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l UAto alMlI 1m4 w lUtbt. *T I, to «TM« the dusk, •lay l&r* goodnight. rippling throntfh tt« U &btow; Unto Riotmy flow •f rtKWffi-;,-" -bod »hall waliifc', • lilrgln-whife. ttedark, acro't the rf«Jg<r ijfv* my loTosood-aight*- - S &*J-- _t ttmv ffttl, the Illy lightning's lurid glow A tot.bo my--the ro?®-wiftat1 . ttonng ttet redely blow. stiH. ro'e to JWM, • hMrt shall take d«lighu the dirk, iwroB< tli i wotid, c'fJIiw my lo%e goad-night. «TZ:' ; A BOATING PAETY. . nTcll ire about it, uncle .Terry?* tie was a character in his quite way--the skipper par excellance of the little seaport or L . ^ We were meat friends, he and I, and many a long summer day had I •pent beside tne bent old f ame, swatchin« his rough fingers mend jfects or sails with the deftness grown from long practice, and listening to Ilia tales with keen enjoyment. V But there was one incident of, his life on which he never touched, nor Could any amount of coaxing induce liim to approach it. < It had happened while I was in m $wi i' Europe. 1 found him greatly changed ; v - , i » n m y r e t a r n a f t e r a s i x y e a r s ' a h - 1 •/ fcence. i "/ This afternoon, for the first time, j lie betrayed a willingness to confide , ' , "in me. | , "It was nigh five years ago. The j -fjrear before the hotel was built. The jf'] Cove was crowded. It seemed like isj y .tfe all had mor'n we could make * 'Comfortable and the boarders was • • Crowded inter old Miss Holt's in a ^ Jvav that did seem wonderful when we heard how they lived in their big ^j^^fity homes. 1 had ust bought a new sailboat, a fifty-footer, an' a reg'lar goer; I calculated ter make a heap-out o' pleasure parties an' sech--an* I did. ;4I tuk the same crowd pretty reg- Har, an' in tithe i got to knew 'em fcrell. Tbey;were as nice a lot of ^oung things as ever name in my /path, b t they was careless like, and they didn't allays think. "The sailing bothered me. They were ail over the boat at onoe an' .nothing' would do but 1 must learn •em to sail. "I grew powerful fond of 'em all, . but there was one little girl I tuk a Special shine, to. She wasn't very f : strong--I heerd tell she was jest get- tii' over a iever. She had a sicklj '£ look, but you could see she'd been ©onny.. "I remember a trick she had of takin' off her cap an' lottin' the jrind blow her short hair, an* if the dav was damp it would curl up p-s fight, an' she'd run her Angers thro* 1®; ,:V ft an' pull it out straight to see how W {j *it was growin'. Wm " i f ' ' A s I s a i d , s h e w a r n ' t v e r y s t r o n g , - an' when they all got to lark in' it ( seemed like she couldn't stand it, for ||f I:/ ibe'd leave the rest, an' with her lit- ' •** < tie polite bow she'd come an' say ao k , gentle like, 'Uncle .lerry, do you mind fl^ ^4 if I stay here with you?' 'f :i "Gradually the rest of'em kinder > forgot her, and by and by she'd come ft.' * tight away from the start, an' 1 got 'k',t f , to used to havin' her there at my jj|K ^ / ritfht hand that when she stayed u" JftW bom: I felt real lonesome J ' i. '•she begged ©e to leai n her how * %o steer, an'when I saw she meant k* showed her one thing and another, an' somehow she never lor- P/ 'V" 'got what 1 told her. * fv\ /. "An" one day she savs to me: ' - 'Uncle Jerry, I believe I could sail a j|f boat as well as any one if 1 were only Ej {, ^ Stronger.' Bless ner heart! I'd have i J|ti4t trusted her sooner'n any young fel-1 law in the party if she'd had a little j M' fJ'A , mor| muscle in he • arm. J Fv V ' There was a young fellow in the < * "party named Grey. He was a likely ] J ' chap, about -. 0, I reckon. He had lots j Ot monev, an' i heerd from some of! the ladies' gals that he used to be a ! <creat friend o' Miss May's before she j ^ - was sick, but he was a great sport, i Y an' a ter she began to go about, an' 1 ^ • - he found she couldn't do things as he : O ^did, he just naturaliv slipped away j il^i'ltrora her an' tuk to eoin' with Miss ; j Julie Webh. "Miss Julie was mighty pretty, r>'^' with frowserly light hair, a mouth! w'f,! nig enough to swaliow a doughnut! dear, dear Hugh, >e„ hull, an' rows of teeth 'like pearls,' i name as it left her ^ I beere<l M . G ey say. She had a U nvoice like a steam whistle; Tbere nothin' she couldn't do except '.keep still, an' bein' what Mr. Hugh was always doin' himself, they spent most of their time together. « ^ Miss May used to watch 'em with ^ ̂ J .that heart breakln' look on her face. W : "It wa^ on the 10th of August ' . The month had been very hot, and Xl :\ we hadn't had any sailin' breeze for M'; four days, but that jnornin' a nice I ' stiff breeze begun to come in from fef'j' ' ;the sea. "Well, I was aettin' In my door y mend in1 a sail fof my cat boat, when .^1 heerd the crow.d a comin.' 1 al- -i ways knew 'em by Miss Juliets voice ,1 most generally could hear that by • the time they lett Miss Holt's door. ' Th@y had'a couple of cltv fellers down feom tile city for the day, aad nothin' would do but i most take 'em sailin'. "I wouldn't have gone, but jest at the last minute little Miss May came up an' tuk my old brown fist in her two little white paw*, an' sez she; •Oh, Uncle Jerry, do go! - I'm going | home to-morrow, an' I. want one more sail, an' this is my last chance.' V "The tide was runnin1 out an' the t wind due east, which made the white- caps fly, but 1 put in a tack and . started for the mouth of the hay. 4 Just about the time we got out from under the cliffs the squall struck us if an' lsaw my mistake. ' "The Foam heeled over till her j • Storm deck was two feet under water. I i threw her head up into the wind. ' f but as she came a ound a cross sea I struck her bow. an' when 1 looked lor Tom to take in sail, Tom was < gone. "Well, I didn't dare tell them ! young things what had happened. "1 looked at little Miss May, an' there she «at, her head on her knees, tier two little hands over ner lace-- ' somehow she'd never looked so small before '• f >NJu§t ttiea me raised her head, t thought she'd gone clean out o. her niifid with teu •, but it was nothin* ot 'TimPs being such a coward! will yon an" the bevs git datfo sail tor the captain? Tom's bel an' can't do anvtding. ••Then 1 knew-gtie Vnew,1 au* that Ae aaw our daas plain as I did. "The boys sprang M:'ard, but they hadn't time to reei so they jest cut away a*'.tried to reef the Jib ln^ ftead. ' ' ' ' V The mast htmt#ke a Dsk pole, an* every minute i thotight jbo'^hear it crack. .. "All this time the water was com- in* ove' the sides, an' little Miss May stood there up to her Knees in it, coaxin' those great healthy hoys an' girls, an" scold in' when she couldn't keep 'em quiet without it. ^ '-Then, as the boys turnea to come aft. the city feller lost his Joo£in' an' over lie went a ter Tom. "Mr. Hugh and the other feller just looked at each other, an' stag, gered to their places, an* they ran into Miss May. bhe jest handed 'em two buckets, and said, kinder stern: 'Here, don't be cowarda If we must- die let us die bravely; in the meal­ time--work.' , "They told me afterwards that her grandfather was a famous sea captain went down sf4i??cHn«?' on the br!uge of his ship, an' I guess she tuk aft rhino, an' it come to the top when it was wanted, 'cause she was cool as a cowcumber. "As fast as the others got scared she got quiet; an' her voice that was? so soft and gentle when she used to sit beside me, rang like a bell as she told 'em what to do. ^ ]"We were gettin' on now. With that wind at our backs an' the racin* cut of the Foam we couldn't help it. We were in past the lighthouse, as I begun to think we'd weather it. "Just then there was a repo t like a pistol, an* i went heel in'to iee- ward with my arm in flinters. I re­ member thinkin' that was the end o' things, and theu I fainted. i- "When I come to, there was Miss May and Mr. Hugh holdin' the tiler with all their might , The derned« rope 1 had used to slash tbe handle had broke. "My arm was painin* me jest awful."' but I managed to put my well shoul­ der to the wheel, so to speak, an' found 1 could help considerable. The rope had got pushed about the paint­ er of the dory, an' was trailin' in they water behind. "The girls had kinder waked up, all but Miss Julie feh® dbuldn't seem| to get over her fear, but sat there asilf white as a ghost with her teethe cbatterin'. "1 think Mr. Hugh's eyes began to be open then, for he gave Miss May the queerest look. She met his eyes an' for a moment her bright new color went away; then she turned to me an' said, so pitiful: 'Poor Uncle Jerry! Hugh, help me to lash the rudder again; Uncle Jerry can't stand much more' "1 moved a little over, an' they both reached for tbe rope. The next moment Miss May gave a horrid groaning cry, an' Mr. Hugh was in the the water holding on to the rope. "Miss May's face was deathly pale, an' she was all bent over in the queerest way--telling Mr. Hugh to be pati nt She didn't seem able to move, an' I temember I was sort of cross at tbe idea of her givin' out jest when she was most needed. ••I called one of the boys, an' be­ tween us we got Mr. H gh on board. Hiss May all the time leanin' more an' more over the side, till X leared she'd be over, too." Uncle Jerry paused to control the quiver in his old voice. "As we pulled Mr. Hugh on hoard tbere was a sudden Jerk, an' Miss May went over. I saw then what tbe trouble was. The rope that held the dory was only partly out, an' tne sudden pull Mr. Hugh had given it had hauled it tight, an' drawn Miss May's arm tight across her chest "The pain must have been awful, for when we found her both arms were broken, and there was a great dent across her chest, where the breath had been knocked-out of her, almost. / • *Sheknew if she saidyanything Mr. Hugh would let-gorSo atter the tirst cry she'sever let a sound pass her li(.a " 'Goodby, Uncle Jerry,' she says. Then she looked at Mr. Hugh, an' that look has. haunted me ever since, it was so full of love! 'Goodby. Hugh, she said, an' lips was the last sound she made: then the water closed over an' she never rose again." Uncle Jerry didn't care to conceal the honest tears rhat rolled down hi-! cheeks, and something in my own eyes blurred the sea irom my vision. Neither spoke for a minute, i then 1 said: "Did you say they found her?" Uncle Jerry repi ed gruitiy: "I found her mysel*, after the sto m, lyin' on a bed of seaweed, that same lovin' loo* on her face. "It closed the season at Miss Holt's an' I sold the Foam for $20 to get ber out o' the bay, an' I hain't nevet took a pleasure party since Guess I won't paint any more ter day."/ And gathering up his brushes Uncle Jerry lclt me abruptly and started through the heavy sands for home, while I moved my neat out of reach of tbe incoming tide and watched his stooping figure till It vanished in the door of his cabin, and meditated on what I had beard. --Mass. Plough man. M#';|MkTi: AT WHICH IT OAW *S « '* * imported. How FnJi VHMI* WUI Affaet th* America* Wool Indastry--Light B*|lu to D»wn ta Texas--Smooth itoattM of Dmocratle Monaco!^. Would Rain Wool-Urowtn. Recent European quotations on wool give an average of 16 cents per pound as the free trade value of suoh XX Ohio washed fleeces aB brought 21 and 22 cents on April 2, 18JM, aad which sold at aa average of 30 cents and up­ ward previous to March, 1893, before the awauit upon the American indus­ try had begun. Glean scoured wool at 30 cents per pound Is the London basis for domestic merino wool. When it ig borne in mind that the average value jf American merino wool, previous to March, 189a, exceeded fc'O cents per pound scoured, some idea may be had of the advantage in the way of protec­ tion that the American wool industry has enjoyed. • , The freight rate of wool from Lon­ don to New York is a quarter of a cent per pound, as against from 2 to 3 cents per pound from tbe Reeky Mountain regions to New York. The rates from Australia to New York or Boston di­ rect cut no figure, as the London mar­ ket is the general central market for Australia as well as for the rest of the world. It is in London that the bulk of the foreign wools of the world ac- utterances of th*»e who have miarep- fwmt resented Texas in the United States Congress tor the last few years, rpi-- .J --. J A* " i not also are pleased to note that Senator Mills voted for a good protective tariff upon collars and cuffs. Lest he should S "St * f ? T ; • > r ' ' . ; . m Wilson Bill--I'm ashamed to go back to the House this way--boo-hoo-hoo! --New York Recorder. cumulate, and it is from London that we feel competition. Wool was sell­ ing in the London market, June 1, for less money than the same wool cost in Australia. The weight of the Austra­ lian bale of wool averages 350 pounds. Shipment * from all the Australian col­ onies during the nine months when almost the entire clip is shipped to for­ eign markets compare as follows for the periods mentioned: r--'i no's, Jnly 1 to M'eh sfi- lWi. ISM. From-- Bales. Bales. New South WAles.. 6 a.o e tw.nse Victoria 449,006 441,161 South Australia.... 169,762 . 144.935 Queensland UJ,fl9 lOS.S iS Tasmania. is,044 19,161 West Australia 34,693 15,663 New Zealand........ 830,m aos.sos 1H9S. Bales. C82,2a 483 10» 157,959 151,047 10,112.5 22.H2 288,787 Totals .1.780,665 1,692,811 1,063,066 The freight rate on wool, according to the latest market rates, from Aus­ tralia by sailing vessel to London, was quoted at 5-16 penny per pound in grease, and 7-16 penny per pound for washed wool. By steamer the rates are i pen­ ny for wool ia grease and # penny for washed. From Australia to Boston di­ rect by sailing vessel the rate is about 1 cent per pound for small lots as part cargo. For full cargoes, such as are likely'to be imported under free trade in wool, the rate would be below cent ? The Moo-Proteotod Printer. In no business has the fear of Free- Trade worked a greater decrease both in tbe amount of work and wages than among the printers. In a. New York daily paper, April 18, there appe^arjad an advertisement for compositors at 20 cants per 1,000 ems. The Union rates are 43 cents, yet there were hundreds of printers after this job. From t>0 to 70 per cent, of the pr 'nters in New fork City are idle. The hard times brought about by the threatened free trade and low duties on foreign manufactures and product* reached tbe printer, as they did every branch of in­ dustry, protected or non-protected. One of the very first things cut down by ousine^s men in dull times is their printer's bill. They do less adver­ tising, curtail their catalogues and are more economical with their letter heads. The idle printars are not buy­ ing clothes, or food, or hats, or shoe?, or paying rent. ' And' as for luxuries that the / us^d t > indulge in, these are no longer thought of. That rsonster harbinger of distress, hunger and ruin --free trade--hovers over every busi­ ness, every industry, every home.--- --American Economist. W1U He 1.MK1 Them Atf'-/, not be recogni7ed by his many friends upon his return to his old Texan home, our artist presents a sketch, in advance of the return of their new protection­ ist Senator. "Mjr Measure." "A measure has been 'prepared on the lines suggested in ray message. "--President Cleveland's address to Conttren, OMi 4 i soa - I sing tbe song of Protection, V , M The greatest, the best on eartfei A blessing it's been to this section < - | Until It gave rise to the birth Of "my measure.-* v f V" ' ' Work In abundance It gave us, : ^ ^ : i Good wages and cheap living. to9l But Grover then came to amaze us With all that he threated to do - With *my measora." We were happy, contented and rich. But be thought that we wanted "change;" So he pinnged us all into tbe ditch Of starvation, and tbere let us rangl^ On "my measure." It lan't good eating, we And, ' And no work rolls up pretty poof pay. t»DLMa«ai But even If once we ware blind* We'll reckon up some other d*y By our measured . Our .homes now are desolate, bat*, - Ou* furniture's gone Into paWn; But W.lson and Grover don't care, Since they've labored and brought and torn "My measure." forth What He Needed Most. lt'#as at dusk, and I was buagry enough. to eat a sandwich. I'm not driven to that verge very often, but trade was bad and receipts had beeo very slim. I was tramping down the avenue, and 1 met a benevolent look* leg old gent, who looked me all over, and in response to my appeal he gave me a coin, saying: "You have evi­ dently seen hard luck. 1 can see that you are in need. He e, take this. It will satisfy your most ur­ gent want" As he pressed his con­ tribution into the palm ot my hand ^visions of roast beef and charlotte russe arose in my feverish brain. 1 hud not possessed a whole half dol­ lar at one time for many days and at a street lamp 1 pause, full of expect­ ancy, intoxicated with anticipation. There.in t»be solitude of the quite street, in the pallid gaslight, shak­ ing vjjth ( nervous excitement, I opened my hand. "Great Jupiter OlymptiB! It was *tt bath check!-- Arkansaw Traveler. Such robbers existing to rob, While living in comfort and wealth*,. Turning honest men out of a job. Should have a resrard for their bealtb. We've their measured G R. BUCKLAftD So Smooth > Bow smooth the Democratic man­ agers are! or ra'her how oily, how aaulatory, how mild, how bland, how childlike, so to speak: Having crammed the sugar trust steal down the throats of piotesting Senators, they are now endeavoring to make the bill a* palat­ able as possible to tbe Hou-e by reced- in • from a number of the proposed Senate amendments to the measure aud adopting the original House schedules. In a word, they a e exert­ ing their utmost to make the nauseous dose palatable to the Democratic ma­ jority of the House by retaining the schedules cf that section of the party in a large degree, at the same time Qeakorat Ordo* to State MUltte-Chieacw lusted iflth Vermin --Fatal Illinois Control Aeoldent--Death la (lu Pod- dler's lfe* Cream--*»*fO0O Short .: Ti-oops Must Always Be Beady. Governor Alto eld issued general o** der Ifo* IP. to State jnllitia, in which he says the .State troops ara for oraer- geacV <»toly,' arid to bp of use must be located at pdlnis accessible to all rail­ roads in tne sttate. If transportation r, the servioe.of the .Bibs is ^roppled. Ail. companies Lted which give no promiae of. a high degree of usefulness are to be mustered out of the service. No officer or than must be retained who cannot go when duty calls and make a good man when he gets there. * Qbiwco Is Overran with WeasI**. Pedestrians in all parts of Chicago are frequently mystified by the squeak­ ing sounds which apparently come from beneath their very feet, and own­ ers of poultry are boiling with indig­ nation, all from the same cause. The capture and destruction of a small, brown-furred anlma1, which was dis­ turbed from a bed beneath the side­ walk opposite the Tribune office by paying excavators, led to the discovery of the fact that Chicago is overrun this summer with weasles. Where these destructive little pests corns from is not known, but down near Jackson Park the city is overrun with them, and many stray even into the business portion, obtaining shelter under the sidewalks. The animals seek the de­ struction of moles, rats, mice, etc., and ; are dreaded a; chicken thieves. They are t mall and noted for agility. They fasten their long, sharp teeth in the neck of the vicuin ana then drag it away. Conductor^Marsh Crushed to Death. Saturday morning a heavy IHinoie Central freight train, which was stalled on the steep grade bstween Mokanda and Cobden, was struck in the rear by another freight train which was following at a high rate of s eed. Conductor H. W. Marsh of the forward train was crushed to death in the wreck of the caboose. The other trainmen escaped with slight injuries. Several car-i were wrecked and tne locomotive of the rear train dismantled. The collision occurred on a sharp curve. The dead conductor's home was in Centralia. He leaves a wife and one child. Poisoned toy Iee Cream. August Dubolz of Chicago, his wife and Six children, were poisoned by eating ice cream. Three physicians had to be called to attend to the family. Dubolz purchased a quantity of, ice < ream from an Italian peddler. He and his family ate freely of it. Two lemon-cream pies were also pur­ chased and eaten by the family. An hour afterward every member of the household was suffering with serious pains and there was every indication of poisoning. The physicians gave little hope of recovery. Satur fuis lied. ^ 'UN SMTPF, a resident of ford since 18W, d'ed of: heart dis- Peoria Wearies of Sunday Closing. The Peoria Sunday-closing ordi­ nance was enforced again Sunday, but with a few modifications from former rules. Ice cream parlors and soda water fountains were allowed to run and no stop was put to the sale of Sun­ day papers, as was threatened. A special meeting of the Council will considor the Sunday-closing question, and there is no doubt that the part of the old ordinance forbidding the open­ ing of shops and stores will be repeal­ ed. A strong effort will also be made to repeal the saloon ordinance. 1 . 4. Blmsrott Is Short. of the special comir.lttee ret preserving m© tru9t steal, that takes $20,000,000 from the pockets of the people and transfers it to the own­ ers of the stock of that mammoth con- Utht in Texwt. Some two or three years ago a young man connectad with a prominent NEW York and Boston house went into tbe sheep and stock business in Texas. ,In a letter to a friend, under date June 2, he said: We have been having a pr«tty bard ruw to hoc for tbe past two yeurs- This year, especially. ha» been very severe. Every- thUiKlias fallen off so much In price that our va nations are very much reduced. Two years aito our wo^i Clip brought us In nearly 80,000; to-day wool off tbe same number of sheep brought u*$1.8>0. Therj Is op possible chance to dispose of any live stuck to-day at any price. Mutton sheep won't pay freight to Chicago. Good c can be bought at 95 and yearling heifers from S3.50 to f4 Here is a practical illustration of the effect of threatened free trade, and we trust that the people of Texas have had anoutrh of free trade renresenta- ' ' fr^ - cern. They imagine that by stroking the fur the right way on the timber, metal and other schedules, the House will submit to the sugar duties. They are playing e\*o:y schedule in the entire bill against sugar. That deal must be carried out at all hazards. The ar­ rangement made between the sugar trust and the 1 emocratic National Committee in 92 must le'fulfilled to tbe letter*. This, too, in spite of the protests of an almrst unanimous De i ocratic press denouncing the sariender of the party to the combination of sugar refiners, and in the face of strong utterance* in every Democratic plat orm in racent year's in opp >!-ition to such "panieritig to organized capital. Such an exhibi­ tion has net been witnessed in national legislation in yearj. But the p ople understand the situation. Recent elec­ tions demonstrate that fact. The Dem­ ocratic o*t ich has not concealed its body by hiding its heal in the eand.?-- Ohio State Journal. • -4" & y. / j (' •• \ WHEAT harvest in Montgomen? be the. largest in ten years. County promises to .4.*: * - * y <-4 ViZi >pqrt < to investigate the finances of Switch men's Mutual Aid Association from Sept. 1,1892, to May 1, 1894, as man­ aged , by William A. Simsrott, late Treasurer and Secretary, who o mys­ terious disappearance and reappear­ ance caused sensations at Chicago, shows in detail the receipt of $29.',- 4:ii*.83, disbursement of $72,o58.95, cash in ban1^ of $1,432.43 and a deficit unac­ counted fpr of $25,250.4ix . „ Kflcord of the Week. RWv. MR; FURGUSON, of Sunbeam, was killed by lightning. Several horses and other stock were killed. THE 3-year-old daughter of Fred­ erick Young was fatally burned at Freeport while playing near a bonfire. WILLIAM WILSON was run over and killed by an Illinois Central. freight train at Kankakee while he was steal­ ing a ride. Miss ELLA HUGHES, of Chicago, was killed by falling down an elevator shaft at Mount St Joseph's Academy in Dubuque, Iowa. MRS. WILLIAM EDWARDS, of Fair- mount, tried to start a lire with kero- <4 sene. She is dead, her husband is fa­ tally burned and their home is in ashes. THE Seventy-fourth Regiment ' of Illinois Volunteers, which marched to the war from old Camp Fuller, has de­ cided to hold its next annual reunion in Roc.tford Sept. 4. POSTMASTER GOODMAN, of South Evanston, has gone to Washington to protect against the closing of his office, which Postmaster O'Leary, of EvanS- ton, is t ying to accomplish. THK coal shaft that Guthrie & At­ kinson have been sinking at Mt. Ver­ ne n has been completed. The mine is H'O feet deep and the vein of coal is six feet in thickness aad is said to le of a superior quality. THE Grand reporter of the Grand ledge of Illinois Knights of Pythian has issued h s semi-annual report, showing the incre^e of membership throughout the Umted States t> be 5,190 since Jan." 1, 1894* ' DISAPPOINTMENT fifot getting the first prize in a contewHs tue cause at­ tributed for the death of IX H. RUst, Gene:al Agent at Chicago of the New Yor«t Life Insurance Company. Mr. Rust died Thursday night at his home in Ravenswood. He was 42 years aid. A MEETING of the Fre 3port Presby­ tery was held in Rockford to ordain Rev. W. T. Wilcox, formerly of Chi­ cago, and Rev. John Freeman. Rev. E. P. Hill, of Freeport, preached th e sermon. Rev. J. S. Braddock, of Mid­ dle Creek, gave the charge to the pas­ tors and Rev. B. E. S. isly, of Kock- ford, the charge to the pe „>le. B. K. DURFEE, State Superintendent of Insurance, has granted a license to the Bankers' Life Insurance Company, of New York City, to do an assessment; life insurance business in Illinois. THE wife of John Freese, three miles south of Joliet, gave birth to four ba­ bies two boys and two girls, well de­ veloped ana all alive. Last week a neighbor. Mrs. Ca-per Herbbt. gave birth to triplets. W. C. THOMPSON, WHO bits been beating hott>l-keepera but of small sums of money, using the mails to carry out his scheme, was sentenced in the United States Court at Springfield year in th« penitential have been who have violated RICHARD SU>AN, of Merna, Winne­ bago County, died .from injuries re­ ceive:! in a runaway. IT required twelve innings to decide a ba#e ball game played by the Tren­ ton Stars and the Carlyio club at Car- lyle. Tbe score was lo to 14' in favor of Carlyle. * J. SCHKBBR,# farmer, while Cutting wheat nea^Masfcoutah, was thrown in front of thetsiekle of the harvester by his i unaway team, and waS so mangled that he will die. NATE TRACY, the 19-year-old son of N. P. Traoy, of Rookford, stole a ride on the Central to ForreSton. He slipped from the train when near that place, fell into a creek and was drowned. AT Carrollton G. A. Bassetts, of Chicago, was arrested and locked up for persisting in selling goods at auc­ tion in violation of the city ordinance. He will bring a damage suit against the city. A NOVEL suit has been commenced in the Champaign County Circuit Court. It is a result of the Gallagher- Tavlor murder trial at GiiTord last February. Gallagher was acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. Taylor's family have now brought suit against Gallagher for $5,000. MRS. J. HENRY SCBTJCK, wife of the Springfield street railway and electrio light magnate, attempted suicide by lumping into a cistern full of water. She was rescued by her husband with freat difficulty, both of them nearly rowning. Ill health and general de­ spondency are assigned for the act. CHARLES H. BLOW, State Game Warden and Fish Commissioner, is making it warm for fisherman and hunters in Canton who have been vio­ lating the law. Six men were fined $10 each for illei nois River, an issued for others the game laws. THE famous Bohn-Mathcney case, in which it is alleged an attempt is being made to defraud a 12-year-o d boy out of his interest in an $80,030 estate by his alleged father, Mr. Bohn. of Lan­ ark, is on trial in the Circuit Court at Mount Carroll. Dr. E. C. Dunn, of Rockford, who attended Mrs. Bohn in 18S2, three months before the boy is claimed to have been born, will testify that the heir is a false one. The case is one which has attracted much atten­ tion, and will be a hard-fought one. THE second Of a series of five games for the amateur championship of Illi­ nois was played at Belleville by the clerks of Belleville and the clerks of Murphysboro. It was the most stub­ bornly fought game ever played in Southern Illinois. At the close of the ninth inning the score stood 3 to 3. Three additional innings showel no change. The thirteenth settled the business with a score of 5 to 3 in favor of Belleville. A great crowd wit­ ness ei the game and several thousand dollars changed hands. THE other night Joseph Mistermm, of Chicago, fatally stabbed his wife Mary and then inflicted injuries upon himself which proved fatal. In at­ tempting to prevent his attack upon Mrs. Mistertoan, William Taylor and Joseph Miller, who live in the rear of Misterman'6 house, were slightly in­ jured. Mistprman was employed as a butcher at Armour's packing house. He was 65 years old, his wife tO. It is said that there were freqent quarrels between them and that for the last few days Misterman, who had been out of work for several weeks, had been drinking heavily. FRANK PRENDEROAST, 8 years old, was killed, and Albert Jones, 5 years old, was fatally injured at Chicago by being run over by a wagon belonging to the Knickerbocker Ice Company. Two of the wneels passed over the head of young Prendergast, crushing it to a ;'elly and killing him instantly. One wheel passed over the breast4 of the Jones boy, inflicting internal in­ juries from which he cannot recover. The driver- of the wagon was H. R Rasinussen, who was soon afterward arrested. Both of the little boys lived at Duncan Park. FRANK WISE, of ROckford, who kicked his aged father int? insensi­ bility, and from the effects of which the old man died, was held responsible for his parent's death by the coroner's jury, and will be tried on the charge of manslaughter. The evidence showed that the old gentleman made a divis­ ion of some of his property to four other children some weeks ago,amount­ ing to about $800 each, giving Frank nothing, which so angered him that in the quarrel which followed he made the assault. Young Wise's reputation has not been the best. ED EGAN, Chicago safe blower, was run down and riddled by the police and is expected to die of his wounds. This criminal was chased through a saloon, down an alley, along West Harrison and Morgan streets under fire. He took refuge in his home, hid behind a bed, and when the officers came tbere was a noi?y battle with pistols. Fgan was shot four times. The officers we: e not even scratched. Egan has been a criminal for twelve years, but he has always managed to keep out of the peniientiary. His only experience at doing time" w_s four or five years ago, when he served a term in the Milwauke3 house of correction fcr safe blowing. A year ago he was caught at work on a s-afe in the Rialto Building. He tried to get away, but was sh't in the leg and captured. Ue was indicted, released under bond, and, of course, disappeared, leaving his bond to be forfeited. He had not been seen in Chicago since that t me until Officers Quinn and Harris ran upon him. ONE of tbe most .shocking tragedies in the history of Aurora took place the other night. Frank Bonghur, a well- known shoe merchant, shot and killed his wife under the impressicn that she was a burglar. Mrs. Bonghur had arisen during a thunderstorm to put down the windows, when her husband, hearing the noise, pulled his revolver from under his pillow and tired two shots, one bullet passing through her chest, killing her instantlv. When he realized what he had done Bonghur implored the police to kill him and raved like a maniac. The coroner's in­ quest exonerated him from all blame. A TRAIN on the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Road was wrecked near Staunton. Some one had removed the connecting bar at the switch. The engineer was injured, but will recover. The fireman escaped unhurt. The en­ gine and one car are a total wreck. FRIENDS fear John L. Donovan, Jr. a prominent lawyer of Watseka, has committed suicide. He disappeared from Kankakee Saturday morning, taking with him $120 belonging to hi? physician. He has been fearing death recently and has showed other i-igns of mental derangement. Though numer­ ous telegrams have been sent to dif­ ferent places nothing has been heard ••In 1882," said Ha of Missouri, "1 was dr St Louis hardware fln Texas. It was In the of free-grass agitation. general uprising against in of large tracts of _ which the small had frcm time immemorial gratia. The people were up in anika because grass was no longer to be ta, free commodity. To emphasize their displeasure and to discourage thi fencing in of the lands they began, in many counties west of Fort Worth, to cut the barbed wire fencing so that tfaeUr lonuhorns could again roam hp street will over the broad acres thickly .carpeted with the nutri­ tious mesqulte grass. ' "Of course the owners of fenced territory objected, and a many shooting scrapes followed. Tfcis •knight of the nippers,' as the fendi cutters were called, came in collisio^ with the law, but still they pers# vered ic their work, and in the silent hours of the night, on the desoiatfl stretches of the prairie, bands ot res­ olute fellows would lay low miles upon miles of detested wire. Final-; ly the liovernor of the state called special session of the Legislature, which made wire cutting a felon, and gradually the business w; broken up. "While the excitement was at its height I was making one of my re&; uiar trips, journeying in a buggy, there was no railroad in that section then, and on a certain August after** noon was nearing Brownwood, the county seat of Brown County, ip which there was the fiercest opposi­ tion to fencing up the land. As ̂ got within about three miles of tow!}, there came advancing toward me band of at least twenty rough-looking >gal seining in the IHi-^Pfellows on native ponies, every mall d warrants have been Qf them carrying a Winchester rifli % >1 There was nothing to alarm me in this, however, as stockmen in that country usually carry their guns witfe them, and there was no reason t*f~ apprehend d inger. But in a few seconds I was undeceived, and will frankly own to being one of the worst# scared men that ever lelt his heart sink down into his boots, l was or> dered to halt in language mada pointed by reason of its irreverence and the leader of the company r||i quested me to throw Up my haudl tp they went, and 1 expected to be perforated by bullets every second. ^: "Now, you d-- tenderfoot, tell us. what you are; declare yourself right here if you/expect to see another sun? rise. Are ye fur iree grass or agld it?" -> ••It was a critical moment, and I did some rapid thinking. 1 felt little bit ot relief in knowing that | hadn't encountered a gang of robbers.^ but how to answer that question stumped me. If 1 answered wroc 1 might as well say my prayers couldn't guess whether the crowtt had suffered from the depredations uf the free grazers or in sympathy with them. ' ••A bright idea struck me, and' without asking permission to droll my hands 1 hauled out my bag <it samples, opened it hurriedly, and be» gan to orate: 'Gentlemen, pardou, I beg you, a stranger in the land frotii' expressing any positive views on a. subject that he does not comprehend like yourcel\ es. Please take a giancsi at my samples. You will, I know, excuse a poor St. Louis drummc from taking sides, but you can ge here anything you like I am prsp- pared to sell you barbed #ire auj| wire stretchers, or if you prefer hatchets and wire cutters it wouMI afford me equal pleasure to supply your wants in that line" "Then I made a low bow and triei| to smile, but I guess it was a sickly effort, for I still wasn't sure but thatt I'd be assassinated. When the edt* tire gang, that had looked solemn a» owls all tbe time, broke into boister­ ous laughter as soon as my speech was ended 1 feit that my life was saved. The rascals had only bee(t< having a little fun with me, but th§: fun was all on one side " - V r L * ^ ' • * t ^ i f * * f * • / / • * f Prefetyred Hfhite Meat. ••Though lions are timid enough ill the day-t.me," said a well-seasoned African hunter, "when the sun has set and darkness comes on they be­ come bold and fearless, and often urged by hunger reckless and daring. It is by no means unusual for oxsn to be seized at the yoke or horses to be killed inside the stable, or when tied to the wheel of a wagon; while in Mashonaland alone four men were carried otT and eaten by lions during the first two years of the occuDation of the country. One of these unfo#« tunates was a young man who was about to start a market garden in tha neighborhood of Umtali settlement He had gone away with a cart and four oxen t> buy some native meal at one of tbe Kaffir kraals, and had" outspanned for the night at a spot about six miles distant from thelitt.la township The oxen were tied up to the yokes, and Mr. Teale was lying asleep under the cart, alongside of a native, when a lion walked up and. seized him by the shoulder, carried hiiv off and ate him. This lion, be it noted^showed a refined taste in disregarding the Kaffir and seizing the European." One Step lrom the Sublime. At a recent m.ssionary meeting ft young minister named B. was called upon to give an address. ' : Mr. B.'s style is remarkably flow­ ery, but those "purple patches" with which he frequently adorns his speeches are highly distasteful to Brother T., a plain, p actical, old traveling preacher, who happened on the present occasion to be sitting on the platform. "Methinks, brethren*" exclaimed Mr. B. in the co.irse of his oration, during which he had surveyed man­ kind from China to Peru, "SlethinkS I can hear tbe clash of the cymbals in the great procession of Jugger­ naut; I can smell the SDicyjb eezes of Ceylon wafted " ".>0. Brother B.," interrupted Mr^ T. very solemnly; "it's the broken gasp pa you can smell--the man husn't fixed it yet!" Brother B.'s speech came to an ab­ rupt conclusion amid the laughter of the aud.ence. THE masters who ihaugtiii^ll time in music, should also have .ettab- lished a proper time in which t* play £