Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-12
NEW HAVEN. CONN. MORNING.

54 ,000. Of the 82 strikes 2S were in tn, building trades. and these involved 7,SO( xnen. Nearly all the strikes were for high er wages or for shorter hozrs and the same wages.
 According to the oensus bulletins on in. surance, the properly of citizens of the United States for the decade was protected against loss by fire sInd accident on oceans, lakes and rivers to theamount of over $120, OO0, ,000, 900. This protection cost the insured $1, ,156, ,000, ,000, or little less than 1 per cent. of the sum thus received in premi- ums, the companies paid back on losses sustained se47, 726, ,0oO, or 56 per cent ,and retained A per cent. of premiums for ex- penses and profits. This is good show ing for the decade, but the fire insurance companies have been much disturbed by the losses of the last two or three years.
 MT. Smith, a Massachusetts man, willed to his sister a home at his house as long as she should live. The question taken to the court was as to just what "a home" meant, whether simply shelter, or both shelter and support. The Supreme court in deciding the case explained that the word was ambiguous and that the learned judges had put themselves "as far as possible in the testator's place to ascer- tain the meaning which it bore in his mind !" That is, the Supreme court of Massachu- setts, in passing upon @ will, sought simply to find out what the will-msker in tended to devise. If this sensible plan were more generally adopted there would be fewer wills broken.
 This is a great country for anybody who knows how to use it. Otto Mears, presi- dent of the Rio Grande Southern railroad, when lad of ten years ran of from Rus sia as a cabin boy on lumber sloop in the Gulf of Finland, and year later he found himself in San Francisco with a single $250 gold piece. He was soldier in the war in California, then 8 burro packer and an OK driver. Afterward he developed in- to 8 railroad contractor, and ever since he has been on the high tide of prosperity. He owns farms and cattle ranches and has helped to make and unmake Colorado congressman and senators. Mears is now a wiry. rather driedup looking man of 52
 What NJ. de Blowitz can't find out isn't much. He has found out all about the anarchists and he says: They are divided into four groups. CD The Anarchist Fed fOl ho af tba r., alists and; Anti-Patriots; C9 the Cosmo- politan League, and (4) the Independents. According to this authority, the Anarchist federation is actually the least anarchic of all. Its membership is almost entirely made up of advanced socialists and ex- soldiers of the Commune. who are, for the most part, only anarchists in theory They are not in favor of any active propaganda on their own account, their theoretical plan being to take advantage of any move ment by any other party against the government, and, by joining that party, to throw their votes and in fuence into the scale with it. The League of Anti-Patriots IS composed of young men. Its principal object is to fo- ment agitation in the army. The mem bers are divided into several secondary groups, which are independent one of an- other, and hold no communication except at those times when joint action is neces- sary. Then delegates from the different groups meet in committee and determine the policy of the whole league. The Cos mopolitan league is in constant communi- cation with all the anarchist societies in the world. Its members are advocates of propaganda by action, and do not hesitate at political assassination. The head of the league in France, and one of the most &C., tive members of the whole order, is Frenchmsn named Pini. The Indepen- dents are fellows of the Ravachol type, the active dynamiters, who murder and blow up without order or system. and have no more organization than mad dogs.