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VOL. i.
ALLIANCE .TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
Interest to Allianccmen Everywhere.
- It is sa;d that the independent vote in
Kansas this year was larger by 15,000
ta m it was last year.
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It will only take a change of 1,700
votes to give South Dakota to the Alli
au c, and theii organ says that this can
be done in a day.
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There is talk of buiiidng an Alliance
tobacco factory at Greensboro, N. C. A
meeting was held a few days ago and
the idea discussed.
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Andrew Jackson said that the national
banking system should give them a
. chance to make money scarce or plenty
at pleasure. That is one reason you sold
your cotton at 7 cents this fall.
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The farmers should look after the in
terests of their organizations. Upon
them depends the success or the failure
of the great reforms for which they are
laboring.—Standard Farmer.
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In one of our exhanges we notice that
a conespondent, ic giving his many
reasons why lie is an Alliauceman, says
for i ne, that he is opposed to men buy
ing wind and calling it cotton, wheat,
pork or tobacco.
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The farmer’s average net income, with
which he must support his family and
pay his taxes and interest, is $373. This
estimate is hosed on figures given by the
statistician of the agricultural depart
ment. —Industrial Educator.
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The people’s party will continne to
puncture the plutocratic money power
with their ballots until the monsters
will be forced to make a concession that
will permit labor to receive its just re
ward.—Washington Republican.
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A higher range of legitimate prices is
the salvation of the masses. Too much
labor and products in the dollar now.
Takes too much sweat to pay a dollar of
interest, a dollar of taxes, a dollar of
railroad charges.—lndustrial Educator.-.
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An exchange says: We j>ay annually
about $525,000,000 tariff tax. We pay
annually $1,400,000,000 in interest on
bonds and otherwise for the money we
use. Don’t it look like seven hundred
and odd millions of Interest in excess of
tariff tax ought to demand more atten
tion than the tariff?
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The Southern Mercury says (he mer
chants of Texas are falling into line
with the farmers and will aid them in
every legitimate undertaking. The bus
iness men now see that the success of the
farmers means their success. The failure
of the farmers means their failure and a
general collapse.
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An exchange says: The greatest need
we can now think of is an active, effi
cient and aggressive working force. To
overcome the obstacles that wo are bouud
to encounter in our onward march to
victory will require a stronger effort than
hus yet been put forth. We hope the
very best talent of the organization will
for the next few days be directed to the
solution of the question of how to put
efficient workers in the field.
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The Progressive Farmer says: We had
hoped that the old chestnut about “Does
farming pay?” had been forever disposed
of. Butwe-see that the newspapers have
taken it up again. We have been be
tween the plow handles long enough to
answer the question. It don’t pay the
farmers, the merchants, the mechanics.
But it docs pay the crop speculators, the
railroads, the bankers and the politicians.
It is making millionaires out of many of
them.
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At a recent meeting of the Pasco
county Florida, alliance at San Antonio,
a resolution was adopted asking the
county commissioners to moke an appro
priation for an exhibit at the World’s
fair. A committee of three was also
appointed to appear in behalf of the
alliancemeu of the county before the
county commissioners in behalf of the
World’s fair matter. This sentiment
among the alliancemen has been largely
worked up by the constant agitation of
the necessity by the Florida press.
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The Alliance Farmer says: “We are
now getting the true election returns
from the western states, and they are in
deed encouraging. The Alliance has
gained strength everywhere. The returns
published in the daily papers were lies
made out of whole cloth. The alliance
vote (hows an increase in nearly every
ebunty. In South Dakota the alliance
cut down a republican majority of 50,000
to less than 2,000? And yet a partisan
press says the farmers’ movemeit is
dead.”
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* NATIONAL OFFICERS.
President—L. L. Polk, North Caro
lina. Address, 344 D. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Vice President—B. 11. Clover, Cam
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer—J. 11. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol
St., N. W., Washington, D. O.
Lecturer—J. 11. Willetts; Kansas.
Executive Board—C. W Macune.
Washington, D. C.
Alonzo Wardall, Huron, South Dakota;
J. F. Tillman. Palmetto. Tennessee.
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Judiciary—H. C. Demming, Chirman;
Isae McCracken, Ozone, Ark.; A. E.
Cole, Fowlervillc, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The presidents of all the State organi
zations with L. L. Polk, Ex-officio Chair
man.
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THE PARTY.
Under the above heading the Progres
sive Farmer says: “It is all right for men
to be patriotic, take interest in their
party, to defend it if it is worthy of it.
But there is an end to such things. The
farmer who will work himself, makes his
wife and children work to raise a crop of
cotton or tobacco and sell it at prices
that these products are now bringing, or
who knows what a crisis the country is
now passing thro igh, and still not stir
himself to seek a remedy or aid those
who are earnestly striving to effect this
end, is no man at all. Many sit down
and say, “Oh! if you will vote for my
party aad work for it all will be weii.”
But unless these parties have a p’an to
bring relief and reform what can you ex
pect? Don’t be satisfied wiih a party
that has nothing to bring reform. Make
your party what it ought to be, - or make
it surrender its charter. ”
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RAVE GOOD ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
The Alliance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.,)
says: If our members will read Alliance
literature, they will find an antidote for
the poison scattered broadcast by the
partisan press in the way of lies against
our order and its leaders. You may take
the best Christian in Georgia, deprive
him of his Bible, and let him read noth
ing but Tom Payne, Voltaire and other
works of infidelity, and you will even
tually undermine his faith in the Gospel.
It is the same way with the Alliance. If
our members read papers which stigma
tize the order, they will soon be
convinced that the Farmers’ Alliance
movement was conceived by sin and
brought forth in iniquity. Let them take
a counteractant in the form of some good
alliance paper, and read the answers to
these slanders against our organization,
and they will then discover that this bit
ter and venomous fight against the alli
ance is waged in the interest of the pluto
crats, in order to crush the movement of
the laboring people for freedom and pros
perity ; that the partisan press of Georgia
are but the tools of Wall street, and used
as an instrument to crush and enslave the
toiling masses.
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MORE MONEY.
The Faulkner county Wheel saya; A.
farmer takes fi%o bales of cotton to mar
ket. He is offered 8 cents, which amounts
to S2OO. He thinks he ought to get 9
Cents for it, so he puts it in the govern
ment warehouse and borrows $l6O for
one year, if he needs it that long, at 1
per cent. He insures it at the rate of J
of 1 per cent, per month and the storage
is 1J cents per month. The S2OO the
merchant had to give for the cotton was
already in circulation. The $l6O bor
rowed of the government was added to
the circulation aud increased the circu
lation SI6C. Some party papers say that
the storing of the cotton and drawing
money of the government contracts the
currency. We make this statement to
(•how that they are wilfully ms king false
statements to their readers. The storag*
of cotton prevents speculators from
manipulating the market. In three
months the mills begin to want
cotton. The farmers demand a
Lfir price and say we will hold our
cotton for one year and stop your mills
unless we can get 10 cents for middling
cotton. The mills say well that is nearly
a9 cheap as we ever get it, and they take
the cotton a* 10 cen's. The farmer gets
$250 for his five bales of cotton. He
pays $1.12£ for storage and $1.50 for in
surance and SI.OQ for interest, loss in
weight per bale $3.20 (what he was of
fered). In all $8.025. Gam SSO, Net
gain to the farmer on five bales $41.97J,
or $8.30$ per bale. This is a fair state
ment. Middling cotton is cheap at ten
cents. The man that can make money at
less than ten cents per pound by his own
labor does not live. To make a fair
profit for his labor, middling cotton
should be 12$ cents, and w T hen the Peo
ple’s Party gets into power, they will see
to it that the law's are so that the pro
ducers who feed and support the world
are paid a fair price for their labor.
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THE ELECTION IN KANSAS.
Apropos of the oft published statement
that the Alliance has fallen off in mem
bership the past year from 140,000 to
60,000, the Topeka Advance says of the
late elections in Kansas: “We have
made a large actual gain in our vote over
that of last year. In a few counties the
actual vote is less than last year, but fully
equal to it in comparison with the total
vote cast. Taking into consideration the
diminished total vote in those counties,it
will be found that we havo retained onr
full per cent, of it and in many-instances
more than this. Of course all apparent
losses are seized with the greatest avidity
by the opposition press wherever they oc
cur; and without making any analysis
of the vote, or instituting any compar
isons to determine how our per cent, of
loss corresponds with the decreased per
cent, of the total vote, such apparent
loss, insignificant though it may be, is
paraded under flaming head-lines as an
infallible indication of the total disinte
gration and utter annihilation of the
People’s party in Kansas. Rational peo
ple recognize in all this bluster and crow
ing of political roosters the whistle of
cowards approaching a political graveyard
in which their polluted carcasses will
soon be buried in oblivion. Placing the
most conservative estimate upon the re
sults of the election, it may be regarded
as absolutely certain that, in this “off
year” in politics, without any systematic
campaign such as we conducted last
year, rpljing solely upon the educational
work cf the past, unu the limited ioca.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4,1891.
campaigns conducted by the several
counties, and in the face of a campaign
against us seldom surpassed even in a
presidential year, we have still fully held
our own in the aggregate, while our per
cent, has unquestionably been largely in
creased. We are of the opinion also
that not only our per cent., but our aci
tual vote cast wilFbe found larger in the
aggrega’e than it was last year.
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THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SUB-TREASURY
DEFENDED.
Govenor Sylvester Pennoyer, of Orer
gon, contributes an interesting and able
argument in the last number of The
North American Review in defense of
the Alliance principle of governmenj
loans to the people. Some of his best
points arc contained in tho following ex
tracts :
Thu mutteriugsof discontent, although
heretofore disregarded, have been uni
versal. They could find no expression in
the platform of any existing politicial
party, and therefore have been contemned
as well as unheeded. These m tteiings
have at length found voice anew
political organization, and their loDg
pent up expression will undoubtedly be
the great slogan of the coming presiden
tial contest. Hence it is of the
most vital concern to the
party itself, as well ns to tho people
whoso inffreus it would subserve, that
its financial policy should be one that can
be defended upon the grounds of justice,
of public necessity and of business prip
ciples. If such a policy can be formu
lated the young stripling of a party will
win to its following the honest hearted
yeomanry of the whole country, and may
achieve a political victory unrivaled in
t iis country for more than a half century
pist. In ihe first place, therefore, the
currency which is proposed to be issued
shon’d be based upon a perfectly secure
and imperishable foundation, anil should
be a legal tender for all debts, public
and p ivatj. Such a basis can only bo
furnished by the real property of the
country. To accept personal secu
rity, or any ether security than
the improved real property of the covin,
(rv, would be to hazard the loan, which
the government, in the interest of the
whole people, poor as well as rich, can
not elo. There can be no safer security
for a, government loan than the real
property of the nation. If the loan is
placed upon such property at one half or
one third of its real value, it is as secure
as the government itself, and the cur
rency based upon such a loan is as good
as a government bond or gold or silver.
The main argument agn : nst such a
policy is has and upon its supposed im
practicability. This has been answered
by stubborn facts.
The next question of importance
evolved by the proposed financial system
is: How shad the money be procured by
the government for making such a loau.
If required it could and would be pro
cured as it was in order to carry on the
late war, but the amount to be provided
would to a great extent depend upon the
exact conditions of the fiscal policy to
be established.
If the loans were made to the people
upon unimproved real property at a rate
not exceeding 4 per cent., and the cur’
rency for su li loans, as well ns gold and
silver, was changeable at will into gov
ernment treasury notes or bonds bearing
interest not exceeding 3 per cent., the
result would undoubtedly be that the is
suance of not nearly so much currency
would be required as would be if no such
provision for funding it was made, inas
much as investors in government securi
ties would largely furnish the required
amount.
If a policy be adopted of changing the
currency into bonds and the bonds into
currency, at the will of the holder of
either, under the necessary restrictions,
the whole financial business of the coun
try could be adjusted to the proposed
system without any greater enlargement
of the volume of the currency of the
country than its actual business" require
ments demand. Such a policy would
place the currency of the nation upon
the safest foundation possible, and would
entirely preclude those extremes of con
traction and expansion so hurtful to
business interests; for if there should be
in circulation more money than could be
advantageously used it would Beek in
vestment in government securities, while,
if there should be an urgent need for
more, the bonds would be changed into
currency.
The loaning of money by the govern
ment at 4 per cent, would at once fix that
rate throughout the country without any
other or further legislation, and the capi
tal now employed at ruinous rates of in
terest as leeches upon the people, thereby
exhausting the life-blood from all of our
industrial pursuits, would, by the condi
tions confronting it, be invested to a
large extent in government eccurities,
thereby furnishing a portion of the cur
rency required, or, if not so invested, it
would be compelled to seek out new en
terprises for its employment. Thus the
accumulated wealth of our plethoric
capitalists, now overburdening our na
tional industries with its ruinous exac
tions, checked in its unlicensed power,
would patiently and effectively subserve
the commbn Veal.
THE PRESIDENT WENT WRONG.
He Misappropriates $300,000 of the
Company’s Funds.
The board of directors of the Standard
Gas oompany, of New York City,met Fri
day in secret session to consider the case
of the former president of the company,
Wallace C. A. Andrews, charged with
haring misappropriated $300,000 worih
of the common stock of the company. Ne
gotiations were attempted looking to the
settlement of the matter outside of the
courts; the directors being willing to ac
cept $2,000,000, but this Andrews re
fused to give.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Dally
Happenings Here and There. !
A. H. Hews A Co’s pottery works,
North Cambridge. Miss., burned Tues
day.
W. T. Dey, stoves aud furniture, Nor
folk, Ya., assigned Monday. Liabilities,
58,500.
Knoxville and Morristown, Tenn.,
suffered from fire Sunday. The former
sustained a loss of $ 13,000; the latter
$20,000.
Citizens of Harriman, Tenn., held a
meeting Monday and made arrangements
looking to the securing of the next na
tional prohibition convention.
A cablegram of Tuesday says: Sit
Alexander Campbell, lieu cnant governor
of Oatnrio, Canada, has been stricken by
paralysis and is in a critical condition.
Tho debt statement issued from Wash
ington Tuesday shows a net decrease in
interest bearing and nou-inferest bearing
bonded debt during November of $2,-
570,139.50.
George 11. Brasfield, one of the most
noted of the old-time trotting horse
drivers, died ot Lexington, Ky., Friday
.evening. Among the noted horses he
drove was Great Director in 2.115. He
was formerly owuer of this horse.
Sales of loose leaf tobacco in the Dan
ville, Va., market during November
reached 2,307,600 pounds and for two
months of the tobacco year 4,659,865
pounds, showing a decrease as compared
with the same months of 1890 of 8,380,-
320 pounds.
The Uuiversity of Virginia and Trinity
College, North Carolina, football clubs
played n highly exciting game at Rich
mond Saturday before a large crowd for
the championship of the south. The
North Carolina team defeated the Vir
ginia boys. Score: 20 to 0.
A St. Louis, Mo., dispatch of Tuesday
says: It has just been discovered by the
Concordia Publishing Company, prin
ters of religious books, that Martin C.
Barthel and Martin H. Barthel, father
and son, two of its most trusted em
ployes, are short in their accounts.
A dispatch from Frankfort, Kv., saya
that Miss McErvan, who was shot by a
■ iiegro last October while on an excursion
train on the LouhiJillG and Nashville
railroad and was permanently injured,
obtained-a verdffct Saturday for SIB,OOO
damages against the railroad company.
The Anniston, Ala., city council, at
a meeting Friday abolished sev
eral city offices and aismissed a number
of employes, thereby reducing t& city’s
expenses $250 a month. Their aCtion in
abolishing the offices has been pretty
condemned by the citizens of Anniston.
A Raleigh dispatch says: The failure
of the First National bank, at Wilming
ton, caused the assignment of John L.
Boatwright, grocer, of that city, for the
benefit of his creditors. Bank Examiner
Allen is now in charge of the suspended
bank and Daniel L. Russell, of Wilming
ton, will become its receiver.
John Pizzini, an old journalist, for
many years agent of the New York Asso
ciated Press, who was paralyzed in July,
1888, died at Richmond, Va., Friday
night, aged fifty-nine years. Pizzini
was affone time resident vice consul of
Italy. He was a gallant confederate
soldier, being a member of the First
Virginia regiment.
The extensive planing mills of the
Hope Mills Lumber Company, in Cleve
land county, near Fayettsville, N. C.,
were burned Friday, This loss is over
ten thousand dollars and there is no in
surance. The flour and sawmills of Als
paughßros., on Little river, Alexander
county, were also burned. The loss in
the latter case is $3,000, with no insur
ance.
News reached Raleigh Saturday of the
smash in the building and loan associa
tion which had banking privileges and
$50,000 capital. It was established ten
years ago, aud its business methods were
not very able in character. D. B. Nich
olson is cashier, having early this year
succeeded W. A. Johnson, who is said to
,be the largest stockholder. The failure
will probably annoy some merchants
there.
President Conrad, Secretary Horner
and eight employes of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company appeared before
United States Commissioner Wright at
New Orleans,Monday morning, to answer
an indictment found against them at San
Antonio, Tex., upon the charge of vio
lating the anti-lottery postal law. They
gave bail in the sura of SI,OOO each to
appear at the next term of the United
States court in San Antonio.
A number of the leading wholesale
grocers of the four large cities in Ten
uessee met at Nashville Saturday for the
j purpose of correcting existing abuses in
i the trade, although they declined to
state the nature of these abuses. Among
those present were representatives of all
the leading firms in Nashville, Memphis,
Knoxville and Chattanooga. The or
ganization i3 to be known as the South
ern Wholesale Grocers’ Association.
Passenger train No. 9, due at Charlotte,
N. C., at 2 Soturdry morning
from Washington, narrowly escaped be
ing wrecked by a telegraph pole that
was placed on a trestle. Two country
men who the situation, flagged down
the train ana the engine stopped within
thirty feet of the obstruction. The scene
of this attempted train-wrecking was at
trestle over Haw river, between Greens
boro and Reidsville.
Dacus & Jordan, general merchants of
Greenville, S. C,, who have been run
ning what was known as the alliance
store, made an assignment Satur
day night. They have been pressed by
their creditors for several weeks and a
few days ago effected a compromise with
some of them, agreeing to pay 50 per
ceut of their claims by December Ist.
As that date drew near they realized that
it would be impossible for them to com
ply with their agreement, so they made
the assignment. The liabilities are about
thirty-five thousand dollars and the
t ssets are estimated to be about the same.
A Birmingham, Ala., disnatch says:
An extensive thieving uracfice on nie
Alabama Mineral division of the Louis*
ville and Nashville railway was broken
up Saturday afternoon. Conductor Ward
was arrested at Calera for embezzling
$125, which he had gobbled on freight
betwe n small stations where prepayment
was required. Depot Agent F. W. Andy,
at Sheltiy, who was connected with Ward,
aud who had pocketed over eight hun
dred dollars, skipped out in time to
avoid arrest. Ward also escaped
while he was under guard at Calera.
The embezzlement had been proceeding
for some time, and other developments
are expected.
RAILROADS OF THE COUNTRY.
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Statistics Showing Gigantic Strides in
Construction and Traffic.
The third annual report on “statistics
of the railways in the United States,”
issued from the office of statistician of
the interstate commission at Washington,
gives comprehensive statistics covering
the operations of railways during the fis
cal year ended June 30, 1890, and a state
ment of earnings and expenses for nine
months ended March 30, 1891. A marked
feature of this report, which adds greatly
to the value of its statistics, is the map
ping and division of all statistics in ten
territorial groups, by which differences in
conditions of operation iu various parts
of the eountrv aro clearly brought to no
tice. Comparisons rendered possible by
this report show marked differences in
different parts of the country.
MILKS OF RAILS.
The railway mileage in the United
States on June 30, 1890, was 163,597
miles; increase in railway mileirgu brought
into operation during the year, was 6,060
miles. Michigan shows -the largest in
crease in railway mileage during the
fiscal year, being 459 miles, and Georgia
come3 next with increased mileage of 437
miles. Group five, made up of Ken
tucky, Te-Unessce t Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and Florida*?£ows. i increased
mileage of 1,370 mill s during tbc year.
The number of railway corporations on
June 30, 1890, was 1,707, of w'bich 927
are operating companies, twenty-two
companies representing 1,646 miles, have
been re-organized during the year, a”d
thirty-four companies, representing 1,905
miles, have merged their corporation ex
istence into the other corporations.
The gross income of seventy-four com
panies is $837,000,000 out of a total
cross income of all the railways in the
country of $1,041,877,632, or 80 per
cent. The total number of locomotives
in used is 29,928, of which 8,384 are
passenger locomotives and 16,140 are
freight locomotives. This shows ten
freight locomotives and five passenger
locomotives for edch 100 miles of opera
ted line. The number of cars used in
railways of the United States is- 1,164,-
138 or 744 per 100 miles.
THE ARMY OF EMPLOYES.
The total number of men employed is
749,301, being an increase of 45,551 over
the number employed in 1889. The 154,-
404.06 miles of line which are made the
basis of statistics in this report aro rep
resented by railway capital to the amount
of $9,459,444,172, equivalent to $60,481
per mile. Assuming that the remaining
mileage is capitalized at the same rate
the total capitalization of railway prop
erty in the United States would be
$9,894,483,409. The increase in railway
capital for 1890 over the railway capital
for the previous year is $444,268,798.
Of this amount at least is
due to the increase in capitalization on
lines already in existence.
The number of passengers carried dur
ing the year was 402,430,865. The ag
gregate number of miles traveled by all
passengers, was 11,847,785,617, or an.
average journey of twenty-four miles.
The number of tons of freight carried
during the year, covered by the report,
was 636,141,617.
CASUALTIES.
The total number of persons reported
by railways as killed during the year was
6,320, p.nd the total number reported as
injured was 29,034. Of the total num
ber killed 4,451 were employes, 285
passengers and 3,584 were classed as
“other personsln this latter figure are
included a large number of suicides. Of
the total number injured, 22,390 were
employes, 2,444 passengers, besides
4,200 unclassified. If the number of em
ployes killed be assigned to the total
number, it appears that one death occurs
for every 306 men employed on tfce rail
ways, and one injury occurs for every
thirty-three men employed. The largest
number of casualties occur to men en
gaged directly in handling trains. Thus,
while the trainmen represent but 18 per
cent of the total number of employes, the
casualties sustained by them account for
58 per cent of the total casualties. A
passenger riding continuously, at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, might ex
pect immunity from death by railway ac
cident for 1,700 years; but ah engineer,
brakemhn'br conductor, under the same
conditions, is liable to fatal accident at
the expiration of forty years.
The report recommends that express
companies, water transportation com
panies and rolling stock and terminal
companies be required to furnish railway
1 statistics to the commission.
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THE WIDE WORLD.
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GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Shocks of earthquake were felt in
Tacoma, Wash., Monday.
Tiie new issue of Windom $2 silver
certificates began Tuesday.
Dispatches of Monday state that yel
low fever at Santos • rapidly spreading.
Small pox, according to Monday’s
dispatches, is again epidemic in Guate
mala and Honduras.
James Wyman, mayor of Allegheny,
Pn., was arrested Sunday, charged with
embezzling funds of the city.
Fire at Gladstone, Minn., Monday,
destroyed two flour sheds, a coal dock
aud au ore dpek. Loss, $70,000.
A fire Sunday morning in the wood de
partment of Joy & Seliger’s plush and
novelty goods company, Newark, N. J.,
did damage to the extent of $30,000.
Quartermaster Sergeant SeiverS, of the
Savannah German Volunteers, was on
Sunday stricken with paralysis on one
side. It is feared he will not recover.
A cablegram of Monday states that
the Chinese government is taking every
precaution to break the strength of the
rebels before they get within striking
distauce of the capital. *
A span of the Great Northern railroad
bridge over the north fork of the Colum
bia river, six miles from Columbia Falls,
fell last Sunday, carrying with it bine
men, three of whom are dead.
A Santiago correspondent of The Lon
don Times says that the people of the
province of Rio Grande de Sul think,the
changes arising from the deposition of
Marshal Da Fonseca are not radical
enough, and new complications are feared.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Chinese embassy called on Uncle Jerry
Rusk, at the agricultural department
Monday, and requested Secretary Rusk to
procure for them several tons of sea is
land and staple cotton seed. It is the
intention of the Chinese to raise cotton iu
the celestial empire.
A dispatch of Tuesday from AnnistoD,
Ala., says: A charter has been obtained*
by the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Loan
Association with an authorized capital
stock of $1,090,000, divided into shares
at the par value of SSO each. The object
bf the association will be to loan money
to farmers and mechanics.
Anew York dispatch of Saturday says:
The total visible supply of cotton for the
world is 4,030,617 bales, of which 3,461,-
817 are American, against 2,937,677 and
2,464,777 'respectively last year. The
receipts of cotton for this week at all
interior towns aro 810,434; at planta
tions, 347,801. The crop in sight is 4,-
576,379.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: Admiral Brown’s report upon the
circumstances attending the landing of
the Chilean troops at Quinteros last sum
mer has reached the nav/ department.
In substance it is a positive denial of the,-
allegation that his visit to Quinteroj), sed
to the Balmaceda forces securing' infor
mation of the congressional movement. ,
A dispatch was received at London
Saturday from Valparaiso saying the
American -ship Rappahannock, Captain
Dickinson, which sailed from Liverpool,
July 29th, for Sin Francisco, has been
burned at sea. The crew of the Rappa
hannock landed at Juan Fernandez is
land, .about four hundred miles off the
coast of Chile, and were subseqnently
brought to Valparaiso.
The fastest time ever made by a rail-.
road train between New York and Wash
ington was accomplished Saturday by a
special train over the Pennsylvania rail
road, tendered'to a party of hotel pro
prietors, theatrical managers and news
paper representatives. The train left
New York aj 5:49 o’clock p. m., and
stopped in the station in Washington
city at 7 o’clock p. m.
Exports of speice from the port of New
York for weeks ended November 27th,
amounted to $931,155, of which $27,891
was gold and $855,261 silver. Of tho
total exports $27,394 in gold and $835,-
393 in silver, went to Europe, and $48,-
500 in gold and $19,863 in silver, to
South American points. Imports of spe
cie during the week amounted to $593.
769, of which $533,172 was gold and
$00,597 silver.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of Sunday
says: The imperial family have started
from Crimea on their return journey to
that city. Crowds of ragged and starv
ing peasants wait at the stations along
the route to present petitions to the czar,
imploring help. The gendarmes are un
able to prevent the people from as
sembling. Reports from some of the
famine-stricken piovinccs say that the
peasants are burning the hay and straw
of their landlords.
COLD IN THE NORTHWEST.
The Thermometer Crawls Down Twen
ty Below Zero.
A Rochester,Si. I'., dispatch of Sat
urday says: Snow is falling throughout
this region, and is now six inches deep.
Dispatches from fifty Minnesota points
indicate that temperatures vary from
zero at Duluth to ten degrees below at
Hallock, and eighteen degrees at Moor
head. Ti.e ferries at Duluth and Supe
rior have frozen up, and it is believed
that navigation by the lake(eatuioffV last
many days lquger. b
Continue i ebld -weather is predicted
.by the signal service. At Winnipejj- the
mercury v is 20 degrees below zero at
midnight .Saturday and it was constantly
grQvyincj colder.