Issue u Call to Organ
lied Labor.
The following call, full of facts and
figures of the highest interest to the
cigar trade in particular and to Organ
lied Labor in general, has been issued
by the cigarmakers of Binghamton, to
whom the local CAPT alist press has de-
MED ITS columns:
BINGHAMPToN, \. Y, June 81, 1890.
After working several years at excess
sively low wages and under exceedingly
tyranncal conditions, the organized and
unorganzed cigarmakers of Binghamton,
to the number of three thousand, have
made a surprising and splendid demon
stration of their determination to compel
their employers to leave with them a
larger portion of their hard earned wages.
1t is too we'll known throughout the
country that the prices and conditions
under which the craft in Binghamton
have been working have been deplorable
| indeed, and cause of regret to organ
lied labor and its friends everywhere.
| Now they are out on strike for Just
and much needed advance of wages.
They are out nearly to man, and the
quiet determination and orderly conduct
thus far displayed augur well for the
| continuance of the same determined
orderly spirit and ultimate success.
That Binghamton has been SO sadly
disorganized is regretted by none so much
as the strikers. They have some excuse.
So many have worked for bare existence
they felt that they could not keep up
dues in an organization. If they win
this strike it will be different They will
receive wages that will let them live
and pay dues. 1t will give organization
in this vicinity an impetus and make it
easy to organize nearly every other I'M
organized trade here.
We make this appeal to organized
labor in general, as we feel that everyone
who loves the cause of dOwn-trodden
labor will sympathize and assist if he
| can.
Prices have been SO low here that they
| pIoNeu d CulSe w VIC ClSdI lldue every
where, and to win this strike will give
pleasure and hope to the cigar makers
throughout the United States.
Below we show the old prices and the
prices we now demand.
We recognize that we will not then
have just prices as compared with other
cities, but we hope to gain these now
and then perfect our organization and
secure just remuneration.
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LOCAL NOTICES.

For all kinds of job Printing, 90 to the
Stafford Printing Co.
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julius Liebey. 1893 W Sgth ST.
II. Methe. 40 r. 6]rd ST.
II Mundt, l0, end st, ii, floor.
II. 0rhansky, 90 +, Houston st.
FIR Prtcht, $40 W, list ST.
II. Sebastia ian, liSS st. ave,
l., Sohr, 222 Goth st, 3rd floor.
w. Springer, 3G0 T. 10th st
W, SChlegel, 1907 Avenue A.
) Weimann, liO Norfolk ST.
Wcinoehl, ls1 Orchard ST.
NEW ORLEANs-C Buensch, Z. 0. Box sos: 46 2
Lesscps st,
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iltOn street.
PRovIDENCE-John Brand, 80 Snow street
Rochester,. Waldorf, BIS North av.
SAN FRAhCIsoo-J, G, Blass, G3S l2 Natoma St
ST. PAUL, MINI C. Gaotke. "A Dakota ave.
SYRACUSE. N Otto kuelling, 3}3 Park st.
TACOMA, Wash.-Chs' Drees, "a Est
TOLEDO. CLAUS Sass, pa Wasaon ST
Troy, N. I.-H. Nitalius, 2ill 3rd avenue, West
Troy,
WASHINGTON, j, Ploner, p, o. Post Townsend.
WILMINGTON DEL.-Fritz Elser l6 Lamotte ST.
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SPECIAL AGENTS FOR THE WORK
MEMS ADVOCATE.

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BRooKLYs-Alb. Gresbeck, rs johnson ave.
BUFFALO, N Wv. Moser, $50 Grant st.
Geo Burkhardt, 200 sherman st.
CMCAGo-B. Beriyn. 40 State St
CLEvgLASD-O. Jansen, SJ4 LOran 81.
DETRoTT-E Steyer ISL Grandy avenue.
ERIE, PA.-Rub Helm, 1917 Sassafrass st.
EVANSVILLE, ED-Chr Schaad. 1915 Fulton av.
HARTFORD Fred Gruninger, 104 Asylum st.
HoLYoKE, NASH. Backofen, 32S Park st.
LONDON EsGLAND-H. W. Lee, 1Sl Queen Vic
toria street, Blackfriar's Bridge, < c.
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NEWARK C. Scheer, l06 Springfield ave.
NEW YORK Cry
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A. Fake, 23l I. 101st st.
K. Friedman, 62 Csnal St
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John Heinrichs, 10 Avenue A, near 18th s..
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international News Co, s3-S Duane St
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NOTICE..

ST. PAUL, Minn.-On Sunday, July
10, at P. M, will take place the Pic Mic
of the Section for the benefit of the
WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE, at Baulolzer's
Park. The committee has done all in
its power to make this festival a success.
All the readers of the party papers are
cordially invited. In case of rain the
festival will take place on July Goth.
Fraternally,
ERNST SElTz, Agent.