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jV" SIBwmJU flbvlb rnmm '̂̂ m^W MAM€M , 'DOJLM S51LSMTQ®© 3& ?*}****&• » 3YNOP8I8. J no story opens with a scream from Dorothy March In,the opera bo* of Mrs. Missioner, a wealthy widow. It Is oo- etwioned when Mrs. Missloner's necklace breaks, scattering the diamonds all over tfc« floor. Curtis Grlswold and Bruxton 8ands, society men In love with Mrs. Ml»- sloner, gather up the gems. Griswoid steps on what is supposed to be the cele­ brated Maharanee and crushes it. K Hiu- doo declares it was not the genuine. An expart later pronounces all the stone* substitutes for the original. One of the missing diamonds is found tn the room of Elinor Holcomb, confidential compan­ ion of Mrs. Missioner. She is" arrested, notwithstanding Mrs. Missloner's belief la her innocence, Dutective Britz takes up the case. He asks the co-operatibn of Dr. Fitch, Elinor's fiance, in running down the real criminal. Brits learns that duplicates of Mrs. Missloner's diamonds •were made in Paris on the order of JSlinor Holcomb. "While walking Brits 1* seised, bound and gagged by Hindoos. He Is imprisoned in a deserted house, but makes hit escape. Brits discovers an in­ sane diamond expert whom he believes was employed by either Bands or Grls­ wold to make counterfeits of the Mission­ er gems. Two Hindoos burglariae the home of Sands and are captured by Brits. On one of them he finds a note signed by "Millicent" and addressed to "Curtis." Britz locates a woman named Millicent Delaroche, to whom Griswoid has been paying marked attentions. The Swaml at­ tends a ball at Mrs. Missloner's home, but learns nothing further about the dia­ monds. Britz disguised as a thief, visits the .apartment of Millicent. He finds a box that once contained the missing dia­ monds, but it is empty. The detective COnrliides that the Hindoos have antici­ pated htm In the recovery of the Jewels. He visits their quarters and has an ex­ citing experience with a snake. The Swaml returns all the real diamonds to Mrs. Missioner. except the Maharanee, which he insists must be returned to the temple in India, whence It was stolen. CHAPTER XXIV.--(Continued.) "The men Gordon has run down," said the lieutenant, "were the hardest to catch. I call them the second batch of thieves because they are the fellows who stole Mrs. Missloner's jewels long after the stones were stolen from her." "And who may they be?" Manning persisted. "They are the dark men--the Hin­ doos whose connection with the case complicated it much more than was comfortable, and who gave further Proof of their inconsiderate disposi­ tions by making the doctor here and me so uncomfortable Just before we came back to Headquarters." "You mean they are the men who robbed Mrs. Missioner of her Jewels?" "No. the men who stole Mrs. Mis­ sloner's Jewels after she was robbed of them." "They robbed the thieves, then?" "Not thieves--thief," said Britz. "There was only one artist In the first Job." "What's his name?" the Chief ques­ tioned again. "His name?" returned the detec­ tive nonchalantly. "Oh, I haven't said it was a "he."" Even Pitch, though he had worked Intimately with the sleuth in the lat­ ter part of the hunt for the Jewels, was astonished. Manning concealed his surprise. He said: "Well, I suppose you've got the goods on him--or her?" "I have and I haven't," the detec­ tive answered. "While only one per­ son stole the diamonds, there's been a whole troop of potential thieves after the stones. They've been work­ ing at cross-purposes, with the natural result that they played unconsciously into the hands of the one all of them trusted." Fitch and Manning eyed each other quizzically. Britz had worked hard on the case and had succeeded when success seemed impossible. If he wished tq indulge !n a slightly enig­ matical preamble, surely it was not asking too much to humor him. Britz gnawed a black cigar, unlight- ed, and whirled about two or three times before he took up the thread of his recital again. "It's a long story," he resumed. "It took a lot of piecing to put it to­ gether, but it's as plain now as a pic­ ture puzzle when all the cut-outs fit. In the first place, Griswoid planned to get the jewels a long time ago--a couple of years, I fancy. He didn't content himself with mere planning. He did a lot of work while he was waiting for his opportunity. He knew the value of the Missioner neck­ lace, of course, especially the value of the big Maharanee diamond that was its central stone. As nearly as I can make out his scheme, he hoped to steal the collarette and dispose of it months before it should be missed by Mrs. Missioner. The only way to do that, of course, was to substitute an imitation for the genuine article. Naturally, too, the imitation had to be made without Mrs. Missioner's knowl­ edge, and the man he meant to have make it had to have either the orig­ inal as a copy or a very accurate drawing. It was beyond all possibil­ ity that Grlswold could get the neck­ lace into his possession long enough to have a bogus collarette made. Mrs. Missioner, in spite of her many mil­ lions, and like all other women of wealth, guarded her Jewels closely. She may intrust her government, bonds and other negotable securities to attorneys or banks, but she keeps her Jewels under her own eyes. None of us knows just how much she thought of Griswoid; but the chances are that, even if she had been eh- gaged to him, she wouldn't have let him have possession of the Maharanee necklace for any length of time. My experience Is that these rich New Yorkers don't believe in throwing temptation In one another's way-- anyhow, not at any risk to them­ selves." "Your powers of deduction are truly marvelous, Britz," said Manning with a short laugh, in which Britz thought he heard a faint note of mockery. *j*ow, let's don't do any kidding, Chief," Brits rejoined with Just a shade of acid in his voice. "This is a pretty serious case, and I've been up a few nights without any too much sleep. I'm not on the witness stand now, recollect, and I don't feel as if I'd got to parcel out my words when I'm talking to friends." There was the least little lift of his eyebrows as he uttered the last word. Manning laughed again--apologetic­ ally this time, and the lieutenant, once more unruffled, continued: "So Grlswold had to make sketches and diagrams of the widow's necklace. Even that couldn't have been easy, for I guess he had to use his pencil when Mrs. Missioner wasn't in the room. It isn't likely she gave him many op­ portunities of being alone with the Jewels she prized above all the others in her collection. You see, when her husband gave her that necklace and told her about the Maharanee dia­ mond, he made up a pretty little fairy story that probably gave the big stone much greater value in her eyes than if she'd really known the truth. Wom­ en," said Britz solemnly, "are funny. They are about the funniest things In this little old world of ours--particu­ larly when it comes to jewels and gowns, with the jewels leading by a city block." Fitch, in his capacity as a lover, became somewhat restive under the detective's cynical summing up of the sex, and relieved hrmself with the remark: "If women are any funnier than men, I'd like you to show me how. Your experience is all very well, lieu­ tenant; but I've seen thetn in their lit­ tle white cots in hospitals--both kinds; and I have seen them on the operating table, and I can tell you the woman has yet to be born that can do as many fool stunts as the average man!" After this burst of romance-born frankness he subsided. "Well, we won't quarrel about the sex, doctor," said Britz, "though 1 must say I don't like to hear you get­ ting off these suffragette sentiments. Anyway, it's safe to assume Mrs. Mis­ sioner didn't let Curtis Griswoid have time to drape that necklace of hers on an art model when he started in to sketch It. He made those drawings by fits and starts, and it must have taken him a good many weeks to finish them." "Unless he drew the necklace from memory," suggested Manning. "That sounds too easy," Britz re­ turned. "He'd have to have a memory like a daylight film to carry all the different sizes and shapes of those Jewels in his mind--to say nothing of their fire. The fact is, the drawings he made were not only accurate to the smallest degree of outline, but the luster of every stone seems to have been reproduced with skill that would keep 'em guessing at the Academy of Design. I tell you, Curtis Griswoid is an artist in more ways than one!" Pausing a little, Britz went on: "And that's what he did; he made the drawings at first hand, and prob­ ably colored them in the same way. Then he took them ovef to Paris and farmed out the contract among sev­ eral firms, taking care to split up the drawings so that no one manufacturer of paste jewels might know they were reproductions of the famous Mahara­ nee necklace. Logan traced all the drawings in gay Paree. and sefit them to me. Here they are." He took sev­ eral small sheets of cardboard from an Inner pocket and spread them on his desk. "There's something missing from the center," Manning commented when he had pieced the slips together "This is a picture of a necklace with a hole in the middle." Britz smiled. "Yes," he said, "that's where the Maharanee diamond was. You see, Griswoid was too foxy to have an imitation of that celebrated stone made anywhere in Europe. He knew there wasn't a man on the Continent identified in* any way with the trade who wouldn't recognize a drawing of that diamond on sight. Though the diamond is not so well known to the public, it's as familiar to every jew­ eler in Europe as the Kohinoor, the Hope, or any other of those great sparklers." "Where could be have gone, then, to have the big stone reproduced?" asked the Chief. "Ask the doctor there. If he's half the detective I think he is, he knows as well as I do." Fitch smiled nervously, then his face became grave as the realization of what all this meant to Elinor surged back on him. "I fancy," he said to Manning, "Lieutenant Britz has concluded the false Maharanee dianfond wa% made by a harmless lunatic we traced to the asylum." "Right jmm are, doc!" said Britz brusquely. "You guessed it the very first time. Little old Jtfr. Martin was the gentleman. He did that Job of £ i -- work for Mr. Grlswold, and (rpio all I've heard a fine Job he made of it, too." "Crazy, is he?" asked Manning. "Mad as they make 'em," Britz re­ plied, "bat, as the doctor says, harm­ less. He couldn't have made so good an Imitation had he not believed he was manufacturing a genuine stone. That's bis delusion, you understand-- thinks he's making diamonds." "Well," said the Chief after another pause. "How did Griswoid turn the trick when it came to a showdown?" A faint smile flickered an instant about Brltz's lips, then disappeared. "He never got a chance to turn the trick," the detective replied. "For more than a year now, he's been cast­ ing covetous eyes on the same paste stones he had manufactured." By a tremendous effort Fitch suc­ ceeded in subduing his excitement, and locking his hands behind his head, he waited with what patience he could for the rest of the detec­ tive's story. Manning seemed to turn to ice. "Griswoid has been tn bad financial­ ly for over two years," Britz contin­ ued. "He's been doing stunts with the books of the Iroquois Trust company. At my request, the directors have had experts on the books for a couple of weeks, and they've got as pretty a case against Mr. Griswoid as ever you saw. He wanted that necklace In order to get enougfr money to square his accounts. "Now comes the strangest part of the case." The detective smiled as he made ready to fire the verbal bomb. "The most surprised man in the world, on the night that Mrs. Mis­ sioner discovered her jewels were mere paste, was Curtis Griswoid." Britz watched the effect of his words pleasant for these bright young men," Britz said sarcastically; "but I do want to give myself the satisfaction of having them nab the two persons they should have arrested In less than a week after the theft of Mrs. Mis­ sloner's jewels was discovered." Manning felt he had no choice save to comply. He wasn't exactly pleased by the insistence of his lieutenant's request; but when Britz, at a nod frora him, pressed a push button and an attendant appeared in the doorway, Chief Manning ordered the bluecoat to ask Donnelly and Carson to report to him in the lieutenant's room at once. "Right here," Britz proceeded, "Is where an interesting side feature of the mystery comes in. Griswoid would have probably been more alert If he had known that men ten times as adroit as he, and a hundred times more unscrupulous, had journeyed half around the world to get one of those very gems he was preparing to steal from the woman he hoped to marry. I don't know exactly what's at the bot­ tom of the Interest those Hindoos have in the great Maharanee dia­ mond; but I do know they're willing to go pretty close to the electric chair to get it. I understand it was not really bought from the wife of an In­ dian prince, as Missioner told his wife it was. My best Information is that it came from a Hindoo temple. You know those savages set great store by their idols. At any rate, from a half-dozen to a dozen Indians of various degrees came here from Calcutta some time ago and camped on the trail of the Maharanee dia­ mond. They played a waiting game and, apparently, they were on the point of making a grand effort to get the stone when the head of this organlza- 'He Made Drawings at First Hand." on his hearers. They shifted nervoue- ly In their seats as if impatient of the detective's pause. "When did the Hindoos steal the Jewels and where did they find them?" asked Manning. "About one hour, or a little more, before I made a try for them myself," said Britz. "They nabbed them in the apartment of Mrs. Millicent Delaroche, In the Hotel Renaissance." "And who, if you don't mind taking me into your confidence. Is Mrs. Millicent Delaroche?" the Chief in­ quired. "Mrs. Millicent Delaroche," said the detective crisply, "thinks she is the future Mrs. Curtis Griswoid. But aB far as Mr. Griswoid is concerned, she may remain Mrs. Delaroche for the rest of her natural life. In other words, Griswoid promised to marry her, and then got very busy in an at­ tempt to marry Mrs. Missioner. He doesn't know yet, of course, that it will be a very long time before he has a chance to marry anybody. Neither does Mrs. Delaroche know how she has been fooled by the clubman. When she does know--which I think will be some time today--I think you'll see some fur fly." Fitch, to get the upper hand of his nervousness, tapped his eyeglasses with a medical-looking lead pencil, and listened very closely to the de­ tective's story. Manning, too, was ab­ sorbed In what Britz had to tell. Both of his hearers, therefore, were mo­ mentarily disappointed when Britz, in­ stead of going ahead with his story, asked that Donnelly and Carson be pried apart long enough for one of them to arrest Grlswold, and the other to brings Mrs. Delaroche to Headquar­ ters. "I don't want to make things too tui­ tion happened to be in the box next to Mrs. Missioner at the Metropolitan Opera House on the night when the necklace turned out to be a fake. He then learned that ,the original dia­ monds were not In the widow's keep­ ing any longer. "Griswoid also was in the Mission­ er box that night, as yo(u know, and he must have noticed the Oriental who butted in during the search for the diamonds." Britz paused a little, and then re­ sumed : "These Hindoos worked about as fast as I did. They must have made up their minds pretty early in the game that Miss Holcomb knew noth­ ing about the necklace, and, of course, nobody would be foolish enough to suspect little Miss March. Our dark friends from the East concentrated their attention on Griswoid and Sands. For a long time, All had been In Mrs. Missloner's employ. He wasn't, however, Mrs. Missioner's em­ ploye in the true sense of the word. He was there as one of the subor­ dinates of this Swami chap, along with the other Oriental fellows, one of whom calls himself Prince Kanan- da. In fact. All was on the job from the day he became a member of Mrs Missioner's household. He was sent there for the precise purpose of pip­ ing off the place, and either getting the big diamond himself, or tipping the Swami and all the rest of them when it would be safe for them to uu.ke a try. It stands to reason Mrs. Missioner watched her Jewels pretty closely, and that her safe was a Jim- dandy, since that necklace in all those long months could not be lifted by the Hindoo servant. He would have been perfectly willing to throt­ tle her in order to get it had he felt reasonably sure of a getaway as easily after a murder as after a rob­ bery." "You must have been, reading about All Baba and the Forty Thieves, Britz," said Manning with another harsh laugh. "This sounds altogeth­ er too much like the Arabian Nights to be the goods." "Well, there weren't as many as forty of the thieves, and the All in this case wasn't an honest man. I'm giving it to you straight, Chief. I haven't worked day and night on this proposition for nothing. You'll find it Just as I'm telling it to you, and if you'll suspend judgment until I get through, I'll deliver the goods all right." "I think," remarked Fitch to Man­ ning, "we shall find that Lieutenant Britz comes pretty near knowing what he is talking about. I've seen him work on this case, and ii know something of the facts he has dis­ covered. If you have ever studied the ways of Orientals you'll be sur­ prised at nothing they do. They look at life from altogether a different angle. Life is about the cheapest thing in life to them." "Very good," said Manning. "I'm willing to be convinced, but it seems hard to believe that a woman worth a hundred millions could live for months with death hanging over her head in her own household, and yet kfrow nothing about it. What's the use of being a multi-millionaire if you're no safer than in an eighteen- dollar flat? For my part, I don't take much stock in your Hindoos." "You'll take a lot of stock in them before the morning is over, Chief, if you stay with us," Britz retorted. "I'm going to show you not only the Hin­ doos in the act of attempting to get away, but I'll turn up the goods in their possession. They have the dia­ mond now, but I'll have both them and the diamond In a very few hours!" "I believe you," Fitch chimed in. "You see, Chief," he explained to Manning, "this lieutenant of yours has made the capture of the Hindoos more or less of a personal matter." A choppy laugh from the detective Interrupted the physician. "Yes," he agreed, "I don't mind tell­ ing you that I'm almost as eager to get those fellows a3 I am to recover the widow's jewels. They got Just a little bit too gay with me for their own good." He flushed slightly as he recalled how utterly he had been at the mercy of the Hindoos when he lay like a holiday turkey* on the floor of that bare room in the unoccupied uptown apartment. "The Hindoos," said Britz, "went through the apartments of Sands and Griswoid with what Sam Weller would call a double-million-magnify- lng microscope. They didn't leave a postage stamp unsearched. They looked into every hole and corner, ransacked every drawer, and turned every place Inside out. I caught 'em at it--two of them, anyway--in Sands' room, and they're now in the West Thirtieth Street Station. They must have gone through Grlswold's apartment first, for it was there, I guess, they found this note from Mil­ licent to 'Curtis dear,' and It was this note that gave me a line on how brother Griswoid stood with the lady of the Hotel Renaissance. I' knew Grlswold was in the habit of visiting that hotel, but I didn't know whom he went there to see. I felt pretty certain when I got the note that it came from somebody in the Renais­ sance, and I got Rawson to send the bunch out on the hunt so that 1 could make certain I'd made no mis­ take. "One of the men reported there was a Mme. Delaroche at the Renais­ sance. That looked good enough to me. I went there that same night, with the doctor on the sidewalk, as the lookout. I did a little burglary stunt that would have landed the jewels if the Hindoos had not got there ahead of me. In some way or other, those fellows learned about the acquaintance between Griswoid and the Delaroche lady about the same time I did, or perhaps a little earlier. One of them got Into her apartment by the fire escape route and sneaked the jewels from under her pillow. What's more, he content­ ed himself with the diamonds them­ selves. and didn't even take the casket they were in. The jewel case was still under her pillow when I got there, and it wasn't until after the lady, under the impression the gems were in the case, gave herself away more or less, that I found the little box was empty. When I looked out on the fire escape, I saw the handker­ chief the dark skinned cracksman had dropped in his hurry. That sent us hoi footed to the Swami's house " When Britz had sketched the his­ tory of the Missioner case. Manning and Fitch looked at him admiringly. Both his hearers were thoughtful for a minute or two. Then the Chief, though he realized Britz had solved the mystery, could not refrain from picking flaws. "You have not explained fully," he said, "how Grlswold contrived to smuggle the small diamond Into Miss Holcomb's room." "Nor how thb old curiosity dealer had the visiting card of Bruxton Sands," suggested the doctor hesi­ tantly. He disliked to seem over- critical of a man whe had done so much for Elinor. "Neither have you worked out an explanation of the fact that It was a woman who gave the order to the three French firms for the manufac­ ture of the false diamonds, and that she gave the name of Elinor Hol­ comb," Manning pursued. "You'll have to make that clear to Mott, I'm thinking." "I don't quite understand why the Hindoos kidnaped ycu, lieutenant," added Fitch tentatively. Britz smiled. "Mere details," Britz replied. "First, Griswoid did not smuggle the dia­ mond into Miss Holcomb's room. That little trick was pulled off by All. He was the only one who could have done it, and his reason for want* ing to throw suspicion on the young woman is plain. He was in the house to get the necklace and he also want* ed to make a sure getaway. There­ fore, he figured, if the Jewels should be missed before he was able to get them out of the house, it would help his chances of escape to have suspi­ cion thrown on the secretary. The diamond that was found among her things did not belong to the collarette. But its size and luster matched any one of a dozen of the stones in that magnificent setting, so that all of us took it for granted it was Mrs. Mis­ sioner's property." "Very good." parried the chief. "How about the other points ?" "It needs no vivid imagination,'* said Britz, "to picture Curtis GriBwold employing a young woman to take the drawings to the French manufactur­ ers and telling her to introduce her­ self as Elinor Holcomb, or by any other name he desired." Manning nodded reluctantly. Fitch approvingly. "As for old Martin's possession of Sands' card," continued the lieuten­ ant, "I see no explanation about that except that Griswoid handed it to him. There seems to be a streak of malicious mischief in our club friend. As a side exploit in pulling off a big crime, he would enjoy making trouble for another--especially for a man he had reason to fear as a rival, which was the case with Sands. It m^y be he even hoped to cast suspicion per­ manently on the millionaire, though that seems hardly possible. Even when Sands acted so mysteriously in regard to that letter he recovered from the Hindoo burglar, he did not make me suspect he had stolen the diamonds, the strongest suspicion I had was that he might be shielding the thief, and that didn't last long." "And your own little adventure?" asked the chief of detectives with a trace of malice. (TO BE CONTINUED.) COURT PRACTICE DOWN SOUTH Virginia Juries Not ^Charged--Georgia Divorce Cases Tried Twice If Plaintiff Wins. "It's queer the way the laws In some of the southern states differ from our laws up here," said Col. Allan T. Brlns- mn.de, just back from a long trip through the south. "In Norfolk. Va., I sat one day re­ cently beside a federal judge when a criminal 'case was being tried. The charge was, I think, robbing the United States mails. At 6 p. m. the Judge turned aside and speaking very quietly said: " "The jury will now retire.' " 'A recess, I suppose,' I observed. " 'No,' he said, 'the Jury is about to retire to consider the evidence and give its verdict' " 'But you did not charge the Jury,' I remarked in a puzzled way. " 'We do not charge the juries in this jurisdiction,' he replied. "In Savannah a day or two later I was In a court room where a divorce case was being tried before a jury. The wife, who was . the plaintiff, was given the verdict. "So she getB her decree," I remarked to a lawyer friend. " 'No. not now," he replied. 'In this state when in a divorce case the ver­ dict goes to the plaintiff the case must be tried again at the next term of court. If the plaintiff wins again the decree is granted. " 'If, however, at the first trial the defendant wins, the case is all over. Queer law that, but the judge said it was working well--that after the first verdict In favor of the plaintiff a re­ conciliation was often brought about." --Cleveland Leader. Theophile Gautler as a Journalist. M. Paul Bourget has been lecturing on Theophils Gautier and expressing pity for him as a struggling journalist. How hard he struggled may be judged from his account books, which have been published by Baron Spoelberch de Lovenjoul. He was both art critic and oramatic critic of La Presse; he was overworked, and his average earn­ ings at "scale rates" amounted to about £260 a year. His attitude toward literature conse­ quently became cynical. "Master­ pieces!" he once exclaimed. "I do not recognise masterpieces. I recognise nothing except copy at so much the Couldn't Get Best of Him llojn One ef the Old-Time Ysnkee Peddlers Made a Trade in a Southern Town. The genuine Yankee peddler passed out of existence with the creation of the "notion store," but he was a most interesting character, astonishingly "sharp," and frequently amusing- One such appeared in a general store In a southern to*a on on* occasion, ds*' posited his pack on the floor, and re­ marked to the merchant: "I guess I couldn't drive a trade with you. colonel?" "I reckon you calculate Just about right!" was the decided reply of the merchant, who had "had dealings" with Yankee peddlers on previous oc­ casions. "Get out!" "O, well, don't get riled up--no harm done. Mow, Just look at this dees* genuine razor strops, easy worth three dollars--let you have 'em for two dol­ lar, colonel." "I wouldn't touch any of your trash --you get out!" the merchant declared. "Well, now, colonel, I always like to do some business in a place. Tell you what--I'll bet you five dollars that if you make me an offer for them strops, well make a trade." "I'll go you," said the merchant, "and," he added, when the stakes had been put up, "111 give you a quarter tor the strops!" > "They're yourn, colonel!" said the Yankee, pocketing the wager. Right Back at Her. A young looking couple in a sub­ way train seemed to be very much ex­ cited. They had boarded the train at One Hundred and Forty-ninth and it became very evident at Fourteenth street that the conversation had as­ sumed a serious phase. Just wheli several persons were edging over to them the woman shouted: '!Perhaps you are not aware that I had over a dozen proposals of mar­ riage before I accepted yon?" Apparently dumfounded at the loud utterance, the iaan, not to be outdone, shouted back: "And perhaps you are not aware that I proposed to nearly 20 women befoffc I became acquainted with you."--New York Sun. Business Methods In the Heme. There is some discussion going on in England, according to the London Dally Mirror, as to whether a man i should not manage the house. A wom­ an. say those In favor of the plan, is never trained in business methods, and when she has served apprentice­ ship in business, before marriage even. It was in a subordinate poeitfcNI where she had merely to take order* and carry them out mechanically. • man is trained in managing subordin­ ates and systematizing work, no mat­ ter what his calling may havo been The alternative Is that women should receive training in business methods and system. ILLINOIS > -ii HAPPENINGS Ridgway.--Growing wheat Is Hi ;ood condition. The recent nov greatly benefited it. A large acreage ?as sown last fall, -- ' ' Kampsville--The fight at Kamps* ifle for or against licensing saloons •tas ended in victory for the wets. Mayor Kamp had enough supporters In the body to give victory to the wets and immediately afterwards saloon H- censes were granted to John Rltter and to Henry Lang. Both conduct ho­ tels In Kampsville and both had ev­ erything in readiness for beginning business. Wood river--Some of the old fid­ dlers who competed in a fiddlers' coa- test at Woodrlver, are disappointed because only one prize was awarded Instead of three. That one was cap- tured by Col. W. H. Dougherty, who got up the contest and took charge of the gate receipts. The lights were turned out Immediately after the an­ nouncement of the award. There werto four contestants. Greenville -- Following a general family mtxup which included halr- pulling8 and fist fights, over the care of aged William Sybert, Bert File, twenty-two, was shot by his half-uncle Elmer Sybert, twenty-two. His injury was not serious. Sybert was ar­ rested. Qulncy--Mrs. Mary Sweet, who mar­ ried Eli aha Sweet In Marion county, Missouri, July 25, 1906, and who mar­ ried Henry Lee In Palmyra, Mo., last November, thinking she had been di­ vorced in October, Is in the county jail at Qulncy, charged with bigamy. She was indicted by the grand Jury. Mount Vernon--A memorial sei ties waB held in Circuit court for George H. Stein, a former member of the Jef­ ferson County Bar association. Mr. Stein died at his home in St. Louis re­ cently and was burled here. Ad- dresses were made by Judge W. H. Green, the presiding judge, and sev­ eral attorneys. Springfield--Included in a class of more than seventy applicants examinations before the State Board of Pharmacy for license were Sisters Bernardine and Susebla, two nurses in St. John's Hospital. Both sisters, at the examinations a year ago, made the best grade of all applicants for li­ censes as assistant pharmacists, and this year they were trying for the gold medal certificate, the highest grade for registered pharmacists. Effingham.--Eval^n O'Donnell, six years old, having heard any piece played can at once play it bar ear. Besides being an accomplished pianist, she can play several other instruments. She has had no Instrue- tlon. Her parents believe she is too" young to take music lessons, but art. proud of her accomplishments. Kewanee.--Relatives received word that Peter D. Olieslager, a wid­ ower who went to Holland ro- cently to marry, had been arrested there. While he was getting a wed­ ding license the authorities discov­ ered he had not complied with all re­ quirements of army service before be left Holland twelve years ago. He has five small children in Kewanee. Cairo.--Charles McCann, a saloon­ keeper, fired five shots into ths body of William Lambert, a river man, here, killing him. Sterling. -- Joseph Goekel and Grant Willett, accused of setting lire to the store of G. W. Andrews at Alphia, assert they were hired to torn- mlt arson by the proprietor of a rival concern. Goekel and Willett were captured by Andrews and the police while they were applying kerosens and a torch to the store. Andrews bad received an anonymous letter saying that the store was to be fired. Bartonville.--Seventy-five delegates to the triennial meeting of the Illinois Hospital Medical associa­ tion were present when the opening session of the convention was called to order at the Peoria State hospital at Barton ville, where the sessions are being held. Dr. H. Douglas Singer, director of psychopathy at the Kan­ kakee hospital, is president of the or­ ganization and made the opening ad­ dress. Pawnee.--The discovery of the body of Marsh Barnes, a carpenter, in a residence here after an all night celebration with seven companions, led to the arrest of the sevea men who will be held pend'ng the ver­ dict of the coroner's Jury It is said the body was bruised. Barnes is said to have had a sum of money and this was missiug when the body was found. Centralta.--The coroner's Jury la the Kinmundy wreck Inquiry brought In a verdict holding that the Illinois Central railroad erred in run­ ning trains No. 25 and No. 3 so close together, holding Henry Snyderjoha. operator at Edgewood. tn error for allowing two trains to pass so close to each other, and also Hairy -J. Brocker, flagman of No. 25. for sot throwing out a red fusee to flag Na t , Staunton.--Mike Pietorski, a miner, was killed by a Wabash train No. 1 bere. He was thirty-four yeai** ̂>-• Sterling.--Mrs. Homa Hogan e|£ !>add has filed salt against her flip ther. Benjamin Edwards. In the elf* cult court at Princeton, Bureau coun­ ty, asking damages for $25 000. Mrs. Hogan asserts that her lather a* saulted her upon a public street in Ladd, and In the presence of maay persons struck her In the face and called her opprobrious names. The physical injuries, she says, •-oafined her to her bed for two weeks. The case e ill be tried at the April tans «C eonrt ' jrwlp'aS