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* *• /' t -ri"-r' :1 * f- -V4 'Vs * ;r/-v -T-- .* 7-?'r--'-5,w- 7" *- ' ' 'iSiiSM ,^'x -iff -T f%.r *-Vs v" * ̂ , J*-*'" IV' tA3ALC or THE OLD WEST i- j. r 4^ H abm¥ llun Wilson wSSSji ' V' ^ (wm-sff /oos orz<v*MapPa&i-***mQ Co*m*r CHAPTER XXVI11 *--Continued. He- had been all animation and ;.: eagerness in the telling of the story, but had now become curiously silent and listless; so that, although she was | eager with many questions about „• what he had said, she did not ask : them, waiting to see if he would not v< »> talk again. But instead of talking, he ,!?£h stayed silent and presently began to H fidget in his cfcair„ At last he said, "Tf you'll excuse us, Miss Prudence, your4 pa and I bav6 got a little business mat­ ter to talk over--to-night. I guess We can go'down, here by the corral and , -•do it." . .. * B«t *&® arose quickly and bade him ^ 3 good night. "I h6pc I shall see you to- * morrow," she said. She ben^ over to kiss her father as she went in, and when she had dpne go, warned him that he muat not sit in the night air. "Why your face is actually wet wtth a cold sweat You ought to come in at once:" ;/ • "After a very little, dear. Go to )>ed now*--and always be a good girl!" • "And you've grown so hoarae sitting here." 4 "In a. Utile while,--always be a good girl!" She went in With a parting admoni­ tion: "Remember your cough--good night!" When she had gone neither man stirred for the space of a minute. The little man, huddled in his s* . had not changed his^ position; he.. > ' sat with his chair tilted back agatu^t the house, his chin on his breast. The other had remained standing where the girl left him, the revolver in his hand. After the minute of silence he crossed over and stood in front of the seated man, •, "Come," he said, gruffly, "where do you want to go?" * CHAPTER XXIX. fell back again oa the pillow, with a little moan. "Well, It ain't strange I didn't know you. I waa looking for a big man. Tou seemed as big as a house to me that day. I forgot that I'd grown up and you might be small. When those fellows got tight up there and let on like it was you that some folks hinted had took a child and kept it out of that muss, I couldn't hardly believe it; aftd everybody seeming to regard yon so highly. And I couldn't believe this big girl was little Frue Girnway that I remembered. It seemed like you two would have to be a great big mac. and a little bit of a baby girl with yellow hair; and now I find you're--say, Mis­ ter, honestly, you're^such a poor, brokedown, little coot it seems a'most like a shame to put a bullet through you, in spite of all your doings!" The little man sat up again, with new animation in his eyes,--the same eager boyishness that he had some­ how kept through au his years. "Don't!" he exclaimed, earnestly. "Let me beg you, don't kill me! For your own sake--riot for mine. ,I'm a poor, meatless husk. I'll die soon at best, and I'm already in a hell you ean'tmake any hotter. Let me do you this service; let me persuade you not Th»re now, that's right--don't you sfie that hurts worse than killing?" ' | "But I certainly wish I could have get those other two that took us off lnlto the sage-brush that night I didn't g$<ass what for, but the first thing I knew the other boy was scratching, and kicking, and hollering, and like to have wriggled away, sO \the cuss that was with me ran up to help. Then I heard little John making a kind of a gqneaily noise in his throat like he was being choked, -r.d that was all 1 wanted. I legged it into the sage­ brush. I heard them swearing and coming after me, and ran harder, and, what saved me, I tripped and fell down and hurt myself, so I lay still and'they lost track of me. I was seared, I promise you that; but after they got off a ways I. worked in the other di­ rection by spells till I got to a little wady, and by sunup they weren't in sight any longer. When I saw the In­ dians coming along I wasn't a hit scared. I knew they weren't Mor­ mons.'* _ • ' "I used to pray that yo* mightcoortt back and kill me.* "I used to wish I would grow faster so I could. I was always laying out to do It" "But see how I've been punished. Look at me--I'm 60. I ought to be in my prime. See hoii" i've been burnt out" "But look here, Mister, what about this girl? Do you think you've been doing right by keeping habere?" "No, no! It was a wrong la great as the other." "Why, they're even passing remarks about her mother, those that don't know where you got her,--saying it Was some one you never married, be­ cause the book shows your first wife was this one-handed woman here." "I know, I know it. I meant to let her go back at first but she took hold of me, and her father and mother were both dead." f "She's got a grandfather and grand­ mother, alive and hearty, back at Springfield." Ho* *he Avenger Bungled Hi» Vengeance. At last he stood up, slowly, unstead­ ily, grasping Follett by the arm for support He spoke almost in a whis­ per. 0 . "Come back here first--to talk---, then I'll go with you." He entered the *\ause, the young man following dose, suspicious, nar­ rowly watchful. "No fooling now,--feel the end of that gun in your back?" The other made no reply. Inside the door he took a candle from the box against the well and lighted it "Don't think I'm trying anything-- come here." They went on, Ihe little bent man ahead, holding the candle well up. His room was at the far end of the long house. When they reached it, he closed the door and fixed the candle on the table in some of its own grease. Then he pointed Follett to the one stool in the, little cell-like room, and<, 'threw himself face down on the bed. Follett, still standing, waited for him to speak. After a moment's silence he grew impatient. "Come, come! What would you be saying if you were talking? I can't rwait here all night" But the little man on .the bed was still silent nor did he stir, and after another wait Follett broke out again. "If you want to talk, talk, I tell you. If you don't vant to, I can say all I have to say, quick." Then the other turned himself over on the bed and half sat up, leaning on his elbow. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but you see I'm so weak"--the strained lit­ tle smile came to his face--"and trem­ ble so, there's so much tok think of-- do you hear those women scream-- there! did you hear that?--but of course riot. Now--wai; just a moment --have you come to kill me?" "You and those two other hellions --the two that took me and that boy out that night to bury,us." "Did you think q£ the conse­ quences?" "I reckon you'd be ^called paid for, any time any one come gunning for you. I didn't think there'd be any con* sequences." "Hereafter, I mean; to your soul. What a pity you didn't wait a little longer! Those other two are already punished." "Don't lie to me now?" The little smile lighted his face again ^ stand It to see her go.- It would C*t J into my heart and leave me w u!w» to death. No, no, no--don't! Please don't! Don't pile it all on me at the last The end has come anyway. Don't do that--don't, don't!" "There, there, be still now." There was a rough sort of soothing In Fol- lett's voice, and they were both silent a moment Then the young man went on: "But what do you expect? Suppose everything was left to you. Mister, Come now, you're trying to talk fair. Suppose I leave it to you--only jrau know you can't keep her." "Yes, It can't be, but let her atay a little while; let me se her a few times more; let me know she doesn't think I'm bad; and promise never to tell her all of it Let her always think I was a good man. Do you promise me that. I'd do It for you, Follett. It wpn't hurt you. Let her think I was a good man." "How long do you want her to staj here?--a week, ten days?" "It Will kill me when she goes!" "Oh, well, two weeks?" "That's good of you; you're klndev at your age than I was--I shall die when she goes." "Well, I wouldn't want to live if I were you." "Just a little longer, knowing that she cares for me. I've never been- free to have the love of a woman the way you will some day, though."I've hun« gered and sickened for it--for a wom­ an who would, understand and be close. But this girl has been the souS of it some way. See here, Follett, let her stay this suinmer, or until I'm dead. That can's be a long time. I've felt the end coming for a year now. Let her stay, believing in me. Let ma know to the last that I'm the only man who has been in her heart, who has won her confidence and her love. Oh, I mean fair. You stay with us your­ self and watch. Come--but look thftr% look, man!" Well,--what?" 'That candle is going out,--well be in the dark"--he grasped the other's ar)n--"in the dark, and now I'm afraid again. Don't leave me here! It would be an awful death to die. Here's that thing now on the bed behind me. It's trying to get around in front where I'll have to see it--get another candle. No--don't leave me,--this one will ve out while you're gone." All his strength went into the grip on Fo*- lett's arm. The candle was sputtering in its pool of grease. "There, it's gone--now don't, dont leave me. It's trying to crawl over me--I smell the blood--•" , "Well--lie down there--it serves you right There--stop it--I'll stay with you." Until dawn Follett sat by the bunk, submitting his arm to the other's fren­ zied crip. From time to time he some­ what awkwardly uttered little words that were meant to be soothing, as he would have done to a frightened child. When morning brought the gray light into the little room, the haunted man fell into a doze, and Follett, gent­ ly unclasping the hands from his arm, arose and went softly out. He was cramped from sitting still so long, and chilled, and his arm hurt where the other had gripped it. He pulled back the blue woollen sleeve and saw above his wrist livid marks where the nails had sunk into his fiesh. Then out of the room back of him came a sharp cry, as from one who had awakened from a dream of terror. He stepped to the door again and looked in. "There nowr-d<m't be scared any more. The diyllgi^^ifpme; It's aU right--all right--go, to efleep now--" He stood listening: until the man he had comc to kill was again quiet. Then, he went outside and over to the creek back of the willows to bathe in the fresh running water. Illinois State News Recent Happenings of interest in the Various Cities . and Towns. X COOPERATIVE WORKMEN STRIKE •Although Stockholders In Company, They Demand Higher Wages. Sdwardsville. -- Twenty-one years ago N. O. Nelson, of Edwardsville, widely known for his philanthropic plans, established near Edwardsville an industrial village, which he named Leclaire, where all workmen in the factories were to be on a cooperative basis. Each year he gave the men in addition to their wages 25 per cent of their salaries in stock o£ the com­ pany, bearing six per cent" interest Now the machinists and brasswork- ers have struck, demanding higher wages. Mounting a big planer in the center of one of the mills, Mr. Nelson declared that hereafter, no union men would be employed. IN PRISON TO SAVE HUSBAND. Woman Serving Time for Murder Done by Spouse Is Pardoned. Springfield.--After pleading guilty to a charge of murder to save her hus­ band from conviction, Annie Daniels, was pardoned on recommendation of the state board of pardons. The wom­ an was sent to prison from Pulaskfc county. According to the statement of -the state's attorney the woman took no part In the crime for which she was convicted. It appears that her hus­ band shot and kHled a man and that she was a witness to the crime, in a\ few days thereafter she gave in­ formation that led to the finding of the murdered man's body and when the case came to trial pleaded guilty. 8WEARS THAT SHE LIED. FRANK H. DUNN GETS HONOR. Named-for Supreme Bench by Judi­ cial Convention. Decatur.--On the one hundred and forty-second ballot the Judicial conven­ tion named Frank K. Dunn, of Charles­ ton, to succeed |he late Judge Jacob W. Wilkin on the supreme bench. Mr. Dunn was born at Mount Gllead, O., in 1854, and his early education was in the public schools of that town. NEWS OF ILLINOIS. , J \ - HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST PROOf ALL OVER THE STATE. SANITARY DISTRICT Joliet Commences Civil 8alt for pose of Securing, Increased Flow of Water in the Drainage Canal. ; Joliet. -- Proceedings against Hi# trustees of the sanitary district of Chicago, in accordance with the 111* structlons of the Win county Marcb grand jury, have been begun. State's Attorney Hetse presented the facts to Attorney General Sfe ad. The action is a civil suit to enforce the sending down here of the amount of water--almost 400,000 cubic feet- required under the original drainage act At present it is understood that lee* than 300,000 cubic feet is being seat down. .'-J STORK8, ELECTION ISSBEr DIC. Alton (IiI.) Mayor Keeps Demise «f the Birds S®cret Two 'Weefefc Alton.--Mayer Beall's storks .JiSi dead. Sent from Hamburg, Germeny, • by an admirer who appreciated the advocacy of Roosevelt's anti-race seAr eide theory by Bean, the birds became . a eampaign issue h^re. When they died the mayor kept It secret £or two weeks lest his opponents shc.uM josh" him to defeat -j- * "Oh Ma me. How I've Longed for That Bullet of Yours!" Have ydu ever killed a to kill man?" "No, not yet; I've allowed to a cou­ ple of times, but It's never come Just that way." "You Offght to thank God. Don't ever. You'll be in hell as sure as you do,--a hell right here that you must carry inside of you forever--that even God can't take out of you. Follett Blovly put the revolver into its holster and sat down on the low stool. "I don't know anything about all this hell-talk, but I see I can't kin you-- you're sjich a poor, miserable cuss. And I thought you were a big, strorig man, handy with a gun and all that, and like as not I'd have to make a quick draw on you when the time come. And now look at you! Why, blister, Tm doggoned If I ain't almost _ . . . , , .X, sorrv for vou! You sure have*^een don't thin^I ever did lie to any onW^I dW gftess 1 never was tempted-- "Oh, you've acted lies enough." "You're right--that's so. But I'm telling you truth now--those two men had both been in the Meadows that day and it killed them. One went crazy and ran off into the desert. They found his bones. The other shot him­ self a few years ago. Those of us that live are already in hell--" He sat up, now animated for the moment. "-- in bell right here, I tell you. Td have welcomed you, or any other Tpaji that would kill me, any time U>-is 15 years. I'd have gone uut to meet you. Do you think 1 like to hear the women scream? Do you think I'm not crazed myself by this thing--right back of me here, now--crawling, bleed­ ing, breathing on me--trying to come here in front where I must see it? Don't you see God has known how to punish me worse than you could. Just by keeping me alive and sane? Oh, man! you don't know how I've longed for that bullet of yours, right here through the temples where the cries sound worst I didn't dare to do it myself--I was afraid I'd make my pun­ ishment worse If I tried to shirk; but I used to hope you would come as you said you would. I wonder I didn't know you at once." * plenty. Say, what in God's |ame did you all do such a hellish thing for, anyway ?" "We had been persecuted, hunted, and driven, our Prophet murdered, our women and children butchered, and another army was on the way." "Well, that was because you were such an ornery lot always setting yourself up against the government wherever you went, and acting scan­ dalous--" "We did as the Lord directed us--" "Oh, shucks!" "And then we thought the time had ccme to stand up for our rights; that the Lord meant us to be free and in­ dependent." "Secesh, en?" Follett was amused. "You handful of Mormons--Uncle Sam could have licked you with both hands tied behind him. Why, you crazy tool, he'd have spit on you and drowned every last one of you, old Brigbam Young and all. Fighting the United States! A few dozen women-butchers going to do what the whole South couldn't! Well, I am danged." He mused over it and for awhile neither spoke. "And the nearest you ever got to It was cutting up a Wt of women and children after you'd cheated tlWfcfflen into giving up their gunst" £j£> The other groaned. "She is all that has kept me alive these last years." "She's got to go back to Ler people noWi She'll want to bad enough when sh^ knows about this." "About this? Surely you won't tell her--" "Look here now, why not? What do you expect." "But she loves me--she does--and she's all I've get Man, uian! don't pile it all on me just at the last." He was off the bed and on his knees before Follett "Don't put It all oa me. rve round­ ed up my back to the rest of It but Jkeep this off; please, please don't Let her always think I'm not bad. Give me that one thing cut of all the world." He tried to reach the young man's hand, but was pushed roughly away. "Don't do that--get up--stop, I tell you. That ain't any way to do. There now! Lie down again. What do you want? I'm not going to leave that girl with you nor with your infernal Church. You understand that" "Yes, yes, I kaow it. It was right that you should be the one to come and take her away. The Lord's ven­ geance was well thought out. Oh, how much more He can make us suffer than you could with your clumsy kill­ ings! She must go, but wait--not%yet --not yet. Oh, my God! I couldn't CHAPTER XXX. Ruel Follett's Way of Business By the time the women were stirriag that morning, Follett galloped up on his horse- Prudence saw him from the doorway as he turned in from the main road, sitting his saddle with ap­ parent carelessness, his arms loose from the shoulders, shifting lightly with the horse's motion, as one who had made the center of gravity his slave. It was a style of riding that would have made a scandal in any riding school; but It seemed to bywell calculated for the quick h&fts, a&dden swerves, and acute angles c.ffecked by 'the yearling steer in his moments of excitement. He dismounted, glowing from his batfr in the Icy water of the creek and from the headlong gallop tip from Bell Wardle's corral. "Good morning, Miss Prudence." "Good morning, Mr. Follett. Will you take breakfast with us directly?" "Yes, and it can't be too directly for me. I'm wolfish. Miss Prudence, your pa and me had some talk last night, and I'm going to bunk in with you all for a^iile, till I get some bust- ness fixed up." She smiled with unaffected gladness, and he noticed that her fresh morning color was like that of the little wild roses he had lately brushed the dew from along the creek. "We shall be glad to have you." "It's right kind of you; I'm proud to hear you say so." He had taken off the saddle with its gay colored Nav­ ajo blanket and the bridle of plaited rawhide with Its conchos and its silver bit Now he rubbed the back of his horse where the saddle had been, end­ ing with a slap that sent the beast off with head down and glad heels In the air. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Inmate of Peoria County Poor Farm Gives Damaging Testimony. -Peoria.--"I have been lying to you all the time. Zealy M. Holmes never insulted me at all. I do not know him. I was told to say what I did about Mr. Holmes by Frank Watson, who threatened to kill me If I did not do it" These are the words of Dorothy Crooks, inmate of the Peoria county house, an insane patient, but "one of the brightest I ever saw," as State's Attorney Sclaoles puts it. The Crooks woman has cleared Mr. Holmes at an examination held by the state's attor­ ney before the poor farm committee at the county house. Foolish Detective Fads If men grimly eat to live, they will enthusiastic appreciation of the not live long," says Dr. Thomas La- throp Stedman, in a protest against the desperate seriousness with which the present generation regards its food. Dr. Stedman suggests that peo­ ple should eat what they like. "Appe­ tite," he says, "is as necessary to di­ gestion as Is mastication, and what is eaten without relish is with difficulty, if at all, assimilated# fbr the stomach despises unsavory stuff and refuses to secrete sufficient fluid for Its diges­ tion." The dietetic crank, he adds, is vpaved from the otherwise Inevitable results of his folly by the fact that bis savory food which he is persuaded will assure him strength and long life gives him a taste for it and so the motherly stomach provides an abund­ ance of gastric juice of the proper com­ position. Use for Brittle Tails. The peculiar brittleness of their tails is sometimes an advants** to cer­ tain lizards. Perching head dc»x,ward on a rock, the diamond tal'.ei for example, Is often spied by r i.£wk, when the tail snaps off, and ani­ mal calpnly wriggles away tto uro* another. Peoria Grand Jury to Investigate* Peoria.--The Investigation of the al­ leged scandal in the purchases of feed by the city is to go before the grand jury. At the regular meeting of the city council Corporation Counsel Henry Mansfield and Comptroller J. W. Burton reported that they had been unable to get at the figures want­ ed by the council. They recommend ed that the entire matter be turned over to the state's attorney's office The report was accepted at once, and the council voted to allow the state's attorney to proceed. Atlanta High School Wins. Springfield. -- Atlanta high school won the seventh annual meet of the corn belt bratorical and athletic asso­ ciation, which was held here. Spring field was second and Lincoln third Other towns represented were Deca­ tur, Mount Pulaski, Dele van, Mason City, Clinton, Normal, and Havana Miss Lillian Wilder, of Decatur, was awarded first honor in the oratorical contest held this morning. Suicide for Unknown Cause. Mt. Pulaski.--Leaving no note to ex plain why he shot himself, Gus Kell ing, night watchman for this place took his life. The deed was commit­ ted at his home, in the presence of his wife and Town Marshal Kelly There is no known motive for Kell- ing's action. He had lived here a quarter of a century and was respect ed by all. He enjoyed a reputation for honesty. New Pastor at Delavan. Delavan. -- At the congregational meeting held by members and congre­ gation of the Presbyterian church It was voted to extend a call to Rev. George H. Sllvius of Bethany, this state, to the pastorate of the Delavan church. Rev. Hugh Jock, of Peoria, presided as moderator of the meeting. New Mayor Puts Lid On. Spring Valley.-- John Stuart, the newly elected mayor of Spring Val­ ley, Issued executive order No. 1 to Chief of police Steele for a cleaner city. Fifty slot machines are out of commission. The keepers of resorts have orders to move out at once and saloons to close at midnight. Frank K. Dunn. He afterwards attended Kenyon col­ lege and then entered the law school of Harvard university, from which he graduated In 1876. Returning to Ohio he was admitted to the bar and re- riiained there until 18" % when he came to Illinois arid settled at Charles­ ton, where he took up the practice of law. He was elevated to the circuit bench In 1897 and held the position until 1903, when be resumed his l&w practice. Murder Mystery Cleared. \ Virginia.--The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Albert Welse- man on April 4 has been cleared up. The young man was supposed to have been murdered by hla?1 companions in a logging camp in the Sangairion val­ ley north of this city and the body sunk with the cabin boat in which they lived. The body of Wciseman has at lapt been found, but a physician reports no marks on it except those made by the grappling hookB and poles. Bar Will Meet at Galesburg. Gales burg.--The officials of the Knox County Bar association were notified that the annual meeting of the Illinois State Bar association will be held at Galeshurg, July 11 and 12. Edward Morse Shepherd, of New York, will deliver the annual address. Judge Harry Olsen, of Chicago, and State Pure Food Commissioner A. Hanby Jones are also on the list of speakers. • * » Ousts Police; Orders Lid On. Spring Valley.--After six years as mayor of Spring Valley and head of the city affairs, the longest in its his­ tory, Edward McCabe stepped down and out and handed over the gavef to Mayor-elect John Stuart. The new mayor started in by making a clean sweep of all the old policemen and ordering all saloons closed at mid­ night. Arrange for Macoupin County Fair. Carlinville.--The officers of the Ma­ coupin County Agricultural board met in this city on call of the president, Charles W. Yorke, to make arrange­ ments for the coming fair. George J. Castle, of this city, was elected secre­ tary for the ensuing term. It was decided to hold the fair ttje week following the state fair, October 8 to 11. Killed by Steam Shovel. Sterling.--Slipping down a gravel bank In a railroad pit near here, George Nelson, of Templco, fell be­ tween the jaws of a huge steam shovel and his body was bitten in two by the closing of the sections. Head Librarian Resigns. Urbana.--Miss Katherine L. Sharp, for ten years head librarian of the uni­ versity, has resigned her position. What her plans are is not definitely known. For the present she will go to her home in Lftke Pleasant, N. Y. Interurban Increases Capital. Lincoln.--A certificate of increase of capital stock of the Lincoln Rail­ way and Light company has been filed with the circuit clerk. The increase in stock was from $2,500 to $150,000, the amount to be represented by 1,500 shares of $100 each. Oratorical Contest at Danville. Danville/--The eighth annual con­ test of the Vermilion County Inter- scholastic Athletic association will be held at the high school building Fri­ day evening. May 10. Sells Dowie's Furniture. Waukegan.--Receiver Hately.f at Zion City, is selling Dowie's fUrnfture and there is a scramble to secure rel­ ics and bargains, as the goods of the late leader were.pf the most expensive kind. One of the Items to be sold is a great, round council table, costing several thousand dollars, standing in Dowie's private office. Motor Factor^ Burned. Chicago.--Fire destroyed the fac­ tory of the Monarch Motor company, Franklin Park, 111. The . loss is $80,- 000. The blase was caused by a gaso- > line explosion. Thirteenth Illinois Reunion. ^ Dixon.--The forty-sixth annual re­ union of the Thirteenth Illinois Infan­ try will be held here on May 24. Claim Part of Estate. Decatur.--To establish the claims of some Decatur people in a large estate in Pennsylvania, Attorney Jesse Deck, of the firm of Jack & Deck, left for Philadelphia. Jack & Deck represent Mrs. Schriver and Martin, James T. and William H. Rubicam, all of this city. They are second cousins of the late Mrs. Anna Glenworth, of Phila­ delphia. She left a will directing that her estate be divided according to the statutes. Thig estate consists of $110,000 In personalty and $85,000 in realty. Will Build New 8chool. Havana.--W. O. Anno, of Havanai has received the contract for the erec­ tion of the Central school building in this city for $15,020. The Central building was destroyed by fire Janu­ ary 26. The building must be finished by September 1. % .1-- - Physicians Meet in Pens. Pana.--The Central Illinois District Medical society held its thirty-third annual meeting in this city. The next meeting of the society will be held In Pana on the last Tuesday in October. Aged Bridegroom Sued. f Joliet--Adolphua Youker, on* e£ Joliet's oldest Inhabitants, and a mem- ber of the Spring Creek drainage com- , ^ mission, April 30 became a bride- * groom. Next day be became a defends "i ^ &S ant in h suit for $50,000 for breach of ' V.. promise. ^ j Mr. Youker la well along in year* to receive such Signal distinction. He i» ; , a a man of 74. His bride, Mamie Kilt 1 1 ' J mer is a woman of 74 summers. When Mrs. Mary Hopkins, who for ^ j two years has been housekeeper for " | Youker, heard of the prospective wed- ; . ̂ i ding, she1 lost no time in getting word, i to her lawyer." She said Youker had - J promised to marry her and she made- >1 an effort to head off the wedding by1 '.j getting in a breach; of promise suits1 , K ; " first. Sunday Sohoof Convention. ' ^ i'^1/ Kilbourne. -- A township Sundfeat'£.5 - school convention will be held in the^:. New Lebanon church Sunday, May instead of at Kilbourne, as formerly « : , announced. It was thought advisable f i by the committee to make the change as New Lebanon has not been favored 5 with a convention of this kind foi& ^ _ many years- ' "-i'-l Will Return Alleged Emtoesster. Springfield.--GOVT Deneen honere^-'f^f-ftss' a requisition from the governor of - 4|, r Missouri for the return to St Louis of ^ Edward Ray, under arrest in Decatui? ; on a charge of embezzlement. Ray i»,^,T'^;J'S accused of taking $44 belonging to E. 'l t L. Schaper and Albert Schaper 4Mdl .Z5:, ; falling to make restitution. *^ Noted Forger Sentenced. * >-if Mattoon.--A. T. Ryafh, a noted er with many aliases and wanted by the American Express company and /K 4 by the police cf various cities in Ken- rVH'Vi tucky, Missouri aud Ohio, was sen- tenced to the penitentiary upon a plea, of guilty. Ryan's real name is Joha * Kimberlin. --i-- . Finds Wife Dead on Floees* . \ • Danville.--Mrs. Iva S. Brown, agedt 37, wife of Walter Brown, C. & E. I. yard foreman, was found dead on the, " •*» floor of her bedroom by her husband when he returned from work. Shef had evidently fallen out of bed and to believed to have died' of * heact trouble w ?$8U * v 1 Is Found Dead in Bed. Havana.--Scott Schulte was fbufcd dead In bed in this city. He died at*.--. • t h e a g e o f 3 0 . H e l e a v e s h i s m o t h e r , , * • Mrs. H. Schulte, and two brothers* Henry, of Wellington, Kan, att£. JolNK ̂ C. Schulte, of Havana. Jacksonville Man a Suicfde. , ,„ Jacksonville.--Robert N. Osborne, r' aged 41 years, a member of one of th«> v most influential families in this city, ^ committed suicide by taking carbolio acid. Despondency was the causes Teachers' Leader Diee. Chicago.--After au illness of oul3| a few days Miss Florence E. Tennerry,., f ^ president of the Chicago Teachers* \ Federation, died. Her death fotlowedt (< aii attack of pneumonia. ' •% Robber Gains Freedom. Rockford.--Orrin "Booth" McCoo->, -** nell, a convicted highway robber, witht i an indeterminate sentence in Joliet confronting him, walked o«t qf tlMfc* :'\V county jail and escaped. ~ ^ %"< ' Swallow'* Carbolic £ jf 1 Bloomington---While despondent1^ - * Jf4«. j-4 W. Phelps, a concrete worker of CHn* '• j ..jp* ton, swallowed carbolic acid, dyin^V-^r shortly afterward. He has a wife lll ^ in a Chicago hospital. ^ ^ Two Towns Become One. ; 4 ' Alton.--The formal annexation, of ^ j North Alton to Alton and the begin*, ning of jurisdiction of the city of-Al*" ^ ^ ton over the former village began Majr??>|fe^ 4. The necessary certificates were fii; ; v$r ~j, ed In the office of the county elerlf M j and forthwith the union of the two -* \ J corporations was in full effect , ^ ^ Welsh Wins -at Galesburtfr^ '̂ "j Galesburg.--The official count show-, ; ed that Mayor Shumway was defeate^^^f ':?; by Welsh in the recent city electkm , 1 ^ by 18 votes! ' ' ' -£ ^ * V ( ^ V\ * f KC : : . y : \ ' • • • ... • •J: t •' $•:>$)ifX y > ... ~ y > kit ilk Sas.a'L*'-. :5s Milling Company Is Organized* Pana.--The Paddock Saw Mill com- - pany, composed of business men in • * this eit.r and surrounding towns *» ' \ organized in Nokomis. The company recently acquired about 9,000 acres of ^ timber land in Arkansas, which they ^ will develop. New J4a0inery will b* oidered.at ones for a mUl whifik witti.-' be placed there. ' t " • "v Collector Commits Suicide. Decatur.---Arthur Montgomery, lector, committed suicide. He to . . to be short in his account*. ? kj rV* m -4