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The publishers are- Little, Brown & Go. three--a visiting Englishmen, the GOVERNOR'8 DAY MARKS THE ENDING OF THE FORTY-NINTH GENERAL A8SEMM.Y. MANY MEASURES ARE VETOED f4: ife; e.V N. '• M<'ft' v*nfc We were • Artist, and Antiquary, says Mr. Bacon. The Artist- and Antiquary were the gossiping guides; the Bngllshraent the guided. The Englishman would... "do" Old Boston exclusively. He had "done" the blend of the Old and New, and now would hark back to the Old and Teview it in leisurely strolls among its landmarks.* He had aBked the Artist and Antiquary to pilot him companionably, and they would meet his wishes, and gladly, fOT the personal conducting of -& stranger so saturated with Old Boston lore as he appeared to be could not be other than agreeable. Beyond the few measured historic memorials, the landmarks he especially would seek were 'tnany of them long ago annihilated In those re- , peated marches of progress or of improvement common to all growing cities, or effaced in the manifold markings over of the topography of the Old Town, than which none other in Christendom has undergone more. Still, if not the identical things, the sitps of a select number of them could be identified for him, and their story or legend rehearsed, while the Artist's pencil would repro­ duce yet remaining bits of the Old jumbled with tile New. Properly our initial ramble was within the nar­ row bounds of the beginnings of the Puritan cap- ital, the "metropolis of the wilderness," hanging on the harbor's edge of the little "pear-shaped," behilled peninsula, for which the founders, those<^ "well-educated, polite persons of good estate," took Old Boston in England for its name and London for its model. The Lincolnshire borough on the Fitham was to be its prototype only in Uune. The founders would have their capital town be to New England in its humble way what .London was to Old England. So Boston was builded, a likeness in miniature to London. This London look and Old England aspect, we remarked, remained to and through the Revolm tlon; and in a shadowy way remains today, as our guest would see. It was indeed a natural family likeness, for, as the record shows, Boston from the beginning was the central point of the most thoroughly English community in the New World. There was no infusion of a foreign element of iconsequence until the end of the colony period and the close of the seventeenth century. Then the French Huguenots had begun to appear and. mingle with the native Puritans. But while early In the province j>eriod this element became suffl- \ cient in numbers to set up a church of its own and to bring about some softening of the' old Austerities of the Puritan town life, it did not Impair the English stamp. These French Hugue- HOt| easily assimilated in the community, which welcomed them, and in time these competent artifeanB and merchants, the Bowdoins, the ffeneuils, Chardons, Sigourneys, Reveres, Moli- neuxes, Greenleafs, became almoBt as English, or American English, as the rest. Nor was the stamp impaired by the infusion of Scotch and Irish into the colony in increasing numbers dur­ ing the latter half of the seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries; nor by. the floating population of various nationalities naturally drawn to a port of consequence, as Boston was, the chief in the colonies from the ou^et. These floaters coming and going merely lent variety and plcturesqueness--or brought temporary trou­ ble--to the sober streets. Up to the Revolution the population remained homogeneous, with the dominating Influences distinctively of English lineage. When with the Revolution the English"! yoke was thrown off and the "Bostoneers" tore down every emblem of royalty and every sign of • a Tory and burned them in a front of the old statehouse and afterward re­ named King, street "State" and Queen street "Court," they could not blot out its English mark. And well into the nineteenth century, when in 1822 Boston emerged from , a town to a city, the papulation was still "singularly homogeneous;" It came to cityhood slowly and somewhat re­ luctantly after repeated attempts, the first early in the colony period. Edmund Qulncy in his fascinating life of his distinguished father, Josiah Quincy, writing of the municipality In 1821 dur­ ing Josiah Quincy's first administration as mayor --he was the city's second mayor--observes: "The > great Irish and German emigration had not then set in. The city was eminently English in its character and appearance, and probably no towu. of its size in England had a population of such unmixed English descent as the Boston of that day. It waB Anglis ipsis Anglior--more English than the English themselves. The inhabitants of New England at that time were descended, with scarcely any admixture of foreign blood, from the, Puritan emigration of the seventeenth century." As the founders and settlers brought with them i «» their beloved old home characteristics and irtmld transplant them, as was possible, in their new home, so we find their earliest "crooked little streets" with old London names. So the earlier social life, grim though it was with its Puritanical tinge, is seen to have been old English, in a smaller and narrower way. And today, as we ramble about the shadowy precincts of the Colony Town, we chance de- lectably here and there upon a twisting street yec holding its first given London name--a London- like old court, byway, or alley; a Londonish foot passage making short cut between thoroughfares; an arched way through buildings in old London- style. So, too, we find yet lingering, though long since in disguise, an old London fashioned under­ ground passage or two between courts or one­ time habitations suggestive of smuggling days and of romance. Such is that grim, underground passage between old Providence court and Har­ vard place issuing on Washington street oppo­ site the old South Meeting house, which starts In the court near a plumbing shop and runs along­ side the huge granite foundations of the rear wall of the old Province house, seat of the royal governors, now long gone save its side wall of Holland brick, .which still remains intact. This passage must have eluded Hawthorne, else sUrely ft would have figured in one of his incomparable "legends" of this rare place of provincial pomp .< and elegance. Then there was, untiT recent years, iliat other and more significant passage, opening trom this one, and extending under the Province house and the highway in front, eastward toward Jfche sea. Gossip tradition has it or some latter day discoverer has fancied that by this passage some of Howe's men made their escape to the * waterfront at the .evacuation. Others call U smuggler's passage. In that day the water came <>ttp Milk street to the present Library square ani southward to old Church Green, which used to b0 at the junction of Summer and Bedford streett. *4tn explorer of this passage--the engineer of the tavern which now occupies the site of the Prov­ ince house orchard . (a genuine antiquary this .engineer, who during scrarlce with the tavern trom its erection has delved deep into colonial . Mstory of this neighborhood)--says that its outlet 1 l4>pareutly was somewhere near Church Greeit tts was closed up In part in late years by build­ ing operations, and further by the construction. huge bonfire the Washington street tunnel. * , The peninsula as the colonists found it we re­ called from the familiar description of the local jUstorlans. It was a neck of land jutting out at the bottom of Massachusetts bay with a fine harbor on its sea side; at Its back, the Charles- fjver, uniting at its north end with the Mystic "vjver as it enters the harbor from the north side Of Charlestown; its whole territory only about ^|our miles in circuit; its less than,eight hundred a£res comprising several abrupt elevations, with valleys between. The loftiest elevation was the"' tikree-peaked hill in its heart, which gave it Iti first English name of Trimountain, and became. Beacon, on the river side; the next in height, oa , the barbor front, were the north and south promon- : igrieB of a great cove, which became respectively Copp'8 hill and Fort hill. The town was begun round about the Market place, which was at the head of the present State street, where is now the old statehouse. About tke Market place the first homes were built and the first highways struck out. Thence meandered the earliest of those legendary "cow paths," the lanes from which evolved the "crooked littl# streets" leading to the home lots and gardent" Of settlers. State street and Washington street , were the first highways, the one "The Great, Street to the Sea," the other "The High Waye to Roxberrie," where the peninsula joined the main- land, perhaps along Indian trails. At the outset, the "High Waye" reached only as far as School and Milk streetB,, where is now the old 8outh |feeting hOuse, aidLlhis was early called Corn- hill. Soon, however?* fupther advance was made to Summer, this extension later being called Marlborough street, in commemoration of the vic­ tory of Blenheim. In a few years a third street was added, toward Essex and Boylston streets, named Newbury. The "sea" then came Up in the Great cove from the harbor fairly close to the present square of State street, for high-water mark was at the present Kilby street on the South side and Merchants row on the North side. The Great cove swept inside bf these streets. Merchants row followed the shore northward to a smaller cove, stretching from where is now North Market street and the Quincy market (the first Mayor Quincy's monument) and over the site of Faneuil hall to Dock square, which be­ came the Town dock. Other pioneer highways were the nucleus of the present Tremont street, originally running along the northeastern spurs of the then broad-spreading Beacon tilll and pass­ ing through the Common; Hanover street, at first a narrow lane, from what Is now Scollay square, and Ann, afterward North street, from Dock square, both leading to the ferries by Copp's hill, where tradition says the Indians had their ferry. Court street was first Prison lane, from the Mar­ ket place to the prison, a gruesome dungeon, early set up, where now stands the modern City Hall annex. In its day it harbored pirates and Quakers, and Hawthorne fancied it for the open­ ing sceneB of his "Scarlet Letter." School street took Its name from the first schoolhouse and the first school, whence sprang the Boston Latin school, which felicitates itself that it antedates the university at Cambridge and "dandled Har­ vard college on its knee." Milk street, first Fort lane," was the first way to Fort hill on the harbor front. Summer street, first "Mylne lane." led to ! "Widow Tuthill's Windmill," near where was Church Green, up to which the water came. "Cow lane." now High street, led from Church Green, or Mill lane, to the foot of Fort hill. Essex street was originally at its eastern end part of the first cartway to the Neck and Roxbury. ® 'beach road that ran along the south shore of the South cove, another expansive indentation, ex­ tending from the harbor on the south side of Fort hill to the Neck. Boylston street, originally "Frog lane," and holding fast to this bucolic ap­ pellation into the nineteenth century was a swampy way running westward along the south Side of Boston Common toward the open Back bay --the back basin of the Charles--then flowing up to a pebbly beach at the Common's western edge and to the present Park square. Here, then, on the levels about the Great cove, in the form of a crescent, facing the sea and backed by the three-peaked hill, the town was established. The first occupation was within the scant ter­ ritory bounded, generally apeaklng, on the east side by State street at the high-water line of the Great cove; northerly by Merchants row ^around to near the site of Faneuil hall; north­ -westerly by Dock square and Hanover street; westerly by the great hill and Tremont street; southerly by School and Milk streets; ariB Milk street again to the water, then working up toward the present Liberty square at the junction of Kilby, water and Batterymarch streets. Soon, however, the limits expanded, reaching southward to Summer street, and not long after to Essex and Boylston streets; eastward, to the harbor 1 front at and around Fort hill; westward and northwestward, about another broad cove--this the North cove, later the "Mill cove" with busy mills about it, an indentation on the north of Beacon hill by the widening of the Charles river at its mouth, and covering the space u>w Hay- jnarket square; and northward, over/the pe­ ninsula's north end, which early became the seat of gentility. No further expansion of moment was made through the colony period, and the extension was slight during the Province period. Peacon hill, except Its slopes, remained till after the Revolu- • tion in its primitive state, its long western reach a place of pastures over which the cows roamed, and the barberry and the wild rose grew. The foot of the Common on the margin of the glinting Back bay was the town's %est boundary till after the Revolution and into the nineteenth century. Till then the tide of the Back bay --flowed up the present Reeeon street, some 200 feet above the present Charles street. The town's southern limit, except a few houses toward the Neck on the fourth link of the highway to Rox­ bury (called Orange street In honor of the house or Orange), was still Essex and Boylston streets. The one landway to the mainland, till after the second decade of the nineteenth century, remained the long, lean Neck to Roxbury. The only water­ way, at the beginning of the town, was by means of ships, boats, afterward by scows. No bridge from Boston was built till the Revolution wbb two years past So the "storied town" remained, till the close of the historic chapter, a little one, the built-up territory of which could easily be covered In a stroll of a day or two. From Its establishment as the capital Boston's history was so interwoven with that of the Colony that in England the Colony came early to be desig­ nated the "Bostoneers," and the charter which the founders brought with them, and for the retention of which the colonists were in an almost constant struggle, was termed the "Bos­ ton Charter." • pM TOOK DEUGHT IN ARTIFICE ; ijiclor Johnson's Comment on the Pe- Characteristics "' '•}•" «nder Pope. " 'Some of the cleverest epIgiftlfilnttflC 1 hits Against a man lacking in direct- H«ss of speech, manner and purpose i v were those made at the expense of ahi,'.:-', Alexander Pope by one of his not un- friendly biographers, the famous Doc- ? r . tqr Johnson, without reference to 'irhoin it seems almost impossible to dip into the literary history of the times in which he lived. The charac­ ter of Pope was not widely different from that of some men who had gone before him, and it Is possible that after him came men whose characters resembled his, though, of course, his talents were those that are not dupli­ cated in a century and perhaps not in centuries. Some points in his strange character, a perplexing blend of goodness and badness, as defined by Doctor Johnson, would seem to fit some of the small politicians of the present day. If not also some of the men and even women in social life. Doctor Johnson, while discussing the person and habits of the bard of Twickenham, to which place Pope re­ moved from Chiswlck after the liter­ ary and pecuniary success of his "Iliad" and "Odyssey," wrote: "In all his intercourse with man­ kind he had great delight In artifice and endeavored to attain all his pur­ poses by indirect and unsuspected methods. He hardly drank tea with­ out a stratagem. He practiced his arts on such small occasions that Lady Bolingbroke used to say be played the politician about cabbages and turv nips." Naturally a Fighter. Tffe'ls some white hope, Isn't he?" "Indeed he is, but he doesn't de­ serve any special credit for being such a fighter." "Why not?" . "His mothe* attuned teas Montmor­ ency and kept his hair in ringlets un­ til he was fourteen. He had to fight." Dunne Cuts $2,275,096 From Illinois Appropriation Bills--Signs Chlca- goParkandDown-StateHlgh. School Measures. Springfield. -- "Governor's day" marked the closing moments of the Forty-ninth general assembly, which adjourned sine die. Governor Dunne celebrated the wind- up of the session with a stirring pro­ gram of events, among them the fol­ lowing : Signed the Chicago parks consolida­ tion bill and the down state high school bill. slashed $2,275,096 from the. apropri- ations bills, leaving the total at about $43,000,000. Vetoed 20 general bills, the most im­ portant being the two railroad fee blllsi the "antimugging" bill, two Insur­ ance bills, and the down state "agricul­ tural advisers" bill. Reserved final action upon the state moving picture censorship bill, the structural iron workers' bill, the bill to raise legislative salaries to $3,500. and tjie Calumet harbor bill. The treasury balance and the total of appropriations makes it probable that the state tax rate next time will be about fifty costs. The heaviest individual slash in the appropriations was administered to the good roads people. They got $2,000,000 from the fund raised by the payment of automobile taxes. Governor Dunne eliminated $750,00.0 appropriated from the general revenue fund, which would have been in addition thereto; The general omnibus bill lost nearly a half million. The salaries for state officers bill was cut $33,200 and the normal schools dropped $300,000, al­ though Macomb, Normal and Carbon- dale got $95,000, $95,000 and $110,000 respectively, through the fight made by the "normal Bchool" senators for new buildings. The Second regiment armory appro­ priation was cut to $76,000 and the Eighth regiment allotment was trimmed to $16,000. Executive approval was given to the parks consolidation bill. It Is general­ ly considered the most important of the Chicago measures enacted by the legislature. It must be adopted by referendum vote and consolidates the big proportion of the taxing bodies of Chicago into one organization for tax levying and extension purposes. The governor permitted four bills to become laws without his approval, un­ der the ten-day clause: The Tice co­ operative association bill, the Perkins amendments to the pure food law, the bill creating a state flag for Illinois and the Monmouth armory bill. All of the bills which have become laws went Into effect July 1. The senate bills vetoed Included these: Manny's bill for the efficiency and economy commission. This is the onry bill of the dozen introduced as formu­ lated by the commission which was passed, and would have recast the public printing system. Vetoed be cause of opinion from the attorney general that it did hot fix definitely the fiscal year. Bailey's bill, remitting charges to corporations for re-incorporation of public utility companies, and DaUey's. authorizing the state public utilities commission to fix the amount of capi­ tal stock issues. Vetoed because of the serious reduction in state revenues through the office of the secretary of state. These bills were badly wanted by the railroads. One of them was said to apply particularly to the Union depot project in Chicago. The house bills vetoed were as fol­ lows : Turner's, claimed to be a depart­ ment insurance bill, concerning dis­ crimination by life Insurance com­ panies as to prosecutions under the antirebate law. Vetoed because it would weaken and emasculate the present law. Turner's "antimugging" bill. "If this bill becomes a law It would paralyze the machinery for the detection of criminals," the veto message said. Perkins' bill, to permit state banks in unincorporated places. Vetoed be­ cause of the attorney general's opinion that the bill was improperly drawn. Scanlan's bill, concerning mutual in­ surance companies. Vetoed because the bill did not give the right to policy holders to vote in checking any move­ ments of the company. Dudgeon's, creating county agricul­ tural advisers; because of the large appropriations required. Costs State $2,692 to Pay $250 Claim. | Two years ago Henry C. Allen had a motor boat in which he bobbed back and forth over the Illi­ nois river at Havana, "joy riding" with friends on Sundays and seriously gath­ ering fisl) on week days. One day two game wardens came and rented Mr. Allen's boat to look for fish poaehers. That night somebody poured kerosene over it and the boat went up in a puff of smoke as a warning not to assist in the enforcement of thetfish laws. It was not much of a boat, but Mr. Allen put a value of $250 on it and asked the State of Illinois to pay for its loss. That was In November, 1913. Mr. Al- leu can get his money, for the Forty- ninth general assembly passed a par­ ticular bill for that purpose and Gov­ ernor Dunne signed it To pass the bill through the legislature, paying Mr. Allen $250, cost the state $2,692.73. This is the high cost of lawmaking In Illinois. In addition it cost time and the services of other state officials and employees. There were other bills as unitnpor- tant in the great task of making laws for the state as Mr. Allen's motor boat. That was the average cost to the state of each of the bills passed by the ses­ sion which become laws. Some were appropriations lor millions and others are expected either to cost the taxpay­ ers millions or save them millions In future years. The expense of the ses­ sion was $788,989.66. It passed 317 bills, of which Governor Dunne per­ mitted 293 to become laws, which makes the average cost $2,692.73. The proposed investigations, except those acting under joint resolutions of both houses, have received a setback as a result of an opinion from Attorney General Lucey on the Compton insur­ ance investigation. It was proposed to investigate insurance rates until the next session, but Mr. Lucey followed a Pennsylvania precedent and held that a senate or house separate investiga­ tion dies automatically after the sine die adjournment. The Chicago board of education Investigation, corn meal flour inquiry and several others are in this class. "I am of the opinion that the inves­ tigation has no legal existence after the adjournment of the regular session of the assembly and cannot during the recess exercise any of the powers at­ tempted to be conferred by this reso­ lution," said Mr. Lucey after quoting authorities. State officials are somewhat per­ turbed over the threatened fight over the validity of the waterway act. They expect it to be launched either by Con­ gressman Martin B. Madden, a Chi­ cago Republican, or Congressman Henry T. Rainey, a downstate Demo­ crat. If the courts hold the law is in­ valid the advisers of Governor Dunne are in favor of calling a special session of the legislature to immediately cor­ rect all defects. Co-Operative Stores Victor. Co-operative stores and similar purchasing and selling agencies all over the state were stirred by the going into effect of a new law gov­ erning their activities. It became op­ erative without the signature of Gov­ ernor Dunne. By many it was appre­ hended that he would veto It. • The direct incorporation of co-operative or­ ganizations is made possible, giving them much broader powers in some respects than they now have under the general Incorporation act and re­ stricting them in others. The bill I was introduced by Homer J. Tice at the request of Charles Adkins, former speaker and candidate for governor. The farmers' associations, which want­ ed to own co-operative grain elevators, were back of it and later John H. Walker, president of the Illinoisi fed­ eration of Labor, added that &rgan- lzatioq's support. ^ "The bill permits laborers, mechan­ ics, agriculturists or laborers to pur­ chase or sell or raise any kinds of produce of merchandise," said Isaac S. Rothschild. "It gives very broad power. Voting by proxy and holding of stock in other companies Is per­ mitted. They can also hold as much real or personal property as may be necessary for their business. One member can hold only from $5 to $500 worth of stock." "We urged our senator. Mr. Austin, to vote for the bill," paid M. E. Eld- ridge, one of the officers of the Oak Park Consumers' league, which has a store at 6500 West Madison street. Oak Park. "One good thing about It Is that it limits the number of shares which one person can own and pre­ vents him getting control." "The new bill will be a help to 100,- 000 farmers and 100,000 consumers In the state," said William Stickney, a director of the United States Co-Oper- tive company with a grocery store at 1337 East Fifty-seventh utreet. "We wanted the bill to pass for its many meritorious features. It was much de­ sired by the grain growers of the stale." The Oak Park co-operative store was organized last August under the general incorporation act and has 94 members. The Hyde Park store Is Incorporated under Wisconsin laws, has prospered for two years and has 250 members. Articles of Incorporation. The following corporations were li­ censed by Secretary of State Lewis G. Stevenson: Beem Street Bus company, Ottawa; capital, $4,000; to own and operate omnibuses and vehicles. Incorpora­ tors--Will O. Beem, Fred C. Beem, Virginia B. Beem and Viida P. Beem. The Newton Ice and Cold Storage company. Newton, $25,000; to engage in the manufacture and sale of ice and Ice products. Fred Elder, E. W. Hersh and F. H. Robertson. Correspoi^lent, E. W. Hersh. Newton. De Smet Quartz Tile company, Area. $35,000; to manufacture cement tile and cement blocks. Clarence C. Green, S. L. Tripp and Howard L. Fisher. Correspondent, Elbert C. Fer­ guson. 1460, 10 South LaSalle street, Chicago. --Robert B. Glenn, Winifred O Har­ ris Glenn. Clifford C. Garm and Alta K. Garm. E. B. Conover Grain company, Springfield; capital. $40,000; to engage in the buying and selling of grain and produce. Incorporators--E. B. Con- over, John McHenry, Sim Fernandas and A. J. Jones. State Almost Clear of Quarantine. The entire state is out of the ex­ posed area, with the exception of the Union stockyards, for the first time since the outbreak of the foot-and- mouth disease. The state board of live stock commissioners issued an or­ der taking from the restricted area and placing in the free area the coun­ ties of Cook (except the Union stock­ yards), Ford, Kane, La fealle, Logan. McLean, Peoria and Vermilion. The following counties were placed in the modified area: McHenry, Lee and Ogle. Governor Dunne Recalls Devlno. Representative John P. Devine of Dixon, who was sent to Joliet by Governor Dunne as the gov­ ernor's personal representative to be present at the investigation into the circumstances attendant on the mur der of Warden Allen's wife, was re­ called by the governor. Devine called up the governor and said that every thing was moving smoothly in regard to the investigation of the death of Mrs. Allen and that there was u further necessity for bis being them »* . *• •> a- L. "**f ' ft. News Brevities of Illinois Bushnell.--Mrs. Harry May-worth was burned to death in an explosion resulting from the dropping of gaso» line on a hot burner of a stove. Bloomington.--Charles Riley of 4 Beardstown was killed near Pekift •/ when a quantity of earth lifted by a ,(&p steam shovel was dropped upon bin '•*£$§*;' as he lay asleep. Urbana.--The body of a stranger;- which was strewn along the-Wabash railroad tracks by a train, was ident^Vr^ fled as that of Frank Cain of Coving- ' ^ ton, Ky„ who had come here to ao*J- cept a job. His wife and two childrett: . : and his parents In Covington wer»f notified. Peoria.--The Illinois-Wisconsin Coal; v.iT5 Dealers' association elected the £ol-.' .'V;*'! lowing officers at their annual con^^i vention here: President, James Dooley, Peoria; vice-president, J. H," Timm, Plymouth, Wis.; secretary, L. Runyan, Chicago; treasurer, C. 8L y'M Beck, Harvey, and J. G. Moore, 14 Crosse, Wis. Carthage.--Along the Carthagh J branch of the "Q" during the past 2ii '*:i years, there have never been suchr prospects for abundant crops of everj& thing as there are this year, from Quincy to Burlington. Wheat, oath and rye are extra good. Corn haa : shown a wonderful growth. Potatoes , and fruit of nearly all kinds look proot» ising for a big crop. Urbana.--Harry Glascock waB sen* : tenced to life imprisonment for thh $ murder of hiB wife in Champaign ? March 20. The jury stood six to si*:£5 for death and a life sentence on the ; third ballot Glascock accepted the v verdict with a profane tirade An out- •* break among 400 spectators in th» courtroom was quelled with difficulty when the defendant essayed to attack J ^ State's Attorney Busch while on th»". witness stand. Springfield.--Governor Dunne cow- • * * muted to life imprisonment the sen* tence of John Kinzie of Morris, Grun* dy county, under sentence to hang July 16 for murder of Mrs. Ann*'. Pbbeliskl. Executive clemency wan refused In the case of Frank RepettO, under death sentence for the murder. '% of a fellow convict In Joliet peniteifc- tiary. Repettq will be hanged Friday, ; juiy is. . ' '4 ?1S M Springfield.--The entire state of 11% nois is out of the exposed area, wltii : the exception of the Union stockyards* for the first time since the outbreak. of the foot-and-mouth disease. Tba state board of livestock commission* ers issued an order taking from tha restricted area and placing in the frea . area the counties of Cook (except tha- Union stockyards). Ford, Kane, Lib Salle, Logan, McLean, Peoria and Ve»» milion. The following counties wera taken from the partly modified are* and placed In the modified area: Me» Henry, Lee and Ogle. Peoria.--Fire in the main plant off the Wilson Provision company at th« foot of South street brought every piece of fire fighting apparatus In th* city to the scene and caused a prop­ erty loss estimated at $200,000. Su­ perintendent Barrett led a squad of men into the main office just as tha flames burst through the big retain- ; ing wall and secured the records ot the company. In the brine room tha flames swept through the entire sec­ ond floor for a stretch of 200 feet un-' checked and nothing but the bara walls of the main building remain. The cause of the fire has not been &*» certalned. Danville.--Seven persons, five of them passengers, including H. D. Bent* ley, 1523 Michigan avenue. Chicago, were injured at Attica, Ind., when a, Wabash local freight train. No. 54. running from Danville to Lafayette, struck the engine pulling the Coving­ ton branch of a Wabash train. Tha engine of the branch train was overt turned. Bentley, who was Injured sufB-/ ciently to have a doctor, had his watcli in his right hand, which was crushed! and the watch badly disfigured. Mrs. Frank Goodwin of West Lebanon had both shoulders hurt and is apparently the worst Injured. The cause of tha accident is believed due to a misun-. derstanding of sigaalB. Duquom.--The southern Illinois di­ vision of the Egyptian Trail has elect­ ed the following local vice-presidenta: Cairo, W. F. Crossley, president Illl>' nois Automobile association; Mounds, B. King; Ullin, J. B. Mathia; Dongola, H. J. Neibauer; Anna. E. 8. Aldem; Cobden, S. Roy Green; Makanda. Wil-.. lis Rendleman; Carbondale, Henry, Fraley; De Soto, Henry Zacher; Elh- ville, W. S. Boone; Duquoin. Jama* Forester, member Illinois state mining board; Tamaroa, Howard B. Haines; Du Bois, Rev. Joseph Ceranski; dom, Rev. Mr. Czerniejewski; Ashley, Dr H. A. Walker; Rich view, C. P. Cooper; Irvlngton. Alva Johnson; Cea, tralia, J. 8. Adams. John H. Miller of Carbondale has been, named district vice-president. Freeport.--Samuel Rogers ahot and killed Clyde Meyers, nineteen yeara old, at Polo, near here. Meyers, ac­ cording to a statement made by Ro^ ers, came to Rogers' house with arte other young man and made threat# against Rogers. When ordered to leave they jeered at him. Rogers said, and he fired on them, killing Meyer* instantly. West Frankfort.--Carlo Masaareller and Dominick Melano are dead anft. ten other members of the two fanl- ilies are ill, five critically, as the rO» suit of eating toadstools, which the* ^ thought were mushrooms. 'Mr Newton Davis, chief clerk of Jach» > ;Ts| Bonville state hospital, was transferred to the St. Charles school for boyi* where he will bo chief cierk. T. T. Pratt, chief clerk at the ludua- trial home for the blind, goes to thfl Lincoln state school and colony Murphysboro.--Ellison Scott was a^ rested and placed in jail here charge* with killing his wife In Carbondala Monday afternoon because she did not have a c/ean pai. of hose for him Ha went to the heme of a neighbor aadl • orrowed a ebotgun telling them ha wanted to hunt rabbits, he returned and shot his wife, killing her ia*taaUy. 'M -M Ml