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r v «K il®#lil nr* * , *'*» ...wvvvt. Rt'^.?1'. ,"*'". :;4!«rV%-V CAPSIZED STEAMER AT HER BOCK «•? llSUr TAKES TOLL Of ̂ Men, Women and Children Taken by Sudden Death When the ̂ ŷ Steamer Eastland Overturns in the Chicago River When . r About to Start Out With a Picnic Party. b . •-*' * >J * " • 1 • ' i mhW' i$4#* Sweeping bivestigation Is Started by Federal, State and City Au­ thorities to Fix the Blame for the Disaster--Error or Oversight Is Believed to Be Responsible. 0% p;-\i llVVKM , • • " • * '•i Chicago, July 26.--Fifteen hun- p;- Ired lives were lost Saturday morn- //-vX; lug in the greatest ship calamity in aiatory. M ; I ' The steamship Eastland turned on *$%\\ its side at its dock in the Chicago jlfV -11 river near Clark street at 7:40 in the xv' \ yA1 morning. Aboard ^ere 2,500 holiday­ 's^ makers, bent on the annual excursion to Michigan City given by the West- ern Electric company to its employees. As the boat capsized hundreds on pfqjhi :he upper deck were thrown in masses ' Into the water, where many were lost. p<j£4 : Most of the other passengers, caught *;•'>.,*• bolow in the cabins or on the lower decks, perished without chance of es­ cape They were swallowed up in watery graves in the sight of other thousands who were crowding the Clark street bridge, the wharves and the adjoining streets on their way to other boats, for five vessels had- been chartered for the excursion. TERROR FOLLOWS GAYETY. The disaster was a matter of only * few minutes. Many were surging to the gangplank, anxious to embark. As the gangplank was pulled in and preparations were made to cast off the steamer listed to port, or toward ^he river. The passengers were crowd­ ing on that side to get the view. The •way at first occasioned little alarm. The Joking and laughter continued, but as the great hull continued to swing over terror suddenly gripped the passengers. There was a mad scramble, a panic in which the terrified passengers fought for places of safety. Shrieks and cries wrung the hearts of those on shore. A minute or two more and the ship was flat on its side like a dead fish, and those caught beneath and within were entombed by the in- rushing water. RIVER THICK WITH BODIES. The suWace of the river was thick with struggling forms. Babies per­ ished in sight of those on the docks and bridges. The witnesses say it was all over in between four and six minutes. One instant the boat was 311ed with laughing picnickers in their holiday finery. The next instant forms of men and women in a frenzied fight' for life churned the water, then sank. On the side of the boat were numbers who had clambered over the rail as the boat settled on its side. Some escaped without even wetting their feet The whistles of tugs and exeurslon boats shrieked the alarm. Boats put off to the rescue. Hundreds of per­ sons were dragged from the river to safety. South Water street men tossed barrels and crates and chicken boxes Into the river, where they were seized by the drowning. Forty miles away at Lockport the bear trap dam in the drainage canal was closed to stop the river current. Fire boats and tugs spread out like a fan around the death ship and then began the work of taking out the bodies. MORGUE8 IN WAREHOUSES. The nearby streets and warehouses were turned into morgues. Bodies were piled in rows. Ambulances and vans and delivery trucks were pressed into service as death carts, while as fast as the bodies were taken out hun­ dreds of physicians strove to bring back life. At the sooth approach to the Clark street bridge respiration machines were operated on the sidewalk. Vic­ tims were worked over the moment r; they reached shore. Emergency hos- ~ pitals were established within a few l^> . J£*" feet of the disaster. : MORGUE ON 8TEAMER. eV '\ V Theodore Roosevelt, one of the -v 4> boats chartered for the excursion. ?V; } MM;'- .•*&*• •. : hundreds volunteered their services, and for hours they strove in the work Of resuscitation. Few were revived, however, as the bodies had been in the water too long. t As the gray day wore along and the bodies came forth, etiff in the rigor of death, the respirators were retired. The physicians administered injec­ tions of strychnine, and occasionally when the powerful drug seemed to re- kindle a spark of life the lung motors were called into requisition. Doctor Springer, coroner's physician, exam- •xfr. iS.?*44 -- which was moored on the opposite side of the Clark street bridge, was turned into a morgue and hospital. As soon as the calamity became known, doctors and nurses by the #{>•# ined each bodty as ftcattis««©*©. He said that many of them had died from suffocation. There was no water in their lungs, he said. They had floated on top of the water in the recesses of the boat until the air had become ex­ hausted. Occasionally a passenger was found alive in a pocket of air. In mid-after­ noon, when, with an acetylene torch, a hole had been made in the ateel plates forward, two women were tak­ en out raving. A few minutes later one of the divers, his brain turned by the horrors, came up and rushod about the hull Bhrieking until the po­ lice got him under control. And last night, with spot lights and electric arcs turning the stream into a ghastly river of death, the work of taking the bodies from the hull con­ tinued. The spectacles were harrowing. Po­ licemen wept as the bodies of women were taken out, with their babies still clutched to their bosoms in the grasp of death. GREATER THAN IROQUOIS. Chicago is still counting its dead. The mortuary lists are still growing A despair has settled over the city akin to that following the Iroquois disaster. Its rost&r of victims is greater. It is the worst excursion boat horror on record in America, ft claimed more victims than the wreck of the fire^scourged General Slocum, eleven years ago, off Hell Gate In New York harbor. It is the worst ship disaster In his­ tory--greater than the Titanic and the Lusltanla catastrophes In its appalling roster of the dead. All day long, and all night great .crowds thronged the water's edge and choked the streets leading to the scene of the disaster. On the side of the boat, which protruded several feet above the water, groups of men gath­ ered around the portholes and with ropes dragged up the dead bodies as fast as the divers would get them. Many are still in the boat, while the river still holds bodies, and it will be days before the final number of dead is establi&hed. AUTHORITIES PROMPT TO ACT. Within an hour or two of the disas­ ter the authorities bad started the task of fixing the responsibility State's Attorney Hoyne took the pat­ ter in charge and sent out grand jury subpoenas for witnesses. "Was the - Eastland crowded be­ yond capacity?" This is the gravest question int-o which inquiry will be made. Eyewitnesses assert that the boat was carrying from five hundred to one thousand more persons than the 2,500 for which she was licensed Some of the holiday-makers, who got as far as the gangplank and then de­ cided to take another boat, fearing the crowds on the Eastland, say that between 3,000 and 3,500 persons were aboard, and that the ticket-takers kept admitting excursionists up to within a few minutes of tbe capsiz­ ing. This is denied by the government inspectors. Robert H. McCreary. chief of the marine bureau, says an exact check of the passengers was taken, and that as Boon as 2,500 had gone aboard no more were allowed ad-, mission. OTHERS CRY OVERCROWDING.' , On the other hand, Emil G. Gros- choll and George Mock, employees of the Western Electric company, wfcOj aided in arranging the outing, esti­ mate that 3,700 persons were aboard the boat. One thing on which the bewildered; survivors and the eye witnesses in general appear to agree is that even, after the boat started to list neither the captain nor the crew gave warn­ ings to the passengers. The orches­ tra kept on playing until the chairs of the musicians slid across the deck and the vessel had attained a perilous angle before the laughter and joking were turned to shrieks and cries. Before the waters had claimed a victim, company officials on shore saw the danger and began to prepare for the work of rescue. W. K. Greene- baum, general manager of the Indiana Transportation company, which had' chartered the Eastland for the day from the St. Joseph-Chicago Steam­ ship company, when called before State's Attorney Hoyne, said: "About 7 :20 a. m. I was standing at the dock watching the Theodore Roosevelt loading, when shouts warned us that something was wrong on the Eastland. Rushing to the street level I saw she was listing. Re­ turning to the Rocsevelt I ordered the captain to blow the emergency whistle and lower the boats. CROWDS T^RN ON CAPTAIN. The task of taking the dead bodies from the hold of the funeral ship had hardly been started when crowds turned on Capt. Harry Pederson of the Eastland with cries of "Lynch him! Lynch him!" To get into the forward part of the boat the rescuers were trying to burn holes in the su­ perstructure with an acetylene torch when the captain sought to restrain them. From a group of women on the bank draped in blankets, survivors of the calamity, came a wailing cry: "Lynch him!" On orders of Assistant Chief Schuettler the captain of the boat and the first mate, Dell Fisher, were hus­ tled aboard the fire tug Graeme Stew­ art and the rest of the crew were gathered together and kept under . a guard. BOAT KNOWN A8 HOODOO. Two general theories for the liptln* are advanced, in addition to the ques­ tion of overcrowding. The boat has always been deemed a "hoodoo" bv lake captains. The shape of the hull is such that marine experts have re­ garded the boat with susp'cion. It careened once before in Cleveland harbor, and when in the South Haven excursion trade it often listed as It left the river at South Haven with the crowds flocking to the rail on one side. The two theories were: • Ballast was taken out to enable the boat to navigate the river the turn­ ing basin above the LaSalle street tunnel. This made it ton-heavy, and when the listing began there was no counterweight to prevent a capsize. The lines were not cast off and the tug was pulling the vessel toward the river, which destroyed its equilibrium. This second theory is advanced by William Flannigan, a lineman on the boat, who says the tug was pulling at the Eastland, although its lines had not been cast off. This is denied by Arthur McDonald, engineer of the tug. who says that when the Eastland flopped over the tow line had not been attached. INQUEST STARTS AT ONCE. A conference was held at Reid, Murdoch & Co.'s office, across the river from the scene of the tragedy, and the inquest was begun. Heart-rending scenes were enacted at the morgues. Parents who had t>een torn from their children, moth­ ers and fathers whose boys and girls had left home in the early morning in high spirits for a day on the lake, men, women and children who had relatives and friends on the ship of death flocked to the temporary mor­ tuaries. WAS CRANK OF THE LAKES Expert Tells of Advice He Gave Owtt» ers of Eastland to Make. Vessel Safe. Chicago.--"The Eastland ^ras the crank of the lakes, and as far as I know the only crank on the lake8." W. J. Wood, naval architect, who was called by the owners in 1903 tp cor­ rect faults in the boat, asserted. In 1903 Wood'made representations to Capt. Ira Mansfield, local steam­ boat inspector, which resulted in an order to cut off the top deck pf the vessel and to keep the water ballast compartments filled. "The deck was cut qff in pursuance of Captain Manstleld's order," Mr. Wood said, "but it would be impos­ sible to pass on the cause of the acci­ dent until it is knOwn whether the other conditions were fulfilled at the time of the overturning of the boat. The Eastland has been in operation on Lake Erie and has not met with accident, but evidently the owners were acquainted with it* faults and operated it accordingly." The Eastland was built by the Port Huron Shipbuilding company and on its trial run in 1903 failed to come up to specifications, according to Mr. Wood. "The gangways were not water­ tight," Mr. Wood said, "and I was called on to correct that fault as well as some of the other faults in the in­ terior of fthe hull. I corrected these faults, but I was not able to get a copy of the lines. However, I had seen enough to cause me to make a representation to Captain Mansfield and he in turn not only caused the cutting off of the upper deck, but issued instructions about the opera­ tion of the Eastland that would tend to eliminate danger. "The contract for the construction of the vessel called for a speed of twenty miles an hour. The trial failed to develop this, and changes were made, principally in the draft, that brought the speed requirements up to specifications. Then it developed that the gangways were not watertight. The boat squatted when it got under way. and I corrected this fault as well as some alignments in the machinery. Then the owners accepted It, bijt later solg it." MARINE DISASTERS OF HISTORY AND TOLL OF HUMAN LIVES Following is a list of gre$t marine disasters previous to the Eastland catastrophe: ' , . : Name. Date. * Association ...Oct. 22. MOT. Prince Georpre .... .....* ....April 13. 1758. Royal George ...Aug. 29, 1782. Queen Charlotte . ...Mar. 17. 1800. Rt. Oeorge ...Dec. 24, 1«U. Defense ....Dec. 24. 1811. Hero ....Dec. 24, 1811. Berkenhe&d ....Feb. 2ft, 1852 I.ady Nugent . . . M a y 1 0 . 1 8 . 1 4 . City of Glaftgow . ...Mar. 5. 1864. Austria ....Sept. 18. 1868. Royal Charter.~.. ....Oct. 25. 185<>. Sphinx 1RTS I.a'ly Elgin ....Sept. 8. I860 Captain Sept. 7, 1870. Atlantic ....April" 2, 1RT3 Cospatrick ....Nov. 17. 1874 Prlnft'ss Alice .... Pent. 3. 1«7K ErTorrul ....Pept. M, 1890 Vtopia .....Mar. 17, 1891 Noenchow ....Jan. 14. 1S92 Reina Regenta .. • • (p • --..Mar. 11. lS^o Rurgovne July 2. l«f>9 Oen. Slocum ....June 15. 1904 Norse . 4 ....Jtilv R Mlkasa ^ Sept. 12. 1906 Tltarilr . April 14. 1912 Kicker Maru ....Sept. 2*. 1914 KmrrPw of Ireland.. .. .Mav 29 1914 Lusltanla ....May 7. 1915 Scene. Scllly Islands .i.... Dead. ..... 8)0... Gibraltar ..... 400... ..Fire Spkhead ' WO... . .Wreck Leghorn .....7 fl73... ...Fire Jutland coast ...... 630... 800... ...Wreck . Jutland coast ...... 630... 800... ...Wreck f Jutland coast 700... .. W reck .Coast of Africa .... 454... ...W reck At sea 400... ...Wreck At sea ....J 408... ..Wreck. At sea ...... 638... ...Fire Anglegea ...... 446... . .Wreck. .At sea ...... 500.;. ...Wreck .Lake Michigan .... .Flnmteire .*... 287... ..Collision .Lake Michigan .... .Flnmteire .*... 472... ...W reck .Marshead ....... 546... .. .Wreck .At sea „.... 470... ...Fire Thames ...... 700... .. .Wreck .Japfin i........ ...... 588... ...Wreck .Gibraltar ........... ...... 57*... . ..Collision .China . . . .v , . . 609.. . ...Wreck .Gibraltar ...... 400... ...Wreck .At sea 871... ...Collision .Fast river .'. . . . . . .1 .000 . . . ...Fire .At sea ; 646... ... W reck .At sea ...... 599... ...Explosion .At sea .............. ......LP-*.. ...Iceberg .At sea. >..V; ,.'.'...1.000... ... Wrerk .St Lawrence river. 1 027... ...Collision .At sea 1^446.. ... Torpedo "ASLEEP ON JOB" IS ? VIEW OF ENGINEER I - $ ; T V C h i c a g o . -- A l e a d i n g m a r i n e e n g i - i#' neer **y*: i " % ' " I n v e s t i g a t i o n w i l l s h o w t h a t t h e accident was caused not by overload­ ing or by any. fault of the specifica­ tions of the boat but by carelessness In the engine room. Some one failed K v t tOsgive proper attention; to the ballast, fel ^ , The boat began to feel the weight •}, .of the crowd on the dock side and to \ ' >t slightly. The one who should tlri havP" watched the dial and noticed the list and shifted the water ballast neglected tb do so. Consequently the boast listed mQre. "Then the crowd noticed it and rushed to, the other side, with the re­ sult that the boat was caught as If in a backward roll and capsized. Per­ haps the propeller was started just before the crowd ruehed In order to give the boat a little 'kick.' That would have caused a slight list be­ fore the recoil. "The equipment of the Eastland was up to standard, although I think that there should have been more life rafts. The boat was not too narrow. Its beam was as wide as the depth of the decks. v "All the laws in- the world would not have prevented that accident As a matter of fact, one-half of the peo­ ple on the boat could have tipped it over by a studden rush. Especially is this true when a boat is still. "The owners and inspectors of these boats are careful, that Is. care­ ful to comply with the laws govern­ ing loading, equipment, etc. The trou­ ble is we have no laws properly di­ rected. A boat like the Eastland should not be used for excursion pur­ poses. It should',carry freight in its hold and about 500 passengers. "We should have laws governing the construction of vessels for specific purposes. For instance, an excursion vessel should be built according to specifications of beam, ballast, etc., which would insure greater qafety. Boats like the Eastland were not in­ tended for such purposes." i$: ||.v. j. YOUNG HERO SAVES MANY in*!* t**ap* Into River and'Brings Ashore ..MaHy Men, Women and Children. •am >v. Chicago.--One of the heroes was ^•Charles Williams, agent for a New i York concern. Mr. Williams was ^ brought to attention by a fireman [ engaged in bringing bodiefe out of the |-'iiftll of tbe capsized steamer. Williams. ; reluctantly consented to relate his" 9t tk» numerous J»O»,O»P^ fected. "I was with a young man In the em­ ploy of Reid, Murdoch & Co.," said Mr. Williams, "and we were Just crossing the Clark street bridge when my attention was called to the East­ land, which was then careening Into the water. "I leaped into the water and the first person that I reached was a man who was choking and crying for help. I swam to him and when I .came up only thing to do to shake hte off was to sink, which I did. ° "Then he iet go of me and we rose to the surface. I came up behind him and hit him in the neck. He became unconscious and I swam to shore with him, where spectators on the doak helped me get him out of the water. "Next I pulled out a young lady dressed in a pink suit. "A patrol boat then came along and a man .on it yelled to me that a . , . , , -- --r iw w uiu luav H to him he threw his arms around my j young lady had Just gone down for nec k i n a d e a t h g r i p . I k n e w t h a t t h e 1 t h e t h i r d t i m e a t • c e r t a i n « p o t . i f dived, got her and took hfer to shore, where she, too, was revived. "By that time there were no more people visible In the water, so I swam to the Eastland and worked my way up on top of the hull, where I assist­ ed four firemen in taking bodies out of apertures that had been chopped through several places. We took out at least fifty bodies, mostly women and children, although there* were about a dozen men." GERMAN tRbpPS ARE APPROACH* INQ THE CITY FROM TWO ' -wif > PQ I NTr" -• -eg- *: * • f ? RUSSIANS FIGHT FIERCELY Most good talkers are ftoor quitters. Petrograd Official Statement Declares German1 Attack Was Repulsed at Several' Points, 'Aleng the' Front-" More German Troops Pouring In. Berlin, via London, July 27.--The Germans have crossed the Narew river on a front from a point south of Os- trolenka to Puitusk. Southeast of Pul- tusk the Teutonic forces are approach­ ing the Bug river. These two advances of the German troops in Russian Poland are an­ nounced in Monday's official statement, issued by the German army headquar­ ters staff. The movement indicates that tfto Germans ale niaking for the Warsaw^ Petrograd railway, which runs paral­ lel with the Bug river, 12 miles to the southeast. Petrograd, via London, July 27,-- The following official statement was issued from general headquarters to­ night: "There has been no fighting in the Mitau region. On the Janichiki-Shavli- Ro8siany front the enemy continued to advance eastward. "On the Narew front an enemy at­ tack on the left, back of the Pissa riv­ er, Thursday night, was repulsed de­ spite his use of poisonous gas bombs. The enemy is straining every effort in an attempt to force the Narew In Rozan-Pultusk sector and stubborn fighting occurred here yesterday. "Attacks on our advanced positions at Novogeorgievsk and Ivangorod were repulsed. Between the Vistula and the Bug there was vigorous fighting in the direction of Lublin and the en­ emy attempted an advance towards Belzyce. "Severe fighting occurred on the Khliqiel-Voislavltze front. The Rus­ sians made numerous successful coun­ ter-attacks Thursday night, penetrat­ ing as far ̂ s the enemy's artillery po­ sitions. Conditions of the fighting, however, did not permit of any guns which the enemy abandoned being car* ried away. 'In the region of Grubechow con­ siderable forces were concentrated by the enemy, who succeeded in advanc­ ing somewhat to the northward after severe engagements. 'Fighting on the Bug In the region of Sokol continued yesterday. New German troops were reported as hav­ ing arrived. News Brevities of Illinois MEXICO CITY IS RETAKEN Carranzlstas -Completely Evacuate City---Rahroad Comfminicatlofi~' 7 Suspended. Washington. Jufy 22.--Mexico City has been completely evacuated by the Cartanzistas under General Gonzales and now is in full possession of the Zapatistas, advices received at the state department Indicate. These disuatches. dated Mexico City, Monday noon, announced that the Zapatistas entered the city Sun­ day afternoon and appointed various city authorities. The Zapatistas are in full power, but apparently they de­ sire to maintain order. President Chazaro and the convention govern ment have not yet returned from Cuernavaca. where they fled on J u l y # Railroad <ftifemhnicatidn betweer Vera Cruz and Mexico City has beer supended. In a telegram dated Mon­ day at Piedras Negras. Vice-Consul Blocker -announced communication with Torreon was opened Sunday 1 IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS Connellsville. Pa., July 23.--Nine hundred ovens were, this week added to the producing capacity of the Con­ nellsville coke region, bringing pro­ ducing possibilities to 400,000 tons a week, if all were in blast. That point, however, was not reached, reported production having been 371,000 tons, with shipments 5,000 tons over 'the preceding week. Berlin, July 24.r-The American bark Dunsyre. bound from New York to Stockholm, bas been seized by the Germans and taken into Swinemunde. New York, July 26.--Fire from an unknown cause started in the forward hold of the steamship Cragside, at pier 55, West Twenty-sixth street. It spread with such rapidity that a sec­ ond alarm was sent in. The Cragside was loaded with $100,000 worth of -US riPwHnntinn yflfl eret ^ttoldi Open-Alr Servitfe. ' * London, July 27.--Rt. Rev. Arthur F. W. Ingram, the bishop of London, last night conducted a huge open-air inter­ cession service on the steps of St~ Paul's cathedral for the success of th»i. arms ot Great Britain and her allies. Lock Wilson's Double yp. • Philadelphia, July 27.--The double of President Wilson is locked up at the city hall awaiting extradition to' New Jersey, where he is accused ot nonsupport of his wife and chUdrexu He Is James K. Lewie. Thousands Die In Fto'o" Peking, July 26.--Latest reports from the flood district in southeastern China indicate that mor&than 176,000 persons have perished, ^weavy rains are falling again in the rivers o! Kwangsl and Kwangtung provinces. Austro-ltallan Clash. Weehawken, N. J., July 2<J.--Au» trlan and Italian dock workers at the West Shore railroad pier, loading flour for the allies, clashed here and two of the Austrians are in the boa pitsA. . A score of men took Hit H: ^Danville.--After working the great­ er part of a day, experts opened the safe at the local poBt office. There "was nothing In the safe. Mort Hain, formerly registry clerk, who Is charged with being short In his ac­ counts, was arrested aud was required to give bond of $4,000. He had beeii arrested when his alleged shortage was first found and hia-bond placed at $2,000. Virden.--'The Virden Masonic lodge, at its meeting, decided to build a new home. The building will be of brick, two stories high, with basement, and will cost about $15,000. The site for the home will be On the southwest corner of the square "Where the pres­ ent ^Virden public library and rest- room stands, and was purchased for $3,000. The home is expected to be completed by January 1. Pontiac. -- Thomas Taylor, Vin- cennes, Ind., and F. L. Koffey, Bloom- ington, are held here on charge of op­ erating a confidence game. Bert Yancey, a farmer of McLean, is the victim. Yancey sold his farm several days ago and was Induced by Taylor to come here. They invited him to participate in a poker game and had nearly all the returns from the sale of the farm when arrested. . Ur^ana.--A strike ^y carpenters and plumbers employed on the new chemistry annex at the University of Illinois because nonunion steamfltters were working on the job, threatens to cause serious delay. Proposals of the Milwaukee heating firm in charge to make concessions were scorned by the strikers and operations are indefi­ nitely suspended. Greenville.--A census of the auto­ mobiles in Bond county shows a to­ tal of 382, Greenville leading with 130. In the eight townships the division is as follows: Tamacco, 28; Pleasant Mound, 14; Mulberry Grove^Sl; Mills, 24; Lagrange, 13; Burgess, 86; Old Ripley, 12; Shoal Creek, 24. Chillicothe.--Local Santa Fe officials and employees are trying to colve the problem as to how the pest of Mormon flies can be handled so as not to men­ ace traffic on the road as they did last Bummer. The flies swarm by the mil­ lion all along the track and roadbed, and as the trains turn the curve they crush them by the thousands under the wheelB, making the track so slip­ pery that many of the trains are de­ layed on account of the wheels slip­ ping. Centralia.--Three boys were swim­ ming in an old pond south of Cen­ tralia. They were taking their last dive, when they saw blood on the wa­ ter. One of. the boys dived and brought up Carl Flanner, the eleven- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Flanner. He had a three-inch cut in his scalp. The boy, although serious­ ly injured, will' live. Quincy.--Qulncy was represented at the recent world's convention of Chris­ tian Endeavorers in Chicago by a dele­ gation which included members of three generations in one family. Capt. J. M. Brown, his daughter, Mrs. Wil­ liam V. Martin, state superintendent Of junior work and wife of the state president, and her two children at­ tended the sessions. Pana.--Mr. and Mrs. S. Lu$hra and family of Nokomis were taken sudden­ ly 111 following their me^l at which they ate toadstools, thinking them to be mushrooms. Before medical atten­ tion could be secured the little boy and gir> died. Mr. and Mrs. Luchra were rushed to Pana and placed in the Hu- ber Memorial hospital. Galesburg.--Two hundred boys--two from each township in the eight coun­ ties pf the district--will be guests of the district fair for an entire week free during the coming fair, August 14 to 21. The camp will be conducted somewhat after the order the boys' school at the state fair. Delavan.--Tazewell County Sunday School association has decided to have a uniform program for each township convention. An efficiency team will be named, whose duty it will be to con­ fer with each township committee in the^matter of preparation. Morton.--The 10,000 gallon* of oil put on the road from the village lim­ its north to Crandhall scholhouse, and from Daniel Roth's farm south of town to the Maple Grove schoolhouse, a dis­ tance of three miles, cost $270. Abington.--Knox county will have $23,200 to expend on the improvement of roads and bridges during the com­ ing summer; ^providing the county board can devise ways and means to meet the state allotment Anna.--The body of Hallie Collin Hall, twenty-four years old, Union county schoolteacher, who fell dead on the streets of Valparaiso, Ihd., was brought to his home in Anna and buried. Champaign.--Because he scored his congregation for playing croquet on Sunday, Rev. J. H. Baker, pastor of the Christian church at Ludlow, wag boy­ cotted. After he had preached a ser­ mon to empty seats be resigned. Dixon.--The Second regiment prac­ ticed trench digging, bayonet drill and repelling attacks under fire. The sig­ nal corps kept in communication with Camp Dunne and headquarters and di­ rected the movements of the troops as under battle conditions^ The officers were entertained by. the Dixon Com* mercial club at supper. Centralia.--Roland L<eo Jacobs, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Jacobs of Sandoval, lost the sight of his left eye when he fell from a buggy and struck his head against the dashboard. The eye-ball was torn. Petersburg.--The annual session of Old Salem chautauqua near Peters­ burg will open August 11 and continue until August 26. Monmouth.--It has been definitely settled that Senator L. Y. Sherman will be tbe oratorical attraction at the Tri- Ccunty Old Settlers' picnic to be held at Glass' grove in Kelly township Au­ gust 28. Geneva.--Kane county's apportion­ ment of money from the state for use in building state aid roads will be $24,- .000 for this year, a large increase over the apportionment received whec rhi first mon»;y was given. V •>,' M , ' » ' • . ' • ' • K y i ' ^ •:-i -1 Story of a. Man Who Was Mai* -JMJ. 6oot*> but Roving Feyar. Got the Best of Him. ^ •^V On May 4th, 1915, the S*. Paul Fartfc er'e Dispatch contained a very lntw- esting account of the experiences of % iman from Staples, Minn. Realizing that he was not making much head* way, he decided to look up a home­ stead in Canada. With $250 he his wife took up a homestead near Outlook, Saskatchewan. After recnir&i. Ing his experiences of a few years, in which they had undergone hardship# which were likely to be unavoidable^ with a small amount cf capital, ha continues the story by stating that in the fall after a fair summer's work on his 100 acres cropped, he cleaned up nearly all his debts, having now four good horses, a complete set ot farm machinery including two wagons and a "3weii" top buggy and eleven head of cattle. Ho continues, "Ho**- ever, 1 was not satisfied. I bad been reading of the splendid homestead® that were to be had In Montana., Wheat was cheap and I thought ti would get cheaper, so I began to think that homesteading as a moneymaking proposition was better than farming. I did not stop to consider that whefct was not the only thing; as a matter of fact I had sold pork for 14 cents * pound. Eggs and butter had kept us in groceries and more, we had ncrtr four milch cows, two heifers coming lit and more growing up. We had a cream, separator, and some hogs. We had * quarter section of land that could raise an abundance of small grain!, roots and grass for feed, but I coujkf not see all that; I had the 'moving fever, and decided to sell. :>? I set the price on the land at $3,009 cash. I could not find anyone witk that much money, however, so I camei down until I finally sold for $1,400. We had an auction and sold the pd^- sonal property. On the sale we g4j& just about enough cash to pay the ai$£* t i o n e e r ; t h e r e s t w a s a l l n o t e s . : i The horses brought about two-thirdi what they were worth. The Imple­ ments sold for hardly one-third {I what they bad cost. Tbe catlit brought a good price. 7 Must Make Another 8tart. We now have a homestead in Mott». tana, but we find that after moving' here and getting settled, what money we had did not go far. We have three horses, about all the Implements wi» need, and a little better building* than we had on our former place. We. have no cattle, though we had to build much fence to keep ranch stock out of our fields. We have about $&j$. worth of honest debts. ' True, we have a half section place of a quarter, but that Is no gocid to . us, as long as we have not tljf , capital with which to work it. In summarizing it all up I see wher# I made my mistake. It will take fully five years to get into as good clrcuttv Btances as we were before we mal£: the change. It Is five years lost. ' My advice to anyone contemplat­ ing a change of location is to think' twice before you act, and if your prqfc- ent circumstances are not too bad, 'stay by your bush till yon pick Jfc:: clean.' "--Advertisement ., • MADE THE CEREMONY BRI0I' Marriage Service as Conducted by Ml aioniNrjr JWas Binding • Not Lengthy;? • •' f; ^ ' -- Rev. R. R. podge is a missionary at Maui, one of the Hawaiian group dt islands. He is a most resourceful man^_ in his dealings with his charges, as hip - part in the following incident serve**- to Show: - ,..^ Recently a Japanese couple came Mr. Dodge with a request in sign la(^; guage They could not talk English ui»» derstandingly, and Mr. Dodge . could not talk Japanese, so he conducted the ceremony as follows: „ "You like this wahinef^*?-^4 if "Yes," - • ^ - - "Bimeby no kickoutr* "No." "You like this kaneTt (To the wom­ an.) u "Yes." "Bimeby no klekiiMitSr " "No."-. '• . • "Pu,e." ' • - s "Pau," And the ceremony eided. "Wahine" is Hawaiian for womaj^. "kane" for man, "pule" for pray, e*f* s "pau" for enough.--Konala Midgifl ^ (Maui). ' 4 i n 4 EVEN CAT WAS CONTRIBUTION Kitty, In Her Own Languag*. T.tllfl*^ to the Generosity of the Mayo ,v'\ Brothers. .. .-jgi.- • ^jUirindlanapolis woman who ly returned from Rochester, Minn;, where she was taking treatment qf.-; the Mayo brothers^ talla the foliowiD^ story of a farmer who was vtsitiofc, - in the city: " "And this park was given to Ufee*-" city by the Mayos!" he exclaimed. 'I "And the Mayos gave this libraf$"V to the city, and this church was built by the Mayos^and the money for thl» school was contributed by the • ^ ̂ MayoB," informed his host, as tbaivT sped about the city seeing tbe sight*' "Well, that is wonderful;" said tl» farmer. "They certainly have made/ Rochester. Here comes a cat, 1 sup' j pose that belongs to the Mayos, top»> £ Let's stop and ask it." "Say, Kitty, who do you belong to IP' r "Me-ow," replied the .cat.--Indian­ apolis News. f • Might Not Be In It y tftall I announce that 1 am tft race for congress?" N- , "Perhaps it would be nearer the ,1, timth to merely state that you are * :r-, candidate, my boy." - As In C«iro(i*.^ft i, Knicker--I hear you moved. Bocker--Well, we fell back trench o* the **xt block." p . - •tik. ;v, ; •"3M -• i - . . ' ... \ ' v . , i • • /> • , . ;