The Penn's Grove record., 1904-01-08
STATISTICS Or Pt51 YsA8
The Donation tur aultc Purposes
Was Enormous
snaas4es Wondered s5sS ana Homicsses
2-siisht Decrease ia Record
Of Defaseatiena.

AfkAa SIT "a A ft aFNAtNtt- AA SKI AyStfa
pg actgsl gift aud f 4eass to
Charity t~alis.oUs eutefnrI edu
ea3onai institutions .iaranes, mu-
5arm galleries and municipal bet
termedts. amount % s1s,9l2,4l1. as
compared with SIT .30Ts167 in 1902
SIS, 163 for 1901 the last bes
u record hreakmg rear It should
We anoarstood that tA1s sums do not
represent contributions "a charity in a
genera sense. or church contributors.
bat only those individual donations
aud requests which have been pub-
lisned SIS news announcements. Of the
;atal aH0uBt suited above, tAere has
besu given 10 educational Institutions
SO 95 092i to charity 81 ,Tze 3I9i f0f
religious purposes 81 N0G.9I2s ion mt
senns, art galleries and manicipai BET
legfaants S2.91T, 500, and for itharieE,
.5>I 5c.
Afr. Ga4neeie's share IN this benefi
ce8e is a4 follows; TO libraries, So
5e3,500; 5 colleges. St,294,50 40, faud
for pensE)niAg steel w0G sers, SAGE :.
600, for the Eagineeis thi0n Homes
$4,000 O0; fof misae purposes.
$6s. 0oa lie has also green for various
purposes abroad sss ef9
J. ID. Rockefeller. Sr,, has iven over
81, 500.O08 to the University of Chicago,
$4,000 10 ether colleges, s 8 800 to
rel gions bod al0 $4,000 10 charity.
He has also mamafed as Intention oil
giving 81 pas aheady gwen ! 100000
for scientific research a tss University
OF Chicago.
One hundred ana ablefy-savea cal.
leres have shared 81 tlie educafiouaf
donations. bat seven 81 shes Bar
naed, Columbia. Cornell I0hns Hop
kins. Harvard. Tuskagee University Of
sf{,icaeo and University ef peunsvlvg-
nia-hava raten sl4&8r-e or more
snal onastaira 80 fae total sHm
Tie lynclines reported full 1902
bowed r. decrease 0r w~eHtg-n{na as
eomnared wifh tnose III 1893. Luy The
last year they have increased aaa5n.
the list sfRaGine I04 for 1865 KS com.
pared whit ninety Wiz la 1902. OF these
Iyncaings, twelve occurred in Tie North
and n.9ery swo ID Ire Sontl. Df gge
giCisfns. eighty-s'x were negroes. seven
teen whites. and ona Chluaman. One
woman was lynel1gd id Mississippi aud
one III Louisiana
The number oTAegaI executions in
1862 was I23. as compared with Ia III
1902, IfS IN 1861. and 3I9 in 1900. There
we're seyentv-seven persons BANGED Ia
he South ana forty-gIx id tls %otfb.
sixty three were whites ana. sixtv
blacks.
Suicides are steadily increasing ia
tie United States and tie vaiue cf hi.
nan life steadily cheappns. THE eui-
cides II one wear closely resemble .Bcsa
of another year in curses and meta
ods No special feature stands out
e5espicnousiy except the ease WITH
sthfel the victims CAN ohfsfr aolsuH
from the druggists. Poisoning ~ tIe
most common method Of agnIaigaire
suicide, and earbolic acid IL the most
coIsraon poison IN use
TIE total plumber Ell case- renorted
dining tie wear X 1857 $685. ren and
82l2 women--as compared with S291
in 1902 How steadily suicides increase
annually ia shown by the following
Ggurcs. In 1900 there vera $40 eases:
III 1900 e155 i'll 1901 7245. III 1902.
s201 Phvsicians All usual neaa enc
tlst ame,.r arofassiopai .ueu. the rets1rG
stans;nr PhvSie}ans tbtrtv.6ye mia
.stefa Eve law vprs forr. artisas f0gr.
college nrofpseorq tr-a aciors. one.
g0ub officials. twelve
The record OF e~mhezzling. forgery.
daf8uifipg and bank wrackil,g for 1908
shows ? siiabt decrease being S6.562.,
ld,. as eop,oarad win "a. 1912 last
year. The losses ara Distributed as