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• ' t >' PRIDE. THE SUPERB INSTITUTION AT LINCOLN. Dedication of the New Cottage for Boys in Connection willi the .Or­ phans' Home--Sketch of the l'r&B" ress of This Noble Work. An Imposing Event. Odd Fellows from many Illlinois cities gathered in Lincoln Tuesday to eelebrnte' ihe enlarged usefulness of a cherished in­ stitution. A cottage for boys has been ad­ ded to the orphans' home, and it was dedicated with ap­ propriate eeremo-^ nies. i. Among those present were: John W. Stebbins, of Rochester, X. Yr, the grand sire: Judge Phillips, of Virginia, 111., grand master; all the officers of the Grand .Lodge of Illi­ nois, and representatives from the subor­ dinate lodges of Odd Fellows, the on- •campmente of the Rebekah organizations. The ceremony Consisted .of the dedicatory .•exercises' by a staff,from Decatur and ad­ dresses by the grand sire and graud Pias­ ter. V '• . Excursion trains and large delegations accompanied by. bands of music to par­ ticipate in the "parade arrived from the following places: Chicago, Blooming- ton, Peoria, Decatur, Danville, Cham- .paign". Clinton, Havana,; Mason - City, .Springfield,^ Atlanta and' Mount Pulaski. The, establishment of this home. Was Agitated as early as 1888, and a charter •was secured, but there was no money for m / JOHN W. STEBBINS ODI)-FEI.LOWS' ORPHANS' HOME. the project. The Grand Lodge of 1889 adopted a resolution by Deputy Grand Master B. S. Conway that the sum of $849.92, which was a surplus in the hands -^of-thegrand treasurer, set apart for char­ itable purposes, be given as a donation to the orphans' home. On the same day a resolution was offered by George W. Ohowning, pledging front the two lodges -of Lincoln a donation of forty acres of land, if the home were located upon it, and $n:0(Kt in cash. This amount was soon after supplemented by $5,900 more. In addition to all this the Odd Fellows (^yerlook the pretty town from its dera­ tion, and a level" boulevard will lead to its gates.. . , .. Everyb9dy interested has contributed to the success and beauty of the new school. Jacob llaish,' an old settler of the district, lias contributed $10,000 fqr the formation of a library, and Isaac L. Ell- wootL in addition to donating a portion of. the ground, has given $20,000 toward the expenses of building. ^toan to the Trustees. Mr. Ellwdod also loans $50,000 without interest to the board of trustees to en­ able construction to proceed at once. This is the amount appropriated by the Legislature to the school, but the money is not immediately available, so Mr. Ell- woad came to the aid of the board with his offer to advance the money. With other sums now in hand, the board has $80,000 to begin the erection of the school building, and ground will be broken for it within thirty days. Moreover, the citi­ zens of DeKalb were imt. backward in giv­ ing. the school support. They met some time ago and agreed to raise $10,000 to pay for landscape gardening on the grounds and to pay for the freight of ma­ terial. Then, when a young Illinois ar­ chitect came along with, a plan for the institution.far superior to. anything else, although hp competed with many design­ ers of national reputation, the board of trustees saw their way clear and will not pause'until the State normal school build­ ing is a thing of reality and beauty. The design of C. E. Brush was most favored, and after an informal conference and vote it was selected as the winner." The amimpanying-'cut wsll give a general view of the structure. It is to be 3(50 feet i«, lengthily sixty feet deep, \yith east and west wings extendin^ack to a depth"" of 100 ft»ot. At the rear of the center building will be the'assembly hall, 85x80 feet, containing a grand hall with a stage, and also a gymnasium. " ; . . Interior of Building. - J The central building will contain a lec­ ture-room and reception parlors, also boys' aiul girls' lunch and recreation rooms. In the wings will be physical and chemical laboratories and class and teachers' rooms. The second floor' will contain living,rooms and dormitories. The contract calls for space enough to accom­ modate 1,000 pupils. The cost is to be $150,000. The structure will be of Norman-gothic style, and the front will be of gray Bed­ ford stone,, with heavy brick backing. Steel will be used for the interior con­ struction, with brick 0and fireproof mate­ rial. Particular attention will be given to stairway space and exits, the whole plan being one of exceptional beauty re­ garding its adaptability for school pur­ poses. The architect, Charles E. Brush, is a graduate of the University of Illinois of the class of 1887, and after leaving there studied in the best American and Euro­ pean schools of architectural designing. Since establishing himself in business in Chicago he has accomplished some im­ portant work. He designed and built the Marine Hospital at Cairo and also the addition to the Chester penitentiary, costing $200,000. Ilis latest triumph in. his art is the normal school. It reflects The infant child of H. D# Osbo BALANCE OF TRADE. ; --. UNCLE SAM'S INDUSTRIAL EXPORTS. Balance of Trade in Favor of the United' States During the Two Fiscal Years Ending June 30: - BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILLI­ NOIS NEWS. IMPORTS. Valpje of Articles Produced by Labor in the United States and Sold in " the Markets of the World" Dur­ ing the Two Fiscal Years Ending June 30: 189 H 1895 y per® !1| s i n I NEW STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. and citizens of Lincoln have contributed several hundred dollars since that tiniu and an untold amount of hard labor. From this time forward the efforts of the directors were exerted in every possi­ ble direction to accumulate a sum suffi­ cient to warrant the •commencement o f practical work in the building of the home, and the corner stone was laid May 21. 1S91. The home is advantageous! v lo­ cated on a tract of land containing for- MRS. MOKKISOX. ty acres, on the south side of-the city and fronting on Wyatt avenue. credit on him for its combination of mas­ sive stability and artistic beauty. Newsy Paragraphs. A little daughter .of Cornelius Bclder, living near Springfield, drank some con­ centrated lye with fatal results. Two dozen choir,boys of Emanuel Epis­ copal Church, Rockford, left for Twin Lab?&, Wis., for an outing at the invita­ tion of Rev. W yllys Rede, the rector. Thomas McCann. a commercial trav­ eler, and fAnna Cory, both" of Chicago, were married at Peoria. Rev. J. H. Mor- ron officiating. The ceremony took place at the home of the preacher. The highwayman arrested for robbing The orphans' home cottage consists of ; Supervisor Boynton, of Pleasant Plains, a no who claimed to be Craig Toliver, was .•dentified as Frank Evans, a paroled pris­ oner from the State reformatory, who was sent up from Petersburg for. robbing a store. •coal, furnaces, toilet and a large, well lighted and ventilated playroom. "In the playroom are forty lockers for the boys. It is located in the basement, where there •iis a concrete floor. The first fioor con­ sists of reading and sewing room, halj, "vestibule, attendants' quarters with bath­ room, boys' bath, ward and toilet rooms. The second floor is divided into five large and airy bed-rooms, hall and toilet-rooms. The attic, or dormitory, is a large room with four closets. The stair work is in <jak and the floors hard wood. The wood­ work of the entire exterior is in cypress and hard oil finish. All the \£alls and ceilings of this building are beautifully decorated in modern designs. The-most attractive parts of this cottage are the porches, which are long and built in good taste. The general architecture conforms to'tlie main building, and the intention is to add cottages as they are needed. There are now in the home ninety ehil- •-dren, with applications' on file for more. The next cottage will be similar to the first, and when completed will be used exclusively for girls. The entire cost of the grounds, the buildings and the furnishings to date represent ah outlay of $75,000. The in­ mates are given the advantages of a su­ perior education. The boys are drillied in work adapted to them, and the girls are carefully instructed in household work. / WELCOME GRAND SIRE STEBBINS •Odd-Fellows Gather to Meet the Su­ preme Officer of the Order. ""Odd Fellows and their friends crowded the Chicago Methodist Church Monday night to welcome Grand Sire J. W. Steb­ bins, of Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Stebbins made a brief address, in which he extolled the order and called attention to the prominence it had attained. He also ad­ vised the building of an Odd Fellows' temple that would be a credit to Chicago, -expressing the belief that the order was -wealthy enough to carry out such an en­ terprise. In^ tliis connection he stated that the Odd Fellows of the United States owned $16,000,000 worth of real •estate within forty-six jurisdictions. An address was also delivejfd by Past Grand Master E. S. Conway* Tuesday Mr. Stebbins went to Lincoln to dedicate the •orphans' home. • NORMAL, SCHOOL IN DE KALB. New State Institution Will Be Con- . structed at Once. v • Planted on a knoll by the side of the Kishwaukee River at DeKalb, the hand- .some new State normal school for the northern district of Illinois will soon rear its massive gray walls. In the front, will be sloping lawns to a grove of forest trees, shadowing a pretty lake, and to the east •will flow a quiet stream spanned by artis­ tic bridges. The school grounds will oc­ cupy sixty-seven acres of land donated "by Messrs. Glidden and EH wood and forming one of the garden spots in the State. The institution is located within fourteen miles of the geographical center -of the normal school district and is easily reached froni Chicago by fche Northwest- •ern Railway. DeKalb is only fifty-eight miles from Chicago, and the school will At W aukegan a severe electrical and rain storm did considerable damage. The Northwestern depot was struck by light­ ning. The cupola was burned off and the telegraph wires burned out. The flag­ staff on the court house tower was also struck and shattered. The Explanation of It. A little Jap was on trial in the police court for defrauding an innkeeper. He had testified in his own behalf that he had paid his room rent for a month. "Ilow much did you pay?" asked the prosecuting attorney. The little Jap sat and stared at his questioner. The query was repeated. . / "Quarter of'leven." ' Everybody glanted at the clock and observed that the time was correctly given. "Yes, it's a quarter to 11, but I want to know how. much rOoih rent you paid." "Quarter to 'leven," repeated the Jap. "You don't understand. How much money did you pay?" "I tell you quarter to 'leven," The question was repeated in various forms, but that was the only answer the Jap would give, and he grew more vehement with every repetition. He was locked in a padded cell In the receiving hospital and examined be­ fore the commissioners of insanity, when it was learned that he paid $10.75 for his room.--San Francisco Post New Way to Gain Time. John was a dull bOy at his books, and although almost nine years old, still had difficulty in spelling very short and easy words. But now and then he showed a gleam of something like in­ telligence. One day a younger scholar asked tho teacher how to spell "hail." , "Wtiat kind of 'hail?' " asked the teacher, "x By a coincidence another child pres­ ently want^ek, to know how to spell "tare." "What kind of 'tare' do you mean?" the teacher inquired. That afternoon in the spelling-class the teacher asked John to spell "slate." John did not remember, btit he dislik­ ed to say so. '•What kind of slate do you mean?" he asked, with a very innocent drawl. Value of Articles Marketed ia the United States, but Produced by La­ bor in Foreign Countries, Instead of by Labor in the United States, Dur­ ing the^Two Fiscal Years Ending June 30: " f 225,000,000 9 22S.OPO.OOO 9111,393,)MI 6 zoo,ooo,poo 2.00.000,000 g fl?.$rOOO.OOO $750,000.0 $750,000,000 $ nB,ooo,ooo 17 5,^00.000 650,000,000 #650,000,000 g 525,000,000 g 725;ooo,ooo g 15 0,000,000 150, PO0T000 g 92^,000.000 Foreign products rooking \t too hoi ft 700,000,000 fl soo,ooo,OOP 8 900 ,000,000 8700,000,003 $ 675,030,OOP $22H«aSlg. & 77S.odotdbo jw UmltdUoles laWinaurcuifl g 12 5,000,006 $ 125,000,000 # 775,000,000 QcoldjjeatJcT 6 750,000,000 ft 675,000,000 P 750,000,000 noma mortals $(,50,000,060 & 100,000,000 & 100 > 000,000 UnsUd^lnleslcbor & 72$ ,OOQ,OOQ: S 72S, 000,000 $ £50,000yCOO 775,017 in tta TnnrV.cb ̂ %> 700,000.000 700,006,000 % "3,000,000 £ $0,000,000 • $ 625,00^000 the, worW g 675,000,000 vs,ooo,ooo it 675 •000,000 fl6l.ssa,fc99_ 50,000,000 $650,000,000 & GS0,000,ooo p, (.00,000,000 $>£00, 000.000 QcoSd utarior Un<b2 Stoics § $25,000,000 $ 625,300,000 g 800,000.000 Fivartce Z5.6O!),COO $ 575,000.000 a 6oo V000,000 [jI S 75,000,000 g, S7S,QOO,OQO $ 550,000,000 p 550,000,000 S 550 ft 525)000,000 •6 550,000,000 ft 525,000,000 g 525,000,000 $ 525,000,000 TUJO woTitns under the lilcKinlfj--orid ten mortilis, under Ihe Gormflnlorijj Tfieunolc twelve months under tKe IUcKinhlcni}} 500,000,000 g 500,000,000 ft SOO. 000,000 j&500,000,000 luio months under the l/ic Kinleij-ancl ten months, under the 6orman1orifj liuo months under tlislflc Kinky-a^d ten "months, under the GormenToritt The whole tuielve months under the f?lc Kinley Tarijj The Uihole twelve Uionllis under the Jflc Kin |eij Tarijj During the days when armor was heaviest the cavalry was the slow mov­ ing army of the service, all movements requiring celerity being executed by In­ fantry. , 1 ' Trying to Cheat Members of Their Party in Loui&iann. In no instance has the dishonesty of the present administration beeu more barefaced than in its dealings with our sugar producers. When the McKinley tariff was passed in 1890 the Louisiana crop of that year was 180,000 .tons. Un­ der the protection then offered by Con­ gress the.sugar output of that one State almost doubled, increasing to 350,000 tons for the 1894 crop, which was cultivated, grown and harvested on the faith that the laws of Congress would be executed, and that the hon­ esty of the American Government would not be impeached. It is the same in the case of our beet sugar product, which reached only 3,000 tons in 1890 and 30,000 tons in 1S94, the phenom­ enal advance being made soleljv through the Government's promise of protection.. The hardship experienced, more par­ ticularly by the Individual planters and manufacturers of Louisiana, has at length forced upon them the belief that the political party to which they have hitherto belonged is as dishonest as it is incompetent. First of all, the leaders of that party in Congress en­ deavored to repudiate the payment of the just claims of the sugar growers and producers. It was due chiefly, how­ ever, to,their political opponents that Congress insisted upon appropriating the sum of $5,000,000 wherewith to partially meet their demands. More than half a year has elapsed since that money was appropriated. It lias not rt'jp been paid, and obstacle after obstacle has been presented by the Democratic officials to prevent its payment. Every delay and subterfuge that could suggest itself lias been prac­ ticed so as to defraud the sugar pro­ ducers, who have overcome every oppo­ sition and successfully met every argu­ ment Ui-S 1 against them# For a year past statesmen, financiers, lawyers and Treasury experts have discussed, the payment of this just claim, and all have failed in successfully opposing it. Finally, the Democratic officials in Washington were compelled to formu­ late regulations for its settlement. All details for payment were arranged and the date was announced. Sept. 1, when the money should be handed over. Thus the hopes of the sugar pro­ ducers were once more buoyed up. It seemed that the payment of the bounty was inevitable; that there was no es­ cape from it. But the confiding people of Louisiana did not know the depth of Democratic official degradation."An entirely new obstacle was suddenly set before them, and it now looks as if the grandest period of prosperity that was ever enjoyed by Louisiana will terminate with the impoverish­ ment of her people and a check to her progress that cannot be overcome with­ in a decade. Scores of the sugar plant­ ers of that State have already been wrecked and ruined; other had tided over their troubles by obtaining ad­ vances and extensions of credit, owing to the promise made by Congress that the bounty should be paid them. But now one official sets himself up to overrule the action of Congress, and those sugar producers who were being helped temporarily by banks and capi­ talists must, many of them, succumb to the ruin and wreckage that had pre­ viously overwhelmed their neighbors and friends. Not only is it the sugar producers of Louisiana who are in­ jured, but every other industry in the State is directly affected by the pros­ perity of the sugar people. The treach­ ery of the free-trade party and of the free-trade officials, step by step,through­ out this entire transaction with Louisi­ ana will, and can, never be sufficiently exposed. o . The Battle of 189G. Despite all Democratic efforts to .be­ fog the issue, the political battle of 1S9G Will be Tn the cause of protection. Complicated questions of currency that cannot be settled by a campaign, but rightly belong to a conference of expert financiers, capable of separating the false from the true, cannot displace the great policy of protection to American industries. This asertlon is purely dispassionate and logical. Since 1892, the time of the present administration's rise to power, disaster Bas involved the entire coun­ try, throttling enterprise and -stagnat­ ing prosperous business ventures on every hand. A healthy treasury has become an empty one, and the national debt has been increased by millions of dollars. Not only this financial distress, but every day adds an appalling quota to a monstrous treasury deficiency. Gov­ ernment receipts lag far behind Gov­ ernment expenditures, and revenues have decreased to an alarming extent. Common sense tells the people that the tariff policy Of the dominant admin­ istration is at the root of all these com­ mercial and industrial woes. Under protection every thing flourished exceed­ ingly; under moderate free trade every­ thing has depreciated.--Daily Sara- togiam What the Vote Meant. It was to bring back prosperity that the Republican party marched to the polls last fall and voted all but thirteen Northern Democrats out of the House of Representatives. It was to condemn the paralyzing of American industries and the pauper­ izing of American labor that W. L. Wil­ son, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was voted out of Congress in West Virginia, and a solid Republican delegation sent to the House from that State in place of a solid Democratic delegation. It was a condemnation of Democracy, and an assurance to business and industry that the people gave Republicans con­ trol in the House by majorities in the delegations of thirty-two out of forty- four States, so that if by chance the next Presidential election should be thrown into the House a Republican President would be sure to be elected. It is only eight short months ago that the people did all this, and yet the Democrats are trying to make them for­ get their own work and claiming the credit for that which is the direct re­ sult of what the people did in condem­ nation of Democracy. The American people, are quick to forgive and forget, but it is too much of a tax upon cred­ ulity to believe that they will forget why they turned down the Democratic party in the elections of last year.--J. L. Iv., in the Dayton Daily Journal. Fooling the Farmer. It was as a sop to the farmers that the duty on burlaps and on grain sacks made from burlaps was repealed, and it was as a sop to the planters that the duty on cotton ties was repealed. Nei­ ther the farmer nor the planter has been benefited to the extent of a cent by these specious provisions of the Wil­ son act. But the government has lost §2,000,000 a year or thereabout. Cotton ties, in commonUVith all other products of iron and steel, are advancing in price, and burlaps, despite the tariff reduction of 2 per cent, arc stationary, with a rising teudency. But the farmers and planters will be "taxed"--how fond /the free-traders used to be of that word, and how care­ fully they now eschew its use--to make up the deficiency in revenue caused by the repeal of the burlap duty. The revenue derived from imports of bur­ laps stood thus in 1894, the last year of application of the McKinley law: On bags for grain made of bur- ' laps $517,519 On burlaps of flax, jute or, hemp, under sixty inchcs . .. . 1,352,75.7 On burlaps of flax, jute or hemp, over sixty inches 108,843 $1,979,119 As we have said, the farmer still pays the McKinley act rates, though the gov­ ernment loses the McKinley revenue. This is how it works.--Chicago Inter Ocean. The Creation of Cheapness. That which creates a demand for cheap goods creates a demand for wool substitutes; and' the present tariff law and the depression which grew out of the pernicious and unwise legislation of the Democratic administration have so reduced the earnings of the people as to largely increase the consumption of low-grade goods. This is one of the inevitable results of the Democratic policy of restricting the domestic mar­ ket for the domestic^manufacturer and and increasing and broadening it for the foreign1 manufacturer. Ohr people depend for their wages upon making goods here, and that which tends to curtail their market tends to cur­ tail their earning capacity, and con­ sequently restricts their mean ̂of pur­ chasing. It is because of this that we not only see activity among domestic shoddy manufacturers, increased im­ portations ̂ oT all descriptions of wool substitutes, but. increased importations of goods made from low stock.--Textile Manufacturers* Journal. Grustafso& Has Hie Troubles--Bock- ford Mourns the Death of Mnjor Warner--Compromise in the Bailway Muddle--Indiscreet Belleville Belle. Sues a Wife for Malicious Prosecution. At Rockford Olaf (JuStafson began suit in the Circuit Court against his wife for $10,000 damages; for maliciouJT prosecu­ tion. Several months ago Mrs. Gustaf- son, who lives at Poplar Grove, and is worth about $20,000, had her husband arrested for cutting the tails from and otherwise mutilating several horses be­ longing to her. He was arrested, taken to Rockford and put in jail, but. as the grand jury failed to indict him was dis­ charged. Convict Ends His . Life. Jacob Miller, a 25-year convict sent from Chicago, to, the Joliet penitentiary three months ago, committed suicide Sat; urday. Miller jumped from the landing in front of his cell to the stone flagging' beneath. f The prisoners, had just been re­ leased from their..cells preparatory to go­ ing to work. Miller .gave no warning, but. clambering over the railing, launch­ ed forth into space to the amazement and; horror of the- other convicts near - by,. What caused the: suicide; is not known* but it is supposed to be due to despon­ dency. Miller killed his wife .Tan, 12 .iast at their home in Chicago, by cutting her throat with a raior. He then Went, to Karpen Brothers^ furniture factory, Wo.od and Park streets, • where he had been employed, and tried to kill Foreman James Olander. Miller had been dis­ charged, and he blamed Olander for los­ ing his position. He shot at Olander, the bullet taking effect in the right side of the head, but not causing death. Society Belle Writes an'improper Note Miss Henrietta Kreitner, a Belleville society belle, was admitted to bail on a charge of sending improper matter through the mails. Miss Kreitner be­ lieves the trouble grew out of the enmity of three sisters, Emma, Barbara, and Dena Hermann. Miss Kreitner asserts that she has received a number of saucy and ugly communications, which, she has every reason to believe,,-wer^ sent by the Hermann girls. She admits)writing a naughty letter to the Hermann girl, but says she was goaded to it. (THe arrest was made ,by Inspector Thoma^Jkanghlin of Chicago. The postmaster of Belleville says he would not believe the girl capa­ ble of sending such a letter were it not for her confession that she did. Tho let­ ter is the sole topic of conversation in Belleville. ' What the Tin Trade Needs. The trend of affairs in Wales will probably afford a partial relief' to the strained condition in the American tin plate trade, but the greatest relief that can be expected will hardly place the industry here on a proper footing. There is a great difference between the in­ ducements needed to keep in the busi­ ness a manufacturer who has his trade built up, and his works running on the most economical basis, and the margin of profit to be secured to a beginner who must build up iiis trade and spend money in experiments necessary to get the works down to economical and effi­ cient operation. For this purpose an increase in the protective tariff is ab­ solutely necessary. A return to the McKinley duty is not now needed. For the first introduction of the industry into the United-States profits had to be assured to pay for costly experiments which have beeu made, and need not be made again, but a protective duty of 1 cents Is. really needed to put the ^industry on a fair plane, and it is hoped that proper steps will be taken to do justice to the tin plate industry as soon as the party favoring protective duties again comes into full power.--^Tin and Terne. Good Crops for Farmers. Probably no agricultural crop that is grown exhibits the idea of intense farming in a higher degree than does £he cultivation of the sugar beet. It is claimed, and with perfect justification, that a farmer will make more money, provided his soil and land be suitable for this crop, by growing five or ten acres of sugar beets than he would by raising corn or small grain on one hun­ dred acres of land. A small farmer is usually' the most successful. Few acres can be better cared for, better cultivated and better tilled than a much larger area. In growing sugar beets farmers must be prepared to work dili­ gently. The crop must be careftflly watched and carefully attended to from start to finish. A fair harvest of sugar beets sold to a sugar beet factory, at the rates which have hitherto been paid, will give more satisfactory re­ turns than the average farmer has been receiving for his crops' during the last year or two. A Blow at His Wajres^ ^ Whatever diminishes the demand for labor of an American workingman is essentially a blow at his wages. The important thing for the wage earner is that his labor snail be in active demand. That policy or system which results in largely increasing our imports must also result in a corresponding decrease in the sale of competing American prod­ ucts. This is a simple statement that has been amply demonstrated within our own experience.--Mail and Express. Silk Goods to Be Dearer. A silk gown will be more of a luxury next winter than it has been for several years. There has already been a great advance in the price of raw silk, and the increased value will reflect upon re­ tail prices this coming fall and winter. The well-dressed lady, who will be the first person to protest over the increased prices, will probably not believe that she has brought this unwelcome rise in the value of the queen of dress goods upon herself. The popularity of silk waists with enormous puffed sleeves, silk underclothes, and silk petticoats during the last two years created a de­ mand for silk that has been unprece­ dented in the memory of the oldest dry goods dealer. Silk goods have been as cheap as w<v>len goods, and, in anticipa­ tion of a continued demand, the import­ ers have raised the price of raw silk. --New York Sun. Zerah Colburn, when a child, had the most wonderful memory for figures ever known. He performed operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on sums involving from eleven to twenty places of figures with­ out setting one down on paper. Being once asked • to raise 8 to the sixteenth power* he almost instantly responded, "The answer Is 281,474,976,710,650." Bondsmen's Claim Cut Down. A compromise has been effected be­ tween the counsel for the Seiter estate at Carlylo and the Chicago bondsmen of the late State Treasurer Ramsay, where­ by the bondsmen's claim against the Ramsay estate, which originally amount­ ed to $363,509.52, is credited with $257,- 029.S9, which, with other collaterals held by the bondsmen, reduces the claim to less than $100,000. There Ts a prospect of further compromise on the remaining claim, and upon the consummation of such a compromise rests the hope of the home creditors to realize something on their claims, Norman C. Warner Dead. Major Norman C. Warner, one of the most prominent lawyers in Northern Illi­ nois, died at the Rockford hospital Fri­ day morning of peritonitis. He was 57 years of ago. Major Warner served through the war, enlisting as a private in Company E, Thirty-ninth Illinois Regi­ ment, and being promoted gradually to the rank of Major. At Antietam, under General Hancock, he lost a leg. He was a strong Democrat. His death -has cast a gloom over the city. State News in Brief. George Schultz, while trying to catch a motor car at Quincy, missed his hold and fell under the wheels of the trailer following. His body was badly mangled and he died before lie could be conveyed to the hospital. A sad death of a 13-year-old boy oc­ curred at Chicago. The boy was the son 'of William Eastland, who disappeared re­ cently. When the boy read the account of his disappearance he was so shocked he soon afterward died. At Petersburg while a cage with, eight men in it was being lowered into the Hill Top coal shaft the engine got beyond the engineer's control and the cage fell, se­ verely injuring Adam Yerkius, August Nelson, John Ford, Patrick Kelly and John Limberg. Each of the men had a leg broken and received internal injuries. It is thought that Kelly and Limberg will die. The national convention of the Deut- sclier Kriegerbund, being held at Colum­ bus, Ohio, closed its business and ad­ journed to meet next year at Belleville. Abner Wakefield, who owns a 225-acre farm near Rockford, was buncoed out of $1,500, one of the parties"'claiming to be a Chicago banker, who has been negotiat­ ing with him all the week for his place. He traveled under the name of McCor- mack. They met a pal and McCormack played a game the party from Texas had with him, the farmer putting up a check for $1,500 and receiving $4,400 in bogus money in((a box as his share of the win- nigs. The two fakirs then got out of towh. Major Norman C. Warner, of Rock- ford, prominent as a lawyer and Demo­ crat, who was appointed by Gov Altgeld one of the three trustees of the new hos­ pital for the incurable insane, is very low at the city hospital, with the chances largely against his recovery. He was taken sick Monday evening, and Dr. F. B: Robinson, of Chicago, assisted by local physicians, performed an operation on him, it being found that he was suffering from acute peritonitis. Major Warner Wa3 in the Union service during the war, losing a leg, and is widely known all over Northern Illinois. Fenton W. Booth, a prominent attor­ ney of Marshall, was thrown from his bicycle and sustained a fracture of the collar bone and internal injuries. He is dangerously hurt. The Champaign and Urbana wheelmen will unite aad test the new law requir­ ing wheelmen to carry a light at night, which was recently passed by the City Council. The first arrest was made Fri­ day and the wheelman fined. This case will be taken to the higher courts. Police have made other arrests and say they have the names of sixty other offenders^ on their books. Fire was discovered in the drying-room of the Metropolis heading factory and the plant was almost destroyed before the flames were checked. The plant was val­ ued at $12,000 and the stock at $5,000. The stock is a total loss. There was no insurance, as the policies were all can­ celed when the firm assigned. , - • ; ? Mayor Allen, of Peoria, issued a proc­ lamation enjoining upon all citizens the necessity of economy and care in the use of the city water and ordered all sprink­ ling of lawns and streets disconfmned. /The wells situated in the tipper part of the city are-giving out and there are fears, of another water famine similar to the toe which struck the city a month ago. it died. The. city of HillsbOro will give a meal to any person who will earn ,it fjy break­ ing rock two hours. &J>' V" ' The First Presbyterian Church of Pe­ oria has extended a call to the Rev. Henry Schmitt, of Forcston. t " The residence of A. J. Tyng Jr.. of Peoria, was robbed of $1,000 worth of goods during a circus parade. Safford & Scoville, lumber dealers in Rockford for thirty years, have failed. Nominal assets exceed the liabilities by $15,000. ' Elmer Parmelee, of Chicago, and Miss Maud Gibb, of Englewofid, were quietly married at Delavan Lake, where the bride has been spending the summer. A number of Rockford friends were present at the ceremony. Attorney C. M. Lane, the Decatur Parkliwst, was nearly mobbed at the race track. He was in the grand stand, look­ ing down on the crowd, getting names of citizens who were buying pool tickets on the races, intending to use the infor­ mation before the Grand Jury. Lane was protected by the officers and led out of the track. John Larkin and Robert Treathway were arrested for gambling at the race track and keeping a place for gaming. Both gave cash bonds for their appearance. -. ••' The Attorney General is receiving many inquiries as • to the scope of the. "flag laws" passed by the Thirty-nintM General Assembly, and it is likely tha'^he will soon give Itn, opinion as to whether or not they are valid and of binding force as to private and parochial schools. . Aar slstant ••Attorney General Newell , skid: "Boards of directors of public ..schools . cdnnot make a contract .binding upon the : , school district for. the adoption and. use of a particular series' 'of school books . excepting at a regular or special meeting of the board for that purpose." Timothy Driscoll, a laborer of Alton, while digging for a sewer at St. Joseph's Hospital, came upon the skeleton of a mastodon. The ditch was being dug at the depth of fifteen feet, on the brow of a hill that had previously been graded off thirty feet for building purposes, and the workmen came squarely upon the head. The remains recovered include several monster teeth, one molar weighing twen­ ty-five pounds, and many bones of, tho head and neck. The trunk lies in the clay bank and can be easily dug out. A com­ plete skeleton of the kind was once found in that locality by the late Prof. Mc- Adams. Art important victory for the Salvation Army was won in Rock Island. A Salva­ tionist was arrosted for beating a drum on the street on Sunday, aud the army's attorney, S. W. Odell, of Moline, held that the city ordinance under which the arrest was made was unconstitutional, as it deprived persons of the liberty of con­ ducting religious service according to their"convictions. Justice Weld decided against the city. The arrest is made all tho more notable from the fact that the Rock Island Council repealed its ordi­ nance for the closing of saloons on Sun­ day and instructed the police not to keep the Saloons closed on that day. Oscar Baughman, Alderman of the town of Lewiston, Fulton County, was abducted by two professional detectives from an agency conducted by John F. Farley Sunday morning, and up to the present time he has been, kept so carefully secreted that his whereabouts cannot be located. The officers making the arrest decoyed him to Chicago with a bogus let­ ter, and when they seized him under, the pretext of arrest charged that he was wanted in Fulton County for the burn­ ing of the court house , at Canton a year ago. The board of supervisors appro­ priated $2,500 to be used in running!down the men who burned the court house, One of the largest jail deliveries which ever took place in Kane County occurred shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday even­ ing. The. main cage in the new county jail contained twelve prisoners. Some one . happened to see. a in a n leap from the north window of the jail and gave the alarm. A hasty investigation revealed the empty jail. The man seen was the last of twelve prisoners; Sheriff Burke was absent on business at the time, but a little band of deputies was promptly or­ ganized aud started out in pursuit. Two of the escaping prisoners were soon cap­ tured. The remaining ten are still at large, with but little prospect of finding. thCm. James O'Brien, better known as Prairie Jim, was the worst in the lot, and is responsible for a great many rob­ beries. He is suspected of having engi­ neered the jail delivery. The prisoners in some way secured possession of a bar,, and according to the particulars obtained broke the lock on the cage door. They then broke the lock on the window fast­ ening at the north end of the corridor and climbed out. The filthy water in the Illinois River drove a large school ,of German carp into a fresh water stream two miles north of Lacon. A frog catcher named Devault, discovered them there. Obstructing- the mouth of the stream, with a pitchfork he threw out on the bank 5,000 of the fish, worth 4 cents a pound. . ^ The State Board of Equalization is en­ gaged with committee work. The clerks are busy at work on the tabulation of re­ turns, and until this is completed no defi­ nite action Will be taken. An interesting statemeut has been prepared by Secre­ tary Eustis showing the relation of the railroad assessment made by the State board to the property assessment made by lpcal assessors and the comparison of fiie assessment of 1894 with that of iSfTT as shown by Judge Scott in his recent statement for the.countjes .comprising his_ district. The value of property a? as­ sessed by local assessors was $S92,380,- 972 in 1877 and $737,989,010 in 1894, a decrease in valuation of $154,391,956. The value of railroad property as as­ sessed bv the State board was $37,141,- 189 in 1S77 and $79,231,164 in 1894, an increase of $42.087,9S4. The railroad mileage of the State in 1877 was 6,503 and in 1894 it was 9,569 miles. Allowing for this increase in mileage, which amounts to 47 per cent., the percentage of increase of railroad assesments since 1877 is 113, while the property assessed by local assessors is decreased, 17 per cent- Miss Marguerite T. Shult,.a leading so­ ciety lady of Springfield, and daughter of ex-State Senator and now United States District Attorney William E. Shult, has been admitted to practice law by the Su­ preme Court. Out of a class of fifty ex­ amined, forty-six passed. At Alton the corpse of a man about 45 years old, average stature and weight, was picked up in the river by some fisher- men, having apparently been brought out of the Illinois with the flow from re­ cent rains. Certain marks on the head led to the inference that the man had been murdered. The corner stone of the Visitation Church at Illiopolis was laid. The ser­ vices were conducted at the Catholic church by Very Ressgrend Father Mohr, of Springfield. The sermon was preach­ ed .by Rev. Father Francis, of lndiattapo- lis. Tho Eighty-sixth . "Regiment Illinois Volunteers heid a two .days* reunion in Peoria. It was the ninth annual reunion and the thirty-third anniversary of the regiment. Officers were elected as fol­ lows: Commander, John McGinnis; YiW Commander, Henry Nurse, Hallock; A^" jotaut and Quartermaster, C.. W. Mo Kewh, Gilson; Chaplain, the Rev. Ban* torn Y. Hazard, Maquoa. ' ": I » iWsi? ' I . . .'."'V - ' ' ., , ' : , ̂