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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY,

The Paris newspapers report that at
tempts were made to destroy buildings at
Versailles with dynamite The report is
not confirmed.
"A band of seven robbers have been Sc
cured and shot at Santos Jalisco, Mexico,
for numbering Francisco Vallejo and his
wife for small sum of money.
james G. Shattuck, Boston horse
dealer, aged so, died yesterday from a
kick in the stomach inflicted by Ernest F.
Flagg, aged 81. Flagg has been ar
rested.
The semi of the organi cation
of the 'Rechobites, - a temperance society,
will be celebrated by the High Tent in ma
tional convention beginning in Washing
ton to-day.
james McLarney, yardman in the
Manhattan Beach railroad depot, while
coupling All engine and car at Coney
Island was caught between them and
badly injured.
Professor Hobe, aeronaut, was killed by
falling 5000 feet from his balloon at St.
Paul Sunday. His parachute failed to
work, and his body was driven deep into
the soft ground.
Returns of the triennial elections in the
Provinces of France Monday for members
of the Councils General have been receiv-
ed from l, 132 districts. They show Re-
publican gain of 40 seats.
The case of ]. NJ. Cross and A. G. No
Daniels, who were arrested at Denver on
the charge of having robbed President
Moffat of the First National Bank of sell
600, was dismissed for want of proof.
Coinage was executed at United States
mints during the month of July as fol-
lows: Gold, IS, 900 pieces of the value Of
81 ,44O, 900; silver, 1,042, 900 pieces of the
value of 1868, 900; minor coin, 200, 900
pieces of the value of 49, 000
Gov. Flower has appointed John Berry,
of Mount Vernon, N. Y, one of the man
ayers of the Reformatory for Women, to
be established in New York, in Westches-
| ter county, in place of ex-senator Stew
ems, who declined the Office.
United States Chief Engineer G. w,
Raymond of Philadelphia has been ap-
pointed one of the Board of Engineers to
settle upon the question of suitable To-
cation for a large government harbor on
| the Pacific coast within the boundaries of
California.
while trying to escape from an officer
at Reading, Pa, yesterday, George HUI
dick, Hungarian, aged % years, Jumped
into the Schuylkill river and was
drowned. He was wanted to answer a
charge of assaulting a Jewish peddler.
Six hundred dollars were found on his
person.
1t is estimated that Is, 900 men are now
idle in New York on account of the
trouble which grew out of the lockout of
iron workers by the Iron League because
the unions had ordered a strike on the
Criminal Court building, where the Jack
son Architectural Iron Company employed
non union housesmiths.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Judicial Red Tape.

There is often something very ridicr
Ious attending the fulillment of the no
doubt necessary red tape" regulations
Of institutions. 1t lately happened in
London that a pauper, being changed
from one workhouse to its overflow
branch, was required in both places to
take bath. At the second clubbing
the victim kicked and was given into
police custody, where he inflicted on the
judge of the court the nice point to
settle whether two baths In twenty
four hours were not rather much for a
fellow who was doubled up with rheu-
matism. The judge adjourned the case,
probably in order to confer with his
medical authorities. We are not told
that he took his revenge for having 80
perplexing a problem put before him by
asserting, as he well might have done,
that rheumatic person can always be
counted on to "kicl1" If every one of his
joints should be incapable of move
ment.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Hired Finery.

Acurious legal controversy is reported
as likely to arise In New York through
the bringing Of an action to recover the
rent for a dress suit. A certain tailor
who lets out dress suits at the rate Of
two dollars per night furnished one to
member Of an Arctic expedition en-
camped just now at or supposed to be
within gunshot of the north pole. The
explorer was rendered a reception by
some friends previous to his departure,
and in order to be clothed properly for
the occasion he had to hire the suit in
question. Next morning the explorers
mother packed the suit in his Saratoga
trunk, not knowing that it wasn't his,
and he took it up to the north pole with
him. 1t has been used doubtless at the
principal blubber feeds and walrus
hunts to impress the natives But now
the owner of the suit comes In with q
claim of two dollars per day for the
rent of the suit, which probably In the
first instance cost about twenty dollars.
By the time the explorer comes back
if he gets back on time-the claim will
amount to $792.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
DON'T WANT TO BE NUMBERED.


DANBURY, Conn, Aug. 2.-Four hun
drel men are on strike at the New York
Betting & Packing Company's Works in
Newton. the strikers protested against a
new check system which was recently in
troduced by the company. The system re-
quires the men to be numbered, and
whenever man enters or leaves the fac
tory he has to deposit check bearing his
number in a box at the entrance to the
factory.
F. G. Jones of New York, manager of
the Newtown works, was sent for, and is
trying to adjust matters with a commit
tee from the strikers. The New York
Betting & Packing Company is a big con-
Germ, having factories in New York, Chi
cago, Cleveland, Passaic, N. j., and other
places.
At Newtown they have two large fac
tories, and it is about the only industry
there. 1t is thought that the company
will not accede to the strikers demands to
remove the obnoxious system. The men
appear firm, however.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Floored the Professor.

1t is possible for a collegian to be
very learned in a certain way, and yet
be ignorant of current topics. All
juniors at Harvard are required to
write forensics on prescribed subjects.
One of the recent subjects given out was:
"Shan the Electoral College Be Abol-
ished?" The professor thought this was
n perfectly plain subject, excellently
suited for a discussion, so he was some
what surprised to have one student
come up and tell him that it gave no
chance whatever for argument. "Why
not?" asked the instructor. II think
there is great deal to be said on both
sides" WELL" answered the student,
81 can't see how you, a Harvard pro-
fessor, can see any argument to prove
that colleges with the elective system
should be abolishedV"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
DESERVING THE ASSOCIATION
Sixty OF tas Homestead Strikers Go Bach
to Work.


Sixty OF tfss Homestead Strikers Go Bach
to Work
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Aug. 2.-Homestead
striking steel workers are considerably
agitated to-day. They have satisfied
themselves of the correctness of Superin-
tendent Potter's statement that number
of former employees returned to work yes
terday. This evidence of weakening on
the part of men who have loudly pro-
claimed their loyalty to the Amalgama-
ted Association worries the members of
that organization, and the streets are
filed with strikers discussing the situa-
ton with much animation.
That the backbone of the strike has
been broken is acknowledged by every one
save the members of the Advisory Com
mittee and the more radical unionists.
This morning Supt. Potter said to q
Omitted Press" reporter:
Altogether go of our former employees
have returned to work and we have been
Informed that many more will make ap-
plication for their old places. Twenty
seven of our old men came in yesterday.
Twenty-four of them found their places
still open, but the others, I am sorry to
say, were disappointed. But while they
cannot step into their positions they gave
up month ago, these men will be given
work.
Secretary Loveioy said this morning
that all Pinkertons beaten and robbed af-
ter their surrender at Homestead would
enter suits at once against their assailants
for highway robbery and assault and bat
terry The Pinkertons claim all their bag
gage was stolen. These suits will be di-
rected against Homestead people not
strikers.
Mr.. Prick passed a comfortable night.
He was out of his bed this morning, ate a
hearty breakfast, and no doubt will visit
his Office later in the week. 1t is said that
no more bulletins of his condition will be
issued by the attending surgeon.
The Thirty-third street Union mill of the
Carnegie Steel Company is in operation,
with non-union men, guarded by Pitts
burg policemen. The new men were
taken into the works under guard at
o'clock. The exact number of non-union
wOrkmen at the Th1rty-third street mill
is not yet known to Secretary Lovejoy
No petition for the appointment of an
arbitration tribunal for settlement of the
Homestead troubles has been filed in court,
nor will there be until tomorrow.
Superintendent of Police O'Mara, Dis
trict-Attorney Burleight, and Attorney
Friedman, have arranged satisfactory bail
among themselves for the release of Bauer
and Knold, the suspect accomplices of
Berkman, and will ask Judge Magee to
accept it.
More non-union men were taken to
Homestead this morning on the steamer
Tide. There were at least 100 in the
party.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
WHY WEAR MOURNING =?

When a person dies, the surviving
members of the family, especially the
women folk, says the Catholic Column
bian, are expected to put on garments
dyed black, with Grape trimmings and
gloves to match. This law is inexor-
able, and pathetic is the sight of a poor
widow, unable to wear mourning, trying
to comply with it, and bringing out of
forgotten recesses a faded ribbon or an
old dark dress, and sponging and press
ing and darning it into some show of
raspectability.
Against this senseless custom Mrs
Mary Elizabeth Blake, writing in the
July North American Review, utters an
emphatic protest. She says:
'The custom is outworn; it is an ana
chronism in the nineteenth century; it
is unchristian; it clouds the spiritual
significance of the resurrection with the
ever present expression of temporal loss.
1t is cruel; it forces helpless and inno-
cent people into action which entails
privation and unnecessary suffering. 1t
is untruthful; it makes false outward
show of changes in sentiment. And it
Is essentially vulgar, for it presses pri-
vate affairs upon public notice; it thrusts
claims of fashion and frivolity upon a
time which most greatly moves the
heights and depths of being, and it
forces its superficial worldliness into the
fiercest throes which can ever rend
human nature. Why then, do we still
| wear mourning"
Some soberness of attire is seemly in
seasons of bereavement, but the DEGREES
of fashion for deep black for first
mourning, purple for second mourn
ing, with an easy descent to
white, and short ascent to grays and
other colors afterward, are a sham and
an imposition.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

HEADQUARTERS CONNECTICUT
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE,
778 Chapel st, Room G, Garfield Bulldog.
DEMoCRATTc STATE CONVENTION.
The democratic electors, and such
other electors of this state who favor
the principles of the democratic party as
set forth in the platforms of said party,
are hereby notified to choose delegates
to attend the democratic state conven-
ton to be held at Allyn hall, Hartford,
on Tuesday, September IS, at II o'clock
q. M, for the purpose OF nominating
candidates for state officers, and six
presidential electors-two of whom wall
be Observation-Disclosures the trans
action of such other business as may
properly be brought before the con-
vention.
RULES FOR THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES.
First-An caucuses in the several
towns for the appointment Of delegates
to the state convention, shall be held at
least seven days before the meeting of
said convention.
Second-It shall be the duty of the
chairman of each town to send a copy
of the credentials of the delegates to
said convention from his town, properly
attested by the chairman and secretary
of the caucus to the secretary of the
democratic state committee, at least five
| (5) days prior to the convention.
Third-The convention shall be called
to order by the chairman of the state
committee at II o'clock a. m. and the
temporary officers of the convention
shall be designated by the state COM
mittee.
Fourth-The state committee shall be
in session the night previous to the con.
vention, and should there be contesting
delegations at said convention none OF
the parties interested shall be heard by
the committee or admitted to seats in
the convention until they have first
agreed to abide by the decision of the
committee, and in no case shall dele.
gates be permitted to take seats in the
convention in excess of the number to
which each town is entitled.
| Fifth-The basis of representation
adopted by the committee is as follows:
| /. Each town shall retain as a town
the number of delegates it Is now en-
titled to.
| III. Each town, in which the whole
vote cast at the last presidential election
exceeds 1000, shall be entitled to one
additional delegate for each additional
| 600 votes cast and also each fraction
thereof exceeding one-half.
Under the above rules 80 towns have
increased representation .and are in
structed to send the following number
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Mr., HARRISON,S LETTER.
It Will Probably Be Ready Between A
gust 15 and 20.

1t VIII Probably Be Ready Between Au-
gust 3 and 20.
WASHINGTON, Aug 2.-President Harri,
son has not yet written word of his let
ter accepting the nomination of the Re
publican National Convention. He will
not make even the first draft of the let
ter until Congress has adjourned and he
has gone to join Mrs. Harrison at Loon
Lake in the Adirondacks.
The President has talked confidentially
with quite a number of prominent Repub-
licans in the past month, and from these
conversations and from careful reading
of the Minneapolis platform his ideas
have taken quite definite form and it will
not be difficult for him to give them ex-
preston when once he finds opportunity
to write the letter.
The usual pressure of business which
always attends The closing weeks of a ses-
sion of Congress has made it impossible
for the President to write the letter here.
He hopes to have the letter ready be-
tween August Is and 90.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Confesses to Several Murders.

LONDON, Aug. "A prisoner in the JAIL
at Glasgow, Scotland, declares that he
took part in the murder of William Sgd
ney, third Earl of Leitrim, who was muir
dered April 2, 1878, by being shot by I'M
known assassins, on account, it is alleged,
of his practice of seducing the daughters
of tenants on the Leitrim estate. Another
tale the prisoner tells is that he was
engaged in the assassination of William
Browne de Montmorency, Viscount Mount
morres, who was murdered near Clonbur,
County Galway, Ireland, Sept. 20, 1880.
The Earl of Leitrim, his clerk and driver,
were shot dead near his lodge, Manor
Vaughn, in Donegal
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02

THE Briggs house, one of the Oldest
hotels in Chicago, closed its doors few
days ago. The hotel had been run I'M
interruptedly since 1854 except for the
period when it was rebuilt after the
great fire. 1t was first opened by Floyd
& French, the latter being the father of
George II. French, the caterer. In the
early days it shared with the fremont
house the patronage Of the most emf
nent men. Lincoln and Douglas were
often guests of the Briggs house, and it
is said the plan of nominating Lincoln
for the presidency was evolved at a
council under its roof The hotel was
rebuilt in '7S. Frank Upman, who re-
tires from the management, has been
connected with the house since 1881.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
WAGES AND THE TARIFF.

Senator Carlisle never speaks on the
tariff without giving the republicans
some blows that cannot be successfully
parried, and his last speech, which even
so bitter partisan as Senator Sherman
referred to as ''the very fair and frank
argument of the senator from Ken
lucky" was no exception to the rule.
He dealt the protection mumbo j mbo
terrible blow in an unprotected spot
when he cited fifteen general occupa-
tions, the products Of which are highly
protected by the Mckinley law, and
fifteen other trades, the products of
of which are on the free list, and
showed by undisputable figures that
average of wages in the protected in
dustries had been reduced since the
Mckinley bill became a law, while the
average of wages paid by the unpro.
tected industries had during the same
period increased. So much for the only
real argument that protectionists have
that protection increases the wages Of
our working people.
The fifteen unprotected occupations
in which the average of wages has in.
creased since the Mckinley law was
enacted are bakers, blacksmiths, brick,
layers, cabinet makers, carpenters
common laborers, farm laborers, ma
chinists, masons, iron molders, painters
plumbers, stone cutters, tailors and tin
smiths. The fifteen protected occupa
tions, in which the average of wages
has decreased, are bar iron, boots anC
shoes, cotton goods, cotton and wooler
goods, crucible steel, flint glass, greer
glass, window glass, lumber, machinery
pig iron, steel ingots, steel blooms, stee
rails and wooden goods. Mr. Carlisle
also called attention to another clause
of the Mckinley law which is respon
sible through the rise in the price of tir
for having already robbed the people o.
this country of 81, 629,75O.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02

A GENTLEMAN came ashore in North
America the other day who has been
living at Rio Janeiro for nearly twenty
years. He has read English papers;
his wife is an English woman, and al
though he was born in the state OF
Maine, his South American life and
business show their effects. "Why do
they go out Ito Chicago to hold the
conventionP" he asked, land what's
all this nonsense about having q
worlds fair there9 thought the place
was pretty well burned down. They
can't have got it into shape forpeople
90 be comfortable there" And he did
made of Mynheer Van Wrinkle.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Prince Bonaparte Wins His Divorce Suit

LONDON, Aug. 2.-Prince Clovis Bona
parte has won his suit for the annulment
of his marriage to the woman known as
Madame Rosalie Bonaparte. Judgment
was given ON the ground that at the time
of the marriage Madame Rosalie had a
lawful husband, Mr.. Magone. This de-
cision makes void, on the ground of want
of jurisdiction, the decree of Scotch
court, which gave Mr.. Magone divorce
from Resale on the ground of her i'm
proper intimacy with Prince Clovis Bona
parte 1t also makes legal the marriage
of Prince Bonaparte to the wife with whom
he is now living, formerly Laura Eliza
beth Scott, and saves Bonaparte from
prosecution ON the ground of bigamy.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
A Sum mer villa Burned.

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N. j., Aug. =
b. A. Blohm as boarding house was
destroyed by an accidental fire during the
morning. Loss, $4,000; insured. The
house had many boarders, all of whom
escaped without injury. Mr.. Blohm had
his leg badly burned in endeavoring to
subdue the flames. The house was IL
well-known landmark, and was once
owned and occupied by the late Albert
Speyers the banker.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Anarohistio Talk in Newark.

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 2.-There are
about 500 Anarchists in this city, of whom
one Speissenger is the chief local leader.
After period of seeming inactivity these
Anarchists have lately grown active.
They held meeting last night at No. 1903
Prince street. Glenosse Katz, of New York
city, made speech. In his harangue he
said: MAY the spirit of Alexander Berk-
man never diminish. He is noble a man,
indeed, to initiate the doings of our Chi
cago friends. l trust that in the near fu-
ture we may all become Berkman's."
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02

A blue flannel suit makes the best
incest and coolest dark suit man can
have then we have flannel blouses,
French flannel coats, and thin coats
and vests of all descriptions. Chill
dren's flannel suits, shirt waists and
blouses. We have very large assort-
ment of outing shirts from soc to 81 a
piece all kinds of neckwear to go
with them.
Summer underwear a5c, soc, 75c,
81, $3.50.
Straw hats in all shapes and prices.
Lounging hats, all colors.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02

THE supreme court of Ohio has de-
clared the Massie law constitutional.
The law requires the secretary of state
to retain as fees for the state one-tenth
of one per cent. of the capital stock of
corporations for issuing certificates of
incorporation or consolidation.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02

IN a recent Kansas cyclone baby was
carried four blocks and deposited on the
grass unhurt. The third instance of a
baby falling out Of car window with
out injury while the elevated train was
In rapid motion has been duly recorded.
A man jumped off the new Memphis
bridge and came ashore all right And
yet some people don't believe there Is a
Divine Providence which watches over
fools and children.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Laundry Girls on Strike.

girls employed by the Quaker City Laun-
dry, Tenth and Locust streets. are on
strike because of machines being put in to
do their work. The girls discovered that
a man foreman had been engaged to run
the machines and they notified the pro-
prietor that if he went to work they would
strike. When the foreman arrived they
promptly stopped.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Balfour.s Election CHALLENGED.

LONDON, Aug. "A petition has bee n
granted against the return of the Rig t
Hon. James Balfour, First Lord of the
Treasury and Conservative leader in
the House of Commons, Member of
Parliament for East Manchester, ON the
ground that his election was obtained by
bribery and illegal voting, by the whole
sale treating of voters and the hiring of
vehicles to carry them to the polls, Mr.
Balfour was declared elected by 5, 1877 to
4, r49 for Prof j. F. c. Munro, Liberal.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02

IT is said there are now in the state
of Louisiana two hundred and fifty
lepers, thirty of whom are in the city
of New Orleans; that most of them in
herited the dreadful disease and that
but few of them are isolated from the
rest of the community.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-02
Rack from an Inspection Tour.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Assistant Sec
rotary of War Grant has returned to
Washington. While absent he inspected
O number of army posts, including JEFF
ferson Barracks. Missouri; Fort Sheridan,
Illinois; Rock Island arsenal, and the
Watervliet, N. Y, arsenal. He found all
the posts and arsenals in excellent condi-
ton.