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\ x 'r • • •™-r-v tJVV ssewwEWBSfstsj :_', ; p } - ' ^ ' . , ^ # . - ? ' *••,.-•.•• •• i? >V OR STARTLING, PAtTK- FU^LY RECORDED. Christian Science Chnrch Dedicated , Peoria--Killed for Interfering in f* / * » Faailr Quarrel--Conv'cted of *or*- r cry--Wheat Oatlook Ja Good. „ % The First Gharch of Christ (scientist) ' Was dedicated recently at Peoria, free of ail debt. It cost $80,000, every cent of which wan given without solicitation out­ side the membership. The structure is of Italian renaissance style, built of light Bedford stone, finely chiseled and molded. An organ costing $3,500 was donated by an unknown friend. The dedicatory ser- > toon was delivered by Miss Jennie L. Bry­ an of Peoria, who is the organist of the church. The movement was inaugurated In 1892 with sis members, who met at Miss Bryan's home. The membership now is 108 and comprises a number of prominent and wealthy persons. Freder­ ick W. Root of Chicago, presided at the Otrgan and Whitney Mockridge sang a solo from "Elijah." Condition of Illinois Banks. The Comptroller of the Currency has Issued a statement showing the present condition of the 202 national banks in Illinois outside of Chicago. The deposits •f individuals in the aggregate amount to • few thousand dollars less than $56,000,- 000, while the loans and discounts aggre­ gate a trifle more than $52,000,000. The banks owe other national banks $440,004, while there is due from such banks $1,- 821,762 and from reserve agents $12,182,- < 026. State banks aiid bankers owe to the national banks $401,392, against $2,240,- 589 due them from national banks. The gold coin in the Illinois country banks How amounts to about $3,000,000, the to­ tal specie to $4,225,270 and the total law- ;.f > fill money in reserve to $6,000,000. «* Ki-Major Pound Guilty. f Et-Mayor Robert C. Lambe of Car- Jjrle was convicted by a jury in Salem on the charge of forgery. He was one of the inost prominent members of the Clinton County bar. Two years ago he loaned $1,100 to J. M. Stewart. This money belonged to Mrs. Sallie M. Lamar of Car- lyle. To her he turned over a note for the above amount purporting to have been signed by Stewart. When she presented it for payment he pronounced it a for- jpery. The genuine paper had been dis­ posed of by Lambe to L'lijah P. Ramsay Of Chicago and by him sold to a Nash­ ville banking institution. The wronged Woman was instrumental in having 'Lambe indicted for forgery by a Clinton County grand jury. Peacemaker la Murdered. Charles Cummings, a highly respected firmer of Calhoun County, living near Columbiana, was shot and instantly kill­ ed for interfering in a family quarrel. John Ivuehn lives near Columbiana in a houseboat. As Cummingg was passing the boat going to his home he heard the •creams of a woman crying for help com­ ing from the boat. He went into the boat and found Ivuehn beating his wife. When Cummings attempted to take the woman's part they both turned on him and knocked him down. When he got out of the boat he had gone but a few steps when Kuehn ired two heavy loads of buckshot into his body, causing instant death. Monkey Puta Out a Fire. Mrs. Peter Minetti of Belleville owns a monkey and* confines it in a wire cage. The other day Mrs. Minetti put some .fresh coal on the grate fire, locked up the house and went to visit some friends. A lamp of burning coal fell to the floor and •et fire to the carpet. The monkey broke Out of the cage and hurried into an ad­ joining room, secured some articles of gearing apparel and threw them over the burning carpet, completely smothering the flames. When Mrs. Minettf'returned Aome the monkey was sitting beside its flage carefully nursing two badly burned ,|aws. The timely action of the monkey averted a conflagration. Outlook for Wheat Is Bright. The winter wheat crop throughout the entire section of southern Illinois is now In a very promising condition. The crop Was planted late in the fall, owing to the 'Continued heavy rains, and on this ac- . 'ifeount had a very poor growth before the '^oid weather began. During December, however, when snow covered the fields, -^xe sickly looking crop was given new life . jjnd took on a vigorous' growth. More re­ cently abundant warm rains have fallen "and the prospects are now excellent. Pana Has Another Murderw Ike Inglis, a negro miner, shot and in­ stantly killed David Evans, another ne­ gro miner. The killing occurred in Springside mine addition to Pana. Evans and Inglis had been companions, room­ ing together and employed in the same room of the Springside mine, and the killing occurred at theiv* home. It was the result of a quarrel between the two over dividing their wages. Inglis fled, and was captured in a cornfield eight mites east of the city. Brief State BappcMtoga Miss Veronica Mudd, aged 23 years, liv­ ing near Redbud, dropped dvad. Abram Hasbrouck, the oldest business man in Mattoon, is dead, aged 73 years. The Galesburg City Council has order­ ed a special election for Feb. 14 on the Question of licensing saloons. Plaut & Co.'s clothing store at Elgin was burglarized of over $200 worth of goods and the burglars escaped.. The Logan County Sunday School Asso­ ciation has arranged for six institutes, to he held at Atlanta,. Elkhart, Hartsburg, New Holland, Mount Pulaski and Lin­ coln. Decatur put down over four miles of avement in 1808 at a cost of $91,000, r |)reaking the paving record for that city. v ""here are now twenty-one miles of pave- fnent in Decatur. ..,,,. A. W. Kirkwood, aged 65, the oldest .engineer on the Springfield division of the it)hio and Mississippi, now the Baltimore *" ' - and Ohio Southwestern Railroad, having ,|n 1870 run the first engine over the - ^~v%racks, dropped dead on his engine at Al- i. '^Sfltambnt. - The grip is now epidemic in Mound * City and throughout Pulaski County. 'Scarcely a house is exempt from the mal- " v'^ady and in many homes thfre are from r! three to five cases. Several deaths have + *_ rf ^already resulted. Hundreds of new cases ^"Tiave developed. All the physicians are ' overworked. In the Circuit Court at Hecatur the I*; >• Jury brought in a verdict of guilty in the V '/' ^iLouis A. Clevenger murder cas*. and fixed £? j '^Hjjthe imprisonment at thirty years in the * ^penitentiary. Clevenger shot and killed - Uay Telford near Decatur July 81, in a fe; v vpuarrel about a woman, who has since the ^ftragedy married another man. * ti T ' ? The coal miners at Mount Vwrnon have fef ' 'atruck again. The bone of contention P s • Vaa over the selection of a new pit boss, f,,, , The company having decided to remove £V/ the present boss, the miners petitioned for ••i* Y.sfi ^ :t -y^his retention. The company did not see ifit to grant the request, and accordingly ' -when the new boss took charge vtwHi fallnmui til air f«Tnritf out. VVMIir W '***/& service after April l. / The wheat <Stop in De Witt County is •aid to look better than before for tnaay years. Because of poor health Emma Pepper of Rock ford, 22 years old, killed herself with carbolic acid. Dr. E. E. Rogers of Port Byron, 70 years of age, and Miss Lottie E. Wright, 22, were married at Rock Island. A fatal disease among horses, found to be cerebro spinal meningitis, induced by the condition of feed, has developed in several places in the State. Henry C. Fellows died at his home in Fulton. Mr. Fellows went there in 1837 and was one of the founders of the city. He amassed a large fortune. Past Commander Carlisle R. Clarke of Rockford has been expelled from the Sons of Veterans for disobedience of the consti­ tution and by-laws of the order, and con­ duct unbecoming a member. The Appeal, the official organ of the Temple trustees, has been brought from David City, Neb., and will be issued from Chicago under the editorship of*Mra. Ma­ tilda Cars*. Gov. Tanner has appointed Lloyd J. Smith of the Twenty-fifth ward of Chi­ cago as Lincoln Park commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ho­ ratio N. May. Ellet Beesley, one of the most promi­ nent business men of Bridgeport, has mys­ teriously disappeared. He boarded a morning train recently for Olney. Friends in that city have no knowledge of him. All search has proved of no avail. The members of Company C has receiv­ ed pay for their services in Pana. The company was ordered out Nov. 19 and relieved from duty on Jan. 5. They re­ ceived pay up to Jan. 1, forty-three days. Since April 1 it has cost $50,000 to pro­ tect the negroes from the South who took the places of the union miners. Deputy . Sheriff Anderson, who, with Col. Wells, has had charge of the mining situation, has resigned. Several negroes serving sentences in the county jail for carrying concealed weapons were released and re­ turned to Pana. The new State Board of Agriculture met at Springfield and organized by re­ electing W. C. Garrard as secretary and Benjamin H. Brainard as treasurer. The time of holding the next State fair was fixed for Sept. 25 to Sept. 30. It was de­ termined to ask the Legislature for an appropriation of $200,000 for improve­ ments. Some of thpse in contemplation are an extension of the grand stand so as to provide free seats for all, the erection of a pavilion for stock exhibits, an addi­ tion to machinery hall and the erection of a home comfort building. Papers were read before the recent con­ vention of the State Dairymen's Society at Galesburg by H. R. Duets of Franks, R. G. Welford of Red Bud, W. W. Noys of Prophetstown, K. B. Gurler of De- Kfelb, Prof. J. W. Fraser of Urbana and Joseph Newman of Elgin, and were on subjects relating to dairying. J. H. Mon- rad spoke for the department of agri­ culture. Mrs. E. A. Sterling of Spring­ field and Mrs. Mary A. Mayo of Battle Creek, Mich., gave addresses. A discus­ sion revealed that most of the delegates are opposed to making butter on Sunday. Seventy of the cases of the Pana min­ ers, charged with participating in the riots of Sept. 1, when Operator Overholt was captured and Dr. Arthur Miller danger­ ously assaulted, and of Sept. 28, when the imported negroes and miners fought with guns in Locust street, were disposed of in the Circuit Court the other day. State's Attorney Humphreys "nolled" fifty-one of the cases, while eleven men on pleas of guilty were fined $5. Jail sentences were imposed. John Olds and William Gil- more, the two negroes who shot Walter Finch, another negro miner, Christmas day, were held in $1,000 bonds to the grand jury. An Anderson, Ind., attorney, represent­ ing heirs of Thomas Baxter, who reside around Anderson, is preparing to bring trouble upon the owners of thirty-six blocks of improved and valuable real es­ tate in the heart of Quincy. Back in the early '30s Thomas Baxter took up the northeast quarter of section 2, which was claimed to be and was recorded as Gov­ ernment land. In this quarter section are now situated the postoffice building, Dick Brothers' brewery, the Empire Theater, Turner Hall, Collins' plow works, Menke Grimm planing mill, two flour mills and a largo number of smaller manufactories, the gas works and many fine residences, in all representing millions of doiiars. Baxter's patent to the land is in evidence, but there is no record of any transfer having been mad£, and the heirs are now in communication with local real estate agents and lawyers with a view of press­ ing their claims. . ( j Samuel Washington, a coal-black negro hod-carrier, reached Alton the other day, suffering from the effects of a sixty-mile trip through water and on foot from Har­ din. He had ventured into a part of the State which has yet to number a negro among its population. For his rashness he barely escaped lynching. Washing­ ton : was one of a company of workmen who went to Hardin to work on the new bank building. The bell on the hotel rang at 12 o'clock, and the workmen dropped their tools. Sam was the first man to reach the hotel. There were two waiter girls and the cook in the dining room. They had not heard of the presence of the negro in town. At sight of him they drop­ ped the dishes and ran into the back yard screaming for help. The hotelkeeper ap­ peared armed with a baseball bat. He chased Sam around the room and out into the street. Several men joined the chase, and it was some time before Sam's fel­ low workmen could induce the citizens to let their hod-carrier alone, and then only on condition that he have his meals car­ ried to him and that a guard be placed over him at night. The news traveled as far as Hamburg that a i^gro was in Har­ din and intended to stay. The townspeo­ ple of Hamburg sent word that they would be down that night with ropes. When they arrived the uegro had disap­ peared. He swam the Illinois river in or­ der to escape. Gov. Tanner has appointed William Jackson of Rock Island to succeed him­ self as a member of the board of manag­ ers of the Illinois State reformatory, and James C. Sullivan as a member of the State Board of Health to succeed A. C. Corr, whose term has expirod. Henry Hesse, a prominent farmer resid­ ing about two miles north of Percy, died, it is said, from the effects of a beating re­ ceived from miners. Hesse had gone to Percy, and while making some purchases at a flour mill he was approached by sev­ eral persons and given a severe beating. Pneumonia set in and death resulted. The special committee appointed by the Board of Supervisors to investigate the validity of the ekiims of the special dep­ uty sheriffs employed on account of the strike at Pana has finished its work. The aggregate of bills presented was cut from $18,000 to one-half that sum. The dep­ uties threaten to sue for the full amount. The Adjutant General has promulgated an order mustering out of the service of the State of Illinois the First battalion, naval militia of the State. Upon comple­ tion or the muster-out Commander Wil­ liam T. McMillan will enlist and muster into the service of the State four divisions ARMY CHIEFS BLAMED |Y WAR INVESTIGATORS' WW LIST GROWING. Commission's Report Take* m Bop aft Everybody Concerned--Bven Rebukes Congress for FaillaK to Provide Smokeless Powder--Beef Chorees. The New York Herald, in Its Washings ton dispatches, outlines what it declares will be the findings of the commission to investigate the war. It will show that the primary tronble was due to lack of proper military organization and then pro­ ceed to distribute this blame upon Secre­ tary Alger, Gens. Miles, Shafter, Brooke and Breckinridge, and upon Congress it­ self, the censure in the latter case being for its failure to make appropriations for smokeless powder. The Manila campaign alone, apparently, will escape criticism-- a fact foreseen from the first. Secretary Alger will be censured, it is said, for weakness, especially with Gen. Miles, while the commanding general will be blamed for several matters in his con­ duct "before, during and after the war, for his selection of certain army camps, for telling Secretary Alger he was in the habit of making out his own orders, and for bringing unfounded charges that bad beef was supplied to the troops in Porto Rico." Gen. Shufter, it is said, will be censured on points he admitted in his tes­ timony and Gen. Breckinridge for leaving his department to take part in the San­ tiago campaign, while Gen. Brooke will be blamed for conditions at Camp Thom­ as, for lack of inspections and failure to carry out sanitary regulations. Tho blame, in short, will be pretty evenly dis­ tributed along the line. Beef Charges Unfounded. Coming down to the beef controversy, the commission will find that Gen. Miles' charges were unfounded, that the thirteen officers whose reports Gen. Miles submit­ ted as showing the beef supplied for the Porto Rico army was unfit for use never served in Porto Rico, and that there was absolutely no criminality in any of the contracts made for supplies for the ser­ vice. So far as the Santiago campaign !s con­ cerned, the commission will report that Gen. Shafter conducted that movement as efficiently as could have been expected under the circumstances. No fault will be fouhd with Gen. Shafter except as to the points which he in his testimony ad­ mitted. The report will also show that Congress was responsible for the equipment of the soldiers with black powder, as the ord­ nance department did not get in time the necessary appropriations for smokeless powder. It has been found by the com­ mission that a war has never been oper­ ated with such a small loss of life. Only 1 per cent of'^the army died from illness and in battle. Faults which existed at Santiago also existed in Porto Rico, there being a great deal of illness at that place. The Manila campaign was thoroughly sat­ isfactory. With respect to Montauk Point, the commission will find that it was the best point that could have been selected for bringing the troops home from Cuba; that it would have been better had the several.thousand men and several thou­ sand animals not been sent to that point from the South; but that there was no foundation for many of the complaints which were filed. y v *- mm 1 Firat battalion. STONE THE SPANISH FLAG. Havana Hotel-Keeper Makes Mistake in Running It Up. In Havana, a company of the Tenth infantry was called out Sunday evening to quell an outbreak occasioned by a hotel keeper on the Calsada del Monte running up a Spanish flag. A crowd of Cubans gathered and stoned the flag and threatened the proprietor with violence. The officer in command of the soldiers ex­ plained to the proprietor that the flag ought to be lowered, because it was likely to produce further disorder. The proprie­ tor, in reply, assured the officer that no offense had been intended, and that, hav­ ing seen the English and German flags flying, he thought he. would be at liberty to raise the flag of Spain. Two members of the company lowered the flag. At Cienfuegos the Spanish troops, who are thickly quartered in the warehouses and along the wharves, swarm through the city day and night. Their officers crowd the hotels. The soldiers are poorly fed and have had no pay for months. They are quiet enough, but their presence makes impossible a proper cleaning of the town and prevents activity on the part of the American administration. The plantations of the district are re­ suming grinding. The public buildings in Cienfuegos are still in possession of the Spaniards, and Gen. Bates and his staff are crowded into inadequate quarters. FOURTH ON ITS WAY. Already 3,892 Spanish-American War Claims Have Been Filed. Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Ev­ ans estimates that in ten years there will be 20,000 persons drawing pensions from the Government as a result of the war with Spain. He places the average pen­ sion at $10 a month, which would make the annual expenditure for pensions on account of the recent war about $2,500,- 000. The number of claims already filed exceeds 3,000 and is growing at the rate of 100 per day. LesB than six weeks after the formal declaration of hostilities the first applica­ tion for a pension resulting from the war with Spain was filed at the commissioner's office. It was from a widow of Private William H. Hook of Company F, Second Wisconsin infantry. It seems that about two days after Hook was mustered into the service his regiment was ordered into a State camp. There Hook contracted a fever and died inside of a week. His widow lost no time in putting in a claim for pension. For the first few weeks near­ ly all the applications were from "de­ pendents," that, is, widows and mothers, and were about evenly divided between the army and navy. Later a flood of "in­ valid" applications were received* coming from soldiers who had been ordered out of the service and who were filing claims for bounty based on diseases contracted while in the service. The first soldier to apply for a pension on his own account was F. Roy Eshleman, a private in Com­ pany E, Sixth Illinois infantry. His pa­ pers were recorded at the commissioner's office on June 8. No more applications of this class came in until July 1, but from that date they began to pile up rapidly. They numbered 69 by Sept. 1 and 450 on the 1st of November. During the month of November the cases ran up to 1,<323, but the record was broken in the first three weeks of December, when the total was almost doubled. On Dec. 20 the number of invalid claims on file was 3,167, of which 1,398 came in since Dec. 1. In the meantime the persons who were in­ jured in the navy were putting in their claims. On Dec. 20 there were 225 claims for pensions growing out of fatalities and damages sustained by sailors. Of this number 193 were invalid claims and the balance were petitions from mothers and widows. This made a grand total of 3,392 claims on file Dec. 20 from the army and navy. The first pension of the Spanish war was granted to Jesse F. Gates, a mem­ ber of Company A. Second United States light artillery. This soldie? was badly wounded at Santiago, a Spanish shell tearing away a portion of his face and dis­ figuring him for life. He put in a claim for pension on Oct. 26 and then got offi­ cials of the administration interested in his eye. Upon the direct order of tt»e President his claim was taken up and «1- judicated, the allowance being made Nov. 16 and the pension dating from Oct. 26. Gates receives $17 a mouth. Chicago Regiment Begins Its Trip to the Philippines. Bound for a trip more than half around the world to the east, officers and men of the Fourth United States infantry left Fort Sheridan Sunday morning. With few halts they are to hasten to the Phil­ ippines, where service in the tropics will claim them for indefinite months or years. The stops on the long journey of nearly 15,000 miles will be New York, Gibraltar, Port Said, Aden, Colombo and Singapore, all except one of which are practically British ports. Three days are to be spent at each halting place, but the troops are not to be debarked from the transport Mohawk. ' For seven or eight weeks they will be cooped up in the ship, sometimes in the! furnace-like heat of the Red Sea, where night brings no relief from the sizzle and men tell of boats that have to turn about in order to get a little breeze for stifling passengers. But the men reck naught of these things. The ceremonies of depar­ ture from the fort were not elaborate. The regiment went to New York in three sections over the Pennsylvania road and numbered over 1,200 men. HOG-KILLING STATISTICS. at the A«' Increase of 26 Per Cent Points Reporting. Since Nov. L the beginning of the win­ ter packing season, the total number of hogs killed at all points reporting was 5,710,000, against 4,540,000 a year ago, an increase of 1,700,000, or neatly 20 per cent, as follows: Nov. 1 to Jan. IS^S '99. Chicago .2,020,TOO Kansas City Omaha ...... St. Louts..... Indianapolis Milwaukee, Wis Cudahy, Wis Cincinnati St. Joseph, Mo Otturawa, Iowa........ Cedar Rapids, Io#s.... Slous City, Iowa....!.. Cleveland Ohio........ Louisville, Ky St. Paul, Minn Wichita, Kau.......... Marshalltown, lows.... Blooruington, III Clinton, Iowa Above and all other....5.710,009 700,000 480.000 435,000 283,000 05,000 166,000 193,000 256.000 169,200 114,000 98,000 96,000 117,000 66,000 33,000 28,700 25,300 12,000 1897-*98. 1,515,000 <540,000 290,000 1285,000 257,000 339,000 155,000 165,000 92,000 134,600 96,600 75,000 98,000 102,000 06,000 31,000 34,000 13,700 4*540,000 WCARYkOP WRANGLES. President Resolved to Stop the IMiek* •ring* In the Army. v A Washington correspondent asserts that the President is profoundly displeas­ ed with the scandalotis wranglings of ar­ my officers, which have been so conspicu­ ous in the past few months. While he is most anxious to act as a peacemaker, he will stop these useless bickerings in the army and put an end to the possibilities of further scandal, even if ho has to order several more courts martial to accom­ plish his purpose. The strained relations between the general in command of the army and the War Department proper will not be eased by the punishment of Commissary General Ragan. It is the general belief that Miles has been delib­ erately seeking trouble. Considering the directness of the evi­ dence which will support the charges and specifications, it can make little differ­ ence to Gen. Eagan who tries him. He will be convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman and conduct prejudicial to good order and military dis­ cipline. The sentence of the court will be dismissal from the service of the Unit­ ed States, and it will remain with the President to approve or mitigate the find­ ing. It has been the President's desire to censure Gen. Eagan for his extraordi­ nary language, and he would have done so without a court if the precedents would have permitted. The President Tuesday announced at the cabinet meeting that he had decided to order a court martial to try Commissary General Eagan for the abusive and violent language he used res|>eeting Gen. Miles before the war investigating commission. Prior to the cabinet session the President held a conference with the Secretary of War and Adjutant General Corbin. It was brief, but the action to follow Uagan's utterances was decided and when the cab­ inet met the President announced he had reached a decision in the matter. He said he had determined there was only one course to adopt and that was to order a court martial convened to try Eagan. The decision met the approval of the members of the cabinet. There was some discus­ sion following the President's announce­ ment, in which the case was threshed over to some extent, though the President him­ self took little part in the discussion. The details of the action were left to the Sec­ retary of War. iff THIRTY LIVES IN JEOPARDY. Break in Cleveland Dam Lets Loose Immense Flood. A dam under the Willson avenue bridge at Cleveland gave way Wednesday morn­ ing. Back of the dam is a body of water a mile and one-half long, hundreds of feet wid« and in places twenty-live to thirty fpet deep. The break allowed torrents of water to pour down on the flats below. The cause of the flood is the recent heavy rains, the melting snow from the hillsides and a pond of several acres overflowing. Streams for several miles up the gully added their quota of water. The Willson avenue bridge is 700 feet long and has been built but a few months. It cost $350,000. The break in the dam, which was an unsubstantial mass of earth, occurred while thirty men were at work in the artificial canal being sunk by the city engineers to allow the pent- up water to find a gradual and safe cut let. These men had a most harrowing experience and escaped with their lives with not one second to spare. The warn­ ing given them was not sufficient to even arouse their fears of what was happening, and hardly a man had looked up from the bottom of the deep trench in which they were working before the crash came and the awful flood had broken loose. The water undermined an embaukment 150 feet high and fifty feet in area, sweeping it down with the raging flood. TRAirTROBBERIES IN 189a Laws of Mexico Deter Bandits from Committing Depredations. The Cincinnati Express Gazette has col­ lected data anent the operations of train robbers during the past year. The effect of Federal jurisdiction upon train rob­ beries is evidenced in Mexico. During the past year there was not even an at­ tempt at train robbery in the sister re­ public. The crimc is punishable there with instant death. Following is the rec­ ord of train robberies in the United States: 1890 1891 18»a 1893 1894 ...12 10 10 33 .34 1895 1S96 1897 1808 "1 48 28 .30 28 Total number of trains "held up" In nine years 246 Total number of people killed 88 Total number of people InJured tshOt).. . TT The record for 1898: Number of train hold-ups ....I Number of stage robberies.............. Number of passengers and . trainmen killed Number of passengers and trainmen shot Number of robbers killed Number of robbers shot T Senator Piatt of New York is .always neat and trim, well groomed. Gov. Bowes of Oklahoma was once a telegraph operator at Leavenworth, Kan. Senator Richard R. Kenny of Delaware is under indictment in Delaware for fel­ ony. Senator Proctor of Vermont has become a golfer and a member of his home coun­ try clug. * Senator Piatt of New York has an enormous stock of conundrums which he originates himself. The youngest chaplain in the navy is said to be the Rev. Frederick C. Brown, 25 years old, now on the Iowa. Gov. Pingrce owns the prize war scrap- book. It is of enormous proportions and yet treats mostly of the Michigon volun­ teers. Queen Victoria invariably sleeps with her bedroom window slightly open at the top, no matter what the season of the year. During the civil war Gen. Merritt won in two years seven brevets and promotions for "gallant and meritorious service in the field." Senator Gear of Iowa is evidently afraid that some heartless rogue will make away with his hat, and for this reason he invariably carries it with him. The late Senator Morrill always made a speech early in, the session, sent a copy bound in Russia leather to every Senator and a paper-bound copy to every voter in Vermont, CIVIL WAR RAGES IN SAMOA. followers of the Rival .Chiefs Engwce lib Conflict. Civil war is again raging in Samoa. Ad­ vices say that the controversy between the rival candidates for the throne in suc­ cession to the late King Malietoa has re­ sulted in armed conflicts. Chief Justice Chambers decided that Malietoa Tauu was elected to the throne. Mataafa and his followers refused to accept this decis­ ion and took up arms. Much property has been destroyed and many persons killed or wounded. The German cruiser Falke and the British cruiser Porpoise were endeavoring to sup­ press the uprising. Several thousand of Mataafa's followers defeated 2,000 of the followers of Malietoa Tanu, ambushing them and killing and wounding many. The rebels burned 400 houses and destroy­ ed the town of U polu. They have cut down many fruit trees. No foreigners were injured. TO STUOY PORTO RICO. President Wil^'lieVid Commission to That Colony. President McKinley is arranging for the appointment of a colonial commission for Porto Rico somewhat similar in scope to that appointed to go to the Philippines. The commission will exercise the func­ tions of an advisory body, and will prob­ ably Include as ex-offlcio members Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry, commanding the mil­ itary department of Porto Rico, and Com­ mander A. S. Snow, in charge of naval affairs there. The commission will ad­ vise the President as to the proper method of dealing with Porto Rican questions. Its report will be transmitted to Congress when It is desired to establish a perma­ nent form of government in Porto Rico. Bandits Rsid a Town. Four bandits rode into the town of Vian, I. T., on the K. & A. V. Railroad, and while three of them stood guard, the fourth broke into Allen Bros.' general store, dynamited the safe and secured $150 and a number of checks. The Vian Trading Company's store was next visit­ ed. Here the safe was also blown open and $200 taken. Citieens appeared in the streets, but were driven back by the fire from the bandits' revolvers, The robbers then rode off. Mob Lynches N esc roes. Two negroes, George Call, alias Toney, and John Shaw, alias Figlit, met death at the hands of a mob in Lynchburg, Tenn. There is no clew to the identity of the lynchers. The negroes were about 18 years old. Ropes were around their necks and it was the intention to hang them, but the negroes showed fight and were shot to death. The negroes were whipped by White Caps a year ago and run out of town, but returned. Sleeping Girl Awakened.) Eva Roch, the "sleeping girl" of Mon­ treal, who has been in a state of catalepsy for twenty-eight days, has been awakened from her long slumber. The doctors in attendance on the young woman succeed­ ed in bringing her to by sticking red hot needles in her spine. Leprosy in Kentucky. Dr. William Current of Paris, Ky., who has returped from a trip through the State, says that near Stringtown, Grant County, he encountered three cases of genuine Asiatic leprosy in a family of five persons. The afflicted ones had not been isolated. ^ Soldier Sentenced to Death. Private Buckley of the Second Louis­ iana- regiment at Havana, who was tried by court martial for the murder of a fel­ low soldier, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. Told in a Few Luna Order is being preserved in Havana by a patrol of the streets by American troops. Deaths in Santa Clara, Cuba, during the past three yenrs have equaled 80 per cent of the population. v> " Late news from Samoa is that no king has been elected and that war is prob­ able between rival claimants. Mr. and Mrs. William Simms of West Louisville, Ky., celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding. Ten Spanish priests, who fled from the Philippines to escape Agu^naldo's wrath, have arrived in San Francisco. The work of reducing the military forces of the United States to a peace footing is progressing slowly, but steadily. It is said that the coming river and har­ bor bill will provide for more promptness in relieving harbors of wrecks and .dere­ licts. Prof. J. B. Hatcher of Princeton, N. J., has gone, back to Patagonia to continue his search for rare fossils, and to explore the interior of the country. The Postoffice Department has decided to issue a new set of stamps for Cuba, and the bureau of engraving and printing has been called * • - . M*.* • An examination of the Senate portion of the Congressional Record for the last, or second, session of the present Congress, which has appeared in bound form, shows there were 36,320 inches, or about 3,000 feet, of printed debate in columns three and one-half inches wide, set in minion type. At this rate each of the 89 Senators was entitled to about 400 inches, but six of the Senators occupied nearly one-flfth of the entire space, leaving four-fifths for '83 of their colleagues. Senator Allen of Nebraska is the champion long distance talker of the United States Senate, and occupied over five and one-half per cent of the entire time of that body during the last session. His remarks measured 2,035 inches. Senator Pettigrew occu­ pied 1,307 inches, being the second in ver­ bosity. Senator Teller was third. Ho occupied 1,321 inches, and Senator But­ ler 960 inches. These four Populists thus consumed nearly 6,000 inches of space, out of a total of 36,000, or one-sixth of ,the whole. Senator Morgan has had the reputation of being the most intermina­ ble talker in the Senate, but it -will thus be seen that he has suffered great injus­ tice. Allen, Pettigrew and Teller sur­ pass him in both volume and loquacity. His inches numbered only 1,109, that is, only about 100 feet in solid minion type, three and one-half inches wide. But ne still continues " to lead the Democrats. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire is the "talky-talky" man of the Republican side. His wit and wisdom cover an area of 845 linear, or 2,958 square inches, which would make a large book. No more interesting table of figures can be found than that In the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, which shows the net ordinary expenditures of the Government from 1791 to the pres­ ent time. Not until the war of 1812 did the Government expenditures come any- *where near $10,000,000 a year. In 1810 they were $5,311,062, or about as much aS our pension office now distributes in a fortnight. Expenditures gradually fell jafter the war of 1812 and for two years-- 1822 and 1823--they were below $10,000,- 000. With some reverses they gradually increased from that until 1860, when the net ordinary expenditures had reached about $60,000,000 a year. After the civil war they began to decrease, but the in­ terest charges were then so great as to keep the total at a high figure. The net ordinary expenditures in 1878 were $134,- 403,452. Ten years later the very same items aggregated $214,938,951, while in 1897, before the war began, the same charge had reached $327,983,049. In each of these years the interest on the public debt should be added. In 1867 the interest charge was $142,000,000, or 70 per cent of the total of ordinary expendi­ tures. In 1892 the interest on the public debt had fallen to $23,000,000. Politically, the two Dakotas present an interesting contrast. These States came into the Union together ten years ago. They went Republican from constable to Congressman, and when their Legislature met a few months later they sent four Republican Senators to Washington. Only one of the four has remained--Pettigrew of South Dakota. Moody, his colleague, was defeated for re-election and went back to his law practice at Deadwood Gilbert A. Pierce was named for the short term, and had the unanimous vote of his Legislature, yet two years later he was overwhelmingly defeated. Lyman R. Casey was his colleague. After four years of senatorial life he was succeeded by W. N. Roach, a Democrat, who was elected by a Legislature that had a Re­ publican majority of 13. The contest last­ ed thirty-seven days. Roach came to the Senate and Casey went back to his farm, which is of the "bonania" order, and all reports agree that he has prospered. Senator Proctor of Vermont and his friend, Col. Myron M. Parker of Wash­ ington, Republican national committee­ man, visited Cuba shortly before the breaking out of the war and spent several days in Havana. While there many "good things"* in the way of investment were brought to their attention. On sev­ eral occasions they could with difficulty refrain from taking hold. They were frightened off, however, by the uncertain' ty of the political situation, and came home without having invested a dollar. The best "gamble" to which they were introduced was the Havana street car property. It is operated under a 99-year charter, which has eighty-five years yet to run. It is capitalized at $1,600,000, and its $500 shares were offered at $50 without buyers. The control could have been secured for $85,000. The property is worth $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. as it stands to-day. As they occasionally re­ cur to that lost opportunity to make mill­ ions on a 50 to 1 shot the Vermont and Washington financiers feel liko quietly kicking themselves. Senator Cullom and Representative Connelly take pleasure in introducing in the two houses of Congress bills to grant a pension of $100 a. month to ex-Senator Palmer of Illinois. There are several precedents for it. Gen.' James Shields was given a similar pension after serving a term in the Senate from Missouri. Gen. JVlcClernand of Springfield and Gen. John C. Black of Chicago each draw $100 a month, and Gen. Palmer is quite as much entitled to the distinction as they. Mrs. Logan gets $2,500, Mrs. Grant $5,000 a year, Mrs. Sheridan $2,500, and there is a long list of beneficiaries of the bounty of the Government in which Gen. Palm* er's name ought to appear. The dramatic scene in the Legislature of Montana, when Senator Whiteside pro­ duced thirty $1,000 bills, which he said be had received as a bribe to vote for W. A. Clark for the United States Senate, had a precedent in the Kansas Legisla­ ture twenty-five years ago. A member of the State Senate by the name of York laid $10,000 on the presiding officer's ta­ ble and declared that it had been given him as a bribe by Senator S. C. Pomeroy, who was a candidate for re-election. Pomeroy denied the charge and insisted it was a conspiracy of his opponents, but nevertheless it resulted in his defeat and the election of John J. Ingalls as his suc­ cessor. The guides who show strangers about the Capitol these days point out with great gusto on the floor of the Senate two statesmen who are under indictments for felony, accused of having made free with funds belonging to other people that were deposited in banks managed by theh friends. One of them is on the Demo­ cratic side, Richard R. Kenney of Dela­ ware, who has been twice tried, by hung juries. The other, on the Republican side, is Matthew Stanley Quay, who Is now awaiting the verdict of a Legisla­ ture as well ss a court ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS?^ f During the short sessions of the Honae ^ and Senate Wednesday morning Senators"% and Representatives introduced sixty-. eight bills. In the House the first roll|!|i call of the session for bills brought fifty- '"*. eight measures, and the Senate gave birthr'1^ to ten. Representative Abbott of White-; * ' side County also introduced a joint reso-'^" r" lution which passed the House th Miss Helen Gould of New York for her^ - "v $ patriotic devotion to our suffering soldiers^ and for her unselfish philanthropy." In^( ,.,, the House the bills ranged from measure^,^ designed to fine an impecunious man for crawling through a hole in the fenco '4. \ ^ / at a county fair to the unconditional re-|^ peal of the Chicago civil service act. Twoi , anti-imported labor bills were introduced,® 4 sdfa&M, one by John McLauchlan (Dem.) of La' , Drew (Rep.) of Will County, "to prohibitflj the bringing of laborers into Illinois from?f;£ other States by false representations," '• Mr. Drew's bill contains a provision whicl prohibits the hiring of persons to guard with arms or deadly weapons any work- !^ men or property in the State. The Sen- ate passed its first bill Wednesday. 1^';. was an appropriation of $100,000 to paff^ •'? the employes of the General Assembly. ." A • '# Both houses of the General Assembly are completely organized for business, ally -t ", the standing committees having been an-1 j 'J nounceu on Thursday. Senator BegoH|r 9/J" »Cf introduced a bill for a general revision off* ^ « the game law of the State. Senator Mil-,- •• '*• _ Christ's library bill makes it obligatory -l for the Mayor of a city which contains rt public library with a soldiers* memorial*0^ ^ ^ Jj~ hall attached to appoint as three of th«^- •»> • directors of the library board soldiers on- '• ,.^-v sailors who have been honorably dis»,> - jV ' i -R discharged from the United States serf# as " vice. Senator Funderburk introduced a bill which gives the people of any countjf, / J the right to vote for a uniform system ota^._.,„ir.A.4 text books for use in public schools iifc t . /..'I that county. Senator Bogardus put ia.- ,• "ij a "hard roads" bill, which provides that., ?{(" ">'• on a petition of fifteen or more voters in -'f a township the town clerk shall call ai| 1 election to vote upon the question of issu-. . > ing bonds to pay for building good roadi' . In the township. In the House Mr. Ma* " lato introduced a bill exempting labor ; from the operation of the Chicago civi|^« service law. Mr. Malato also introduced a bill fixing the minimum compensation ' > for employes at $2 a day. Mr. Page, •, ; r d Republican, offered a resolution instruct*-* ' ' • ing Senators Cullom and Mason to vot# ^ and labor zealously to secure the earljEf -f ratification of the treaty of peace. This- - resolution was adopted. Mr. Powell pu|t 4.v~j in a bill which provides that a witnes# must testify before a grand jury, eveA" though his testimony would tend to ^Inft,;* ̂ '," criminate himself, provided he is relea*^, ?' ^ i'% 'i::M from liability by order of court. ' ' ."J Seeing Bullets aa They Ply. "As every sportsman knows," sfttd enthusiastic New Orleans hunter, 'It 1# easy to see n rifle bullet in the air, an4 those fired from the new high powet guns are very curious to look at. Stan# a dozen yards to one side of the maril and let a friend blaze,away at anf range with a small caliber weapoh using smokeless powder, and you'll sef a strange, bluish-white streak the lq|>^ Stant the bullet strikes home. Thft streak is apparently a couple of lnche# wide and several feet long, and is morli like a flash of light than anything elab I can think of. With the old-fashioneft Remington or Sjylngfield carbine, ttoi bullet has the appearance of a long black rod, and I don't know why the# should be such a difference in the opt|» cal Illusion produced by the smaller caliber. I have heard some peopit deny that the bullet can be seen, bill they are very much in error. It alt depends on getting the right viewpoint. A few feet either way will render tl)» missile Invisible, but the right spot H soon found by experiment, and after that the thing is as plain as day." i Royal (Cats. Ih enthusiasm for cats the Shah at- Persia surpasses all other royal de­ votees. He has fifty of them, and thegr have attendants of their own, with special rooms for meals. When th». Shah goes away, they go, too, carrieit by men on horseback. The late Czar of Russia was very fond of the felin* tribe. When visiting the King of Den* mark on one occasion he alarmed tb* menials by rushing out very early is the morning to" the gardens. From th* window of his sleeping room he haft seen a big dog attack his favorite black ; cat, and, without staying to completa •, his toilet, he had lied to her rescue - - * J The famous royal cat of Slam is a larg#ii':?^':0 white, short-haired variety, with black face and a peculiar formation of eaR^^f^ffljj Its preclousness may be judged froflfc v ;,J the fact that it once took three gentle* men of influence three months to prt|> cure one for an English consul ** -jc ^ Bangkok. • A Military Funeral. -- When such a one takes place in tlms of peace, the ceremonial Is exactly thft , same as it would be in camp or on thft battlefield. A gun-carriage forms aa improvised hearse, the drums are mu<j? fled out»of respect to the dead com» rade, and all arms are carried reversed to show that the company deputed tft perform the sad office count upon thft forbearance of the enemy for the timft being, consequently they do not feai£. an attack. In the case of a cavalry officer being buried, his horse is left behind the body; this is a survival of ancient times, when an officer's charger was universally sacrificed at the grave* 1 • } side and buried with its master. At ' f the conclusion' of the ceremony a aar ' v < lute Is fired oypr the grave to intimatft C ^ ̂ *.A| to the enemy that they are once morft/ \ ready to act on the defensive. t M This and That. Ireland has 2S0 dfstillerles; Scotland, 143. In very clear water sunlight pene» trates to a depth of over 1,500 feat. Nearly all skind diseases are suppose ed to be caused by microscopic insects.' The average dlstahce that aft engin* - driver travels in the course of a yea#" ' v is 20,000 miles. , - It is said that baH bearings were !»>v . vented by John Wyatt, an Englishman^ in the year 1760. English brook • trout grown in tlur--~r New Zealand rivers ia new «*porte#v,.,;:yl back to England In cold storage. The Italian army consists of 2(5,001 X. men, of whom 141,000 are infantry, >; 23,289 cavalry, and 20,016 artillery. ,^v Roast monkey is said to be Quite « dainty dish. Its flavor is a sort of com* promise between pheasant and hate. , A mathematician has computed thep movements of a rider's feet whitei operating a bicycle and has demon* ^ strafed that it requires lass exertion to travel fifteen miles on a bicycle than M „ 1. *£ri 'W*-