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SHOULD BANKERS HANG? ' ' • V ' . " o BRVAN SMILES HIS APPROVAL OF THE IDEA. the Boy Orator's Plan of Balljlng the Bankers tn an Endeavor to* Scare the Labor Vote--The Silver Parly's Notifi­ cation. is always c'orru seeking the o the farmers o, ket for tin men of t' labor can tories ar, tries will" ^SSMSW&" __ AEOIJND A A CUNNING MULE. The notification meeting at Lincoln, on tl» 8th ingt., in which Mr. iJryan was of- licially informed of his nomination by the National Silver party at St. Louis, suggests several things that are worthy "of note in this campaign. It was a meeting of the Silver party. It was not a Democratic meeting, not Popocratic meeting, not a Populist meet- ing, but a silver meeting of the Silver party to notify the silver candidate of his nomination, on a platform that is nothing but silver. Mr. Bryan says silver is the issue and the only issue. He calls it the para­ mount issue. If silver is the paramount issue then the silver party is the para­ mount party and this silver meeting may be judged as the paramount meeting and at this meeting tlie silver cause should have touched its highest point. Mr. Bryan was met at the B. & M. •depot.by a straggling crowd of about 500 people, some of whom followed him in draggled procession through the streets to his home. Not the business men of Lincoln, not the business men of Oma­ ha, not the business men of any city in the United States. No pari of the busi­ ness mind which the nation looks to for the guidance and the maintenance of its industrial and business energies was rep­ resented in that parade or at the notifi­ cation ceremonies which afterwards took place. Where are the business forces of this country in this contest? Are they for silver? If it is the paramount thing, then the business men ought to have been so notified, they should have been represented here, and the idle people who gathered at the depot and followed the candidate through the streets would know that this silver movement has the confidence of someone who can and will use it, when it is put into law, as a means of restoring industry and giving employment. If a new yardstick had been proposedby Mr. Bryan, and if a new party had been organized on the sole issue of this new yardstick, and if this was the only issue of importance, if a revival of business depended solely upon the adoption of this new yardstick, then would it not be reasonable to sup­ pose that the merchants and business men who are expected to use this new system would manifest their approval of it in some way, and give the waiting people some reason to hope that this new system would be put into use after it was put into law? If a new business plan is proposed and put into law, which the business forces of the country re­ jects as unsafe and unpractical, then of what use is this new plan? If the mer­ chant cannot and will not use the new yardstick, then why have a new yard stick? Mr. Bryan says We will compel them to use it. Very well, if you pass a law declaring that eighteen inc'ies is a yard when it is not a yard. Int only half a yard, and if you compel me mer­ chant to use this new measure, then he will change his price to suit the new measure and he will narrow ljs busi­ ness into as small a scope as possible and wait until the new experiment, has snent its force and is abolished., You will simply confuse the merchant in­ stead or assisting him. Mr. Bryan smiled upon the small crowd who gathered about hiri as he moved along the streets of Lincoln, but his smile took on a pale and painful ex- ile the man who is is always honest, that West can get a mnr- e while the laboring re unemployed, that yment while the fac- wn, that idle indus- gainst the judgment of the men who own them, that industry and commerce are managed by oratory and not by business mind, that a boy knows more than a man, those who be­ lieve these things will regard the elec­ tion of W. J. Bryan as a victory for the American people. -- But . so long as the people who read and think are in the majority, so long as the majority of American farmers know that their market is the table of the American workingman, so long as a ma­ jority of the workiugmen know that they are employed only when there is confi­ dence in the mind of the employer, so long as mind and conscience has influ­ ence at the polls, there will be 110 bank­ ers hung and no boy orator in the presi­ dential chair. dows and saw McKinley's picture every where along the business streets. And not only along the business street, but out all over the city McKinley looked from the window of the housts. Not that Lincoln people felt unfriendly to­ ward Mr. Bryan because it was he, or friendly toward Mr. McKinley because it was he, but some how Lincoln people feel that McKinley and his plan?of gov­ ernment -are safer, are more Matured, and have the confidence of the business mind all over the nation. After all, what will this newy financial plan avail if the men who are expected to use it in business are afraid of it? Every man in Lincoln, Omaha. Kansas City and Des Moines who are expected to engineer the labor industries in those cities during the next four years is afraid of Mr. Bryan and his new silver dollar. .If the notification had been in either of those" cities the business men would have r be'eii absent from the parade just the 'same as in Lincoln and McKinley's pic- f ture would have been in the business houses just the same. Mr. Bryan gets a great (leal of sport out of the cam­ paign shaking his lists at the banks and the business of the country. Mr. Groot, who was the chief representative of the silver party and who presented the notification to Mr. Bryan, shook his fist in excited anger at the bankers and said they ought to be hung to the tele­ graph poles. When Mr. Groot said this, a number of men who stood out in front Df him shook their fists also and said: "That's right." , While all this threaten­ ing to hang the bankers and shaking of fists was going on, Mr. Bryan nodded his head and smiled his approval. He not only nodded and smiled, but when it came his turn to speak, he shook his fist also and the workiugmen shouted louder than ever at the prospect of hang­ ing the bankers as a means of restoring confidence, and bringing back good times. Mr. Bryan seemed to enjoy himself as he looked out over the crowd and said as many things as ho could think of to f)lease the people and encourage his fol-owers all over the nation. As I said before, Mr. Bryan had exhib­ ited some symptoms of panic in his. face when he saw that the business men'had put McKinley's picture instead of his picture in the windows. But when he saw how the crowd cheered the prospect of hanging a few of these bankers and business men, it seemed to restore his confidence. And then again, when he himself stood up to address them and one man shouted, "Give it to 'em, Bil­ ly!" and another shouted "You bet!" he seemed to interpret this as a sign that the workiugmen were in the ma­ jority and would elect him just the same in spite of the business men. And so he told them he had 110 fear of the oppo­ sition of the business men so long as he saw so many of the brave and honest toilers who were ready to reject the advice of their employers and follow him. Mr. Bryan knows it will be a good thing for him to get the labor vote, even if he paralyzes industry in the attempt. Some of the laboring men seem to think It will «l»e a good thing for them also, but jus? why they think so is not very clear. It may be just the thing for Mr. Bryan's candidacy to bully tlie bankers and scare the business mind of the country. It may he that scar­ ing the men who employ labor is the way to get the labor vote, but just why such a course will get the labor vote and where the laborer himself will be benefit­ ed is a puzzle. From the McKinley pictures which hang in the windows of Lincoln, from the anti-Bryan and anti-silver sentiment which is almost universal among the men of business affairs at Omaha and in all the commercial centers of the na­ tion. it may now be recorded as a per­ manent living fact, that Bryan, with all his eloquence, With all the plausibility with which he has presented the free coinage plan, has utterly and completely failed to gain the confidence of the busi­ ness judgment of this country, and if elected his triumph will bo a vict.ory of * majorities over judgment. Those who believe that a country is better off without banks than with them, that a section hand 011 a railroad knows better how to run it than the general manager, that the clerk in the store is a better financier than the owner of it, that the. janitor of a bank is more hon­ est than the cashier, that a bricklayer knows'more about law and has more conscience than a supreme judge, that the hired man On the farm has more sense than the man who owns it, that all men who read and think are.fools and all who don t read and don't think are . wise, that the man who holds office TO THINKING MEN. Sound Advice from a Leading Agricultu­ ral Journals It has been an unbroken rule of Farm News to refrain from taking any part in partisan politics or discussing questions which are issues in party politics. Under ordinary conditions no other course is proper for a strictly agricultural paper. In recent yea rs, the issues between- po­ litical parties have been such that the triumph of one' or of t he qther meant no radical-changes fraught with danger to the American people. , ' " This year conditions are extraordinary The questions at issue Hre vital and upon their proper settlement depends the hap­ piness and prqsji%rity of our -people, if not the perpetuity of our form of gov­ ernment itself. After careful delibera tion, long and thoughtful consideration Of every- phase of the question, Farm News believes that its duty to American farmers, the duty of its management as American citizens', requires that it vio­ late its heretofore unbroken custom. The radical and we believe dangerous policies enunciated in the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago are a chal­ lenge to every man who believes in law and order, progress and prosperity, na­ tional honor and national honesty, and to answer that challenge effectually there is no course open but to advocate the election of William McKinley. We do this not because he is a Repub­ lican. The mere names Republican or Democrat have 110 meaning for us, as our - non-interference in previous elec­ tions will testify. We take this course entirely free from partisan spirit and no man can more bitterly regret the necessity for such a step than do the management of this paper. Nothing but the strongest sense of imperative duty could force it. At such a crisis, candor requires a candid statement of the reasons govern­ ing this departure from an unknown cus­ tom. The free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, demanded in the Democratic platform, means a silver standard of currency for this country. 'It is not a demand for bi­ metallism in any sense of the word, and in the opinion of the leading bimetal- lists of the world, including Gen. Francis A. Walker, whose life and great talents have been devoted to the cause of bi­ metallism, the free coinage of silver by this country alone will make it practically impossible to secure for silver the posi­ tion which bimetallists believe; it should occupy, equality with gold in the cur­ rency of the world. Silver monometal­ lism means the reduction of our currency system to equality with that of Mexico, or China; a classing of ourselves with the governments of Asia and the stagnate second rate powers of South America. It means a currency fluctuating in value from day to day, a dollar worth one thing now alid something else next week. Men who lived through the period of de­ preciated paper money from 1MG2 to 1879, know the curse of an unstable currency. It means no fixed level upon which all prices and all wages cai\ stand, but val­ ues shifting constantly and without fixed relation. Outside of the radical demand for sil­ ver monometallism, the Democratic plat­ form enunciates doctrines that cannot be held less than direct attacks upon law and order, and if carried out would sap the very foundations of our govern­ ment. The thinly-veiled suggestion of an in­ tention to pack the Supreme court, to se­ cure such decisions as party exigencies might demand, is revolutionary. The denunciation of the present ad­ ministration for using force to put a stop to riotiug, plunder and murder, is a bid for support from those classes that are inimical to all law, and is an insult to the honest laboring men of the country, because it assumes that they are Anar­ chists. The civil service plank is a demand for a return to the spoils aystem with all its corrupt and brutalizing conse­ quences. In view of these new, radical and dan­ gerous doctrines which the Democratic party lias adopted under the lead of reck­ less men. Farm News would be recreant to duty if it failed to cast its influence 011 the side of sound money, respect for constitution and law, national honor and prosperity. This paper, becomes no political organ, owes fealfy to 110 man, and when the doctrines represented in this campaign in the personality of William McKinley shaljLAwve been accepted by the Amer­ ica nSpPoplo, as we hope and believe they will be, Farm News will again take its stand outside of -party politics in the hope that never again will such attacks upon American institutions be made by any political party as to demand the alignment under another party banner of every American citizen whose love for free institutions is greater than his de­ sire for party supremacy. THE REPUDICRAT'S QUANDARY. Waal, yes. come to think it over, it is sorter hard to say. In this mixed-up mess o* pollytics, where . 1 do stan' today. There is Bryan an' there's Sewall, an' there's this here Watson, too. An' a feller with a moFgage don't know u what is bes' to do. Some they 'low tliet Bill an' Sewall will rednce the tiling by "halt; Others say that this here Sewall's jest a- flllin' us with chatT; Fer they 'low thet he's a banker, an' is hence a plutyerat-- Till a fellow with a mortgage jes don't know where he is at. Yes, I staid with the Republicans fer uiore'n twenty year. An' I never had no trouble yet to read my title .clear, Till I got thet cussed mor'gage, an' the neighbors did the same, An' Si Simpkins- said he reckoned tliet the goldbugs were to blame. Course we'd mostly built new houses, an' in- r dulged in kerridges. But Si 'lowed he was entitled to whatever goldlnigs is; An' he likewise use' to tell us, in a mos' convincin' way. That the government 'ud fix us with a fiat loau some day. So of course we all turned flat, fer Si said that flat drew About 1 per cent, per annum, with' provis­ ion to renew-- All of which was gratifyin', and Si 'lowed 't 'nd break the heart Of that "party" in the mor'gage that was named as "second part." Now there's them thet says that Watson was ensaged to see it done By a-runniiig some new ray show thet they call sixteen tQ one; But an hones' man gits puzzled how t* vote, an' sorter 'fraid Thet he'll make some fatal > error, an' his mor'gage won't be paid. --Albert Bigelow l'aine in Harper's Weekly. Bryan's New Theory. Since his advent in the Bluegrass re­ gion of Kentucky, Mr. Bryan has pro­ mulgated a new theory in regard to gold. He told his audience, at Maysville that so much of the yellow metal was used in plugging decayed molars, and in the manufacture of engagement rings, and for use in the arts, that after consuming the residue for bi-chloride of gold solu­ tions to counteract the "jag" habit," there was none of the metal left for money. This, is a remarkable statement from ia man who is continually preaching tlie woes of the gold standard. Recently Mr. Bryan declared that all the gold was being manufactured into crosses whereon to crucify the workingman, but now he has clianged his June. Accord­ ing to this Maysville speech, the people are so well-to-do thet they can use up the entire product of our mines in arti­ cles of personal comfort, and are so prone to" marrying and* giving in mar­ riage that a great portion of the annual gold output is used in the manufacture of the tiny cir­ clet symbolical of plighted trcfth, and alsO of good times, for people do. not marry when they are in the throes of crucifixion. Mr. Bryan's little fling at the convivial habits of the majors and the colonels of Kentucky, by suggesting that a great portion of our annual gold production is' used in correcting an ab­ normal appetite for straight and mixed drinks, will not be relished by the high- spirited gentlemen of that hospitable re­ gion. When they need their systems braced up a good lot of strictly hand­ made sour mash is considered the proper thing, although it is absolutely certain they would prefer a gold cure to any Of the silver remedies proposed by Dr. Bry­ an. One thing Mr. Bryan did not explain, and that is. if a down-trodden and af­ flicted people can use the entire gold supply of a great nation in making safety deposit vaults out.of hollow molars, and in the free coinage of wedding rings, how does it come, that we have the neat little sum of $700,000,000 of gold in circula­ tion and in the treasury? He ought to say something about this and relieve a natural suspicion that he is trying to de­ ceive the toiling masses, as to its exist* once.--Kansas City Journal. 1 . * y MOTHER OF TH0STS. Free Trade, Not Protection, is tlie -Parent , of Monopoly. y* This example of needless excitement has just been, received; To the Editor of the Press--Sir: . I submit that in one instance. Protection is complete­ ly played out! It is in the. one item, coal! A retail dealer told me yesterday that the recent outrageous advances in coal are ow­ ing to the banking..firm of.Drexel, Morgan & Co., who positively refused to Undertake the reorganization of Reading unless and until" the other coal companies agreed to advance the price of ooal--jyist as^has been done! If you will look into this I am sure you will, in the interest of the people, ad­ vocate the admission free of duty of all kinds of coal! And if not. why not? PROTECTIONIST. Blooinfleld, N. J., Sept. 4. There is no duty on anthracite coal, the only kind of which the price lias been "outrageously advanced," the kind of which our correspondent is talking, the kind which the Coal trust sells. There never has been such a duty. There never will be such a duty. The protec­ tion which this trust enjoys was con­ ferred by the Creator of the world when He put anthracite coal in the Schuylkill and Wyoming valleys of the state of Pennsylvania, and in paying quantities nowhere else, so far as man has yet dis­ covered. The anthracite Coal trust has abused this natural protection. It has far ex­ ceeded the slight advance which was due and proper in view of years of ruin­ ous war among the separate "coal bar­ ons." But such abuse cannot be reached by prosecutions under such statutes as the anti-trust law which the Republican party passed when last in piMer and which a Democratic administration has not sought once to enforce. Of bituminous coal there lias been no increase in price, though it is alleged to have tariff protection. That protection is such that more than 1,100.000 tons, worth nearly $3,500,000, were imported in eleven months of last year, while the con­ tract for supplying the New England roads, which act conjointly in this mat­ ter. came near going to Nova Scotia. The Wilson bill duty of 40 cents a ton does not equal the difference in cost of produc­ tion here and abroad. There has been 110 profit in the mines, and very often no work for the miners since that law went into effect. --But were-the duty on--bituminous coal 1000 per cent., no bituminous trust could oppress the consumer as has the an­ thracite combination. For bituminous coal is found in every section of the country, north, east, south and west. It is mined in Pennsylvania. It "is mined in Washington. It is mined in Tennes­ see. It is mined in Colorado. Thus it comes under the operation of the prin­ ciple of domestic competition, which has foiled the schemes of every trust in this c.ountry, not having, like anthracite coal and coal oil, a natural protection to sup­ port it. A bituminous coal trust would meet the fate of the great trusts-- cordage, whisky, tobacco and rubber-- and the little trusts in umbrellas, win­ dow shades and the like, which have been ruined, or crippled or forced to dis­ solve as the result of their a$£empts to control the home market. Everyone of the three great successful trusts of today is a free-trade trust. Coal and oil have their natural protection, as we have shown. The sugar trust flourishes sole­ ly because the bounty which had be­ gun to foster the American sugar crop was abolished by the Wilson law. Had that bounty remained in operation, the cultivation of the sugar beet would have caused the erection of a sugar refinery in every Western town. To restrict the production of all these plants would have been found as impossible as it was found to restrict the production of the distilleries. Free trade, not protection, is the >th- er of trusts.--New York Press. BRIEF COMPILATION J" NOtS NEWS. Op ILLI- Springfield Ministers Pray that Their Mayor Beceive Divine KripouraRe- mcnt -- Swedish Laborer's Loss at Chicago--Death of an Aged Citizen* Pray for the Mayor. Pastors of several of the Springpeld churches Sunday prayed that Mayor Woodruff be given the strength and cour­ age to do liis duty. Among those who were most fervent were Rev. 0. R. Car­ los of the Second Methodist Church, Rev. M. F. Troxell of Grace Lutheran, and Rev. T. D. Lcgan of the First Presby­ terian. The action of the ministers has caused much gossip on the streets, and various views are taken concerning the matter. The suggestion that divine aid be invoked Came ironi a newspaper that had called the attentibri of the Mayor to the fact that nuiherottB gambling houses were running wide* open, and requesting him to close them. The Mayor wrote a communication to the paper treating the matter lightly, ^ince that time the church people, whose vote was largely in­ strumental in securing his election, have united with the newspaper in an effort to influence the Mayor, ~ : Heiachee a Ripe Old Age. Martin Gordon, the oldest person In Galena, died at the home of his son-in- law, John Gallagher, Saturday. His age Was 102 years. He was a. native of Ire­ land, coming to Galena directly from that country in 1840. When the Illiiiois Central Railroad was built into Galena Mr. Gordon was one of the first men about Galenn employed by the company and he continued in its employ for many years. His wife, with whom he lived for nearly seventy years, died ten years ago aged 90 years. He was a man of re markable physical vigor, and had never known an ill day until within the last few days. His eyesight, Which became impaired twenty years ago, was complete­ ly lost to him during the last few years, but even with this infirmity he persisted in living alone since-the death of his wife, doing his own cooking and performing all his own household duties until three weeks ago, when he was taken ill and went to live with his son-in-law. Two chil­ dren survive him, .Terry Gordon of Free- port and John Gordon of Texas. Fires of a Day. Fire starting at 2:30 Saturday morning totally destroyed the Northern Illinois College at Fulton, entailing a loss of $100,000. Much of the apparatus was saved. Thirty students who were in bed escaped with slight injury to one of the number. Frauk Cook, a Clinton, Iowa, fireman, was struck by the falling stones and carried out of danger unconscious. On the north side a detail from Clinton, while working from the inside of the burning structure, was cut off by the flames, but managed to fight their way to safety. The college consisted of a huge three-story building of stone. It was one of the oldest institutions in the section, and was built in 1S04. The fire started in the third story, and was discovered by Wiil Schultz, a student. He aroused his sleeping comrades, and was cut off by the fiiimps frmn-thft-stairwav. andin breaking through a window badly cut his hand. • A SHORT CURRENCY DIALOGUE. Learner--Dr. Socrates, I can get a bet­ ter watch today for $50 than I could twenty-five years ago for $100. Is that not because the old watch was made by hand, while the new one is made by machinery? Dr. Socrates Silversnipe--By 110 means, most simple youth. The true reason is because the value of gold has doubled since 1873, and the value of products has been halved. Learner--Well, my mother bought a sewing machine twenty-five years ago for $125, and yesterday she bought a much better one for $G0. The seller said that since the patents had expired and there was 110 royalties to pay, sewing machines had fallen greatly in price. I suppose that was true. Dr. Socrates Silversnipe-^-By no means. The seller had never read Coin Harvey's works, or;he would know that the fall in the price of the product was caused by the demonetization of silver, and that the royalty had nothing to do with the matter. Learner--Well, grandpa bought a pair of nice, new boots yesterday for $5. He told me that when he was married his boots cost him $20, and that he car­ ried tliem in his hands to the bride's house and then put them on. He said that the use of machinery was the cause of the fall in the price of the product, boots. Dr. Socrates Silversnipe--Tour grand­ father has not read the works of the wise men, Bland, Vest and Coxey and Mary Ellen Lease, so he is an illiterate goldbug. It is really shameful that he does not know that machinery had no relation to the boots, but that the fall in price was caused by the "Crime of 1873." Learner--I noticed that Deacon Giles had closed his distillery and the deacon told me that 011 account of over-pro­ duction the profit 011 whisky was so small that all the distillers lud agreed to make no more for some time. Was lie right in saying that the market was over-stocked ? Dr. Socrates Silversnipe--No! Deacon Giles is an ass, or he would see clearly that the trouble is that Jones, Stewart & Co. are not allowed to dump all their ore into the mints. • The Remedy. When "the great crime of 1873" was enacted, the statistics show that the United States had just $774,000,000 in circulation. In 1895 this same oppressed and down-trodden people had $2,217,000,- 000: but owing to free trade, tariff for revenue and free-silver excitement, it was piled away. The plain thing to do is to start that $2,211.000,000 on its rounds. It can be done by . opening up the nation's workshops pud giving the millions work; and in no other way. --The largest kite ever made in Eng­ land was one owned by George Poeock of Bristol (grandfather of W. G. Grace), for the purpose of drawing a carriage along the roads. It was 12 feet by 15 feet, and proved the feasibility of such a mode of conveyance. .' v-v-;-;;/' . «r ' • : ' •• V' ' •" y • -J--- ,' . Gustaf Guldberg, a wett-^^n llwkv' ford citizen, was- killed while attempting to stop a runaway. Dr. Ernest J. Tauke was ^a widower who cache to this country more than twen­ ty years ago, leaving behind him a sweet-i heart. He engaged in the drug business' at Wells and Ohio streets, Chicago, and prospered so that last week he had made all preparations to return to Europe and claim his bride. His joy at the approach of happiness was so great that an attack .of heart disease was the result, and he expired with a smile upon his lips." The hardware store and postoflice at Steward, run by G. A. Ruckman, were entered by burglars and a large amount of fine cutlery was taken from a showcase. The safe was drilled till the drill oroke, and then the combination was hammered till the connection was broken. Over $100 Worth of postage stamps, lwere abstract­ ed, also a large n^mtyeipof(vouchers' and other valuable papers. /dChie treasure Ik»x was taken away. It ;held, some money. Mr. Ruckman's store has been robbed five times within a few years., , Aged Margaret Fitzgehild, whose un­ fortunate marital experiences have occu­ pied the attention of the citizens of Hyde Park for several weeks, lies at the point of death inj the woman's department of the Woodlawn police station. Her hus­ band, Michael Fitzgerald, is eagerly sought by a number of detectives uTtder Capt. Shippy's command. The Condition of Mrs. Fitzgerald is attributed by the police to the acts of her husband, who is now under heavy bond to insure his ap­ pearance in the Criminal Court when wanted. . /•"' • ' .. v The Merchants' Carnival Association Concluded its fall festivities at Alton with a magnificent display, in which there were sixty business floats and an attend­ ance of 15,000 people. Prof. Rosario Benansinga, of Springfield, who opened the day's proceedings with a balloon as cension, almost lost his life. The air was heavy and the balloon went only 500 feet, after which it suddenly began to fall. The aeronaut had to quickly disengage his parachute and let g°- There was not space for proper inflation and he fell heavily 011 a roof, sustaining bruises that will incapacitate him for professional work.for some time. The State Boards of Health of Indiana and Illinois have been appealed to by Commissioner Kerr, of Chicago, to stop the shipment of milk into Chicago from Crown Point, lud. This milk is infected with typhoid fever germs, and has already spread contagion through a number of families using it and living in the neigh­ borhood of 43d and 47th streets along tho line of the Panhandle Railroad. Com­ missioner Kerr addressed the following letter to the milk agent Qf the Panhandle Road: "Dear Sir: An inspection of Crown Point, lud., shows typhoid fever inspection 011 several farms from which milk is supplied to this city, and a num­ ber of casesj with one death, from this cause, have been positively proved. You are therefore hereby authorized to refuse to receive shipments of milk from that place for distribution in Chicago until further notice from this department. Commissioner Kerr valso addressed -n let­ ter to City Chemist Ivennicott ordering him to have an inspector examine all milk that may be shipped from Crown Point, and if any is discovered the inspector is instructed to immediately carbolize it and empty it from the cans into a ditch one mile from the city limits, as the h e p. Ith4 oavs- provide. t ti'iA REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL n LEAGUE RECORD OF 1896k ) 04 • *. . \ •'* ,-g, 7 " * Progress of the Struggle for the Championship from Its Beginning Last ' April -- Prognostications for Next Season. ' 1 2 8 G 4 7 9 3 10 5 11 12 Sow They Stand. 1896. Clubs. 1895- 1 .698 Baltimore ...... .669 .625...., ̂ Cleveland ...... .646 .606..... .Cincinnati ... .. .508 .565......Boston ........ .542 .555...... Chicago ........ .554 .512.... . .Pittsburg ...... .538 •4S9 New York'.. 504 •477. Philadelphia 595 .443..... .*Washington ... .336 •443 ^Brooklyn 542 •308 St. Louis .29S .290..... .Louisville ... ... .267 •Tie for ninth place. The season just ended has not been as prosperous with professional baseball as the two or three seasons preceding. Thil is on account of the hard timel It is in evidenced clearly from the fact that fewer of the minor leagues have pulled through, the entire season. As far as the Nation­ al League is. concerned, the attendance in the aggregate lias been smaller than last year. The conditions of the race have been responsible for this to a large degree. For instance, the clubs in good baseball towns like New York, Brooklyn,! Philadelphia and Boston have never been in it, as far as the championship was con­ cerned, for any length of time; while last ^ear nine clubs were fighting it out until near the close of the season. , The business of the Chicago club, said President Hart, has fallen off both at home and abroad this season as compared with last, tho greatest falling off being in the away-from-home-games, caused by the reasons just stated. The attend­ ance at home has been less than last year because we have had poorer attractions on holidays. Saturdays and Sundays, and also because the team was a greater uum- ber of games away from the pennant, al­ though occupying the sanie relative posi­ tion in the championship table as last year. To prognosticate the performance for a coming season is a hard task. It is impos­ sible to foretell what will be the condition of the men when they show up for work in the spring. The best pitchers of one season may be the poorest of the next. The heavy batsmen' of 1S96 may be tho weak batsmen in 1S97. Thieves Find $011 in a Coat. Six hundred in greenbacks was picked from a tree in Maywood the other day. To get the legal tenfrer fruit the thief had to take in addition to the bills $11 in sil­ ver, a gold watch and a coat, all belonging to Johann Matson, a Swede. Matsou Was digging in 9. sewer ditch, and had hung his coat in the tree previous to going to work. When he discovered his loss, Matson was frantic. He said that was all the money he had saved since he came to this country, seven years ago. Some one reported the matter to the police and they began working 011 the case. They claimed to have found a clew that will lead to the arrest of the guilty person. Matson, according to his fellow-workmen, is a miser. State News in Brief. The north-bound narrow gauge passen­ ger train left the track near Cuba Thurs­ day afternoon and was ditched. Engi­ neer John O'Donnell, of Galesburg, was buried under the engine and seriously in­ jured. A passenger from Peoria was hurt and the others were badly shaken up. The coaches were badly damaged. The "long man," tho "short man" and the big revolver they always exhibit when they want to make a quick and payiiig impression on eashicrq paid an early visit to the Famous restaurant, owned by C. O. Spong, at Chicago) Sunday morning. They got $20 in their usual way, and then while several shots were exchanged attempted to make their escape. They were captured, and gave their names as David Madden and Christ. Mangan. The price of a kiss in Central Illinois has been fixed by the Circuit Court of Bloomingtou. Miss Cora Wise sued Ward Jones for the sum of $15,000, al­ leging that he not only kissed her against her desire, but was eveu bold enough to accompany the osculation with a good, vigorous hug. Mr. Jones is a farmer, |tnd the jury evidently took into consid­ eration the low price of grain by bringing in a verdict of $250 for the plaintiff. Max May has sued the American Spir­ its Manufacturing Company at Peoria for his salary for August. He came to Peoria early in May last from New York with his family and with credentials as assist­ ant secretary under permanent appoint­ ment, as he claims, to act as secretary at the Peoria headquarters. The appoint­ ment proved distasteful to the local man­ ager, and he threatened to resign if Mr. May remained. So the latter was shorn of all duties and responsibilities, but he has remained and has visited the office daily, although there is nothing for him to do. His salary has been paid up to August. Now he intends to continue to report for duty daily and to sue for his salary every month. ,T. W. Barrura, druggist at Arthur, made an assignment. Liabilities, $1,000; assets, $3,500. v Company I, Fourth Regiment, I. N. G., dedicated their new armory at Vandalia. J. J. Brown delivered the address of wel­ come in behalf of the company, and W. M. Farmer delivered an address in behalf of the city. Adjutant General Hilton responded in behalf of the State. Ad­ dresses were made by Col. R, M. Smith and others. The music was furnished by the Fourth Regiment Band of Spring­ field. A grand ball followed the exer­ cises. ' . ^ ' .- The Champaign Supjfilj* Company, do­ ing a heavy business in plumbing at Champaign, failed. Assets, $20,000, with liabilities about the same amount. The Maltby & Wallace Company, foundry and machine-shop, also made an assignment, with assets $30,000, and liabilities, $10,- 000. In the Clay County Circuit Courtj Al­ fred Wagley pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling $160 of the funds of the Highway. Commissioners of Hoosier Township, of which he was treasurer. He goes to prison for not less than one year nor more than fifteen years. This is the first sentence in Clay County under the statutes of Illinois. Lochridge Brothers, bankers of Paw nee, Monday made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The assign­ ment was made> to Gilbert C. Drennan, of Pawnee, and he will take charge of theif bank in that village. The members of the firm are William R. Lochridge and John R. Lockridge. In the statement filed for record in the Recorder's office the liabilities are shown to be $51,041.31. The assets amount to $67,931. The firm's liabilities consist of amounts due to de­ positors, aggregating $34,114.31, and tho following individual debts: Nancy J. Weber, $1,000; Elizabeth Headley, $2,- 400; Joseph H. Booram, $1,000; E. A. Baxter, $1,500; Drovers' National Bank of Chicago, $5,000; Farmers' National Bank of Springfield, $0,000. The last item is secured by collateral worth $10,- 000, and the local bank will lose nothing. It has already indorsed credits on the note to the amount of $1,500, which re duces the debt to $4,500. In the way of assets the firm holds real estate valued at $30,550 and personal property, notes and accounts worth $37,381. The Loehbridge Brothers have always been.considered the wealthiest men in Pawnee Township. The family is what is termed "land poor," having many acres of good land which within the last few years lias real­ ized little because of the low prices of farm products and the inability of the owners to collect rent. The vast fortune of Mrs. Julia Bradley, of Chicago, consisting of $2,200,000, liss been pledged to the Chicago University for the establishment of a school to be built in Peoria, under the auspices of the trustees of the university. The plan con­ templates the payment of a large annual sum by Mrs. Bradley during the latter's lifetime, and at her death a bequest of her entire estate. The idea of establishing a great school in Peoria has been a pet one of Mrs. Bradley for many years, and be­ ing anxious to see it actually established before her death, the woman, who is 80 years old, deeided to take immediate steps recently to this end. Incorporation pa­ pers have already been filed. The name of the institution will be the Bradley Poly­ technic Institute. President Harper said: JUn general the course will be like that of the Lewis Institute, manual train­ ing being a special feature. 'It, is pro­ posed to prepare the plans for the build­ ings this winter and begin the work of building in the spring, having the school ready for work by Oct. 1 of next year. We are now Joking for a director, but have not yet found one. The school will be the most richly endowed in Illinois, saving alone the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. The board of trustees will consist of severfmienibers, two of them always to be men connected with the University of Chicago. Prof. Small and I have been chosen to represent the university." The careless handling of gasoline Wed­ nesday evening resulted in a blaze at Chicago, in which two persons were se­ riously burned, and when Marshal Swee­ ney, of the Seventh Battalion of the fire department, hurled a pitcher of the burn­ ing fluid into the street it landed in the midst of a crowd of children, and three more victims were added. The accident occurred in the apartment house at 213 West 12th street. In the flat at the time were the housewife and her daughter, and the blame for the occurrence attaches to the former, according to the stories of •both. Fred Devine and Peter O'Malley, alias "Red,4' who are under arrest at Chicago charged with burglary, learned that Po­ liceman Klanan is a sprinter. He chased the men five blocks, and when he caught them bumped their heads together until they begged him to desist and lock them PP- : At Monday's meeting of the Quincy City Council the ordinance committee reported recommending a curfew ordinance, and the Council ordered the committee to draw up such an ordinance and present it at the next meeting. The ordinance will likely affect children under 15, and tho hour that they will have to be off the streets will be fixed at 9 p. m. EIGHT DIFFERENT TICKETS. Multiplicity of Presidential Nomina­ tions May Lead to Confnsion. Says a Washington correspondent: There are now eight presidential tickets in the field. Some of the tickets are du­ plications. Nevertheless they were nom­ inated by separate national conventions, duly called, and in some States, as, for instance, in Ohio and Illinois, where State legislation controls the method of printing the tickets for presidential elec tors, this multiplicity of tickets is ljkely to cause confusion. In the order of their nomination the tickets are as follows: Prohibitionist--Nominated at Pittsburg May 27: For President--Joshua Levering, of It Hid on Steamer Day,. When "Was increased. "The laziest mule In all California Is the one on the Farallone Islands that belongs to the lighthouse keepers. He is the successor of the late' lamented "Jersey,""and Is known to his owners as "Patsey," In many ways he is an smart mule, but he devotes most of his talents to devising means to avoid the little work that is required of him. The strange thing about his plan is that ha goes to more work to avoid work than it w7ould. take him to do It. < Patsey has been on the Island tor about three years, and from the start seemed pleased with his home. He was brought out on the steamer Madrona, and at once given full liberty. Ha roamed over the island at will, and as „ . no work was required of him he was the happiest mule in the stall. But a day came when Patsey was na® happy. It was after he had been on tha island three months, and the Madronai | came back on her quarterly visit. Ha s then found ot«£ what he was there fori as soon as the supplies were landed on the wharf Patsey had to haul them - to the lighthouse. And, O, what hard « work he found it, after his three months' vacation. Every pound was a ton. and his unwillingness made it about three. He has never forgotten that day." -• The next, time the Madrona came back Patsey was ready. The first visit of the steamer made such an Impres­ sion on him that he even recognized the whistle as the sound came over the water through a thick bank of fog. When the supplies were on the landing Patsey was nowhere to be found- Search for him as they would, it was the next day before he was unwillingly at work. " - . The next time the steamer came the keepers were ready for Patsey's trick. As soou as he heard the whistle a shiver passed over him, and he started for one of the highest hills on the island, never stopping until he had reached the top, all the time giving utterance to moans of anguish. To climb to the summit was an awful task, and Patsey was wet with perspiration when he got there. Of course, he was soon cap­ tured and brought back, and no doubt he found his work much harder for his unnecessary exercise. But it failed to ^ cure him, and every steamer day the same performance has to be gone . ^ through with. 5'"- On one occasion the Madrona hap­ pened to be in the vicinity, possibly chasing an escaped whistling buoy, and gave a long blast of fche whistle. Patsey was not expecting anything of the kind, and at once became filled with fear. There was ho time to climb the peak, so he flew over the rocks to a cave. The entrance was a rugged one, but Patsey managed to get iu and, as he thought, was out of danger for work. It was two days before Patsey was missed, and a long search was neces­ sary to find him. And then the fun - commenced. It was easy enough to get Maryland. For Vice President--Hale Johnson, of Illinois. National Party--Free silver woman suf­ frage off-shoot of the regular prohibi tionists, nominated at Pittsburg May 28: For President--Charles E. Beutley, of Nebraska. For. Vice President--James Haywood Southgate of North Carolina. Republican--Nominated at St. Louis June 18: For President--William McKinley, of Ohio. ..4- For Vice Presidents-Garret Augustus Hobart, of New Jersey. Socialist-Labor--Nominated at New York July 4: For President--Charles H. Matchett, of"jtfew York. For Vice President--Matthew Maguire, of New Jersey. Democratic Party--Nominated at Chi­ cago July 10 and 11: For President--William Jennings Bry­ an, of Nebraska. For Vice President--Arthur Sewall, of Maine. Silverites--Nominated at St. Louis July 21: For President--William Jennings Bry­ an, of Nebraska. For Vice President--Arthur Sewall, of Maine. People's Party--Nominated at St. Louis July 24 and 25: For President--William Jennings Bry­ an, of Nebraska. For Vice President--Thomas E. Wat­ son, of Georgia. National Democratic Party--Nominated Ot Indianapolis Sept. 3: For President--John McAuley Palmer, of Illinois. For Vice President--Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky. END OF A LONG LEGAL FIGHT. Judce Payne Appoints a Receiver for Iowa Farmers' Trust Company. The bill for the appointment of a re­ ceiver for the Farmers' Trust Company of Iowa, which has been the subject of much litigation, was filed with the Supe­ rior Court at Chicago Thursday. The claimants were Julia C. Rogers, Caroline M. Hobbs, Frank F. Holmes, Emil Wall- ber, guardians of the Schoff estate and others who are owners of the bonds and stock of the company. Judge Payne ap­ pointed a title guarantee and a trust company receiver. The company was incorporated in Iowa with a capital stock of $1,000,000, and its principal business has been to loan mon­ ey on farm lands. The bill of the com­ plainants alleges that Rockwell Sayer has been president of the company since its formation and, the claimants say, he has managed the business mainly for his own profit. In, but getting out was another matter. In fact, Patsey could not do it unaided, which was the reason he stayed there 60 long. Blocks and tackle and several hours* hard work were necessary to get the frightened mule out, and when at last he mustered courage to look at the wharf and saw no boxes there he was a foolish-looking mule. Patsey has got so that he knows when the steamer is coming without hearing the whistle. He knows when it is due to a day. Two or three days before the time he will make himself scarce. On one occasion the vessel was several days in making a landing, and poor Patsey was nearly starved, but he never got hungry enough to overcome his aversion to work. The keepers get considerable amusement out of Pat­ sey's unwillingness to work. They don't mind it particularly, as they know w?here to find him now. The gen­ eral verdict of all visitors to the island Is that Patsey should have been a tramp--San Francisco Call. The Honey Ant. Honey ants have a peculiar custom. They form subterranean chambers for a home. A number of the tribe never leave this home. Their vocation in life is remarkable. They keep house. The working ants go abroad and seek honey. Returning home they feed this honey to the housekeeping ants and stuff them full of the saccharine mat­ ter. The housekeepers are the honey, jars of the establishment, as it were. As the season advances these unique honey repositories become so full of honey that their stomachs are finally distended to the size of a small cherry. These hor.ey-fattened ants get into a state of innocuous deseutude. They simply cling to the walls of their homes in a sort of comatose condition. When the honey season ends the working ants want food. So they gently squeeze the stomachs of the housekeepers, caus­ ing them to disgorge honey from time to time, and on these disgorgements the workers live until the next honey season. It is hard to beat an ant on the question of economics. LONGEST IN ENGLISH HISTORY. Queen Victoria Congratulated on Her Extended Reign. Queen (Victoria on Wednesday received an enormous number of congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the world, it being the day that her reign became the longest in English history*. With the dawn Queen Victoria's reign exceeded that of her grandfather. George III., and she has therefore ruled longer than any other British monarch. George III. ruled fifty-nine years tiree months^ and two (lavs. Iler Majesty, up to W ednesday, has sat on the throne fifty-niue years three mouths and three days. All public rejoicings, however, have been deferred until July of next year, when, if spared, the Queen will have actually completed a reign of sixty years. News of Minor Note*' A rich gold discovery is reported to have been made near Grahamstown, Cape Colony. . V Rev. M. F% Colburn. pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, San Fran- jiseo. Cal., is dead, • j'-Tho Spanish Government will send If,000 troops to the Philippine Islands t» down the rebellion. v - t j j j g g . i-'X o"C* ^ i'V""*'[ Eacli Marked Sixteen Cents. "The other evening at the place at which I eat," said Assistant Secretary of State Tim Stover, "while we w.ere eating supper one of the incandescent electric lights went out. Examination showed that the wire in it was broken. " There,' said the lady of the house, 'I'll hare to get a new globe.' % " 'That means 23 cents,' I said. *• " 'Sixteen cents,' corrected a young lady stenographer for a downtown firm who sat at the table. . " 'That'6 strange,' I remarked. 'We get them by the barrel at tlie state- house and have to pay 23 cents ftHS them.' 44 "That's just the way the State gets cheated,' persisted the young woman. •We only pay 16 cents for them at our office. They can't fool us. for the price Is pasted on the glass, "16c." ' 4 "She had,, seen the candle-power mark."--Topeka State Journal. Singular. •c The late Lord Lilford, in his recently published work on the birds of North­ amptonshire, England, tells this story of a singular incident which occurred in one of his^ frequent visits .ferSpain: "1 first learned," he says, "the news ot President Abraham Lincoln's murder from a scrap of a Spanish newspaper found in a nest of the kite by my climb. «r, Agapo, near Aranjue*." u > ' M I*:-'."" v". mmmi 7yr^~;;,