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^'^rrrryv # • • • , - • *«- •>"/:v ,"w« PLAINDEALEB J. VAN SLYKE, fid iW and Pub. • MclftNRY. ILlWOfP. SMPBROR WILLIAM proposes to flog Anarchists first and seriously punish them afterwards. WHAT is the matter with the penal Institutions of Boston? They appear to be run by the convicts, instead of toy the keepers* , "1 FEAR." sadly said ^he postage when it found itself fastened *>»love letter, "that lam not stlck- „ijng to facts." CONTINENTAL powers will moder­ ate their transports over Mr. Glad- •tone's retirement when they reflect that an important plank In bis suc­ cessor's platform is: "Britannia rules and must rule the wave." THE cold mining boom Is AN- 'jiounced in numerous places in the HVest. Prominent among them is Jjrrant County, in Oregon. It is be­ lieved that a second California rush soon be expected there. " ONE of the vessels wrecsed off the English coast during the recent great ftorm was 114 years old, and has been Vegularly engaged in the coasting trade ever since it was built in 1779. it was a schooner named the Draper, And went down with all on board. WHY should every passenger in a train subjected to the test of robbery frove an abject coward? Th's query Is something not alone to puzzle one tout to be ashamed of. In the latest %rain robbery the bandits could have ' feen picked off from cover by any man with the nerve to draw a bead. IF Yankee ingenuity can devise iome legal provision by which Ameri­ can girls can marry a foreign title Mjjrithout taking the man who gr %ith it, the recruits to the ranks of «ur native aristocracy will increase in geometrical progression from the time of its adoption until the titles are exhausted or the spirit ot Ameri­ can manhood has kicked the whole gibing over. • A SAN DIEGO^ CAL., man, of an Experimental turn of mind, divorced One wife and tried another. His iecond choice did not suit him, and "lie divorced her, for the put pose of testing a third. Unfortunately tor IHs experiment, he met wire Nu 1, and remarried her, and now No. 2 is qeeking to add to his stock of experi­ ence by suing him for everything he las on earth but his twice married *if& THE destruction of fish and fame : ln New York is exciting much at tent ion. No less than twenty-two « (tills to amend the game laws have [ been introduced in the Assembly, reg­ ulating the time and methods to be used. All the States can well afford to call attention to the subject The I Iftates and the general government \ Stock the streams with fine varieties Of flsh, and then permit vandals, with teines and nets and dynamite, to de­ stroy them by wholesale. The time lias come to call a halt. The finest fishing lake in the world is Lake Erie, and had It not been for the t laws of Canada there would to-day be no fisb in Lake Erie worth the seek­ ing- it:- f. f , FOR over two years the Asiatic % cholera has been epidemic in West- '* Orn Russia, but, as we have bad re­ ports of tne subsidence of its ravages during the winter months, there was Hope that there might not be a re- •* eurrence this spring of the unhappy I experiences of that season in 1892 I and 1893. We regret that the dis- . patches at hand are unfavorable. There have been violent outbreaks . Of the disease during the last week at I a number of the populous centers of •• the western provinces; one of the f most violent of them as far west as Jr the city of Warsaw, and from that 6 place both (Germany and Austria are •gain directly menaced. There is reason, therefore, to fear that we will have to be on the guard for yet an­ other year, %nd that there will be >. - need for the utmost vigilance on the ~ part of the officers of our quarantine ji service. BY the death of Joseph Keppier, Oditor and part proprietor of Fuck, this country -haaJost its most famous Caricaturist, Mr. Keppier had had a diversified career, though from the ftrst his talent displayed itself as an illustrator. He had had much ex­ perience In this direction for a num­ ber of years, but his reputation was purely local until he established Puck, the colored cartoons in which soon gave him a national celcbrity. Be was a greater caricaturist than Bast, as the latter was only a cam­ paign caricaturist, while Keppier's talent covered every variety of sub­ let, and as a draftsman he was far superior to Nast- He loaves a son Who, it is said, will succeed to the Management of Puck, but it is doubt­ ful whether he possesses his father's artistic talent Mr. Keppier had a keen sense of humor, but the most conspicuous phase of his genius was the incisiveness and directness of his Cartoona It will be exceeding dim- Cult to fill his places ft I! THAT hfghly interesting discovery In optics which a young Chlcagoan Claims to have made--that by an ef­ fective combination of small lenses can secure the same tower- 1* a only Use of one great tense. The Construction of a thirtyslx-lnch lens, such as is in use at the Lick observa­ tory, or of a forty-inch lens, such as the darks are making at Cambridge for the Yerkes telescope, is one of the most difficult feats of mechanical skill It consumes years and costs tens of thousands. This young in­ ventor pretends that he can make an equally effective glass in six months for lessjthan one-tenth of the cost. He has taken his idea from the eye of the common house fly, which, as everybody knows, Is a multiplicity of small lenses. More power to the in­ ventor. The earth is the Lord's, as the heavens are, and we cannot know too much about either. An invention that draws the skies down nearer to earth is victory of pe^cey Jap less renowned than that of waft IT is pleasant to note that one John Y. McKane, a gentleman who has attracted more or less attention during tbe last few months, has given unmistakable evidence of an entire change in his opinions regarding the valdity of mandates issued by the courts. Ever since Mr. McKane went Into the business of furnishing ma­ jorities to suit customers Irom his ancestral borough of Gravesend he has denied that the tribunals of the State of New York had any power or authority whatever over him. "In­ junctions," he was accustomed to say --"injunctions doesn't go in Grave, send," an opinion to which he added weight by clubbing the process-server into insensibility or throwing him Into jail, to be fined, later on, for disorderly conduct Mr. McKane has seen a light, however. He realizes that he was perhaps hasty in denying jurisdiction to the State courts. He has so completely changed his opin­ ions, in fact, that for several days past lawyers in his employ have been chasing judges all over the State with the hope of getting from them one of those documents for which he once manifested a supreme contempt Tbe fact that such a document would postpone for a time Mr. McKane'5 journey to Sing Sing should not be allowed to detract from the sincerity of his repentance He really means it He knows now that "injunctions does go in Gravesend" or anywhore else in New York State. THE Chicago Times is attracting considerable attention by a fierce as­ sault on the method of assessment of real estate for taxation, showing, by facts drawn from the public records, that while the homes and places of business of the small sho;) keepers and other small owners of Chicago real estate are assessed at from one-quar­ ter tp one-third of their market valued the great business blocks, owned by wealthy men or powerful syndicates, are assessed at only 6 to 12 per cent of their market value, the rate o! taxation being the same in all cases. And thi9 is true al­ though the lq»w of Illinois expressly commands that all such property shall be assessed at its cash market value. It is probable that a similar state of things exists throughout the country, affording another striking illustration of the strange fact that a law not sustained by public opinion is practically a "dead latter." An­ other fact it illustrates is the extent to which the public conscience is demoralized. The argument ought to be carried to the end if people are to be taught by it The amount to be raised by taxation remains the same no matter what the assessment so if tbe latter is raised the rate of taxation will be lowered, and the ul­ timate difference might not be so great to each individual taxpayer as one would at first expect vet the in­ equality under such a svstem as this is sufficiently marked to startle any­ one. it presents, too, a nut for tbe single-tax men. If it is impossible te prevent inequality line this when real estate has only part of the bur­ den to bear, how can it be prevented when it has the whole of the burden? What we need is not so much more laws or changed laws as equable, im­ partial administration of tbe laws we have. If the assessors so grossly vio­ late the laws that now are, what as­ surance can the people have that they would. Letter obey any other law? The Flow or Solids. A cube of lead, steel, stone, or ice, placed on a solid suriace, submitted to a sufficient pressure or loaded with a sufficient weight, "flows" sideways just as if it were a bio k of plastic day. The only difference is that, clay fiows under its own weight, while steel requires an immense pressure in order to "flow" in its solid state. As to ice, it stands between the two-- much nearer, of course, to the former than to the latter, if both are taken at ordinary temperatures. A thick­ ness of a few hundred feet or a cor­ responding load, would be quite suf­ ficient to make it "Vow," though re­ maining solid, even over a quite horizontal floor, and to behave in its spreading over the floor like a lump of plastic mud, provided its tempera­ ture is but a few degrees below zero. This is the net result of Tresca's epoch-making experiments on "the flowing of solids" underpressure, and tnese experiments have been fully confirmed as regards ice by tbe ex­ periments of Helmholtz, Pfaff, and especially those of the Bologna pro­ fessor, iilanconl.--Nineteenth Cent­ ury. Thejr Came from China. The games of dominoes, chess, baccarat and lanjuenet have come from China, and are very old, being traceable as far back as 2,000 or 3,000 years before the Christian era. IF a woman wants a welcome when she gets home, she should leave her hushiuid with the baby when she gees. ^ALSE CRY OF REFOBM DEMOCRATS DO NOT REDUOE GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSES ippmpitolliw BBIi Ukdy Those of tMt Year by Tow l»rn--AggrtsgaWIU Be Nearly Hundred Million Dollar* Dol- BMnrbam Are Kxtnincut The total of aporoprlatfcns of the present session of Congress will exceed by a few millions tbe appropriations of the first session of the last Congress. No official summary has been made by Chairn an Say era or the members of the Appropriation Committea, but a comparison of the bills already passed or reported, with those of the first ses­ sion of the la3t Congress, t-hows the total of the bills as they leave the House will be ab )ut $360,H41,759. The Senate usually increases tbe bills ma­ terially; last year increases reaching a total of $5,000 000 were secured, so that the aggregate for the present 6e:sion is expected to touch $370,000,CO '. Eight of the great appropriation bills have already besn reportoi to the House, and three of them have been passed. The total of these in their present stage is $304,041,730. This is ibout $15,000,0)0 more than the same bills carried two years ago. The com­ parison is as follows: Present 18W-9S. Congress. tM.S0S.M9 f*,:>T7,284 Army, reported. Diplomatics and eonsn- 1.6M.MS ' . 13,738 6,137,9731 2,734,276" 4,972.094 ' 1,219,054 400,433 1S1.MJ.670 •1,470.599 M.306.38J Iar. reported District of Columbia, passed. Foitl float ions, passed. Military Academy, re­ ported 428,917 Pensions, passed l4f>,7.i7,:«M» PostofBce, reported... 80,831,276 tiuBOry c ivil, reported 97,665,076 Total t9B9.137.4ia *304,041,739 Of the bills yet to be brought into the House no exact estimate is obtain­ able, owing to the care with which such bills are guarded. It is believed, however, that the following estimates approximate to the bills as they will be reported: Present Congress (Estimated). t S, ISO.000 . t.750,000 f 901>,l>00 00:4,000 O0O.O Agrtealfearal Indian Legislative, etc... Navy Hirer and harbor. isw-'w. 7,764,047 91,900,1 a 9J,M3.W3 .... TT.U4.21* Total $n,494.777 16 »,800,00» Deficiency bills are not included, as they are not among the appropriations for specific Government branches. With the total of bills already passed or reported and those estimated, the grand total of this cession as against two years would be: Present 1S32-D9. Congress Passed or reported M4.oii.7fi9 Estimated .. SJ.MOO.OOO Total $366,622,194 $386,841,759 Should the Senate make no increases the total would be almost identical with that of two years ago, but, with the usual Senate increases, the total Is likely to reach $37(',000,000. Kill the Mongrel BUI! Republican Senators have taken the right course in demanding that debate on the Wilson bill shall not be hurried and insisting upon their constitutional right to discuss and contest it item by item. The measure framed by Con­ federate brigadiers for the defense of Southern interests and the destruction of Northern industries deserves no courtesy or consideration at Republi­ can hands. It is not entitled even to the respect which might have been due to a frank free trade bill designed for revenue only, in accordance with the explicit declarations of the Chicago platform. Such a bill would at least have had the merit of consistency and impartiality. It would not have dis­ criminated between different sections of the tame country. Its operations would have been ruinous, and Republi­ cans would have been bound to oppose it by every means in their power: but it would have been a far more manly measure than the sneaking sham which Southern Bourbonism, with the aid of Grover Cleveland, is trying to force upon the people of the Lnited States. The Wilson bill observes no principle except sectional hatred. It is a mon­ grel and despicable scheme designed to punish the North for Gettysburg and Appomattox, and constructed with a view to obliterate the most flourish­ ing^industries of the most enlightened, progressive and industrious common­ wealths of the Union. It is an act of war against the North, and Republican Senators in the Finance Committee and on the floor of the Senate should deal with it a9 such. Every method of opposition and obstruction which par­ liamentary rules permit should be used to the utmost. Republican Sen­ ators are not fighting for the profits of capital. They ate fighting for the people; for the firesides and the schools of the great North; for the independ­ ence of Northern farmers, the man­ hood of Northern wage earners and tbe lives of Northern women and chil­ dren, doomed to degradation and starva­ tion if the bill for the ruin of Northern industries should pass. The people of the North, the work- ingmen of the great cities, the arti­ sans of the towns, and the voters of the country districts, have repudiated the Wilson I ill and commanded their representatives in Congress to re'ect it. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York, New .'ersey and Iowa have spoken in thunder tones against the iniquity. New Yorkand Pennsylvania have twice condemned it. Pennsyl­ vania's magnificent Republican plu­ rality of 132,001) last November graw to 187,000 in February. The local elec­ tions just held in two-thirds of the counties in New York State would have increased last fall's Republican plu­ rality of 100,0^0 to 150,< 00 if the entire State had voted. The warning to Northern Democratic Senators is clear. The command to Re nub icans is un­ mistakable. Smash the mongrel abom­ ination and maintain equal aud just Srotection for the whole country!-- few York Press. Hav« l>onr Mulhliif. When Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States for the second time, we were told by his ad­ miring henchmen that the golden age had come. During his first term, one of the houses of Congress remained Republican; but during his second, the Bouse of Representatives was over­ whelmingly Democratic, the Senate was Democratic, ihe Executive was Democratic. Here was the opportun­ ity for (irover Cleveland. He and his party had been hurled into power by cne of those popular convulsions which at times sweep over this land,and which apparently pre-a ^ed a greater one which shall sweep them out again. He had a strong and united party behind him, flushed with victory. He had be­ hind that party, as he thought, the people of the United States. He said in his inaugural: "The people of the United States have decread that on this day the control of their Government, in its legislative and executive branch­ es, shall be giv=n to a political party pledged in the most positive terms to the accomplishment ot tariff reform. JU failure can be traced to our fault or Mfleet, we HIM he sore the people will hold QI to a swift aad exacting account­ ability. It is not only la the matter of tariff reform that the people will hold Mr. Cleveland and his j-a-ty to a "swift and exacting accountability." Even that will-o'-the-wisp issue, upon which they have led a deluded people into the Dismal Swamp of want and destitution, they have evaded. Over a year has elapsed since Grover Cleveland and his party went into power; twenty months have passed since the Demo­ cratic party, assembled in convention at Chicago, ' denounced protection as a fraud--a jobbery of the great majority of the American people f>r the pro­ tection of the few." Yet in all that time what have they done toward giving the people that free trade for which they foolishly clamored? Noth­ ing. After many months they have given them that mongrel mass of con­ tradictions, the Wilson tariff bill, in which a shameful shuftte or an in­ iquitous bargain lurks in every line. "Free trade for the North, protection for the South"--that is the Wilson bilL Why Trad* la Famlyae*. This country's business depends upon two factors--the agricultural class and the workingman, Paralyze their earn­ ings, and you paralyze trade. The tariff agitation has tended to do this. It has reduced the wages of the work- ingman, and contracted t' e market for the farmer's produce. It has decreased wages at lea~t 40 per cent., and has taken from the farmer more than a fourth of his incom9, including, of oourse, the little profit that koena him from bankruptcy.* When these classes have no money, the country is poor, even though the banks be tilled with cash. The banks are filled. Capital has run to cover. It want' to get out again, but it will not venture unless it has absolute certainty of protection. What is needed is the return of confidence and activity, the opening of mills, and the employment of men who will bring the dollars out andcreatea demand for the farmer's produce, and thus put the money in circulation, insteai of crowd* ing it in vaults. Protection does all this, because it keeps the country at work. Wilson bill agitation operates the other way, and every interest suf­ fers.--Baltimore American. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. The National LNIM Contention. The call for the annual convention of the National Republican League, to be held in Denver, Col., in June, is patri­ otic in tone and catholic in scope. It cordially invites all Republicans to join league clubs, and thus take part in sending delegates to the approaching convention who believe in honest elec­ tions, the dignity of free labor, the protection of American industries, American workingmen and American homes, the fullest security of all forms of property, the grateful recognition of the imperishable services of Union veterans, a sound and stable currency, with "the use of both gold and silver as standard money," a practical and efficient civil service system, the con­ stant assertion of American principles and the maintenance of national honor. The response to this invitation should be prompt and genera1. Thfe Denver convention which will be the only national Republican gathering of the {(resent year, will foreshadow the ssues upon which next fall's Congres­ sional and State campaigns will be conducted, aud it should be made widely representative of Republican sentiment Pention Snaponnlona Suspended. Pension Commissioner Lochren has come to the conclusion, after securing the opinion of Attorney General Olney that the act of Congress passed Dec, 21, 1893, must be obeyed by his depart­ ment. He has issued an order direct­ ing that the suspension of pensions be at once removed, except in cases where pensioners have already been dropped from the rolls. Mr. Lochren does not like the situation and says that "the result will be to pay out a large amount from the Treasury to persons who are defrauding the Government." But the thing for him to do is to ferret out the frauds as soon as possible and stop pay­ ing money to them. There is no hon­ esty or justice in making the innocent suffer for the guilty. No one wants the Government's money paid to frauds, but we can better afford to pay a few dollars wrongfully than to deprive thousands of honest old soldiers, even temporarily, of the little stipends which a grateful people ha) awarded them for their patriotic service. Confronted bv Grave Qaentlon*. The Cincinnati Enquirer is Demo­ cratic, but it can see further into the future than the rulers of its party. It is afraid of a solid North. "If Con­ gress is going to play politics," it says, "why can it not commence in time to make the play of some account.' Don't prtceed on the theory that the States which are punished are going to forget their punishment on election day Don't solidify the North. Solidifica­ tion happened in 1861. The questions were grave then. Other questions are grave now." HM Been Near to Bain. The Kansas City Journal says: "The Democrats have had control of the Government one year, and the country has been nearer to ruin than it has b^en since the Democratic attempt to shoot it to death." Ani the needless hardships of poverty cause little less suffering than war. Politic*! Xotea. To SAY that the trust? own Congress is incorrect. They simply hire it by the job. THE Republican elephant is quite frisky the^e days. He evidently feels his hay. THE present Congress has made more Republican votes than any other sinoe the war. THE talk about Stevenson for the Presidency is calculated to reconcile the country to Cleveland. THE Democratic tariff policy may be tersely defined as a scheme to make a deficit in every household. ABOUT the most unprofitable use to which a man can put himself this year is that of running for Governor on the Democratic ticket in a Northern State. THE House goes on making appro­ priations with courageous indifference to the fact that no arrangements have yet been made for providing the money. , WESTEBN farmer* have found that the only effect of voting the Populist ticket is to let the Democrats into power to cut down the price of wheat. About one experience of this sort is enough for the practical soil tillers. SENATORS VOOKHEES and Vest de­ clare that the tariff bill pending In the Senate does not interfere with any of the reciprocity treat es concluded un­ der the McKinley law, but merely pro­ vides that no further treaties of the kind shall be negotiated. SINCE the Republicans carried Penn- I sylvania by a plurality of nearly 200,- <XM), Democratic candidates for GJV- i ernor have disappeared. In New York ' State there is a sudden dearth of | ambitious Democrats. Even that Tam- ! many daisy, Roswell P. F ower, is fighting shy of a renominatioau < SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. SMOMT UfmrCoattaM Phystaat With Spiritual Power--Vaccination StlU Urged bjr Health Aathoritle*--Transformation •t^Olnek Jack" Yattaw's Bun Bant. Fren»ber HM to Use Fore*. The pastor in charge of the Metho­ dist Church of Lynville is a circuit- rider named Lafever, and he seems to have emulated W. T. Stead in the plainness of some of his preaching. He spoke one evening in a manner to sno k some good people. Ths boys took to teasing him by various tricks and finally one of them made a disturb­ ance in church. The preacher marched down from the pulpit and made the youngster behave ^himself. This an­ gered the lad s mother, and when Brother Lafever asked the woman if she was a Christian the mother of the offender told the preacher that it was none of his business. This led to other unsavory langu lge, and after church a party of boys laid for the preacher. He met them fearlessly. They clinched and fell, but were separated, ani now throe of them have fce_*n arrested for disturbing the peace. A great sensa­ tion has resulted, as thos« arrested are lrom the best families in the county. B imboat to Be n Floating Bethel. "Black Jack's" bumboat, at Chic ago, turned into a floating bethel, i* now the scene of prayer and sermon. In the big room where Yattaw was wont to dispense liquor behind a rough bar of slabs divine services for the "great unreached," in the wo.ds of Chaplain E. R. Pierce, are held. In th > club- rcoms, where the abandoned held drunken orgies, prayers take the place of oaths. For the present the ex-or.m- boat will be just south of Madison street, but in May it will be towed to the west of the south end of Clark street bridge, and there it will remain. After it was wrecked last fall, the bum- boat was bought by Chaplain Pierce for the Floating Bethel Association. He paid $300 for the wreck, and it cost $200 to have it fixed up. Dr. Gunsau- lus' church paid the repair bill, and then the Second Presbyterian con­ tributed funds for the transformation. Arrasted for Wreo.,inx a Train. Lafayette Anierson, a carpenter of Anna, and B. Brown and Willis Parks, of Ullin, were arrested charged with wrecking the "Chicago and New Or­ leans limited" near lillin Station, on the Illinois Central, Nov. 5. A switch was thrown open and the train ran in­ to it at full sp.^ed, overturning the en* fine and baggage and express car. The reman, Charles Hammond, of Cen­ tralis, and two tramps who were steal­ ing a ride on the platform of the ex­ press car were killed. The object of the train wreckers was supposed to have been robbery. A large sum of money was being carried in the express messenger's irafe. No effort was made, however, to secure the money after the train was wrecked. Detectives have since been engaged on the case, and the arrests are the result of their work. The three men are now in jail at Mound City. Killed Htm for the The wife of Thomas Robertson, the alleged leader of the gang of conspira­ tors who attempted to blow up the Goodman dam with dynamite and who is supposed to have been killed in the light resulting from the attempt, went to Murphysboro and swore out war­ rants for Thomas Blay, W. S. Grear, and William Aldridge, and charges them with murder. She alleges that these men induced Robertson to join them in the operation and then be­ trayed the plot to the officers and shot Robertson themselves in order to re­ ceive the $410 reward offered by Union County for any one detected tampering with tne dam. Officers are after the three men, but have not yet returned. Smal'-Pox Keepe Up Its Becord. Secretary Miner, of the State Board of Charities, is sending to the Superin tendents of the State charitable insti­ tutions and the county poorhousas a circular requesting the vaccination of ttio inmates of those institutions Sec­ retary Scott, of the State Board of Health, is sending a ci cular t;> the County Physicians of the State re­ questing them to attend to the vaccina­ tion of paupers. Health Commissioner Arthur R. Reyndls, of Chicago, re­ ports to the State Board of Health that during the month of February there were ^33 ca esof small-pox In that city, while during the thirteen days follow­ ing there were llti cases. Seriously 111 in n Foreign Land. Mm. H. B. Randall, of Rockford, who went to Vancouver. B. C., to meet Miss Nettie Corbin, a Rockford young woman missionary to China, tele­ graphed that on the arrival of the steamer that was to bring her she learned that Miss Corbin was taken very sick on board, and was obliged to land at some point on the coast of Ja­ pan. She has been ill with consump­ tion, and it is now feared will not re­ turn home alive. Miss Corbin formerly lived in Rockford, and was prominent socially and in church work. Becord of the Week. AMATEURS made an attempt to rob a bank at Smithfield, but were driven away by the citizens. ANTON SLAVANISKA, an Austrian laborer, was killed at Joliet by being struck by rock from a blast. THE Presbyterians of Waukegan dedicated a handsome new church Just completed at a cost of *17,000. EMIL SMITH shot and killed himself at Peoria. Despondency at losing his position is said to be the cause. G. A. SANFORD, Presidont of the Second National Bank of flock ford, died of paralysis. He was 80 years old. ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY is to have a summer* station for the natural history laboratory and the stuay of aquatic fauna. JOHN WHITTAKER, a notorious rough of Peoria, was shot and killed by- Po­ lice Officer Herman Damm, whom he resisted. ' MISTAKING Otto Hronek, a Chicago newsboy, for a burglar, G. A. Oswald shot h>m. inflicting a wound that may prove fatal. ATTORNEYS repre eiting Prender- gast, the murderer of Carter Harrison, have asked the Illinois Supreme Court for a supersedeas. • ROBERT HIRSCHELL, a painter of Mount Olive, committed suicide by blunging the blade of a pair of shears Into liis heart. Despondency was the cause. * EVERY saloonkeeper in Canton wa3 cited to appear in court, and each was fined for selling liquor to minors and inebriates. The fines riangel from $ti0 to tfliO. HENSY ItocHBR, of Arensville, die4 at the aga of 87. CHABLBS GOODE ce'ebrnted his lOQth birthday at Patteville. - SMALL-POX has broken out at Moaee. Two children are affected. A NEW ledge of the Order of Red Men w a5 instituted at Mount CarmeL ROBERT WHITE, of Mifflin, was killed by lightning while standing in his door. STEPHEN COYNE, who endeavored to commit suicide at Aurora, died of his woun<ys. Ds, CHAPMAN closed his religions revival at Decatur. One thousand peo­ ple signed confession cards. E. M. AIKEN has resigned as Secre­ tary of the Y. M. C. A. of Rockford to become Associate State' Secretary of Kansas. CHARLES MORK, arrested for at­ tempted train wrecking, Was ssnteneed to one year in the penitentiary at Waukegaa. JOHN WISE, ef Chicago, unwittingly threw some clothing on a bed where his little daughter was sleeping, and she was smothered. FOR passing "raised" bills at the "World's Fair, Samuel and Belle Free- land, husband and wife,were sentenced to three years each. ' TJ PREVENT her husband eloping with a rival, Mrs. William P. Buck, of Chicago, gave in ormation leading to his arrest for robbjry. PABST BREWING COMPANY is re­ ported to have bought the Briggs House property at Cnicago for a sum a^proximiting $320,000. OFFICIAL investigation shows Mail Carrier Boney, at Chicago, acted in eelf-defense wnen he kicked Henry Wirsing's dog to death. AN operation for the removal of the vermiform appendix was performed on S. B. Raymond, of Chicago, and prom­ ises to result successfully. DANIEL CCLLEN, Claude Venemon, and Frank Noonan, the three boys who robbed the Windsor Park postofflce, were given terms at the Pontiac re­ form school. AT Mahomet, Mr. and Mrs. ,T. P. Park celebrated the fiftieth anniver­ sary of their marriage. Many persons were present from Cnampaign, Urbana and Mansfield. SECRETARY MINES, of the State Bcard of Pub!:c Charities, received a Ltier from Vandalia announcing that George H. Deickman, a member of the board, wa s lying at the point of death. HUNTLEY ha3 a sensation. Dr. Cook resented a remark made on the street by Dr. Griffith, and knocked him down. More trouble is looked for, and the town is excited. Griffith is reported to have talked of shooting and Cook now carries a Winchester. THE trial of Rev, George Le Fever took i lace at Lynnvilln Richard Yates, of Jacksonville, wont down to defend the preacher, and the trial was sensational from the start. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty and the preacher goes free. The trial of the boys whom be ejected from his church is the next move. M. PULLARD, A. H. Clark and W. A. Clark, known to the Chicago police as "confidence" me a, were arrested by Lieut. Dollard and Officer Gibbons while attempting to entrap strangers in the city near the Union Depot on Canal street. Pullard was fined $15 ani costs by Justioe Fester ani the C ark brothers were dismis ei with a warning not to be caught near the depot again. BY'the will of G. A. Sanford, wh|ch was filed at Rockford. the following charitable bequests were made: Rock­ ford College, $2,000; American Board of Foreign Missions, $2,000: Home Missionary Society, $2,000; Chicagc Theological Seminary, $2,000; Ameri­ can Bible Society, $1,000; American Missionary Association, $2,000. Mr. Sanford was president of the Second National Bank and left an estate of $250,000. AT Chicago, G. W. Gordon and D< B. Carson were fined $130 each and sent to jail for thirty days for using the mail i in a swindling scheme. Frank Dillon, John Williams, Charles J. Johnson, John Kelly. Charles Mack, and William Freeman were sent to the penitentiary for counterfeiting. Roy Best guiltv of cutting open a mail bag, got one year, and Frank Horn, the carrier who stole a $50 draft from a letter, was given three years at Joliet. THOMAS S. BALDWIN, Quincy s aer onaut, arrived home the other day from San Francisco, and took the oath of the office of aeronautical engi neer, to which he wa< recently ap­ pointed by the United States Govern­ ment. He will commence his investi­ gations in Boston harbor early in April, wh ire he will try to solve the problem as to why the fog horn can be heard fifteen miles at sea and cannot be heard three miles from land. MANY of the more prominent mem­ bers of the Rockford garrisjn of the Knights of the Glob 3 were astounded when they heard of the action of the lodge in seceding from the order on account of a rumpus in the Supreme Council at Free port and are protesting against it. They say that tneir mem­ bership is ninety: that less than one- third of that number were in attend­ ance at the meeting, and they insist that the thing was done too hastily. LEROY HARRIS, convicted of passing fraudulent money-order checks, was given five years at hard labor in the penitentiary by Judge Bunn in the United States Court at Chicago. Tne court refused the demand of the pris­ oner's attorney for the $1,30J found on his person at the time of his arrest. Harris has a family now without sup­ port, and it was argued that the monay rightfully belonged to him. The court hold that if it cjuld not be identified as part of the $.'1,100 he stole it will be returned. Inspector Stuart said Har­ ris may be tried for crooked work in Ohio and Indiana postoffices after his term has beeU'served, and the money might be identified as belonging to the Government. AT the closing session of COngrega- tionalists at Fairbury addresses were made by Rev. J. H. Simons, of Che banse; Professor R. H. H. Blome and Miss Frar.c?s McCracken, of Past n; Mrs. C. E. Slocum, Of Loda: Eev. H. Tainter and Rev. A. D. Wiard, of Chi­ cago. AN attempt was made to burn the store building of Thomas Butler in Jersey ville. The upper portion is let for orifices. Powder and coal oil were used, but the smoke of tho kindling was seen and th 3 blaze put out. Active search is b insr male for the oflenier, with probabilities of success. CHARLES KELLUM, judge of the Cir­ cuit Court of DeKalb County, cne of the oldest and best-known jurists in that section of Illinois, was stricken with apoplexy while holding court during a murder trial, and now lies in a critical condition. Owing to his ad­ vanced years his recovery is despaired ot. Miss ETHEL RINEHART, a pretty young Effingham school teacher, elopM with Geoi-go Shelton. The couple • 1 A GOOSE oia Cfca BtHer Tried to Bnn 1* Wrecked 30* Coach. i ,1'f ' "Rome was saved by a gooae, aaft . 1 I was wrecked by one," said : tbe other dav, as she hobbled on her crutch, says the New York World. We naturally Inquired how '^| this occured, and she continued: "1 ^ might go further with the com tart* • . }:A son. Rome bad a sleeping sentinel it and 1 had a drunken, frolieaoaM; d r i v e r . I t w a s m o r e t h a n t w e n t y • yean ago when I took a seat in stage coach one morning in Central * Maine for a twenty-mile ride to the cars of the Maine Central Railroad. The driver was a great lustv, Jolly fellow, who had a too intimate ac- *j quaintance with the bottle fiend. He , „ was feeling pretty frisky that morn* ing, and when the sun was well-risenf < ^ t and the earth began to warm up te became positively gay We passed • farmhouse where there were all sort* ' ; J of animals and creatures hoverinc . round waiting for breakfast. They were so numerous they crowded out into the road, and as we drove Into " j them with our spanking four-honm team there was a scurrying among ' a them in all directions to get out of " "' t the way. One gooee, instead of get- ting to one side as the others had T;?, done, scud hissing along the road ahead of the hnrsesj dodging tul» way • a and that but never getting quite out. . of the way. The driver braced him-- rv^ self and began to bandie the lines- | like an expert and to swing from one ( | side of tbe road to the other In pur- suit of the goose. The stage rocked "4 back and forth like a ship at sea. This continued for some distance. , % He was trying to run over the goose. yf; At last the bird veered out of the i road up over the bank and out went " tbe horses and coacb over the bank, » too. It was too much for the coacb |^| and it tipped over. It killed the 3 goose and broke my hip, besides in- ^ juring other passengers." * -Thev bad li to pay for their folly, didn't they?" we inquired. "Well, the owners of the line paid me 91,200 and got off ^ 6Beap at that, for I am crippled for' life They had to pay others, too, , t including the owner ot the goose." - Holv Wells in the British Isles* Among the pretty dying supersti­ tions the belief in holy wells, wish­ ing wells, and fairy wells is among the most pleasing and the oldest* says an English writer. Mr. Hope, F. S. A., has compiled an agreeable account of the "Holy Wells of Eng­ land," albeit, his antiquarianism is of the most old-fashioned. He distin­ guishes two sorts of legends about; wells, • "sacred and pagan," meaning by sacred, Hebrew. But the story of the holv wells in Palestine come . J from the same far-off source as tbe f| stories of other countries; in these '"$§ minor beliefs and customs the Jews t were not different irom their nefgh- bora " , The various peculiar properties of ,»'-'CJ wells were naturally a.-&r}b$c| to a 0 supernatural cause--a naiad, a 'M nymph, a fairy, or, later, to a H| prophet or a saint Pausanias tells , ^ of a well which grew troubled, aad / caused clouds to rise and rain to fol-, ^ low. when the priest of Zeus Ly- " casus performing a certain right. He mentions a spring sacred to Demeier'-*^' which was used in divination. A mirror was lowered to the surface of the water, and the reflection yielded. an omen as to the recovery of the pa­ tient who consulted this oracle. So at Guival in Cornwall there is a di­ vining well, Saint Madera's. Peo­ ple consulted an old women whoc lived there as to whether their ab­ sent friends were in sickness or ' || health. In tbe former case the well >v grew discolored, in tbe latter it bub- * ^ bled, and if the person were dead itt remained as usual, 'lhis was an un­ lucky kind of well, tbe odds being* long that the water oontinued in it* natural state. For ail these virtues offerings are made to the wells of pins, small coins, or rags attached to the neigh* boring bushes. An ancient example^ was found at Carrawbrough, on the line of the Roman wall in Northum­ berland The sbrine, which has a relief of a naiad with an urn, con-^ tained Roman coins, altars, vases,! rings, beads, and brooches, all dedi­ cated to the goddess Conventina. In.. A. D. 380 Theodosius disestablished and disendowed pagan walls. At that time, perhaps, the various offer­ ings were concealed in the well of; Coventina. The votive tablet, with the figure of the nvmph, was dedi-> cated by an officer in a Dutch, or, at all events, a Batavian, regimennt. ,11 " $ LIEO FULTON, a Nauvoo lad, placed t r_ kJ old musket, many years loaded, in h | found 8 country squire by hard dm vise, tied a string ten feet long to the j ing. were hastily marriea, aadilepaft- trigger, and pulled the string. The [ ed north. The mo'hsr of the «irl is butt of the musket crushed in the lad's J nearly era ei with gr'.eU and the skull in the reccnl and the degtors say , father declares he will sncot fcheltQa to win**!;;; *^ Inight. ..r" ***.-' * j- . 1 rt. The Vses of Salt. /g Salt and water wiil sometimes re- * •Ire a person when unconscious from , a hurt Salt in tepid water is a good ^ emetic. For poisoning with alcohol * . an emetic of warm water and salt should be frequently given. A teaspoonful of salt in a glass of water is a cure in many stomach | troubles, relieving colic and helping indigestion. • ",;|s A bag filled with silt and heated - - "i is a great comfort to any one suffer- f ing from neurajgia. There Is noth- / ing more restful to tired eyes than m bath of warm salt and water. ^ If the head be washed occasionally 1 >>|1 with salt and water, it wiil lessen V'.j the falling out of the hair. £alt add- ed to the bath will be found almoafr - i as Invigoratiug as an ocean dip. . If the carpets be sprinkled vita I !; salt before sweeping, It will to found ^ V> that no such dust will arise, and that ; the carpets are wonderfully bright- > eaed. %»f •* Salt thrown on soot will extinguish *,J - the flames. If it be sprinkled on the stove when the kettle has boiled over it will prevent all disagreeable V ti odors. If sprinkled on tbe ooala when , 1' meat is to be broiled it will make the Are clear and bright. To remove claret stales put salt on l-q immediately and quickly over the , place. Rinse in cold water before % washing. To remove egg stains from 490011a ^ rub with moist salt. t A little salt in the water in which ^ flowers are placed will help te keep them fresh for a long time. ^ If straw matting be washed over tk with salt and water it will look tike : M new. These are some of the very numer- /vt ous ways in which salt Is an aid te us. It is so common that it is In the power of everyone to koep it for j emergencies as well as for oookiag.--- . • n r n i e a n A n a i f * ; ^ , < > i % . •v"/ V* S - " • " . v,^" * v.