The Press., 1894-08-23

she is one of gang who are working this scheme. She has been very successful in this business, victims reporting from Wor- cester, Springfield, etc. Her husband is Edward R. Rowe, a graduate of Harvard, '64, who is a civil engineer when not iL jail, and whose residence is No. 86 La Salle street, Chicago. Mrs. Rowe admit ted that she was born in Amherst, N H., in 1848, and her maiden name was Martha B. Stiles. She has been an adventures since 1868, and joined forces with Edward R. w. Rowe in 1884. Since then the couple have victimized numbers of Harvard grad uates and lately have begun on Yale men. The death of the Kansas governor, Charles Robinson, at his home in Law | renee, Kan, again reminds one how the | generation of the war is thinning out | Robinson was native of western Massa. 76 years ago; he became doctor of med. icine, practicing in Springfield and in Bel chertown, where he married his wife, Sara Lawrence, before he went to California in | 1S49. Returning he edited a paper in EFitchburg, but went to Kansas as agent of Eli Thayer's emigrants' aid society and settling in Lawrence, speedily was placed at the head of the free state party and became it's leader and the head of the systematic resistance made to the illegal actions of the Missouri horde of border ruffians, whether in their outrages at the polls or in such villainies as the sackina and burning of Lawrence, in which his house was robbed and destroyed. Robin. son was elected governor under the state constitution adopted by the free state men at Topeka, and was imprisoned foul months on the charges of treason anC usurpation of office, on which latter charge he was tried and acquitted. He was the first governor of the state ot Kansas upon it's admission to the union January 29, 1861, and thus it fell to hin to organize most of the Kansas regiments in the civil war. Since that period ht had served in both branches of the legis lature, and had been defeated in 1882 fol governor. Gov. Robinson two years ago published history of "The Kansas Con fiict." His wife survives him.
 | New York, New Haven and Hartforc Railroad officials have unearthed con spiracy of conductors to steal tickets anC sell them unpunched to scalpers. As { result of detective work, Conductors Dun bar and Parker were arrested in Spring field last Saturday, upon arrival of theil trains from New York. Parker asked leave to go into water closet and there attempted to destroy a lot of unpunchet | tickets, but was prevented. Dunbar was l shadowed till he went to a store, near the depot. The officers visited the store ant found fifty tickets. It is claimed that the storekeeper has sold the tickets for the conductors to the scalpers. The officials have long been suspicious that tickets were being used twice, as the number O. passengers were larger than the tickets taken on trains. They think about $5OO( has been stolen. Parker was released or $500 bonds, but Dunbar is locked up Parker has been conductor on the roat for twenty-six years. Dunbar lives in Will liamsbridge, N. Y., and has been employ ed by the road since 1867.
 Organized labor is a new force compar atively. As new boy at school soo1 finds his place, so, in the greater schoo of practical life, this newcomer will il due time have his rightful place and re 1 responsibilities. Newcomers are likely tC be both overestimated and undervalued A just estimate comes slowly. It seems clear that some workmen have too high an idea of the place and work of organized labor. Apart from the great centers it's numbers are few. Count all who are en- rolled in labor organizations and the to- tai is small in comparison with the great body of people who do the work of the world. It is forgotten too often that the worlds workers are really organized in another and most effective way, that is, in governments. They have no disposi- tion to break up this far-reaching organ ization, otherwise known as representa- tive government.
 The big strike of the operatives in New Bedford's cotton mills comes at trying time, for mills as we'll as workingmen. Out of thirty three companies, with a combined capital of $19, 1898, ,OOO, seven paid no dividend; while the remaining twenty six distributed among their stock | holders $259, 300. Upon the entire capi tai, the dividends average 1.29 per cent. or at the very fair rate of 5.16 per annum The quarters dividends, however, of the same companies show decrease of $40, $50 compared with the previous three months.
 Hartford Courant: Debs disapproves of General Miles conduct during the re cent disturbance at Chicago. Debs thinks violence an undesirable feature in strike has always been of that opinion, and i anybody has a doubt on the subject hi' letters and the reports of his speeches ar' there to prove it. Debs is convinced tha the late A. R. U. strike-which he did no order-would have been a great success!