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I- Y ' " \ < v * ' . V - '» 1 1 V- t * * * * 1 . * * * « , ^" >>3 ft ;'" r*\- r^f * '/ff'*v:.-• /?' .?* *? -* p ̂ *? im\) -5 laindealcr J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. ^EMIQRATION from Ireland, though greatly diminished, still continues at tiie rate of more than 70,000 persons a •Wr. . THE Cronin murderers, who are de­ manding a new trial, apparently forget that another jury might not contain an­ other Culver. GREAT deal of the human hair of mercd in England conies from Can- ton, China, and is taken from the heads of beggars, criminals and corpses. AMONG 525 Italian immigrants who lirived in New York the other day the total wealth was only $72.40,, and their appearance was most wretched and ab- • ' : • . • , " A WASHiNGTOx paper says that about 1500 letters are mislaid or miscarried liecause of the identity of the name of the State of Washington and the Na­ tional Capital. THE German bark. Bene Rickmers reached Astoria, Ore., a few days ago, from Yokohama, after a passage of twenty-eight days, said to have been the quickest time ever made between these ports. la- there were no other evidences of the matchloss freedom of our institu­ tions, it would be seen in the fact that there is room enough on this continent for the stars and stripes and Herr Most's mouth. AH Idaho bank on which there was a run piled upon the counter what was supposed to be $40,000 in gold. This stopped the run and brought in deposi­ tors, and when the trouble was over the gold was taken down. The package contained iron washers cut to the thick­ ness and size of $20 gold pieces. MORE than five thousand stonemasons in Berlin are without work or money* the best ua© a will can be put to is to treat it as the Minnesota one is to be served. -• ONE feature of the recent divorce in South Dakota of a well-known actress from her husband seems to have escaped the attention of the divorce reformers. It is the rapidity with which the matri­ monial tie ban be sundered in this new accession to our sisterhood of States. According to the reports it was a little less than four months from the time the husband went to South Dakota to reside before the decree was signed, sealed and delivered and the afflicted one au­ thorized to contract new ties. Such rapidity is by no means unprecedented. It has been equaled, if not excelled, oyer the Indiana course and it is quite likely that the Illinois divorce tracks can show a record for faster time. In both these States^ however, the result was achieved by an evasion or deliberate violation of the law wliich requires a residence of a year prior to the filing of a bill for divorce. This i3 not & very serious requirement for persons of easy conscience and it is surprising how anxiety to get rid Of an undesirable wife or husband does ease the con­ science. Technically, the requirement of the law is not that the applicant shall have resided in the State for a year, but that he or she shall "make oath" to have done so. It is only necessary iu these States, therefore, for the applicant to commit the trifling of­ fense of perjury in order to get a di­ vorce as speedily as the wheels of justice can be made to revolve. BLAINE'S BATTLE CRY. WHY HE URGED EFFORT* UNUSUAL THE large majority of educated peo­ ple recognize the importance of keep­ ing pure the air of bed-rooms, but there are many who prefer to sleep in closely shut rooms. In the minds of many there is a firm conviction that the night air is injurious. This superstition probably had its birth in the malarious districts. For those that have reason­ ably good health the night air is as wholesome as that of the day. In cities it is purer than the day air, for it is more free from the dust and disease germs kept in the atmosphere by winds, traffic and evaporation. Sleeping in closely-shut bedrooms with a vitiated atmosphere causes weariness and drow­ siness in the morniu" instead of that The builders say that the stoppage of their trade, from which this state of af­ fairs has resulted, is due to the recently increased agitation of the social democ- | feeling Qf renewed life and vigor that racy. Every one is afraid to contract for new buildings for fear of for higher wages on the workingmen as soon under way. A SPORTIKO season has ball mey declar" we 'say all from base-ball, is out of the "base- tired." So t least until the frost ground next spring. People who have no interest in the game--and they compose a very large elass--cannot be expected to take much Interest in base-ball discussion during the winter season. OF the 610 persons treated at the Pasteur Institute iu New York since February 18, 1890, 480 were found to have been bitten by animals that were not mad. This ought to allay the fright that follows the merest bite by a dog, but it is doubtful if it will. Though, as shown by the experience of every Pas­ teur Institute, the large majority of bites are harmless, yet there is a doubt and a fear in the minds of persons who have been bitten that cannot be satisfied with anything less than a consultation •with the Pasteur scientists. one should have. .Much of the head­ ache f ijd uooralgia commonly met with attributed to this cause. In many of the dwelling houses sufficient attention is given to the ventilation of all rooms except the servants' sleeping- rooms. These are too often without windows and without means of heating et us have a rat in winter' thus during improper ven­ tilation. No one can do good work of any kind unless body aud mind are re­ newed by sleep, and to be refreshing sleep mtist be taken in pure air. No one should sleep in an inside room-- one that has no window. In some houses where the servants' rooms are not heated gas is burned to aid in heat­ ing the rooms. In this way the air is fouled. There is plenty of, air for every one, and each one should have his portion. It n» tht Dnmbcratlc Dealn t» Ktk* It Appear that tho Tariff I* a Cur so, When It Really Is a Bleaslng--Commer­ cial Disaster. Mr. Blaine has the boldness of a vet­ eran, which is a different and more -val­ uable, though not a nobler, quality than the ardent courage of a young recruit. The veteran discerns the odds against him and goes to battle conscious of the possibility of failure, but has determined to achieve success as though the odds were for him. Mr. Blaine's knowledge of political war informs him, and he so informed his hearers in Philadelphia, that the second congress in the adminis­ tration of every president, from the time of John Quincy Adams to that of Abraham Lincoln, with one exception, was in opposition to the policy of the administration. The republican party has become aware--indeed, many conservative demo­ crats have become aware--of the ex­ ceptionally great danger which attends a democratic majority in the next con­ gress. The tariff is a f«ed fact. No democratic majority in the next house can repeal the new law. But a demo­ cratic majority may be able to prevent the country from enjoying that large measure of prosperity which the new purposes to bring, and the beginning of which' it already has brought. The democratic desire and intent to create commercial disaster is plain. For weeks and months its press and speakers have done all that in them lay to create depression of trade. The columns of to­ day's, yesterday's and to-morrow's dem­ ocratic newspapers have been, arc and will be full of predictions and assertions of hard times. And this in face of the testimony of all merchants that trade is unusually brisk, the experience of all purchasers that prices are unusually low, and the testimony of the highest commercial authority that money is so unusually plentiful that the volume of payments made during the month of Oc­ tober, the first month of the new tariff law, has been greater than ever was known in any month of the existence of the United States. Mr. Blaine reminds his hearers that democratic ascendency in one house of the national legislature may change all this. It can not repeal the new tariff, but it may destroy confidence in its per­ manency. It may check that flow of capital toward American manufacturers which already has set in with such force as to make last month's trado the great­ est ever known in the United States. It may cheek that increased manufacture of American goods which is sure to re­ sult in decreased prices for the products of American factories. It may curtail that demand for American labor, which now is brisk, and daily is growing brisker. meat used in determining the size of buttons 2. One gross (144) buttons of, say twenty lines would pay a duty of (20x2%) 50 cents per gross, and an additional duty of 25 per cent ad valorem. The present duty is practically a pro­ hibition. No pearl button factory of any size has heretofore existed in America. Marshall Field & Co. say they use more buttons each year than are manufactured in the whole country. Since the adoption of the Mc Kin ley bill they are informed of various new fac­ tories but have not as yet received sam­ ples of their production. The present tariff has also had tlio effect of producing two substitutes for the im­ ported Austrian pearl button. These are a nickel button which meets every requirement and is infinitely more dur­ able and costs about tho same as the pearl button under the old tariff. The other is a vegetable ivory, which is also superior to the pearl and costs a trifle more. The great advantage possessed by a pearl button over the celluloid and bone buttons has been that it would pass through a wringer and not break and also withstand heat. The celluloid melts on the application of a hot iron, and the bone is too brittle to pass through a wringer. The new nickel and vegetable ivory buttons stand both tests, and will prove in every wise materially superior to the pearl. DISSATISFIED WITH ALL NO ACTION TAKEN ON BIDS FOR LAKE FRONT WORK. IRISH PATRIOTSARRIVE AFFAIRS IIf illinoi£ MESSRS. DILLON, O'BRIEN AND J „ . OTHERS LAND IN NEW YORK. ITEMS GATHERED PROM OUS SOURCES. THE Atlanta Constitution has been one of the most strenuous opponents of the Louisiana and other lotteries, and there is an element of humor in its be­ ing the first prominent paper in the oountry to feel the weight of the new anti-lottery law. It is especially odd that the misfortune should have over­ taken it, in connection with a game of ! and I remember that there were no let- chance operated by it for its own bene- j ters in rtaddressed to you." fit. Nevertheless, the Constitution • , "Well, j*pw. that's strange. I should j have had ) a letter yesterday, and I thought it would come to-day sure. Do At tlie Village Postoffice Window. The life of a postoffice clerk in a town of two or three thousand inhabitants full of pleasantness,and all his paths are peace. He has nothing under the sun to ruffle the placid serenity of his amia­ ble temper, and consequently his dis­ position soon becomes as sweet and mild as the perfume of a magnolia grove wafted on the gentle breath of summer. All he has to do is to engage in exhila­ rating conversations like this: "Is there anything hers for Sarah Bil­ lings?" "Nothing, madam." "Are you sure? "Quite sure, madam." "But you didn't look. How do you know without looking?" "I have looked over the letters in the 4B' box seven hundred times torday, will probably admit that the simple and apparently innocent device which culti­ vates the passion for games of chance, that is inherent iu most people, is, in some respects, more injurious than is the device which appeals only to the confirmed votary of gambling. you suppose it could have been lost ?" "It'* possible." "Do many letters get lost?" "About sixteen millions annually." "Oh. my! What is the reason ?" "By reason of incorrect or ineligible address, insufficient postage, and other cause-s." "Goodness! And I suppose lots of them had money in ?" "Yes. Twenty-eight thousand of the THE invasion of the city by the mod­ ern girl of business is raising the hair of some of the young men. who've had the ide* all along that the city belonged to ! letters sent to tlie dead letter office last them, and was a place where you were < y«ar contained money, amounting in all expected to exchange cheap cigarettes ' to $^8,642; 4,000 with other fellows, and arrange meet- to $48,642; 4,000 had inclosures of postal notes aggregating $5,300, and 27,000 were found to contain drafts, ings with barmaids, several people ; checks, notes, commercial paper, etc., are writing to the papers to complain J ia the sum of $1,471,871." that they are getting left for places | "Mv land! And who gets this when the girls are in the running. It eeems to them perfectly iuexplicab e fl ah th® le"er stains the address of 7T f , j i ' , the sender it is sent back to him, but m that a city man should prefer to employ | over 3>000)000 cases oat of 6(000joo0 no a girl, who will sit at lier desk all day ; address whatever is given by the till her work is done, to a sickly-minded , writer." young man, whose business is divided between the sporting papers and the dinner hour, and they waut it altered. Meanwhile, the girl hangs on to her desk with a smile of confidence that has come to stav. MINNESOTA, has'tlie proud distinction of furnishing a brand new aud decidedly interesting sensation. A man lately died in that State leaving a fortune esti­ mated at $4,000,000, which he willed to his wife and four of his five children. The remaining child, who is said to have been uncommonly "wayward," was left nothing, his father evidently in­ tending the zero to express his appre­ ciation of the boy's character and "Then, perhaps, my letter has gone to the dead letter office, or is held for postage, or something like that." "Perhaps." "W ell, don't you think ?" "Madam, will you please stand aside a moment until I wait on the people who are crowding around the window ?" And as madam departs she mutters spitefully that she "never saw such an insolent, overbearing, unaccommodat­ ing fellow as that postoffice clerk. He can't even answer a civil question, and I am going to have him rejiorted to the department this very day."--Punxsu- tawney Spirit. An Unjnst Suspicion. County Grocer (severely)--Any­ thing you want to buy this mornin'? Customer (who has been munching achievements. Well, the widow has dp~-| crackers and cutting off cheese for the dined to probate the will, and with the j last five minutes severely)--They is, k consent of the other heirs will burn it. Of course, if this philanthropic purpose is carried out. the wayward boy will get his share of the $4,000,000, and the Minnesota lawyers who were expecting to attack or to defend the will will doubtless be more or less prostrated with grief. A good many people hold that the worst use you can put a znan to is to hang him. But the course ' <rf human events croes far to prove that j yes; I want one dozen close pins; how much'll they be? Grocer--Four cents. Customer (laying down a nickel and reaching for another cracker)--Take it out o' that; that's good money ain't it? [Takes change and goes out.] Old Man by the Stove--Bill likes your crackers 'n' cheese pretty well, don't he. Mr. Letlive? Grocer--'S long's he buy something, it'tt all right. I didn't think he was go- in' to buy notliin'.-- Wusp. HOME AND FOREIGN PRODUCTS [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] Tho campaign just closed has had a eood effcct in the way of calling popular attention to the fact that we are not de­ pendent upon foreign countries for nearly so many products as the enemies of protection would like to make it ap­ pear. If the average citizen will think a morinent about tho articles that ho is in the habit of buying, he can see that very few of them aro imported. Under the impulso given by the present tariff system, manufactories have been estab­ lished which are really supplying us with about everything that we need. There are things like sugar, tea and coffee that we are obliged, to send abroad for, but in the line of manu­ factured goods we are practically inde­ pendent of the rest of the world. There is no necessity for the majority of the people to purchase products upon which duties arc imposed. They can get all that they require for general subsistence and convenience in the list of domestic products that the tariff does not touch, That is what they aro doing all the time. Clothing, furniture, carpets, hardware, and most other indispensable articles, arc all produced here, of good quality and at low prices, and the man who buys foreign goods in prefer ence has only himself to blame, if the tariff thereon is a burden to him. It is possible for nine people out of ten to escape the tariff entirely, in other words, and yet not dispense with any of tho or­ dinary comforts of life. This aspect of the matter deserves far more consideration than it usually re­ ceives. The most of the talk about tar­ iff exactions is pure assumption and de­ ception. This form of taxation is tho easiest to bear that could be devised, as the .case now stands. The amount of for­ eign produce in common use is not large enough to justify any such clamor as has been raised this year about tho duties levied upon them. If we do not want to pay for imported goods, the privilege of buying domestic articles suitable for every pur­ pose is always present. In many in­ stances the home product is the better of the two. and in ail instances it is good enough. We buy numerous things that bear European labels when in fact they are made in this country; and it is our own fault that we are thus imposed upon. The dealers provide what their customers prefer, and if wo choose to demand a foreign brand when the do­ mestic article is quite as desir­ able, we must expect to have the latter sold to us under a false pre­ tense at an exorbitant price. Any honest merchant will tell you that so far as all goods of general consumption are concerned, this country produces them of sufficient excellence and in ample measure. If we insist upon having the foreign article simply because it is foreign, and not because it has any greater intrin­ sic value, then we must pay the increased price, of course; but the necessity for that sort of thing is limited, and the tariff question should be discussed with this important fact always in sight. THE PEARL BUTTON SCARE. [Chicago Inter-Ocean.] We are happy to relieve tho appre­ hension of those who dread a great in­ crease of price upon pearl buttons by testimony furnished by a dry goods house whose eminence and responsibility can not be questioned. The latter clause of the following letter was submitted to Marshall Field & Co.'s house for expla­ nation: OCTOBER 28.--Will the Inter Occan answer to-morrow and tell ail Its readers about the tariff on pearl buttons as to tho 2 cents ex­ tra'over the old. if it means 2 cents per line or gross? Also state what schedule, .and the rise if any, musical instrumentsconi^inder. There is quite a dispute over pearl bqttons and the enormous rise, also musical instru­ ments. liespectfully, W. P. R. Musical instruments are not men­ tioned in the new bill, and there are di­ verse opinions as to what effect this silence may have; it may have the effect of admitting them duty free, or of keep­ ing duties at the old rates; but it docs not seem possible that it can have the effect of increasing duties. Several large manufacturers and dealers have assured the people, through the columns of the Inter Occan, that there will be no increase of prices on account of the new tariff. Certainly there is no increase as yet, nor is there the slightest ground for any Immediate increase. As to pearl buttons, the eminent firm of Marshall Field & Co. talked thus to a reporter: 1. A line button measure of one-fortieth of an Inch is the standard of measure- A New Complication. The Massachusetts politicians were obliged to figure on a now complication at this election. It is a law passed last winter requiring every candidate for of- fice to file an itemized statement "show­ ing in detail all the-moneys contributed or expended by liini. directly or indi­ rectly, by himself or through any other person in aid of his election." That would bo a little awkward in some cases, but the law is not yet strong enough to prevent the use of money. The candidates must make this statement within ten days after theckction. There nothing in tho statute requiring a man to make public any intention he may have for reimbursing a friend for ex­ pense money kindly advanced during the heat of conflict, or of whacking up a specified sum to his county or state cen­ tral committeo immediately after tho statement has been liled. The intention of the law is good, but like a great many other good laws, it is found to be practically a dead letter.-- Lincoln Jourtial. POLITICAL NOTES. THB Cincinnati Enifiilrer, the most ably unedited organ of the democratic party in the west, has- taken a great fancy to Gov. Hill of late. Gov. HILL'S visit to Ohio signifies very cleat ly that ho does not share the im­ pression that Grover Cleveland is going to be the next democratic candidate for president. MR. CLEVELAND'S observations with regard to tho election were chiefly nota­ ble for what they did not tell concerning his attitude on the question of Tammany rule in New York. TIIE best indorsement of Speaker Reed's quorum-counting policy Is to be found in the fact that he draws larger crowds than any other man who is talk­ ing politics this year. THE democratic conspiracy to raise the prices of all the necessaries of life in or­ der to gain a political advantage has never been surpassed for deliberate and contemptible cussedness. THE democrats voted against the bill cutting the duties on lumber and binding twine and putting sugar on the free list. This is one of the.rcasons why they aro asking the farmers to vote the demo­ cratic ticket. THE cry of high prices is not as loud as it was a few weeks ago, for the sim­ ple reason that tho prices are as low as they were before the new tariff was pass­ ed, as anybody can see by reading the advertisements. IF Ananias were alive now he would, after reading'a Courirr-J mirnn I article on the effects of the McKinley bill, walk up to the editor's room and say: "Mr. Watt orson, take my hat. I. lind I am only an amateur." ACCORPINO to Carl Schurz, "that eco­ nomic policy is best which works best." Ho does not submit this remark as a vin­ dication of the protective tariff system, but it can he very aptly and forcibly ap­ plied in that reiation. Gov. HILI/S chances for the presidency have been materially lessened by his re­ cent stumping tour. Ho made a grave mistake, that is to say, in not concealing the fact that he is one of the poorest public speakers in the country. CUBA has already begun to ask for rec­ iprocity with the United States, and other fore gn countries will do the same in the near future; and yet the demo­ crats proclaim that the new tariff law is calculated to diminish our exports. MR. ROOSEVELT contributed 850 to the republican campaign fund, thus recog­ nizing the imuortant fact that civil serv­ ice reform has not yet reached the point where political virtuo can get along with­ out money to circumvent the powers of perspective* darkness. ~ A PECULIARITY about the McKinley law is that the longer it is in operation and the more it is studied the better it is liked. If the law had gone into oper­ ation on July 1, as originally intended, instead of Oct. 6, the republicans would undoubtedly have carried the next house by at least forty majority. SENATOR SHERMAN affirms that "as a universal rule, wherever we have by pro­ tection established in this country the manufacture of any article, the result has been a reduction of the price." Such a fact, and it is an indisputable one, re­ futes the whole theory of the free trad­ ers about the burdens of the tariff. DEMOCRATIC juggling in the attempt to explain the sugar duties of the Mc Kinley tariff doesn't conceal the fact that that act makes a cut of more than 2c a pound in the impost on refined sugar. The price to tho consumer will be reduced to this extent from April The 'World's FAIR EXMUHTA Committer Observing Strict Secrecy About the Bids--Gossip About the tig Exposi­ tion. [Chicago dispatch.] Bids for filling and piling on tbe Lake Front were evidently not up to expecta­ tions. The Executive Committee of the World's Fair opened tho bids yesterday afternoon, discussed them, and passed them on to the Committee on Grounds and Buildings. Neither committee took any action in regard to them, and the whole subject was turned over to the Board of Directors, which will meet this afternoon. None of the members of either "com­ mittee would express any opinion or give any information regarding them, even refusing to state the number of bids re­ ceived. But one thing is sure, and that is that the answers to the advertisements for bids were not, as a whole, satisfac­ tory, and that it is probable that new bids will be advertised for. "1 cannot tell vqu anything about,the bids." said President Gage, yesterdiy. Were any of.them below the limit of $700,000?" he was asked. I am not able to give any information on the subject." . ; , "It is hard to say where there are no footings to tlie bids." said Director Waller. "It takes a long time to get the totals sometimes." Even Press Secretary Murphy, who was present at the meeting of the Execu­ tive Committee, declined to say whether any of tho bids were within the limit. Three bids are known to have been made, but their figures have not been made public. One was from E. P. Rey­ nolds Co., of New York, who have done a good deal of work in New York harbor, and another was from Fit'. .Si­ mons & Conhell of Chicago. Reynolds & Co. put in their bid through Thomas Byrne of Chicaso, aud it is said to bo within the limit. "The fact of the matter is," said a con­ tractor, "that men hesitated to bid for several reasons. One was the excessive penalty for not having the Work com­ pleted in time, and another was tho lack of knowledge as to how much filling would bo required. Tlie depth of the lako is not accurately known where the piling and filling is to bo done, and thore was no time to take soundings. To be sure, that, was done by the engineers of tho directory, but it is expressly stipu­ lated in the siecilications that no one will be bound by these soundings. Con­ sequently, if the soundings should be wrong, there might be a chance to lose a good deal of money. It might take more material and cause delay." The bidding by the acre also may have had something to do with the unsatis- factoriness of the bids. It made it hard to figure up totals. A number of contractors will probably be present at the meeting of the Board of Directors this afternoon, and it is possible that tho matter may bo ar­ ranged, but that seems doubtful. Mat­ ters are in such an unsatisfactory con­ dition that it is' not unlikely that piling and filling in may bo abandoned. In­ deed, it may be necessary because of delay resulting from this new phafe of tho case. An informal meeting of tho local lady managers was held yesterday for the pur­ pose of considering plans for the recep­ tion and entertainment of the lady man­ agers coming to Chicago. There were present Mrs. Judge Shepard, Mrs Shat- tuck, Mrs. Leander Stone, Mrs. Gen. Chetiein, Mrs. Sandes, Mrs. Mulligan, Mrs. Bradwell, Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. poolittle. At the request of Secretary Dickinson they have taken under con­ sideration tho selection of a suitable hall for tho meetings of the full Board of Lady Managers. No decision was reached regarding the reception to be accorded tho visiting members, the subject being laid over till Monday, when there will bo another mooting. Tho committee of the lake front prop­ erty owners met at the Leland last night and went into the question as to how best to movo the Illinois Central tracks farther oast. It studied the legislation connected with tho matter, but tho re­ sult of its deliberations was not given out. The committee claims, however, that it is not necessary to wait for legislation before beginning the filling and piling. Work can bo begun at once, and ar­ rangements made for changing the track later. This would put the Exposition Directors In the position of driving piles for tho Illinois Central to use when the tracks are moved out. but it is claimed that the Illinois Central would be glad to pay for tho piling, etc., along its new right of way, in view of the width of the right of way being increased to 300 feet. But it would be taking chances unless such an agreement were signed in advance. Telford Burnham addressed the com­ mittee on the subject of the use of the Lake Front. He thought that buildings should be put out a little way to get a 1 next, when the change in dutii-a goes into operation. THE "republican conspiracy against silver." which the democrats are howl­ ing about, has advanced the price oi that metal to the extent of 12 cents an ounce at present rates, and will undoubt­ edly push it much higher. The friends of silver and the business interests oi the country, which are benefited by th« narrowing of the gap between silver and gold, can stand conspiracies of this sort. ACCORDING to careful calculation about thirty seats in the house of representa­ tives have been stolen from the republi­ cans in the Southern states through democratic bulldozing and fraud. Oi course the same thing will take placi this year. This is one of the drawbacks which the republicans of tho countrj have to contend against always, butthej manage to triumph over it occasionally, nevertheless. CANNED fruit, so far as it will be af­ fected in price at all by the tariff, wil be cheapened. The slight extra cost o: tin which will be caused by the advanc« in duty which begins next July will b« much more than counterbalanced by th« drop in prices on sugar to be brough1 about by the cut in duties which takes place next April. And yet, according t< the democrats, the canning industry to be bit hard br the tariff. Mrs. D. R. Robinson, alternate, of Albuquerque, N. M., has resigned from the Board of Lady Managers. There is talk of having the Crerar Lincoln monument put on the Lake Front, near the Art Building, which will he the only permanent building erected there in all probability. Commissioner Ritchie, of Ohio, called at headquarters yesterday and subscribed for three shares of stock--one for him­ self, one for his wife, and a third for his son. He believes the money will be well invested. Lewis Trunkhill, of Rock Springs, Wyo., has written to headquarters In the interest of parties who have organized in his town for the purpose of collecting Western curiosities for exhibition at the exposition. His organization proposes to collect one or more car-loads of ani­ mals of every kind, fossils, mineral, and those which have been petrified or car­ bonized. Personal Paragraphs. MB. NEHEMIAH JAOO is understood to be quite a heavy load for the Prohibi­ tion ticket in Iowa. Gov. BEAVER and Gen. Hastings em­ phatically deny the story told by the New York Herald concerning the misappro­ priation of the funds contributed for the relief of the Johnstown sutlerers. CNIEF JUSTICE AND MRS. FULLER will celebrate their silver wedding in Janu­ ary at their Washington home. On that day the wedding of their daughter, Miss Mildred Fuller, to Hugo Wallace will take place. MRS. HARRISON is to have some of the privileges of a private residence in the White House this winter. Hereafter sightseers aro not to bo shown into the Red Parlor regardless of the fact that the mistress of the mansion is receiving visitors of her own there. MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT writes from her home in Los Angeles to a friend in San Francisco: "My sons urge us to come to them and share their homes in the East, but the cruel winters there we could not live through. Now, with the pension, we are able to remain here, where not only climate but the warmth of true sympathy given us makes an atmosphere that revives us and renews life." They Are Met by a Committee of Irish- Americans and Given a Royal Recep­ tion--Purpose Their Visit to America --Why They Left Ireland in the Manner They l>ld. | New York dispatch.] William O'Brien, John Dillon, Timotny Harrington, and T. D. Sullivan have ar­ rived in New York by the steamer La Champagne. They were met down the bay by a large delegation of Irishmen on board the tugboat John E. Moore, which was chartered by the Irish societies of the city of New York. Mr. O'Brien in response to congratula­ tions upon his escape from the British authorities in Ireland said Mr. .Dillon and himself had been six days on a yacht before they reached France. They were, joined at Havre by Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan and Mr. Harrington, who sailed with them. Mr. Sullivan was very en­ thusiastic at the prospects of home rule for Ireland. Mr. O'Brien said that out of the forty by-olections held in Great Britain since the assembling of the present Parliament fourteen had been won by the Glad- stonian or Home Rule party. This was a fair indication, he said, of the feeling of the British people on the home rule question. Ho believed the Tories would bo forced to dissolve Parliament sooner than they anticipated. Tlie Government, he said, was not taking proper measures for the relief of the famine-stricken dis­ tricts in Ireland. They first denied that a famine existed, and now they admitted that there was deep distress in tho coun­ try by proposing measures for their, relief. Mr. O'Brien stated that there was ab­ solute unity in tho ranks of the Parlia­ mentary party and among the people. The old taunt of instability of purpose could no longer be thrown at Ireland. It was unnecessary to say much about his and Mr. Dillon's reasons for leaving Ireland in the peculiar manner they did. They Were well watched by police and spies, and their footsteps were being con­ tinually dogged while in the country. When they took a special train at Lim­ erick the police took another special train in order to keep them continually in sight. The conduct of the police waa ludicrous as well as outrageous. Yet they were caught napping. Neither bribes nor threats induced any one to teV. tho police of their departure, and Ba!« four's system of espionage was wasted. "Tho Government cannot trust its own servants,"continued Mr. O'Brien. "Why, on the day before wo arrested Mr. Dillon wroto to me informing me xrhat was going to take place, although !a was supposed to be a Castle secret. Baiiour may attempt to brand us as criminals, but would ho try to have us extradited as such either from France or the United States? "Balfour has stated -his intentions very plainly in a speech in the House of Commons. His object is to strain the tenants' defense fund until he breaks it. Seven thousand persons have been evict­ ed and £00,000 havo been spent." Mr. O'Brien then said that in view of all the circumstances, the condition of the peasantry and the hostility of the Government to any plan that would bet­ ter their condition, he and his colleagues decided to appeal to the American peo­ ple and stato their appeal in person. They had believed that while the apneal on their trial was pending they would have time to come to this country and return. "Tho .essence of Tory policy In Ire land," he continued, "is land purchase on tho landlords' own terms. To effect this tho tenants' combination had to be stamped out. The tenants once smashed and disorganized, under terror of coer­ cion, a cabinet of landlords and landlord tribunals could arrange tho rest at will. It was with a view to crushing the ten­ ants'combinations that all the prosecu­ tions, batonings and police outrages took place, and it was to prevent that that tho Irish representatives camo here. "Tho whole strength of coercion for the last four years had been directed to inilicting vengeance upon them and ut­ terly exterminating them by way of warning to tho rest of tho Irish tenant­ ry. The Irish people, on tho other hand, havo mado these men's cause their own. They havo determined at all hazards not to let them fall a prey to the vongeance of the landlords and coercionists. The latest and most signal proof of this de­ termination is the case of New Tippera- ry, where tho population of a whole town and of two neighboring estates had given up their homes and farms en masse rather than let their rents be used by their landlords. "One of our chief objects in America will be to explain the character of the struggles in Ireland and the system of coercion in force there. I believe Ameri­ cans will be electrified when they hear the story of Tipperary. For tho present the question of a national fighting fund and the question of a charitable fund arc wholly separate. Nobody with less than Mr. Balfour's capacity for heart­ less jokes could affect to deny or make light of it. "Tho Irish party are watching tho situation with tho utmost solicitude. They have called for a. bill suspending evictions for non-payment of font on small holdings in the distressed districts. A measure of this kind combined with a largo system of public wishes and a more liberal administration of the poor laws would go far to avert any danger of general famine. The opinion of the Irish party is that any general American fund poured into Ireland at this time would probably have the effect of con­ firming Mr. Balfour in his policy of leaving tho relief of distress to private initiative and afterwards boasting that the distress was imaginary, while the large sums disbursed with an imperfect knowledge of the circumstances of the country would inevitably find their way into the pockets of the landlords, whom tho prospect of American alms would encourage to extort rent from their famished and coercion-wronged tenantry." What Our Neighbors An Doing;--Matter* - of General and Local Interest -- Siar.^ liases and Heaths -Accidents as4Criwn --Personal Pointers. :"r RETURNS from 100 out of the 102 cotuh* ties in Illinois on State Treasurer, nindii* tenths of which are official and the re­ mainder carefully estimated, show jj| plurality for Wilson, D., over Amberft R., of 8,400. The counties from which no returns have been received will not affect the general result materially. Returns and estimates from the same counties OK Superintendent of Public Instruction in­ dicate the election of Raab, D., over,: Edwards, R., by a plurality of 35,00$. The pluralities by counties are as follows! . Am- Wil- Ed- Counties. berg. son. ward*. Xtaab. Adams.... Ifitl .... Iffl Alexander...... Bond Boon®.. Brown.. Buroau......... C&lhouu ....... Carroll......... C»S8 Champaign ..... Christl&a...... Clark........... < Clay--........ Clinton.... Coles Cocle Crawford....... .... Cmnlierlattd ... , > • • • THs Kftlb..... < 134 1,388 210 8?a *T#S .. 138 Do Witt. .. Donplas. r»u Page..... Edgar Edwards... Effl'i£ha?n..... Fay«tte ........ Ford Frank!! a, i..... Fulton Gallatin, Groene......... Grundy......... Hamilton. Hancock.. Hardin......... Hendersoa Henry. Iroquois.. Jackson Jaaper Jefferson Jersey .*.. Jo DavitMB Johnson........ Kane Kankakoe 1,090 Kendall 608 Knox 1,983 Lake 1,084 La Salle. Lavrrenoe 1,033 527 wi US SUB 1,4*3 140 79 631 2,826 M 8W 67a 1,077 S40 1,036 133 ••i •iB Personal Paragraphs. STEPHEN ROACH, son of the shipbuild­ er, says his family are ready to sell their plant on the Delaware to an English syndicate for $3,0j0,000, the offer of §2,000,000 not being satisfactory. QUEEN VICTORIA is only four feet eight inches in height, yet she is said to be a feal sovereign in her bearing. Sin­ gularly enough, the one place where the Queen is never to be found is London, her nation's capital. CAKDUCCI, Italy's great poet, is to be honored by a Senatorship, it is an­ nounced. As poetry doesn't pay any better in Italy than anywhere else, he supports himself by teaching in the Bologna University. CiiAitLEs STARK NEWELL died in Gosh­ en, N. Y., recently, atred 47 years. He was a great-great-g andson of Gen. John Stark of Revolutionary fame. He was a deaf mute, but, notwithstanding this in­ firmity, he acquired a fine education, and displayed remarkable business abil­ ity. WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR, notwith­ standing his immense property interests in New York, cabled from Europe his refusal to contribute any money to se­ cure the benefits of honest municipal government Mr. Astor is too much en­ gaged with his n9vel, for which he is to receive five cents* a word, to take any In­ terest in reform. Lee Livingston Logan Macon Macoupin. MadiHoa Marion Marshall.^..... Mason.......... Massac McDommgh.... McHenry McLean ........ Menard. Mercer Monroe.... Montgomery... Morgan... Moultrie Peoria.......... Perry Piatt Pike Pope ;.. Pulaski Putnam Hnmloljih. Richland - .... Kock Island.. Saline 8>mgamon. .. Schuylear Scott '.. Shelby Stark St. Clair...... 603 588 1,483 086 a 483 M9 m *393 1.115 • 781 « •• • 619 1,360 S48 t'ftl «••• S48 • ••• k •• • «9 ' * »»»* !» l.oia . -m •t4 'to­ rn 84 "f 351 Stepheuaon ' 884 Tazewell 614 Union ... v&rajlioffr^ r I,'M7 1,048 Wabash r I,'M7 iii Warren *188 ...; Washington 98 .... Wavne .. .... White Um Whiteside 848 .... Will .. 848 .... Williamson... .. 905 .... Woodford .. *300 Total 38,403 36.803 90,884 58,689 Plurality 8,400 .... 35,4* A SYNDICATE of Bloomington is trying to purchase the Freeport street-car line and run it by electricity. j, NOAH J. SWENSON met a horrible death in Chicago, being literally ground to pieces under the flying crank of an engine in the plant of the Western Pav­ ing Supply Company. His skull was crushed, his limbs were twisted and broken, and his body was shattered and torn. He was accidentally thrown under the deadly crank by a fellow employe named Henry Lundstadt, with whom he was scuffling over the greasy and slip­ pery floor of the engine-room. Horrified at the fearful predicament of his friend, Lundstadt jumped to his side and tried to pull him out of the pit, but the crank came down again and again, tearing aadF grinding poor Swenson's vitals at every revolution. In a moment the body wa8; a shapeless, unrecognizable mass of ton* llesh and broken bones. Lundstadt, in his extremity, cried for assistance, and tho engineer, who was in the boiler- room, ran in and stopped the bloody work of the engine by shutting off steaai.. in a few minutes the room was tilled by curious workingmen, who crowded around the death pit to look at the mangled body of Swonson. The sight was so shocking that several of the men fainted and had to be carried out into , the yard. ^ , THE Illinois Central Road attempted to steal a march on the people of Centrar lia by putting a large force of men at work laying a track along Chestnut street. No grading was done, the tie* being simply placed on the ground and the rails occasionally spiked. The ob­ ject was to get the track down befof9 they could be stopped. When the worky men reached Broadway the city author!- ties commanded a halt A special police forco was placed in possession of the street, and "the company transferred its men to the other side and went ahead. MRS. CARISCO, of Peoria, was cleaning a carpet with gasolino when the fluid took tire. The woman ran screamin* into the street, forgetting her 10-monthsfc old babe, which was sleeping in thft room. The babe was carried out by # neighbor, but was so badly injured that ; it died within a few hours. ~ "ABOUT the only way the Chicago Gov­ ernment Buildins can be saved," saiid Inspector of Buildings Cluss to a local reporter, "is to build under it a foundaH tion such as was put under the Washing ton monument. This would cost ouly about j?-',300,000, but then what could you do with the building on top? I be­ lieve it would be just as cheap to build ij, # new building. From the levels taken oaf ' the Adams street side of the structur*v it appears that the front of the building: is sinking rapidly, and the enginers say ? may collapse at almost any moment* • The portico is in a particularly bad con--A dition." THE business portion of the town oH Chillicothe has been almost entirely d«h* ^ stroyed by fire The fire originated In Hancock's livery stable and spread rapid­ ly in all directions. The postoftiee, th®1 office of the Chillicothe Bulletin, and about forty other buildings were burned. The loss wil! not fall short of on which thore is a partial insurance. « PEORIA'S revenue collections for Octo* ; ber were $2, ttti.635. This does not tnr>* elude the Rock Island collections. f ; THE house in which Elijah P. LOT«» joy lived at the time he was killed by ft mob is being torn down at Alton. ? lived In thi* house «ith hit wife aa*f youug chnd. and was carried to alter being murdered. fi m •dMii ' M X .