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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS FACTS THAT IX) TALK At Carlinville, the grand jury Jias< in-, 'dieted Benjamin Myers. "Jack" Frost and Ebb Bryant fo? murder for killing Engineer Holmes of the Chicago and Al­ ton on^rhe evening of May 1. At Decatur, the entire plant of the Citi­ zens' Mutual" Telephone Company, worth, $25,000, together with franchise, was sold to John A, Brown of Decatur, as trustee for a syndicate. The purchasing price was $9,4$8, and the bill of sale was made by the,Rev. (Charles G. Wood, who has held a cliattel mortgage on the prop­ erty for one year. The company has about GOO Harrison telephones in use.' One hundred farmers in New Lenox Jackson, Wilton and Manhattan have oli ganized a Horse Thief Protective Asso-. ciation. The association has twenty rid­ ers ready at command to jump" into the saddle to take up the trail of the thieves. About $500 is in the treasury to defray the expense's. The farmers of Whitefield township, Marshall County, have been the victims of an organized band o,f thieves, and for protection recently organized a -vigilance committee. The result of their first week's work was the capture of two thieves and the shooting of Henry Em- mett by Constable Somers. Emmett can­ not live. The Brown & Bruner Bank, the oldest banking institution in Massac County, suspended at Metropolis. The reason as­ signed was the business depression of the . last two years, the withdrawal of deposits and the inability of debtors to take up their paper. The amount of liability is not definitely known, but it .will probably ex­ ceed $S0,000. An inventory is being taken and an assignee will, probably be appoint­ ed. Depositors'have been assured tliat they will be paid in full, anil are confident that such will be the case. The city treas­ urer was a depositor, with the bank, but the city funds are doubly secure. The suspension was a total surprise. Superintendent Charles Pettigrew of the Illinois Steel Company announces that the company is going to erect a large con­ struction mill in Joliet on a twenty-acA tract of land owned by the company just south of the present works. This mill will be built at a cost of about $1,000,- 000 and will employ over 1.000 men. The company presented a petition to the City Council for the right of way on Colum­ bia street, which Tuns through their tract of land. The location is the best for man­ ufacturing purposes in the State, with switch tracks of five large railroads on three sides of the property. This will be the only mill of the kind in the West. A suit which has awakened great inter­ est was decided to-day in the Circuit Court at Geneva. Some time ago the property of John Furman, a Sugar Grove farmer, was sold for taxes, the tax title being bought by Henry Glas of Elm- hurst. The bid of Mr. Glas was for an infinitesimal part of the property, name­ ly a millionth of one-quarter inch line from the east end of one piece, and the millionth of one-sixty-fourfh inch line from another piece. Glas then put a cloud on the title by giving a trust deed for the entire farm. Furman sued to remove the cloud, and Judge Willis decided the case in his favor. He has now sued Glas for damages. At Jacksonville, on complaint of Chief of Police Goodrich, Mayor Widmayer. Aid. Ivittering and four of Widmayer's policemen were arrested on warrants charging them, with riot. Widmayer was elected in April by the aid of Republi­ can votes. The latter claim some of the patronage, and Widmayer refuses to give it to them. So as often as he makes ap­ pointments the Council repudiates them. The consequence is there are two heads to nearly all departments and two sets of officers. Friday night the Mayor headed his police force, proceeded to the city building and ordered Chief Goodrich and his force to vacate. Goodrick refused. Thereupon the Mayor and his appointees forcibly ejected two of the old officers and placed new locks on the building and prison. Over fifty cases of robbery at the Franklin Union picnic at Trout Park were reported at the Elgin police department. A crowd of crooks, some of whom were recognized as members of the Chicago Market street gang, accompanied the ex­ cursion, knocked down men and women and robbed them open handed. The park is beyond the city limits and outside po­ lice control. Constable Pluinleigh of El- • gin. who attempted to interfere in the fights, was robbed of his revolver, watch and several dollars in change. Three street car conductors were held up on the last trip late at night and robbed of their receipts.' Dr. Pratt, owner of the park, was held up and the admissions to' the park, about $400, taken from him. About thirty of the crooks, who strayed into the city limits, were caught by*"the I>olice and jailed over night. They were headed for home next morning. Six Chi­ cago men, who looted the Second Bap­ tist Church, were held to the grand jury in bonds of $400 each. The Illinois bureau of labor statistics issued its thirteenth annual report con­ cerning the statistics of coal in Illinois for the year ending July 1, lSy4. being nearly one year late. The tonnage of the coal output for the year 1889 was 14,017,- 208 tons; last year it was 19,040,504 tons, an increase of 5,902,260 tons. Consid­ ering the general business degressions throughout the entire country,' affecting most seriously two of the greatest fuel consumers in the land, the manufactur­ ing and transportation companies;' the do- crease in the output for the year proves to be far less than was anticipated and predicted by those in a position to know. Another cause, accessory to the common inactivity in all avocations, is recognized in the great strike that passed over the country during 1894. From careful data prepared by the bureau, furnished by State, inspectors, it was found that twen­ ty-seven, mines in the State were involved in the great strike, and that over 25,000 miners suspended work; the duration of suspension by these mines was sixty-one days and of the miners seventy-three days. Great progress has been made in the ven­ tilation of mines. The report gives an immense amount of statistical matter. Susan Cook, aged 105 and mother of sixteen children, was adjudged insane at Quincy and will be taken to the asylum. She has used tobacco for over sixty years. A tobacco sack containing $190 in gold was found at Virginia by the Payton Harding estate appraisers while making an inventory of deceased's personal ef­ fects. The- sack was hanging up on the wall. Harding was Cass County's oldest bachelor, lived entirely alone and was found dead at his country home J uae 2. Twenty-three hundred dollars in gold, which he had buried., disappeared a few years ago. More finds are expected. The Mayor of Jacksonville, at tire head of a number of his followers, made a de­ scent on iioliee headquarters, threw the chief and his policemen into the street and barricaded the doors. This was the result of the relief and his men refusing' to resign to make way for the Mayor's" new appointees. • , It took only a little more than an hour for the jury in Judge Burke's court at Chicago to agree upon a verdict in the case of William MeGee. For his part in the killing of Officer Duddles he is to serfe a life sentence in then penitentiary. The prisoner heard the verdict calmly, simply remarking to a bailiff: "Well, let it go at that." > the dressed beef trust is helped, the ad­ ministration is happy--but what about the American cattle grower?--Tribune, Sallt Lake, Utah. England's Wheat Imports. , The total imports of wheat into the United Kingdom during the years 1893 and 1S94 were as follows in hundred­ weights: ENGLISH IMPORTS OF WHEAT. . 1893. 1894. From * Cwts. Cwts. Russia 10,061,988 16,775,881 Germany , 362,086 715,043 France 1,452 -- 4,715 Turkey .-... 103.552 324,523 Roumania ... 89.272 108,089 Egypt 10,586 184 'United States.... .32.262,848^ 24,658,245 Chili 2,580.147 1,764,413 Argentine ' 7,845,587 13,272,152 British East Indies 6.196,096 5,349,056 Australasia 2,589,588 3,877,41S British N. America 3,157,355 2,S28,515 Other countries... 201,431 456,121 Totals. .... 65,461,9SS 70,134,355 It will be seen that England imported 4,673,000 hundredweights more wheat last year than in 1893. but she bought 7,600,000 hundredweights less from the United States, heir purchases in 1894 being larger than' in 1893 from every country in the world, except Egypt, the United States, ChilJr- India arid Can­ ada. . 7' _ r Of interest in the same connection is the statement of the, wheat crop of the world during the same two years, which we give as follows iii bushels; Bushels.- Bushels. 1893. 1894. N; America,-.-446,387,000 515,488,000 S. America.. SI.453,000 104.000,000 Europe ..... 1,469,526.(X)0 1,538,216,000 Asia 355.016.000 341,959,000 Africh 31,801,000 47,098,000 Australasia . 42,458,000* 43,360,000 Totals 2,420,731.000 2,590,121,000 HOW HE LOST HIS SWEETHEART. Courtship Rivalry of Tennessee Men and the Remarkable Outcome. When the morning express arrived re­ cently from BriCeville there came as passengers -Robert M. Lindsay and bride, nee Miss Nellie Girton, of Camp Hageinan, Ohio. Mr. Lindsay is one of the largest coal operators in this sec­ tion of Tennessee, and his arrival with a wife was a very happy surprise to his friends. Around their wedding is wov­ en a romance rather out of the usual run of affairs. About a year ago C. M. Moore, also of this place, visited the. Normal University at Lebanon, Ohiof and by acchlentinet Miss Girton, and fell in love with her. Moore and Lind­ say were bosom friends, and when the former returned to this place he con­ fided to Lindsay the details of hisrOhio visit In a joking way Lindsay vowed that he would win Miss Girton away from Moore, and the latter, with true chivalry, assured him that the contest Should be fraught with none save the kindliest feelings, and that the unsuc­ cessful suitor should be best man at the Wedding. Soon thereafter Lindsay ad­ dressed a letter to the lady in question. A correspondence soon sprung up and in the fall, Lindsay, after an exchange of photographs, begged the privilege of calling upon Miss G irton at her home. The latter referred his request to her father, a G. A. R. Veteran, who com­ municated with Tennessee comrades to ascertain what kind of a man Lindsay, was. In due course of time the father was informed that the gentleman was all that could be desired in the way of a son-in-law, and when Yuletide was at hand the Southerner was pressing his suit with Miss Girton. When, he re­ turned to this city at the close of the holidays he served notice upon Moore that it was the expressed wish of Miss Girton and himself that he should be the best man at their wedding in May The unsuccessful rival lived up to his bargain.--Cincinnati Commercial Ga­ zette. The Paens of Rowdyism. I have just been wading through several printed collections of music- hall songs, and find it impossible to convey, without pages of quotation, any adequate idea of the rank imbecil­ ity that cliarcterizes them, almost with­ out exception. It would perhaps be un­ fair to dwell on their metrical de­ ficiencies. There seems to* be -no rea­ son why verses for music should not be written in metre; but the rhymers may retort that there is no reason why they should. What is most striking is the utter poverty and monotony of their topics, the sordidness of their vijfrt^ of life, the baseness of'their ideals, the insincerity of, their enthusiasms, the total absence of healthy passion or in­ dignation and even of genuine, un­ forced gayety or sentiment. The hu­ mor is that of the mock Valentine, their pathos that of the pavement artist. They pass from praises of debauch­ ery and paeans of rowdyism to grimy caricatures of the sordidness of lower middle-class life, inept jocosities on love and marriage, birth and death, and patently insincere criticism on public events. Their philosophy is a mean and shallow knowingness, their patriot­ ism is cheap and empty bluster. The worship of the ugly, which leads the most popular "comedians" to assume a red nose when they have it not. and trick themselves out, with neither rhyme nor reason, in garments many sizes too large for them, inspires the literature of the music hall no less than its physical presentations.--The Con­ temporary Review. The Dainty Mull Gown. The beauty of mull is something that can never be denied, and while it is not particularly expensive material, it be­ comes rather costly to make it up, in­ asmuch as silk or satin is required for its lining, writes Isabel A. Mallon, in a daintily illustrated paj§e describing "The Fashionable White Gown," in the Ladies' Home Journal. That girl who Is at once fond of pretty clothes and economical, has saved the white silk or white satin party dress that has Served its time, and utilizes it, after it has been thoroughly cleaned, as a foun­ dation for the mull skirt, under which it looks so well. It might be that in­ stead of white it was a pale pink or blue that did service, for this would also be in good taste and make a very effective background for the thin mull. Instead of being plaited the mull skirt is carefully gathered and falls over its silky lining in fine curves. Its trim­ ming consists of three narrow flounces carefully hemmed by hand, and head­ ed by a quille, which is, iu reality, a triple box-plait of very narrow pink satin ribbon. Broad pink ribbon, that which is known as the sash width? makes the yoke; and the lower part of the bodice, which is of the mull, Is fulled to it. This fullness is evenly laid on the yoke edge, but at the waist it is drawn to the center so that a point­ ed effect is achieved. The yoke is overlaid with rather coarse lace, white in color, and the col­ lar, which is of the folded mull, has ail edge of lace turned over on it as if it were a specially-made rolling collar. Underground. . An interesting feature of Afghanis­ tan is the system of subterranean canals, or underground channels, that were made for connecting together the shafts sunk wherever water was ex­ pected to be found. Some of these canals have been carried to a length of about twenty miles. The canals are supposed to have been originated by King Hushung, who is also supposed to have built the seven great cities of Af­ ghanistan, besides Cabul. THE STATE CAPITAL. ; WHAT ILLINOIS' LEGISLATURE 1 - IS DOING. OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. COMPARISONS THAT CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED. REPORT OF WEATHER BUREAU : IS FAVORABLE. - Bad Wreck at Dixon--Bloody Deed Near Lincoln--Illinois Wheat Only Two-thirds of an Average Yield- Illinois State Fair Buildings,. tecords of the Gpyernment at Wash­ ington Show Significant Results-- The Best Policy for This Country Proven by Our Statistics. Warmer in Some States and Excessive Rainfall in Others--Spring Wheat in Excellent Condition--Judge R&rmon Takes the Oath of Office. An Impartial Record of the Work Accomplished by Those Who TWair*. Our Laws-How the Time Has Been Occupied During the Past Week. Under Republican Rule. During the four years of the Garfield and Arthur administration our total foreign trade was $512,362,773 more than during the four years of Cleve- land's lirst-term. an average of$128,- 000,693 annually. During the Harrison administration our total foreign trade was $1,25S,657- 0S6 more than during Cleveland's first term, an annual average of $314,664,- 272. • During the last two years of the Har­ rison administration our total foreign trade was $325,S76,300 more than it was during the first two years of the Cleveland present administration. Out- total foreign trade was $310,545,41(3 less in 1S04 under Mr. Cleveland and the Gorman tariff'than in-1892 under Mr. Harrison and the McKinley tariff.' ' Our exports during the four years of the Garfield and Arthur admiuistatioh averaged $96,052,223 more annually than they did during the four years of Cleveland's first administration. The average of our exports during the four years of the Harrison adminis­ tration was $170,481,324 more annually tlian. they were during the four years of the Cleveland administration. Our exports during the first year of the Gar­ field and Arthur administration were $296,422,S39 more than they were dur­ ing the last of the Cleveland adminis­ tration. , Our exports during the last year of the Harrison administration, under the McKinley tariff, were $334,323,611 more than they were during the last yeiar of Cleveland's first administration, and they were $138,137,576 more than they were in 1894 under President Cleveland and the Gorman tariff bill. These facts are very significant both in reference to the payment of the pub­ lic debt and to our foreign trade. They demonstrate clearly the difference be- ween a policy which protects the in­ dustries of the country and one that tears down protection. Yet the loss in our foreign trade by means of which we made such payments on the public debt is a trifling item in comparison with the immense loss that has been en­ tailed upon the industries of the coun­ try. Notice the panic of 1S03 and the great depression in business that pre­ vailed everywhere. Notice' again the Pullman railroad strike of 1894, which paralyzed business from on^jjnd of the country to the other. The losses at­ tending these changes in administra­ tion and changes in the policy iu re­ gard to our tariff and our money are incalculable. It is estimated by good judges that this country has lost more than ten billion dollars by the defeat of Mr. Harrison witli the policy of the McKinley bill and the election of Mr. Grover Cleveland with the attempt to carry out the policy of tariff reform and the effort to make changes in the standard of our money. These facts ought to be an ever present object-les­ son to the voters of this country. •• Killed in a Wreck. Train No. 182 on the Chicago and North­ western left the track Sunday just east, •of Dixon, and the engine and cars are a mass of wreckage. The killed and in­ jured are as follows: Lou Brooks, Chi­ cago, fireman, instantly killed: -FTpari - Brakeman WadleyvChieago, Crushed un­ der the engine; Charles Oberhart, serious­ ly hurt, will recover. Engineer Charles •Oberhart was thrown twenty feet and badly injured. The train was loaded with •California fruit and was passing the sta- * tion at the rate of at least forty miles an hour. The wreck occurred at 7:30 p. m., and when the engine left the track the re- » port was heard throughout the southern part of the city. The wreck was undoubt­ edly due to a defective rail on the inner ••side of the curve. Engineer Oberhart will recover." , .. „ Illinois Crops Fall Off. A bulletin issued by the State Depart- Tnent of Agriculture relative to the pros­ pects for \yheat says: On the 1st of May the prospect was all that could have been , wished for, when the general condition over the State was fixed at 92 per cent of ^n average. About this time a severe drought set in and has done great dam­ age tnroughout the wheat area. The damage done1 by the Hessian fly and chinch bug, of which there has been great­ er complaint than for any season in the past ten years, has been very great in ev­ ery locality where wheat is extensively raised. Many fields have been plowed up and planted to corn and other crops.. In a tour extending over an area of over forty counties not one single county can be reported above 75 per cent of an aver­ age condition for June 6, while the general average for the wheat belt is not greater than 62 per cent of an average condition for this date. The recent rains have been very beneficial to all Vegetation, but it is hardly possible that they can make fhe condition of the growing wheat good for more than two-thirds of an average yield. Ohio Company Is Successful. The State Board of Agriculture has just, let the the contract for the erection of the new machinery hall on the State fair grounds at Springfield to James "West- water & Co., of Columbus, Ohio, for $75,- 000. This building will be 500 feet long, with 176 feet extreme width and 125 feet mean width. There will be two towers, one on each wing, 135 feet high, with a large dome in the center. The distance from the ground to the top of the dome will be 134 feet. A machinery shed ex­ tends to the rear of the main building for. 374 feet, nicely covered with slate and glass. A veranda twelve feet wide will extend around this portion of the building, set on brackets. The building will be built of brick, steel, and tiling, concrete floors, and furnished with electrical pow­ er for all exhibits. Forty windows on the second floor will be devoted as memorial windows for deceased members of the board. Murdered by Tramps. Early Friday morning an Alton section hand found an unconscious man lying near the water Works pump house, two miles south of Lincoln. The head of the man had been crushed with a coupling pin. The body was found beside the smoldering embers of a fire, about which a number of tramps had passed the night, and though as yet unidentified, he was doubtless one of their number. A pail of beer had been in the hands of the crowd during the night, and the almost empty pail was found beside the blood-stained coupling pin which was used in the assault. The body had been stripped of all its clothing except the shirt, while across the railroad in a field were found a hat, pair of shoes und trousers, but these were not the size worn by the victim of the murderous as- soult. State News in Brief. J. V. N. Standish, president of Lombard University at Galesburg, resigned, and his resignation was accepted. Eighty delegates from neighboring cities attended the annual session of the Rock River Baptist Association at Sycamore. Miss Mary Taylor, living near Leroy, committed suicide by taking strychnine. The death of a sister affected her mind. The'fiew Waukcgan German Catholic Church was dedicated by Archbishop Fee- hail and sixty-five persons were confirmed. Miss Jane Addams, of Hull house, Chi­ cago. will open a summer school for girls at Rockford College, July S, for a term of four weeks. The Independent Western Star, Order of Chicago, a fraternal beneficiary society, was incorporated by the superintendent of insurance. Walter McBride, aged 24. a young farm­ er near Prophetstown, took strychnine and died within five minutes. A love af­ fair is said to have made him despondent. Henry Robbe, aged 20, was drowned while bathing in the Ivaskaskia river, six miles south of Carlyle. Oscar and Fred Berry were within a few feet of Robbe when he was drowned, but were overcome by fright. It now turns out that Lee Williamson, who disappeared from Rockford two months ago, leaving money in his room and wages due him. is iu jail at Sycamore, charged with robbery of a house at Genoa. , His friends think he must be insane. The body of Edwin Moore, a pension at­ torney of Canton, Mo., was found hang­ ing in a treetop on the Illinois side of the river fifteen miles north of Quincy. He had quarreled with his wife on May 20, and left home. Appearances indicate that • lie had killed himself the day he left home. He was 59 years old.- L. L. Williamson, of Rockford. went to Chicago two months .ago to spend the day and has not returned. He left several weeks' wages due him and money in his room. His friends fear he has been mur­ dered. a Chief of Foliee Baargren; of Rockford, was summoned to Chicago to take into •custody J. B. Mitchell, alias Howard, Who was arretted at the Northwestern •depot as he wfls about to take a train f^c Sycamore. Mitchell raised a check ^in Rockford last April. Chier, Baargren has been on his trail since, and gave the clew to the Chicago officers. In the morgue of one of the Peoria un­ dertakers^ who is also the coroner, was a '^suit.of clothes that had been taken off the corpse of a man named Evans, who had shot himself. A. tramp stole in, helped himself to the entire outfit and left his 1 own clothes in their place. K At Mount Vernon, City Marshal Wat- , son, assisted by Policemen Saterfield and Swisher, arrested three strangers who Were wanted by the sheriff of St. Clair Couuty. The men are accused of swind­ ling in all parts of the country. Softie stolen goods and skeleton keys were found •on thoir persons. Their names are S. E. Jennelle, Joseph Finn and J. Sheean. 'Thev wAre taken to Belleville. v. Doings of State Dada. ^ Monday Gov. Altgeld vetoed Senate bill ^ No. 362, being an act to amend section 1 ? of an act in relation to the consolidation of~"^»9a.rporflted - companies, approved March 9. 1S67. The Senate did but little work. The House passed Mr. Callahan's bill revising the election law; also the bill providing--that the election of judges for the Superior Court of Cook County shall take place at the same time that the county commissioners are elected; the bill providing that an insurance company may be sued in the county in which the plaintiff resides; Senate bill appropriating $1,150,875 per annum for two years for the ordinary expenses of the State char­ itable institutions, apportioned as fob >-^ low's: Northern hospital for the insane, $140,625; eastern, hospital for the insane, ' $260,000; central hospital for the insane, $125,000; asylum for insane 'criminals; $60,000; institution for • the deaf and dumb, $100,000; institution for the blind, $52,000j institution for feeble ifiinded chil­ dren, ̂ $72,250; soldiers and sailors' home, $149,500; soldiers' orphans' home!, $52,- . 200; charitable eye and ear infirmary, $26,000; State home for , uvenile female offenders. $15,000. „ £ • Gov. Altgeld-Tuesday sent, to the Sen-'?;: ate a veto of the bill abolishing the manu­ facture pf cigars at Joliet prison. Sena­ tor Crawford introduced the resolution for a constitutional amehdment.allowing Chicago to issue more bonds. The House passed the bill to prohibit the erection of buildings in public parks. The bill con­ tains a provision that oil petition of 100 legal voters the question of erecting any building in a public park shall be submit­ ted to a popular vote. Snedeker's bill re­ quiring the national flag to be placed on every school house or in every School yard was passed, also Cody's bill to prohibit barber shops from keeping open on Sun­ day. At the afternoon session the House passed the bill prepared by the Commit­ tee on Revenue providing for the taxation or sale of the unsold lands-granted to the illinois Central Railroad Company by the act of 1851 incorporating the company. It provides that all of the lands of the Illi­ nois Central not in actual use in the con­ struction or operation of its road remain­ ing unsold after Jan. 1, 1901, shall be sub­ ject to taxation. There are about 110,000 acres of these lands, located for the most part in southern Illinois. The Miller bilT abolishing fees in Chicago police justice courts failed to pass the House. This bill was introduced at the request of Gov. AJtgeJd, who wanted it passed before he sent in the names .of the new justices. In the Senate Wednesday the following (tills were passed: To amend the libel law; ! to amend the act providing for the health .ind safety of persons employed in coal mines; making an appropriation to Mrs. Tranquilla Freeman for services as su­ preme court reporter; making an appro­ priation for the ordinary expenses of the State laboratory of natural history; mak­ ing an appropriation foC the relief of Sam­ uel Warden; making an appropriation for the State penitentiary at Chester for two years; to amend the act revising the law in relation to the supreme court, provid­ ing that each judge have a private sten­ ographer; making an appropriation 4or the Illinois State reformatory at Pontine for,, two years; making an appropriation for the Joliet penitentiary for two years;, making an appropriation for C. Porter Johnson for salary due as secretary of the State Board of Live Stock Commission­ ers; making an appropriation for the Illi­ nois Industrial Home for the Blind at Chicago; to authorize all drainage districts to issue bonds and providing for their registration and payment; forbidding cem­ eteries to be located within three-quarters of a mile of any town; to amend the law in relation to Clerks of cour's; to provide for the payment of interest at the rate of 5 per cent, on municipal warrants; to amend the act to regulate the practice of medicine; providing for the recognition of practitioners in osteopathy; to amend the law in relation to juries. The demorali­ zation which invariably marks the last two or three days of the session set in in the House Wednesday. Paper balls, pub­ lic documents and the contents of waste baskets were freely distributed about the room. Weston's bill to authorize city councils and boards of trustees of vil­ lages to license bicycle dealers failed to pass--yeas 49, nays 59. Berry's bill re­ flating to the purchase of leased lines by foreign railroad corporations was recon­ sidered and passed--yeas 94. nays 23. A motion to place upon the order of second reading the Senate bill to appropriate $25,000 for the purchase of a tract of land south of the State House for the enlargement of the capitol grounds was defeated. The following bills were pass­ ed: To submit the question of license to a direct vote of the people of cities, towns and villages containing tess than J:5,000 inhabitants; providing tMr'TeaoBfers of special branches in the public schools shall not be required to take the examination in other branches; providing that assess­ ments for benefits in levee and drainage districts shall be subject to review by the County Court upon the petition of any property owner in the district. The Senate Thursday killed the arbitra­ tion bill. The Torrens land bill was passed. The bill to prevent the manufac­ ture of cigars in State prisons was passed over the Governor's veto in the Senate, but failed to get the necessary majority £u the House. The Senate passed the Lowenthal frontage bill, the substitute for House bill ,618, vetoed by the Gover- fiiar. The Chicago bond resolution passed &»d was sent to the House. The report on the St. Louis bridge companies was adopted. The report on slop-feeding was ti.'it. The Appropriations Committee made a report stating that the charges against tite trustees of the Industrial Home for the Blind aj: Chicago were not substantiat­ ed. The House passed the Lincoln Park bUl. ' A Patient Counterftjiter. Every now and then the secret ser- vtee officials of the treasury receive from some distaut bank a government note of large denomination, made with ti pen by an artist of infinite patience and skill. Sometimes it is a greenback cf one thousand dollars, sometimes it is a national bank note of five hundred dollars? and during the last few weeks two one hundred dollar treasury notes have come iu--all bearing evidence of having been made by the same hand, and so perfect in every detail that their & defects eau be detected only by tiie use if a microscope. Between seven and eight thousand dollars of the results of this artist's « work have been discovered, but not the slightest clue to the place of the,man .from whom they come. Some of Vae cotes are well worn, and look asW tney had been in circulation a lou^f time; some have been detected in bun~ riles of money sent in for redemption, ®nd "the pen-and-ink-man," as they call -him at the treasury, undoubtedly tarns his living by that sort of work. The Lion's Share, During last March our imports of all foreign goods amounted in value to $69,291,53:1 Of this amount of foreign goods the Europeans sent us their s&are, amounting to $33,271,329, showing that almost oue-half of our total imports came from Europe. During the nine months ending March 31, 1S95, our total imports from foreign countries aggregated $535,525,149, of Which Europe sent us to the extent of $286,7S9,316, or more than half the total. Europe sold us more goods than North America, South America, Asia, Oceanica, Africa and all other countries combined. Evidently our lat­ est tariff was a tariff for Europe. If we look .^little closer into these foreign exports we find that the United Kingdom sent us English goods worth $117,000,000, leaving less than 170,000,- 000 worth of goods to be supplied by the other twen / European countries. It is very evident that the British lion got his share. Why He Cannot Build. Democratic papers are taking much pains to tell the laboring man how much cheaper everything is nowadays and what bargains he can have if lie will only pitch iu and buy. And all this ow­ ing to tne Wilson tariff bill. The thoughts of the workingmeu when they read such stuff can best be inferred from the reply which one of them made to a man advancing a similar argument. Said this latter to tills laborer: "Jack, you had saved up some money, why don't you go to work and put up a home of your own? Why, man, you never could build as cheap as you can now, ever since the Wilson bill is in effect." Answered kMie laboring man: "Yes, curse fhe Wilson bill. I have been out of a job ever since it was pass­ ed. and my savings are gone."--Bur­ lington Ilawkeye. That "Tariff for Revenue." In the six fiscal years 1889-1S94 inclu­ sive, the public expenditures of this country averaged $374,424,463. The most important question of the day is how the revenue required to meet such annual expenditures shall be raised henceforth. Protectionists hold that it should be procured largely by a wise, well-framed tariff, avowedly intended to encourage and protect home indus­ try, with the purpose of developing our great resources, maintaining good wa­ ges, securing steady, prosperous home markets for farm products and promot­ ing generally the welfare of the Ameri­ can people. Free-traders, ^revenue reformers," "low-tariff" advocates and the like, who hold no opinions iu common ex­ cept hatred of protection, would raise the public revenue mainly by a com­ bination of the income tax, or other class taxation, with a low tariff, framed with no guiding patriotic principle, and in servile imitation of the British cus­ toms duties. The Wilson tariff bill as sent from the House to the Senate is an instance of the piecemeal which Democrats would make of protection if they were not restrained by the pro­ tective element in their own and in the Republican party. The lines are thus clearly drawn. The tariff question will i.iot down. It is too closely connected with the vital inter­ ests of the American people to be shelved. The principle of protection must ever be reasserted in thunder tones and receive practical application. The Southern Advance. The indications are strong that South- i ern men are more willing than hereto­ fore to consider carefully the principles on which protection to home industry is based. They have ceased to associate this national policy with hostility to the South. The Baltimore and Ohio and the Southern railroad companies are doing their utmost to attract new in­ dustries to places in their respective re­ gions. Able Southern publications con­ tinue to demonstrate the importance of diversified industries. All that the South needs to be on the right track is to see that such industries are the direct outgrowth of protection and depend on it for prosperous development It is only as the entire country advances in industrial independence that the South can expect the establishment of more factories within her own limits,J# de­ velop her wonderful Resources. Morton's Great Work. The- Amerieau cattle grower who is a Democrat can/now have an object lesson of Democratic practice more for­ cible than any mere theory could bring to him. By yeason of the scarcity of cattle American growers were about to receive fair prices for their stock, but Secretary, Morton took it into his head to interfere,' and in order to knock down the price, under pretense of fighting the dressed beef trust, he ordered that im­ ports of ^Mexican cattle be permitted. Forty thousand of these are now com­ ing in. The beef t!rust promptly takes them and keeps up tip price of dress­ ed beef precisely as before, but uses the Mexican cattle importations to de­ press the price of cattle on the hoof. The ̂ -Mexican cattleman is delighted, How to Succeed. It is not when people are just about to vote that they should lie told for the first time why they ought to uphold pro­ tection to home industry. Nor is it dur­ ing the excitement and turmoil of cam­ paign times that they can learn best why free trade has always injured this country, while protection lias never failed to make it prosperous and happy. It is by cool, deliberate .argument dur­ ing periods of political quiet that pro­ tectionist principles can be inculcated most successfully. What Free Trade Does. During the last quarter of a century England's export trade of home prod­ uce has decreased from £195,000,000 a year in 1S92 to £143,000,000 a year in 1S94--a falling off of almost 25 per cent This is the example that the free­ traders desire this country to follow. Smoke American Tobacco. Not only are we buying more foreign tobacco, but we are exporting less American leaf. During March we pur­ chased $400,000 more foreign leaf to­ bacco than in March, 1894, and iu the same month we sold over 8.000,000 pounds less of American tobacco. Labor's Outing 1S92. JUDSOX HATiMOX State Olney, his predecessor. Then he visited the Department of Justice. At­ torney General Harmon's welcome was a cordial one on all sides, but especially from Secretary Carlisle, who was the only cabinet officer previously acquainted with him. Mr. Harmon spent the afternoon in receiving the officials and newspaper inen who called. -- Telegraphic Brevities! Luntz Graham, postmaster at Bower, Neb., was fatally shot by robbers. William Jones shot and killed Joseph Shuey in a quarrel at Delphi, Jhd. William McDonald was«arrested at Detroit, Mich., charged with having two wives. . . ." . \ The McMyler Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, O., has increased wages 10 per cent. ~ The Southern Pacific has reduced rates on wines shipped from California to the East 3 coats a gallon. Bishop Davis of the Episcopal diocese of Detroit condemns balls, fairs, etc., as a< means of raising money for the church. The backbone of the strike which has been in progress several weeks at the Farwell woolen mills at Qpntral Falls, R. I.f is broken. 4 o." Egyptian "Writing., ... The Egyptians had four separate and distinct styles or forms of writing--the hieroglyphic, the hieratic, the enchorial and the Coptic. The hieroglyphic was probably in use as early as the year 4,000 B. C., and at first was made up entirely of pictures.. About the year 2,000 B. C. the hieratic form or style was introduced. In this the picture hieroglyphics Were greatly simplified, finally developing into forms purely linear. Bacteria ini^he Sardine. A particular epidemic which attacks fishermen in the sardine industry is said to take the form of whitlow# on the fingers. They are due, it seems, to the tandling of fish which are infected by certain specie#. »f bacteria. An in­ teresting feature in the Observation Is, we arfr told, that for the production, of t h e s e w h i t l o w s t w o d i s t i n c t s p e c i e s o f . bacteria are necessary. n Labor's Outing 1894,