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He alleges that his father was not of sound mind, was unduly influenced by per­ sons about him before he died and that he really did intend to leave the real estate to his son, with some restrictions, but that the scrivener who drew the will did not understand the import of some legal words .and thereby left the property all to the exequtor for the benefit of the grandchil­ dren, leaving the son only such income as the executor chooses to give him. Joseph Smallwood, the testator, was one time a noted horseman, owner of A! oh a, a run­ ner that made him many thousands of $i3!ars. _____ Gives Himself in Custody. . John Warren, residing in the Sangamon bottom, went to Virginia late the other night and surrendered to Sheriff Wid- myer. Warren had shot Bert WiSemau at the residence of the former's father-in- law, eleven miles west of Chandlerville. Although Wiseman was still alive when Warren left he had three dangerous bullet wounds in his body. Warren claims he did the shrooting in self-defense. Accord­ ing to his story he and a younger brother of Wiseman became involved in a quarrel during the afternoon and he slapped young Wiseman, who called him a vile name. The elder Wiseman then followed Warren home, where a quarrel ensued, which re- salted in the shooting. ^onnj Woman's Fodjr Fonnd. While removing the remains of Richard Walker from the Robinson cemetery near Sugar Grove to Walnut Ridge at Virginia, the body of a young woman was found at the former place. The body was scarcely two feet below ground and had on a night dress and a pair of hose. It had been buried hurriedly, and from appearances had been there about two years. There have been no disappearances in that sec­ tion within that time, and it is thought the body was placed there by parties from a distance, as the cemetery is in an out-of- the-way place. Boy Proves Himself a Hero. The spring factory at Petersburg burn­ ed and several women employed in the up­ per story would have lost their lives had not Charles W. Hyman, aged 16, rushed up at the first alarm and warned them and pushed them hurriedly to the stair­ way and made "them descend, although the stairs were then partly ablaze. The fire caught from a match in a cotton picker igniting. Most of the employes escaped coatless and hatless, as the building burn­ ed like tinder, being of frame and full of ^cotton. The loss is $20,000. Wedded to a White Woman. Edward Wilson, one of the colored men held at Peoria on the charge of shooting at Conductor Dunning, was recently united in marriage with a white woman in Cham­ paign. They were on their wedding tour when they went to Peoria. Mrs. Wilson was born in Springfield, Ohio, and is 26 years of age. When 4 years of age she moved with her parents to Bismarck, where she attended the grammar schools. For ten years she traveled with a circus as a bareback rider and drove in hurdle races. Fatal Qnarrel Over Woman. Jesse Sutherland stabbed Joseph Al­ bright to death in a fight near Grape Creek. Sutherland had taken Albright's sweetheart to a dance and as they were returning home he was knocked from the buggy with a stone thrown by Alhright. They fought for some time, when Suther­ land commenced stabbing Albright with a jack knife. Albright's, jugular vein was severed and Sutherland and the girl drove home. Sutherland then gave himself up. Big Fire at Mount Carmel. The greatest fire Mount Carmel has known for years devastated the river front the other day. The old grocers wooden dish factory, of late occupied by the BHiff City ,Hoop Company, was destroyed, en­ tailing a loss of $10,000 or more, and throwing about fifty people out of employ­ ment. Four residences, numerous barns and outbuildings were included in the de­ struction. Brief State Happenings. The apple, pear and cherry crop in Clay and adjoining counties promises to be larg­ er than ever before. Abel Dykstra, the farmer who killed his 5-year-old son Peter at his home near South Holland, was adjudged insane and sentenced to the asylum at Chester. Paul D. Salter died at his home in Kirk- wood. He removed to Illinois from New York in 1856, and in 1873 and 1874 was a member of the Illinois Legislature. The Central West Association of Con­ gregational Churches held its forty-fourth annual meeting in Peoria. A large num­ ber of delegates and visitors are in at­ tendance. It was reported that both the Penwell and Pana coal mines at Pana had been sold to a syndicate composed of the United Mine Workers of Amcrica and outside capitalists. At Carlinville, three men belonging to the wrecking crew of the Aiton Railroad were crushed under a car which they were engaged in raising. One died instantly. The accident was caused by a chain break­ ing. Austen K. Deblois, who for five years has been president of Shurtleff College at Alton, has resigned to become pastor of the First Baptist Church at Elgin. Dr. Deblois has made a brilliant record at the head of the college. Spotted fever is raging to an alarming extent south of the tow% of Nokomis. Five deaths are reported in the family of J. T. McFarand. It is said that thirty-five new cases have developed. The health officers claim to have the disease confined and un- tder control. George W. Lander, a pioneer of Coles County, died in^Charleston. He was one of the last survivors of the famous "49ers who went to California in search of gold. They wenf overland and returned by way of the Isthmus of Panama. They left Charleston in March and spent the Fourth of July on Pike's Pe&k. Fred Scaggs, son of John Scaggs, ft wealthy farmer hi Pleasant View town­ ship, hanged himself at his home. Hi« sister, Laura Scaggs, discovered the body | and cut it down. The sister created a sen­ sation in Chicago about a year ago by jumping into the lake with the intention I of drowning herself. Henry Brunot, the Paaa boy murderer, [through his guardian, Attorney Dowdall, "las begun suit against the heirs of Jane brunot, the woman he murdered, for a >rtion of the forty acres of land near 'ana which she owned at the time he kill- ~ her. He claims that onder the law he entitled to one-fifth of his deceased int's property. Samuel Frazer, ex-Mayor of Galena, died, aged 75 years. Dr. M. S. Carr, aged 75, died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart at Galesburg. The spring meeting of the executive committee of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs was held in Decatur. Chicago churches attended by colored people held mass meetings to adopt reso­ lutions against the lynchings in the South. Two beavers which came from Edmon­ ton, Province of Alberta, Canada, have been added to Lincoln Park's zoo in Chi­ cago. Mrs. William P. GoOdsmith and her daughter yrere thrown frbm a carriage and badly hurt as the result of a runaway in Chicago. Charles Bivins, a prosperous farmer near ^Warrensburg, shot himself in the head with a revolver. No reason can be assigned for the Buicide. The heaviest hailstorm in years visited Vandalia. Two miles north of there hail­ stones fell weighing one pound each. Fruit trees were greatly damaged. Forty-five care of eggs, of which forty cars, or about 7,200,000 eggs, were taken into cold storage for use next winter and spring, arrived in Chicago the other day. Charles Miller, superintendent of the Pana Modern Electric Light and Street Railway Company, was killed at the com­ pany's plant by lightning during a severe storm. J. W. McAndrews, at one time one of the best-known minstrels in the country, and Haverly's "Original Watermelon Man," has been committed to the insane hospital at Elgin. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind it was decided to open the broom factory which is conducted for inmates of the in­ stitution about the middle of June or July 1. The last Legislature appropriated $35,000 for the home. John W. Cook, president of the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, has transmitted to the secretary of the board of trustees of the northern normal school at De Kalb his acceptance of the board's tender of the office of president of the De Kalb institution. With the position comes a salary of $5,000 in addition to which $1,000 is given by Cod. Elwood of De Kalb, .the millionaire of that city. Presi­ dent Cook will close his twenty years' ser­ vice with the Illinois normal with the end of the present school year in June and in­ tends moving with his family to De Kalb in July. "The saying, 'When the cows come home,* means something to Obadiah Sands of Illinois," said a citizen- of this State. "It requires the coming home of 120,000 cows to supply the milk with which he makes his annual output of butter. Hs made and sold 14,000,000 pounds of butter last year, and received $2,500,000 for it. Of course, he didn't stand and agitate the churn dasher that thrashed all that butter out; but the employes of the 160 cream­ eries that he owns and controls managed to churn it. Obadiah Sands is the largest butter producer in the world, and twelve years ago he began with one small cream­ ery. Now it requires twenty carloads or more than 600 tons of salt to salt the but­ ter he turns out every year and 6,000 farms to support the cow9 that furnish the milk. Obadiah Sands is only a butter maker, but he is doing quite well." The twentieth biennial session of the Illinois grand lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, was held in Rock Isl­ and. The following officers were elected and installed: Grand master workman, F. J. Kurtis, East St. Louis; grand fore­ man, A. R. Hendricks, Sterling; grand overseer, C. H. Eich, Chicago; grand re­ corder, C. P. Hitch, Paris; grand receiver, Alexander McLean, Macombj^grand trus­ tees, W. G. Morris, Chicago^iix years); D. L. Deegan, Chicago (four years) ; gxgn^i guide. E. B. Rhodes, Galesburg; grand in­ side watchman, J. J. Riley, Upper Alton; grhnd outside watchman, J. L. Martin, Danville; supreme representatives, C. MatBon, Chicago; J. W. Yantis, Shelby ville; W. C. Galloway, Aledo; grand medi­ cal examiner, Dr. F. P. Gillis, Duquoin. Danville wafc voted the next session of the grand lodge, which will be held in May, 1901. James J. Smith, a well-to-do farmer liv­ ing near Bernadotte, wounded his divorc­ ed wife, Edith, and shot himself in the right, breast? after which he ran acrosfe the Spoon rijrer bridge and again shot him­ self, this time in the left teitiple, killing himself instantly. Religious services were held that evening in the village church. Mrs. Smith, with her father and mother and Mrs. Richard Copenhagen, attended. Smith, who also attended, followed them from the church, walking behind his for­ mer wife. When he was within a few feet of her he drew a revolver and fired. She fell. Mrs. Smith obtained a divorce from Smith at the January term of the Circuit Court on the ground of cruelty. They had been married but little over a year. Smith had never ceased to implore her to return to him, and was frantically jealous of the attentions of other men to her. It is generally believed that this was his motive for the crime. At Dwight, a big Jersey bull which had attacked and injured his master, commit­ ted suicide by drowning. The bull, the property of William Mueller, a farmer, was a pet around the dairy. The bull was turned loose in an open lot. At noon Mueller took a bundle of hay and threw it before the beast. As the bull smelt of it he suddetfly became insane and made a vicious lunge at his muster, knocking him down. Mr. Mueller fell between two corn rows. The bull, seeiiiK that he could not' reach Mueller with his horns, began to paw the prostrate man. His hoofs literal­ ly tore the clothing from Mueller's body and left bleeding welts on the flesh. Farm hands finally drove the animal away with pitchforks. When Mueller went out to the stable later he did not speak to the bull nor offer to pet him, as had been his custom. At night the bull refused to eat. When the animal was turned out in the pasture, through which a creek flows, the next morning he made a dash for the stream and, wading up to where the water was deepest, held his head underneath un­ til he was dead. Bishop Hurst has been chosen to preside over the next session of the Rock River Methodist conference, to be held at Rock- ford in October. Ernest Kunze, a wealthy farmer of St. Clair County, is the first victim In that section of a clever swindle worked under cover of the new tax law. Kunze was ap­ proached by a young man who blandly in­ formed him that there was positive evi­ dence that Kunze was hiding some of his property. For $300 the stranger agreed to save the farmer from prosecution. Kunze compromised on $200 and now realizes that he was swindled. The severed head of Conrad Schaeffer was presented to the St. Clair County grand jury as evidence of Schaeffer's mur­ der at O'Fallon. Schaeffer was a farm hand and was killed by Benjamin Love, who stuck the tines of a pitchfork in Schaeffer's head. The body of the mur­ dered man was buried in the potter's field. The plant of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company at Peoria has closed down, throwing 800 men out of employment. The corn on hand, nearly 200 carloads, will be shipped east at once. The shutdown is directly due to a demand for an increase in wages coupled with a threat of a strike. The starch shovelers receive 12 cents as hour and demanded 15. ABUSIliGTHE TARIFF ' •• ' *C:v .. -.V TIRADE BY A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT. Augustus Van Wyck at Blchard Cro- ker's Ten-Dollar Jeffersoniaa Dinner Denounces the System Which Has Been Productive of Prosperity. It is the foulest mockery of reason to profess in one breath devotion to the doc­ trine of the equality of all men before the law of the land, and in the next to applaud a tariff system which squeezes the blood out of the average man for the fattening of select individuals who have mastered the art of depraving all Federal govern­ ment, and directing a new feudalism which purposes to subdivide the land into plutocratic dukedoms.--Augustus Van Wyck at Richard Croker's ten-dollar Jef- fersonian dinner in New York. This peculiar view of the conditions now prevailing throughout the length of the most favored land that the sun shines on is the view of the man who was the Democratic candidate for Gov­ ernor of the State of New York at the election of ^3898. He Is, moreover, under serious consideration as a pos­ sible Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 1900, and is perhaps the most formid­ able competitor of William Jennings Bryan for that nomination. Other­ wise it would be difficult to understand how an American citizen, surrounded on every side with nnmistakahle evi­ dences of a restored prosperity which showers Its blessings equally upon rich and poor, falling alike upon the Just and the unjust, could take so ab­ surdly pessimistic a view of existing conditions as to characterize the Amer­ ican policy of protection as "a system which squeezes the blood out of the average man." What class of gudgeons does Mr. Augustus Van Wyck expect to catch with this sort of bait? Certainly not the two thousand ten-dollar Jeffersonians who were within the sound of his voice, any citizen who supplies the rebels Vith arms or any munitions of war, with provision to be used in support of the war, or of the rebels while carrying It on, or money, or intelligence, or in­ formation, even if none of these things reach the rebels, Is a traitor in the place where he resides." By an act of Cougress. July 17, 18C2, the punish­ ment for treason in the discretion of the court may be Imprisonment for not less than five years and a fine of not less than $10,000.--Chicago Inter Ocean. A Choice Between Two Systems. A trade paper states that another large industry Is coming to this coun­ try. The firm of Alexander Morton & Co., of Darvel, Scotland, a concern well know throughout the world as a manu­ facturer of carpets and other textiles, has desired to locate at Niagara Falls, and, it is stated, has already made ar­ rangements with the Niagara Power Company for the suplying of power and for the purchase of property. Free trade brings the foreign-made products of pauper labor into the coun­ try, and sends American money out of the country to pay for them, while American workmen sit in idleness. Protection brings foreign industries and foreign capital Into the country to provide labor for American work­ men, and keeps American money with­ in the country, to be paid In exchange for American-made goods. As Lincoln put it, under free trade we get the goods--eo long as our money holds out --and the foreigner gets the money. Under protection we get the goods and the money too. A choice between the two systems would not seem to be hard to make by the well-balanced mind. * Free-Trade Inconsistency. Lord Curzon's demonstration that the Indian duties on bountified sugar are not only reconcilable with free trade, but carry out its first principles, is neat, though It lacks the merit of originality, in so far that Cobden him­ self made a similar announcemeut. EASY TO SEE WHICH TREE WILL BE CUT DOWN. r- and every man of whom has shared liberally in the Increase of national wealth which has followed the restore tlon of the very policy which the speak­ er denounced. Certainly not the vast army of wage-earners of all occupa­ tions who have to thank the return of good protection times for more work and better pay for it than they had during the awful stringency of the last four years of Democratic domination. Certainly not the great body of farm­ ers who have enjoyed the substantial benefits of enlarged consumption and increased values of agricultural prod­ ucts. Certainly not the general com­ munity of merchants, manufacturers and business men who, as the com­ mercial statistics show, are prospering as they never did in free-trade times What ears, then, did this possible Presidential candidate expect to reach with his diatribe? The ears, it may be presumed, of the average Bourbon politician who always recognizes the denunciation of a protective tariff as a sure sign of sublime statesmanship. These he may reach, but not the ears of a prosperous and contented people. All such will smile a pitying smile at the foolish mouthings of a - typical Tammanylte trying to tickle the fancy of the fellows who boss caucuses and control conventions. Just as a matter of contrast, let us quote what Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809 in a letter to Humphrey: My own idea is that we should encour­ age home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption of everything of which we raise the raw materials. Had Thomas Jefferson lived in these days of trade expansion and of Ameri­ can victories In the contest for posses­ sion of the world's markets he would point with pride to what he wrote nine­ ty years ago and urge adherence to a policy that had wrought such splendid results. But, then, Thomas Jefferson is not now alive, and Augustus Van Wyck is a very different sort of person. We are even more pleased with Lord Curzon's view that free trade prin­ ciples may, and ought to be suspend­ ed when they cease to be utilitarian. Our passion for free trade is founded on the belief that it is far and away the best policy for this country; but exceptional cases must modify all hard and fast practice. Countervailing du­ ties on bountified sugar are as consist­ ent with our free trade views as the existence of a deficit In the budget is with the solvency of the nation.--Lon­ don "Financial News." Treason Tinder the Law. Many of the gentlemen who have openly encouraged the rebels in the Philippines are extremely sensitive as to the use of the words traitor and treason. They insist that a man may express sympathy with Aguinaldo and utter hopes for his ultimate triumph; may send the rebels encouraging tele­ grams and money to purchase arms and provisions; may deliver addresses intended to discredit the American government, and encourage the rebels to further resistance; may send mes­ sages to our volunteers advising them to refuse to obey the orders of their officers, or may scoff at the President of the United States and cheer Aguin­ aldo publicly in Chicago, and not be guilty of treason. The Supreme Court has held that if a conspiracy to levy war against the •United States be in actual operation Revived by Protection. Under the present protective tariff the wool-growing Industry of the Unit­ ed States has been greatly revived and encouraged in the past two years, and the country has been able to supply its own needs more nearly than in any previous year. We hare imported only such material as could not be furnish­ ed by our own wool growers. Our de­ mands upon other nations necessarily depend upon the amount of wool grown and manufactured here each year. In 1893 we imported nearly $43.- 000,000 worth. The next year it fell to $29,000,000. In 1895, during the lat­ ter part of Cleveland's free-trade ad­ ministration, when our markets were open to the wool manufacturers of Eu­ rope, our wool imports reached the high-water mark of nearly $91,500,000. The next year, the first of the opera­ tion of the Dingley tariff, the wool im­ ports dropped to $57,900,000, though the following year, owing to causes de­ creasing the domestic supply aud the congestion of the market due to heavy importations in anticipation of the tar­ iff, the Imports ran up to $90,000,000. Last year, however, they dropped to $26,700,000, the smallest wool imports for two decades. From 1887 to 1893 the average annual wool imports amounted to $60,000,000.--Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. Part of the Programme. The soldiers in the Philippines are not asking to come home while any fighting is to be done. American sol­ diers never do. The tales to the con­ trary are part of the program of the Bryanite gang to arouse discontent in the army, to prolong the war, and to embarrass the administration. The Bryanite leaders, almost to a man, are copperheads of the most venomous character, and ought to be denounced by all patriotic men.--St. Louis Globe- Democrat. They Go Hand in Hand. These are Republican times. Last week the advance in wages affected over 110,000 hands, adding greatly to the purchasing power of these opera­ tives. As the Press has had frequent occasion to remark, during the last twenty-seven years, "Protection and prosperity go hand in hand."--Man­ chester (Iowa) Press. PUNISH THE TRAITORS. There were tories in the dark days of the revolutionary war, "copperheads* during the trying moments of the civil war; and there are traitors to the Gov­ ernment engaged in putting down the rebellion In the Philippines. While the peace treaty was before the Senate, Senators and Representatives openly conferred with the agents of Aguinaldo and gave comfort and encouragement to that treacherous enemy of all civili­ zation. Since the ratification of the treaty "State officers and men of politi­ cal prominence" have been urging vol­ unteers in the Philippines to refuse to give further service to their country. Gen. Otis has informed the President that he has in his possession intercept­ ed messages "clearly seditious and treasonable" addressed to officers and men In the volunteer regiments; and has been instructed by the President to forward to Washington certified copies of the same. As with the tories of 1776 and tl'o "copperheads" of 1860, punish­ ment <A these traitors should be swift and sure. There Is not a loyal cttizen who would stay the hand of the Gov­ ernment falling as heavily as it may upon them. When anti-expansion be­ comes treason, then it should be given a quietus.--Williamsport (Pa.) Grit. Atkinson a Vallandlgham* In 1863, C. L. Vallandigliam, of Ohio, was going up and down the country de­ nouncing the war for the Union as un­ holy, as a useless sacrifice of life, and urging the people to resist the draft By order of Abraham Lincoln he was sent beyond the Union lines. Some of his friends appealed to the President, setting forth that the act was in vio­ lation of the constitutional rights of the citizen. In response Abraham Lin­ coln said: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less in­ jurious when effected by getting a father or a brother or a friend into a public meeting and there working upon his feel­ ings till he is persuaded to write the boy that he is fighting for a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible Government. The Atkinsons and others who have attempted to send anti-war literature to our soldiers in Manila were inspired by the same motive as the man whom Abraham Lincoln banished. It Is prob­ able that the man who banished Val- landlgham would. If alive and In power, order Atkinson's tracts intended for soldiers to be thrown out of the malls. And he would how be denounced as he was then, and for the same reason.-- Indianapolis Journal. Needs Fumigating. There must be something radically rotten In a university with twenty-five professors who meet in public to hiss the President and talk treasonable stuff to the world. The University of Chicago needs an earthquake of right­ eous Indignation. Its superfluous mil­ lions are breeding a peculiarly noxious kind of vermin. If there Is no way to get rid of the creeping things the Insti­ tution will be Judged accordingly. It •has an Instructor for every fifteen pu­ pils. One individual gave it over $7, 000,000. It appeals this year for $9, 000,000. Its fumigation would cost about $100, and this will be a large enough gift under the circumstances.-- St Louis Globe-Democrat Covers the Case, The criminal code of the Nation coin- tains the following paragraph: "Every person who incites, sets on foot, assists or engages in any rebel­ lion against the authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be punished by imprisonment not more than fen years or by a fine of not more than $10,000, or both of such punishments; and shall, more­ over, be incapable of holding any of­ fice under the United States." The Cblcago Filipinos. The men denouncing the actions of the Government are notloyal citizens, and, as the opponents of Lincoln were traitors in 1863, so are the opponents of McKinley traitors In 1899.--Galesburg (II.) Mall. The speeches delivered at the Central Music Hall, and even cheered by a ma­ jority of the crowd, are a shame to every American with the red blood of two centuries of heroes In his veins.-- Detroit Tribune. Edward Atkinson is the C. L. Vallan­ digliam of to-day, and every man who co-operates with him, whether that man lives in Boston or Chicago, is fol­ lowing In the footsteps of the Golden Circle conspirators.--Chicago Inter Ocean. Prof. Laughlln knows as well as he knows that the flag is In the Philip­ pines that it is there not as the em­ blem of tyranny and butchery; that it does "protect those over Whom It floats," and that it will continue to do so.--Minneapolis Journal. Not long ago the Illinois Legislature passed a bill against the exhibition of freaks. The law was violated by a public meeting held in Chicago by Von Hoist and a few others for the purpose of protesting "against the Philippine policy of the present national adminis­ tration."--New York Sun. The copperheads, those of 1864 and those of 1899, are of the same br^ed. But the Government will go right ahead In the face of their puerile as­ sault, just as it carried our armies to victory and our country back to a uni­ ted nation in spite of the copperhead rantings in *64.--Macomb (III.) Journal The impotence of such men as Wins- low, Atkinson, sEdwln Burritt Smith. Henry Wade Rogers and J. Laurence Laughlln to stir up mutiny among our troops in Luzon does not lessen in the least the criminality of their work, although it does reflect the highest credit upon the American soldiers In the field.--Chicago Inter Ocean. fhicaco's Anti-Kxpannioniets. Chicago made an exhibition of Itself Sunday.--Kalamazoo Telegraph. None of the orators at the Chicago meeting on Sunday were asked to oiake speeches on Dewey day.--Peoria Herald. The "antl-expansionlsts" of Chicago have made a great mistake, and many of them will live to realize and rue It. They have put themselves in an un­ wholesome and unpatriotic attitude to­ ward the Government, the army and navy, and the ffag, and the'jpeople will be slow to forgive or forget their folly. --Burlington^ Hawke^e. Old. 13f 47 81 61 197 212 82 NEW GAME LAWS. Illinois Legislature Passes a Measure to Bemedy Former Kvils. Sportsmen are more than ordinarily in­ terested in the game laws as amended by the last Legislature and the open seasons for various classes of game are herewith published: Wild buck, doe, fawn and wild turkey- Sept. 1 to Jan. 14, Inclusive. l'lnnated or raffed grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant and partridge--Aug. 31 to Sept. 29, Inclusive. Quail--Nov. 1 to Dec. 18, lnclnslre. Woodcock and mourning dove--Sept. 1 to Nov. 30, Inclusive. Gray, red, black or fox squirrel--Sept. 1 to Dec. 14, Inclusive. Snipe and plover--Sept 1 to April 24, In­ clusive. Wild goose, brant, duck and other water fowl--Sept. 1 to April M, Inclusive. One of the provisions of more than or­ dinary interest to sportsmen is that which regulates the killing and selling of buck, doe or fawn, pheasant of any description, chucker partridge, sand grouse and black India partridge. While the open seasons have been regulated for these birds and animals in the new law, it is provided that five years must elapse before these dates go into force and effect. In other words, the slaughter and sale of these classes of game will not be tolerated by law until the year 1904. The work of propagation in the meantime will receive the encour­ agement which it has sadly needed for several years past. Following is a comparative table show­ ing the number of open days as regulated at present and in the past: New. Wild bnck, doe, fawn and wild tttrkey 136 Pinnated or raffed grouse and prairie chicken 80 Quail 49 Pheasant and partridge SO Gray, red, fox or black squirrel 105 Wild goose, duck, brant or oth­ er water fowl 226 Woodcock nad mourning dove. 91 The new law makes it unlawful to hunt kill, net, entrap, ensnare or destroy any wild buck, doe, fawn or wild turkey be­ tween Jan. 15 and Sept. 1 of each year. One month later, on Oct. 1, the law ex­ tends Its protection to pinnated or ruffled grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant and partridge and continues this protection un­ til Aug. 31 of the following year. Quail comes in for its share of the law's kind­ ness Dec. 20 and is free to go unmolested until Nov. 1 of the succeeding year. Wood­ cock and mourning dove are to enjoy their season of peace and quiet from Dec. 1 to Sept. 1 of the succeeding year. The squirrel is given a respite from fhe popping of the hunter's gun from Dec. 15 until Sept. 1 of the succeeding year. The water fowl, including the goose, duck and brant, may disport themselves during a brief season extending from April 15 to Sept. 1. The usual ban of disapprovals placed on any fixed or artificial ambush in the open waters of the State, and the use of any craft other than the ordinary rowboat is forbidden. The sale of quail, grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, partridge and wild turkey killed within the borders of the State is also forbidden, as k was un­ der the old law. The express and trans­ portation companies are also forbidden from carrying such game in or out of sea­ son, except when in transit from points outside the State. Under the new law the office of game warden is abolished and in its stead has been created the more important post of game commissioner, to which there is at tached a salary of $2,500 a year. He will be allowed an office with all necessary help to carry on the work. The commis­ sioner will have the power to appoint one game warden from each congressional dis trict of the State, and he will also be au­ thorized to appoint one or more deputy game wardens from each county of the State. With this increased and improved service it is expected that game, wild fowl and birds will receive much better protec tion in the future than in the past, all of which, it is predicted, will redound to the credit of the State. SAN JOSE SCALE. Infested Trees Fprayed at Ftate Ex­ pense if Notice Is'Promptly Given. The Legislature of Illinois has passed an act by the provisions of which the State Entomologist is required to treat once thoroughly, at the expense of the State, all orchards and other fruit planta­ tions infested by the San Jose scale which he has reason to believe became so infest­ ed before 1899. Any premises which be­ come infested later must, under the law, be treated by the owner to the satisfaction of the entomologist; or if by the entomolo­ gist, half the expense of the operation must be borne by the owner of .the infest­ ed property. It is consequently to the in­ terest of every owner of an orchard who has any reason to suppose it possible that his property has become infested, to in­ spect it thoroughly at once, and to send promptly to the State entomologist, S. A. Forbes, at Urbana, specimens of twigs or bark of a suspicious character, in order that if this destructive insect is present the fact may at once be ascertained. The presence of the San Jose scale may be suspected when the bark of the twig, branch or trunk of a tree or shrub is spotted or covered with a thin, unhealthy looking crust of abcut the color of the bark itself or a little lighter, and which when scraped off with the finger nail comes away in small, thin scales. If rub­ bed with the finger such an infested sur­ face will have a greasy feel, owing to the crushing of the bodies of the minute in­ sects of which^the crust is mainly com­ posed. Upon young twigs the scales com­ monly redden the bark in specks or blotches, which may serve to call atten­ tion to them. It will be assumed that all well-established colonies of the scale dis­ covered before July 1 of this year were started previous to 1899. ANTI-IMPERIALIST MEETING, Great Audience Applauds Denunci^ tion of Expansion. A great crowd gathered at Central Ma- •ic Hall hi Chicago Sunday to discuss ex­ pansion. Dr. Henry Wade Rogers was chairman. He announced at the opening of the meeting that the topic of discussioa was not to be on the administration of na­ tional affairs in general, but only opposi~ tion to the Philippine policy. The speak­ ers were: Henry Wade Rogers, president of Northwesteni University; Bishop J. L. Spaulding of the Catholic diocese of Pe­ oria, Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin of the University of Chicago, the Rev. Jenkia Lloyd Jones, Edwin Bnrritt Smith, Jan* Addams and Sigmund Zeisler. The protests from people in the audienoe began in a spontaneous burst Soon the words "traitor" and "treason" were heard above the din. They were yelled at "the speaker. The Interruptions caused a great commotion. Finally Chairman Rogers ap­ pealed to the loyalists to desist In the meantime three or four of those who were loudest In their disapproval of criticim of the President were led to the door and asked to leave. Resolutions denouncing the policy of imperialism as hostile to liberty and tend­ ing to militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free, were adopt­ ed. They condemned the policy of the administration in the Philippine affair and decplored and resented the "needless loa* of life." They protested against exten­ sion of American empire by "Spanish methods" and demanded Immediate em- sation of war. %: TORNADO OF FIRE. Flames Sweep Nebraska Prairies wifk Breath of Death. A prairie fire burning in the hay flat* along the northern tier of counties of Ne­ braska passed into the track of a tornado and was swept with the speed of the wind for many miles, destroying everything in its path. The property damage is known to reach into the thousands, though the only lives lost, so far as known, were those of Mrs. Rolla Livingston and her 5-year-old boy. The woman saw the fire coming and ran to a pasture to release the family stock. The boy followed her and both were knocked down by the terrified animals. The fire passed over them be­ fore they could get out of the way. The body of the boy was almost consumed, and Mrs. Livingston lived but a few hours. A number of large bunches of cattle were overtaken and consumed in the path of the seething mass carried along In the teeth of the tornado. A large number of farm houses were utterly destroyed and the families escaped only by racing be­ yond the limits of the track of the storm. The storm of fire is considered the most extraordinary thing that ever visited that section, and it passed through the wealthi­ est agricultural part of Nebraska. ILLINOIS FOR HOPKINS. TANNER SIGNS MANY BILLS. Measures Passed by the Legislature Approved by the Governor. i Gov. Tanner has signed the following, among other bills passed by the Forty- lirst General AssemWfcr: School tax levy of 12% per cent for school arid building purposes. Appropriation of $5,000 for Adjutant Gen­ eral's roster, wars 1S01-189S. Appropriation of $65,000 for industrial homo for blind at Chicago. Relating to Importatnon of labor. • Relating to commission merchants. Pension fund bill. For polling places at soldiers and sailors' home, (juincy. Appropriation of $100,000 for Lincoln mon­ ument. Amending sections 17, 76 and 78 of the act in regard to elections. Providing for an art commission in Chi­ cago. Amending sections 16 and 17 of the act to establish the llllnote State reformatory. Creating the office of supervising architect for the State. Providing for primary elections of dele­ gates to nominating conventions of political parses or organizations. To enable boards of education or boards of school trustees to establish and maintain parental or truant schools. , Creating the Western State Norfoal School. Providing for the election of judges of the Superior Court in Cook County. Amending section 14 of the act concern­ ing fees and sahirles. Amending section 3 of article 4, section 18 of article 4. section 16 of article 7, sactlon 1 of article 9 aud section 7 of article 9 of the act to establish aud maintain a system of free setups.; Amending the act to Insure the better sd- ocattou of the practitioners of dental sur­ gery and to regulate the practice of dent­ istry. Amending the act to enable assreiatlone of persons to become a body corporate t« raise fuads ts be loaacd gal? ia tim mijiaBWs «t t a d ) a a a o d a t i o a f c 4 : ^ • ; • . ^ Republicans of the State Name m Qi** ~ didate for Speaker. * | Congressman A. J. Hopkins has tike > * ' ? . V pledged support of the Republican Con* gressmen from Illinois in his candidacy : for Speaker of the National House of Representatives. At a caucus of the Illi- , < \ Y, ' nois delegation held in Chicago it was % , unanimously voted to back up Mr. Hop- ^ kins. Walter Reeves of the Eleventh dis­ trict was chairman and was delegated to "give out the news." He did it as fol­ lows: "After consultation, a majority of the delegation appearing to be for Mr. Hop­ kins, Mr. Cannon, on being informed, sug­ gested that the will of the majority be made the action of the delegation, and that that action be made which accordingly was done." •St. •i Js The Lynching in Georgia. It is difficult to conceive any other pun­ ishment that would fit the crime.--Denver Times. Neither the law nor the wildest moba can adequately punish the perpetrator of the crime against the Cranfords.--Louis­ ville Post. How Georgia expects its rising genera­ tion to respect law and order after the ter­ rible tragedies is hard to understand.--In­ dianapolis News. Let the Southern people make what laws they will, impose what penalty they will, for this crime, but leave it to the courts to enforce them.--Washington Post. v For crimes like this death by the rope or at the stake will continue to be meted out at the South, whatever the opinion of the rest of the world.--New Orleans States. The crime to be punished was brutal in the extreme. There was no excuse for the display of devilish rage, of calculating cruelty, of savage glory in human suffer­ ing.--Washington Star. It is true that the crime for which thia negro was tortured was unspeakable, hot the punishment meted out to him is a blot on civilization and would disgrace a band of bloodthirsty savages.--Chattanooga Times. Whatever influence the lynching exerted upon its victim perished with his breath, but its influence upon all the thousands who participated as actual spectators or in sympathy survives. Is it for good or evil?--Boston Globe. Such a scene of devilish cruelty, rival­ ing anything of the kind that could happen among the fiercest of Indian tribes when engaged in torturing their prisoners, leaves an indelible impression upon a com­ munity that is degrading.--Detroit Free Press. \ Is there a remedy for the horrible crime which the negro who was burned on Sun­ day committed? If so, what is it? This \s the question to be met and answered, and it is the only question, for with it eliminated lynchings would cease.--Nash­ ville American. The people of Newnan cannot be held blameless, nor are they above severe cen­ sure, but before pronouncing the sentence of condemnation let each community stop aud consider what it would do were it forced to confront such a situation.--Kan­ sas City Times. Georgia owes it not ouly to herself and her standing before the world, but to the whole country to not let this inhuman crime go unjunished. For beside sack wanton, sickening savagery as this the usual lynching is mild and justifiable.-- Wheeling Register. No community can afford to have its history written in a story like that of NewA nan. It is not a matter of killing a hu-' man being without due warrant of law. It is a matter of a crowd of supposedly civilized people transformed into a band «t savages.--Memphis Scimitar. The lynchings which have occurred i* this and other States during the last few years do not seem to have had the effect intended. If the men who have been lynched had been punished under tto forms of law the moral effect would have been much greater.--Savannah, da. ' - W'St: