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The labor world., 1898-07-09

Inc business portion Of Waterford,
Wis, has been practically wiped out
by fire. The loss is estimated at $75,.
600.
Fire at Mcpherson, Kan, has de.
stroyed the First National bank build.
ing, state bank and large clothing
house. The loss is estimated at $75, 900.
The new Polish Catholic church at
La Crosse, Wis, was blown down
Saturday. Seven men were injured,
two seriously.
A tornado at Hampton Beach, N. H.,
caused dozen deaths. Twenty cot.
tages were blown down and much
other damage done. A yacht was also
capsized and at least five drowned.
The stern wheel river steamer Mar.
quis of Dufferin, which left Victoria
Thursday for st. Michael in tow Of the
steamer Progresso, has been wrecked
at the entrance to the straits of Fuca.
The crew were saved.
The labor world., 1898-07-09
SPORTING NEWS.

Jordan whipped Dixon, the colored
champion, in % rounds. .ss
i AT Buffalo, N. Y, Yousouff, the
Turk, defeated Dennis Gallagher, a
local wrestler.
Mr.. Leopold de Rothschild's four
year-old bay filly Goletta, won the
Princess Of Wales stakes Of e10, 900 at
Newmarket.
The Realization stakes at Sleeps
head Bay was won by Hamburg, easily
by three lengths, Plaudit second by ten
lengths, George Boyd third.
In the freshman boat race, over the
2.mile course, at Saratoga Springs,
Cornell won by az lengths, in 10 min
nets, 81 seconds; Columbia second in
11:l2, and Pennsylvania third in 11:13.
Griffin Halstead, son of Murat Hal.
stead and one Of the speediest racing
cyclists in the District Of Columbia,
met with serious accident while
training at International Park, being
thrown against q fence.
In the university boat race at Sara
toga, three miles, Pennsylvania won,
Cornell four and half lehgths behind,
Wisconsin close third and Columbia
last. Time, Pennsylvania .15:5l1aa, Cor
mel 1901. Wisconsin 1907, Columbia
1921. .~%.. 1.4
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algns the Americans occupied Ell Caney
and San Juan, evacuated by Spaniards.
Saturday the fighting was continued,
stubborn resistance being made by
Spaniards. Our losses were heavy, be-
ing estimated at above a thousand
killed and wounded. The Spanish loss
es, it is said, were much greater.
The United States dispatch boat "a
fro, which left Cavite, Manila harbor,
on July l, reports that American troops
in the transports City of Sidney, City
OF Pekin and Australia, conveyed by
the Charleston, arrived at Cavite on
June II, having taken the Ladrone ISL
ands ~ the way and having left men
there. The Spanish governor and 9th.
er officials captured were brought to
Cavite. The United States troops COM
menced to disembark at Cavite on
Julv l.
The labor world., 1898-07-09
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Japanese elections will be held
the latter part of July.
Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chan
cellor, although nearly 80 years of age,
is learning to ride the bicycle.
Queen Victoria has appointed mem.
bers of the commissions to settle Can.
adian. American differences. j
It is reported at Shanghai ''on good
authority" that Germany arranged q
concession for port in the Philippine
islands, antedating the present situa.
ton there.
Prince Bismarck is regaining his
health. He is able to walk again and
is as talkative and keen witted as ever.
During the past week he has taken sew
eral drives.
According to dispatch to the Lon.
don Times from Sidney, N. s. W., the
British cruiser Mohawk has annexed
18 islands of the Santa Cruz and Duff
groups in the Pacific.
The Japanese minister of agriculture
and commerce is credited with the in.
tention of establishing a Japanese
American bank, with a capital Of l5,-
600, 0O0 yen, under government sane.
ton. A..
Minister Lichterveld of Belgium has
invited the government Of the United
States to send delegates to the first in.
ternational congress of public art, which
will, meet at Brussels in September
pext. 4
A Peking telegram says the request
of the French governments to construct
railroad between Pehai and the Su
Kiang having been refused by China,
the former has sent notification that
she will proceed with building the road
when she pleases. II
Since March the orchards throughout
Germany have been thoroughly
searched for the San Jose scale. The
Prussian minister Of agriculture, Baron
Won Hammerstein Lexton, now reports
that no sign of the San Jose scale has
been found, although another insect
closely resembling it has been discov.
cred IN large numbers.
The labor world., 1898-07-09
POLITICAL NEWS.

The middle.road Populists will hold
their convention in Cincinnati. Sep
tember 5.
William Henry Eustis Of Minneapo.
lis has been nominated for governor by
the Repu blicans of Minnesota.
Congressman Dolliver has been re-.
nominated by Tenth district Iowa Re.
publicans. He has been 10 years in
congress- :f L,
The Republicans of the Sixth Iowa
district renominated John F. Lacey by
acclamation. The resolutions declare
for the gold standard without com.
promise.
The labor world., 1898-07-09
RAILROAD NEWS.

Judge Cornish of St. Paul becomes
first vice president of the Union Pa
.cifio. being succeeded as master in
chancery by Howard S. Abbott of Min
aeapolis. Thomas P. Wilson of St.
Paul is to be one of the receivers.
Railway track laid this year has been
more than double that laid in the same
period Of 1894, and nearly double that
of the first six months of either 1895 or
1897. In 1892 the construction up to
June 30 was 1867 miles. The new
building up to date this year is within
eO0 miles Of that of 1892.
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through Central Park in the afternoon
sun Of June, chattering like magpies OF
their little affairs, arguing the set
of a saddle or adornment of rein,
or cut of gown, returning to
homes of luxury, whose sybartic elees
gance would make a Roman of the
Caesars stare. visiting the theatre and
sitting through one act of "problem
play" as preliminary to the dissipa-
tion of the night, wives wa@tzing in the
arms of cavaliers serventes to the dron-
ing of flute and viol, maidens lolling
upon darkened stairways, with wine-in-
famed men. complaisant husbands deep
in baccarat, mothers old enough to
know better, but unwilling in age to
forego the passions Of youth and leav-
ing the daughters to themselves, they
drift and whirl onward like tinted leaves
in the gusts of autumn, landing some in
the gutter and some blown no man
knows whittier.
History, having the same stage with
the sane settings and the same human
beings for actors, constantly repeats it.
self. In all ages Goldfish aristocrats, and
genuine aristocrats. for that matter,
have paid for their fun in the long run.
The American settlement is distant, but
it will be made some day. The account
will be heavy. And so musing, while
the brilliant pageant clinks and rattles
it's way past me to the northwest, turn
to the darkening city, wherein men and
women strive and love. Its mighty roar
comes to me family. Deep in it's rest
less heart, at least there is work for 9
man to do. Ez
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THE DEATH RECORD.

Hon. w. H. Camp. prominent in
Texas politics, is dead. q
Hon. John @. Traer, a member Of
the Iowa constitutional convention of
1866, is dead, aged ~. He was one of
the early pioneers Of the state and a
prominent Republican politician
Patrick Haggins, said to be the old
est man in Pennsylvania, died at
Scranton, aged III years. His age is
authenticated by records and certifl-
Gates which show that he was born in
County Londonderry, Ireland, Nov. i,
1881. Mr.. Haggins' father died at the
age Of Ill years and his mother at l07.
The labor world., 1898-07-09

Michael Schwab, one of the vi,tims of
the Haymarket affair, in Chicago, in
1886, died in that city this week Of con.
sumption. Schwab was born near Mann
helm, Bavaria, in 1858, and came to
this country in 1879. He was highly in
telligent and the soul Of honor.
The labor world., 1898-07-09
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Five persons were drowned by the
capsizing of a ferry boat on the Big
Horn river near Hot Springs, Wy. +.
Fire destroyed the Pugh coal sheds at
Racine, with about 20, 900 tons of coal.
Loss, estim eted at $75. 900 to $lOO. 900.
The labor world., 1898-07-09
Labor and Machinery.

IE5 In III 8Et1cl0S DO00 NA0CuAA0Iy sAOA1re,
place Labor?" g. Wood Davis, the well
known statistician, answers the ques-
tion in the July Forum overwhelmingly
in the affirmative. He gives reliable
figures to show that during twenty years
no less than 4.430,O00 persons were
driven from farm labor by machinery;
the number absorbed by new indus
tries. such as typewriting, street rail.
ways, photography, bicycle manufactur-
ing and repairing was but "a, 900, leav
ing an adverse balance against farm
machinery alone Of 4, 5000 employees.
!, During twenty years, says Mr.. Davis.
farm were added at the rate Of 5000
per annum, on which were placed t.in
average Of $4,000 units annually. New
farms absorbed and employed the equiv
alent of the 8050, 900 immigrants reach
ing our shores in the twenty years, and
some 2, $50, 900 others born in America or
immigrating earlier. Instead Of the
farm absarbing as heretofore, one
fourth more people than we import, it
will hereafter pour constant stream of.
employment seekers into the urban dis
tricts: unless the surplus labor units
born upon thetarms shall be placed in q
standing army. :.
That the anticipated progressive dis
placement of labor by machinery is not
imaginary is apparent from innumerable
facts, among which may be named that
the setting Of tobacco and other plants
is effected by machines; that the seed
potato is cut by one machine and planted
BY another, while the product is dug by
q third; that the "self. feeder" Of the
threshing machine displaces two men
while ''blast:stackers' and gasoline en-
gines will, when in general use, reduce
helabor Of threshing Is, ,00o, 900 acres Of
grain annually in the equivalent Of con.
slant work for 10000 men; that the
"Two-Row" cultivator will displace
labor in cultivating 110,000,00O acres Of
rowed crops in the equivalent Of constant
employment for 10000 men: that in the
pastoral regions the '''hand.shearer" has
been displaced by machines making 5000
clips per minute; that Mr.. Edison is,
with a handful of men, demolishing
mountains and converting them into
iron ore and building. sand, while on the
Mesaba range the steam-shovel now
mines and loads ore which displaces
that formerly mined at an average labor
cost Of 81 per ton; that the pneumatic
atomizer enables one unskilled laborer
to paint more freight cars than can df-
teen skilled hand-workers, while with
the 8-pound pneumatic hammer the
workman drives more nails, rivits more
boilers, caulks more seams, and cuts
more stone than can twenty men with
older appliances. The list of such re-
Gently invented labor-lessening and en-
ployment-destroying devices is endless.
: Till recent years no enduring dearth
of employment has resulted in the Unit.
ed States only, however, says Mr.. Dav-
is, because Of an existing safety-valve in
the arabic public domain and because
we were one of a very limited number of
machine using peoples. e-.~--. .
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Il wish we did 60. l wish to heaven
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hateful post-or else that she had not
"She. Florence? Who?"
"The woman you went TO see when
was out Of the way after parade this
evening-and dare not tell me-
Florence! Fiorencc." he cried. in
utter amaze and distress. Listen TO
me. dear" he pleaded. for she was
struggling to release herself-"listcn
to me. child"
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Ioepyrieh.. ,see. BY r. Tennys0n NeeH.l
But have-it's when he calls TO her

but have-it's when he calls to her
talks to her in his sleepi"
Then Mrs. Hayne sprang up aghast.
One moment she stood gazing incredu-
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row and pity in her eyes. Then, with
her hand TO her ear, cried ''1Iarki" and
hastened TO the window.
Far out across the still, starllt level of
the parade q trumpeter was sounding
officers call.
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ChaDter l = F anie Mcl.ane, a young
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The Progress., 1898-05-14
MISERIES OF THE GREAT.

IberuiIe Souts.
Bacon was avaricious, and his
greed led to his disgrace.
Defoe had more than one dose
Of Newgate and the pillory.
Cervantes was poor constantly
annoyed by his creditors.
Spenser, the poet, suffered the
extremes Of poverty and neglect
Cowper was all his days over
Swallowed by the gloom Of insan-
ity.
Milton was blind in his old age
and often lacked the comforts of
life.
Gibbon was equity. He grew so
stout he could not dress himself.
Palastrina lived in poverty most
of his days and died in great ant.
Tasso was poor most Of his days.
His miseries finally drove him
mad.
julius Caesar had weak diges-
ton and was subject to epileptic
fits.
Peter the great was half crazy
most of his life through drink and
rage.
LaSage was poor all of his life.
In old age he was dependent on
his son.
Selden was once sent to prison
for his attack on the divine right
of kings.
Mohammed was an epileptic and
his visions were those Of a diseas-
ed mind.
Charl emagne had an ulcer in
his leg which troubled him for
many years.
The Progress., 1898-05-14
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THE ABBOTT CASE.
y Synopsis OF The Testimony On
winch He Was Convicted.


Which He Was Convicted.
Mr.. S. T. Abbott has been tried
for manslaughter; convicted; sem
fenced for term Of five years in
/ the State penitentiary; has al
ready begun on his term, and yet
| the people know little about the
testimony on which he was con-
victed.
We do not lose sight Of the fact
that the newspapers have devoted
considerable space to the subject,
but for that very reason, in this
instance, has the public been pre-
vented from getting a proper idea
Of the case as it is. Some of the
papers have given parts of the tes-
timony, but on the day and the
one following, of the homicide,
in connection with the general re-
port. Under these circumstanc
the natural attendant excitement
would prevent the forming Of a
cool and unbiased opinion.
Since then too, some Of our city
papers have quite severe against
the accused; and in giving ex-
preston to thu personal opinion of
the editors or reporters, an opinion
c ontrolled, in some instances, by !
prejudice Of which they were, no
doubt, unaware, an unfair senti-
ment was worked up against the |
defendant.
Mr.. Abbott was not legally con-
victed. That is to say, the verdict
IF the jury was contrary to the law
and the evidence. In making
his stat ement we mean no reflect
on whatever on the jury, nor on a
single member OF that body, as an
Individual. To the contrary it
( as an exceptionally good jury,
both as to intelligence and social
But while this is true,
t is equally SO that the testimony,
Lnd the law governing the same,
lid not warrant the finding of that
-erdict. We believe we can make
he jury see this them selves, now
hat the excitement and passion
f the occasion has been allayed
" the heavy sentence given; a
which blasts the hopes
f a progressive, energetic and in
ustrious young man, and besides
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depriving a young lady of her sol'
protector, likewise enshrouds that
dispair.
1t is we'll settled principle OF
law that every person indicted fol
crime, is presumed to be innocent,
until he is prooen guilty. In plain
er words, the accused need not Of
fer any defense until the State has
made out a clear case against him.
Then, and then only, need he in
troduce testimony in rebuttal.
And, having heard both sides of
the question; unless the State has,
from the testimony introduced IN
the ease, proven his guilt beyond a
reasonable doubt, the jury mast &C.
q,.it.
Now let us look into the evidence
that was presented against Mr..
Abbott:
Officer Curry said that when he
reached the scene with Patrolman
Wagner, no one was there except
the negro porter, John Young, the
States witness whose absence
when the grand jury wanted him
caused some of Mr.. Abbott's news
baper friends ca to insinuate that
he had been gotten rid of by the
defense.
But to resume with Mr.. Curry.
John Young told them what had |
occurred. Said he was up stairs
and heard loud voices below and
something about an umbrella.
Then he heard a shot, and rushing
% the sky-light and looking down,
saw q tall man walking out the
loor. Didn't know who he was,
out from his description, witness
concluded it must be Mr.. Abbott.
They walked back to where the
body of Starks lay. The shot man
vas not dead but unconscious and
lied in a few minutes afterwards.
Witness Curry picked up a
boom which was lying by the
,ody, and laid it ag Ainst the stair
way. He and Wagner then went
.fter Mr.. Abbott. They found
i'm at The Progress office in his
hirt sleeves, at work. When ar
ested, the accused asked what
vas the charge? and being told,
inquired sis he dead? After arri-
ing on the spot Mr.. Grosjean, of
be Caucasian, came in and asked
Tho did it? Mr.. Abbott answered,
The Progress., 1898-05-14
Jules Dreyfuss & Company, Ltd.

}: 81 am sorry to say, had it to do. -
Witness then asked where the pis-
toll was, readily informe ed, and went
and securedit. The dead man was
about 5 feetS or 9 incees in height.
The body was lying in an aisle
which was about 3feet wido, and
about 10 or ~ feet from the stair
way.
Ma. Grosjean said that he asked
abont the affair as newspaper
| man in search Of the news for his
paper. Mr.. Abbott replied to him
as stated by Officer Curry, with
this additiadal statement; that the
negor attacked him with stand,
and he, the accused had to shoot
in self defense. Starke was lying
with his head in a pile Of trash, ev-
identity the debris of the store
sweepings.
John Young said that he was the
first one on the floor, the scene af-
ter the shooting. He called to
Starke, but received no answer.
At the time the broom was resting
against the staircase. He then
called for an officer, and Mr.. Curry
responded. He had not been APP
preached by the defendant, nor
by any one representing him, to
get witness ont of the way.
Here Judge Land explained that
he had interrogated the witness
and learned that he left Shreve-
port because he was out Of employ
ment. and had simply gone to New
Orleans to join his wife.
DR.. Coty said that he had been
Coroner of Caddo parish for about
ten years. He had held an inquest
over a great number of homicides,
and had examined large number
If wounds. He had examined the
one which caused Starke's death,
out had not thoroughly probed it.
The wound was over the region of
he heart, and he thought the bull
ct entered one of the cavities.
lie did not believe, from the po-
'ition Of the body, the location of
he wound and the surroundings,
hat the deceased took step after
lie was shot: he believed it i'm
possible for him to do so. He had
lever been present when man
vas shot.
Mr.. Welsh was manager of tn
North Louisiana Furniture Conn
'apy, where the killing tookplace.
The Progress., 1898-05-14
Jules Dreyfuss & Company, Ltd.

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