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& TITfc McHT^TtY - # rt ' % fV* p STATE FIRES 11X6 HOVE ^MONTHLY REPORT ISSUED FIRE MARSHAL WALTER ) ^. H. BENNETT. BY r'Sj-. 686 BLAZES IN CHICAGO .Tyy' .•• . ' t -•>• » ) II'. - . { : ^$i&2,900 Total Loft for Mo*«v Ao- ^ cording to the Statement--Sparks - ; Known to Have Caused the VU&roatest Number.. • m-' te£/s Jeld.--Fires in niiTrffls in th« month of November, according to the report issued*from the department of State Fire Marshal Walter H. Ben­ nett, incurred an aggregate loss of $1,- 292,300. Of this amount, $728,392 was on the buildings burned; the remain­ der on contents. The total number of fires in the state in the month was 1,6SS. Of this number 686 were in the city of Chi­ cago. Insurance which was carried, in the aggregate, covered the losses. Dwellings, barns, stores and sheds constituted by far the greatest num­ ber of fires, so far as class of build­ ings burned was concerned. V'-t Afek Setting for Other Fergus Suits. Demurrers were filed in the Sanga­ mon county circuit court by Attorney General Luoey in the three injunction suits brought by John B. Fergus against State Treasurer Russel, Audi­ tor of Public Accounts Brady, and Sec­ retary Stevenson, to restrain the pay­ ment of certain appropriations which are still pending. These suits are those making appropriations for the contingent fund, for the expenses of special commissions, known as the "O'Hara" case, and, for the payment of private damage claims against the state. Assistant Attorney General Arthur Roy will go before the court this morn­ ing and ask that) these cases be set for hearing. Will Investigate Halselden's Case. I A thorough investigation into the J circumstances attending the death of the Bollinger baby in Chicago will be made by the state board of health, it was stated by Dr. C. St. Clair Drake secretary of the board, after reading the transcript of the evidence at the inquest, which he had requested Cor­ oner Hoffman of Cook county to send |i!m, and which he received Wednes­ day night, owing to charges of unpro­ fessional conduct on the part of Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, the attending phy­ sician in the case, having been filed with the state board of health by Rep­ resentative Dr. George U. Lipschultz. As a preliminary step to the hear­ ing Doctor Drake will hold a confer­ ence with Attorney General Lucey on his return from Washington with a view to having the necessary legal procedure instituted with as littl^e de­ lay as possible. The hearing will probably be held in Chicago at the January meeting of the state board of health. If Doctor Haiselden is found guilty of unprofessional conduct he will be deprived of his license to practice med­ icine. . Illinois Leajis in Rescus Work. Thomas H. Devlin of Assumption, chairman of the state mine rescue commission, has declared the mine res­ cue organization of Illinois to be more efficient than that of any other state in the union. Mr. Devlin attended a state mining board and other persons meeting of the commission with the interesting in the mining industry. A year ago there were six men in the state trained to render efficient £id in case of a mine explosion or fire which endangered the life of the men," said Mr. Devlin. "Now there are- 42 men in the state, seven at each of the three rescue stations and seven at each of the three subiitations. t>ata compiled by the federal government shows that this state has the lowest proportion of mine fatalities to the number of men employed than any other mining state." SUFFRAGISTS IN ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL Phsasant May Lose Protection. That the annual report of the game wardens of the slate may bring about a change in the state game laws re­ garding pheasants was admitted by members of the state fish and game 'Commission. Many farmers are con­ vinced that pheasants are destroyers of quail and other birds to whom the farmers look upon to keep many in­ sects from their crops. The farmers declare the pheasant is a quarrelsome bird and not only chafes quail and prairie chicken, but invades the farm lands and battles with domestic fowls. 8ays U. 8. Holds Up Waterway. Governor Dunne of Illinois told thp national rivers and harbors congress at Washington, D. C„ that a rocky ledge only 65 miles long between Lockport and Utica is the only real obstruction to the operation of commercial vessels between the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, the governor declared rain splashing on the roofs of a row of houses at Rldgland moved toward th9 Mississippi river or the St. Lawrence river, according to the side of the houses the drops fell on. To remove the barrier, Illinpis was willing to spend its own money, the governor said, and asked uuly from the government of the United States the privilege of digging. "For five months," he asserted, "the state of Illinois, through * its officials, has been endeavoring to get permis­ sion from the secretary of war and the board of army engineers tp com mence work. "So prudent and cautious are the en­ gineers in their recommendations for waterway improvement, we have not yet been told we might go ahead, commend these officials for their con­ servatism and their careful guardian­ ship of the people's interest." Honor System Abolished. The end "of the famous Joliet honor system, credit for which both Gover­ nor Dunne and former Warden Ed mund M. Allen claimed, and over which the split that ended in Allen's resignation last August resulted, was announced by Michael Zimmer, pres­ ent warden. The present system is declared by Zimmer to be highly unsatisfactory. It has been in vogue for the last two years, when Allen was appointed head of the prison. It will be replaced by a real honor system which, according to the former Cook county sheriff, will give to those who really deserve honor privileges the opportunity of bettering their lives as convicts by their own hard work. The change will be effec­ tive January 1, 1916. "It's up to the boys," the warden said. "They've got to come through to tire January 1, 1916." fnoorporatlons. New corporations were licensed by the secretary of state at Springfield as follows: Arthur Lowy company, Chicago; capital, $2,500; Incorporators, John D. O'Connell, .flfred Livingston, John E. Crahen. Colchester Elevatbr company, Col- Chester; capital. $5,400; incorporators, Charles W. Welch, George M. Zimmer­ man, William Murray. K. W. Battery company. Chicago; capital stock increased from f10,000 to $50,000. Fortin Auto Livery company, Kan­ kakee; capital. $2,500; Incorporators. George A. Fortin, Edmond L. Fortin, A. H. Fortin. £ Guaranteed Quantities corporation. Chicago: capital $6,000; incorporators. H. M. Saumenig, D. 1. Graham, D. L, Kflian. Harrv c. Rowe company. Chicago; capital. $2,500; incorporators, Harry C. Rowe. Robert K, StoU. Hubert L. Hiiddleston. Kantro Chandelier company, Chlca- go; capital, $2,500; incorporators, Har­ ry W. Rosenblum, John J. Burns, Dao- 1*18. Smith ^ Health Board In Bollinger Qulfc. "Tie state bohrd of health is con­ ducting an investigation into the Baby Bollinger case. One important feature of the case involves that intangible thing, "professional ethics," and the state authorities are particularly anx­ ious to ascertain if Dr. Harry J. Haisel­ den exploited the case in violation of the ethics of the profession. Eh*. C. St. Clair Drake, secretary of the state board, wants to know how the newB of the case reached the pub­ lic. Doctor Drake has sent for a transcript of the evidence takw at the coroner's inquest. This will be gone over carefully. Changs In 8tate Quarantine. A new order changing the foot-and- mouth disease quarantine in Illinois was announced by the live stock board. It affectB the following coun­ ties: McDonough--Exposed townships of Blandinsville, Hire, Tennessee, Col­ chester, Lamoine, Bethel, Industry, Eldorado and those portions of Scn- ita, Emmett and Chalmers townships lying west of range 3, west, become free area; remainder of county re­ mains closed. Lake--Shields township remains re­ stricted; remainder of county free. Cook--Territory within three miles of infected premier,s, sections 31 and 32 Lyons township, remains restricted. Union stock yards also remains re­ stricted; remainder of county free. Dupage -- Territory in Downers Grove township within three miles of infected premises in Lyons township. Cook county, remains restricted. Re­ mainder county free. Bureau--Territory in Hajl township within three miles of section 31, Dlm- mick, La Salle county, becomes re­ stricted instead of closed. Remainder of county free. Livingston--Ten itory within three miles of premises of J. P. Dippon, sec­ tion 2, pwigtt township, becomes re­ stricted Instead of closed. Remainder of county free. Status in Fultoi, Marshall, Stark and Warren counties unchanged. Order Dunning Death Quiz. Fred Rebmann, an inmate of the State Hospital for Insane at Dunning; was found scalded to death and two attendants in the "death ward" were ordered suspended for further investi­ gation. NEWS OF THE STATE Mo sooner was congress assembled than. Hie Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage began its attack on the capitol for votes for women. The members are here seen on the steps of the capitol after their parade through the streets of the city. Senator Sutherland and Representative Mondell addressed them. 0HI(f CORN CONTEST WINNERS IN GOTHAM Mount Sterling.--Mrs. Wash Ritten- house, sixty-five years old, was burned and died an hour later. She had been rendering lard on a cook stove and her dress caught fire. Grayville.--Prof. Elbert Waller, sib perintendent of schools, has ended one of the most successful Sunday school conventions ever held in this town­ ship. Professor Waller spoke and business and professional men had places on the program. Joliet.--James Murphy, one hun­ dred ami seven years old, died in Joliet at the tesldence of bis daugb ter, Mrs. J. H. Foran. Ha was born in Courty Mayo. Ireland, an J came to the United States when he was six­ teen years old. Rock Island.--Hugh Alvine, a spe­ cial agent In the employ of the Rock Island road, was found dead with a bullet hole in his head at Carbon Cliff east of here. Dan Chaston, a dis charged switchman, has been arrested. Rock Islund-- Mm. Anna Olson was probably fatally burned in an explo­ sion of a can of gasoline while she was trying to start a fire. Kewanee.--Going Into his back yard William W. Bryner fell dead. He was a corporal in the Civil war in the Four teenth West Virginia regiment Benton.--Mike Minoch was slain and his body cut to pieces at Zelgler. Isaac ! Studen and Mike Barnicio are held Ir the Franklin county jail at Benton O' tie eharge of murder. Twelve hundred and fifty boy and girl winners of the Ohio state agricultural prise corn contest recently were rewarded by a fine trip down East. In the course of the tour thsy dropped in on New York and took la the sights of the metropolis. The photograph shows their parade up Fifth avenue, headed by their Girl band. AND MRS. WHITLOW AT HOME PAPER SUITS FOR AVIATORS Specially posed photograph of Brand Whitlock, American minister to Bel­ gium, and Mrs. Whitlock taken after their arrival in this countny. Mr. Whitlock has had a conference with the president and is now recuperating from an attack of illness. He will sail for Europe on December 28. The excellent way in which the minister has performed the difficult duties of his position has caused his name to be mentioned for second place on the Demo­ cratic ticket with that of President Wilson. SHELLING GERMANS AT OSTENDE vO^KS This is the first picture ever taken of one of the new British monitors in action. The picture reveals a ' British naval secret. These monitors, with their 15-inch guns, have a range equal to that of th§*Queen Elizabeth. Only one gun is mounted on a ship and the advantage lies in the fact that moni­ tors are about one-tenth as expensive as dreadnaughts, and the long range of the gun enables them to keep out of reach of the German land batteries. This monitor is bombarding the German naval faf se at Ostende, Belgium. INTERESTING BITS A German scientist has demonstrat­ ed that radium has a marked effect on woody plants, even forcing them to bud in dormant seasons. A practically acid-proof alloy has been invented by a German chemist, who has added small amounts of molybdenum and chromium to iron Some of the Practical Advocate. Reginald--I saw Miss Gwendolen looking over diamond rings in Goldy's yesterday. His Sister--Tou had better look ont, Reggy. • I heard her say the other day she believed in preparedness. Somewhat Different. Elowitt--Do you mean to tell 150,000-horsepower • that Knox said I was an Agnostic? me aVailable at the Assuan dam in Egypt will be used for the production of at­ mospheric nitrogen by elect*Ictiy. Knowitt--Not in so many words. He merely said you didn't know anything for certain. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS BRIDGE IS A WONDER QUEBEC 8TRUCTURE 8URPASSE® ANY EVER ERK^TEDr^ {This. i~ one uf the new paper suits made for aviators who Intend to fly to great altitudes. The outfit includes coat, trousers, socks, and cap with earlapB. The material is very thin and can be washed and dried. Paper, being a nonconductor, keeps the cold out and prevents the heat from escap­ ing. Report on Platinum. In the annual statement on the pro­ duction of platinum and allied met- als in 1914, now available for distribu­ tion by the United States geological survey, 570 ounces of crude sand, with a value of $18,240, is reported to have been produced. This expensive metal <8 not used so freely in the dental and electrical industries as formerly, be­ ing partly replaced by cheaper met* als. Trench Knife Fearful Weapon. The latest thing in articles of de­ struction is the "trench knife," which has a blade of about 15 inches, and which 1b used for fighting in the trenches where there is no room to swing a sword or bayonet Money to Burn. Smith--I don't know what's the matter with my furnace; it doesn't seem to heat the house at all. Jones--Does it draw all right? Smith--I should say it does. It draws about nine-tenths of my salary every week. Victim. a cold like every- Indirect "1 see you have body .else." "This isn't a cold. I simply got hoarse telling all my friends how t« cure their colds.' Bloomington.--The seventh annual convention of the McLean County As­ sociation of Highway Commissioners was held here. Chicago.--Friends of Miss Jane Ad- dams were encouraged with reports that her condition shows steady im­ provement. Physicians say she will be able to leave the hospital within a short time. » Danville.--G. E. Lester, a wealthy farmer, near Mansfield, has mysteri­ ously disappeared and his family fears he has met with fcul play. Before leaving home he sold some grain and stock and received $4,500. Peking--Mrs. Petronella Weeken, the oldest woman in this section of central Illinois, died. She was ninety- nine years old on Oeteber 29. Mrs. Weeken emigrated from Germany 40 years ago. Chicago.--Freshmen at the Univer­ sity of Chicago have decided to enlarge their vocabularies. It wae announced the undergrade had organ­ ized the Neoiogical club. Search will be made for words with power and suggestiveness. Slang and the util­ ization of popular phrases also will be considered. Peoria.--The first open clash in the crusade to close Peoria's 300 sa­ loons on Sunday took place when the first of three cases of retail liquor dealers charged with violating the state law was called for trial before Justice Mosley. The result may have a state wide effect. Warrants for the men were sworn out several weeks ago Danville.--Jefferson Wells, a farmer, has been sentenced to 30 years in the state prison at Chester, after being convicted on a charge preferred by his niece, May Taylor, fourteen years old. \V(?lls, who is forty-five years old, has a wife and five children, two of them older than \liss_ Taylor. He fled last April when the girl told her story to her mother, who is Wells' sister. Wells was arrested at Great Berd, Kan., a short time later. Chicago.--A mender of broken hearts is wanted. Not in the court! of domestic relations this time, but at! the offices of the Illinois free employ-1 ment bureau, 526 South Dearborn ' street. His work will be only with Juvenile hearts that have been broken through the "death" of "Dollie." "One doll repair man--salary to arrange," is the way the appeal is made in the pro­ saic notices'sent out by the bureau. There will be hundreds of broken dolls and broken childish hearts a few days after Christmas, when the careless little "mothers" drop their "children" down the front steps. Chicago.--Dr. Harry H. Haiselden, who permitted the Bollinger baby to die without performing an op­ eration because he believed the child would be a defective, may be cited to appear before the state board of health at a special" meeting called for next Friday in the Hotel Sherman. Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, sec­ retary of the board, has said Doctor Haiselden would be summoned to show cause why his license should not be revoked for alleged unprofessional conduct. Doctor Haiselden's reply was that he received his license be­ fore 1899 and the state board bad no power to revoke it. Ottawa--Going to his home, two and one-half miles east of Marseilles, for the purpose of getting shotgun shells he planned to use on a hunting trip, Dan Ellsbury, twenty-seven, found his brotheiMn-Iaw, Robert Gra­ ham, twenty-four, asleep in his bed. Thinking Graham took advantage of his absence to visit his wife, Ellsbury fired five shots with a shotgun at Gra­ ham, killing him. At the time of the shooting, which was on an upper floor, Mrs. Ellsbury was in a downstairs room. After the shooting Ellsbury walked to Marseilles, and at seven Sunday morning reported at the Cres­ cent paper mill, where he worked. Ellsbury and his wife had not been living together for the past two weeks, and the former blamed Graham for the trouble which resulted in their separa­ tion. Chicago.--New officers have been elected to bead Hazen post, Grand Army of the Republic, an organiza­ tion once numbering more than 500 and now with about 30 members The new officers are: Commander, G. W. Snead; senior vice-commander, Nicholas Schreiber; Junior vice-com- tnander, Ernest von Daniels; adjutant. James T. Gibson; quartermaster, George Trayes; surgeon, Patrick Quon; chaplain, Holland Hahdbury; officer of the day. Benjamin Panette; patriotic instructor, Lyman C. Jacobs; officer of the guard. Patrick Joice; sergeant major, Charles Moses; quar­ termaster sergeant, William Bank- hart; delegate, Patrick Quinn; alter­ nate, Benjamin Paynette. The post passed resolutions favoring the adop­ tion of a complete program of pre­ paredness. Chicago.--Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, aged ninety-nine, the first woman to be graduated in medicine in the United States, died at her borne here. She received her degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1854. Galesburg.--Mrs. Mary Roe. who celebrated her one hundredth birthday anniversary January nineteenth this year, died at her home at St. Augus­ tine. She had been sick in bed two weeks. Mrs. Roe was a native of Nor­ wich, N. Y. Eight children, 45 grand­ children and 88 great-grandchildren survive. Duquoin.--J. Quinn Chariton, sheriff of Perry county, announced the ap­ pointment of John H. Hughes of Plnck- neyville to be chief deputy, to succeed Creed Smith* also of Pinckneyville, resigned. Huggins is chairman of the Democratic county central committee and has been active in politics lor years. Danville.--Jefferson Wells, a farm­ er. was sentenced" to thirty years in the state prison at Chester, after being convicted on a charge ol criminal .assault committed a year ago. preferred by his niece, May fa? lor. fourteen years old. ; v *£%•• •*" .. .. J Only the Famous Firth of Bridge in Scotland, Constructed In the Same Manifer, Approaches^ It in Magnitude. In its general dimensions as well as In the enormous size and weight of tho structural members composing it, the Quebec bridge, now in an advanced stage of construction, surpasses any other structure of the kind ever erect- id, says Popular Mechanics. The one bridge structure in the world that ap­ proaches it in magnitude is the fa* mous Firth of Forth bridge in Scot­ land. the main channel span of which is nearly one hundred feet shorter than that of the Quebec bridgei. Both structures are of the cantilever type. The channel span of the Quebec bridge, measured between centers of towers, is 1,800 feet. The design and fabrication of the steel for the struc­ ture therefore presented engineering problems for which no precedents ex­ isted, and the first attempt to build the bridge made by a private company, resulted in a collapse of the structure in which many lives were lost. Fol­ lowing that catastrophe, the Dominion government took over the work, and a year later undertook the construc­ tion of the bridge. The present bridge is on the same site as the original structure, but owing to an increase of twenty-one feet in the width between trusses and to a considerable increase in the weight of the superstructure, ^ new piers were necessary, and these were built immediately south of, and adjacent to, the original piers. The two main piers alone contain approxi­ mately 60,000 cubic yards of masonry ^ - and cost in the neighborhood of $1,- 500,000. One of these piers goes to ^ -" a depth of sixty feet below the bed of the river, and the other to a depth of e i g h t y f e e t . . . . In the erection of the bridge the an- chor arms, which lie between the main . v-Jg| piers and the shore, were constructed on steel falsework, while the canti*> v'fVl > lever arms are being built out over the fj||| river without falsework by the canti- ' lever method. The 640-foot suspended; > i truss to connect the cantilever armay- : will be built on shore, floated into po-fr^j^^ sition on pontoons, and then raised fcy V"" powerful jacks and connected with the ^ '" cantilevers. For the erection of the heavy bridge members two travelings , cranes, one working on each side oCr^""Y*- the river, are us«d. Each traveleiviL:-Ja. weighs about one thousand tons, and. . Is equipped with two hoisting ma-»v . chines each capable of lifting one hun-»- dred tons. The principal feature oS:' the travelers is a tower that stands^ 200 >f£et above the floor of the bridge^: Sypported on top of the tower craws through which the lifting linea( * are worked. All the machinery o»- ; the travelers is electrically operated. V; To avoid bringing uneven stresses on ' the partly completed structure, simi«;; ,^;|^; ^ lar members on the two sides of th®#- s bridge are lifted by the cranes andl . erected simultaneously. The total . i length of the bridge between* abut- \ ments is 3,239 feet. As now planned, It should be possible for trains to cross the bridge by the end of the year 1916, . ; * , J . • : Aluminum In War. v Austria and Germany use BKW , aluminum for war purposes than all - j - * the other warring nations combined* ^ ' It has been known, in fact, that Gert , ^ many has for some years been collect# '<>%?$ * ing1 and storing the metal for war ^ uses. I'"' *" The great majority of the drinking mugs, cans and cups of the German: :W. are^-;-J,^1- soldier are made of the ltght metal* ; The frames tor Zeppelins and th», fuseB for shells are made from alu* mlnum. One of th« difficulties the Ger­ mans have had to face is the short* age of copper necessary for the rings Around shells. Many of the German shells are now provided with alumin­ um rings. Although aluminum does make substitute, even in cartridges as well as shells and fuses, it is not so good as copper. The French authorities ex­ perimented with it some years ago foipr artillery purposes, but rejected it. The Germans are using it in suchfe large quantities because they're forcedl to do so on account of the shortage of copper. I Chase's Valuation. William M. Chase figured amusingljt • In a transaction concerning himself ^ and an unartistic congressman who ; owns a bad painting. "Isn't that grand?" the latter Te» marked when pointing out his pur* chase. "A great bargain, too. Got it .-V for four hundred dollars, and William^ M. Chase says it is worth ten thousand ? dollars." J; A friend of the painter heard statement and took it to Chase, who g smilingly explained: "He cornered me one day and want* , . ed me to fix a value on it, but 1 told him 1 couldn't do it. He then came at >' me with a question I couldn't dodge: ^ vjj "'Well. N^r. Chase. how much would l you charge to paint a picture like that?' "1 assured him moat earnestly tha^< ^. I wouldn't paint one like it for tsa - ^ thousand dollars." r-*3^ ; • %'j Overheard at the "Movies." Children, and little girls, especially* can ask many questions and in some' • instances, unanswerable questions, aft ^; was demonstrated In a photoplay ter the other evening. ^ "Mamma, what does that say?^fv asked the little girl four years oldfe.^>js who referred to a paragraph of l-Yenctof^ Vj thrown on the screen. ? The mother did not answer tm®edK'.\-> i ately, but the query was so loud tha|. persons .ail around the little girl an<| •-^.;r her mother beard it. There were many ( smiles and laughs as they realised inability of the mother to answer th* ^ child's question. , c t However, the mother was able "make good" because an English tst^v. * ^ • sion of the paragraph tfKjjjiWB. mediately afterwarC