JULY 17 
500 
THE BUBAL WEW-YOMER. 
Mms of f!j0 
home'news. 
Saturday, July 20, 1889. 
After a long silence General Master Work¬ 
man Powderlv is out in a long letter bit¬ 
terly scoring President Corbin, of the Read¬ 
ing Railroad Company, for his course in pre¬ 
venting members of labor organizations from 
obtaining employment at the Reading Works. 
He earnestly urges the absolute necessity of 
ballot reform in the Keystone State as a pre¬ 
requisite to legislation doing justice to the 
rights of all sorts of labor against th«^ work¬ 
ings of unscrupulous capital... .The Knights 
of Labor, whose organization has been losing a 
great many of its members of late, is going to 
make an effort to revive interest in its pro¬ 
ceedings by holding a mass convention sood... 
Last Wednesday at the Labor Congress now 
in session at London. England, the American, 
English, Belgian, Spanish, French, Danish, 
Polish, Austro-Hungarian and Portuguese 
delegates agreed upon a series of resolutions 
declaring in favor of eight hours as the maxi¬ 
mum per diem, a holiday weekly, the suppres¬ 
sion of labor for children under 14 years, 
equal opportunities and wages for the two 
sexes, etc... 
During the past year there has been a very 
considerable decrease in the number and im¬ 
portance of strikes in this country, whereas 
the reverse has been the case both in the Brit- 
ish Isles and on the continent. Bradstreet’s 
tells us that since January there have Deen re¬ 
ported 266 strikes, involving 75,110 strikers, 
against 389 strikes and 111.501 strikers in 1888, 
and 511 strikes and 212,317 strikers in 1887... 
_The vast increase in labor-saving machin¬ 
ery is the chief ground on which the opera¬ 
tives everywhere base their claims forsborter 
hours. Recent German statistics show that 
four-fifths of the steam machinery in the world 
has been constructed within the last25years. 
Full details are given of the steam power in 
each country of the world, and the conclusion 
arrived at is that all the steam machinery 
possesses 46,000,000 horse power. Then it is 
calculated that the one-horse power of a ma¬ 
chine operated by steam is equivalent to the 
strength of three ordinary horses, and the 
strength of an ordinary horse is equivalent to 
the combined strength of seven men. From 
all this the Statistical Bureau at Berlin draws 
the conclusion that the steam machinery of the 
world does the work of 1,000,000.000 men or 
twice the working population of the globe. 
No account is here taken of the tremendous 
amount of wind-power or water power em¬ 
ployed for industrial purposes in the world. 
Workingmen insist tb&t tbey should derive 
some advantage from this enormous substitu¬ 
tion of steam power for human labor.... 
The inhabitants of the Conemaueh Valley, 
and especially those of Johnstown, have been 
almost turbulently indignant during the week 
at the tardiness with which the generous con¬ 
tributions of the country have been doled out 
for the relief of the needy by the State Flood 
Commissioners. So far as can be reasonably 
calculated, $3,500,000 have been contributed 
in cash through the official receiving centers 
Governor Beaver secured what was needed of 
$1,000,000 more to be used in clearing away 
the wreckage for sanitary reasons. The Gov¬ 
ernor values the clothing and provisions sent 
direct from the donors to the sufferers at 
$6u0,000. Large cash contributions have al«o 
been distributed by the Odd Fellows, G. A. R. 
Posts and other associations among suffering 
members of their own organizations. The 
total loss of the property in the valley is now 
estimated at only $9,500,000. Most of this 
was lost by the Cambria Iron Works and 
other wealthy companies or individuals who 
will hardlv expect any of the fund. The or¬ 
dinary sufferers therefore ought to be finan¬ 
cially better off after the flood than they were 
before. Half a million dollars were distribut¬ 
ed by checks yesterday to those who needed 
the money most, and about $1,500,000 more 
still remain at the disposal of the State Com- 
missioners. The c&sti distribution is expected 
to revive business throughout _ that section 
as the recipients will be in a position to make 
purchases and enliven trade.. .. 
A Skewer Trust and a Tooth Pick Trust are 
among the latest.It is reported that 
the Government is about to transfer Geronimo 
and the Apache prisoners in Alabama to the 
Onalla Reservation in North Carolina—a bet¬ 
ter plan than to send them back to the demor¬ 
alizing influences of their old home. 
Mayor Cregie of Chicago, has, very properly, 
nullified the folly of the aldermen in giving 
for 25 years, to the Standard Oil Trust, the ex¬ 
clusive privilege of running a pipe line 
through a thoroughly built up and populous 
section of the city, which would be a contin¬ 
ual threat of another conflagration ..The 
Delaware Breakwater, at the mouth of the 
Delaware, which has cost the United States 
millions of dollars, has been declared a failure, 
and steps are to be taken to have a better har¬ 
bor made there, at a cost of not less than 
$ 5 . 000,000 ... 
On his way North from New Orleans, trium¬ 
phant Slugger Sullivan was arrested at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., on a telegraphic request from 
Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi, but was presently 
released by a Fash, file Dogberry whose de¬ 
cision was utterly inexcusable, as ignorance of 
law is no excuse in a judge. Since then both 
Boston’s Pride and Baltimore’s Pet, together 
with their seconds, have been dodging requi¬ 
sitions from the doughty Governor who says 
he will use his best efforts to punish them and 
their abettors for violating the law’s of his 
State. He also threatens to take measures to 
secure the forfeiture of the charter of the 
Queen and Cresent Railroad for aiding in 
bringing about tne tight. His efforts are 
worthy of all praise; but half the official fuss 
would probably considerably lessen the num¬ 
ber of murders and other outrages committed 
every year bv pistoi, shot-gun and rifle in 
Mississippi. But, then, the fist is there the 
blackguard’s weapoii, the pistol or knife, 
the gentleman’s. 
An'English syndicate is negotiating for tire 
purchase of the distilleries of Kentucky. 
Those only that make Bourbon or aging whis¬ 
keys are wanted.The State officers 
of Indiana have succeeded in negotiating the 
sale of the $3,900,000 of bonds issued for the 
purpose of refunding the school fund loan. It 
is stated that New York capitalists have been 
found who were willing to take the pappr.... 
.. Postmaster-General Wana- 
rnaker wants to fix the payments for the 
transmission of government official telegrams 
during the fiscal year 1890, at one mill per 
word for all classes of messages, instead of an 
average of one cent per word hitherto paid. 
In telegraphing the Signal Service reports 
alone this would make a difference of $114,- 
000! Congress appropriated for the work 
$118,000, but under the new rule it would 
amount only to about $4.000—or one-thirtieth 
of the appropriation. Jay Gould's Western 
Union would, of course, be the chief loser. It 
appears, however, that it has been doing bus¬ 
iness for favorite private parties for one mill 
per word. The government gives very impor¬ 
tant privileges to the telegraph companies, 
and the law requires that the government 
messages shall have priority over all other 
business, and the lowest rates, in return. The 
wires of the telegraph companies run into 
every newspaper office in the country, and 
the general opposition to the proposed govern¬ 
ment retrenchment shows that the managers 
well know what wires to work.. 
Last Sunday three of the pulpits of Charles¬ 
ton, S. C.. thundered against the infamy of 
murderer McDow’s acquittal. At a recent 
union of the Protestant clergy of the city the 
aid of the pulpits in the city and throughout 
the State was invoked to put down such 
deeds of criminal violence, and the warfare is 
to be kept up. McDow expected the people 
would soon forget or condone his “ little in¬ 
discretion but the rascal may find that the 
citizens of South Carolina are not so lost to 
all sense of justice and decency as he imag¬ 
ined.The troubles at Carnegie, 
Phipps & Co.’s iron works at Homstead, Pa., 
were compromised a week ago; both sides 
having made concessions. Had the settle¬ 
ment been delayed, it is probable that the 
bloodiest labor riot ever known in this country 
would have occurred, as 10,000 armed work¬ 
ingmen from Pittsburg were ready to march to 
Homestead to drive off all scabs, and “ kill off 
Pinkertons,” as a strong gang of Pinkerton 
men had been hired to protect Hungarians 
and others willing to take the places of the 
strikers.. Far up the St. Lawrence, 
in the village of Seeley’s Bay, tyrotoxicon in 
ice-cream prostrated 200 church picnickers a 
week ago, four of whom have died. Ice-cream 
at festivities seems outrageously productive of 
this lately discovered poison.The 
whole number of officials now protected by 
the civil service rules is 27,597, of which num¬ 
ber 8,212 are in the departmental service, 
2,298 are in the customs service, 11,767 in the 
postal service and 5.320 in the railway mail 
service.. IVhat an extraordinary 
number of cloud-bursts there have been this 
year, with disastrous results always to prop¬ 
erty and often to life. Few parts of the coun¬ 
try can hitherto complain of drought; while 
many have ample cause to complain 
of too much rain... 
Heaps of testimony are still being taken in 
this city before the referee in the electric-ex¬ 
ecution investigation and the more testi¬ 
mony taken the more conflicting it becomes 
and the harder for anybody to analy ze it and 
come to a decision in the matter. It is length¬ 
ened out by the efforts of rival associations 
interested in the use and manufacture of elec¬ 
tric devices.In spite of frequent de¬ 
nials, the organization of that Salt Trust is 
now virtually complete. It’s to have a capital 
of $20,000,000, of which $5,000,000 are to be 
held openly by Englishmen, who will no doubt 
quietly buy up most of the rest. The stock¬ 
holders in the English Salt Company at home, 
have been notified that they have the first 
chance to invest in the American enterprise 
which owes its organization to the managers 
of their own monopoly. All the large salt 
works in this country are in the “ pool,” and 
the rise in the price of salt is to start at $1 
per barrel. F. J. Seymour, man¬ 
ager of the American Aluminum Company, 
died suddenly of paralysis at Findlay, Ohio, 
the other day, carrying with him to the grave 
the secret he had discovered of extracting al¬ 
uminum from clay. Most of the details of the 
process were patented; but the most import¬ 
ant point of all—the employment of a chemi¬ 
cal process at the critical moment—was kept a 
ecret by the inventor. President of thecom- 
any Gen. Alger of Michigan, and its vice 
resident Senator Palmer, together with the 
ther stock holders are in a pickle. The 
vorks have been compulsorily stopped, as no- 
iody knows how to run them. Investments 
n blind-pools are always mighty risky. 
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British Mims- 
er at Washington, is becoming extremely pop- 
tlar owing chiefly to his sound common sense 
nd ordinary-good natured-citizen manners.. 
bogus announcement that Secretary Blaine 
vas certainly about to resign from the Cab- 
net, ostensibly on account of ill health, has 
;reatly helped the papers to All their columns 
vitb denials, reiterations, re-denials, and 
ditorial comments during the week—no un- 
velcome boon during the “silly season,'’ 
vhen legislatures are not in session and other 
ources of “ copy ” are uncommonly scarce, 
ndeed nearly half the “news” in the papers 
lowadays consists of bogus domestic and for- 
sign announcements to be followed by denials, 
itc , etc.Tne Carpenter Type-set- 
ing Machine Company has just been incor- 
lorated under the laws of Illinois, with a cap- 
tal of $1,000,000. Its wonderful machines 
hreaten to drive most of the compositors out 
if all the printing offices in the country, as 
;he new machines, it is said, can do their 
work faster, cheaper and—as well. 
The circulating medium decreased $17,000,000 
n May, and the same in June, but there are 
f8,000,000 more in the hands of the people 
man there was a year ago, and $63 000,000 
nore than there was at this time in 188 1 ... 
.Politicians are regarding with interest 
ind curiosity the conventions of the four new 
States to form constitutions. At the last 
flections 164 Republican and 161 Democratic 
Representatives in Congress were elected. 
One Democrat who has since died will be suc¬ 
ceeded by another. The new States will elect 
five Representatives, all probably Republi¬ 
cans. except possibly the one from Montana. 
These with those who may take the place of 
some Democrats who will probably be un¬ 
seated by the majority, will give the Repub¬ 
licans a “working majority” in the 
Fifty-first Congress.. *-•-•••• 
It is stated that an English syndicate has 
nearly completed the purchase of the great 
flouring mills at Minneapolis, and also of 
those at Milwaukee and St. Louis, and is ne¬ 
gotiating for the transfer of mills at various 
other points. It is also said that another 
British syndicate wants to purchase, for $5,- 
000 000, Warner’s proprietary medicines at 
Rochester, N. Y. There are also reports of 
several other English syndicate 
here. It is estimated-tliat $1,000,000,000 of 
English capital is now invested in this coun- 
t.rv and that the interest takes abroad $100,- 
000.000 a year. A large share of English cap¬ 
ital invested here, is, however, a total or par¬ 
tial loss, and a good deal more is, for the pres¬ 
ent at any rate, unproductive. Americans 
are quite willing that Englishmen and other 
trans-Atlantic speculators should invest all 
the money they please here, confident that, in 
the long run, American shrewdness, enter¬ 
prise and (often) unscrupulous business tactics 
will get a fair share of it. •••••• 
A Hchool Book syndicate composed of all the 
chief school-book publishing houses in the 
country, went into force on July 15, when all 
the traveling salesmen were withdrawn, leav¬ 
ing the sale of school books to be conducted 
entirely by the producing centers. The syn¬ 
dicate now consists of Van Antwerp, Bragg 
& Co., and Clark & Maynard, of Cincinnati, 
Haroer & Bro., D. Appleton & Co.. Ivison 
Blakeman & Co., Taintor Bros. & Co., and 
Ginn & Co., of New York, and the J. B. 
Lippincott Company, the Christopher Rower 
Publishing Company, Cowperthwaite <fe Co., 
Porter and Coates, and E. H. Butler & Co., 
Philadelphia. The principal source of their 
additional profits, will, they say. be the sav¬ 
ings made by dispensing with traveling 
agents. Each firm employed from 15 to 50 of 
these all the time, and their salaries ran from 
$1,800 to $3,500 a year besides traveling ex¬ 
penses. It is said that they also spend a great 
deal of money in “treating" and bribing 
school trustees in order to secure sales. As 
all the bouses guarantee not to cut the prices 
of books under certain specified figures, there 
is little doubt that the syndicate will soon 
place a thumping tax upon learning even the 
alphabet.- • - •• 
The officers of the Southern Cotton Oil Com¬ 
pany very emphatically deny that their or¬ 
ganization has been absorbed by the Cotton 
Oil Trust. Their Company, they say, is en¬ 
tirely independent and will remain so. 
Friends of Senator Washburn of Minneapolis, 
indignantly deny that he is or has been finan¬ 
cially embarrassed. He’s all right and has 
lately sailed for a trip to Europe with his 
family. As soon as he left his enemies meanly' 
and maliciously spread abroad circumstantial 
but mendacious reports that he had been saved 
from utter financial ruin only through the 
generous interposition of friends.The 
grain elevator men of Minneapolis are gnash¬ 
ing their teeth because the city assessor has as¬ 
sessed 8 000,000 bushels of wheat in the eleva¬ 
tors. This was never done before. The ele¬ 
vator men claim that the wheat receipts 
change hands so often that it is impossible to 
charge the assessments to the right parties. If 
they can’t make these pay, they’re sure to sad¬ 
dle the loss on the public by elevating 
charges. ••••••• 
While the capital and manufactures of Few 
England are constantly drawing heavy profits 
from every other part of the country, recent 
statistics show that that section annually 
buys from the producers of other sections 
550,000 tons of grain, 525,000 tons of flour and 
$50,000,000 worth of meat. It also affords a 
market for 50 per cent, of the wool product 
of the country, and for 25 per cent, of the 
cotton crop. Can any section of the country 
be reallv an enemy to any other section ?.... 
.The Rhode Island Legislature has just 
met in special session, to enact a license law. 
The bill put 3 the wholesale license fee at from 
$500 to $1,000, the amount to be determined 
by the License Commissioners. The retail 
fees run from $400 in Providence down to 
$250 in smaller town9, according to popula¬ 
tion. ...... . • 
There’s a project on foot for combining all 
the railroads in a mighey “ trust,” as the only 
certain remedy against destructive freight 
rates warfare in future, and the surest 
method of wringing from the public big inter¬ 
est on the capitalization of the roads, whether 
money or “ water.” It is proposed that the 
railroads be united in “territorial groups” 
which again are to be placed under the man¬ 
agement of a central board of trustees. In 
theory the new organization would give to the 
public the best service at the least cost; while 
the stockholders would be saved from depre¬ 
ciation of their securities by excessive multi¬ 
plication of competing lines and ruinous rate¬ 
cutting wars. The great obstacles to such a 
happy consummation are the gambling and 
intrigues of the inside railroad rings of presi¬ 
dents, diectors and managers, who speculate 
with the property committed to their care 
regardless of anything but their own greedy 
interests. These “wreckers” treacherously 
and often fraudulently raise or depress the 
stocks by their reports and rate-cuttings to suit 
their own ends, and so long as the projected 
organization is.likely to hamper their manip¬ 
ulation of the roads under their control for 
their own interests, there is little chance of a 
Railroad Trust. Under the present arrange¬ 
ments hundreds of “ wreckers -’ have splendid 
opportunities of legally but unscrupulously 
pocketing the money of others; under a groat 
trust a few great magnates would have wider 
opportunities of doing so, but the general 
crowd would bo shut out. 
The British-Aoierican Association of Massa¬ 
chusetts in session at the Hub, fulminates bit¬ 
ter denunciations against Ratriek Egan, Min¬ 
ister to Chili, because he is an Irishman 
suspected by some Englishmen of complicity 
in the atrocious Phueulx Bark .assassinations; 
against President Harrison, for his shameful 
subserviency to the Irish, shown by appoint¬ 
ing Egan; and against, Governor Thayer, of 
Nebraska, for his official insolence, thick- 
skinned ignorance and gross presumption in 
venturing to berate members of the associa¬ 
tion. Thayer’s conduct “has caused the 
name of American citizen to stink” in the 
metaphorical nostrils of these “ British- 
Americans.”. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, July 20, 1889. 
Sir Charles Russell and Mr. Ackworth, 
the two chief lawyeis for the defendants be¬ 
fore the Parnell Commission, have withdrawn 
from the case together with Mr. Parnell, on 
the ground that it would be follv to expect an 
impartial decision from that tribunal appoint¬ 
ed and selected by a bitterly partisan govern¬ 
ment for partisan purposes. The Court or¬ 
dered that all the books of the Land and Na¬ 
tional Leagues and even the private bank¬ 
books of Parnell and some of the other defen¬ 
dants should be produced in'eourt. and submit¬ 
ted to the scrutiny of the Times Government 
lawyers, and the order was obeyed. Then the 
Parnellites insisted on the production of the 
books of the Loyal and Patriotic League on 
the ground that they would show that, a wick¬ 
ed conspiracy had been concocted by its mem¬ 
bers to bribe Pigott and other witnesses 
against the Parnellites to commit forgery 
and perjury to ruin the reputation and influ¬ 
ence of the Irish leaders. The Court 
decided against them, and their immediate 
withdrawal from the case virtually involves 
the collapse of the investigation, though it is 
still carried on in an uninteresting, one-sided 
fashion. Many insist that Parnell and his 
followers should have witburawn immediately 
after the exposure of Pigott’s forgeries and 
perjuries, and there is little doubt but that 
would have been the best move. The Com¬ 
mission was organized on September 17, 1887, 
and the case was opened on October 24. Ten 
months have been occupied with testimony 
and argument. A decision against the Par¬ 
nellites on several counts at least, is a fore¬ 
gone conclusion, but it will be like the whist¬ 
ling of the ’•Ind through the broken rigging 
of an abandoned hulk on the ocean—nobody 
will pay much heed to it. 
The English are concentrating a considerable 
force in Southern Egypt, under General 
Grenfell, Commauder-in-Chief of the Anglo- 
Egyptian forces. Nad-El-Jumi, the Dervish 
leader, says he has been sent by the Mahdi’s 
successor to conquer tho world, aud he has 
about 3,500 brave, reckless, ill-disciplined and 
ill-armed troops and about 2,000 ragged camp 
followers to do the little job. They are still 
pressing northward in parallel lines with tho 
Egyptian troops and gun-boats along and on 
the Nile.The marriage of the Princess 
Louise, eldest daughter of the Prince of 
Wales, to the Earl of Fife, is to take place on 
July 27, at Buckingham Palace, London. The 
Earl has been made a Duke. Instead of mak¬ 
ing special grants for the children of the 
Prince of Wales on their marriage, as hitherto 
proposed, Parliament will increase the Prince’s 
allowance by $200,000 per annum so as to 
enable him to provide marriage portions for 
his children. 
On June 2, the burstiug of water-spouts and 
terrible tornadoes flooded a wide district in 
Northwestern China, overwhelming nine vil¬ 
lages and destroying 6,000 people. The water 
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