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> "-'.Alf •* " • ^ "" Mt "P'j % %: .r: ;• «!'v-'. :w, ar. ELLiNora =P"saHH*« AFTER THE HANGIMG. i;vf ; How the Poises of the Bead Anarch Ml Beat-Not One of Tteic; * ' Hecks Broken. ?:-i • v>" 5ft v. iv-- i j f * VS: .'<* -i •j^m ;-ps si 4s£ &:&• . ivC •> &c'1 .-.. .11 t!#' m g# I ? 1 %f' * , ,4* « & if t, (f^.v ft * 1./" ' Rfc;flP. £<«J' if .% •# tev,, S;r *£'"4* * & • . ; / THB Chicago Times, in its report of tho hanging of tbe four Anarchists, says: When the drop (ell, tho four figures that an Instant before had been standing side l»y side W«nt earthward with a rush. Thoy fell to the •ads of tbe ropes, there was a twang of the oordn, and, suspended in air; tne' bodies hung, swinging slightly from sido to side and twiat- ing half way around and back again. No one of the men had his neck broken, the death in each in- tauce being by strangulation. Par­ sons seemed to suffer the least pain. The body Of tipies twitched convulsively, ana he made an e/iort to if raw up his kuees, but the leathern belt that bound his legs prevented. Fischer's body began twisting about like a plummet at the end of a string, but a bailiff roahed up and steadied it Engel hung straight and motionless. The moment the ropes were extended physicians rushed up and began counting the' pulse-* of the dying men. Spies showed 119 pulsations the first mo­ ment, Parsons 6J, Fischer ti'J, and Engel CO. The second minutfe 8pies fell to 100. Parsons rose to 10J, * ischer to 96, and, Kngel to 96 During the next half minute Spies" pulse beat 31 times, Fischer's 24, Engela 3,1 Parsons developed heavy respiration, and his pulse becani6 so con­ vulsive it coald not be counted. The next half minute Spies had a pulse of 42, Fischer '28, Kn­ gel 50, and Parsons' body began jerking and twitching, and his respiration became gasping and convulsive. The next half minute, three And one-half after the arop, Spies' pulse was 26. The next Lalf minute Spies' pulse was &S, Fischer 19, Engel 15, Parsons' 60 and convulsive, while the next half Spies' was 20. Fischer 22, Engel 17. Five minutes after the drop, for the half ininute, Spies'pulse dropped to 19 and Fischer's to 21. That of Engoi rose to 30, and Parsons' galloped along at the rate of 112 to tho minute, his pulse becoming steadier. During the next half minute Spies' poise Was 38 but very faint, Fischer s 27, Engel's 30 and faint, while Parsons' again became con­ vulsive. Six minutes after the drop Spies' showed 16 pulsations for the quarter minute, but at the end of the minute Dr. Moyer could find no more pulse in Spies' wrist. Six and one-half minutes after the fatal plunge Fischer's pulse for the half minnte showed 27 beats, while Parsons was still con­ vulsive. At seven minntes Parsons' was no longer per, eeptible, while Fischer's showed si for the half minute. Seven and a half minutes after the drop Fischer s pulse was the only one perceptible, and it was faintl y beating at the rate of 22 to 'the half minute. At seven minutes and forty-five seconds after the drop Fischer's pulse also ceased His hands had turned purple. So the bodies hung until eleven and one-half minutes after the drop. A TALK WITH SCHWAB. He Is Deeply Affected at the Fate of His Fel­ low-Anarchists--Ills Opinion of the £fiect of tbe Hanging. The surviving advocates of social rev- olntion have been interviewed at Chicago,, as follows: While his comrades were on the scaffold Michael Schwab heard the cry of Fischer: "Hurrah for anarchy!" He listened and tried to catch further sounds, but the only noise that reached him was that of the trap as it swuna the four anarchists into eternity. Schwab then paced his cell and sobbed bitterly, and there wad a wild appearance about his eyes indicating the excited condition of his nerves. His face was pallid and his hair disheveled, and yet his general demeanor was that of a man who thought life in the penitentiary th" Oerabflmtii'y" said* h£ j11111011 and superabundant vitality survived "and I did not care to meet an igno- for more than six hours injuries which TjnMifMHft has been alMOet ruined on aoooant of the soarcity of charcoal. In Marquette County there aMMoaly two charcoal fwnaoes in blast, mlt ten or twelve have been closted and are now in suck a dilapidated eondi- tion tliat they will never be slatted again. WEUUAM GHBEN was found guilty at Pern, Ind., of murdering Enos Brum* baugb. Tbe sentence was imprisonment for life. He was a brother of Amer Green, lynched for killing Luella Mabbitt. - '•$*¥ ' « 'V '-I > l : 1,1 " " J j . r P O L I T I C S , « Elections were held in a number of States on Tuesday, NOT. 8. The result is sum­ marised below: New York.--Tho entire Democratic State tioket is elected. The majority of Cook over Col. 1 red Grant for Secretary of State is about 12,- O J i . There was a bitt r fight in New York City over th.i District Attorneyship, the rival candi­ dates being Col. John K. lellows and Delancy Nicoll, both Democrats. Fellows was cleoted l»v about 20,000 majority. The Henry George vote is not much over tM.OtSo in the State. There is a largely increased Prohibition vole. rlhe Doniooruts made heavy gains in Buffalo. The Democratic majority in New York and Kings Counties is about i»,u00. The Legislature is Republican by majority on joint ballot. Ohu>. Gov. Foraker and the entire Repub­ lican State ticket are elected by pluralities ranging from 17,000 to 2 ,000. The Republican major.tv in Hamilton County is 6,593. jSei rnskii,--Samuel Maxwell (Rep.) is eleoted Supreme Judge by a majority of from 90,000 to 30,u .0, and the Republican candidates for re­ gents of the State Univerdity, B. B. Davis and George Roberta, have nearly the same majority. lotva.--Complete returns from fifty-three of the nineiy-nine counties in Iowa give Lar- rabee (Rep.), for Governor, t7,569; Anderson (Demo-Greenback), 77,442; Cain, 6,124; Faro, ham, '21. Larrabee's plurality over Anderson is It',127, and his majority over all in these fifty- three counties is 3,98--', These same counties last year gave Jaekson (Rep.), 92.0J7; Sells (Ueia.i, 72,OSB. Oregon.--Oregon voted only on a proposed amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the trallic in alcoholic liquors, which was defeated by some S.UOU majority. Hew Jersey.--The election in New Jersey was for members of the Legislature. Republicans hare the Assembly by 14 majority and the Sen­ ate by 3 majority. Mississippi.--Mississippi voted for county officers and members of the Legislature. Nearly all those elected are straight-out Democrats. Virginia.--The Democrats will have about three-fourths of the Senate and nearly two- thirds of the House of Delegates, thus insuring the election of a Democratic successor to United States Senator Kiddieberger. lJcnnxylvania,~ William Hart and Henry W. Williams, composing the Republican State ticket as candidates, respectively, for tbe offices of State Treasurer and Supreme Court S Judge, are elected by 25,000 to 30,0J0 majority. The greatest interest was manifested in the contest in Philadelphia, between William R. Leeds, Republican, for Sheriff, and Charles H. Krumbhaar, Democrat. The Democrats man­ aged to defeat Leeds by about 5,000 votes. Maryland.--The Democrats elected the Gov­ ernor and other State officers and a majority of the Legislature in Maryland, after the bitterest campaign ever fought in the State. Jackson's majority for Governor is about 9,000. The call for a constitutional convention is defeated by 6,000. Massachusetts.--Th« vote on Governor is di­ vided as follows; Ames, Republican, 135,912: Lovering, Democrat, 118,311; Parle. Prohibition, 10,697; Marks, Labor, 848. This makes Ames' plurality 17,611. against 9,473 last year. Brack- eft, Republican, for Lieutenant Governor, has a plurality of 22,144 over Cutting, Democrat. (Chicago.--The election in Chicaeo and Cook County for County Commissioners resulted in the choice of the Republican nominees. Judge Gary, before whom the anarchists were tried, was on both the Republican and Democratio tickets, and is elected Judge of the Superior Court. Captain Black, counsel for the anarch­ ists, the opposing candidate, but he received «u4<y &££ votes. Louis Lingg Cheats the Galfowt lnHis THE ANARCHISTS. THE Chicago Tribune says: "Lingg died His athletic frame, Bplendid consti-hard. minious fate on the scaffold. Fielden also~bas a helpless wife, and lite was dear in or out of the penitentiary. I did not expect to be exe­ cuted after Gary and Grinnell wrote the letters, i but the suspense has been terrible. All last , night I heard the preparations going on, and it 1 was not until after 2 o'clock this morning that I had any sleep. Lord only knows, the agony of those hours up here was bad enough, but what must they have been down below with the men who have just been hanged for something ttii^ knew nothing about." "What, in your opinion, will be the effect of the hanging"lam afraid it will not end here. Poor Spies, I am sorry for him. He was honest, and his abilities entitled him to more remunerative employment than he found on the ArCeiter Zeitung. The trouble with him was he would talk too much, and many times when we would be discussing a subject he would indulee in flights of elo­ quence that we would laugh at him. Ho only got IN a week, and he was never paid anything for agitation and speechmaking. He was an innocent man, and so were the others, and I am afraid the workingmen of the country will hereafter have no respect for the law. We need laws to ameliorate the sufferings of the poorer classes, but we wili not get them. The trouble with this event to-day is tnat it will tend to establish tbe belief that a poor man can get no justice in the courts, and Spies. Par- eons. Fischer, and Engel will be considered martyrs." Telegraphic Brevities. INSPECTOR BOKFIELD, of the Chicago police force, distributed $500 among the families of the officers killed at the Hay* market riot. Tbe donor would not divulge Ills identity. OFFICER HENRY SMITH, who has just recovered from wounds received at the Hayinarket riot, had a narrow escape from death at the hands ot an anarchist on Fri­ day last, who attempted first to choke and then to shoot him. The fellow and a com- panion were finally lodged in prison. RICHARD £. WARPLE was hanged at • Lafayette, Oregon, Friday, for the murder of David Corker. Like most individuals who indulge a fancy for killing their fel- low • mm, and who are condemned to death M a consequence, he denounoed the fulfill­ ment of hie sentence as a judicial murder. WITHIN fifteen hours twenty-six fire alarms were turned in at St. Louis, caus­ ing many people to believe that attempts were being made to burn tbe city. Capt. Evans, of the Salvage Corps, reported to the Mayor that 80 per cent, of recent fires were of an incendiary origin. FAVORABLE trade conditions in all Motions of the country are reported by B. G. Dun & Co. Provisions and grain have advanced, iron is stronger, footwear is in brisk demand, and cotton and woolen goods are being sold at better prices. The failures of tbe week numbered 217 against 245 the previous week, and 231 for the corresponding period in 1880. THE ANARCHIST ease seems to have had a special interest for cranks and fools all over the country. At Omaha three tailors draped a couple of r ad flags in black and bung them from a wiudow, but were soon put to flight by an infuriated mob. At "Cairo, I1L, ala- borer sftbbed himself, saying he wanted to die with the boys at Chicago. A sensation was caused at Gaiesburg, IIL, by the discov­ ery of five effigies suspended in front of Knox College bearing the names of tbe con­ demned anarchists and of Nina Van would have killed a weaker man in a third of the time. He was conscious until with­ in ten or twelve minntes of his death, and in full possession of his fac­ ulties. When a new face appeared at the door of the bath-room he invariably looked up with interest. At Bnch times his emotions were plainly to be read in his eyes. His wolfish, tigerish temper lasted as long as he was conscious, and the sight of a jailer's face was suffi­ cient to bring to his eyes a fierce gleam of hatred. Once, when an attendant felt to Bee if the,hot-water bottles at his feet were warm, he drew away his lower limbs with a quick, fierce movement, and his eyeB were as L fierce as those of an animal at bay. Still, with all his wolfishnesB, he from time to time indicated to the doctors and attendants what he wanted done. He occasionally motioned for water, and in reply to ques­ tions nodded or shook his head. The ac­ cepted theory of the finding of the four bombs in Lingg's cell has been that he either intended to destroy the jail or sell his life dearly by throwing them into a crowd at the first opportunity. The event of his suicide has probably proved a theo­ ry which was at first rejected--that Lingg intended to use them to destroy himself alone. He h«s often said that he would never hang." JUSTUS SCHWAB and other New York socialists have held a meeting, looking to issuing a call to the "toilers of the world" to raise a fund for the maintenance of the wives and children of the condemned Chi­ cago anarchists. It is agreed that they will be declared "Wards of Liberty," and a per­ manent organization will be formed to be­ come international in scope. JOHN JAMBOIJ, who has been on trial at Hacine, charged with attempting to murder M. U. Secor, ex-Mayor of the city, with a dynamite bomb, has been found guilty and sentenced to ten years in thq Wisconsin Penitentiary. It has been discovered that Jambor is a consin of Schnaubelt, who is said to have thrown the bomb at the Hay- market riot in Chicago. He is a rabid an­ archist. On going back to his cell, after receiving sentence, Jambor swallowed 1 dose of morphine, but by the prompt ao tion pt a physiciun his life was saved. MARKET REPORTS. NEW YOBK. ,»4.» ;#>•; WEST. SB*. Fifth National Batik of St Louis has closed its doors owing to continual withdrawal of funds by depositors. The capital was $390,001), and the deposits at; figured at $400,000, all of which, it is al­ leged, will be paid in full. Several firms are affected by the failure. INDIAN INSPECTOR ABMSTRONG has telegraphed the authorities at Washington that all the refractory Crows, save one, have beqp delivered up, and that no farther trouble is feared. AH assignment was made at Cincinnati ny James Mack, steamboat builder and dealer in lumber, sash, doors, and blinds. The assets and liabilities are each figured •t about $100,000. THE strike in the mines in the Spring- field (pi.) district is at an end. All the men have decided to work at the rates of­ fered by the operators, 62 i cents a ton. KOHOMB A TALBOT'S flouring mill* at Vassar, Mich., were destroyed by fire.. The flsmos tpread to a cooper shop and dwell­ ing, and both were consumed. Loss, $62,- 000; Insurance, $22,500. OsSOVX, HUTOHIHS A HUNT, wholesale Cincinnati, have made an as- Liabilities, $85,000; assets, ' !^ ' ** ' ' ' • ' i * , . • X 1 CATTLB........ Hons... WHEAT-NO. L White............ No. Sited Cons--No. 2 OATS--White POM--New Mess CHICAGO. CXTXLM--Choice to Prime Steers Good Common Hoos--Shipping Grades F1.0UB--Winter Wheat WHEAT--No. 2 Red Winter CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTKB--Choice Creamery...... Pine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, I new, EGOE--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu ." POBK--Meas „r „ MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash..; CORN--No. 3 OATB--No. 2:White RYE--No. 1 PORK--Mess _ _ 8T. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. S Bed COBH--Mixed OATS-- Caan POBK-- Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--Cash COBN--Mixed......... OATS--White DETROIT. BEEP CATTLE ? Boos W HEAT-No.'i' White!!.'.".'.'.V.*.* Co BM--Mixed OATS--No. 2 White „ CINCINNATI WHEAT--No. 2 Bed.... COB*--N<* 2 OATS--No. 2 PORK--Mes* LIVK Hoos BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORN--Now 8 CATTLI Hoos INDLANAPOLIO. BEEF CATTZIB HOGS SHEEP.... 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A Tefrillc Explosion Does the Work-- * |He Handsome Features Hor« , ^1 rlbly Mangled. , (Chicago special. 1 ..Louis Lingg, the maker of the bomV> that was thrown lit the Hayumrket riot, creatad ai tre­ mendous sensation" throughout the world by committing suicide in h^s cell at the county jail Thursday morning with a dynamite cart­ ridge. At M :J"> in the morning the cur. out of daily business in the jail was hardly under way. Lineg had not yet risen, but had been awake and for some time reading by the light of a candle which stood 01: a small table to the right of his cot. «e had lighted the candle him­ self, although none of tho jail officials observed him as he did so. A tH:4J o'clock Engelliardt had noticed the burning caudle, and the only idea it aroused in him was that Lingg was awake. Engelhardt glanced into the cell and, seeing Lingg reading, said, cheerily: "How do you feel this morning "Pretty well." replied Llugg. merely glancing up and resuming his reading. Fifteen minutes later, at 85 o'clook, ,.a cloud of blue . ' s m o k e r u s h e d through the crated door of Line's eel , and a report about As loud at; tho siui- i uj^uueoMs discharge or both barrels of a s h o t g u n r a n g through the jail. O'Neill, the deputy, (Who was a prisoner in his own cage, had been facing tbe outer office, and at tho shock rushed 'y Ot/fS against the grat- * iuc with the im­ pression that the walls were falling. None of the deputies was wutching liim,.but just at that momeut tbe reporter hr.d stopped to look in the cell. Lingg, who had been lying down, partially raised himself in hij bunk and placed something between bis lips. It loosed like a cigar, and when Lin^g reached over tor the candle and placed it to bis mouth his only ob­ server supposed be was merely about to take a smoke. A moment litar the explosion dis­ pelled that thought. For a moment everybody in the jail stood paralyzed with horror. To add to the terror was the fear that the next moment the waits Would come toppling over antl bury all tho in­ mates beneath the ruins. But no crash of fall-, ing walls followed tho explosion, and tho panic was soon over.' Jailer Foiz was the first to act, and was at hand wheu O'Neill recovered him­ self and flung open Lingg's door. Through the ribbons of smoke it could be seen that the little cell was in great disorder, books and pa­ pers were scattered about, the extinguished candle lay under the table, the blankets had fallen from the cot. and upon the floor and clinging to the walls and furniture were pulpy •lid hard substances, the nature of which was n« t at tbe momeut appareut. The prisoner himself lay quietly upon his right side, with both hands hanging as though in languor over tbe sido of the cot. Folz and O'Neill seized him aud drew him into the light. The sight disclosed was i.orror itself. Lingg's head fell ou his breast, while from his mouth, if the black and shapeless orihee could still bear the name, there poured a torrent of blood. The nature of the wound was open evidence of ita method of infliction. The desperate man bad discharged an explosive in his mouth, with the design, doubtless, of blowing his head from his shoulders. He had failed of his complete purpose, but had succeeded in accomplishing an injury which, had it not euded in death, would have left him a living monstrosity. Many among the men who gazed upou the dy­ ing anarchist hnd witnessed death and dis­ figuration in almost every form, but recoiled at this horror. Lingg's entire lower jaw, the up­ per bony palate, the tectli, tongue, glands, and all the lower structure of his bond, e xcepting only the outer flesh, liai been blown out through his lips, so that his face from his eyes down nung like a hideous sack upou which his nose was a shapeless protuberauce. It was teeth, blood, bones, mid flosh upon which the jailers trod aud which they saw upou tbe walls and furniture. In the rush of discharging matter the Hps had boen slit aud distended so that they hung in thick, welted flapB that stirred as the blood and air from tho lungs gushed through them. More frightful still, to the men who brought the first relief, he was conscious, aud lookiug up into their faccs, groaned deeply. Lifting him as tenderly as they might in the exettement, tney "arrfeu uim from the cage, out of the cell hall, through the ollice to the batli-room, where axot was improvised. The Burgeons promptly washed out the blood- clotted cavity that was once a mouth, took up and tied several of the arterleB. applied anti- Bejitic treatment to the torn surface, enveloped the whole in bandages, and lay the hopelessly injured nmn bock to die It was perhaps in keeping with his character that Lingg should face a death so horrible with composure and retaiu consciousness and per­ ception of passing events until the drugs with which the surgeons filled his veius overcame uim. Shortly after the dressing of his woends had been begun he signed for pencil aud paper, and as he did so it was noticed for the hrst tinle that his left hand was shattered. Tho thumb was broken and tho flesh of his fingers lacerated. A writing block was held for him, and with a pencil in his right htind he wrote tho following: "Be6ser oniehnen am ltuccken. Weuu ich liege kann ich nicbt atbraen." (Better coaster up my back ; when I lie down I cannot breathe.) With this request the surgeons complied, and raised him into a sitting posture. Time and again he signed for water, and this was ad­ ministered him through a long rubber tube thrust into his throat. The instrument with which Lingg wrought his destruction wus a percussion enp. In each of the four bomb * found in bis cell some days bofore he killed himself there was one of these Caps. An object so small could bo concealed about the person of a man so as to baiV.e tho Closest examination. The cap consists merely Of a copper shell an eighth of an inch in diam­ eter and three-quarters of an inch long, half filled with fulminate of mercury, aud with a half-inch of fuse attached Yet this Bmatl ob­ ject explodes with the detonation of a gun, and With what violence Lingg's wounds attest. After tho surgeons had dressed'his gaping wounds Lingg was propped up ou a rough touch in the bath-room aud a heavy gray blanket was thrown over him. Tho surgeons had Stopped the profuse flow of blood, but expressed no hope for his recovery. Hypodermic injec­ tions were made occasionally in the patient's right arm and breast and stimulants were given, but they only served to prolong a life faBt ebbing away. Tbe desp rate man li\ed exactly seven hours after the cap hod exploded. At the Bound of tho explosion. Parsons, who occupied the cell adjacent to Lingg's, was on his feet, his faco pressed close to the bars of his cell, and, in a loud voice, he cried: "Give me one of those bombs. 1 want to do tho same thing." Parsons was still shrieking out for a com- Sanion-piece to the J.ingg article when the eputles hustled him down stairs and into the jail office, where he and his fellow anarchists were thoroughly searched. THE LIFE OF THE ROMBMAKEB. His Hatred of 8ocfa>ty--Oonneetlon with the Great Conspiracy. Louis Ltngg was the youngest and the most reckless of the Chicago anarchists. For dating, unbridled deviltry he was without an equal. At tbe time tbe bomb was thrown he was only a little OT« r 21 years old, and when he died was barely 23. He was a disciple of Herr Most, and his blood is on the head ot his master. Lingg was born at Mannheim, a city of about 40,000 Inhabitants, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Gormtay. His mother still ruus a no­ tion store in that city, and is said to be very well off. Lingg was absolutely without fear. He preached the use of dynamite and was al­ ways ready to practice what he preached. In bis advocacy of force ho was always far in ad­ vance of the other extreme anarchists of Chi­ cago. Lingg was a carpenter by trade. He joined the socialists of Mannheim while he was but a boy, and at once became an enthn aiaxtrc advocate Of the doctrines of John Most. He was too racial for tho socialists, and he soon found' more con­ genial company in a group of Bakunln anarch­ ists. It is said that he Iked moderate meas- uses so much that he denounced his former brethren, the socialists, to the authorities, and thereby caused the sreest ot many who were dis­ tributing incendiary literature. He wai eventu­ ally obliged to leave his native city, aud wentto Switzerland, where he continued his advocacy of anarchy and opposition to everything less ex­ treme. The socialists denounced him as a KDV Of the German (Government, and he again had to move. August, 1885, he came to America, and within a few weeks settled in Chicago He got employment here at his trade, and went to board with William Sellgcr at No. 442 Sedgwick Street, Beliger being also a carpenter and an anarchist. Lingg joined the North Side group of the Internationals -an anarchist organiza­ tion to which Bellgei belonged. Tho members of this group weie known to each other bv Slumbers and not by name. Seliger was knowii as "72," and was Financial Secretary. The members met weekly and drilled with rifles. ' Wnsral 1/Jnnl.»>• ** . .1 t _ * * . '9iA 'IvmvI 4 - ubular bombs he ntedseottoBS ot natal sghaitMl shells he had previously east in a eitp-ehaped mold on the kiteben stove. He in- JESUITS Hie explosive paste, the bombmakers having csrA'tr tow"" .Small iron bolts anl nuts were imbedded la •tar dynamite, and each shell sealed with a fat* VUmMiig cap and fuse attachment. It was un> vQestionably one of theso bombs that was thrown the same night at the haymarket--that was clearly proved at the trial. Lingg, It was neved, made eighty to 1 >o bombs atBeliger'S during those weeks, any one of whioh had pewer to destroy 10J people if thrown intoa (tense crowd. The forty or fifty bombs made that afternoon ol May 4 were packed in a trunk and carried t> Hell's Hall, No. 58 Clyboum avenue, by Lingg end Seliger. Here they were distributed, the box being left in a rear room, whore eaoh an­ archist could go in and help himself. Several conspirators equipped-themselves with bombs, all or them being at the same time armed with revolvers and the deadly three-sided poisoned file-d irks. Lingg and Seliger armed themselves like the rest. two SAVED FROM DEATH. GLANCE A Look Backward Ft the Deed Of M*y 4, 1886, aitf Its Awful Results. * ; Gtov. Ogleeby Preserves Two of J^§,Fetitioning Anarchiats the Gallows. The Sentences of Fielden and Schwab Commuted to Life Im- K • £risonment. , ' ISjjilhgCeld (Hi.) special.! Thursday was an exciting one in Soringfleld. Business was practically suspended. ~ Although people did not gather in crowds the only sub­ ject of talk was the anarchist case and tbe Governor's decision. Louis Lingg's suicide but added to the excitement. At the State House no business was done. State officers and clerks left their desks to hang around the Governor's office and wait for news from the Executive Mansion, where Gov. Oglesby was at work on GOV. OGIiESBT. the case. Gov. Oglesby would not permit him­ self to be seen. He would not even receive a message exeept the piles of telegrams that came pouring in all day. Early in the morning he sent for Attorney General Hunt, and the two gentlemen were in consultation nearly the entire day. They went over the record together, examined tbe peti­ tions, and discussed the decision of the Su­ preme Court. About noon the Governor sent for Milton Hay, whose judgment he always asks in an emergency. Just what advioe Mr. Hay gave of course could not be ascertained, but it is known that they discussed the case in detail and looked at it from every side. The Governor had not finally decided what he should do until 3 o'closk in the after­ noon. At that hour he sent for a stenographer, and an hour later the brief decision ho con­ cluded to make had been written. Much of the discussion during the day was as to whether a long explanation of his action should be given, but both the Attorney General and Mr. Hay are understood to have advised against that, and as th?s was really in line witn th? Governor's view, it was finally decided to simply give the points in the case as briefly as possible. THE GOVERNOR'S DECISION. Fall Text of the Document Granting Cou- i>! ii fa tion to Flelilcn an<l Schwab. The following is the decision of Governor OKlesbjkC? * * • BTATK OF ILXIKOTS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, SMINOFIELD, 111., Nov. 10, 1887.--On the 20th day of August, 188ii, in Cook County Criminal Court, August Spies, Albert R. Parsons, Samuel Fieldon, Michael Schwab, Adolph Fischer, Geor^o Engel, and Louis Lingg were found guilty by the verdict of the jury, and after­ ward sentenced to bo hanged for the murder of Matthias J. Degaii,. Au appeal was taken The Fatal Eomh Thrm lip the lulu of the Pollee and ike Destruction It Wrought. A meeting of armed anarobirts and agitated laborers was in progress at Haymarket Bquare, .j Chicago, on tte evening of May 4,1888. Turbu- t lence, envenomed oratory, and heated passions j were jnarkedly apparent. Spies and Parsons ' had JustPdeacended from tbe wagon where, in | gory speaches. they had advocated the nse of ' amis and violence ai the sale way by which the "waea slaves" could procure emancipation lrom their present "bondage." But four-Ond-twenty : hours before instituted by similar oratory, the mob hud assaulted the non-union men at Mc- Corniick's lieauer Works, and in a subsequent encounter with the police one of their nntnber waB killod and several wounded. They : were not in a mood for interference. Consequently, when 18J men from the ' Dee pi tines Street Station marched into the j Hay in lket Squae, and Capt. Ward ordered tho ' meeting to disperse in the name of tbe law, it I needed little more than Fielden's remark, I "Here come ti e bloodhounds; you do your deity. | end I'll do mine," to urge the malcontents and anarchists to open hostilities. A tomb was thrown, an<^ falling between two columns of policemen mowed thetu down like a cyclone, j Not one of tbe front rank was left standing. ' This was f llowed in rapid succession by a TOT- ' ley of firearms, and more policemen bit the i dust. T p to this time not a shot bad been fired ' by tbe oificers, not a club arawn. They were 1 appalled by the suddenness of the attack, and were on the verge of dlBorder and flight when Capt. Boniie!d stepped into the breach and ^ loudly called on his men to rally What was ' left of them responded, and grasping their re- ' volvers they advanced steadily, firing as they • went. When iheir ammunition gavo out they 1 drew their batons and vigorously clubbed all I within their reach. In the fooe of such deter­ mined bravery the cowardly ours who com­ posed tbe mob could not stand, and after halt­ ing for but an instant they turned and fled pre- | cipitately from the scene of danger. One of their numiH r was left dead on the square,while ! eager bands set to work In caring for the dying 1 and wounded. From every foot of ground in ! ti e vicinity came moans of anguish. Here a 1 policeman cried in tortured voice for help, and there a wounded anarchist gaspo.l out his life in framing some malediction on the police. It was horrible ; blood, death, and all the hor­ rors of a carnage were everywhere manifest. One policeman was killed outright, Matthias J, Degan, while scores of others werj wounded, and seven died at a later period from their in­ juries. No authentic estimate of the number of anarchists killed can be arrived at, but their death loss was heavy, and tho care of the wound d gave their friends work for many a long day. The wounded officers were removed with care and gentleness to tbe County Hospital and the Desplaines Street Station, where skillful sur­ geons soon were in attendance. At the station and hospital the scenes of woe and suffering were of the most harrowing description. Man­ gled limbs, torn and blood-stained tunics, agonized writhings, and shrieks of pain told but too plainly of the deadly nature of th* wholesale destruction. The diabolical construction of the terrible missile which on that memorable May night killed seven and horribly maimed and mangled sixty policemen Is indicated by the nature oi its deadly worn. Officer Fink had three shell wounds in one leg. Officer Norman had a foot shattered and a finger taken off bv a piece of shell. Officer Murphy had no less 'thau fifteen shell wonnds in various parts of his anat imy. Officer Hariis had a foo blown off. and received seven perforating wounds in bis thighs. Officer Edward Barrett received two ugly shell woundf in one leg. Officer King was struck by a piece of shell in the chin. The shell went through his Upper lip and then out, and another piece of shell took a piece of his lower jaw entirely away. He had three bad wounds besides these. Officer Brady received several flesh wounds in the thighs and legs. Officer Flavin was almost literally blown to pieces. A leg was shattered, a piece of fle!"h i/lown out of his shoulder, and he re­ ceived two terrible shell wounds in the back, one of which passed into i he abdomen and went up into the lungs. A large piece of flesh was also taken out of his hip. uffieer Hansen re­ ceived two terrible shell wounds in one of his thighs John Doyle and Thomas Brophy re­ ceived each half a dozen ug y shell wounds in the legs. Officer John Barrett had a portion of an arm eliminated by a piece of Bhell, and another piece«piorced his body ana lacerated the liver. Officer O'l'rien had a shell wound that passed through his thigh. Officer Shanlon was literally peppered with pieces of the dia­ bolical bomi>, having no less than eighteen wounds iu various parts of the body, all the way ranging from the neck to the feet. Officer Bedden had portions of an ankle and an elbow carried away, and re- <oe|ved iMaubeiKor ether wounds Ki the lower limbs. K. piece of shell lodged in one of'Officer Hartfort s ankle jointB, while a portion of bis left foot and two of his right toes ••tore carried away. Officer Murphy reoeived fotff ugly shell wounds. Lieut. Stanton was wounded in seven different places, and Officer McMahoc in three places--nearly ail of them shell wounds. In addition to these, numbers of other members of tbe police squad received each from two t<i half a dozon wounds from the dreadful explo­ sives. Had a fiend from the infernal region ) directed the construction of this bomb it could scarce have been rendered more deadly and de­ vastating in its effects. 'TT . ftamwal htldeii, from such finding and sentence to the Su­ premo Court of the Ktate. That court, upon a final hearing, and after mature delibera- ' tion, unanimously affirmed the judgment of the court below. The case now comes before mo, by petition of the defendants, for consider­ ation as Governor of the State, if the letters of Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, aud Louis Lingg demanding ' uncondit onal re­ lease,' or, as they express it, ' liberty or death,' aud protesting in the strongest language against mercy or commutation of the sentence pro­ nounced against them, can be considered peti­ tions. r "Pardon, could it be granted, which might impl y any guilt whatever upon the part of either of th*u, would not be such a vindication as th^v demnnd Executive intervention upon the'Sigrouud insisted upon by the four above- named persons could in.no proper sense be deemed an exercise of the constitutional power to grant reprieve, commutation, and pardons unless upon the belief on my part of their en­ tire innocence of the crime of which they stand convicted. "A careful consideration of the evidence in the record of tbe trial of the parties, as well as of all alleged and claimed for them outside of the record, hits tailed to produce upon my mind any impression tending to impeach the verdict of the juj y or judgment of the trial court or of the Supremo Court affirming the guilt of all par­ ties. Satisfied, thereiore, as I am, of their guilt, I am precluded from considering tbe question of commutation of the sentences of Albert K. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Kn­ gel, and Louis Liugg to imprisonment in the penitentiary, as they emphatically declare they will not accept such commutation. "Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab and August Spies unite in a petition for executive clem­ ency. Fielden and t chwab, in addition, pre­ sent senurate and supplementary petitions for the commutation of their sentences. "While, as stated above, I am satis3ed of the guilt of all the parties as found by tbe verdict of the jury, which was sustained by the judg­ ments of the courts, a most careful considera­ tion of tho whole subject leads me to the con­ clusion that the sentence of tho law as to Sam­ uel Fielded and Michael Schwab may be modi* fied 88 to each of them, in tbe interest of hu­ manity and witttout violence to public justioe. And us to said Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab, tho sentence is commuted to impris­ onment in the penitentiary for life. "As to all tho other above-named defendants, I do not foel justified in interfering with the sentence of the ourt. While I would gladly havo come to a different conclusion in regard to the sentences of defendants August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Albert B. Par­ sons, and Louis Lingg, 1 regret to say that un­ der the solemn sense of tbe obligations of my office I have been unable to do so. "HIOHAKD J. OGLES By, Governor." Tbe following is a copy ot the Instrument offi­ cially commuting the sentences of Fielden and Schwab: "STATE OP II.I INOIS, 1 "EXECUHVK DEPARTMENT, F "Richard J. Ogl«sby, Governor of Illinois.--To Canute R, Ifetson, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. Uieetinrf. "Whereas, Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab W4>re convicted at the June term, A. D. 1880, of the Criminal Court of Cook County of the crime of murder, and were sentenced to be hanged; and, "Whereas, it has been represented to me by divers good citizens of said county that said Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab are fit and proper subjects for executive clemency: "Now, know ye, that I, Richard J. Oglesby, Governor of Illinois, by the authority in me vested by the Constitution of this State, do by LINGG'S LAST LETTER. ' \ \ Written for "The Alarm," the^; A archigt Organ, Formerly Edit* | f J ed by Parsons. ir Engel, 1 Ischer and Neebo belonged to the same j these presents commute the sentence of the group. Lingg at once became a leader in tbe i said Samuel Fielden'and Michael Schwab to advocacy of extreme measures. imprisonment in the penitentiary /or life. • Lingg spent his leisure time practicing the i "In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand manufacture of bombs and shells. He melted I and cause to be allxed the great seal of State, lead in a common dipper on the cooking stove ' Done at the city of Springfield this 10th day of evenings and cast»hells in a mold. He had prac- , November, in the year ef our Lord one thou- steed this business formonths, closely following sand eight hundred and eighty-Seven, and of the instructions given in Most * "Methods of | the independence of the United Btated the one Revolutionary Warfare " tnx weeks before the Havmarket massacre I Um frmmlil abea«4dyna»ite teUs todgh^pe j i tuv muvyvuu . hundred and twelfth. •BIOB. Thft Irreconcilable Williiifr to Hang that Anarchy Mtay Ufa . f ^ T . . . and Grow. v „ • : Coo* COUNTT.JATZI, NOV. 6,1887.--To Worthy Citizen: * * * I see the fact, which has long been known to me, that the aristocracy and the bourgeo.s fool that our banging will not benefit them. On top of this caine the news that if the condemned had agreed to ask for clemency they could have been saved from the gallows. Whether this standing by each other tcok the form of signing a petition for mercy or took the shape of miserably begging for pardon, it is said, would have inude no difference. The pandering press also claims that we should, in the interests of the working cl.isses- not to say anything of the aristocracy--give in, so that we will not die. I, as well as all others in the Becret, know full well that a. firm adherence to the plan laid out would have saved us from the gallows. Even if it should not have done so, what then? Now, Jr.dge McAllister, if the report ot the "Plunderer" is true, says that in the event of our execution, the aristocracy--those monopo­ lists, those powerful capitalists--will in a few years see ail they possess go up in smoke, in flame. Now, who ia this Judge MoAUister? A bourgeois of most noble mien. Shall I then again tell you of the terrible plight we are in? Snail I also allude to our former condition and how true to our revolutionary training wo agi­ tated not alone by speech, by writing, but by deed. But then you know it is a wise as well as true saying to trust no one; You know also that I cannot handle other subjects as well UB this one. My hatred of the system which brings about the present condition of tho working people, and which I can w ell say without egotism my dis­ interested love for the causo of freedom has kept me in every instance not alone from beg­ ging for mercy, but it has enabled lue to re­ main firm and demand nothing but simply jus­ tice. It was for tnese reasons that I, as well as Parsons, Engel, and Fischer, were compelled to resist even tho pleadings of our Amnesty Com­ mittee and refuse to sign the petition they pre­ sented. Bealizins* that unless I Btultifv my principles I can not escape the grim monster I now calmly face death, aud, in view of the re­ sults that it will bring about in favor of enorch- ism, look on my taking off with no foar, you, wor­ thy citizen, know full well as I do. 1 and every other true anarchist know that we have a greater enemy than death to face, and that is the so- called upper class of the present day, and to overcome whom we, to be true to our train- ing, must ba willing not only to sacrifice our liberty, but to give up our lives. I have alwavs P/OPN?""!* of deeds in the abstract. I realize that tnose who have amassed fortunes and thus become capitalists are not alone the masters of my fellow workmen, but also their oppressors and murderers. I know also that unless the laboring neople grt their rights bv means of legislation that the day is not far dis­ tant when the awful consequences of this con­ tinuous persecution of the proletariat will be manifested, and revolution, that all know must naturally follow such a state of affairs, will be ft reality. That "the continued aggregation of capital eaused by the production of material does not better the condit on of tho working classes does not require any wonderful degree of intel­ lect to comprehend. To the contrary, it tends to continuous degeneration. That through the propaganda of the deed our best interests can be served, and the condition of the workingman bettered, has been fully proved by the events of the past two years, during which time we nave openly taught our masters that a c ass distinction, brought about by their instru­ mentality, is not the befit for all concerned In View of all the facts in tbe case. I naturally find that, depite the fact that philanthropists are trying to induce me not to invite tho fate that overshadows me, that it is bound to come, for the authorities are determined--though tljiey that know I am not responsible for the throwing of the bomb--to make me pay the penalty for this deed. Now it is vary likely that carrying out of our sentence, w hioh will be nothing more g less ttuHKymurder, will result in the over* [SKA&.J "ITIOBAAO 3. OOLCSBT. Governor. *gnwftB>aiH Bseietarrw i throwing of tyrants. | Tour oomrade, Hoch die anavchie 1 • % ,y&" a ' THKTO&fiAhBipiSPmET. .frwlrteM Wmtmm tar Whtoli He OimCialeik tfat Xneeeta. I presume yon are all aware of the peculiar manner in whioh the toad •ffoahia prey, a writer in the Boston Globe. Ifee root of his tongue is fastened in the Terj ffoat of hia j»w, white the tip lies far down his throat. It thna lies directly over his -windpipe, and he would not be able to breathe were not his tongue perfor­ ated in the middle, exactly in the right place, so that it can act opening or contracting, somewhat in the manner of the jjldttis, When be sees any mov- 1 thing which he jndges to be an in- , sect, he throws the tip of his tongue ont ! great accuracy of aim, picks the insect up, and thrusts it down bis throat with the rapidity of lightning. Lay down an apple-core or a little piece of shingle smeared with molasses near a toad, and you must watch very sharply to see how it is that he so rap­ idly transfers every fly that settles on your bait to Ids own stomach. The accuracy of aim in the yonng toad is similar to the accuracy with which the yonng quail oir chicken picks npi a graii}. A young chicken, having only its head out of the shell, picked UP * Ay that lighted near it. And, raid Mr. Cnltlirop, when you consider the nice co-operation of nervous and muscular movements necessary to this feat, you will perceive that the chicken mnst have been practicing fly-eatching in the person of its ancestry for thous­ ands or millions of years. But I once had a curious proof that the toad is ca­ pable of improvement by practice. Under a bee hive in a garden at Cam­ bridge I observed for several succes­ sive summers a toad watching for over­ loaded bees who failed to reach the threshold of the hives. No sooner did they fall on the ground than he snapped them up. But one day I saw he had lost by some accident his right eye, and when he struck at a bee he lost his aim and picked up dirt from one side of the bee. He wiped his month with his paw and tried again and again. The bee generally managed to climb to the top of some little prom­ inence on the ground and fly away be­ fore the toad succeeded. The poor fel­ low was half starved and grew tliin, bnt I observed that before the sum­ mer was ended he had learned to aim as correctly with one eye as he used to with two, and had again recovered his plumpness. The toad's tongne usually put things down his throat so nicely that he does not need much power of swallowing; but he occasionally needs it, and is forced to make up by mother wit what is lacking in the powers of his throat. You will observe this most frequently in his attempt to take a grass-hopper or locust. A toad will frequently attack an object that is really too large for him to get into his mouth at all. _ Thus I have seen one attempt a'hugs cata- pillar or a sphynx, and I have1 known of one undertaking a wounded hum­ ming bird. In this case it was a per­ fect failure. But when a toad has transferred the head of a large locust to his stomach and finds the hind legs and tail still protruding from his mouth, he usually turns to the nearest stone Or fence and pushes the grass­ hopper's legs against the obstaole iintil he has rammed it into his month. ' 1UM OTATi: NEW8. The Materialized Ocean. ' -;:" We all have a kindly feeling for those ultra-conservatives who fiercely resent the necessary innovations of progress, because they mar the i/^r face of Nature,' dliief Of the band the brilliant Thoreau, who, for twenty-six happy months, lived in a hut by Wal- den Pond, in close and delightful fel­ lowship with his goddess. And we, too, realize in a measure their feeling, when we emerge from the soft twilight of some peacaful village remote from roaring railroad and mill into the glare aud clangor of an industrial day. And the changes and necessities of ad­ vancing civilization are robbing the sea, too, of its poetry and its romance. Thus laments a worshiper of old Father Ocean, writing in the Kansas Maga­ zine, and execrates the steamer that bears him swiftly along, as Thoreau might denounce the railroad that he patronized only from necessity and under protest: "What has become, thought I, of the old romance of the sea? The vanished barqne and the resistless power under­ neath my feet, shaking to the heart the vast metal maas that it was impelling, svmbolized one of the most startling realities of modern progress. In sober truth, the propeller has sent the poetry of the deep swirling astern. It is out of sight. Nay, that ocean visionary life which was the substance and the soul of the sea-calling of other days, has faded as utterly as it has from the con­ fined gaze of the sudorific fiends of the engine-room. "To know the sea you must lie along upon its bosom; your ear must be at its heart; you must catch and interpret ita inarticulate speech; you must make its moods your own, rise to the majesty of its wrath, taste to the very inmost reaches of your vitality the sweetness of its reposeful humor, bring to its as­ tonishment the wonder of a child, and to its power and might the love and reverence of a man." ' • Bidn't Blame Them. A gentleman who had been reading a newspaper article on Russian affairs turned to an acquaintance and said: "They say that the Czar has become a hopeless drunkard, and that he pre­ fers corn whisky." "What!" exclaimed an old fellow from the Blue Lick neighborhood, throwing out a quid of tobacco and as* suming an air of profound interest. ."I say that the Czar drinks whisky." "An' didn't you.say eo'n ticker ?" i "Yes." " "Who is the Czar?" *. "The rnler of Russia." r "Is he the feller that's got such a big army?" "Yea." ' ^'<7 "An' he drinki oo*n licker?" v "Yes." "Wall, I don't blame the fellers fur fightin' fur him. I wouldn't mind j'inin' his band tbyse'f."--Arkansaw Trav­ eler. « A WeU-Preserred Figurehead. The figurehead of the Confederate steamship, Star of the West, was found near Greenwood, La., the other day. It is of solid iron and weighs about 300 pounds. The Star of the West waa sunk in February, 1863, in the Talla­ hatchie River, three miles below Green­ wood, where some parts ot her may still he seen. The figurehead is re­ markably well preserved. It was pur­ chased "from the finder by Dr. J. P. Henry, who will present it to the Con­ federate Monumental Association of xCichmond, Va.--Chicago l'imes. As outward gift which ia seldom de­ spised, exeept by those to whom it ha* fl bin refawML--< 'ttalMMfei Jtten's elub has been faulted at Danville to entertain visiton. --The crops are being gathered, __ the» is maoh good corn in Piatt Comity. The mines at Grape Creek are forwmtd- fa* seventy-flTe to eighty oars of coal j* day. •--A new industry in the shape of a baa- ket factory has been started at Farme City. --A yonng Turk is taking a eontM studies at the State University ia paign. --A temperance movement has been in angnrated among the colored people Jacksonville. > .j: --Elisha Piper, » fiifmer of D near Oakland,was fatally kicked by a mul recently, and is not expected to live. --Judge Herdman has refused to h . court in the Court HouBe at Clinton, it hall ing been condemned as unsafe by grand jury, -The Method *id .*ro Cafiiollo churches at Kankakee were entered by bur­ glars lately and robbed of gold and silver vessels and other articles of value. --The Champaign authorities are en­ forcing the ordinance which makes it A misdemeanor to maintain gates which awing outwardly and across sidewalks. --The Board of Trustees of the Bloom- ington Soldiers' Orphans' Home elected Pr. N. B. Cole, of B oomington, physician and surgeon of the Home, vice Dr. John L. White. This change was indirectly the result of the recent removal of Mrs. Ohr, the matron, and of the investigation which followed it. Dr. White and the trustee* were not in harmony. --A Pitts field man haa qfsffttir*^ immense barrel churn on wheels. With this he will go through the country gather* ing the cream, and when he has secured the proper quantity return home. He will hitch on the churning gear, and aa he drhfes along the churning will go on as the wagon goes along, and when he arrives there will be nothing to do but take out tho butter and draw off the buttermilk. --I. C. Cameron, the young cashier who- embezzled between $4,000 and $5,006 of the fruits of the Plume A Atwood Manu­ facturing Company, 165 Lake street, Chi­ cago, about a year ago, and for whioh crime he waa sentenced to the Joliet Prison, was released from his term, and. was about to step forth a free man when he was stopped at the prison door by a detec­ tive, who arrested him on another charge in oonneotion with the embezzlement of money from Plume <& Atwood. The officer and Cameron left for Chioago. --The water famine in Oakland is be- eoming serious. There are only three wells in that city that contain water. The peo­ ple lor eight miles around are hauling; water from the Embarrass River. Tho water in the river is so low that it haa stopped running in places, and fish by tho hundreds are dying. The fanners are driv- ; ing all their stock to the river for Water, and when this supply gives out no one' knows what the people will dp. It is ex- peoted that a subscription will be taken np to dig an immense well. --Miss Louise Nelson, a well-dressed young woman of 21, has been lingering* about the Union Depot in Decatur, ap­ parently demented and unable to inform the offioials where she came from or where she wants to go. From her talk it was sup­ posed she had friends twelve miles south of Decatur, and she went to Macon, but she came back on the next train as wild aa ever. She disappeared in the waiting- room and was found asleep beneath a bench. At intervals she talks about a fam­ ily named Garner living near Mattoon, also about Champaign people, and men­ tions different towns in Wisconsin. The Supervisor took the young woman in charge and sent her to the poor-house. She has about $15 in silver and a trunk. --TJhe will of the late E. B. Washbume has been probated at Chicago, and letters testamentary issued to jfizia B. McCagg, Robert H. McClellan, and Hempstead Washbume, in bond of $1,800,000. The estate left by deceased consists of personal property worth $750,000, of which upwaf#* of $500,000 is now in the hands of a trust company in Philadelphia, under a trust created by deceased in his lifetime, and realty of the value of upward of $135,000, making a total valuation of $883,000. The heirs-at-law are Hempstead Washburne, William Pitt Washburne, of Maine; Susan W. Bishop, wife of William D. Bishop, Jr., of Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Marie Washburne Fowler, of Denver, Col.; and Elihu B. Washburne, of Chicago, the chil­ dren of deceased. 4* , f • --At Whitehall Col. and Mrs. J. C. Winters recently celebrated their golden wedding. The affair waa made the occa­ sion of a publie demonstration, and was held in Union Hall. An altar was impro­ vised, around which sat the seven sons, inclosing their parents. At their ri ht sat Mr. and Mrs. William Cotter, who cele­ brated their golden wedding July 17. The Grand Army Post and Masonip fraternity, with a bi ass band, escorted the couple to the hall. Elder B. Hamilton, father of Dr. John Hamilton, Surgeon General of the United States Marine Hospital Service, plighted anew the faith which has bound this worthy couple in holy wedlock the last half century. Several presentations were then made and a number of happy address­ es delivered. Col. Wintara was feomln St. Clair County in 1816. --Dispatches fiom Decatur say the water famine continues in that part of the State and farmers are spending hundreds of dol­ lars for drive wells. Sneh wells are ex­ pensive, bnt they seem to give a never- failing water supply. Ona farmer offers $1,000 for water on his farm. Stevens Crtok aud other etrearns that have usually iurnished water for stook went dry in July, and the Sangamon' River falls at Decator about three inches a month. In case of a sudden freeze without heavy rains, stock would have to be driven many miles to the river or water hauled to tbe farms. The situation is becoming more serious and alarming every day. Decatur gets her water supply and fire protection from the Sangumon. If it is drawn upo.t to supply the stock in the county it is feared the city will be eut off from water before January. The City Council will consider the matter • at its next meeting, farmers are now hau ing water a great distance to supply- : Md have bean doing ao abpoa JuljC'