Show THE INCREASE OF CRIME the chicago tribune recently pub fished a record of murders hangings hannings hang ings and lynch ings for the pad year and it constituted a rattier rather gloomy ch chapter pter the facts that the population la a increasing at the rate of a milli oo and a quarter a year and that with greater facilities the news is collected more readily and accurately do not it seems altogether account for the la in crease in respect to the crimes named the feature and perhaps the only one butof out of which the optimist can derlow cof isolation consolation to is that relating to embezzle ments which are smaller in number than formerly while the deaths by disa disasters stera were much larger this to re minds us that in the last named respect respa the present year has commenced in ft a manner threatening to eclipse all for mor mer records following to is the exhibit of causes for which murders were committed quarrels 2931 2987 liquor 78 7 8 unknown jealousy by highwaymen infanticide resisting arrest highwaymen tilled bed defense e 81 insanity in iii outrages 26 strikes 82 biota a this means bist were committed in the unite J states last year against the year before in 1890 and in 1889 that ik la in three years these crimes nave have nearly doubled the circumstance that th number of judicial banging hannings hang ings hsia h steadily decreased to is then presented to the attention of the reader there being but bat in 1892 against in 1891 and in 1890 the statistics show that it the population last year was about every man woman and child had a chance in of being murdered and every murderer had one chance in sixty three of being executed for the commission of the crime in the matter of judicial hang ings inge georgia heads the list with four fourteen teel kentucky and texas following with ten each and arkansas has eight to its credit the terrors of electrocution or something else 1 brought the largest state in th the union down to a very low figure with more diore than people now new york had bad but five executions last year it is shown that with the falling off lia in legal executions there to is a corresponding riding increase in lunching lynching lyn ching whether bother one result is the natural product of the other or not can only be ed at by each individual for him elf 1171 there were it if these last year of or which now new york state had but one the greater number being in the south and of the victims were colored it to is also shown that suicide Is increasing as rapidly as murder in this country there were last year as compared with in 1891 2640 in 1890 and 2224 in 1889 tae causes for this large number of self murders are given an aa follows despondency 1163 unknown insanity insani ta Dome domestic stIO infelicity liquor lianor disappointed love health Bul business siness losses 56 55 we think many of the other causes given might be grouped in the first one mentioned as leading to it it is ia also noteworthy that the overwhelming majority of this ghastly array were of we tie m maa ouline gauler t hey numbering against le je males it is all bad enough no mauer matter how arranged |