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Vrufc lienor ol _ 'Mat' ootii -at tbe r made « kMty de­ left a able. to her ind that, a» he knew what he coald all the more easily IHmt, as all her lor* was for Mr. fctttt His Wife and Hlntaelf- A:|Hwr' !oItowtd by suicide occurred ~ MM. Jblm WlHUms hacl diimted fromher hus- rê ueatfytkreatened her srscent eveninghe went to «4w Ml living her three jrNWftScItW and after ft !*#: hasty words ~ IMr. life. ' Before tike boys .. ^..j^ltigr^y protect .fact: or disarm msahefited the shot, killing her. . fco ̂ raHtor help and alarm was ^^WW; to catch tiit murderer, bat he torn- ed the revttfver upon himself a and died It 3a thought the man was erased drink. H« had been very Utter toward hia wife because she secured a -divorce. . . Old Illinois Ckoreh CtlabrsWh .""f.01* c"nrcf gPeorla and Pekin Union expires Sept. 1 ,SL^Sf«! and it la not yet known whether It will Free Protestant Church, the oldest Prot­ ectant church In southern Illinois, was celebrated at Belleville. The exercises, which took place at the opera honse and ill the garden adjoining were attended to 1,000 people, several coming from •Chicago and St. Louis. Sermons were delivered by Rev. Messrs. Morits Bverss of Chicago, Martin Krey of St. Louis, P. •6. Gertnsr of Highland, Herman Fabri of Marine and E. W. Asbttski and Wal- •cotfc Calkins of St. Louis. An elaborate musical program was rendered by church -choirs from different cities, assisted by the local Liederkranz Society. • Must Change Canal's Coarse* f ' An investigation of the section of the Hennepin canal in which the bottom has fallen out shows that all the troublesome tract lies in the Devil's slough country. The only way to get through it is to go around it. The right of way must be se­ cured for the new line, and this, by the process that has hitherto been followed, may take several years. The Government may lose a considerable part of the work that has been done, and the securing of new right of way will cost a good deal, in addition to being tedious and of isRf duration. Sangamon County Fchoote. County Superintendent Van Dora's an­ nual statistical report of the schools of Sangamon County shows that the county has 29,189 persons under 21 years of age, . of whom 14,692 are males and 14,497 females, and 20,945 persons of school age. There are 186 school buildings and the number of scholars enrolled for the year was 14,105. There are thirty-eight graded schools. The estimated value of school property is $993,090. The 370 teachers are paid monthly salaries aver­ aging 905J97 for men and $43.36 for women. . Mob Auanlts Three Nee roes. Three negroes who arrived in Pana recently were set upon by sympathisers of the union miners, pelted with stones and missiles of every character and driv­ en but of the city. In the party who assaulted the blacks were a number of the wives and sons of miners. One of the negroes was badly used up, his head being lacerated. During the compulsory exodus of the negroes, it is claimed by their assailants that they were fired up­ on four times from the Springside Min­ ing Company's tipple, but none of the . ahots took effect. 'v'V- Forgets His Wife and Hoiuc. • Robert Arraamith, who disappeared , from Belleville on June 1, haB been locat- Aed at Rising 3un,\ Ind. When he went airay he left a bride of two weeks. His friends believe that his continued absence has been due to some peculiar lapse of memory, and will take steps to bring him b a c k , _ - J z ? ' ' " Brief State Happening** ; Jolm Keyes Croswell, aged 71, isldead At Kankakee. August Iltner, aged 44, was drowned at Quincy while bathing in the river. The body was recovered. While bathing in the Embarrass river at Olney, Otis Higgins, who was unable to swim, went beyond his depth and was drowned. The body was recovered three faours later. Prisoners confined in the county jail at -Belvidere sawed their way out and es­ caped through a section covered with corn fields. Three prisoners refused to leave the jaiL The recent reunion of the Aiken Sol­ dier Reunion Association, whose grounds are near Benton, was attended by the largest crowd in the ten yean' existence of the organization. John A. Burchard died at Free port of €(ffl&auipuOu, aged 71 j"ciiTo. lie WHS in the railway mail service thirty years and had runs out of Chicago to Toledo, Ohio, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for years. During a thunderstorm Mrs. William Hale, residing two miles south of Eldo­ rado, was struck by lightning while standing near the kitchen door. She is terribly burned and paralysed, and can­ not recover. The building waa slightly damaged. While crossing the Mobile and Ohio tracks at Waterloo John Carver, driver for the Standard Oil Company, and his 14-)rear-old son were struck by a freight train. The son was instantly killed and Carver so badly injured that he died a few hours later. The annqal reunion of Company C, 115th Illinois regiment, was held in Mount Carmd. From 3,000 to 5,000 persons were in attendance. Among the speakers were Congressman BL R. Ridge- ley of Kansas, CoL G. A. Poteet of Kan­ sas City, Mo., Theodore G. Rlsley, Rev. J. H. Walteriek and others. The three ^Illinois free employment «fflces" created by an act of the last General Assembly are now in full work­ ing order in Chicago. Waukegan young men aae moving tv ' l,an3" Chieas0^ ®iTen M a cecure the organisation of a company of ' " the National Guard. A petition to that ji 1 * Urwia H. Minor, pal tfrmkhelrtsr o And 'Ifitt Georgia heat knowa «sache ilk schools, were marrisd at Hans are now bete* oria for the ereedtaa' Of I •factory to he located ** ia etaeer ~ in ttn The Monmouth lira ed an ordinance jointing a local cam- vm a tweî -y t̂twhtoe to <*p *tn a street Mrfhtaf̂ The franchise & chides all the nrlneiasl jtmu. The company pwsS^ave care raaJag before winter. At GaleMmr̂ thethree brick companies, the Periston, and OakriNU Brisk Sad Terra have voluntarily increased the w their employe!, all lines beta* affected and 400 hands benefited. T»« average increase b about 10 per cent. Judd M. and Grant Elliott, twin sons of a La Salle farmer, have returned from a two years' sojourn In - the Klondike credited with $60,009. They say that re­ ports of murder, starvation and robbery in Dawson a** without foundation. They have four valuable claims near Dawson. The Chicago and Alton may run Into Peoria next year over its own lines. Hie consolidation of the local offices of the Chicago and Alton and the St. Louis, Pe­ oria and Northern will take place next month. The Alton's contract with the be renewed. Mrs. Betsy Griffin, whose great-grand- father was the Earl of Charnock, died in a hut near Armington. Papers found in the hovel where she had lived in a miserly manner for several years show her to be of noble blood, and had she pushed her claim at the proper time she would have received a third of an estate valued at $1,000,000. The heaviest rain in forty years fell in the vicinity of Carrollton. The creeks are all out of their banks and the villages of Eldred and Pegram have been sub­ merged. Hundreds of acres of corn have been washed out. William and Fred Young, aged 16 and 19 years, were drowned while attempting to cross Hur­ ricane creek at Pegram. Pour and one-quarter inches of rain fell at Quincy in six hours. It was the heaviest rainfall for years, and much damage was done. Hundreds of acres of corn and oats in the bottom lands were submerged and probably ruined. Three hundred feet of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad track between Quincy and Hulls was washed out. Much damage wasdone in the city in the way of flooded cellars and fences washed away. Seven hundred Irish members of St. Patrick's Church were excommunicated at East St. Louis by Bishop Janssen of Belleville because they persistently re­ fused to accept as their pastor the Rev. Father W. Oluse. The parishioners ob­ ject to Father Cluse because he is a German. They requested and then de­ manded an Irish pastor. Their demand was unheeded, and since then the TOO Irish parishioners have been in open and defiant rebellion to the bishop. The incorporation papers of the Inger- soll Memorial 'Association have been re­ ceived at Peoria. The following officers have been elected: Frank O. Gunning- ham, secretary, and Rudolph Pfeiffer, treasurer. An address will be formulat­ ed announcing the incorporation of the association under the laws of the State of Illinois and soliciting subscriptions from the friends and admirers of tbe great agnostic all over the United States for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument to his memory in his old home. Miss Delia Lamont, an unusually at­ tractive girl, 20 years of age, leaped from a railway trestle, a distance of fifty feet, receiving injuries that will prove fatal. Miss Lamont had been the guest of Miss Harris of Belleville for several days. She asked Miss Harris to accompany her out on the high trestle across Richland creek valley. They turned before making the entire trip, Miss Harris leading. She was suddenly startled to hear Miss La­ mont shout a farewell to her, and turned in time to see her guest plunge from the trestle. • John A. Gale, who left Freeport a year and a half ago with the Chicago Alaska Mining Company for the Klondike, arriv­ ed home after an illness of three months with scurvy at Rampart City. He says the gold fields are a delusion and a snare. In that vicinity there is no dust to speak of. Of all the men who wintered in the town last year, not one in a thousand made a living. They suffered all sorts of hardships, many were ill with scurvy, and when he left in the early summer the prospectors were deserting the place by hundreds. He brought a few ounces ot nug&ets home with him, but they coat him dearly in health and money. A man who gave his name as Frank Bolleit died in the hospital at Freeport from the effects of a blow on the head given him by Patrick English July 27. Bolleit, who was a stranger, had a quar­ rel with English and the latter, resenting a vile epithet, struck him with his fist above the left ear. Bolliet fell, striking his head on a cement sidewalk. He only partly recovered hi.s senses before his death. A post-mortem showed that his skull was fractured, whether from the blow or the fall the doctors are not certain, but the coroner's jury held Eng­ lish to the grand jury to answer for the killing. Bolliet said hia# home waa In Ohio and that he had a daughter living In Toledo. Herman Strauss of the Enterprise Bot­ tling works was arrested at Galesburg for not complying with an ordinance re­ cently passed requiring bottling works to pay an annual license of $500. The company will fight the case in the courts. The city of Peoria has a fight with the dairymen on its hands. The latter held a meeting in the village hall in North Peoria and declared war on the munici­ pality. The ground taken by the dairy­ men is that the city ordinance compell­ ing a registration of dealers and impos­ ing a standard or test of the quality of milk is illegal. Three of the largest meat markets of La Salle, the property of W. B. Gostom- ski, were closed to satisfy a judgment hi favor of the Hammond Packing Com- end has been freely signed by thoae who would join. An order from the general offices of the Illinois Central Railway discharging six of the company's oldest passenger conductors has caused quite a stir among tbe employes of the road at Springfield. Freight conductors have been promoted to take the places of the passenger men 3* cause for his business failure. John Hutchins of Rockford has re­ ceived word from the postmaster at Sunrise City, Alaska, confirming the dis­ patches of July 17 of the drowning of his ten, Charles Hutchins. near that place, with bis companion, a Mr. Porter of Cal­ ifornia. Youftg Hutchins was a well- known Rockford boy, and had been in the gold country a year and a half. He was out prospecting with his partner interesting facts Mluatnrtlve of to® Marvelous revival of industrial ae- 'WWefc foUowtd sa dksetly upon * President MeKinlej issned •f Statistic* Ijjod stuffs not produced to ihe Unite# *onn the laqpM items of the in Importations ahown by, the 7*** Just ended. stefeoMMtt nil arMcIea o* ciasass of iPfddas to which the importation increased or dacroased much as $1,000,000 dur­ ing the year, and shows an Increase In importations in nearly all articles of foreign production required by our masafactnim. Unmanufactured libera, raw silk, crude rubber, bar and block tin, hides and skins, undressed furs, cabinet and' other woods, unman­ ufactured tobacco and chemicals for nso In manufacturing, all show a heavy Increase, wool being the only important item of material for the fac­ tory which shows a reduction in Im- I ports. In the ten great classes of material imported for use of the manufacturers --fibers, silk, rubber, hides, furs, tin, copper, tobacco, wood and chemicals-- the increase amounts to about $30,000,- 000, though the reduction of several million dollars In wool brings the net Increase In manufacturers' materials to something less than that figure. In food stuffs the principal Increase 1b in sugar, tropical fruits and cocoa, the Increase In these being above $30,000,- 000. The very heavy importations of sugar just prior to the enactment of the tariff law of 1897 made the sugar importations of 1898 extremely light, so that those of 1899 show an Increase of 50 per cent, in quantity over those of 1898, but many million pounds less than those of 1897. Among manufactured goods the finer grades of cotton, silk and fibers show the largest Increase, though matting, china ware, dressed furs and spirits are slightly in excess of last year. Dia­ monds and jewelry show the largest increase among the articles classed as luxuries, though this Is believed to be due in part at least to a reduction in duties under the act of 1897, which was made In the belief that it would •reduce smuggling and thus bring with- |in the operations of the customs law many million dollars* worth of this class of goods which had formerly es caped taxation. In manufactured goods there has been a decrease In tm ports in a number of Important arti­ cles which come In competition with American manufactures, especially in woolen goods and tin plate. Coffee also shows a decrease of about $10,- 000,000 in value of importations, large­ ly due, however, to the decrease In price rather than in quantity, the aver­ age price per pound in 1899 being more than 10 per cent below that of 1898, while there Is also a slight reduction In quantities Imported, owing to the very heavy imports of last year. The following table includes the ar­ ticles or classes of articles In which the Imports of the year show an in­ crease or decrease of as much as $1,- 000,000, and compares the imports of the year with those of the two preced­ ing fiscal years: * IMPORTS. 1897 1898. 1899 Chemicals ..|44,94S,V52^1.470,n3$42.66g,'m Okinawa**.. 0,877,287 8,887,300 7,592,905 Cocoa ...... 2,097,860 3,715,628 5,360,118 Coffee 81,5*4,384 65,067,631 55,274,646 Copperla 809,824 3,0?!,869 6,604,8B» bare, etc.. Cottoa man­ ufactures . Fibers, un­ lit a uufac- tured Fibers, man- nfactureaof 32,546,867 21,808,794 25,132,485 F r u i t s a n d 17,126,062 14^00,850 1&S17,201 34,429,883 27,267,300 32,053,511 12,338,418 18,446,188 20,280,727 nuts |F u r s, un­ dressed ... F u r s , a n d man ufac- tures of... Hides and skins 11 o u sehotd and person­ al effects.. India rubber and gutta percha ,Jewelry and p r e c ious stones .... Matting .... Silk, unman­ ufactured . Silk, manu­ factures of 25,199,067 23,528,966 28,105,482 Spirits 3,850,114 2,134,794 3,144,618 Susrsr 89,066,181 60,472,748 84,864,120 Tin in bars, pigs, etc... 6,535,852 8,776,151 11,843,357 Tin plate... 5.344,6?8 3.800,148 2,013,564 Tobacco, leaf 9,584,155 7,488.608 8.900,033 Wool, raw .. 53,213,181 16,783,682 8,322,887 Wool, manu- ' fsctures .. 49,162,»W4 14,823,771 18,83l,»«T The following table shows the total imports of each fiscal year during the decade: 2,838,8TB 3,832,603 5,645,580 8,076,125 4,048,569 5,211,018 27,883,02ft 37,068,982 41,068,045 2,438,363 1.778,055 3,112,885 17,558,163 25,515,381 81,876,342 8,550,567 10,388,880 17,649.446 3^22,003 1,437,171 2,631,106 18,918,283 32,110,066 32,470,627 1890 1881 1892 . 1893 lf-94 1895 1896 1897 IS: .$788,310,400 . 844,916,196 . 827,402,462 . 866,400,9-2 • 654,804,622 . 731.908,965 . 779,724,674 . 764.730,412 . 816,040,654 . 697,116,854 Other * ot our Mtastrles Jbf Ions.--K*nsa»€9ty (Kan.> . Wh.«0E»«o England h^ m trMts, wMch most ll̂ liao tarMt to.be contnl such rails, petto* lead pipe, flab antisaony, •Icfcsl. wwrcuift- fclsaa. salt, afealt, Wbber engineering has » mW of $56.000,00* |t>fH wwb organ- *•» and their number iimw, then. Theio is abigQermapcoai treat, and an Au* trlan roUtag mUl tntt? there are French comblnatiens ditrolling iron, petroleum,chemicals and num­ berless other products. - Belgium is ororroa irttfe trusts, and these coun­ tries have various Undo of tariffs. With those Staropeen trusts and the abolltlori of our present protective tar­ iff, what la to prevent the combination of American and 'European trusts in the same mm of production? With such combinations, the low wages In England would naturally result In closing ABMSrican manufactories or moving them to Btsglantl, where labor would cost only ono-half what it, would In, America. American machinery and methods transferred to England, with the low wages there, would Inflict a Serious blow upon American working- men and American industries.--Ta ̂ coma (Wash.) Ledger. What Would Happen. The London Economist has given a tabulated list of 187 healthy, robust trusts now existing In free trade Eng­ land. Of these 132 are more than five years old. In the latter class are 16 iron and steel combinations, 17 textile fabric trusts, 4 paper combines and 12 railway rolling Stock combinations. According to the atock quotations and reported dividends none of these big concerns are at all lank or spindly, notwithstanding the absence of a tar­ iff mother to furnish nourishment dur­ ing the period of infancy. All these lit­ tle items of information In regard to the extent of the trust system abroad naturally suggest an Inquiry as to what would happen If we complied with the Democratic entreaty to "take off the tariff and bust the trust." Well, for one thing, we would be sure to fur­ nish a mighty promising field of opera­ tions for the trusts of England, Ger­ many and the other European nations which are not engaged in the busting process.--Sioux City (Iowa) Journal. tna Inevitable Hmulta Not one-half of the articles handled by the trusts are protected by tariffs. Not one-half the capitalization of the great consolidations is devoted to the production of articles which are pro­ tected. Mr. Havemeyer knows very well that in forming these consolida­ tions the real objects were an economy of organisation and a monopoly of the local production. These being the prime ottfeet, the tariffs affect them neither in one way nor the other, ex­ cept as they may exclude a foreign competition. If we throw open the doors to foreign competition It would necessitate even greater economy in organization to enable home producers to compete profitably- There would be no surer way to put the entire produc­ tion of the country Into the hands of consolidations than by striking down all our tariff duties. There would be an absolute necessity for trusts then, or else we should have ta give our mar­ kets over to the Europeans and go out of business, for we could not continue to produce in any but the most eeo- 'jr£ T7"v; 'J.- Democracy nnd Trusts. In was In 1884 that the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress paralysed tbe section against trusts passed by the Republican majority in the preceding Congress. The Wilson law prescribes lio penalty against trusts except firms or corporations who are Importers of foreign goods. Importers are not organized in trusts and never have been. Consequently the Wilson law touches none of the trusts. It opened the door wide to all that now exist The last Senate was not Republican and would not permit the restoration of the antl-trast clause of the McKinley law. The Republican record against trusts 1b perfectly clear. A law In 1800 fulfilled the platform pledge of 1888. Then the Democrats came into power and misgovernment and calamity came with them. In their endless chapter of disasters was the killing of the anti-trust law. They worked havoc In that direction as in every other. Yet they are now making a prodigious racket over the trusts as If the subject were entirely new and their party acting upon it for the first time.--St Louts GlobQ-Democrat Industrial Bather than Pollttcal. Trusts, as Such, have no connection With party politics, and the movement which is establishing them in such numbers was as plainly in evidence under Cleveland as it lias been under McKinley. The favors which the Dem­ ocratic Senate showered on the sugar trust In framing the Wilson tariff have not yet been forgotten. Trusts flour­ ish in Democratic as well as in Repub­ lican States. Both parties have been equally outspoken in denouncing these combinations in their platforms. In their coming national conventions, both will undoubtedly repeat their con­ demnation of monopoly. The trust problem is industrial rath­ er than political, and It should be dealt with on the broad grounds of economic justice. It is difficult and complicated enough to demand the best efforts of honest public men of all parties for Its solution.--Philadelphia Bulletin. Then and Now. During the last Democratic admin­ istration the papers were filled with reports of factories closed, wages re­ duced and an -ever-increasing army of unemployed. Now they are filled with reports of new enterprises, voluntary advances of wages and constantly im­ proving relations between employers and employes.--Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal. Dellsrbted to Meet Then* If the free-traders are anxious to rally under Mr. Havemeyer as a men­ tor and his 10-per-cent duty as a slo­ gan, those who believe In the policy of protection will ba delighted to meet them as soon as there 's time to at' tend to It--Indianapolis JourniH, > Money la Plenty Dick--Hello, John* what ax* yon buy ing now? john--A gold watch. Dick--Too must be ffusfe .with money, John--"Ees; I've just had another raise In for am. 9AMENT. Ckfeai* coi*ti§*ttr the bnsiam «r£ Mmmw % yirsmtn In Tfte-eleventh annual tost auiwf sf ̂ hs XBtools Stajte Fit iiso'i " hdd at Potato ant cdn .. ___ days. - Tfee.csmpettVMeanis were Napso- Tittfe GMcago Iljjybls^ Xfr oe bdaad, ¥«do»t OAnton* Dto* on, Litchfield, Peo*i South PfottiM SSTJmjSSS finteen in tha city and thousands of' Hany of the teams had tihetp own'bands. President O. D< WHeo»asd other Stat* officers of the association were in charge. There was a parade of uniformed fire* men with apparatus, a contest' of steam fire engines and a hand engine contest. The judges on the parade awarded the first prise to the Bdwatdsvllle company and second to Farmington. The races were held at Sapp's track, The results were: Oae haadred yard toot' rsce--Sctoepcwe- horn of Diaoo, first* Brady of Chicago Heights, second. tadder-clftmbtag--Abbott wf Dlxosf first; Kelso of Gibson City, fcecoml. Hose gace--NapervlUe, first; tfarznlsgtoiv •ecohd; Litchfield, third. Novelty nook and ladder race--Dixon, SiStj Gibson City, second; Bdwardsvllle, third. Hose n&ee--M*d1»oa, first (only entry). Hook sad ladder race--Gib»on City, first; Edwardsvtlle, second. Novelty hose race--NapervHle, first (only entry). Novelty hook and bidder race--Dtzoa, first. Platform hose race--Naperville, first Free-for-all hose race--Farmington, 38; NapervlUe, :28 3-6; Chicago Heights, :2® 2 5. Free-for-all hook and tedder race--Glbaon City, :83 1-5? Dixon, -.33 4-5; Edwardsrille, :3d. Hose race, open to teams not winning money in the free-for-all--Litchfield, :31 1-5; Charleston, :32 2-5; Madison, :33 1-&. Hose race, open to two teams making slowest time In free-for-all--Charleston, :81; Madison, :S11-5. Hook and ladder huh and huh raoe be- tweea two teams making slowest time In the free-forall--Dixon, 31 4-6; EdwardsvtHe, :34 Wk Free-for-all hub sad hub rece, open to teams winning money in free-for-all race-- Chicago Heights, :24 1-5. Free-for-all hook and tedder huh and hob race, open for teams winning money In free- for-all race--Dixon, :25 1-5. ~ Consolidation hob and hah final--Litch­ field, :27. sctnr. The two siiilMliiiil factors are craps, and m*m9.: Mm <•» the former,- re­ cent reports have tsns ed a nest encour­ aging character, aa#; ss> tsr as money is seem agreed tfcttt at te the present level of rates will be maintained fhr some tfms longer; there is a flv poespect of a temporary slight advaae#aa asm* as the demands for crop-iaoviMp*)pMes be- eonip more argent wrest fate# \acems a fegfttaMettt̂ Mt" The OewtWf business has 'lO înUBji oc- regftlar trade DISLIKE THE NEW GAME LAW. Han tins: Clubs Will Make a Fight Against the License Feature* The measure passed by the Illinois Legislature last spring taxing non-rest- dent hunters will be attacked by the hunters of Burlington, Iowa. Pour large hunting clubs, Lone Tree, Crystal Lake, Carthage Lake and Sand Lake, aU sit­ uated across the river in Illinois and owning large tracts of land, have a mem­ bership composed entirely of Burlington sportsmen. At a joint meeting of these clubs it was decided to contribute funds to hire a lawyer aad fight the law. It is probable that one member will violate the law to secure a test ease, which wilj be taken to the Federal court to secure a decision on the constitutionality of the law. The houses and grounds of the clubs are in his senatorial district and Senator L. A. Town send has the follow­ ing to say about the reasons leading to the passage of the law: The demand for the passage ot this law was general from all parts ot the State, bnt the strongest appeal came from the sou there part. Complaints reached as from a large number of people that on 8undsys not elm- men, but whole tralaloads of hunters, would leave St, Louis snd come over into Illinois to hunt. They would klU the game and devastate the fields. The practice became a nuisance dvwa there and protection was de­ manded. Of course we knew It wwM work some hardship on the Burllagtoa dabs. X tried to have the bill modified to meet the case, but the pressure from other parts of the State, and especially the sooth part, was too strong. We felt that the game Interests of the State demanded the passage ot the law. 1 don't think the State warden arged the bill because of the fees. MISSING PEORIA MAN RETURNS. Robert Clark Comes Bach After b.q A b* sence of Font Tears. Robert Clark, who suddenly disappear­ ed four years ago, has suddenly reap* peared at his home in Peoria. Mr. Clark was a wealthy contractor, and when he left his home was engaged in a half- dozen contracts in Illinois cities. His bondsman, Robert M. Cox, was equal to the call and all claims against Mr. Clark, amounting to $15,000 or $20,000, were met promptly. Cox died in the spring, and tbe other day Mr. Clark, after four years of traveling in this country and in Europe, returned to face his old ac­ quaintances and start life anew. This is the statement made by him: "1 left Peoria for the reason that I could not see my way clear to remain in the city and face both my friends and my ac­ counts. I found I was head over heels in debt, and could figure no way out of the trouble. I was then engaged In a brick-paving contract at Champaign. I collected all the money I could, paid off my men and went East in the hope of making enough money so I could pay off my debts and return to my family. SLIM PEACH CROP OUTLOOK. Illinois Fault Trees Damaged by Win* ter's Cold. Prof. J. C. Blair of the horticultural bureau of the State University and H. A. Aidrich, vice-presidsnt of the Southern Illinois Horticultural Association, togeth­ er with J. W. Stanton of Nashville, seo- retary of the Southern Illinois Associa­ tion, have completed a tour of the State for the purpose of making a thorough in­ vestigation of the damage to the fruit trees by the severely cokl weather of last winter. Mr. Stanton states that the peach trees are the worst damaged and that the orchards will not- recover in several years. TRUCK PRODUCERS ORGANIZE. Farusers Knr Bearlstows Unite to Protect c hipping Istemta The truck producers near Beardstown and more especially the melon and sweet potato growers, hare handed together for mutual protection of their interests as shippers. An organisation has been been formed with T. K. Condtt a« presi­ dent and E. E. Foster as secretary. As directors Henry J. M. Ruppei, George F. Kuhnman, John B» Buxton, Thomas Campbell* SL H. John Johnson and J. D. Elliott have been chosen. Mate Qem~ ments has been elected general manager CRICKET PEST IN QALESBURCL A Viaitntloa by Insects Annoy* Mer« chants aad Betwrds Bnsiueaa, Swarms of crickets invaded Galesburg recently. No part of the town escaped, but they were densest near electric lamps, many of which were obscured. On Main street they were so thick as to make walking very disagreeable. Pedes­ trians could not avoid tramping upon them and being surrounded by them. Hotel guests were driven inside, and a leading restaurateur had to give up ser­ vice because of tlx; numbers of crickets ths, ' * \ , ..»* ~~+. * t •."» tfe» last year there increasing. flow into the channels. Never in the histocy of activity been more snivrtssl at tltfs •. PS* riod of the year. Production la s&:Unen irat'Mgh-water mark, and still stecfrs da net' seem to be accumulating. This* com- SMsptfcw- of am-chantHse centimes t# Iwep pace with the increased supply* fwr litesidss the domestic demand new foreign markets ate opening. la aB departments recent advances in prices are maintained, and in'Special lines further appreciation In valaes has been recorded. BiaA Hearings for July indicate that general tbasiaess is active. Returns from the whole country show tbst the aggre­ gate of payments through the hanks was In excess of $7,00^000,00 ̂a record for that month which has never hefsee been equaled. Tha clearings of the Chicago banks showed a gain of over $100 )̂60,000 as compared with the cortespsadiag month last year. The stock nwxkets have been less active, and prices ss a rule show some recession from the figures reached last week. Money continues to be the principal factor in the situation, and the fear of an advance in rates has tended to hold boll speculation in check. The industrial stocks hsve lately com­ manded a greater share of attention, aad in some fair advances have been shown. Hope of a great corn crop comes nearer and nearer to realisation as the season progresses. The warm weather of tha last week was just what was needed to make up for the delay at ^he start in geting the seed in the ground. In places tbe heat was excessive, and fear of dam­ age on that account was immediately ex­ pressed in the usual exaggerated form, but it was clear to those having practical experience in raising corn that for every acre that suffered from the heat fifty were benefited. The course of the mar­ ket during the week was a reflex of that opinion. Gradually receding prices evinced the faith of the speculators in the generally beneficial effect of the warm weather, a decline of halt a cent a bushel .being submitted to in face of an export demand of unusual dimensions. A heavy corn crop promises to more than compensate for a deficiency of winter wheat, and the failure of the fodder crops of Europe insures a continuation throughout the season of tbe present ac­ tivity in the foreign demand. Spring wheat made rapid progress dar­ ing the week, so that South Dakota and Minnesota are now busy with their in­ gathering. Tbe crop is already being sold for delivery within the next two weeks in the Minneapolis market, and rnotwithstanding some drawbacks the yield promises to be generally satisfac­ tory. The agricultural returns for the laboi; of the growers give every indica­ tion of being, on the whole, fully as re­ munerative as those of the previous son. The wheat market was somewhat irregular, without material alteration In prices. Europe will again be dependent on America for so large a proportion of its supplies that prices much lower than at present seem improbable. LADY CHURCH!LL ENGAGED.! Former American Proposes to Marry 'Corn wall is* West, The reported engagement la London of Mrs. Randolph Churchill to LieAt. Cornwallis-West, following the revived rumor that she would marry the new Englishman, W. W. Astor, has created a sensation. Cornwallis-West is best known through the women of his fam« ily. His mother, Mrs. Cornwallis-West, was one of the reigning bcautfco of Eng­ land a generation ago and was said to number the Prince of Wales among her conquests. Lieut. Cornwallis is hand­ some, and, according to accounts, a man of exemplary character. Both Lady Ran­ dolph and her son, Winston L. S. Churchill, are at Cowes. (i Numerous newspapers in Georgia ad vocate the nomination of Gen. Joseph Wheeler for Governor by the Democrats. John Steele Sweeney, Republican can didate for Auditor of Kentucky, is a cler­ gyman and one of the most celebrated wits is the State. Judge Archibald A. Glenn, formerly State Senator and Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, has been elected city treas­ urer of Wichita, Kan. Kansas City thinks it has a cinch on the next national Democratic convention. The town puts up the stuff, and that is more than half the battle. The present Governor of Indiana* James A. Mount, whose successor will be elected at the presidential contest of 1900, has announced recently that he is not a candidate for the office of Vice- President or any other. He declares that at the close exf his present term he will retire to his farm. Tammany Hall is not to continue to en­ joy a monopoly of sachems, sagamores, wiskinkies, seasons of fruit and flowers and oracles of the harvest moon, if the liohawks of Buffalo, an organisation committed to Bryan, can help it. They have a national chief, a chief of scouts, a scribe, a medicine man, an outside guard and tribal scribes in abundance, the Mo­ hawks being in favor ot silver, and plen­ ty of it. A great discovery has been made In Chicago through some excitingly sensa­ tional testimony given by the Commlsr gioner of Public Works before the Bax­ ter investigating committee. The testi­ mony showed that during the last year one contractor had received $iaMXM) for repairs to streets, nil of which was let in lots of $500 or less, to evade the law providing that all contracts over $300 advertised and let to the low- New York the same meth- competition in $000 con- been known for fifty years with certain pafctk week ill tor University Fasldttsfou, D. 0 ̂«|ito»e of At inest educsriBsnal bulldlisp ln the esnw- t*y- ft w411 W the largest sai pensive of the university the choicest site on thiT || i xu.nro«s* tftfflumtcte main entrance from' Massachusetts s**~ nue. Constructed entirely at white mar- lie to the r̂edaa style of architectunv Ms thaste outlines will form s zeot of the highest type. Across the front Will he ten massive pfDum irf mar 11*. Thson^h the length of the hnlMiaig B he n high eerrttor supported hy Isrs eC enormous sisa. t7pon<«hcse piHaxn- withis will be taacrfhed the moms of nV who Matrilnxte towns# tiuf enetiw «f 7 , " J The nrortc ofratertng and lepnlrlag wh Lintels homesteads us' protided for har pprapriatton nude at the last sa* of tha General Assembly,) is cow-- snd the oM residence is now n»> nnd string us efrisr, nnd hha nma nearly seasoned the appmrance and eon- dkfisn In which It urns when occyqpied tqr tbe Lincoln fam&y 'thnn at sag? tin* sine* they vacated ft. Seeae of tike doers and woodwork* which trace of nMatni walnut, and which had hem painted over sens of the later tenunts, hntr hpsn rurtwil to their origins! trior; thfrljners hove been renewed, the walls i ed, the outside of " pointed in the cetsr of the and the antiquated hentlng avpnmtun and plumbing replnced with mote nodem fixtures. The week was done underthe direct smpervWIon oftSkjpt. F. W. Blek,' chief janitor of the capital hnlldbtf. Ihe coat to the State waa $1,000, leaving i balance of $300 of the amount nwiif,:- printed unexpended. The monuments erected to the memory of BKnois aoldiers at Missionary ridge, Orchard knob and Lookout moUntaia sod known as the Chattanooga monuments uril be dedicated Nor. 23, the anniver­ sary of the battle of Chattanooga. This was decided upon at a meeting of tha mineis ccamlssisn of the and Ghnttanooga mettumenta&yd at Leland hotel. The mtitthem ot mission pi isrnnt were Maj. B. A. - ett, CUcngo; CcJi, J«-€I. Bverest, Chkngo; Col. B, Swain, Btodcdale; Gen. B. D. Freeport; Maj. W. B. Oarlln» JerssgrvlBe; Col. H. BL Blvers, Parte; Maj. Jamea A. Connolly, r̂iagML Maj. Jamea A. Connolly will deliver tha 'address* turning the monuments over to Gov. Tanner. The dedicatory seftfota will he held at Orchard knob. ®be eom- nksion will leave from Springfield and it is expected that Gov. Tanner and Othr er State ofQcera will accompany the eom- ndtten, x. - - > , %\ '> mineto leads all tha States In tha amount of internal revenue paid into th* treasury of the United States, During the fiscal year ended June 80 It contrib­ uted $47,359,528 to Unde Sam's ex­ chequer, overtopping New York by about, $700,000 and Pennsylvania hy more than $24,000,0001 Collections made fcy .Cot- latfiw Coyne at Chicago amounted to *£3*8,448; those by CoUector Dangh- erty at Peoria, $21,922,865; O^ketor Yates at SpringSeld handed over $8^006,- 215, and' Collector Puwsll at Baat̂ Sfc. Louis Comttlssiooer Wlli son's report Shows that tht'total ceBec- tions for tha year aggregated $818,484 -̂ 582, which is an increase of $M2,617,7wl over last year. ̂ Au been i't-•••*::'. •: v the Attorney General's office holding that stocks and bonds of the Illinois Central Railroad held by individuals a*a llajUe to taxation. In another wy» the at­ torneys of the State held that a school board cannot issue orders on a school treasurer tmleas the funds are in hia hande to pay the orders, but that war­ rants may be loaned, payable out of tha ?<«xt tax levy, after such levy has been made, but that such warrants cannot bear interest. - • » * ' ̂ Auditor of Public Accounts MeO* Cullough has issued a certificate author­ izing the New England Trust Company of Boston, Mass., to carry on a trust business in Illinois. The company's ufifah' will be located in Springfield. • IO «V ,,-v- : - , ̂A-- • ,tr * >, s- . 4, • /- . . j I-s.-a. *, a«s». , "ft - CoL Arthur E. Fisher has decided to. admit Company A at Streator to Third regiment, to take the plctce of Jollet company. " " " " ' Brief Btato Happening* ., f William Dunn, aged 89, is dead at IS* . oria. Illinois Board of Health will inaugn^ rate a crusade against "faith curists." John Engle, 24 years old, was kilMl two miles ^rest of Rochelle by a North­ western train. Mrs. Jacob White was killed by nlng at her home near Stanne. She in bed with her two small children, were rendered unconscious by the bolt- but will recover. While Mrs. Hunter of Dunfermlin* was endeavoring to build a fire with tha use of kerosene the oil exploded and ig­ nited her clothing. Set body was bnraed almost to a crisp* Patrick Drury, a well-known Spring­ field citisen, while superintending soma repairs on a house, took hold of a wtra which happened to be awoss a troUsy wire and was Instantly killed.* Tim' Young People's Christian Union has elwfeed the following officers: Presi­ dent. Bchuyier W. Livincrton of Chica­ go; secretary. Miss Daisy Stinson of Chi- , cagcH press secretary, Hugh B. MoAt| of Monmouth. Not aa Automobile. "Slater Kitty, what Is a vehJcler ? s "It's a thing that wo n't go withes^ helttg hitched to a quadruped.** • Folio wins Her Alvioa. . "Hannah," exclaimed the "what do you mean by putting all your money into mackintoshes, galoshes and umbrellas?" "Wasn't It yer own advice, mum, that I put awa2 all I could fttr a wiaj; ̂ lumf--Detroit Free Press, 7 : %i *5 i" ^ - . ' W:fi 4* ' ?<••< Ver.* 0"S~*v Slower--Yaung Dahble ts vet don't you liwiv? Everything I tell him goes In one ear and out the othir. . Miss Sharp--I have noticed that hn ̂ can get nothing through his haaAr-f , • 'til-