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county ticket by 800 votes. In-1892 he was renominated for that*>ffice, and again led his ticket by hundreds,, of votes. -His most brilliant political victory wasachiev- ed in the spring of 1895, when he ran as the Republican candidate for Mayor-of the city of,Joliet. Although opposed by a citizens' ticket led by a Republican, he defeated the Democratic nominee by a majority of 200 votes, receiving . nearly as many votes as both his opponents com­ bined. He is a man of high character and sterling integrity, of fine appearance and pleasing address, and has won an enviable reputation throughout the State as a pub­ lic speaker. *>- - FOR SECRETARY OF ST/CTE. .Tames A. Rose, candidate for Secretary of State, resides at Golconda, Pope Coun­ ty, and is a lawyer. He has been county superintendent of schools and State's At­ torney of his county. In 1889 Gov, Fifer Three "carpenters were working on. a l new building %t Ohio street and Pine aye- nuej Austiil, when, the scaffolding oh which tHey stoou gave way and they fell forty feet t8 the ground. They (were badly hurt. i-William Hudson, a former employe of the Alton Paving and Building Brick Company, secured a verdict in the Circuit Court against the company for $8,000 for damages sustained by the caving in of an embankment in March, 1S95. / Fire destroyed the bone factory, ice­ house and tiercehouse at the Nelson Mor­ ris dressed beef plant at the East St. Louis stock yards and caused a loss vari­ ously estimated»at $50,000 to $75,000. The origin, of the fire is a mystery. Fully in­ sured. ' . The Lake View Milling Company has confessed judgment in favor of Willard Putnam on "a note for $4,500, and has made an assignment to L. J. Carlock. The company has been doing a general milling business in Averyville, a suburb of Peoria, for the last five years. *-..•> John- B. Leone, a Corsican. who was found in Juliet in an insane condition, was recognized by a traveling man who called him by name and gave, him a cake of soap. In a few minutes he was him­ self and told' the story of his life. lie is a sculptor., in soap, and liis most famous work -was the designing' of Brooklyn bridge at the World's Fait-. >He does not know how he came to be in Joliet, but -thinks he was robbed in Chicago and put on a train. : ...•T~^pr7T ;~7 / Michael M<*Jnern£y of Chicago, was taken sick \ymle working- at Ames & Frost's bicycle works., lie was relieved from duty. On his way home he stopj>ed on the js'ofth avenueabridge- to talk to Louise ' Licht, He Was despondent and told the young worn a he' was going to. "jump into the river. Thinking he was not in. earnest. Miss Licht said: "L'll dare you to do it." Mclnerny walked quickly to the railing and threw himself over. Be­ fore the frightened yoim'g Voman could cry out-he had sunk beneath the surface. It is thought that sickness had affected his mind. Miss Lctitin Scott, whose engagement to Lieut. Bromwell of the United States army is announced, is the elder daughter of the late Matthew T. Scott, of Bloom- ington, who died in 1891, leaving an im­ mense fortune to his widow and two daughters. Misses Letitia and Julia. Miss Scott was born in Bloomington and spent the greater part of her life there. She is a very handsome and graceful girl, highly educated and accomplished. Her father was one of the most prominent men of central Illinois. He was a daring and successful laud speculator and extensive farmer and nfine owner. Stephen Leviudusky, aged 52.• a Polish laborer at Chicago, was beaten so badly by four young thugs Tuesday evening that he died Wednesday night at 7 o'clock from the effects of his injuries. The thieves kicked him about the body, and after having reduced him to a state of insensibility robbed him of 00 cents. When Levindnsky regained consciousness several hours later lie managed to crawl to his home. He suffered intensely nil night and in the morning was compelled to summon a physician. Dr.: Glaser at­ tended him, but Leviudusky grew con­ stantly worse until death relieved him of his sufferings. The new Protestant hospital at Bloom­ ington, which is conducted by the^Order of Deaconesses, is ready to receive pa­ tients. It was opened formally to the public Friday and Saturday. The build­ ing. which cost $10,000, has been paid for by subscription, as have also the land, $0,000, and furniture. $2,000. The hos­ pital stands on a hill just north of the city limits of Bloomington, in the corporation of Normal, and is one of a group of build­ ings contemplated in a very extensive and comprehensive plan. The hospital is in charge of Miss Main of Chicago, with six other deaconess sisters as assistants. Blooniiugton now has two hospitals, the other being conducted by the Catholic Order of St, Francis. Inspector Stuart's watch boxes in the . Chicago postoftice were given a practical demonstration' of their usefulness Wed­ nesday afternoon. Inspector Gould, standing in one of them and peering through the iron grating of the register, saw Mailing Clerk James .T. Brown take three letters, and a few moments later he placed him under arrest. When searched half a dozen other letters were found on the young man. He is IS years of age and lias been the office but a short time. He confessed having stolen a large num­ ber of letters containing money and was held to the Federal grand jury by Com­ missioner Humphrey. The watch boxes are a new device for postoffices. They are wooden structures five feet square and six feet long, and thetg? are eight of them hanging from the ceiling of the office. Gn the four sides are gratings through which the inspectors can survey the clerks beneath. The State Treasury Wednesday stopped payments on warrants presented to it, and the announcement was made that the State's employes would have to wait for their pay until funds can be collected to replenish the empty vaults. The Treas­ urer's books show a balance on hand of $500,000, but this balance is a fiction. It is in the hands of various school officers, and is represented in the treasury by their receipts, which were turned in by the county collectors as cash. This comes of a custom which prevails in many coun­ ties where the collector pays the school money to the county superintendent, in­ stead of first turning it into the State treasury. In these instances the receipts of the superintendents are handed in and show up on the books to the credit of the revenue fund. Because of this the Audi­ tor's books show that the treasurer has $500,000, while the treasurer declares he is behind some $144,000. An appeal has been made to President Fish of the Illinois Central to aid the treasury by making an advance on the amount that will be due the State from his road on June 1. At that time the State expects to get some $300,000 as its share of the cor­ poration earnings, and Mr. Fish is asked to make a part payment before the money is due. The trial of Michael J. O'Brien, of Chi­ cago. charged with the murder of his wife Julia, ended in a disagreement. It was said upon what was considered rea­ sonably good authority that the jury stood seven for the death penalty to five for life imprisonment. Prof. Theodore Adelman, of Alton, was indicted on four counts by the Madison i County grand jury on charges of embez­ zlement and forgery. Adelman was agent for an educational work sent Out last winter by the Werner Printing Company of Chicago, ana, it is said, became in­ volved in some questionable transactions. Lillie/Hughes, the Joliet young woman who w-'as sentenced to the penitentiary for one year on a charge of larceny, has been pardoned. She„ began her sentence last December. She is thought to have been punished enough, having served nine months in the countyjail prior to her trial and sentence. % • The fourth annual commencement ex­ ercises of the Anna high school took place Wednesday night. - There were tVelve graduates. The public schools of Pana closed with Tuesday's session and the an­ nual picnic was held at the fair grounds Wednesday, There was an a f fit-rid a nee of 3,000 and appropriate exercises, with mu­ sic by the Second Illinois Regiment band. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS IS SHOT DOWN. AS ENGINE OF DEATH SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH - FULLY RECORDED. MANY KILLED BY A CINCINNATI GAS GENERATOR. PERSIAN RULER THE VICTIM OF AN ASSASSIN. 3 Michigan ti>rator Carries Off the Prize --Decatur Farmhand Faces a Grave Charge--Horrible Cruelty Practiced by an Italian Beggar. Awful Catastrophe Occnrs WJiev, Building and Streets Were Crowded --Certain that iiany Are Dead and More Mangled--Panic in the City. Tragic Affair Pregnant with'Serion* Consequences--Hints at a Dark Con­ spiracy--Man Wio Fired the Fatal Bnllet Placed Under .Arrest. FAVORITE SONS OF ILLINOIS. Michigan the Winner. The University of Michigan won first honors in the contest of the Northern Ora­ torical League at Central Music Hall in Chicago. Fred L. ingraham WOT? the suc-~ cessful orator, with "Gettysburg" for his subject. Second place went to Harry F. Ward of Northwestern and third place to Ethelbert V. Grabill of Oberlin. Ward's subject was "The Turks Musi Go," and Grabill's "Speculation and Panics." In- graham's chief merit was his strong de­ livery. The other contestants were Wil­ liam T. Wilson, University of Chicago, "The Individual an Agent in Maute De­ velopment"; Albert H. Schmidt, Univer­ sity of Wisconsin, "The Downfall of the World Empire," and W. C. Keeler. Iowa State University, "A Theory of the Growth of Man." It was the fourth con­ secutive Michigan victory, and the fifth out of six contests of the league, Iowa being the only other university which has secured fit-st place, Itigraham and Ward both were alternafesvfcir their universities at last year's contest. The judges on thought and composition were: Ex-Sena­ tor- John J. IngalW Kansas; President Charles F. Thwing. Western Reserve University, and .Prof. J. H, Gilniore. Rochester University. Judges on delivery, -President Joseph Swain. Indiana; the Rey. Judsoii Titsw'orth, .Milwaukee, and Judge W.. It. Woods of the United States Circuit Court. Deed of a Secret Agent. Nasr-ed-Din, the Shah pf Persia, has been slain at Teheran, and in the diplo­ matic offices of the principal capitals of Europe there is serious perturbation. The tragic affair is pregnant with astonishing results. Once again England will surely have to fight a desperate diplomatic battle with Russia's czar for Asiatic territory. The story of the assassination, as tele­ graphed from Teheran Friday afternoon, contained no hint of a widespread con­ spiracy. -It simply-stated that while the shah was entering the inner court of the shrine of Shah Abdul Azim, six miles:; south of Teheran, he was shot through the heart; that immediately he was car­ ried to l-.s carriage and in it conveyed to the palace; that there he was attended by Dr. Tholegan, his chief physician,„ and Other physicians who -were hastily sent for. But in spite of their combined efforts his majesty expired about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. , 1J-h<f assassin was arrested^. At the. Persian legation in London the opinion ie expressed that the murder was the deed of a fanatic and was not the out­ come' of. any' especially designed mo.ve-i ment. But according to a dispatch which has been received from St. Petersburg, the assassin was a iiiember of the Babi secret society, a criminal association which has hitherto made attempts upon the shah's life with revolvers. It is known that the shah was arrang­ ing for a great celebration of his acces­ sion, and it appears that the conspirators were determined that he should not live to enjoy the event. While' in a general way Nasr-ed-Din was a humane and a progeessive monarch, as far as Asiatic rulers go, still his love for money and for jewels prompted many cruel acts of con­ fiscation and of barbarous punishment that made him thousands of enemies in all classes of society. It is feared that Russian intrigue will bring about disorders in Persia. It is known that the dead -monarch coveted Herat, and made a foray in its direction, but a repulse by the British brought h'im to his senses. Should £he new ruler be tempted to make a similar bellicose essay the results for all concerned would be extremely serious. Persia, Afghanistan, Britain and Russia would speedily be­ come embroiled, and the result could not be predicted. The killing of the shah has most certainly added to the troubles and the complications of the Salisbury cabi­ net. FOR GOVERNOR. a John .-iley Tanner* the next Governor of Illinois, was born on a farm three miles from Bloomville, Ind„ "on the Rockport road," April 4,184--. There were six chil­ dren in the family, four boys and two ffi ids, and when the war of the rebellion ibroke out the father and his four sons alJ enlisted, and two of them served to th* end. Of the others the father died in the Andersonville prison pen in 1802, and Albert, the eldest son, belonging to the Sixth Kentucky Infantry, and Frederick, the youngest, Of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, gave up their lives on Sherman's march to the sea. J. M, Tanner, the third son, a lso of the Fourteenth Illinois Cav­ alry, served through the war and is" now living lip Louisville, Clay County, III. John R. Tanner, now nominated ^by the Republican party of the State for Gov­ ernor. KCrved'm the Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry \intil June, 1805; when he was. transferred, to the Sixty-first Illinois In­ fantry, and was mustered out as a private October of the same yeaxv After'leav­ ing the. army Mr. Tanner settled on a farm in'Clay County, near Louisville, and on Christmas day, 1800, married Lauretta Ingraham: with whom he lived happily- until October. 1877, when his wife died. It was in 1870 Mi*. Tanner first got into politics. He Was elected sheriff of Clay, a Democratic county, that year on 'the Republican ticket, and filled the office so satisfactorily he was in 1872 chosen as clerk of the Circuit Court. Then, in 1880, he was sent to the State Senate from the Forty-fourth district. Near the end of I'resident Arthur's term Mr. Ta nner was made United States marshal for the Southern District of Illi­ nois, and about the first thing President Cleveland did after his inauguration in of the Modern Woodmen of America. In 1892 Mr. Northcott Was the Republican candidate for Congress in the old Eigh­ teenth district. While he was defeated in the Democratic landslide of that year, yet he conducted his campaign in such a manner as to gain him a State reputation and to endear him to the Republicans of southern Illinois. He is one of the brain­ iest men in the State and possesses the at­ tributes of geniality and personal magnet­ ism in a marked degree. FOR STATE TREASURER. Henry L. Hertz, candidate for State Treasurer, -was born on Nov. 19, 1S47, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received a classic education in the Metropolitan Latin School. ahd'graduated from the University of Copenhagen with, honors, lie studied medicine two years, and in 1509 emigrated to the United States, and made his home in Chicago, where he has resided ever since. He was clerk in a bank for a couple of years, and immedi­ ately after the fire he worked as a farm hand on a farm near Dixon, in .Lee Coun­ ty. In 1878 he was transferred from a clerkship in the recorder's office to the position of record writer in the office of the Criminal Court, where he remained until he, in 1884, was elected coroner of Cook County by 10,000 majority. In 1S88 he was re-elected corpner by an over­ whelming majority, running about 5,000 ahead of his ticket. In 1892 he was nom­ inated State Treasurer, but was beaten, together with the balance of the Republi­ can ticket, in the big landslide. He is one of the active working Republicans of Cook County, and has for many years been one of the best organizers within the ranks of the Republican party. Mr. Hertz is a life member of Oriental Consistory, JAMES A. ROSE appointed him one of the trustees of the Reform School at Pontiac, and, after less than one year's service, he was appointed a commissioner of the Southern Illinois penitentiary, and served instil thij Demo­ cratic administration began. He is an able campaigner, and for several cam­ paigns he has been under the direction of the State Central Committee. Mr. Rose is still a young man, his age vising 44 years. .*$1 FOR COURT CLERKSHIP. A. D. Cadwallader, named for the Su­ preme Court Clerkship in the Second dis­ trict, was . born in Corwin, O., in 1846. He joined the Eighty-fifth UlinOis Volun­ teer Infantry from Havana, 111., in 1802, and served until his right arm-Was shot off at Peach Tree Creek July 19, 1S04. He settled in Lincoln in 1805 and has practiced law there ever since, inciden­ tally serving as postmaster from 1809 to 1885. William C. Ilibbard, nominee for the Appellate Court Clerkship, is an activ® yoilng Republican of Marshall, where he was born twenty-eight years ago. For the last eight years he has been City Clerk of Marshall. Christopher Manier, the nominee for the clerkship of the Supreme Court of the Northern Grand division, is a lifelong, ar­ dent Republican. He has been a leading figure in Republican politics ever since he was of age. 11 has held office under the party in various positions, and was n mrtnlHTiif -the--State Senat-e-- for--four years. He is at present Deputy City Treasurer of Chicago. FOR AUDITOR. James S. McCullough, candidate for Auditor, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. In 1854 he removed with his father's family to Urbana, Champaign Joe Myers Charged with Murder. Joe Myers was arrested while at work on a farm east of Decatur. He is Charg­ ed with being the murderer of August Hackmann of Staunton. The evidence against him is the fact that he pawned Hackuiann's gold watch and told conflict­ ing stories about Hackmann's move­ ments. Hackmann went to Decatur the first week in February to look for work. He stopped at the Eagle Hotel, where Myers boarded. Myers told him he could get work for a farmer in Long Creek township. They left together to see the man. Hackmann never came back. My­ ers said he was working in Long Creek township. Saturday Ilackniamr's body was found in the woods. His money, about .$40, and $05 gold watch were miss­ ing. Since then the watch has been found in a pawnshop. It was said to have been pawned by Myers. He is now in jail. Arm Piastered to Her Side. A remarkable case of Italian brutality and greed was brought to the knowledge of the Chicago police Saturday afternoon. Marie Tzzo. aged S, supposed-one-armed girl, was arrested with her father for vioc lating a city ordinance in regard to street musicians. When the girl was examined at the Harrison street police annex it was found that her arm was bandaged and plastered to her side beneath the dress. The child gave a g^eat cry of re­ lief when the instrument of torture was removed. Th father will now have to ae- cmint to the Hujuano-Society, as_it* otli- cers declare that he will be prosecuted to the full limit of the law for cruelty to children. Landladies Get His Queer Money. Captain Larson, of the Fast Chicago avenue station is anxious to find a man who has been victimizing North Side people by ifftssitig counterfeit money. The man has a cleve." plan of getting rid of the counterfeits, by paying it to women for room rent and getting a sum in exchange. He generally rents a room for $2 or $3 and tenners a $5 counterfeit in payment. When he gets the difference he goes away and does not come back to claim his room. N umerous complaints of the man's opera­ tions have been received by the police and Captain Porter of the Government service was notified of the details of the case. FOR GOVERNOR. RICHARD P. BLAND, Brief Sketch of Missouri's Candidate for the Presidency. Richard Parks Bland, whose presiden­ tial boom has been launched by the Mis­ souri silver Democrats, is one of the most picturesque men in American politi­ cal life. He has been called "Silver Dick." "Silver Dollar Bland," "Bullion- aire Bland" and other soubriquets indica­ tive of the interest he has taken in money matters and coin. ° Mr. Bland was born in 1835 near Hartford, Ky., in "the Green Itiv.er country." When about 20 JOHN RILEY TANNER. State News in Brief. Joseph Taylor, of Big Rapids, Mich., traveling salesman for a Detroit house, had both legs taken off last night in at­ tempting to board a train at Roekton. William L, Sachtleben, of Alton, re­ ceived an offer from the London Times as war correspondent to Cuba, and con­ templates the acceptance of the same. The Rev. Carl Seedoff, of Minneapolis, has accepted a call from the First Luth­ eran Church of Ilockford, which is the largest Swedish church organization in America. He will begin his pastorate Aug. 1. Every nickel-iu-tlie-slot machine in Rockford, to the number of several hun­ dred, was thrown out of use in accord­ ance with the order issued by Chief of Police Bargren, at the request of the Civic Federation. William Wyckoff shot, and killed Wil­ liam Wegner at Chicago. The killing was done in the presence of scores of persons, and was the,.result of a petty quarrel concerning the children of the two families. The mufdered man had no chance for his life, as Wyckoff came upon him unawares and fired two shots in quick succession, killing him almost in­ stantly. The crowd rushed up with threats of lynching, and the police had hard work to keep the infuriated men from stringing Wyckoff up on the spot. Mrs. Mary Jane Morgan, aged 00, widow of "Mickey" Morgan, a well- known sporting character of Blooming­ ton, and well known throughout the State, was found dead-in her home in the south par) of town. She lived alone and, not having been seen by the neighbors for several days, they broke in and found her lying lifeless in bed. having apparent­ ly been dead some hours. There were no signs of violence upon her person, but there were evidences of a struggle about the bed and room, which might, however, have been caused by her dying spasms. She was believed to be quite rfbh and to keep money about the house. Dr. R. Marable was arrested at Shaw- neetown by Officer Welto on a telegram from Marion, Ky. The message says he is charged with complicity in the death of a Mrs. Rigsby. He says he is willing to go back at once. He claims the charge is prompted by malice. The requisition of the Governor of Kan­ sas was honored by Gov. Altgeld for the surrender of A. W. Hostetler, wanted at GoodlanJ, Sherman County, for embez­ zlement, and - under arrest in Chicago. Hostetler, while president of the Ex- change Bank of Goodland, embezzled a large amount of the concern's funds. 0 Mrs. Mary Smith, of Belleville, was gathering mushrooms and accidentally took up a toadstool and crushed it in her hand. [Jnthoughtedly she touched an Open scratch on her face with her hand and blood poison set in two days later. Her face was badly swollen and she died in agony. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin C. Cook cele­ brated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage at their home) in Bloomiiigton. They were presented with a purse of gold and other valuable gifts. They were married in Ohio and have lived in Bloom­ ington nearly forty years. Mr. Cook is 73 and his wife 08. Botn ace active and well., J- -i-v 1885 was to remove him, the charge being effensive partisanship, which Mr. Tanner never took the tr mble to deny. In 1880 he was elected State Treasurer of Illinois, and in 1891 was appointed by Gov. Fifer «. member of the State Board of Railway and Warehouse Commission. This office Jie resigneil in September of the same year ® accept the Assistant United States Treasurership at Chicago under Presi­ dent Harrison. But Mr. Cleveland was elected again in 1892, and again he found Mr. Tanner holdin~ a Federal office. As lie had done eight years before about his first move was to relegate Mr. Tanner to private life, the charge the second time, like the first, be in.; "offensive partisan­ ship," and again thj accused did not enter any defense. In 1894 Mr. Tanner was elected chairman of the Republican State Committee, which position he resigned last winter, when he announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomi­ nation for Governor of Illinois. Thirty-second Degree Masons; belongs to the Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, Royal League, Knights of Pythias, I. O. M. A., Knights of Honor, and is a member of R1CHAUI) P. BLAND, JAMES S. M'CUI.LOCGII. County, 111., where he continued to reside and follow the vocation of farming until the summer of 1802. At the age of 18 he enlisted in Company G, Seventy-sixth Illi­ nois Infantry Volunteers, commanded by Col. A. W. Mack, one of the founders of the Chicago Republican, now the Inter Ocean. Mr. McCullough served his full time as a private soldier and was honora­ bly discharged. On April 9, 1805 (the date of Lee's surrender), in the assault on Fort Blakely, he was struck with a grape shot which caused his left arm to be am­ putated near the shoulder. Mr. McCul­ lough was elected County Clerk of Cham­ paign County in 1873, and has continued to hold thax office ever since. years old Bland went to Missouri, where he lived five years and tlien went to Cali­ fornia, and later to Utah. He practiced law among the miners and had ample op­ portunity to study the mineral interests and the relative output of silver and gold. In 1865 he returned to Missouri and set­ tled in Rolla, Phelps County. In 1809 he removed to Lebanon, whic^ is his pres­ ent home. He was first elected to Con­ gress in 1872., He took his seat the fol­ lowing year after the demonetization of silver. As early as 1877 Bland began to fight for free coinage. He was in Con­ gress for twenty-two years, and his most noted measure was a bill providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, restoring 412% grains of standard silver as the dollar and the limit of value. The bill passed the House and was amended in the Senate. , President Hayes vetoed It. Sinoe his defeat in 1S94 Mr. Bland has cultivated a farm near Lebanon, Mo. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Hon. William A. Northcott, of Green­ ville. 111., candidate for Lieutenant Gov­ ernor. is well and favorably known throughout the entire State, and is splen­ didly equipped for the position to which he aspires. He has been a lifelong Re- HENKY I.. HERTZ. Covenant Lodge, No. 520, A. F. M., and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Hertz is a married man. and lives a happy home life with his wife and chil­ dren. JFORUNIVERSITY TRUSTEES. Mihi^Iary T. Carriell. nominated for University trustee, resides at Jackson­ ville, where her husband was for a num­ ber of years Superintendent of the State Insane Asylum. She is a native of- Illi­ nois, was born in Morgan County, and is the daughter of J. B. Turner, who figured prominently in the early days as a foun­ der of the university idea Qf schools and worked hard to get a bill passed through the Legislature, establishing the first one in this State. She is a graduate of the Jacksonville Academy, and has taken a leading paft in women's movements in educational matters. T. J. Smith is a lawyer. He has been practicing that profession continuously for twenty years. Mr. Smith was born •in Preston County, Virginia, in 1836. He has lived in Illinois since 1855. Soon after his arrival here he was elected Sup­ erintendent of Schools in Clay County, where he settled and resided until after the war. At the close of his term as Sup­ erintendent he entered the army and re­ mained there until the surrender of Lee. Soon after returning home he moVed to Chanipaign|'" In addition to his' law busi­ ness Mr. Smith has large la rid interests. P. M. McKay is at present principal of the Anderson School, Chicago. Previous to the election of a woman on the Board of Education two years ago Mr. McKay had been a member of it for ten years. He was born in La Salle County, Illinois, is a graduate of the University at Cham­ paign. and is 44 years of age. He has been engaged in school work nearly all his life. The Queen's Feet. The nicety of the plans for the fre­ quent travels of the queen of England is shown in the chalk marks drawn across the platfovms of stations where the royal traveler will alight fof any purpose. The broad white mark is readily seen by the engine driver, and lie rigidly toes the line. #us bringing the door of his sovereign's carriage di­ rectly opposite the carpet spread for her royal and rheumatic feet. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL. Edward C. Akin, candidate for Attor­ ney General, was born in Will County July liJ, 1852, and was educated iu the public schools of Joliet and at Ann Arbor, Mich. For four years he was paying and receiving teller iii the First National Bank of Joliet. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois in the fall of 1878, and has continued in active practice ever sine#'. He began his political career in 1887, when he was nominated as the Republican candidate for city attorney of Joliet, and ^although the city was at that time Demo­ cratic from 500 to GOO he defeated the IRON IN LABRADOR. Vast Riches Said to Exist in That Little Known Land. The existence of one of the greatest known deposits of iron ore and the fact that the larger portion of the supposed Labrador peninsula is in reality an island, are among the latest discoveries of A. P. Low, of the Dominion, Geological Survey. Mr. Low's explorations Were made in that part of central Labrador in which the rivers Peribonca, Ontarde, Moniconagan, and the Big river of Hudson Bay take their rise. The Manicongan river was ascended for 200 miles from its mouth to Lake Mochalagan. Thence it was found impos­ sible for a long distance lo follow the stream, on account of its rapid character and the high, rocky banks, which pre­ clude portaging. For over six miles the river descends between almost vertical walls in a continuous heavy rapid. The first portage of a mile and a half has a rise of over GOO feet. The deposit of iron ore, reported by Mr. Low is between the headwaters of Ontarde and Maniconagan rivers. The ore occurs in a gneiss composed of quartz, feldspar and magnetite, and according to the proportion of magnetite present grades from ferruginous gneiss in|to an almost pure iron ore of high grade. This bed, in great thickness, can be traced along the strike of the rocks for upward of thirty miles, and there is an immense mountain of almost pure metal, called by the Indians the "shinning, mountain" be­ cause of the glistening of the ore faces in the suii, when they present a most daz­ zling appearance. The provincial government is expected at once to send mining experts to report upon the deposit, but little can be done toward developing it until a railway i» built to it. WILLIAM A. NORTHCOTT. publican and has labored zealously and conscientiously in behp'if of his party. Mr. Northcott was born in Murfrees- boro, Tenn., but at the breaking out-of the war his father, Gen. R. S. Northcott, was compelled to leave his home on ac­ count of his Union sentiments, and went to West Virginia, where he enlisted as colonel and served during the war. Mr. Northcott received his. education in the --public schools and at the United States naval academy at Annapolis. He taught school, and was admitted to the bar in 1877, continuing his practice after lie re­ moved 'to Illinois in 1879. In 1S80 Presi­ dent Hayes appointed him Supervisor of the Census ,for tlie Seventh Illinois dis­ trict. In 1882 he was eltced slate's At­ torney for Bond County and was re-elect­ ed to the same position three times thereafter. In 1890 the President ap­ pointed him as a tnember of the board of visitors to the United States Naval Acad­ emy, and he was selected to deliver the ©ration to the graduating class. In No­ vember. 1S90, he was elected head consul EDWARD C. AKIN Democratic nominee by a majority of 710. In 1888 he was nominated foi State's Attorney of Will County, and at the en suing election led the entire State and