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Show THU INClllMSi: 01' CltlUX The Chicago Tn&ant recently published pub-lished n record of murdera, suicides, hangings and lynching! for the past yearaud It constitute! a rather gloomy chapter. Thefaota that the population Is Increasing at the rato of a million anda quarter a yetr and that with greater facilities the news Is collected more readily and accurately do not, It aeemi, altogether aocount lit the Increase In-crease In respect to the crlmei named. The feature, and perhaps the ouly one, uutof which tho optimist can derive oonsolatbn Is that relating to embeiile-ments, embeiile-ments, which are smaller In number than formerly; while the deaths by disasters were much lirgcr. This re minds us that In tho last-named respect the present year has commenoed In a cuauner threatening to ecllpio all former for-mer records. Following I tho exhibit of ciuies for whlcb'miirderswerea mmlitud: uii!nuwir.".'.".'.v.'.v".'v.rr wi lly MstiMrtrineu - 8"d liiranllcljtt . -... 311 ll'jcim.lin-Mi lliii'a'.."."".". IH Tills means that H'7d murlers were committed In the United Htatas last tear, niralnst 690(J tho you be'ore, 1290 In 1S91 mi 1.IVI7 til H, (hit la, Jntlireyersttifaurlui9iluven9arly doubled. Thu olrcumitaiu'e tint the nuinlwr of Judicial Imuliifl hat ateadlly di creased Is llieu preaonttd to thu attention of the rva lr, there being butl07lnl892agalnttlSI In 1531 uuii lOSIn 18911. Tnu stttlatlcs allow lhat If the population last year was about (H,00l),000, every mau, ivomin mil child had a chance in 970J of being nurtured and every uiurdoror had me chauco In elxty-thrso of UtUif exicultd for the oj:u nlnllil of the irlmc. In the matter of u llclnl haiu Iuijs, Oeorgla heids tho Hit with rmirtien, Kentucky unl ri follow lug with ten each mil Arkauiai lm eight to Its ere II.. Trio terrors of electrocution, or ajilathlllj elte, brought the Urgeit sUU In tlm Union down to a very low figure; with moru thin (J,0D ),0JJ peiple, Neu Vork had but live executioaa latt year, It la shown that with the falling oil jaajMar- ""SSI'I ",'V!' '"?" In legal nsecutlons there Is a enrtet-ponJIng enrtet-ponJIng Increats In lynclilnji. Whether one remit Is the natural pro-ddct pro-ddct of the other or not on only be guessed at by oich Individual for himself; him-self; there weroSli of those last yoir, of whloh New Vork state had hut one, tho greater number being In the Houtb, and IS) of tbo vlotlnu were colore J. It la alao shown that suicide Is Increasing In-creasing aa rapidly as murder in thla country. There were 310 J last year as compared with KM I In 191)1, Sill In 1990, and S22I In 1819. T-in oil, n fir this Urge number of self-murders are glvenns fjlloTii IiMpon-loner-. .... lid iJiiln.wi, Intinlir , ..- ,.. ,, !2i Pom.iu- iDitiieiir rl '.!"?' ""'"'e 1 lore.'."'Jl'illl'" Jl I III lisiuii i;s llaameai loatea ..... U We think many of the other causes given mUht lis grouped in the first ono mentioned as leallng to It; It It also noteworthy that tho overwhelming overwhelm-ing majority of this ghastly array were of tho mtieullne geu lor, they numbering VM against 80S lemsles. It Is all bad enough, no matter how arranged. |
