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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-01-07
Their Child Dead,

Esther Gayloy Bush, Mr.. and Mr.. Wal
ter d. Bush's year old daughter, died
suddenly last night.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-01-07

Taylor g. Fullerton's Horse and Cattle
Powder. as condition powder IL can D.
beat. Prepared by WilmcrC. Tay'or No
.02 King street.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-01-07

American Laundry, Ul6 West Front street
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Not Trusts.

In the case brought by the Stand
ard Oil Co. against Frank Westerman,
union carpenter Of Columbus, O.,
who was arrested on the charge of
defying the state and the antitrust
law by being member of union,
the court held that labor unions were
not trusts, and that they could not be
SO construed by any wording or mean
ing of the law. Judge Schwartz rem
dered the decision, which was so plain
that even the Standard Oil Co. could
not pick a flaw in it. The claim Of
the big oil trust was so ridiculous Lat
the union people had no fear of the
outcome, but the Standard Oil Co..
had been so used to getting what it
asked in the courts that it thought it
was only necessary to arrest union
man and the court would do lie rest.
For once the great octopus struck a
snag and came out worsted.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Playing Checkers by Wire

photographers have way OF anus
ing themselves and willing away the
long and tedious hours that is not
generally known. At many stations
the telegrapher has to stay awake all
night, not daring even to take a short
nap. Anyone who will try to do this
will find that it is one of the most
irksome tasks in the world, and espe-
cially is this the case when there is
very little to do and the clock seems
to try and see how slowly it can tick.
Many years ago someone devised a
plan of marking numbers on the
squares of a checker board, so thai
the moves could be telegraphed.
Along some lines every telegraph Of
flee will have numbered checker
board, and, when business is quiet
''in the lean place of the night two
experts will strike up game, and AL
the interested ones will get out their
own particular board and make the
moves as indicated by the telegraph
signals. When a mismove is mace by
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
BULGARIA FOUNDERS
Continued from Page l.

the storm that night as she was sinking
when he left her.
The Kordistan, the third vessel that saw
the distress of the Bulgaria without be-
i1:g able to be of assistance because Of
the tempestuous seas, arrived in Bremen
on the 10Th inst, and reported that the
B, lgaria had foundered. Second Officer
scharges is reasonably positive that none
were rescued from the Inflated vessel af-
t7t he left her and it is feared that 1Ol
persons went down with her.
The Bulgaria had no accommodations
for first class passengers and all the pas
sengers on board were in the steerage.
Trey were mostly Germans from different
parts of the United States. She was not
a regular liner and had been in the ser
vice of the Hamburg-American line about
year.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Another Wonderful Invention

The poor telegrapher, to use the
parlance of the street, is going to
i'sget it in the neck" by the same fac
tor that has given it to so many other
wage workers-an invention. On
February s, a company of Cleveland
capitalists was incorporated at Column
bus, O. It will be known as the Gre
hore-Square Co., and has a capital of
a million dollars The invention will
greatly expedite the sending of mes
sages and will do away with a large
number of operators, while the lines
in use by the telegraph companies to
carry on their business will be great
" lessened. Complaint has frequent
~ been made at the slow rate mes
sages are sent over the ocean cables.
The instrument that. the new com
pany will place upon the market will
almost entirely do away with this OBJ
stacle which has created for SO many
years so much trouble, and the a.
mount of business which can be done
over one wire will be enormously in
creased. The new company will. of
course, have absolute control over the
new instrument.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Must Move Forward.

\ non-union printer sued the Typo
graphical union in San Francisco for
damages for keeping him out of EN-
ployment. \ superior court gave him
$1,000 damages. This point is vital
one to labor unions, for much of their
strength is due to their ability to pre-
vent non-union men from working in
union shops. With this decision as a
precedent, employers can easily bank
rupt any organization which lays the
slightest straw in the way of employ
ing non-union men and with the bars
down the force can be changed to I'M
organized labor with grea, ease. The
labor unions must move forward to
advanced ground or cease to exist.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Poor Vic.

| Queen Victoria it is said is opposed
to war and has expressed desire to
die before war breaks out between
Finland and France. but we have not
heard that Vic has expressed herself
feminist the exploitation of her hun
dreds of millions of subjects by the
landlords, the lendlords and the profit
lords. She filed no protest while Brit
ish eNploiters were preying on the
poor Hindoos during the time that 1O,-
100000 died of famine. She evinced
no desire to die while the poor Irish
people were being exploited in the
midst of starvation She has hung
tenaciously to life while more of her
dependent subjects in England alone
have been crushed out of life annu-
ally at industrial pursuits than are
likely to be killed in war with
France. She has been a model of
complacent enjoyment while helpless
little children and young girls have
been rotting to death in the lead
and phosphorus works of England.
That London alone has 100000 out
cast girls, hasn't seemed to hurry
Queen Vic's gray hairs to the grave
The fact is the old lady has not been
slow in the exploiting line herself, and
has acquired fortune of $12O,0OO,0OO
al it. She is decidedly the model
ruler of bourgeoisdom, and exalted
by that class, and like all her ill< is
proficient in the art of straining at
grats and swallowing camels-The
Class Struggle.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
An Interesting Invitation

The Miners union of Cripple Creek,
COL, has gotten out unique invita-
ton to non-members that contains
some points that apply with equal
force to non-union men in other
classes. It reads as follows:
*'To the recipient of this card: 10
you the Miners union sends greeting
and asks your careful perusal of the
following:
eff you are working in or about the
mines you are enjoying the good
wages and short hours which come
by virtue of struggle made by the
Unions of this district, backed by the
Western Federation of Miners, to
which they are all attached.
eve hope that you are not so en-
tirely selfish as to continue to enjoy
these benefits without contributing
your mite to the cause that yours as
well as ours. We therefore invite you
to come and be one of us. Come and
help make our laws and govern the
body that holds the destiny of the
miners of the Rockies.
"No matter what may be your creed
or religious belief, or how varied may
be our opinions on such subjects, we,
one and all, have a common interest
in maintaining and guarding all of
the interests pertaining to our craft.
"You are either for US or against
us-there is no middle ground. If
you persistently refuse to join, it must
be taken that you are an enemy of Or
ganized labor, and are not willing to
do what little you can to further the
interests of the craft in which you are
employed.
eve exact no obligations that in
any way conflict or interferes with
the duties that you owe to your coun-
try, your religion, or your lellow-
man.
"'Our initiation fee is SIS and dues 81
per month. We pay $40 per week SICK
benefit to sick or injured members,
and make liberal allowance to bury
our dead.
"The presentation of this card is a
formal invitation to you to join us.
If you wish to aid those who are help
ing you, sign below and return tAAs
card to the giver.
''P. S.-This card is numbered and
accounted for. You will be reported
and recorded as having had an invi-
tation to become one of us. What is
your answer?"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

lone side or the other, it is no uncom-
mon thing to hear howl Of derision
come along the line from some unex-
pected quarter. 1t is the first indica-
ton that someone is keeping close tab
on the game.
One night the writer was Willing
away time after midnight in game
with an expert up the line, VINO, by
the way, had always proven too much
for him, never having allowed him to
win a game even as a consolation
prize. A passenger who was waiting
for belated train happened to pass
the window, and saw the checker
board. Coming around to the wicket
he asked me if I was playing solitaire,
and when I informed him ..lat [ was
playing by telegraph, was much sur
prised. He asked me who was Tie best
man, and when I told him I
always lost, he asked permission to
play my hand.
The result was that my distant
friend was trounced to the tune of
six straight games, in some of which
he never reached the king row. It so
happened that we never had an oppor-
tunity to play again, and my oppon-
ent does not know from that day to
this that he was most mercilessly
jobbed.- Telegrapher.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
A NEW METHOD.

In accord with the provisions of an
act passed by the recent special ses-
sion of the Kansas legislature, that
state is about to inaugurate a new
method of selecting a commissioner
Of labor statistics and factory inspec-
tor. The law in question provides for
the holding of an annual convention
. Of delegates representing all the trade
unions, labor organizations, railriad
i brotherhoods, labor associations and
labor societies in the state, the basis
of representation for the local organi-
cation being as follows:
One delegate for the first fifty or
fraction thereof, and one additional
delegate for each additional one hun
I dred, or majority fraction thereof.
This convention when organized is to
be known as the State Society of
Labor and Industry and its president
vice president, secretary and assistant
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

All the great employers of England
have formed a society by which they
agree to stand together in every con-
test with their workmen, thus throw
ing all the power they have against
the men who produce the wealth. BY
this means no employer will lose by
strike, as he will be paid for all loss
sustained. This had the effect of
amalgamating all the workers into
one federation, which has just been
voted on and carried by large ma
jority in the labor unions. carrying
with it political action as one Of the
weapons to be used against the en-
ployers. Thus we have the House
of Have and House of Want face to
face with each other in one country
at least. 1t should be so in the Unit
ed States, and will in the near future.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

| The progress of She labor move
ment in the United States has been
gradual-sometimes even slow, but
that the cause is surely advancing no
well Informed person will deny. The
principles upon which the cause is
founded are so broad; the question of
reform an human progress which are
inseparably interviewer with the
movement are SO comprehensive that
the ordinary person in the busy world
has little idea of what is being &C.
complished, or of the vast possible
ties within the reach of mer, which
can be achieved through honest CO.
operati ton and perseverance. These
successes have depended in the past
and must depend in the future more
upon the well directed efforts OF the
labor press, the journals, magazines
and newspapers devoted to the cause
of labor, than to any other single
agency. The labor press must be sup
ported and encouraged by union men
if they expect to obtain relief from
the many unjust conditions forced up
on them. These publications are the
agencies through which we keep in
touch with our co-workers throughout
the land. They are the sentinels that
guard our interests and sounu the
note of warning upon the approach
of danger; the champion that pro-
tects our principles in the face of
every attack; and the guides that di-
rect and aid us with judicious counsel
in the hour Of need. The men who
conduct these publications are almost
invariably men who see and under
stand the dangers which are gather
ing so fast they seriously threaten in
the near future to completely engulf
society as they have already practi-
cally submerged the body polite.
These men deserve the hearty sup
port and cooperation OF every person,
man and woman, who makes each a
unit in the society of honest workers;
workers of brain and muscle, the pro-
fessional men; tradesmen, merchants,
ministers who embrace what we
call society. They are the ones who
live, not lean on society; give them a
helping hand, it is worth your while,
and they will appreciate it.-Quincy
Labor News.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Random Shots

Can't see why the rich should dance
at charity ball because there are a
lot of people hungry. Is it because
they are so glad of the hunger that
they dance"
The sword presented to Dewey and
paid for out of the public treasury
cost $4,000 and now Schley has been
presented with one similar by the
people of Pennsylvania. It is so much
better to spend the money skinned
from the people this way than pro-
viding better homes or food for them.
People can do without homes and
food, but the great military chief
tains must have diamond studded
swords. This country is very sim
pie republic and does not take kindly
to the methods and flunlxyisms OF
monarchies.
On what theory is it that the whole
country will turn out to hunt and
hang a man who breaks bank ana
takes money, when if the banker
takes all there is in the bank they do
turn out to hunt and hang him? Why
is it less crime to be robbed by those
whom you have trusted and aided
than by those who have never asked
or sought your confidence.
If it is good thing for John D.
Rockefeller to control four hundred
million of dollars why would it not
be better to have him posses the sew
enty-five billions of wealth of the ma
ton? Just think this over.
Our system of divided interests, of
separate properties, compels everyone
to protect his individual interests
and impels him to attack the inter-
ests of everybody else. From this
greed and avarice is stimulated. Even
the service of each for the other is
weighed and measured in dollars and
cents. Nearly all service is made a
matter of merchandise; and we stop
and haggle over the price like any
courtesan on the street. Our wage
system makes prostitutes of all. 1t
blinds us to the essential business of
our lives so that we actually rejoice in
the opportunity to sell ourselves-our
services-for money; and we look up
OH it as a misfortune if we fail to
find buyer.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
which should bind the human family
as with links of solid gold.
d. A. PETRE.
February %, 1899
Literary Notes
An Ice Yacht Runaway.


Some years ago there was runa-
way down at Shelter Island, in which
a young girl was left in the boat
with a gale blowing. She tried to
throw the sheet loose. but it was froz-
en- and her fingers were too cold. adj
ded to which the sheet had fouled the
tiller, and she could not bring the
boat up into the wind to stop its way,
the sail being so set that the boat
continued running right along at a
terrific rate of speed. Occupants of
the other boats soon realized the posi-
ton and made chase, gaining but
slowly, one boat finally being far in
the lead of the others by the time the
end of the island was left behind.
Right in front lay the end of the ice,
! broken short by the action of the tide
| water and there the breakers rolled
in, throwing up the anchor ice, dash
| ing it down, ) and then retreating,
sucking it under the foe and packing
it up for another break. For some
time it was a question as to whether
the chasing boat would catch up with
the girl before she was carried over
edge to certain death. But at last the
boats came together for one brief sec
ond, the girl was snatched by strong
arms to the pursuer's yacht, the sheet
was eased off in a flash, and, spinning
round in its own length, it was set
right before the wind instead of reach
ing into it, just as the runaway DASH
ed over into the anchor ice. A short,
sharp crack gave notice of the part
ing of the ice beneath the very run
ners of the now homewaru bound saw
Jour, and with a long stagger, which
only her speed enabled her to with
stand, she dashed across the fast OPEN
ing crack, safe, to be brought up into
the wind at distance, while lie late
runaway danced, a wreck, among the
broken ice. 1t was one of the close
calls of ice yachting which, thank
goodness! very seldom occur-Wilf.
P. Pond, in Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for February.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
Labor CO-PartnershiD.

Henry D. Lloyd's recent book, Lab
or Co-Partnership," is wonderful
revolution to those who know but lit
tie of the cooperative movement in
Great Britain. We have not space to
quote extensively from his work and
can give no more than a single illus
tration, showing the possibilities of
the cooperative movement, but ear
nestly recommend the book to all who
are interested in the economic oues-
ton.
Mr.. Lloyd says that the working
people by voluntary cooperation es-
tablished in the ear 1868 the Scottish
Cooperative Wholesale Society Lin
tied, with a capital of $s,975. During
the following year the capital in
creased to $25,s75. The safes amount
ed to $405,470, while the profits were
$3.50. For nearly thirty years after
wards there had been a steady in
crease in the capital Of the institu-
ton until the ear 1897 it reached &c.
444,sO5. The sales amounted to S22,-
02s,265 and the profits, which no
doubt were divided in dividends a.
mong the stockholders and patrons,
were $s60,275. The total sales in no
less than thirty years were $226,15 3d.
$50; the total profits $6,9O6,16O. This
is the only one of a number of like
institutions in a small country whose
total popula ton exceeds four million.
Mr.. Lloyd's book will repay careful
reading.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

ton were popular one, to bend legis-
la tors to their will. The lessons
which proves that the indirect method
of choosing United States senators is
a wrong one was never before chalked
up on the national blackboard in let
ters of such commanding size, and
never was there a better time for be-
ginning an agitation for the amend
ment of this portion Of the federal
constitution.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

Five states, California, Pennsylvania
Delaware, Nebraska and Utah, are
now in the grip of the senatorial dead
lock, and several others have but re-
Gently escaped it. In the three first
named above, the trouble is due to the
attempts of political bosses who are
odious to right thinking men, and
who could not be chosen if the cleo
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

The story about lie government
beef that killed the flies that lit upon
it, is enough to make any ordinary
person tired of the contract system.
Those who handle large numbers of
checks realize what it is to be soaked
in wave of patriotism.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

They must demand the full value OF
what labor produces and to get it
they must hoist the social1stic flag re-
CARELESS of the protesting tears OF
Anti-Comrade Gompers.-Appeal to
Reason.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25

EaEiSagss gs,,-!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-05
COLUMBIA WINS AGAIN.
Defeated Defender Yesterday By Over
Ten Minutes.

Newport, r. l., Sept. Am today's
race the second and last of the official
trial races for the settlement of a de-
fender of the Americas cup, the Co
lumbia again demonstrated that she is
the superior of the Defender, the 1895
champion, by defeating her ten minutes
and seven seconds over a triangular
course in an eight-knot breeze and a
sion throughout, with the Columbia
leading at the start by thirteen seconds
and gaining on every leg of the course.
What all the yachtsmen would like
to see is contest between the boats
when they could carry only their low
er sails. On the run of the New York
Yacht club from this port to the Vine
yard Haven, during the recent cruise,
in a half gale, the Defender practically
defeated the Columbia on time allow
ance. and there are today many who
think that the old boat is the faster. in
a stiff breeze, with lifted sheets. On
the run to the Vineyard the Columbia
had a pine mast. which no doubt han
dicapped her to some extent, and, what
remains to be seen is whether she is
improved in heavy weather by the stee!
mast as much as she is in moderate
breezes.
The Columbia's mainsail fitted lit
tie better today than it did on Satur-
day, due, no doubt, to the stretching it
received in the first trial race and the
subsequent hauling out on the boom
and Caff Still there is an opportunity
for much improvement, as there IS a
curl to the leach that some of the
yachtsmen do not like.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-05
PLAYED RAGGED BALL
Ogden-short Line Contest a Comedy
ofErrors.
OGDEN WON, OF COURSE
SHORT LINES DEFEATED BY A
SCORE OF IA TO 10.
It Was Anybody's Game Up to the
Eighth Inning, When Errors and
Hits Gave Ogden All the Runs
She Needed, and the Short Lines
Could Not Score Again. s.
(Special Correspondence.o


Ogden. Sept. A goodly crowd wit
messed a very ragged game of ball at the
Ogden Driving park today, when the Og-
den team defeated the Short Lines by a
score of IA TO 10. Played clean, the Short
Lines should have won by score of 4
to 8.
For the first three innings the Shorts
failed to score; then two hits, aided by a
costly error, brought in three runs. Two
more reached home in the sixth on two
costly errors by Ferrin. Burns hit and
Crandalls two-bagger were responsible
for two more in the seventh. In the eighth
two singles by Clemens and Knicker-
booker and a double by Taylor brought
in three more, and shut-out in the ninth
ended the game SO far as the railroaders
were concerned. -.
Ogden got two in the first on hits by
Greenwich and Martin. three in the second
and one in the fourth, all on errors, and
two in the sixth on hits by Greenwich,
Gimlin, McGregor and Bluth and base
on balls, and when Ogden went to bat in
the eighth the railroaders led in the score
by 10 to 8. Martin got first on an error of
Crandall, and McGregor was allowed to
walk on a balk. Henry got his base on
balls, filling the bags. Ferrin hit to Glenn
ems. who fumbled the ball. and McGregor
and Martin scored. Schnabel hit safe and
Bluth flew out to Smith, as did Hansford.
Greenwich got hit and so did Gimlin, and
Henry Ferrin and Schnabel scored.
The score follows: