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" * " 1 , 4 * ' : ' * * a- v **sL' * <-> < Aanlter E 8. Dref«r Threatened with Ac •uslnatton--Pnllm»n People Atk (or Pab- Uc Aid--Gang of Police Guard the Place. The home of Edward S. Drever, the millionaire banker and real-estate dealer cf Chicago, is guarded by sev- * eral police officers. Mr. Dreyer has «auBe to believe that he is to be assas­ sinate! and that his noma will be btirned. To provide against suah a ca- . tastrophe everyone who passed the house at the northeast corner of Lake View and Diversey avenues Saturday, was inspected by brawny officers from the Sheffield avenue station. Capt, Scbuettler received a letter stating that something would soon befall the millionaire, and this added to threats made by William Hagenau of Wicker Park < ausea the Captain tj© do all in , his power to prevent the darrying out j -of the plan to murder one of ehWago's most prominent and respected citizens. Mtade Spnrion* Co'n. /Ten days' work on the part of Chi- struck" for their pay and held'posset •cago detectives resulted Sunday in the t ion of the grounds until they secured arrest of four men charged with coun- it. . AT Charles from injuries received brtteeavisff in of a eaybank at Lammerebr!e*tv4r<l. MR®. MINNIE HILT , es-postmistreas at p xeter, charged with embezzlement* waivedexamiaation and was released on bond. JILTED bv.his sweetheart and nut of work. Charles C. Hoffman, ot Chicago, (attempted ta end his life by teiz no1 an elect ie wire. l K. f\ ROACH, Cairo, pleaded guilty to contempt of court in interfering with trains. He was lined $25 and com­ mitted in default. CHARLES HERSHFIELD, of Clarks- dale, has been sentenced to the Ches­ ter prison for life fc r the murder of his wife April 1. last HENRY W. WAGGONER'S boot and shoe store at Decatur was closed on an execution in favor of James 'Miliken, the banker, for 412.000. , C. L. NIEHOFE, of Chicago, who dis­ appeared a year ago leaving a short­ age in his bank accounts of *109,114, was arrested at Brighton. THE tobacco store of Carpenter & Grass of Aurora, is in the hands of the Sheriff. William Mack & Co., of Chi­ cago, have a judgment against them. MCLINE an l Rock Island militiamen who appeared in a military spectacle i t terfeiting United Sta:es silver coins. Three houses were searched and a load of tools, meta! and unfinished coin was •carried to defective headquarters. The men under ai'rest are P. Stankewicz, Caspar fcteaker, John Kilozski and Jo­ seph Rousenbitch. Rousenbitah is the man against whom susp.cion was fir_>t directed. He is charged with having passed bogus dollars. Stankewicz and Steaker are charged with implication in the manufacture of coins, and in thei • houses on Van Horn and Fisk streets were found part of the confis­ cated tools and material. Ki o:ski owns the house at 3.54 Fisk street, and is supposed to have been connected with the counterfeiters. Operations have been in progress some weeks, and, the men are said to have uttered a considerable quantity of dollar coins, and a fairly good imitation of the gen­ uine article. Evidence collected so far leads 1o the belief that their work was confined to the manufacture of bogus dollars, although implements used in the counterfeiting of silver 25-pent pleceswerealso found.' *• ^ An Appeal lrom Pnllmmn. > '\ < The following letter was received Sunday by Governor Altgeld, from Kensington: To his Excellency the Governor of Illinois: We, the people of Pullman, have been brought to a condition where starvation stares us in the lace, and hereby appeal to you for aid. iii this our hour of need. We have been relased employment and have no means of leaving this vicinity and our' families are starving. Our places have been filled with workmen from all over the United States, bioupsht here by the Pullman Company, and the surplus were turned away to walk the streets and starve. Also there are over 1,600 families here in destitution and want, and their condition Is pitiful. We have exhausted all ttie means at our command to feed them, and now make this appeal to you as a last re­ source. Tiustinif that God will Influence you and that you will give this your prompt atten­ tion, we remain yours, in distress, the starv­ ing citizens of Puilmtn. T. E. Poi.ens, L. J. NEWEXit., TBEO. HHODK, Gov. Altgald Left for Chicago to per­ sonally maire an investigation oi the affairs at Pullman. * •i'U RcoopcI of the Week. Vi ('• V AT Freeport a child of Soseph Bloom ate fly paper and died in great agony. SPECIMENS of the Russian thistle fr,^ have -baen found in* the northern por­ tion of Illinois ] ; RIVAL Republican editors of Cham- it paign county have carried their bitter | ̂ war into the courts. Gov. ALTGELD explains that guards cannot be paid for tervice during the y | riots until an appropriation is made. ; 11 JUDGE HENRY W. B LODGETT, of Illi- nois, has been trying the medical ii properties of the South Dakota hot 1! springs. {I FEARING to tell his wifa he had lost her horse and laundry wagon while j drunk, B. V. I amsey, of Chicago, at* jy tempted suicide. | j ;| HEAVY rains in Montgomery county ^ 1 assure a corn crop well up to the av- erage unless damaged by early frosts. ;! The yield will be the heaviest for sev- ;; eral years. * ; NEAR Marion, James C. Chamness i, lost his barn and contents by fire. A y neighbor, Thomas Alexander, residing ! a short di tance away, who was under in MRS, E. A. WHITE, of Bloomington, sued the Railway Officials and Employ­ es' Acc dent Association of Indianap­ olis for #10,0C0 for the daath of bpr huscand. vita"'"" BELOIT (Wis.) thugs who attempted to liberate one of their nutnbar from the ail at Rcckton, this State, were driven otf. Two 'of them wns wounded. WILLIAM PITT BOWERS, S"?., died at his home in McLeansboro. Mr. Bowers had lived there nearly fifty yea^s. He was a native of Tennessee, and been police magistrate 'for nfteea years. ^ W. T. Smith, a commission merchant doing an extensive business between Rockford and Chicago, assigned for the benefit of his creditors, turning over all his real and personal property to E. J. Bloodgood. THERE seems to be need for a visit of the Fish Commissioner to Aurora. For s' me reason the fish in Fox River jare dying by the hundred. The cause bf the phenomenon is not known. Some think the glucose factory at Geneva is pouring poisonous matter into the river. HENBY W. PRICF, President o* the Rockford Watch Company and other local industries, who lias been very low but was thought to be on the gain, is again in a ve$v critical condition and a second operation for appendicitis may te necessary, which it is very doubtful he could endure, as he is run down physically. Mr. Pr.ce himself is discouraged and has given up hope of his recovery. ANNIE JANE HAY, aged 14, was taken from her mother's home near Springfield Julv 1, *by James Desper, through an alleged understanding that the girl's uncle in Mowea^ua had sent for her. Since that time the girl had not/been seen or heated of uptil the other day, when information was re­ ceived that Desper had married 1 er in St. Louis, and the / are now at Niagara on their wedding t ;ur. THE State Board of Agriculture in­ spected the State Fair grounds and did a great deal of detail work in com­ pleting arrangements for the fair. A lat sock ana hoisa shew wa 4 deter­ mined on. and this was the most im­ portant thing done. The superintend­ ents of the several departments of the fat stock show were authorized to formulate cla-siticat oni for the show and present them to the board at the next meeting. The date*'of the fat stock show was fixed for Nov. 22 to Dec. 1, and it will be held in the Tat* tersall's Building, in Chicago. AL ASCHEMANN, a blacksmith, and Frank Moore, a teamster, were play­ ing cards with two other men in *a Quincy salqon\/when Aschemann dis­ covered Moore cheating and left the game. Moore also got up and com­ menced to abuse his accuser when Aschemann struck him in the fa'.e and kicked him out of the saloon. Moore ran out of the build in? and coming in at the side door walked t:> within qfif­ teen feet of Aschemann when he diew a revolver and fired. Aschemann can­ not live and Moore was captured. A SUIT has been instituted at Salem PENSION POLICY OF THE CLEVE­ LAND ADMINISTRATION. Om, *m Who iH km Mads the I Vic­ tim ot Pamoeratio Hatred--Arrai tad on • Trumped Dp Chirje and Thrown Sato <J»U--Hli feasloa Stopped. . Pension In Tam la*.. . Nobody, probably, will ever kttow the depth and breadth of the Infamy of the pension policy of the present Democratic administration, as it is be­ ing carri ad out under ifecretary Hoke Smith and his willing tool, Commis­ sioner Lochren. Individual ca~es are coming to light, however, which illus­ trate in a measure the infamous meth­ ods that have been resorted to by the Democrats in their efforts to reduce the pension payments twenty mi lion dollars a year, according to their pro­ gram. One man who has been made the vic­ tim of Democratic hatted is John T. Dodge of Bar Harbor, Maine. Mr. Dodge had an honorable war record. He served from the beginning of the trouble. At the battle of Bull Run a bullet plowed through his scalp; at Antietam a rifle-ball bored a big hole •*» and 8n(fmr. g. The President ef the ( nit3d States, Mr. Grover Cleveland, saw tit to rec­ ommend to Ccnsrress that coal and iron ore sht uld be admitted into the United States free of dutv ani that sugar shduld be taxed. The extent oi such ah Cvil may be briefly stated as fol­ lows: The coal product of the Unit ?d States in 1892 was If0,000,000 tons, woith $£07,5 at the mine's mouth. It l a f f o r d e a e m p l o y m e n t t o 3 w o r k ­ ers, who each found remunerative oc­ cupation on il: different days in t .e year. Their earnings amounted to $1^4,809,195, and all expenditures to $l-ityr>3 :,28 >. The total amount of cap­ ital invested in the coal mines was $35i>.0v»0.u00. The principal States of pro luction, in their order of impor­ tance, were: Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Alabama, Iowa, Coloraio, Marvland, Indiana, Ken­ tucky, Kansas, Missouri, \Vyoming and Tennessee. The iron ore" product of the United States for the year ended June 30, 18v*>, was 1-J,51H,0*1 tons of :',240 pounds each, worth $33,251,- i»78 at the mine's mouth. It afford­ ed employment to workers, who earned ?14.40P,151. The total amount of capita! invested was $109,- 766,199, and the total year's expend i« SOME MIRACULOUS CURES CF« "V-' FECTED RECENTLY. 3- M Aretha Slxhts Occasionally WltMMad •a* *anjr DUappointed One* An Kn- coQDterad--Tfao Bones of ttood »»%* tha K^lica. "• • Crntrhea Thrown Aw The pilgrimages to the shrino 6f St. twenty-two miles below Quebec, are in full blast and thousands are to be found there every day. A few days ago a large delegation from Morrfs- burg, Ont., visited the placa. Among those were Kate Sweeney, who is years old, and who for a long time has suffered severely from spinal disease and paralysis of the legs. She was carried from the train into tho church, and no 6ooner had she communicated and venerated the relic of St Anne than she felt her natural strength re­ turn to her, and she rose and left the church without assistance. Last week Mrs. Diogene Guirmont, of Cap St. Ignace, who had been bedridden since February and incapablo of walking, was assisted to the foot of the statue of St. Anne. There she remained for a *. v. Ciller Tails at the JPsthM* Strike and What Lad to It. President Debs, of the American Railway Union, in hi*testimony before the strike commission, now in session in Chicago, told c f having received word that a strike in Pullman was im­ minent and of his comingr to Chicago to investigate. "1 found," he said, "that the men were working for the Pullman Company at wages upon which they could not live. I found that salaries had been cut time and again, until the skil ed mechanics were work­ ing their live i away for wa^'es not suf­ ficient for a common lab rta*: that the town of Pullman with its shops, its houses and its stores, was so schemed that every penny the workingmen made found its way back into the com­ pany's coffers. In fact I found the workingmen of Pullman in a pitiable condition. The strike followed, or­ dered by the men themselves. Then came the boycott, ordered by duly elected delegates ta our convention, and then followed the railroad strikes, ordered bvr the various local unions, each of which had g. ievances of its own." "Would the railroad strike have oc­ curred had there been no Pullman trouble?" asked Commissioner WTright. "No; the Pullman strike was the prime cause. W e desired to stop Pull- •f \ • 1 1 ^ * " ^ A ] \ " A ' i ' JF?- ' •'V rrr.vr • t 'i • - & vi. XT .&ias\Xc£f ss • But railing and reverently kissed the Telle ! ^ei/own Thr-^ ?ri-e-vances oi which the priest presented to be;-. As lhe she did she felt the c.utches slip­ ping away frcrn her, and, making no effort to retain them, she s-tood erect for a moment Then, with her hus­ band and a friend at her s'de, she walked firmly to the foot of the statue and there kneeling roturne i thanks with happy't ars. This done she % rjwv« I ABANDONED BT CfttrMl General Managers' Association had been organized with the avowed intention of giving as­ sistance to railroads in labor troubles. The evident aim was to drive organi ed labor froin existence. No sooner had this a sociation been formed than a systematic reduction of rai road wages all over the country began. The cuts were made cn one road at a time and in one department, at a time, but the systematic regu arity with which they appeared waj sufficiently significant. The men were ready to strike and felt they had cause. But the troub'e would not have come when it did had it not been for the Pu lman ma*.tar." Mr. Debs then said that within five days after the strike was declared the union had tho railroads leaten. "They were paralyzed," he said, "but just at that tims injunctions were sown broad­ cast and shortly afterward the o liciab of the American Railway Union were arrested ior contempt of c urt. That beat us. It wasn t the railroads or the army, but the power of the United States courts that beat us." In reply to -ia Question Mr. Debs said that the union Thad taken every possiblo means topre- vent rioting am disorder. "We ob­ jected to ihe presence of the Federal tr.iops, but not to the State troops and police." RAIN AIDS THE CROPS. GORMAN'S JUSTLY CELEBRATED bond indicted for crime, was arrested <n circuit hu t i»7i« i on suspicion. The lo^s is $«J,OOG; insar- 1-YOU!? ,1 !Llzne BURUI? | ance about iSS.Ol'. HOWARD WILLIAMS and Abraham j; Cecil, of Bloomington, both colored, [have each commenced suit for S.nO &' damages against H. H. Green for re- | | i% fusing to sell them soda water; Tbey if -I 11 allege that Green refused them the r iv | drink because of their color. \jti AT Springfiahl fiftvr- our hundredths | ; i of an i ch of ra n fell Tuesday morning j5 ». , between 4 and 7 o'clock. The rain wai ia C,»mpaniei by ek ctrical disturbance. I During the progress o: the storm | lightning struck the Universalist {Church and tore a hole in the roof, i A SENSATION has bean stirred up in Ithe soutnern part of St. Clair County 1 by a breach of promise suit for fc.OOO , damages brought by Miss Annie Holtes f ;: against Gustav Oct, a farmsr. Plain- , tiif alleges that she wa* engaged to be ^married to the defendant, but his peo­ ple induced him to give Wer up and marry Matilda Wildy, a rich widow of Lensburg. JNHN FOWLEH murdered hkaisfeer at Chicago severin - her jugular vein ^ , wi h a butcher knife. Twenty minutes afterward he walked into the Twent^- i . tecond street police station and asked §!;(f vto be locked up. His left arm was i j<rsatiirated with his sister's blood, • ;Avhile his eyes were bloodshot as are- --suit of a night's dissipation. When , asked what he had done he coolly said: ^ + * threw a butcher knife at my Sister, ' J. - and maybe I have in ured her." ! •« At Assumption, Mr. and Mrs. Louis | Vilime'e celebrated tbeir fifty-fifth ^ .^4 wedding anniversary. They are the !: I^oldest uYench settlera of Christian ». v couuiy. F OSCAR NELSON opened an employ- P ment agency in Rockfcrd under th i firm name of A. A. Stevens & Co. He ad- ^ verti-ed to sec ire positions in Chicago W. for trained help of a l kinds on pay- |iv ' ment of a fee ranging from $1 to $10. Fr He swindled a hundred or more Rock- Ik f ford people. He then skipped the |j , town and the people are still looking for the jobs. Tne authorities are after ||1 him. Gov. ALTGELD issued his requisition y ~- «n the Governor of Te • as for the ex- ' tradition of Darby Heath, who is want- ed at Charleston for burglary. He is . tinder arrest at Sherman, Texas, and charged with robbing freight cars sof the Illinois Central and Big Four '* Railroads of merchandise. HENRY CASSOTT, a fa-mer living K: j/ne&r Woburn, Bond County, is charged I^Vifwith violating the postal laws. Cassott Vis 60 years old and has c00 pounds of Vi"e, but it is charged that he fell in " - Jlove with Mrs. Anna Felts, of Litch- eld, and wrote her a letter wh'ch is escribed by the Government officials being "lnflaamatory^ to a degree warranted by law. and Carl Burich, of Chicago, Bgainst John Metz and ethers to set a ide a forged deed and mort age of 130 acres of land in Odin Township. Burich bought the land three year.; as-o from Leonard Thomas, and has not disposed of it, vet a deed wa* executed and signed by some of tho defendants con­ veying the iand to John Metz. par- porting to reiide at Rome, Jefferson County, Iowa. Meti and wife mort­ gaged the land to the l atoka Loan and Protective Association for TiJAiN No. 1 on the Vandalia line was wrecked one mile east of Poca­ hontas and eight miles west of Green­ ville, Monday evening-. The train was in charge of J. K. Bridges, conductor, and Engineer Thomas Man fee. While rounding a curve the engine was de­ railed and ditched, carrying with it the two front mail cars, all three being totally wrecked. The injured are W. L. Boyd, irail clerk: shi ulders and back hurt. Albert Dickerson, fire­ man: brtiised and hurt internally. Thomas Manifee, engineer; hurt in­ ternally. C. F. Adains, E. E. Jones and Otto Schoen, mail cleris, all of In­ dianapolis, were bruised, but not seri­ ously injured. The passeng rs all es­ caped with slight bruises. The wreck occurred 1( 0 yards east of the point where train No. 20 was ditched se.eral months ago. Train No: 21, ollowing the wiec<ed train, was ordered to Van­ dalia and Fent to St. Louis over the Ohio and Mississippi. CLARISSA BUKK, 15 vears of age, committpd suicide In Champaign by taking laudanum. Monday afternoon, before taking a drive, she purchased a phial of laudanum and, it » alleged, told the stableman from whom she hired the horse that she would end her life. AN accident on Peorii Lake resulted in the dea h by drowning of Harry McCoy, a draftsman, and Miss .fesie Col well, an employe in Jacob Hoff­ man's ci»ar factory. Miss Colwell eame from Wyoming. McCoy was about 23 years of age and came a few years ago from Jacksonville. MICHAEL PHILBIN, superintendent of pin.-- la the Chicago .water department, is accused of stutr.ng pay rolls and has been discharged. THE unit of Charles Timmig against Henry Arnold to recover $100 for serv­ ices rendered and expenses incurred in the search fov a. wife fur tue defendant, was tried at Smithtcn. The evidence showed litnmig spent three months and some money in the search for a wife for Arnold He induced one widow of Pickney ville to give *.he prop­ osition a month's consideration, but at the end of that time sto turned in a negative answer. Aft^r due delibera­ tion the jnr; agvnta ve ' through his leg; in the battle of the Wilderness he receved a bullet in his side. These wounds were all made by the 1 eople ir.m the side which Hoke Smith is now trying to represent in dispensing pensions. When iv r. Dodge 1 ift the army he was suffering frcm partial paralysis as the result of his wounds. In time he applied for a pension, a d was granted $30 a month. Last "summer Mr. Dodge secured a position as inspector of police on the World s Fair grounds at a salary of $20 a week upon the recommendation of General Miles and the editor of the Chicago Tribune. That sufficed to call the attention of the pension o m ials to him, and a cha ge of drawiog^an ille­ gal pension and swearing falsely to a disease wai trumped up against him. He was arrested on a warrant issued at the instance of a special examiner ar.4 Pension ComnSfesioner L chren. The officers thought they would prjve that he had taken drugs to produce the symptoms of disease. He was therefore taken to Washington and thrown into jail, where ha was kept handcuffed five days and fed upon bread and water in pursuance of the theory that he bad taken drugs, an 1 that such treatment would prevent him from continuing tho prac­ tice. At the expiration of live days he was examined by a medical board, which continued to ^cep watch of him. Finally his case was brouerht into court, but the pension office had n£ evidence to present against him. The district attorney reported that an ex­ amination had shown tho man to be suffering from disease of the nervous system and the eyes. His bail was re­ duced frcm $10, > 0J to $lu0, and he was sent to a hospital whe-e he remained ill fcfr two months. When he had par­ tially recoveied he was again taken into court and discharged, no case hav­ ing been made out against him. In the meantime his pension had been taken from him aod in order to have it restored Mr. Dodge went before three eminent physicians--Dr. Cald­ well, formerly Secretary of the Pen­ sion Bureau; Dr. Keybuin, who was one of President Garfield's physicians: and Dr. Anton Coe. They reported that the applicant was sui ering from a nervous disease and an atTectlon of the eyes. These facts we e presented to Hoke Smith, but he decided that, inasm.ch a£ the pension had been stooped, it cjuld not be restored. That was the end of the case. The prosecution of Mr. Dodge cost the gov­ ernment $7,000, and it had accom­ plished nothing but to bring reproach upon those who instigated it. Mr. Dodge has left Washington, broken in spirits, and practically without mean) tures were $24,781,( 5S from f>»2 differ­ ent minesi The' principal States of production, in their order of import­ ance, were: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ala­ bama, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan. "Wisconsin, New Jersey, West Virginia, Missouri and « Maryland. The sugar consumption of the United States O i a basis of ti8,<,00,- 000 people, at a-per capita consumption ot 1 otlnds, is 4,420,000,000 pounds of sugar. The value of 4,420,000,000 poi nds at 3 cents per pound is $13 ',- ' ()00,0JO. An ad valorem tax of 40 per cent, upon this $132,ti00,000 will be $r>a,#40,t00. This tax of *53,040,01,0 divided among the 0,0.0 consum­ ers of sugar will be 78 cents upon each man, woman and child, or 33.90 upon each family of five peisons. This, then, was the policy of the Pemocratic President: Totampfer with the employment of 3>0,17i> people working in the coal and iron ore in­ dustries: to tamper with their annual wageiof $13),2l8,3to tamper with total annual expenditures and circula- Uon of money amounting to $171,317,- d -8: t > tam' er with an invested capital of .")9,7W, 1W9; to impose a direct tax of SS'i.OlO." 00 upon the breakfast table J of peoj. le. . ,,..... wiie acd children and will try to re­ store the home that was broken up by the men who are responsib e for the infamous Democratic outrage. He has the satisfaction oflfenowing, however, that his record is clear and that his and his three brothera--one of whom starved to death in a rebel pr son. an­ other losing his arm at Spottsylvania, acd still another being an inmate of a soldiers home--are still entitled to the respect and honor of all patriotic peo­ ple, no matter who may be in charge of the Penr ion Bureau at -Burlington Hawkeye. Savinff* Bank* SttttoMcft, fur. B5 B X 37tS 517 #29 921 1,030 603,870 1,63 ),8i6 2.335,683 4,258,898 $149,' 77,504 649,874,3)8 819,106,978 1.524.844,506 4,830.590 l,7i-5.1ijf».S»r,7 a » ft $210 IS 337 17 HftO 71 358 04 309 66! 26 6) A Fartv^j time everybody remarked how differently the hepubli- can party and the Democratic party go about making a tariff bill. The Re­ publican party frames a tariff bill on the principle of protection, in which it practices what it preaches. No mi­ nority holds up the ma ority and com- y>els an abandonment of principle ac­ companied by breach ot faith. There is no occasion for any investigation to ascertain whether 1 epublican legis a- tors have dallied with the stock ticker, playing the markets on inside informa­ tion. There are n > if r-ecuncliub!* dif­ ferences between House and Senate. The Republican President does not publi h a letter cbarg ng Republican Senators with "party periidy and party, dishonor." There is no mud-slinging I between the President and the Repub- | lican side of the Senate. Tho country I is not kept on the anxious seat while a I fsmily row is fought out. The hepub- lican party understands business and is expert in the business of legislation--- Wheeling Intelligencer. ' The Cantrilnn Way. In the Canadian House of Commom Mr. Foster, Minister of Finance, intro­ duced a tesolution for a yearly subsi Jy cf $ 1 CO,000 to a line of fast Atlantic steamers from ports on the St. Law­ rence, and from Halifax and St. John in winter to an English port not yet nftmed. It must be con es-e 1 that the Canad­ ians are full of pluck and enterprise. If half their enterprise were shown by the Congreii of the United States we should soon control the carrying trade to and from our Atlantic ports. With a population of about 0.000,000 Canada la undertaking commercial ventures which would appall the average Con­ gressman. While the Canadians may not succeed in adding greatly t J their trade or resource ;, something will be accomplished. -- Rochester Democrat ttnfl Chronicle. , ^ ^ G >od N wi If True. ' 1 A Spanish musician has 'ftgvtfSfl' a system of musical notation by which the sharp-and-flat system is done away mh. - -;i. , .-f$v walked to the beat. She is now said to bj thoroughly cured and able to at­ tend to her household affairs. This miracle is vouched for by the priest of Cap St. Ignace, who accompanied the pilgrims. The Woman's crutches, lett behind, have gone to swell the large •ollection of discarded canes, crutches ani other aids which form two large pyramids, twenty feet in height, just within the entrance to the church. Mrs. Joseph Pa^uette, of Indian Lorette, recently had a smothering sensation in the regi n of her heart, which physicians could not cure. She declared that she had made a vow to St. Anne to tho effect that if relief were given to lier she would publish the fact to the greater glory of tho faint. She faid she hud obtained the longed for cure in the sanctuary of the saint, and would proclaim it t to the world. An 11-year-old girl from Coati- cooke had been dumb for eight years, when, after invoking the aid of St. Anne and communicating, the string of her tongue was loosed, and Bhe cried out, "Gool St. Anne, I thank you." • Snmc Pitiful Scenes. Nine-tenths of those who pray for relief fail to tecure it. This is the most distressing feature at St, Anne. Very pitiful, indeed, are some of the scenes thus witnessed. Sickly chil­ dren, whose cries fill tho air, are seen on every side. Consumptives in the la'-t stages of the di a<e stagger or are led by friends tt> the altar railing. Fre uentlv, at the foot of St. Anne's [ statue, are see 1 si pplicating sufferers who, unsatisfied with their ovrn oral i petitions and unable to remain at the ' altar until their j rayers hive be n fa- voraby answered, Supplement them with wriltm plaas inclosed in i-ealed envelopes and bearing the simr lo ad­ dress, "A la bonne St. Anne." Num­ bers of these letter j are always ti be seen upon the pedes al of the stattie. Tne church con.ains two or three rel­ ics of St. Anne's bod ', the largest be­ ing a portion of tu3 wr st bono three inches in lergth. Another is a portiou of a lower t r.unib joint. Th wands of people venerate these lelies. after con­ fessing, communicating and hearing the reading of the gospel of St. Anne. The main ro lion of the bones of the saint are claimed by the cathedral at Apt, France, where the e reli s were obtained. The boJIy is said to have been taken from Jerusalem by St. James and others to Marseilles, the ship containing them being miracu­ lously preserved from wreck. Fr m Marseilles the body was taken to Apt, where for centuries it* location was unknown, until its remarkable redis­ covery. , .. ASSESSMENT OF ILLINOIS REDUCED. Atmirt*. by Mora to Cook Comity of S3,e4«,000- bj CooatlM. than That •! •23.000,000-0.,^^^ _ ass® horwa < - Procpecta tor Cora Ar« Brighter-Yield tt( Small Grain b Good. Reports for the week as to the con­ dition of crops throughout tho country and the general intluence of the weather on growth, cultivation and harvest have beej made by the direc­ tors of the ditlerent State weather ser­ vices to the United Stater weather bu­ reau. The repo.ti received by tele­ graph at Chicago are a3 follows: Illinois -- Tetupermuru and sunshine above normal. Except In central portion anJ a lew counties In northern portion, ralufull below normal and badly distrib­ uted; drjujht contluues la many south­ ern counties. Prospects for corn more en­ couraging. Plowing tor wheat progressing slowly. Inulanu--Liptht and heavy showers and cool nights improve.! corn in low places and; pasturage la some localities Wheat, oats »ud rye ihrashlug nearly doas; fail plowing progressing slowly. Wisconsin--Weather conditions are un­ changed; hot days with cool nights; no rain except occasional showers;'forest and marsh fires continue with increased sever­ ity. Cora on law ground will mako half a croi> Thrashers report largo yield of small grain. Iowa--Drought effectually broken In larger part of state, helping all Immature crops and putting ground In condition for plowing. South Dakota--Generally copious show­ ers, but too late to benefit crops In eastern portion except lute corn, flax, and pota- toes in scattered locallt tts. Blac.< H.*ls | Hendersoa." crops out of danger. Thrashing progress- j henry In? slowly; all yields light. Pastures greatly improved. Kansas--Hot week, with but little rain in western half and central part of East­ ern halt of State; elsewhere Rood showers have benefited pastures and late corn. Plowing retarded by dry weutlier. Corn- cutting ceaeral. Mock water becoming very scarce. Nebraska --Corn cutting for 'folder con- The State Board of which convened Tuesday moralixgf Springfield, immediately took up COflfr- m it tee werk. The county returaa MB. assessments have been tabulated aaA show a decrease of $i.?,079,239 for State as compa ed with last year. total is $737,758,616. as against I7t0,* 837,855 last year; . Personal property...t.. haam., Town and city lota tUASUM ttsilroad personalpropertyassessed in counties Railroad lands assessed in counties. Railroad lots assessed In conntte*... In the State at large 1,204,365 are assessed at an average of 1,725.191 cattle, average of stj.25; l,fi 550 mules and asses, a vera: e 792,147 sheep, average 84 qents; 2,788,- 533 hogs, average *1.43; 10,179 steam ) engines, including boilers, averam $130.3.; 10,4>4 fire and burglar proot tafes, average $21.6r. 2,0d5 billiard^ pigeon-hole, etc., tables, averaftfk $19.31; 3,7li',211 carriages and wagoatti" average 3.13,fila watches mm 1 clocks, average $1.*8: 910,43«< sewing 'tS- and knitting machines, average S?.98£ \ 43,»i87 pianos, average $2i4.7o; W»,0OT =» melodeons and organs, average 89.11s - J 55 franchises, average $1,33V0; 21 annuities and royal ties, average $261.19? ^1 patent rights, tverage $15^.7«; 73^ steamboats, sailing vessels, etc.. avera age $i9.'.9«. The follow"ng table shows the total' ^", , amount of assessment on the article* named: ... Material and manufactured artletefe .$ 3,063jHf ' - \ Misntifnernrers' tools, implements and " tnaclilrxry Agricultural tools, lm^iements snd machinery O0U1 and silver plate and plated ware *m Diamonds and jewelry .'.'..'.I'.'.'. Mpaeys of banker, broker, etc Credits of bank, banker, broker, ate. Moneys of other than banker, ete.... Credits of other than banker, etc..... Bonds and stocks Shares of capital stock of companies not • f this State Pawnbrokers' p> operty Property of corporations not before enumerated Bridge property Property of saloons and eating- houses. Household and office furniture.!!!.". 11,026411 Investments in r al estate and torn- , j'r.-v.ments thereon mia» Otain of all kintls " f ifi-t Shares of stock of State sad banks W'F All other personal property 3,*<t7,W| In the State. 2^,175,548 asres of IflDK proved land are assessed at an averaga of $10.94; tv'4;',424 acres of unimproved . in­ land, average $4.06; total acres aa» ee-sed, 34.5^4.972, average $.*.6r, t The following gives c mparison ot . of 1893 and 1894: T wu *7JO* J®s M «.4aMta . V 53 r*"8S'f* assessments < Adams. Alexander.. Hond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll... tiass Champaign. Christian. Clark ...., *Clay Clinton Coles Cook. Crawford...... Cumberland. UeKalb ......^ DeWitt Douglas . j Pu Paga.........,........ Edgar Edwards,... Efiinsham Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin..... +,'* **•*...., Greene................... Grundy. Hamilton................ Hancock ...i...,; Hardia . 1898. 1894. J, .$ 13.681.7M $ is.gss.ni %SV>,3t3 Iroquois Jackson Jasper Jefferson.............. Jersey Jol>aviesn..... Johaeon. Kane Kankakee..;....,-..... Kendall Knox Lake. tlnues gfeaoraL Pastures improved some- T^ gal'le Vitltn* nn/1 n #At> Ao /f J nf lata AABN klt'l nnd -- "•»»»»••«»«»»••*? ' Lawrence. Lee Livingston............. Logan OUR SHIPS AT CORUk, ot Foot TmidU «" the Aslat'c Fqatdran the United State* Navr. The interests of the people of this country in the Pacific, where the war is just now raging between China and Japan, are in kee ing of the Asiatic squadron of the Lnited States navy. j n all' four vessels represent our sea power--the Baltimore, a battleship; the Cone rd, a cruiser, with the Cay- ship Charleston and the battleship Petrel. The en'ire forcti,• $uty?at Corea and, though under orders to r re­ serve strict neutrality,*.'ih8tructi0ti9 nrv awarded the ma &raoa:*) jrdict for $52. ••"f" 18 0.. 187).. 1880.. 1890.. 189 <•. Whie the number of saving's banks has increased less than fourfoli durine the thirty-three years under review, the number of deuositors has increased sevenfold and the amount of deposits twelvefold, while in the same period our population has only little more than doubled. It is all due to the great increase in the numbsr of employes and their wages received, a result born, nurtured and sustained by a pro­ tective tariff. It may be mentioned that the per capita savings of Great Britian are less than $10. In some of our States, where manufactures most abound, the savings are enormous. In two States, Rhode Island and New tbe per capita savings are v; >.;' m Hie Noble SoaL" -Senator Vita* *BE CHABtiBSTOH what, and a few fle:d< of late corn helped by showers. A little fall plowing, but ground generally too dry. Ohio--Considerable corn belmr cut for .. feed, but generous showers have much im- Macon proved late corn and potatoes In southern ! " section. Some showers in north par;, but ^uauls Q " not enough to relieve drought; Tobacco has generally an improved appearance, but will be a light yield. Sine Is being cut But little plo* in? has been done. Missouri--But little change in weather or crops, though showers Improved late corn and pastures in some localities. Ap­ ples and grapes injured considerably by drought Plbvting for fall wheat retarded Michigan--Temperature and rainfall be­ low normal, sunshine normal With ex­ ception of scattored showers in western counties of northern and central sectlous the drought remains unabated In many places corn and potatoes are past help. WHEELING 'ROUND THE WORLD. Mile. Londonderry Must Earn 85,000 Be­ fore Boston Sees Her Again. Mile. Londonderry, as she calls her­ self, the ycung woman who says she is foing around the world on a bicycle, as started on her journey. Mile. Londonderry's circumo.b'tal journey, she declares, is being made on a wager of $10,000 a side, by the terms of which she started penniless from Boston and J LONDONDEBET. MLLE Marion Marshall Mason Massac McPonough...... McHenry.... McLean,... Menard.... Mercer Monroe Montgomery Morgan...... Moultrie Osle Peoria Perry /.......... Piatt ....... Pike Pope Pulaski.... Putnam. Randolph,.;. K'chlaud Rock island '. Saline Hangamon. Schnyler Scott Shelby. Sttfrk a. St. Clair Stephenson. Tazewell .... Union Vermilion ...» Wabash Warren Washington.............. White Whiteside Will 1ft il! ionis oa..^. ... •. Winnebatroj,.............. Woodford *,BT1,7(8 3.183,314 1,338,048 10,875,887 1,492,780 4,184,738 9,790,963 9,990,™ 7.434.580 1,771,807 1,684,488 . 3,779,01« 5,6a0,»8 211,673,137 1.739,044 1,199,944 7,774,191 3,718 «3B 3,948,837 6,160,204 1,437/08 2,411.721 2,866,922 1.m».661 7,784,f80 1,010^47 4.90,888 4,113,364 1,245,393 7,614,173 838,051 3,719,833 9.8H/33 9,130,S17 3,333.361 1/3), 787 1,793.840 3,088,839 4,143,830 1.43 >,9 8 14,tt3ft,3M 4,678,<»7 3,730.484 9,734,086 6,838,«41 17,360.048 1,3»0,499 7,t#i MS #,530,773 7.784,153 10,190,393 6.729,Ml 13.079,468 677,575 4,103.31# 3.34S.M3 1/60,491 6.7*1,746 7,*6<,3J4 16,334,375 4,166,984 4 46-J.488 2,499,030 6 801,110 11,184,868 2.CCS.433 7.596,* 3 16,691.463 1,!W9,678 4,362,934 5.5C1.702 1,101,353 927.556 1,441,698 3,498,144 1,669,392 7.631,319 1,338,8.% 17.f31.427 3,6M),218 2/S0.204 5,933,403 3,330,675 14,027,878 8.691,895 6,989.511 1,823,607 X1.U1.763 1619.193 5.77T.91H 3.02^ 7 3 1,832,659 1.59.1,311 7.634.:tS9 15,682,034 1.949,041 13.781,8 0 6.423, 3,378,tM» 1,881,3V io,ouja* hatfim 4,006J9t MST^Rfc 1,677.48* 3.72S,U» 5.S14.1TI 207^nM9» w l.in^nar 7,T0l^M» , 3,678, W -O'; iSm,' \ ; s.m.m , • »: i.mjm -. xMPims"-"* 3,4MgN» •' [ SKS •• j v«ut» 9«S5a WW Hi 9,8^.36® 6 6 «,WT 12,16 ).KU 3,488,68a 4,084,6Ui .mjsm l.tis.srr .4^6,64< 7,306.1V 18,044.SU 4,U8i,148 4,38131ft 2,485,t39»:<; 6,64U1»;v^ 10,99t,<M8 3.4»1.98t H J- 7.30M8S f- : ^ i8.i4T.«a» i; i.sisjKa. v» * %** 4.0C7.9M f'4 • 6.0«.Ma i.ou*a;;#r '• 888^» 5; 1.3S8.M* 8,38H.iM . n : flTs? 3.6M.1M , %T 8.711.M8 2 S4g.au .S;: 13.396.Wfc 8,6*Mfc« v ?• 6,836.0* 1.75rt,STt •, »V4r 1\8M,8« 5 ^ i 6.641,468 s.oo»^tt ( i.7«Ma»^ . •'-«5 lMt'l 111-6.087,431 > -.sTy , 13.815.4tt ' * ,> " R.2C6 3® Total.... ..•7ro S37.88& miist return there in fifteen m ̂ nths' tiime with $5,000 earned en rout?, after paying herexpenses. Mile. Londonderry set out from Bos­ ton last Aionday. 'Before leaving the Hub she made $230.01. the one cent MilHir .Ueuuos. DEPUTY UNITED S TATES MARSHALS brought t > Springfield Timothy K«ft- nedy, alias Bud Kennedy of Cairo, H. McCormici of tast St. L< charged with contempt of the F< Court in violating an omnibus in^ tion in interfering with ope rati an United Sta es mail trains. They remanded to jail in default of &.0) b«|| fQr trial next month. # WJLLIAM JAMES, a farmer liriajj southeast of Rockford, who is well I alonir in years, orderei ten gallons of • bright, red paint of G. W. Watson, a \ traveling salesman, with which tojfi paint his barn, and gave his note, dm ; *,rS' . . , . ,r ol . I in thirty days, for the goods. TB« Ifi °^her d»V aca k containing 11-gallons from Washington call fcr a vigilance that will prove an ample safeguard to every oneund all iaterests under the protection of the American flag. De­ lay has oeen encountered in the trans­ mission of intelligenca from our naval representative J in Corea, but that is due to Japanese interference with the means of coramuni ation. Urgent messages are allowed to pass, but de­ tails of engagements are suppressed %y the Mikado's Government other Ithan such facts as are intended ex­ clusively fcr oiicial information. tian Temperanca Un'on, who e ribbon she wears, and the rest of the money for carrying advertisements of differ­ ent firms on her wheeL Although she had taken but three lesson! on the bicycle, Mile. Londonderry covered twenty-one miles at the stast in four hours and fifteen minutes, and made the run from Boston to Providence-- iorty-two miles--in nine hours. She says she ha* met the most polite and kindest treatment on the way. Male and female bicyclers escorted her along stretches of her journey, and even the tramps the encountered treated her of red paint, enough to daub the whole town, eaine to him with a bill for S3(K« the note having been raised THE Whitehreast Coal Company has engaged several huadrcl ocg- oos frost Kentucky,to wor e in its mines at Dun­ fermline. Bryant and St. David. The who had been employed in tfa# mines at the^e placs, bu who have been ld!e iince last April be.-ause the scale of wages demanded by them was not ] aid, have been notified to va ate the houses owned by the company. Many of the cid mi ;e s have moved c:m% •