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mmmmm ™ W* ;.|fp ;' "*• «V, ^'M'S^Wo. i -HV '.('Jse'I; :' •. ' 'H?£§?rf: *. !P î fc -1 »? ;;*% % •»»«» *<^ ii mj| Ths Yacht Had Disappeared. SYNOPSIS. Philip Cayley, accused of k crime of which he is not guilty, resign* from the ».rmy In disgrace and his affection for his friend, Lieut. Perry Hunter, turns to hatred. Cayley seeks solitude, where he perfects a flying machine. While soaring over the Arctic regions, he picks up a curlouely shaped stick he had seen In the fcseassin's hand. Mounting again, he dis­ covers a yacht anchored In the bay. De­ scending near the steamer, he meets a Klrl on an Ice floe. He learns that the grl's name Is Jeanne Fielding and that e yacht has come north to seek signs of her father. Captain Fielding, an arctio Stplorer. A party from the yacht is mi-ng search ashore. After Cayley departs Jeanne finds that he had dropped a cu- Hously-atmped stick. Captain Planck and Ule surviving crew Of his wrecked whaler are In hiding on the <oast. A giant ruf- 5an named Roscoe. had murdered Field if urid hi* two companions, after the ex­ plorer had revealed the location of an Miormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then took command of the party. It develops that the ruffian had committed the mur­ der witnessed by Cayley. Roscoe plans to capture the yacht and escape with a t>i* load of gold. Jeanne tells Fanshaw, owner of the yacht, about the visit of the •ky-man and shows him the stick left by Cayley. Fanshaw declares that It Is an Csfelmo throwing-stick, used to shoot darts. Tom Fanshaw returns from the Searching party with a sprained ankle. Perry Hunter is found murdered and Cayley Is accused of the crime but Jeanne believes him Innocent. A relief party goes to find the searchers. Tom professes his love for Jeanne. She rows ashore and enters an abandoned hut, and there finds her father's diary, which discloses the ex- Rlorer's suspicion of Roscoe. The rtif-an returns to the hut and sees Jeanne. He Is Intent on murder, when the skv- Sian swoops down and the ruffian floes, s&nne gives Caylsy hsr tether's diary to read. CHAPTER X«--Continued, The scene before his eyes was beau­ tiful, with that stupendous beauty that only the arctio can attain. The har­ bor and beyond It, far out to sea-- •clear to the horlzen, was filled with great plunging, churning masses of 4ce, all drenched In color by the low- hanging arctic sun--violet, rose, pure .golden-yellow and emerald-green, and a white whose Incandescence fairly stabbed the eye. And as those «reat moving masses ground together, they flung, high into the air, broad shimmering yells of rose-colored apray. Of the floe, which they had consid­ ered stable at the land Itself, there was no longer any sign. There was tiothlng there, nothing at all to greet their eyfes, to seaward, but the savage •beauty of the ice. The yacht had disappeared. CHAPTER XI. The Aurora. "I tell you sir, the thing Is beyond tinman possibility. There is no help --no human help In the world. I would swear to that before God. But ( think, you must know It as well as t do." Captain Warner, standing upon the Aurora's bridge, was the speaker. The two FanshawB, father and son, their faces gray with despair, turned away and looked over the great mass­ es of loose, churning fleld-ice, which, filling the sea out to the utmost hori- ton, confirmed the captain's words. "How long--** Tom Fanshaw began, any possible chance I would take it, trat there Is none--none In the world. ^ V\ ~ CK W.ROSSER OPyRlOH^l9tO 0Y THE CKMTIJRV CO OPVrncHT IdIO oy THt 0VCCE99 CO then he paused, moistened hit Hps and rubbed them roughly with hiB hand-- "How long," he repeated, "Bhall We have to wait before It opens up?" "It won't open up again this sea­ son--not If I know anything about the arctic," said the captain. "It will freexe, though," Mr. fan­ shaw said, "freeze Into a solid pack that we could cross afoot How long shall we have to wait for that?" "It's hard to tell. Generally In this latitude the pack Is pretty solid by the first of September. But that warm current which caught Fielding's ship, which caught the Walrus--the current which makes, every summer apparently, that long gap of open wa- ter which enabled us to reach the land that Fielding reached--^th at cur­ rent would keep loose fleld-ice floating about for at least another month." Tom Fanshaw's eyes had almost the light of madness In them. "But she can't live a month 1" he cried. "She's alone, unarmed! She ha* no food; w* shelter but those bare huts!" "The Walrus people doubtless left some stores there. If she could find them," said Captain Warner. "But, still, what you say is perfectly true. She can hardly hope to keep a live a week." "Then," said Tom, in dull, passion­ ate rebellion--"then, in some way or other, we must go back to her. If you won't go--If you won't take the Au­ rora back, ril take one of the little boats and go myself!" "If you want to commit suicide," said Captain Warner, "you could do It less painfully wjth a revolver. The small boat would not live 30 second* after we put her over the side. Tou know that, if you are not mad. As for the Aurora herself, if she had not been built the way she Is, she would have been crushed hours ago. And if I were to lower the propeller and start the engines, they would simply twist the screw off of her before she had gone a ship's length, and leave us helpless In the event of our ever find­ ing open water. We may never live to find It, but there's a chance that we will. There are more than 30 lives that I am responsible for aboard this yacht, and I mean to live up to that responsibility. If we ever do find open water, then Til do whatever you say. I will take you to Point Barrow and to jr® £>>f #»«»* tvm uierv. when the pack Is solid, If you can find dogs and sledges, you can at­ tempt the Journey across the Ice. I don't believe it can be done. I dont believe there Is a chance in a hun­ dred that any single member of the party that set out would live to reach that shore. That, however. Is not my affair. "Or, if you wish, we can take the yacht back to San Francisco, refit her and come back next summer. I think that with our knowledge of the cur­ rents and where the open water la, we might get back to Fielding bay by the first of July. Then we can whatever there Is to find." His own voice faltered there, and there were tears In the deep weather- beaten furrows of hla cheeks. "God HOW CAT WON LASTING FAME JCkStfo, Feline Meecot of the Airship America, Is Celebrated by Walter WelJman In His Story. From the notoriety viewpoint "Kid- -do," the cat mascot of the airship America during the recent sensational 1,000-mile voyage over the Atlantic lias eclipsed the human portion of <that dauntless crew. In writing the fcUtory of that voyage la Hampton's Magazine Walter Wellmaa has this to say about how the cat happened to be put aboard and how it nearly all of its fame: "Just then attention was directed to that member of our crew destined to be the real hero of the voyage--be­ cause real heroes are never self-con­ scious---are always conscious of sus­ picion and slander, of danger, of over- •snsrous praise and therefore are knows," he concluded. "If there were not unless we could fly through the air." It was only an hour since they had ascertained, beyond the shadtfw of a doubt, that Jeanne was not aboard the Aurora. Until Tom had recovered consciousness, the others had enters talned little doubt that she was safely hidden somewhere about the ship. Cayley*s warning, together with the confession of the Portuguese, Miguel, had caused them to steal alongside the Aurora as silently as possible. Not a word had been spoken by any of the party, and the sound of the rising wind had drowned the creak of their oars. Half a doxen well-armed men had stolen aboard over the bows to reconnolter. Making out the unfamiliar figures of the Walrus people on deck, and knowing that they had a fight on their hands, they had worked their way, un­ observed, to a position amidships. Here, under cover of a brisk revolver- fire, they had made It possible for the rest of their party to get aboard. The Walrus people, several of whom were below, came tumbling up on deck at the sound of firing, and their whole party entrenched itself in the after-deck house. They had found arms of various sorts aboard the Au­ rora, and made a spirited resistance before they were finally overpowered. The Aurora's people, under the cool headed command of Warner and the elder Fanshaw, had proceeded In a brisk, scientific, military style that had spared them many serious casual­ ties. There were a number of flesh wounds when it was over, and one or two of a more serious nature. None of them had been killed. The Walrus people, however, had not surrendered until their plight was wholly desperate. Only five of them were left alive, and two of these were mortally wounded when the struggle ceased. The uninjured were heavily ironed and locked up in the steerage. All the wounded--friends and foes alike-- were turned over to the care of the yacht's surgeon and a couple of volun­ teer assistants from among 4he crew. Altogether, It was two or three hours after the Aurora's people had regained undisputed possession of the yacht be­ fore It was possible to form any defi­ nite idea of what had happened. In the excitement and the necessity of everybody doing two or three things at once, Tom Fanshaw and his serious plight were not discovered, until he himself, having partly regained con­ sciousness, uttered a low moan for help, which was heard by a chance passerby. The gale, which had been raging all this while, had gone screaming by unheeded, and it was not until dawn that the horrified conquerors of the yacht discovered that there was no land In sight. It was several hours after that, not, indeed, until the captain had worked out their reckoning from an observa­ tion, before they realised that they were 100 miles away from their anchorage of the previous evening, and that their return was hopeless. Old Mr. Fanshaw gave his arm to his son, helped him down from the bridge and thence to the now deserted smoking room, forward. Tom sub­ mitted to be led blindly along, and did not demur when his father halted be- •Ma a hla SC£& £lold llid to lie down upon it. Since that mo­ mentary outburst of his upon the bridgs, the youiis uuui had been un­ naturally calm. His muscles, as be lay there now upon the sofa, seemed relaxed; his eyes were fixed, almost dull. Through a long silence his father sat there watching him, but there was no dawn of a corresponding calmness In his face. It had aged whole years over night "It's strange to me," he said, "that we ever recovered possession of this yacht at all, let alone that we were able to recover It without it costing us the life of a single man. This gang must have had a leader, and a clever one. They way he maneuvered his men to keep them out oi sight while he drew away first one party and then the other from the yacht was a piece of masterly strategy. He worked it out perfectly in every detalL He got possession of the yacht without losing a man, without even firing a shot that might give the alarm. And even with the warning we had and with the help of the fog, I don't see how wo defeated a man like that His success must have gone to his head and made him mad." "He was probably killed in the first volley our people fired when they got aboard," said Tom dully. "He alone could have accounted for half a <Sown of you, If he'd ever had a chance--a giant like that" "A giant!" "I think he must have been the loader," said Tom. "He was the first man to come aboard, certainly." "But what makes you call him a giant?" "Because he literally was. He struck me down with Just one blow, and as he raised his arm to strike I saw that his shoulder-cap was above the level of my ,eyes; and I pass for 1 tall man." His father abandoned the subject abruptly, and for a while 'contrived to Calk of other things; of the details of the fight and how different members of the crew had borne themselves. But his mind was filled with a new terror, and as soon as he could feel that his son was In condition to be left alone, he left him, with a broken word of excuse. He must either set this new terror at rest or know the worst at once. There had been no one, either among the survivor^ or the slain of the Walrus party, who in any way resembled the monster Toss had described. An hour later he went back to the bridge to talk again with Captain Warner. He thought that they had sounded the depth of despair that former time when they had talked to­ gether there, but in this last hour he had sounded a new abyss beneath it all. He knew now why the yacht had been so easily taken. He knew all the details of the devilish plan which had so nearly succeeded. More than that, he knew the story of the man Roscoe from the time when Captain Planck had taken him aboard the Walrus, down to the hour last night when he had sprung Into MB boat again and pulled shoreward. Captain Planck was dying, and old Mr. Fanshaw's Questions had enabled him to enjoy the luxury of a full confession, 80 they knew now, those two men who stood there on the bridge, white- lipped, talking over the horror of the thing--they knew that Jeanne was not alone upon that terrible frozen shore. The man Roscoe was there, too. A sound on the deck below attracted Mr. Fanshaw's attention. Tom, with the aid of a heavy cane, was limping precariously along the deck toward the bridge ladder, and, to their amaze­ ment, when he looked up at them, they saw that somehow, his facs cleared. There was a grave look of peace upon It "I've thought of something," he said, after he had climbed up besids them--"I've thought of come thing that makes It seem possible to go on liv­ ing, and even hoping." The two older men exchanged a swift glance. He was not to know about Roscoe. If he had found some­ thing to hope for, no matter how il­ lusory, he should be allowed to keep it--to hug it to his breast, in place of the horrible, torturing vision of the human monster which the other two men saw. "What is it you've thought . of, Tom?" his father asked unsteadily. "It's--it's Cayley. He's there with her; Fm sure he is." He turned away a little from Captain Warner and spoke directly to his father. "I don't know how I know, but it's as if I saw them there together. He has fallen in love with her, I think. I'm quite sure she has with him. I wanted to kill him for that yesterday, but now--" his voice faltered there, but the look in his eyes did not change-- the light of a serene, untroubled hope.--"He's there with her," he went on, "and with God's help he'll keep her alive until we oan get back with the relief." He said so mofw, aud he clutched the rail tight in his gauntleted hands and gased out north, across the lea. CHAPTER XII. Cayley's Promise. For this small mercy Cayley thanked God. The girl did not understand. She was rubbing those sleepy eyes of hers and putting back, into place, stray locks of hair that were in the way. "The floe must have gone to pieces," she said, "and they've drifted off in the fog without knowing It I suppose there's no telling when they'll be back; very likely not for hours." He did not risk trying to answer her. All his will power was directed to keeping the real significance of the yacht's disappearance from showing in his face. She had turned to him quite casual­ ly for an answer, but not getting it, remained looking intently into his eyes. "Mr. Cayley," she asked prenw ently, "were you telling me last night what you really thought was true, or were you Just encouraging me--1 mean about those men who attacked the yacht? Are you afraid, after all, that our people are not in possession of the Aurora, wherever she la V "I told you the truth last night I WOU l> iiUO^lUV SMI/ the men who came here on the Wal­ rus could get the Aurora away from your people, except by stealth." "But if our people beat them off, why didn't they come ashore? There aren't any of them around, are there?" "Apparently not," said Cayley. "They may have all been killed before they could get back to shore, or some of them may have been captured. No, I really don't think you need worry about them." She drew a long deep breath, flung out her arms wide, and then stretched them skyward. "What a day it la Was there ever such a day down there in that warm green world that people live In?--Oh, I dont wonder that you love It I wish I could fly as you da But since I can't for thlB one day you V I m, m Mil 1! OI liJiHiiff The Two Older Men exchanged a Quick Glance. must stay down here upon the earth with me." Her mention of his wings gave him his first faint perception of the line the struggle would take. His mind flashed for an Instant into the posi­ tion which her own would take when she should know the truth. To her It it would not seem that they were castaways together. He was not ma- rooQ«d here on this shore. His *h!j> wag waiting to take him anywhere In the world. He was as free as the wind Itself-- "I believe living in the sky is what makes you do that," he heard her say --"makes you drift off into trances that way, perfectly oblivious to the fact that people are asking you ques­ tions." He met her smiling eyes, and a smile came, unbidden. Into his own. "You've forgiven me already, I see," he said. "What was the question about?" "It was about breakfast Have you anything to eat In that bundle of yours ?" He shook his head, and she drew down her lips In mock dismay. "Is there anything to eat anywhere?" she questioned, sweeping her arm round In a half circle, landward. "Mustn't we go hunting for a wa^vs or a snark or something?" Cayley had to turn away from her as she said that The remorseless Irony of the situation was getting be­ yond human endurance. The splendor of the day; the girl's holiday humor; her laughing declaration that she would not permit him to fly away; this last gay Jest out of the pages of "Alice in Wonderland" about hunting for a walrus. "GodP be whispered as he turned away--"My God I" He had his revolver, and besides the six oartridgea which the cylinder con­ tained, there were, perhaps, 80 in his b«lt. For LvW many days, or w »sks, would they avail to keep off starva­ tion? But his fWce was composed again when he turned back to her. "There are two things that come before break­ fast," he said--"fire and water. There is a line of driftwood down the beach to the westward, there at the foot of the talus. When we get a fire go­ ing--" he stopped himself short "I was going to say that we could melt some Ice for drinking water, but until we have some sort of cooking utensil to melt It In, it won't do much good. There must be something of the sort in the hut here." Bhe shook her head. "They're completely abandoned," she told him. "Our shore party searched them first of all. and afterward Uncle Jerry and I searched them through again. There is nothing there at all, but some heaps of rubbish." ' "I think Fll take a look myself," said he. "Rubbish is a relative term. What seemed no better than that yes­ terday afternoon while the yacht was In tb* hftrhnr mny toVo nn o different- meaning this morning." He disappeared through the door­ way, and two minutes later she saw him coming back with a big battered- looking biscuit tin. "Unless this leaks too fast," he said, "It will serve our purpose admirably." He observed, without reflecting what the observation meant that a bountiful supply of fuel was lying in great drifts along the lower slope of the talus. Jeanne accompanied him upon his quest of It, and with small loss of time and no trouble at all they collected an armfuL They laid their fire upon a great flat stone in front of the hut, for the outdoor day was too fine to abandon for the dark and damp In the interior, and soon they had the fire biasing cheerfully. For a while they sat, side by side, upon his great sheepskin, warming their fingers and watching the drip of the melting Ice in the biscuit tin. But presently Cayley got to his feet "Breakfast!" he said. "Is there to be anything besides a good big drink of water apiece? If thereaIsn't, I'd rather not think about It until the yacht comes back.". "Unless I'm mistaken, there's as excellent breakfast waiting for us not far from where we got the fire-wood. But I'll go and make sure before I raise your expectations any higher." He walked away a half-dozen paces without waiting for any reply; then, thinking suddenly of something else, he came swiftly back again. "Do you know anything about fire­ arms^*' he asked. "If you're accus­ tomed to shooting, I'll leave my re­ volver with you.--No," he went on, answering the question which she had not spoken--"no, I dont foresee any danger to you. It's Just on general principles." "I'm a pretty good shot But if you're going on a hunting expedition for our breakfast and there isn't any foreseeable danger to me in being left alone. It seems reasonable that you should take the gun." He took the revolver from his belt, however, and held It out to her. "Our breakfast doesn't have to be shot And as a concession to my feelings--no, it's nothing more than that--I'd rather you took It" She did as he asked without further demur, and he went away. When she was left alone, the girl added fresh sticks to the fire, and then, In default of any more active occupation, took up the red-bound book which lay bo- side her aud began once more to pe­ ruse Its pages. She had by no means exhausted them. In her reading of the night before, she had skipped the pages of scientific description fof •Kq>q pay*e a# f K a j f yjjy * - T?aeivle most purely personal Even now the whole pages of carefully tabulated data concerning the winds, currents, temperature, and magnetic variations got scant attention. In her present mood the homeliest little adventure, the Idlest diversion of a winter's day meant more to her than all her far tier's discoveries put together. Whep she saw Cayley coming back toward her across the ice, she put the booh down half reluctantly. Evidently his quest for breakfast had not been In vain; he had a big black and white bird in his hand. "De you suppose It's fit to eat? she called out to him. "How in the world did you manage to kill It without tne revolver?" "Fit to eat! Ifs a duck. What's more, it's an eider, which means that her coat Is worth saving-" "But how did you contrive to kin her?" "I didn't She killed herself. Sh« was flying too low last night I HUI^ pose--going down the gale, and In the fog she went smack into the side of the cliff and broke her neck. That was a very destructive storm for the birds. There must be 50 of them, of one kind and another, lying dead there along the top of the talus, at the foot of the cliff." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Prayer Unanswered. It had been raining all day and tie Mark, shut up In the house, was anxious to get out and play. His mother, in another room, thought that she heard him talking, and pres­ ently inquired to whom. "1 was talking to God, mamma," the child replied. "I asked Him to make it stop raining so I could go outdoors, but--I don't think He was very pllte about it. He never let on that Bs heard me at all!" NEWS OF ILLINOIS Alton.--Final orders were jsiven by Mayor Joseph Taujatitch that the si of'* machine must fo In Alton. The mayor personally instructed Officer Rotscfc to go to each saloon where there is * machine and order it removed. Springfield.--Governor Deneen S^f cepted the resignation of Dr. J. L. Greene as alienist of the statO board of administration and appoint­ ed Dr. Frank P. Norbury, superior tendent of the Kankakee State Ho^ pital for the Insane, as his successoit Doctor Greene has been offered thi * position of superintendent of the Ar­ kansas State Hospital for Nervous ^ Diseases at Little Rock, Ark. Piasa.--Eleven pieces of Indian pot­ tery were found by H. V. Smith of Bunker Hill while digging a cellar un­ der his cottage at Chautauqua. ThO pieces show they formed a large vase, probably holding six or eight gallons. Canton.--"Give me a summons for Angel Gabriel," cried Tony Podnar, an alien miner of St. David, as he fairly galloped into the office of Justice Wyckoff of this city. "No, sir; you'll get no warrant for him here," replied the Justice. It developed that Podnar wanted to sue the Angel Ga­ briel lodge of the Croatian society Of St. David for benefits he claimed were due him. Granite City.--That W. C. JsaoJags will soon be cured of catarrh Is ths statement of G. W. Gllluly, leader of the Holy Rollers, after fifty of Ihelr number had prayed In their acrobatitt fashion for the relief of Jennings. Cairo.--While the steamer Rees LM lay at the Cairo wharf a fight 06*+. curred between two roustabouts ami " •: A1 More killed Will Turner with a capstan bar. Rockford.--Following the death of ' ' his Infant child, due to smallpox, IV O. Fenne, proprietor of a bakery, dO> stroyed the stock baked for jthe da? and kept several telephones busy ad­ vising the customers of the case. Hufr- 1- dreds of patrons of the bakery, upaa, learning the facts, went to the rivqf5 never two-legged. The young gray eat, taken on board half in Jest as a mascot, was howling pitifully amidst these strange surroundings. Chief En­ gineer Vanlman. afraid of having his short sleeps disturbed. Insisted that "Klddo" be left behind. Navigator Si­ mon, sailorlike, vowed it was bad luck to let a cat leave a ship, and insisted kitty should stay. Without any fear of midnight howls on the one hand, and without any superstitions on the other, I told Mr. Vanlman to do as he liked about It Hs put puss In a bag and tried to lower him down to the motor launch, but the launch had cut loose and "Klddo" was pulled ftp again, a narrow escape from losing all his fame." Architects War on 8kyscraper«. The Pittsburg Architectural club Is anxious that Pittsburg's sky-line In the future shall not resemble a comb which has boon in use for many years; that Is, a comb from which many teeth have departed, leaving It Very Irregular aad broken up. Th« Architectural club believes that a sky­ line can become congested Just the same as a street Tall buildings cause thi« new kind of congestion and in­ stead of adding to the city's beauty have a contrary effect The club has declared war on sky scrapers. Resolutions recommending that a city ordinance be passed regu­ lating the height of all bulldlpgs In proportion to the width and impor­ tance of the streets on which they face have been adopted. The archi­ tects declare that they appreciate tfcs efforts now being made by the city officials toward beautifying Pittsburg and relieving congestion in the city streets, but in the opinion of the club, tall office buildings are detrimental ts this project and cast their bread upon ters. the His Definition. Toung Arthur, being aaked to glv% a definition of "deadlocks," quits as unexpectedly answered: **• deadlock la what Aunt Emma's hack hair Is Belvidere.--While smoking a pipe ia an undertaking establishment Stev# Nemeth narrowly escaped serious Ufc* Jury when a cartridge which had bo» come mixed with his tobacco ex­ ploded, lodging In the celling above tint smoker's head. Nemeth explained. that he had been hunting, and a looso cartridge in his pocket became mixed:; with his tobacco. Mount Carmel.--"Near beer" will M prohibited after the meeting of tbo • ; . next city council. An ordinance ia now being prepared to prohibit ifi» a sale. Aurora.--A wrong delivery of tele­ grams caused a Chicago man, whd was visiting in Piano, to rush homii, expecting to see his father dead. In­ stead he was greeted by a very lira parent Piasa.--Frank Palmer, a 11-year-old boy of St. Louis, rescued two persona from possible death in the Mississippi river at Chautauqua when he rowed out to them in a boat after the canoe in which they were racing with a launch had turned over. Kewanee.--Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rolff were awakened with their house on fire and barely had time to escapo in their night clothes. The building was completely destroyed. Rock Island.--An unknown boy In­ mate of the orphans' home prevented a wreck on the Maquoketa branch of the Milwaukee railroad when he flag­ ged a train. Ties had been laid across the tracks. San Jose.--The targe grain elevator belonging to J. F. Fryer gave way, spilling between 3,000 and 4,000 bush­ els of wheat on the railroad track. The large bins were destroyed. Kewanee.--Thieves entered the of­ fice of the George A. Wyatt Lumber company and attempted to open a steel safe containing $600. They wero frightened away without the loot Lawrenceville.--In probably tho first accident of the kind, Philip Bur* rell was burned to death and "Pick" Mann was fatally injured when a thrashing outfit exploded a gas pip* on a road near Lawrenceville. Waterloo.--George Freund, a term* er bus received a "Blsck Hsfid" let­ ter threatening his life and the de» struction of all his buildingB by fire if he pays for a neighbor's farm whlclt he recently bought. Spring Valley.--George Webersk^il v father of a family of five children, waa crushed to death under a mine fall V hero. Wyanet.--William C. Seble, formerv , ly mayor or Wyanet. was found dead*, having been killed by fumes from gasoline plant which he operated a& his home. ™" Taylorville.--Henry Riddle, a miner* and prominent member of the Eaglesft^ Aerie of Taylorville, was run over aa<t killed at Edinburg by a B. & O. train. Springfield.--Fire consumed tha large barns on the Leland Hotel Dairy farm, southwest of the city. Tho loss is estimated at $10,000, partially covered by insurance. The origin of the blase Is not known. Jollet --Nine bids have bean mad# for the 135,000 In municipal bonds foif 'CM. the improvement of the city waterif^ works, voted at the last murik-ipalp^ election. They will bear Interest at' the rate of 4^ per cent, paying annually-