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&WWS9I9IK5 INCOKIN (L 'Mt^n Uv&Ti"" •r:-\^i '!% vf^.'^v-: • -ym̂ T^v -A;^ -»> --• . . . * 400-^5 X "V * Jt iv STATESMAN BACKWOODSMAN «u^ive<r^ HE birthday of Abra- ham Lincoln brings to every American citizen feelings of reverence such as perhaps arise on the natal day of but one other man who ever served the nation. Particularly in the west, which gave to the country the great statesman, whose pa­ triotic services Am­ ericans will always remember with gratitude, should the day be an honored one. Reminis­ cences of the life of this most distln- ^ guished son of Illinois will be welcome reading now. fTT*TVVYTYTTVTTYYTT^ Vinfuishfi; i Bully. INCOLN'S extended repu­ tation as a wrestler and fighter frequently led him into combats which he would willingly have avoid­ ed. One of these encoun­ ters is thus described: Scarcely had Lincoln reached Coles County, and begun to think what next to turn his hand to, when he received a visit from • famous wrestler, one Daniel Need- bam, who regarded him as a grow­ ing rival, and had a fancy to try him a fall or two. He considered himself "the best man" in the country, and the report of Abe's achievements Ailed his big breast with envious pains. Bis greeting was friendly and hearty, tout his challenge was rough^nnd per­ emptory. Abe valued his popul&rity •mong "the boys" too highly to de- dine it and met him by public appoint­ ment in the "greenwood," at Wabash Point, where he threw him twice with •o much ease that Needham's pride ivras more hurt than his body. "Lin­ coln," said he, "you have thrown me twice, but you can't whip me." "Need- tiam," replied Abe, "are you satisfied that I can throw you? If you are not, •nd must be convinced through a threshing, I will do that, too, for your •alee." Needham had hoped that the youngster would shrink from the ex­ tremity of a fight with the acknowl­ edged "buily of the patch;" but finding him willing, and at the same time magnanimously inclined to whip him solely for his own good, he concluded that a bloody nose and a black eye would be the reverse of soothing to bis feelings, and therefore surrendered the field with such grace as he could command. Lincoln's Oreit Heart -A imuumiim J NE cold winter day. Lin­ coln saw a poor bellow named "Ab Trent" hard at work chopping up "a house." which Mr. Hill had employed him to con­ vert Into firewood. Ab was barefooted and shiv­ ered painfully while he worked. Lincoln watched him a few moments and asked him what he was to get for the Job. Ab answered "one dollar," and, pointing to his naked and suffer­ ing feet, said that he wished buy • pair of shoes. Lincoln seized the «te, and, ordering the boy to comfort himself at the nearest fire, chopped up "the house" so fast that Ab and the owner were both amazed when they •aw it done. According to Mr. Rut- ledge, "Ab remembered this act with the liveliest gratitude. Once he, being a cast-iron Democrat, determined to tote against his party and for Mr. Xincoln; but the friends, as he after- Wards said with tears in his eyes, made him drunk, and he voted against Aba Thus he did not even have an opportunity to return the noble con­ duct of Mr. Lincoln by this small measure of thanks." Ltatiifl is a Yoyitnr. F Lincoln's trip down the Mississippi on a flatboat innumerable tales have been told. Perhaps the best of these describes the •oyage which he made in the employ of a merchant named Offutt: Loaded with barrel-pork, hoes, and the boat set out from Sangamon- town as soon as finished. Mr. Offutt was on board toact as his own super­ cargo, intendingcTRr-pick up additions to his stock along the banks of the two Illinois rivers down which he" was about to pass. On the 19th of 4pril they arrived at New Salem, a little vlll&g* destined to be the scene of the Mm eventful years of Mr. Lincoln's life, which immediately followed the conclusion of the present trip. Just below New Salem the boat "stuck," for one night and the better part of a day on Rutledge's mill-dam,--one end of it hanging over the dam, and the other sunk deep in the water behind. Here was a case for Abe's ingenuity, and he exercised it with effect. Quantities of water were being taken in at the stern, the lading was sliding backwards, and everything indicated that the rude craft was in momentary danger of breaking in two, or sinking outright But Abe suggested some unheard-of expedient for keeping it in place while the cargo was shifted to a borrowed boat, and then, boring a hole in that part of the bottom extending over the dam, he "rigged-up" an equally strange piece of machinery for tilting and holding it while the water ran out. All New Salem was assembled on shore, watching the progress of this singular experiment--and with one voice affirm that Abe saved the boat; although nobody is able to tell us pre­ cisely how. The adventure turned Abe's thoughts to the class of difficul­ ties, one of which he had just sur­ mounted, and the result of his reflec­ tions was "an improved method for lifting vessels over shoals." Offutt declared that when he got back from New Orleans, he would build a steam­ boat for the navigation of the Sanga­ mon, and make Abe the captain; he would build it for runners for Ice, and rollers for shoals and dams, for with "Abe in command, by thunder, she'd have to go." nullum' rTTTTTTT TT V Born Commander or Men. N incident, occurring f during the Black Hawk war. well illustrates the LJL character, manliness and / % chivalrous generosity of Mr. Lincoln. I ) One day an old Indian found his way Into the camp, weary, hungry and helpless. He professed to be a friend of the whites; and, although it was an exceedingly perilous experiment for one of his color, he ventured to throw himself upon the mercy of the soldiers. But the men first murmured, and then broke out intp fierce cries for his blood. "We have come out to fight the Indians," said they, "and by God we intend to do it!" The poor Indian, now, in the extremity of his distress and peril, did what he ought to have done before; he threw down before his assailants a soiled and crumpled paper, which he Implored them to read before his life was taken. It was a letter of character and safe-conduct from Gen. Cass, pronouncing him a faithful man, who had done good ser­ vice in the cause for which this army was enlisted. But it was too late; the men refused to read It, or thought it a forgery, and were rushing with fury upon the defenceless old savage, when Capt Lincoln bounded between them and their appointed victim. "Men," said he, and his voice for a moment stilled the agitation around him, "this must not be done; he must not be shot and killed by us." "But," said some of them, "the Indian is a damned spy." Lincoln knew that his own life was now in only less danger than that of the poor creature that crouch­ ed behind him. During the whole of this scene Captain Lincoln seemed to "rise to an unusual height" of stature The towering form, the passion and resolution in his face, the physical power and terrible will exhibited in every motion of his body, every ges­ ture of his arm, produced an effect upon the furious mob as unexpected perhaps to him as to any one else. They paused, listened, fell back, and then sullenly obeyed what seemed to be the voice of reason, as well as au­ thority. But there were still some murmurs* of disappointed rage, and half-Buppressed exclamations, which looked toward vengeance 'of sons kind. At length one of the men, a little bolder than the rest, but evident­ ly feeling that he spoke for the whole, cried out, "This is cowardly on your part, Lincoln!" Whereupon the tall captain's figure stretched a few inches higher again. He looked down upon these varlets who would have mur­ dered a defenceless old Indian, and now quailed before his single hand,, with lofty contempt The oldest of his acquaintances, even Bill Green, who Baw him grapple Jack Armstrong and defy the bullies at his back, never saw him so much "aroused" before. "If any man thinks I am a coward, let him test it," said he. "Lincoln," re­ sponded a new voice, "you are larger and heavier than we are." "This you can guard against; choose your wea­ pons," returned the rigid captain. Whatever may be said of Mr. Lin­ coln's choice of means for the preser­ vation of military discipline, it was certainly very effectual in this case. There was no more disaffection in his camp, and the word "coward" was never coupled with his name again. Mr. Lincoln understood his men bet­ ter than those whu would be disposed to criticise his conduct. He has often declared himself, that his life and character were both at stake, and would probably have been lost, had he not at that supremely critical moment forgotten the officer and asserted the man. To have ordered the offenders under arrest would have created a formidable mutiny; to have tried and punished them would have been Im­ possible. They could scarcely be call­ ed soldiers; they were merely armed citizens, with a nominal military or­ ganization. They were but recently enlisted, and their term of service was just about to expire. Had he preferred charges against them, and offered to submit their differences to a court of any sort, it would have been regarded as an act of personal pusillanimity, and his efficiency would have been gone forever. Ills Sense of Humor. - AAAAi IlllWHAUi HEN Mr. Lincoln was postmaster at New Salem, 111., his easy good nature was sometimes im­ posed upon by in­ considerate ac­ quaintances; and one of the devices by which he sought to stop the abuse is related. "One El­ more Johnson, an ignorant but osten­ tatious, proud man, used to go to Lin­ coln's po8tofflce every day--sometimes three or four times a day, if in town-- and inquire, 'Anything for me?' This bored Lincoln, yet it amused him. Lin­ coln fixed a plan--wrote a letter to Johnson as coming from a negress in Kentucky, saying many good things about opossum, dances, corn-shuck- lngs, etc.; 'John's! come and see me, and old master won't kick you out of the kitchen any more!' Elmore took it out; opened it; couldn't read a word; pretended to read it; went away; got some friends to read it; they read it correctly; he thought the reader was fooling him, and went to others with the same result. At last he said he would get Lincoln to read it, and presented it to Lincoln. It was almost too much for Lincoln, but he read it The man never asked afterwards, 'Anything here for me?' " Tie Mother's Tribute. • illll & HE debt which the great President owned to his step­mother for her tender care and constant love was al­ways gratefully acknowl­edged. A pathetic picture of this gentle lady in her last days is given as follows: "Mrs. Lincoln was never able to speak of Abe's conduct to her without tears. In her interview with Mr. Hern- don, when the sands of her life had nearly run out, she spoke with deep emotion of her own soh, but said she thought that Abe wlas kinder, better, truer, than the other. Even the moth­ er's instinct was lost as she looked back over those long years of poverty and privation in the Indiana cabin, when Abe's grateful love softened the rigors of her lot, and his great heart and giant frame were always at her command. 'Abe was a poor boy,' said she, 'and I can say what scarcely one woman--a mother--can say in a thou­ sand. Abe never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused, In fact or appearance, to do anything I requested him. I never gave him a cross word in all my life. • • • His mind and mine--what little I had--seemed to run together. * * * He was here after he was elected President' (At this point the aged speaker turned away to weep, and then, wiping her eyes with her apron, went on with the story. 'He was dutiful to me always. I think he loved me truly. I had a son, John, who was raised with Abe. Both were good boys; but I must say, both now being dead, that Abe was the best boy I ever saw, or expect to see. I wish I had died when my husband died. I did not want Abe to run for President; did not want him elected; was afraid somehow,--felt in my heart; and when he came down to see me, after he was elected Preisdent, I still felt that something told me that something would befall Abe, and that I should see him no more.' 'Is there anything in the language we speak more touching than that sim­ ple plaint of the woman whom we must regard as Abraham Lincoln's mother? The apprehension in her 'heart' was well grounded. She 'saw him no more.' When Mr. Herndon rose to depart, her eyes again filled with tears; and, wringing his hands as if loath to part with one who talked so much of her beloved Abe, she raid, 'Good-by, my good son's friend. Fare­ well.' " TT*T T T1 J TTTTT WVV Unique Stump Speed INCOLN'S unique methods of campaigning are thus described by an eye-wit­ ness. This was on the oc­ casion of his first nomina­ tion as a legislative candl "Mr. Lincoln's first ap­ pearance on the stump, in the course of the canvass, was at Pappsville, about eleven miles west of Springfield, upon the occasion of a public sale by the firm of Poog & Knap. The sale over, speech- making was about to begin, when Mr. Lincoln observed strong symptoms of inattention in his audience, who had taken that particular moment to en­ gage in what Mr. James A. Herndon pronounces 'a general fight.' Lincoln saw that one of his friends was suffer­ ing more than he liked in the melee; and, stepping into the crowd, he shouldered them sternly away from bis man, until he met a fellow who re­ fused to fall back; him he seized by the nape of his neck and the stat of his breeches, and tossed him 'ten or twelve feet easily.' After this episode --as characteristic of him as of the times--he mounted the platform, and delivered, with awkward modesty, the following speech: " 'Gentlemen and Fellow Citizens, I presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to be­ come a candidate for the legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a national bank. I am in favor of the internal-improvement system and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.' "In these few sentences Mr. Lincoln adopted the leading principle of the Whig party--Clay's 'American Sys­ tem' in full. In his view, as we shall see by another paper from him when again a candidate in 1834, the internal- improvement system required the dis­ tribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands amongst the states. He says nothing of South Carolina, of nullification, of disunion; and on these subjects it is quite probable his views were like Mr. Webster's, and his sym­ pathies with Jackson. The opinions announced in this speech, on all the subjects touched by the speaker, were as emphatically Whig as they could be made in words." Lincoln's SterHo* Honesty. MliilliliitHllli INCOLN possessed the ju­ dicial quality of mind in a degree so eminent and It was so universally recog­ nized, that he never could attend a horserace without being importuned to act as a judge, or witness a bet without assuming the responsibility of a stakeholder. "In the spring or sum­ mer of 1832," says Henry McHenry, "I had a horse race with George Warbur- ton. 1 got Llncoln.who was at the race, to be a judge of the race, much against his will and after hard persuasion. Lincoln decided correctly; and the oth­ er judge said: 'Lincoln Is the fairest man I ever had to deal with; if Lin­ coln is in this country when I die, I want him to be my administrator, for he is the only man I ever met with tim-t was wholly and unselfishly hon­ est' " His ineffable purity In deter­ mining the result of a scrub race had actually set his colleague to thinking of Ms latter sod. ILLINOIS ITEMS * * & % & Charles M. Edmunds, a traveling salesman, was fatally injured at Cen- tralia by an Illinois Central train. Eureka college celebrated founders' day by an all-day service in the new Christian church. The Modern Woodmen held a recep­ tion for head consul W. A. Northeott, ander the auspices of the Marion ramp. The store of Samuel Gibson & Son 3f Brownfield was entered and a quan­ tity of dry goods and jewelry taken. Preparations are being made to bore .'or coal at Ava, 111. The Republicans have called a pri­ mary election at Robinson for March I to nominate candidates for county >{Tirors and the legislature. Work in prospecting for gas on the farm of J. P. Klein, north of Macoupin Station, is to be resumed shortly. A s-tock company has a twenty-year lease on 5,000 acres of land. No Democrat has announced himself 'or any of the five Saline county offices. The Republican primary will be held an March 15. The. young people of Wellington, Iroquois county, are suffering from an -"pidemic of laughter, which has baf­ fled the doctors and has caused much ii stress. The Montgomery County Teachers' association will meet in Litchfield February 22. The jury in the libel rase of former Sheriff W. M. Foster against the Deca­ tur Herald-Dispatch company brought in a verdict of not guilty. The proposition of organizing a school system of Quincy under the general state law will soon be submit­ ted to a vote of the people. Adjt. Gen. Reece has granted a leave of absence for forty days to Col. Nich­ olas Senn, surgeon general of the Illi­ nois national guard, who Is going abroad. The auditor of public accounts has canceled $61,000 of 5 per cent bonds of the city of Beardstown, Cass county, which have been refunded by an issike of 4 per cent bonds. The equalized taxes of Christian county for this year amount to $336,- 386.13. The Chicago and Alton is out of water at the Godfrey reservoir and it is necessary to haul from the river at Alton all the water needed for engines. The water famine this year along the Alton has been the most troublesome ever known. A gift of $1,000 has been made to­ ward a fund for the purpose of endow­ ing an industrial training school and .home for girls in Alton. A deed was filed at Springfield by the Springfield and Decatur railway company conveying to the Indiana, De­ catur and Wo»teru railway company the line now being completed between Decatur and Springfield. E. E. Fahnestock of Wanda is in receipt of a box of curios from his son, a soldier in the Philippines. The collection comprises machets, daggers, wooden combs, coins, etc. The Democratic county central com­ mittee has been called to meet Febru­ ary 18 at Carrollton to fix a date for the county primary election. James Divinny aged 90 years died at Pinkneyville of pneumonia. He was Perry county's oldest man. Mrs. Delia Neuby of East Alton ac­ cidentally drove a sleigh over an em­ bankment 20 feet high and escaped un­ injured. The sleigh was demolished and the horse was badly hurt. Joseph Steiner of Paris, France, for­ merly a resident of Alton, will appeal to the state department of the United States to assist him in prosecuting a claim he has against a railroad com­ pany In the Argentine republic, in which the Argentine republi^^cburts awarded him $30 000. Coal operators are reticent regarding the failure of the plan to combine the coal mines of Illinois and Indiana. Some of them say that they know no more about the matter than has ap­ peared in the published reports. The difference between a number of farmers along the proposed telephone lines from Belleville to O'Fallon and the company have been amicably set­ tled, and the work of construction will now go on rapidly. An effort will be made to have the train carrying Prince Henry stop at Alton on its trip between Chicago and St. Louis. The new Union State bank at Dixon, HI., has started business with a capital of $50,000. I. B. Countryman is presi­ dent and R. H. Moore is cashier. The merchants of Hardin and farm- era of the neighborhood have organized _ stock company of $8,000 capital, and will build a canning factory. The fac­ tory will have a capacity of 15,000 cans per day and will employ 100 laborers. It will be in operation by June 1. Mrs. Mary A. Meyer, one of the old­ est residents of Shiloh, died after a long illness. She was in her 86th year. ® Figures compiled by the state bureau of labor statistics show that the total number of men employed in the coal mines of the state at the end of the fiscal year (June 30, 1901,) was 44,143. This is an Increase over the number reported for the previous year of 4,749, or 12 per cent. Constantine Shiek. former postmas­ ter at Perryville, Richland county, who entered a plea of guilty in the United States district court to the charge of embezzlement, has been sentenced to serve one year in the Chester peniten- tiary. v Frank T. Kuhl, Illinois commission­ er to the Charleston exposition, says that the Illinois building Is the most popular state building on the ground. A movement is on foot to remove the Virginia Canning company's plant to Petersburg or Beardstowm. Orley Bishop of El «prado pleaded guilty to selling intoxicating liquors without a license and was fined $240. The Virginia Canning company will be removed to Petersburg, hiving ac­ cepted the proposition of $10,000 bonus offered by the Business Men's assoda- at that city. Thomas D. Robertson, a pioneer banker and lawyer of northern Illinois, is dead at Rockford, aged 84. He was one of the founders of Beloit college and Rockford college for women. His estate is estimated at $750,000. The Aberdeen-Angus bull. Prince ito, sold at auction at the Union stock yards, Chicago, for $9,100, to E. P. Pierce & Son, Creston. The Waukegan Electric Light com­ pany, owned by Milwaukee parties, has proposed to sell its plant to the city. It asks $75,000, payable in ten yearly installments, with interest on the de­ ferred payments. At present the city is paying $8,500 yearly for lighting. " Judge James B. Charters of Dixon is dead of pneumonia. He was formerly mayor ol Dixon, county judge and postmaster. John Koch, employed by the Consol­ idated Coal company, was killed by falling down the main shaft. T. E. Goodrich of Cobden says that the peaches are only partially killed by the cold weather. The ice has formed a coveting for the buds and has protected them from the severe weather. Apples aud pears are still in a sound condition. Reports from the strawberry fields of Pulaski county are to the effect that the berries are unhurt and a good crop is in prospect. The February term of the Gallatin county circuit court at Shawneetown was postponed by Judge E. D. Young- blood until April 2 on account of the extreme cold weather. The Molin« public library board has ordered plans lor a $50,000 building, and hopes to induce Mr. Carnegie to increase his gift of $37,000 to that amoun t. George W. Street, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, died at Paris, aned 72.' Mr. Street marched with the American army from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. He served through­ out the civil war in the Eleventh In­ diana cavalry. The First National bank of Waverly has been authorized to begin business with a capital of $25,000. G. D. Brad­ ford is president and. A. C. Moffett cashier. Rev. Joseph Stuckey, a bishop in the Mennonite church, died at Danvers. Mrs. Louis W. Howard, wife of a leading merchant of Bloomington, passed away at the age of 32, leaving three small children. She was prom­ inent in church, social and club cir­ cles. In the United States circuit court E. Lecomte of New York was given a judgment for $7,200 against the county of Alexander on bonds issued in aid of | the Cairo and St Louis railroad. The order of the court Is that If the judg­ ment is paid by July 10 the sum of $1,000 shall be deducted. Thomas Black, a negro coal miner, has filed a damage suit against the Black Diamond Coal company at Springfield. He asks for $5,000 for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained as the result of a dust ex­ plosion a month ago. The famous Alton school case Is set for retrial in the circuit court. The negroes, who are trying to gain ad­ mission to the Alton schools, are con­ fident of winning out, and say they will be back in the Alton schools with white children before long. John H. Jenkins of Carbondale, re­ cently appointed a teacher in the Phil­ ippine service, in the island of Rom- blon. has been promoted to be a super­ intendent. his home in Bear Creek township. Miss Mary ftjeals died at her home in Carlinville, aged"80 years. She was one of the pioneer residents of Carlin­ ville. P. J. Harselm and J. H. Murphy, the two promoters of the proposed light­ ing and heating plant and underground telephone systems at Decatur, are striving to secure a franchise from the city council. They repp»ent a syndi­ cate. W. M. Barber has purchased ninety- ellkht acres of land northwest of Pana from W. E. Sibley for $6,500. It is probable that the Springfield city council will pass an ordinance re­ quiring all street cars within the city limits to be equipped with fenders. The Chicago and Alton railroad is constructing a new turntable at the Alton roundhouse. Rev. Walter H. Bradley, pastor of the Upper Alton Presbyterian church, has received another call to the pas­ torate of the njw rresbyterian ch ireh in Manila, and has again declined. The voters in the village of Breese have decided in (avor of the erection of a new public school building in that place to cost $6,000. The present build­ ing is not large enough. Charles B. Benjamin of Blooming- ton, in the United States district court, has been found guilty of counterfeiting and sentenced to two years in the pen­ itentiary and to pay a fine of $3,000. Bepjamin is a veteran of the recent waf and at the trial an effort was made to prove that be had become insane as the result of campaign hardships. Mrs. Theresa M. Sutterer, wife of Anton Sutterer, died at Alton, aged 43. Mrs. Sutterer was the mother of four­ teen children. The total tax collected in Marion county this year Is $138,283.52. George Adams, an employe at the factory of the Equitable Power com­ pany, at East Alton, has fallen heir to $36,000 in money which was left to him by a relative in Philadelphia. Elmer C. Gernand, a jeweler of Dan­ ville, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He schedules liabilities of $38,050; assets. $5,680. A rural mall delivery/'service will be established in a short time with North Alton as the distributing office. Frederick H. Smith, president of the Illinois commission to the Charleston exposition, denied that Illinois dsjr would he abandoned James Staten, a pioneer resident of . , . . . t^The Illinois fish commission has de-Christian county, was found dead at ^ . ^;f| Twenty Illinois cities were represent­ ed in the convention of the Illinois Po­ licemen's and Police Employes' Benefit association at Springfield. John H. Harding, mayor of Staun- . ton, has been indicted with accepting a bribe from the Fort Wayne Electric works of Fort Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Louis Sleyensteuber of Quincy packed her trunk and left for parts un­ known. She has four children and she took the two youngest and told her husband that she never would re­ turn. < Camp Point has organized a Business Men's club with an enrollment of 101 members. Asbury Morrow, a resident of Quin­ cy for a half century, died, aged SI years. John Lonie of Alton recently swore out a warrant for the arrest of his son Edward, stating that his son had stolen two gold watches, a chain and $30 in cash. Never in the history <of Alton was much building in progress at this sea­ son of the year and builders expect the best season they have ever known. The residents of Yager Park are planning to erect a schoolhouse and to employ a private teacher. A big belt that operates the largest machines at the Alton street railway house went on a rampage, and besides disabling the street railway and light­ ing system, caused considerable dam­ age to the power house. The Southern Illinois Evangelical conference will be held in Alton April 24. Dr. Edwin Swartz, who for two terms was mayor of Knoxville, died of a complication of diseases, aged 48 years. He was a leading member of the Mil­ itary Tract Medical society and prom­ inent in the Masonic and Ancient Or­ der United Workmen circles. Fire destroyed the Windsor hotel at Carbondale, conducted as a boarding house for normal students. Building boom, involving the expen­ diture within the next eighteen months of something like $25,000,000, is likely to follow the action of the Chicago council in removing the limitations as regards height for fireproof structures. Fire destroyed a large livery and feed stable, a dwelling and a number of smaller buildings at Eldorado. The lo$s will aggregate $20,000. At the Carbondale second special city election the majority of votes for li­ censing saloons was 267. Joseph Matin, residing near Pans, has announced that he is one of sev­ eral heirs to a vast estate amounting to £16,000,000, for whom the Bank of Suglasd advertised seme time ago. share will be over $1,000,000, ? At Carbondale the state session ot the Farmers' Economical union elected Scott Crews president, and F. B. Hunt­ er- secretary. Fire in the dry kiln of tbe Metal- bound Package company's plant Calro^ destroyed $10,000 worth of property. Gov. Yates and staff and the state officers will participate in the recep­ tion to Prince Henry in Chicago March 3. The Saline County Telephone com­ pany, on behalf of the Bell company, has purchased the Cumberland Tele­ phone company exchange. N Jefferson encampment No. 184 has been organized at Mount Vernon. The encampment is the highest \rank in Oddfellowship. Lincoln chapter, ii A. R., wiUBsnd its delegates to Washington to cast the vote of the chapter f^r Mrs. Deere. cided that it will not issue permits for ice fishing unless tl*e fishing is done under the supervision of a fish warden or a deputy. Mi's. Mathew Seeley died at Rush- ville, aged 90 yeai-s. She was born la Malone, N. Y., and had resided la Rusbville since 1835. The auditor of public accounts has issued a permit for the organization of the Crete State bank, at Crete, Will county, with a capital stock of $25,000. In the United States district court at Springfield Ned Allen entered a plea of guilty t^-bi^aking into the United States postoffice at Glendale and was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. jasper Decker, who died at . MOP- physboro, was a former resident o£ Al- ton and was one of the men who as­ sisted in the building of the Chlcsga and Alton railroad Into Alton. The Kinloch Telephone company has completed its connection to Lebanon from St. Louis, Belleville and other points west Henry V. Henderson, son of Charles Henderson, a prominent resident. of North Alton, was fatally injured by falling from a building at Hyde Park. Defiance Starch, iff ounces, 10 cents. Sharred Baker, a resident of North Alton for sixty years, died in Chicago^ Frank Miller, the singing evangelist, is attracting great crowds at the Van- dalia Presbyterian church. The serv­ ices wll be continued Indefinitely. George F. Michaels, who lived alone on his farm in Otego township, was discovered by some of his neighbors suffering with pneumonia, but he died before medical aid could be procured. The Saline County Teachers' associa­ tion meeting was attended by nearly 150 teachers besides as many more vis­ itors interested in education. Id boring a second well at the plant of the Harrisburg Water, Light and Power company, a third vein of coal, 8 feet thick, was struck at a depth of less than 500 feet The second vela, which is 12 feet thick, was found la. both wells at a depth of 34J feet coal found in the third vein, while aot as thick as the second, is of the finest quality. * F. M. Norton, of Nashville, tor % number of year* prominent in edaea^ tional circles, has been appointed m teacher in the Carsoa City (Nev.) dlan school. , -V - V •