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laiutlcaler k VAN tLYKE, Editor ami PaMlsiH^ HeHSNRY, - ILLINOIS. DOINGS OF THE DAY. •ummakv OP LATE NftW# B* WIRE fkrtmMy reported, tlnal action for consolidation will be taken at the next meeting of particular synods, which meets next year, which In turn will re­ port to the next general synod in 1893. iThis consolidation of the two churches swill embrace 250.000 communicants, 1C,- qJOO churches and 1,300 ministers. while getting some HnenfrOm a bureau drawer; THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. •AJOHN M. HAIJC died at Ellsworth. Me., steed 94 years. Ho was Collector of Cua- Mrrntfal Ilappwinpi In Kvery Known flawiaplicre-Plrciit Accidents, Crimes, foil lies. Religion, Commerce and Crog*, jftsttdwiohed with Minor Afflrfn. ' ' KJC-, - fit ' Vt< ." pf.X\ - I'M Al\J: Wi&' 2<>... EXCELLENT OUTLOOK. Jfeaey Ea»y, Crop frosp' c« Very Flattering* and Trade Good. R. <G. Dun A Ca's weekly- , fffevtew of trade: Very rarely has such a strain been put upon productive industry and legitimate business as by the enormous exports of gold in May. It is a most significant fact that, after this severe te*t. the state of trade is better for the seas >n and more hopeful than it was in April, when the great move­ ment of gold had not begun. Within thirty days the largest crop of wheat ever grown, Jt is probable, will be moving to the mar­ ket. The government report and oiher In­ formation put the price down 3V* cents, while the official report was not so favorable regarding oats, the price of which dropped 2 cents, thouih corn rose nearly 1 % cents. Cotton dropped an eighth to the lowest point touched for nearly forty years. Money was easier in spite of pre­ vious exports: silver was lower, and the rate of foreign exchange declined SJ far th&t bankers admit that gold can now be sent abroad only at a loss to those who or­ der it The Treasury has added about S2.- 400,000 to the circulation during the week, and the receipts of currency for the interior have been heavy. Reports from other cities show that trade, while moderate in volume, as is to be expected at tuis season, is fairly large, undisturbed, and exceedingly confi­ dent as to the future. These accounts show that capable business meu in all parus of the country look upon the moderate shrink­ age in present trade as a natural result of last year's short crops, and count with great confidence upon large business with the full yield promised this year. Through­ out the country money markets show sur­ prising strength, notwithstanding the loss of gold to Europe, and, while closeness is reported at Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. St, Louis, Nashville and Savanah, reports from nearly all cities indicate that nobody is siiffering except speculators. In brief, the situation is not good for gamblers, but for producers and legitimate traders decid­ edly hopeful. The business failures occur­ ring throughout the country during the last seven days number 244, as compared with a total of 247 last week. For the eorrespoud- fftg KM* of last year the figures were 212. BASE-BALL. Steading of the Different Clubs AccorJing to thn Latest Contests FOIXOWIXG is a showing of tho stand- fag of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIOXAX LEAGUE. L. |?c. W. L. »c. Mew Torts.. *6 1« .<519 Philadelp's..21 23 .477 Cbieitoi 25 17 J5st5 • levelan<lg..21 24 .4 >7 Bostons. 22 21 .=>12 PittBburgs. .18 23 .43» Brooklyn! . il Si .4^ Cincinnatis. 18 23 .409 AXKKICAX ASSOCIATION. W. I*. Vc, W. L. Bostons 3* 1< ok- Columbus...2t ii Bt- L-onig 34 20 .61'• Philadelp's.v2 'ii Baltimore*..2' '30 .5J2 Ijonisvilles..23 31 lii 2'i SVaahingt"9..1i 3i *T8TKBS ASSOCIATION. W, L. f*c. W. ItewflES ....%} 15 .04} Kan Rib Cys.21 #1 1*J .- Oenvers 13 Milwaukee® 23 30 .591 Sioux Citvs.l* Omaha* 21 17 .585 H. Pauls... .15 ?C. A «! .44) .418 .313 Ve. .467 .41H .<13 .313 ifc-' f&i- ims during the administrations of the jrter Harrison and Tyler, and had held- &felior positions of public trust I H^TUK immense brick structure at Man^ aiwink, Pa., known as Campbell's mills, .w|[s burned. Tho mill is a seven-story building, about <500 feet long by 150 feet wi.'e, and is devoted to the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods. It. has been closed for some time, owing to a strike. Tho loss is $.'00,000. AT Wllkesbarre, Pa., secret service officers arrested Reuben Palmer, a horse trader, on the charge of passing coun­ terfeit money. A compete counterfeiter's outfit was found ou the prisoner. AT Walworth, N. Y., tho Misses Anna *nd Ellen Walworth, nicces of Grover Cleveland, were married. former became the wife of Jo eph Reed, of Beatrice, Neb., while the latter joined herself to Charles W. Hamilton, of Den­ ver. The ex-President and his wife were among the guests. At Coleffrove, Pa, lightning struck two 30,00C-barrel iron tanks containing Buckeye oil. Trenches were du? to pro­ tect the pump station and adjoining iron tanks. The loss will be §40,00:1. ' SEVERAL offers for the extension of per cent, bonds were received at the j Treasury Department. One was of ! fcfiOO.COO at the rate of 2 per cent., from a private citizen. The others were at any rate tho department decided on. ^They were <sll from Western banks. Secretary Foster informed the I'resident . ©f tlu> result of his recent conference | with tho bankers and brokers of New iHk'ork- and of their professed willingness to take up the entire 4}$ per cent, loan If extended at 2 per cent. j DCHING Its term the United States Supremo Court disposed of GIT cases, j This breaks tho record. The largest J number of cases ever disposed of by ; the court heretofore in one session Is 470. | A SPECIAI. from Washington says: It i is reported on high authority that Unit- : ed States Minister Porter has been re- j called from Rome, not granted a vaca- t tion as at first reported. If this is true, Mrs. i It is President Harrison's answer to the The withdrawal from Washington of the Italian Minister, Baron Fava, In the heat of the Marquis di Rudini's discom­ fiture ovef^gfejie New Orleans affair. Both Governments wilt now be repre­ sented by secretaries of Legation No one, connected with the Stato depart­ ment will talk about the matter.,^®;" WESTERN HAPPENINGS. AT.Grand Rapids Mich., the street car strike broke out again with violence from a mob of 200. They were smashing things when a large posse of police ar­ rived. A pitched battie ensued. De- , tective Joseph W Smith was hit upon ' »iissioncr, Waldo F. Brown, Uutler: State the head with a stone and severely in-J School Commissioner,^ Professor E __R. POLITICAL PORRIDQfit TITE Ohio State Prohibition Convention adjourned after making cthe following nominations: Governor, John J. Ashen- hurst, Canton; Lieutenant Governor, W. J. Kirkendall, Jackson; Supreme Judge, II. L. Blake, Sandusky; Auditor ot State, Charles A. Beeser, Springfield; member of the Board of Public Works, T. A. Rodifer, liellaire; Dairy and Food Co na­ si V DASHED DOWN THE GRADE. Three M*H Killed in a Krigh'fnl Aee'dent on a P- nnnylvania Eailm-d. COMISTS down the mountain from LloydsvHie to BeHwood. Pa., on tliu Pennsylvania and Northwestern Rail­ road at midnight, a heavy coal train got beyond control of the trainmen and dashed down the grade at a fearful speed and was piled up and smashed into kindiing wood at a curve on the side of a deep- ravine. Among the debris were found the bodies of the ronductor. en­ gineer and one brakeman with almost all semblance of humanity crushed »;ut of them. The accident is suppos- d to have been occasioned by wet rails and DM sir brakes refusing to work proper^. SERVED HER RIGHT. JDM Wylie Sends Her Letter to the Wrong • , Van and Lw« a Hnsband. A NOTABLE wedding at New Cumber­ land, W. Va., did not take place because of a peculiar mistake made by the bride that was to be. Miss Ruth Wylie wrote a farewell letter, full of ardent protesta­ tions of love, to James Ewin?, a former suitor, and through an error inclose j it in an envelope addressed to Mr. John Crawford Mr. Crawford received the letter, and after reading it he sent a note to Miss Wylie telling her that since she level Ewing so much she had better marry him When the matter became known the general verdict was, "Served her right" f '/' C , (i I Plort" fnr China ;;; WASHJXOTOX special says that Tres- "tdent garrison has decided to send ex- G'jvernor and c\-Senator Gi bi-rt A. Pierce, of North Dakota, as re present a- t vo to China. Mr. Fierce is now an edilora writer on the Minneapolis Trih- uiie. The appointment of Govern r Pierre will likeiv be followed by the ap- lOintmcn'. of ex-Senator B a r as Mini.-v ter to-Japan. Ee!io«s lrom th» Mi;I NASIJVII.I.K lawyers have sued Charlie Johnson for their fees for defending John L. Sullivan at the time he was feeing from the Mississippi officers, for the Kilrain tight- Crazy, bar Murderous. BEKJAMJN MATTIIEWSON*. aged 24, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was shot and instantly killed at Wilmington, Ji. C.,byR. IL, Trask. Trask is undoubtedly insane. Father t ure'. B*v. FATHER CURCI, the distinguished Italian ecclesiastic, is dead, at Rome. A'aska Pwp etors H»v? a Hard T m1 !£HK members of an expedition that went to Alaska to prospect for minerals have returned to San Francisco after great hardships. One of their number. James Ingram, of San Diego, died of starvation, and his body was devoured IV wolves. , , Liab lltiw of $100,000 ;|V AT Cincinnati, Lytle & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, assigned. Assets are estimated at 8!i0,000: li'abili- ttos 8160,000. The indebtedness is larse- %f In the East •ASTERN OCCURRENCES. EPHRAIM Yoxmo, President of the Mil- 4a'Wird-Clfff Cracker Company, Phila­ delphia, was arrested charged with con­ spiracy with Frank Brenton. Secretary of the cracker company, and Francis W. Kennedy, President of the the wrecked Spring Garden Bank, in unlawfully is­ suing notes of the company last winter to the extent of about 535,000. At Asbury Park, N. J., at a session Of the general snyod of the Reformed Church in America, the proposition to unite the two churches--the Reformed Dutob moA ibe fieformed German--was •rely jured. One ofticer had a bullet through his helmet and another was wounded slightly In the ear by a bullet. When the fight assumed serious proportions and the mob refused to disperse, the po­ lice used their clubs and revolvers. One of the crowd was fatally injured and others wounded. The officers arrested thirteen of the rioters. The riot was de­ liberately planned. A NUMBER of South Dakota private banks have created a fund and retained counsel to fight the law passed by the Legislature last winter, compelling ori- vate banks to incorporate under tho national or the State law on or before Sept 10. Prominent private bankers claim that the law is unconstitutional. Many private banks have -applied for national bank charters. AT Butte, Mont., W. J. Penrose, ed­ itor of the Mining Journal and member of the Legislature, was shot dead near his home. The general belief is that the crime was committed for revenge by some one who had been offended by an article in Penrose's paper. AT Walla Walla, W ash., seven of the troopers concerned in the lynching of A. Hunt on April 25 were Indicted by the Grand Jury. J. IL MCVICKER announces the en­ gagement of ^The Soudan," for a run commencing July 6. Mr. McVicker was the first Chicago manager to demonstrate the success of long summer runs for great attractions in Chicago. A. M. Palmer s Company, his own stock com­ pany, "Midsummer Night's Dream" and The Tempest" have run successively each summer since 1880. and this season "Blue Jeans." which runs four weeks yet, and "The Soudan," will be the fit- tractions "Blue Jeans" is one of tne best American comeay-drcmas ever pro­ duced. The characters which James Whitcomb Riley made famous in his poetry are here reproduced, and all who have ever lived in the country will read­ ily see in the "Rising Sun Roarers" the delight of their childhood days. THE passenger steamer Idaho, stranded on Lake Superior, is in the ut­ most peril. Tho Idaho lies ten miles west of Ontonagon, the most deserted and wildest spot on the south shore of Lake Superior. Marine men say she has made her last trip and that her bones will soon be bleaching on the rocky shore. She was one of the best passenger steamers in the Duluth-Buf- fa o trade. Her passengers had a time they will not forget A TIIK brakes failed to work oika South Shore train going down L'Ansc hill, In Michigan. The train plunged madly down the lonjr, steep grade, jumped tho track in front of the station, and con­ verted the station into kind ing wood. Engineer Con Harr^igton was drawn from the wreck with serious injuries. The other trainmen escaped with bruis­ es. Twelve cars were demolished. One was loaded with horses, and the shrieks of the injured animals added to the hor­ ror of the scene. The L'Anse grade is the steepest between the Allegheny and the Rocky Monntains. Several dents have occurred there. Zollers, Presidentof Hiram College The platform declares in favor of prohibition; of tho liquor traffic, remedying class evils, opposes alien ownership of land and further grauts of land to corpora­ tions; favors government control of rail­ roads and telegraph lines; condemns speculations In margins and corners; favors gold, silver, and paper for a cir­ culating medium, woman suffrage, lib­ eral pensions, better immigration laws, and the payment of salaries to all offi­ cials. FOREIGN GOSSIP. QUEES VICTORIA has decided that the Duke of Fife's daughter (the recently born granddaughter of the Prfnco of Wales) is only entitled to rank as the daughter of a duke and not as a prin­ cess of the blood royal. SIR WII.I.IAM GORPOX CCMMI.VG and Miss Florence Garner, of New York, were married in Trinity Church, Chel- | sea, London. The wedding was private. Sir William was perfectly cool and bore himself proudly. Immediately upon the , announcement of the verdict in the i baccarat case the plaintiif ollered to J release Miss Garner from the engage- ] ment. This proposition was scouted by I the young lady. The bride is one of the 1 daughters of the laie Wm. T. Garner, ; who was drowned on his ya ht, the Mon- i tank, off Staten Island in July, 1876. j His two daughters were his sole heirs. They are toth handsome, and very rich, j Miss Helen Garner, the other daughter,, j recently married tho Marquis de Bre- j teuil, the head of one of tne most ancient noble families of France. FRESH AND NEWSY. , SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. AT New Orleans, La., O'Malley and McCrystol were to be tried for an at­ tempt to bribe Tales Juror McCabe. District Attorney Liuenberg asked for a ' and severance of the two accused, as the State proposed to place McCrystol on trial first Accordingly D. (1 O'Malley was told to step aside. McCabe tes­ tified that he was summoned as a tales juror in the Hennessey case, but did not serve. Met rystol called on witness and told him that he could ma^'e $500 by <?oingon the jury and working for a mis­ trial or an acquittal of the defendants. Soon after McC'rystol's indictment, and while in the Parish Prison, he sent for District Attorney Luzenberg and made a confession. This confession the Dis­ trict Attorney desired should go in as evidence, but Judge I'aker promptly ruled against its admissibility. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The ruling of Judge Baker refusing to ad­ mit the confession of McCrystol saves O'Malley in this case, the only case con­ necting him directly with the bribery cases. The court will now be forced to try him upon one of the other charges, if at all, and they are all cases of sev­ eral years ago. McCrystol will be tried upon another charge of- bribery in con­ nection with John Cooney, another of O'Malley's men. NEWS has been received from Frazier, Texas, of the destruction of life and property caused by a terrible water­ spout, accompanied by a windstorm. A waterspout burst and in a few minutes the streets were four feet deep with water. All the business houses were flooded. Men with great difficulty suc­ ceeded in getting the women to places of safety. ^ Thi*;e persons were drowned in Turkey Creek. The dwelling liouso of Captain Phillies was lifted from its foundation and carried nearly a mile, when it was hurled against a tree and <vrecked. Philiips and one of his daugh­ ters caught some floating debt is and were washed ashore half a mile from where the house was demolished. Mrs. Phillips and her babe cauaht a piank and were washed into the branches of a large tree, where they;remained till the next day when they were rescued by parties In a boat ' Mus. STUART IVEAIIXEV, the young wife of the private secretary to Dr. Brooks, of the Canton Company, was ac­ cidentally shot and killed at Baltimore MOFFAT'S sawmill, Murray's lumber mill and James Gillies' dwelling at the head ot tidewater. Restigouche County, N. B«, were destroyed by fire. Forest fires are raging in the woods opposite Campbellton, on the north shore. The whole Gaspe peninsula, over one hun­ dred miles in extent, is threatened, and the village of Nouville is in danger. Fires arc sweeping away the woods be­ tween Penobsquis and Anagane and are i destroying a great deal of va'tiable tim- i ber. At Richmond. Va, P. II. Mayo & Bros.' large tobacco factories were par­ tially destroyed by fire. Loss about £80,000; fuily insured. NIXE Japanese women, who were re­ fused admission to th:s country on the ground that they had been brought here for immoral purposes, were released from custody by Judge Dealy, of Port­ land, Oregon. SIB JOIIX MACPOXALP, Premier of the Dominion, is dead. He never rallied from unconsciousness and passed quietly away. Lady Macdonald sat by her dy­ ing husband's side, and the members of Sir John's family were called to, the side of the death bed. But no sign came from the dying man. So ho lay until the end, when Dr. Powell, his hand on the patient's pulse, looked up and said with quavering voice: "The end ha4 acci- | come. He has passed away without s single struggle. A BUSH fire at Black Lake, Que., com municated to houses and owing to the high wind and lack of appliances to stft) its progress it quickly spread. At least forty houses, containing in all 250 famil­ ies, were destroyed. Lemaitre's Ilote' several stores were among th< places burned Hundreds of persont rendered homeless by the fire camped out in the fields. KEFoura, CHICAGO. CACTUS--Common to prime. Hoos-- Shipping grades HHEEF WHEAT--No. 2 Bad COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTKB--Choice Creamery CIIRESK--Fnll Cream, flats E«GK--Fresh POTATOES--Western, per bn INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping .. HGQS--Choice light SHKEP--Common to prime WHEAT--NO. 2 Bed COHN--No. 1 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Hooa WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBS--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 B ABLET--Nebraska CINCINNATI. CATTLE HOGS • BHKEP. WHEAT-NO 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--No, 2 Mixed.. 9.. DETROIT. CATTLE. Hoos fcllKBl' WHEAT-- NO. 2 Bed Con.N--No. 2 Yellow OATH-- NO. 2 White TOLEDO. WHEAT CORN--Cash. ,.... OATS-- NO. 1 White CLOVES SEED EAST LIBERTY CATTLE--Common to Prime Hoos--Light SUEEP--Medium LAMBS MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. 8 OATH--NO. 2 White RYE--No. 1 BARLEY--No. 2 PORK--Mess NEW YORK. CATTLE. i Hoos SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATB--Mixed Western BuiiKft- Creamery Eoos--Western Poa*--New Mess •3.00 6.50 4.25 <$ 4.75 4.75 & 6.50 1.00 & 1.01 .69 & .60 .44 & .44 >4 .88 & .86 .16 @ .18 .14;*(& .la'j 1.10 <3 1.80 3.50 @ 5.73 8.00 & 4.53 4.00 <g 4.75 1.01 & 1.0154 .56 & .57^ .44 .44& .47 & 6.00 5.00 <0 5.00 & 6.00 (10.5C THE DOMINION BEREFT PASSING AWAY OP SIR JOHN MACDONALD. At th* Cenlttt of His Fsme When the Sum- Boas Came--t-rl*f Katroipeot of Bis Long Publle Life--Champtou of Man* •why ami Federation »n<t Chief Figure in < ana llan Politics. It Is vory long since any other man held a place so pecul ar In the atlalrs of any country as Sir John A. Macdonald has woh for himse^ In the affairs of the Dominion of Canada. There is not, nor has there been in modern times, a man In the United States whose demise could seriously disarrange the settled policy of the country. No sufh man now lives in England. The political obscuration of Bismarck did not disarrange the policy of Germany. There is no man now liv­ ing in France whose d;>ath would cause a jar or a pause in the motion of tho political machinery of the counfry. But the death of Sir John will leave the Tories of the Dominion without a leader. While his life was devoted to the servlco of Canada, he was for many years one of tho foremost men in the British Em­ pire, distinguished above his fellows in tho-o vast colonies of Britain that girdle the earth. To look back over the great retrospect of Sir John A. MaCdonald's long public life is to review the whole history of greater Canada. He was a native Scotchman, but ho becamo identified with the affairs of British North Amer­ ica before th » patriot war, commencing the practice of iaw In Kingston In 18M6, In his 21st year. Ho was active In political life from this time. Ho was first elected to the Parliament of Upper Canada more than forty-seven years ago. He was chosen for Kingston, for which >i!l JOHN A. MAr nOVAM). city ho sat in Parliament at the close of his brilliant care r. •ir John became a member of thv Cabinet of Canada (then comprising On­ tario and Quebec* early'in lb47, as Com­ missioner of Crown Lands. He served until 18",0. He was a rain a Cabinet ofticer from 1854 to lt-r.-'. as Attorney General. He first became Premier in 1858, and la d firmly the foundation of his subsequent great fame. In ls(W he was Minister of Militia, and his Govern­ ment suffered defeat on the militia bill of that year. For two years he was the leader of the Opposition, but did not en­ deavor to embarras-s the Ministry, which was trying to administer the affairs of Canada on the policy of the double ma­ jority, or governing both Ontario and Quebec by its own preponderance of rep­ resentative* In the House. This effort was a complete failure. In May, 1803. John A. Macdonald moved in the House a vote of want of cojifidenee in a powerful and logical speeeBr ev«r sinca 'remem­ bered in Canadian history, and regarded as one of the greatest of his life The vote carried, and lrom this ("ay Macdon­ ald s conspicuous leadership in ( anadian politics was recognised everywhere. It was not until tite following year that he again took a Cabinet oftice and became the acknowledged leader of tho effort for the consolidation of ail British North America Into the Dominion. He was a delegate to tho convention on Prince Edward's Island in 18(54, where tho union was first projected, and the leader in the second conference, at Quebec, later in the year. Ho was chairman of the London colonial conference of 18v5(i- 7, and remained in Europe until the passage of the imporlal act for the con­ solidation of the North American prov-tt inces. He returned to the new world and was at once intrusted with the work of form­ ing the first government of the great northern An^lo-Saxon nationality of which he had dreamed from his first entry into public life, and to which ho (tad devoted manv years. He became Premier of the new confederation, aad was knighted by tho Queen. From 18(57 to th? present time lie lias been the grandest ngure of the Canadian nation With the exception of a few >ears in the early seventies he has continued the Premier of the greatest dependency of the British Crown, which lie did so much to make great and so nearly independent. Canada lias grown in domain, in i.cpu- lation, in wealth and in Influence during all the years of Sir John's preponderance in her affairs. She extends from ocean to ocean and from the lakes tb tho fro ci sea. The great railroad enterprise wli'ch was the occasion of his only rotircme.it from public lifts has become a marked success and one of tho chief glories of his long administration. He had but just triumphed in his last appeal to the people of tne Dominion and been again trusted with the government. The glamour of his name and his achieve­ ments were the great bulwa"ks of th:> Conservative party in all its appeals to the D o m i n i o n p l e b i s c i t e . H e w a s d e e m e d t h e founder of the party &•, d the father of Canadian union, and to many elot tors it seemed littio short of treason to vot; against Sir John's retention in power. The majority of tho people of the Do­ minion i-eemed to be Liberals,.but while they voted w.th their party in the lo al elections they willingly voted for the continuance in power at Ottawa of the man who has been gratefully called tho creator of Canada. He was at the very zenith of h's great fame when the summons cam :. He had not found the semi-sovereign republic hich he created ungrateful, for the in­ cense of the approval of the peopl" came still fresh upon his senses fr'om their last opportunity tQ^exprass it. The Kreatest Canafttan has fought his last fight; his remarab e career is at an end. All Canada sim er ly mourns, l'ar tlsansh'p is forgotten. At this visitation of death, a nation is In tear-". As the sweet singer who wears the laurel of tbe empire has said of another one gon<? before: Fallen at lengih. That tower of strength : That stooi four square To all the winds that h!e.v. Wale* Not of Good ' haracter. In court at Pittsburg, I'a., on applica­ tion of Johnnie Staley, well known in every sporting center, for a transicr of liquor and hotel license, the court ob­ jected bef-ause he was given somewhat to gambling. Staley's attorney remarked: "I desire to call your Honor's attention to the fact that the Prince o.! Wales gambles a little." "Well, I don't con­ sider him of good character. He could not get a lkeata to this court," replied the Judge. ,. v 'AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. JTEM8 GATHERED PROM VARI. OUS SOURCES. Whmt Oar Neighbors Are Doing--Matters of General Mud Local Interest -- Har* stages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointers. THE statement of the ftondition ol State banks shows that there are now sixty-eight banks organized and doing business under the State banking law, an increase of five since the last cal! three, months ago. The ajrgrcgatfl amount of capital stock and surplus funds of these banks Is $17,^91,279; ag­ gregate loans and discounts, 955,315,470; cash reserve, $18,191,842; undivided profits, $2,181,224;s,deposits, £01,547,888; total resources, 881,286,740. AURORA has had a license fight on for some time, and the low-license Aldermen go fishing and break the quorum. The object of the low-license Aldermen Is to prevent the passage of $1,000 license ordinance until tho present licenses ex­ pire. The saloon-keepers then expect to walk up to the clerk's office, deposit $500, and demand a license under the present $500 ordinance, which will re­ main In effect until repealed or amended. NEAR Vandalla a heavy rain has fall­ en which will prove of great benefit to the growing crops generally. It came just in time to sa\ e the potatoes, which promise to be the largest crop the coun­ try has had in years. The growing wheat is maturing rapidly. Farmers are wearing broad smiles in view of the bright prospects. NELLIE FOLET, a 2-year-old Chicago girl, was run over and killed by a* heavy wagon driven by Herman Luske, an em­ ploye of the Euglewood Express Com­ pany. Buske says he, did not see her until she had been knocked down. He was arrested. PETER GREENWOOD, treasurer of Wood River Township, Madison County, who suddenly disappeared two weeks ago, being a defaulter, it is said, to the amount of $14,500, was captured at Portland, Ore., at the Instigation of the Alton National Bank. FRANK BRIOADELLA, a Chicago feed dealer, was put under $500 bonds for send­ ing a threatening communication through the mail on a postal card addressed to Reprejentative Joseph O'Donnell, who owed him a bill. THE Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors of Greene County has finished in^stigating tho accounts of ex-County Treasurer William M. Mer- row and find him indebted to the county in the sum of $2,914 8(5. Suit will be in­ stituted for the recovery of this amount. COMPLETE returns of the election for Supreme Judge in the Fifth District give Craig 20,739 votes and Welis 15,659 votes. "THE World's Fair Colored Club" of Chicago held a picnic at Willow Springs. During the festivities Annie Allen and Belle Rogers quarreled over'a dusky Lothario named Brownell Jonos, and Annie stabbed Belle fatally. Sho is hold. AT Springfie'd, in the Supreme Court, licenses were issued to 200 persons to practice law iu all courts of the State. JOHN WHITESIDE, aged 18, and Nellie, the daughter of H.-P. Briggs, a wealthy farmer of Band County, eluded the vigi­ lance of the girl's parents and were married. The groom's face had been seriously damasred by his father-in-law's fist. The couple purchased tickets for Texas. THE secret service is making it warm for jewelers who plate inferior coins with sold and sell them for ornaments. Sev­ eral arrests have been made in Chicago. AN order has been issued changing the date of tbe encampment of the Second Brigade, Illinois National Guard, from August 4-11 to August 11-18. The Ad­ jutant General has issued commissions to -Charles G. Fuller as major and sur­ geon of the First Infantry, and Henry Sherry as captain and assistant surgeon of the First Infantry at Chi ago, to rank from May 28. The resignations have been accepted of First Lieutenant John D. Harlick, of Company I, First Infantry, and William H. Bnllor, second lieutenant of Company C, Second Infantry. A REPORT of a recently made investi­ gation of the land statutes in the State is contained in the sixth biennial report of the Illinois Burrau of Labor Statis­ tics. It does not refer to town property nor suburban land divided into lots, but embraces only land assessed for taxation as acres. Tho investigation covered only transactions for the year 1887, for the purpose of comparing results with tables of mortgage indebtedness. The highest pr ce paid was $17,200 for one acre near Chicago, and the lowest 10 cents an acre for forty-eight acres in Monroe County. The lowest price paid for Cook County land was 25 cents ah acre for 120 acres (swamp land): aver­ age price at which Cook County farm lands weie sold was #307.10 per acre. The tables show that farm lands of Cook County increased in value from $65,000,000 round numbers in 1880 to nearly $162,000,000. The number of acres assessed in Cook County decreased 18,-, 119 between the years 1880 and 1882 on account of the absorption of farms by suburban subdh isions. Tho average price of laud in the State was $32.87 an acre, and ta'es m 1887 aggregated near­ ly ¥55,000,000 in tho State and in Cook County. Judgments rendered in the. court of record of debt, assumption, confession, attachments, and costs, in 1870, aggregated $4,780,061; in 1880, $2,069,070; in 1887,87,573,890. The chap­ ter of foreclosures of real-estate mort­ gages shows that in 1887 mortgages ag­ gregating $4,370,992 wero recorded against Cook County lands and lots, but the foreclosures aggregated only $399,- 383. Space is devoted to the earnings of the coal miners in the State, showing that their average monthly earnings are $35.53, taking all terms and conditions into consideration. A SAD surprise awaited .Mrs. hobert M. Billiard, of Chie^go, w'hen^ho re­ turned from a two waaks'^^ftsit Hor husband was lying dead inbed, of heart disease, and had not been seen by neigh­ bors for several days. ' , • , THE story told by the relatives of Mrs. Anna Hannan, who died recently at tho Cook County Insane Asylum, Is a further revelation attesting the disgraceful mis­ management of that institution. .They received no notice whatever of her death, though they were well known to the asylum officials, ami, though over $300 was found in her possession--a sum which would have been moro ttian suf­ ficient to give her a respectable burial-- the remains wero consigned to an agent acting for tho young sawbonei at the Bennett Medical College. There they were taken to be hacked up on the dis­ secting table. A CHICAOO policeman is charged with making a practice of soundly clubbing undesirable persons whom he finds on his beat, "because he'd rather punish them that way than arrest them and have to lose his sleep to appear in police court to prosecute them next morning." This particular charge may or may not be true. But after tho divorce of the po­ liceman from politics is fully accom­ plished some simple instruction tending to secure this divorce from the adminis­ tration of justice might not be amiss. While the ordinary policeman is fully competent to administer justice to all minor offenders he should not be encour- aged to fob fcto iXMich of i|« legitimate business. . HIS HONOR IS GONE, AND WITH IT WENT SOME OP THE PRINCE OF WALES'. X-ondoa Mightily Stirred Up Over the Mat Disgrace of Sir William Gordon Cummlng and Prince Albert K<lward--Most Sounda- lou.s Disclosures. The higest social circles of London have been in a state of feverish excite­ ment over the famous trial for slander of tho Wilsons, who charged Sir Wm. Gordon Cumming with cheating at bac­ carat. The Prince of Wales and several others--ladies and gentlemen--partici­ pated in the game, and at the trial it was shown that Wales owned the gambling outfit, and that ho has been an habitual gambler. The trial is over, the Wilsons have been acquitted of the charge of slander, and, in consequence, Sir William has. been found guilty of cheating. Notwithstanding, the higher circles unite in voicing the most intense indignation over the Jury's find­ ing, and the press, in part, unites in the cry. Before the trial was finished, the Prince induced Cumming to sign a paper exonerating him (Wales) from all blame in the matter. But the evidence showed that Wales was cognizant of the cheat­ ing. The comments of the leading pa­ pers make interesting reading. The Chronic a has a scathing art:cle in which it condemns the jury's finding and Lord Coleridge's partiality. It declares no evidence was adduced inconsistent With the hypothesis that . Cummlrg merely played tho well-known coup do ,trois. It says the verdict means according to the jury that Cumming deliberately cheated an illustrious but impecunious friend by a triek requiring long and toil­ some years of practice to acquire, that though twenty years an habitual card- player, without provoking the slightest suspicion, he had suddenly plunged into a wild orgle, cheating the only man in the world on whose patronage his social and professional life depended. There is nothing incredible in Cumming's sign­ ing tho damning document on the strength of a statement of the Prince of Wales' cringing minions, dooming him to a fate wor?e than death, in order to save what the Prince of Wales is pleased to call his honor Cumming is not tho first gallant Scottish gentleman who lias sacrificed both honor and life to the fervid passion of loyalty to the Prince, >r whose devotion has been rewarded by jruel and cynical ingratitude. He has this satisfact'on, that no other man without tho soul of a flunky has ever run the smallest risk for the sake of the lie r appare^t's honor. The article, proceeding, ̂ flatly accuses the Prince of Wales of violating a pledge of secrecy, and calls ufon the authorities to indict Sir William Gordon Cumming for the criminal offense of cheating. It declares that if they do not, the public will know what to think, and says that if the Duke of Cambridge shrinks from his duty in regard to tho military offense, it is to be hoped that Parliament will not prove so pusillani­ mous. The Chronicle finally asks what steps will be taken to vindicate justice in a crime which tho Prince of Wales compounded by signing the compact of Sir William Gordon Cumming: or whether the infamous scandal will be i.ushed up forever. The Standard says: "Even if the plaintiff comes out the worst in the af­ fair, it must be admitted that tbe de­ fendants and their fciends have a some­ what tarnished reputation. The whole busine-s is ignoble from the leginning to the end. There is an air of vulgarity and shabbiness about it. and it must, in common fairness, be acknowledged that the Prince of Wales can't be Wholly ex­ empted from the censure passed on his associates, and wo are sure he himself is acutely conscious of this. It will not be lightly forgotten that the Prince in­ stigated the game an«l carried the ap­ paratus with him 1 oubtless the pain­ ful experiences will prove a lesson that a close and constant circumspection i9 required over every member of a family the lightest stain on whose dignity and delicacy is felt by us as something of a national disgrace." The Tipicn says the case ended in tho only way in which impartial observers tolioved possible. It advises the Wilson family, which it accuses of being in­ directly responsible for the tragic ruin of a fine career, to remain in social re­ tirement. In regard to the important aspect of the case tho Time* says: • "We express the universal feeling of millions of English men and women when we say that we profoundly reg.et the Prince of Wrales' connection with tho affair. Mak­ ing every allowance for the monotony of royal existence, and admitting the tact with which he performs his duties, if he is known to pursue questionable pleas­ ures tho serious public, who are tho backbone of England, will regret and resent it. We almost wish, for the sake of English society, that as the result of this unhappy case the Prince of Wales had also signed a declaration that he would never touch a card again." Referring to the result of the bacca-at case, the lJost says: "We do not desire to add to the anguish over the sad end­ ing of a brilliant career, but the fact re­ mains that the signing of the document rendered it impossible for eminent and dexterous counsel to rehabi.itate tho honor which Cumming himself treated so lightly. Lord Coleridge took a just aspect of the Prince of Wales' connection and of tho morality of baccarat." Sir William has stood at the head of the very highest social circles, but is now irretrievably ruined. His expulsion from the army will follow. In the Presenre of tbe Emperor. Military and other circles at Berlin and elsewhere are discussing a strange and fatal accident which occurred at the Templehof in the presence of the Em­ peror. , A party of grenadiers wero be­ ing exercised by the Emperor at morn­ ing drill on the parado ground. While the men wore being put through their exer­ cises a vivid llash of lightning, followed by a deafening thunder clap, startled and half blinded the men on parade and huried a number of them to the ground. When the men who had not been struck by the electric fluid had sufficiently re­ covered their presence of mind they went to tho assistance of their stricken com­ rades, and it was found that the officer in command, Capt. Von Quast* and throe soldiers wero insensible. Two of the latter died almost immediately after­ ward, and Capt Von Quast and the other soldier who was struck were dan­ gerously injured. A horso was also killed. The Paper Was Misinformed. Surprise and indignation are expressed in social circles at Keokuk, Iowa, the home of Miss Kilbourne, over the Wash­ ington dispatches containing the state­ ment of the Army and Navy Journal that it had authority for saying the ru­ mors of General Schofield's marriage aro absolutely false. Mrs. and Mis9 Kilbourne and their friends are natu­ rally annoyed by the matter. Arrange­ ments for the coming marriage are going on quietly, and the nuptials will be sol­ emnized June 18, as announced, the^ Army and JVar)/ Journal to the contrary* notwithstanding. A Surprised Policeman Slaoota a Man. August Kemmer was shot by Police Officer Kukowski, at Winona, Minn. Kemmer caught tho policeman in a com­ promising position, and the officer fired at him as he retreated. Tbe wound will prove fatal and Kukowski will ba held lor trial. THE GERMAN GIRL. She May 3Tot fretty, bat Site HM ther Rlgrht Kind of B Hcrart. The German girl is tbe most persist­ ently nnderrated of all girls. The Frenchman ridicules her, the English­ man patronizes her, f-nd the American avoids her. The Russian courteously ignores her. and even the German i» ready to desert her for hor foreign sis* ter. Among men of ail nations th«re is almost none to speak for her, aud, as she is too modest to speak for herself, most persons who know her slightly or not at all think there is nothing to Bay for her. This is entirely wrong. To be sure the German girl has none of the dazzling attributes of her English, French, American, and Russian sisters. She is not "jolly," nor "chic," nor "smart," nor "brilliant." She is not "ravishingly beautiful," nor "awfully entertaining," nor a "terrible flirt,"says a writer in the Jennes-Miller Maga­ zine. But despite all these shortcom­ ings the German girl has attractions of her own and an abundance of them. She is well educated, intelligent, and well bred. In history the German girl is companionably clever. She is not pedantic with her knowledge; is tho autipode of a bine stocking. . The German girl can play well and sing a little, too. She reads the news­ papers, marvels greatly at the iniquity of the French, and reasons out to the satisfaction of her own patriotic little heart the complete justification of the Triple Alliance, All this, and mere too, the German girl carries about in bei flaxen little head without turning a sin­ gle hair in conceit. Her Herr Papa and Herr Lieut, von Beerfass may discuss over the whole field of her knowledge in her presence and she doesn't try to show she knows all about it. She may have whole mines of information on cur­ rent topics in her mind, but she doesn't ••make strenuous efforts to let any young man know this. She is, in short, enough of a German to wish to know, just foz the sake of knowing. It is just, this fnlness of unrevealed education and in­ formation that lends indirectly to the German girl her charm in conversation^ She has no fear of running short of con­ versational material. She has no ap­ prehensions that she cannot understand all a man Bays to her when he drifts on harmlessly heavy and impersonal sub­ jects. She is therefore quiet free fronv all conversational nervousness. She does not substitute gusto for intelligence npon subjects of which she knows noth­ ing, and she never raves about things that Bhe knows only by hearsajrT" Throughout a tete-a-tete she is delic- iously serene and reposeful. Once married, the German girl be­ comes all that has long been popularly included in the hackneyed expres­ sion, haus frau. She gives up tran­ scendental rotnance, though not read­ ing and theater-going, and, whether princess or peasant, fastens to her waist­ band a great bunch of keys that unlock every cupboard and closet in her house. She sees to it that the pea soup is pro­ perly cooked and that the beer is pro­ perly stored. The German girl is not beautiful. Her shoulders are too square, lier waist tapers too little, and her feature* are tob expansive. On the other hand, she is not plain, for she has a wealth of flue silky hair, a delicate skin, and a cleat white brow. Her feet and hands, though not small, are shapely, and tbe atmosphere in which she moves is per­ meated with health. Finally, the Ger­ man girl's heart is big and in just the right place, so that all who have seen her as she is can never think of hex otherwise than as a sympathetic and true woman, too clever to be frivolons, too sincere to be capricious, and too earnest to play with real life,--Neva York Tribune". And It Stopped. #8fce was very deliberate abdtot v ping a Woodward avenue. car, and stul more so about getting aboard, and when s]|e handed the conductor a nickel she said: "I want to go--to go--to get oft at- " - J'.r.'W'. He waited, but she seemed worn out with exertion and didn't finish. When the cav had proceeded about a mile from the city hall she beckoned to the conductor and said: " Conductah, I wish yon to stop the cah on the down side of the street." "Yes'm." Things rolled along as before until the car had made another mile, when she beckoned again and aske^i: "Conductah, are we very neah Eliza­ beth street * . "Elizabeth! Why, ma'am, you got on only one block below Elizabeth, and have been going away from it ever 6ince!" "Very well, then--I will get off--get off " He stood with his hand on the bell- rope, waiting for her to finish, but she took her time about ib and rode another block and a half before finish­ ing: "---get off here, I guess. You may alarm the driyah and stop the cah."--• Free Preas. A Hero Indeed. There/s a man in Atchison who is a hero, thbugh if you should call him one he would scarcely know what the word meant. His wife recently died and left him with eight children. He labors by the day and manages his housework after night. After doing a hard day's work he will begin the family washing, to be finished and hung on the line next morning, the ironing to be done the second night. He could not afford a sewing woman, so he has by con­ stantly trying learned to run a machine and cut and fit. Tho oldest girl is growing up, and will be a great help to him in a few years. His little children are sent to school every day, and they appear as neatly and comfortably dressed as any in the school. He did not scatter his family ftmong his rela­ tives nor send them to an orphan as­ ylum. He kept them together, and their home is almost as comfortable as it was when the mothor was alive. He is a hero, and the greatest kind of a. hero, from the fact that he does not realize that he is a hero at all.--Atchir sonr Globe. On Bis Honor. "Have yon any cough syrup?" he asked of a Michigan avenue druggist,, when he had got his breath after a lour fit of coughing. "Yes, sir." *How many kinds?" * "At least fifteen." "Anything of your own make?" "Yes, sir." > • "Something you can warrant?" "I can." "Well, to be square and honest, what, would you advise me take for this congh?" "Um! Well, if you put it on that ground, I recommend a piece of this locoricei or five cents' worth of Arabic.--Free Press. ' Ail -• , - v ; ,** *;A»