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Show BURNED AT THE STAKE. A JTegro Rarisher Confesses His Crime aud Is Burned Up Alive. Minnie Palmer Captures the London Critics in "My Sweetheart." A Boiler Explosion Translates Four 'egxoes to Glory. Silver Light From the "Sun." New York, December 28. The Sun says: The opponents of silver money on 'this side of the Atlantio extol the blessings of the gold standard and ascribe the depression of our business affairs to the fear of silver. Meanwhile Mean-while the people of Great Britain, -whose necks are under the yoke of gold and who have not the faintest prospect of escape from it, are far from enjoying complete prosperity? -Special cables present ihe fol lowing picture: The suffermg among the poor of London is always great. It is now said to be unprecedented. The usual efforts of alleviating it at Christmas seem to have been paralyzed by the immensity of the task. Comparatively little organized charity has been reported. Everyday during the past fortnight one could see thousands of faint, ragged wretches, prowling outside . the wharves, each ready to fight the other in order to be one of the score who were admitted ad-mitted to a day'a work for 40 cents if a ship happened to come in. Everywhere business is reported to be worse than it was a year ago. It is said that not a single Christmas publication has yielded a profit. At the London docks less than one-half the quantity quan-tity of wine has been taken out of bond than was taken out last year. More tangible luxuries lux-uries suffer in the same way. When it was stated a year ago that the British shipbuilding ship-building industries were off half a million tons, it seemed that the worst showing had passed, but the report now is likely to show another diminution, and one nearly as great. This is a sample of all the industries, while the farmers' prices have reached starvation point. |