| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER I 1 am far from being a pessimist in fact my natural di disposition 0 I 1 is towards the sunny site side oi of existence but when it rains one should know enough to come inside it is of no use trying to make on self believe that a heavy down is merely a slight alight mist op optimizes optimises sm of this character is the worst W 0 rat kiew of folly post orators way may teu tell us nice stories and favor us with roseate pictures ures of national prosperity and political beatitude but we must not let bursel ourselves ves be W deceived by champagne oratory the plain truth is that able bodied men are out of empy employ ment today in chicago it is ear e timatea that 30 per percent cent of this amy army of unemployed are heads of lies when one considers theoe figures what a sorry spectacle pc itself it means shoeless shivering children woebegone woe ant anxious irritable mothers and n ideo despondent fathers severs earsl I 1 cases of actual deaths by star tion have been reported during the tD last week the newspaper office have been turned into relief a aud aid bureaus each paper has its own special relief stait staff great dis aw tress prevails in the stock district this has been a dull winter in the packing aglid dressed meat industries ana and the le employees in these departments a 00 notoriously extravagant thriftless floo and drunken when earning money the steel mills are idle and w this means misery of the grimert amest kw kan operatives in iron and steel fenery geo ably eat at and drink their wages afore earned then what must it be whop there is no earning of any kind on the whole the business outlook not alone for chicago but for the whole country is very very dark darb indeed railroad earnings are w fao ing behind the currency is heiob contracted to an alarming extent and gold is leaving the country As reported by the comptroller of the currency the amount of national nati nation OVAl bank currency outstanding on the V of february was this thise 9 decrease of f for the twelve month preceding and of 4 to the month preceding M add id to this w increase of tho the surplus for the and it makes a contraction of the owe rency that is being seriously felt i iu I 1 depressing effect on business on oil tw the ast 1st of december 1887 theamon the wW the treasure treasur available for the red tion of the debt was WO on 0 at the of february 1889 I 1 the h e amoo adv so available had bad increased nor e to sa VA showing an accumulation tion of oil ill 10 81 as in thirteen mont months a more than h has b been een with diw drawn from circulation by the b baa and the government in a little ino re than a year the business of railroads tells ito own story in 1887 the net earning of the 95 roads in the country was wa and in 1888 leaving a decrease of more dball a mouth month this ahls decrease means del depres sedr ia destries dus tries all over the country vie roads are now curtailing and M s trenching drenching tren ching in every available aba cba ner men are laid off and those th re talked are pressed to work bardot there is talk of a general red of 10 per cent in wages but gand are expressed that labor wont is one of two tw it with railroads it things either a reduction i in a geo of employed emp loyes or organization in to gigantic trust this latter sost the of most probable an organization tills kind can be used for both political maaland call mc aland and business purposes it maintain its own police system and 1 it can completely crush out the labai wr agitator and politician and depew were in omeago yesterday itis it is said they perfecting the projected trust they aey have ve the big four railroad A low and it is suppose i they are af few roads which objected to ing into hito the trust lef some borne 25 or more in gold ithe bathe S e united states last year that re gold exported exceeds the gold ift ported by this sum what value w protective tariff if it dont keep i at home the manager of one that hyhouse H house in paris stated recently y the american trade during the oe months of last autumn was worth orth 1 to his firm it fiust be the ee same with other depart ta rw of the wardrobe in addition this most of our millionaires spend pal most of their time in the their continent of europe or have thi children ildren educated there takes gold then our heiresses PeA seera aa to have a particular liking for ibes oni counts and bankrupt mar and gambling princes of thel course the ne sold gold always goes with heiress and of late years these t fortunes which have been af erred to averred europe amount to itally millions zere is another ominous spot to ce tiia horizon orizon which augurs ayt badly for fo future re it is the insane desire aft among ong politicians every who talks politics at all is a adi date dute for office but that is X the worst it is the disgraceful of duesty wu esty and absolute disregard ancy ghiela dece ncy among officeholders office holders na give most concern hefti be e remembered that a few e eimoto I 1 in n chicago we had a great cheat about bood lers county Z co at boners ft 1 teion ers and wardens of 6 en y institutions contractors and dill na merchants er chants were all on oil the it t was r for 0 official cial misdoing well tion thought ought a process of purifies 0 id staff as gone through all the I 1 inadi wee routed and new ones th the e but what is the result toTy Dop co anty insane asylum is re tv boo in a fearful condition its boten sh OW a bonsu consumption t of 1000 its h 0 atles of beer for last year W while 8 sky h bill for 1888 is 2697 2597 bul ite ltv drug and surgical supply I 1 njg arned aea 8 only 00 it Is deft that the kitchen supplies nation sold to saloon keepers the lents relents Rt Se P curvy Harein are in a doleful condition are abe AL bed sores filth and vermin the prominent characteristics of alar toji 6 0 0 v vegetables tables are served a 4 tos though the books show ht s account nt and at an ta the asylum is a acre boj g t with a P professional farmer toe per year salary still no fu I 1 18 8 f or the patients surely ev even 11 if might be saved 11 0 mes th tue laage ge ones went to the st 0 of tile ile he judges fudges and commis 11 haah ft been there is worse still it anta a u t 1 bad 5 foal und tid that the male attend g e v eral ia k ays eys to the female wards beqai cecon of tle the women are about to T mothers wa firmery fir mary is in quite as bad a condition it has 1692 inmates of whom are females there are twenty girls under 17 some six or eight of whom are soon to become mothers there are two 15 year old girls in the maternity rooms each of them is the mother of twin babies one hundred and seventy five of these inmates a are re reported diseased the condition of other cities is no better this morning I 1 took up u one of our large daily papers ang and noted the 11 crime headlines headline sf 11 alone here they are am for one issue of march maach 8 of one paper cut off her husbands head A wisconsin woman commits cammi ta one murder and attempts to kill her children one death due to white caps cape the wife of a farmer expires from fright and fatigue after losing her home horrible crime in n kentucky frank conkwright of 8 spruce uce creek and his mistress poison nine children A st louis widow becomes insane over her desertion by her lover otsui suicide followed by failure shot for refusing a drink A deaf mute fr frightened into speech queer request bequest of a suicide stabbed by an indiana desperado shot him for a muskrat shot and captured a burglar the man who killed S S jones seeks release from the asylum J spalding J killed at evanston expulsion of a colorado legislator I 1 her corsets saved her life fired two shots at his wife then shot and killed himself A pan bail road wreck in ohio A baggage mans scheme how he doctored cancelled tickets for months reared reaped a harvest of dollars attempt to blow up a powder magazine charged with instigating robberies training boys to steal 11 looking for one W desperate deed of an old gambler he kills ills his wife with a hatchet then tris to kill his daughter there was a hole in the trunk A methodist conference agitated over the disappearance of church funds colorado 0 0 0 lyn chers found guilty 11 arkansas political thugs outrages at Plum merville the fate of a detective john M claytons claytona Clay tons murder the west virginia muddle As asylum v I 1 um investigation Attend attendants antaKi kill lf two patients in a michigan insane asylum killed with witha a hatchet tragedy in a gotham drug store literally hacked to pieces the electric sugar case the diamond romancer Bo mancer charged with lif having iving too many wives bou chicault married again 11 count again Mont ercole blacks t the 1 i eyes es of his american bride new N ew york lawyers charged with champerty 11 ile le caron not a fenian rival railroad Bail road Com companies paulee in montana arming large bodies of benfor men for hostilities the well known cincinnati broker albert netter charged with embezzlement A whole kentucky family murdered husband wife and two children the carnahan mclaughlin tragedy tady 11 strutting in borrowed plumes lumes 11 it looks like suicide i A girl refuses R to live with her adap adopted ted mother joseph maher aftem attempted apted to cut his bis throat with a pocket K knife nife 11 1125 25 canalport Can alport avenue entered by burglars attempted burglary at 3 1829 michigan avenue 1 wholesale robberies Bobb eries by em employees pa byees at the new york store 52 state street an eloping couple arrested blackmail and the pension office the united order of deputies convicted by hired detectives A divorce lawyer in trouble exciting hunt for safe blowers humane society officers roast the Waif 1 mission superintendent georges george S averill butcher employs cashiers and drivers who can give a cash deposit of atom 20 to each A dozen victims now squeal A male floater found in the lake 11 mrs gurley the abductor of annie redmond Eed mond gives birth to a baby in therall the jail Jall 11 two alleged murderers fail to appear in court their bonds of each declared for forfeited felted robert bobert a chicago painter arrested for illegal voting in indiana last november william cornell a reporter ordered to turn over his loose coin at the point of a pistol billy cornell comell is a well known reporter PO arter in chicago A huge negro pointed anted a revolver at him and ordered him to deliver up billy had only 50 cents in coin and nothing in currency or collateral the 50 cents were turned over but billy made a sketch of the highwayman and the result was that the negro is now in durance vile this is certa certainly luly a lugubrious communication but it cannot be helped it is the truth how can we go behind it it is raining dont dontae we know enough to come in Is there no isaiah among us to give us warning Is there no nephi to lead us out of the dreadful charnel house JUNTOS junrus max march ch 9 1889 |
